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Crutches Aside. Gradually, cautiously, painfully, the President began working himself away from his crutches. For a White House luncheon with former President Dwight Eisenhower and Japan's Premier Hayato Ikeda (see Foreign Relations), Kennedy put the crutches aside, walked around with his guests in his old hands-in-the-pocket manner. When the President took Ikeda for a short Potomac cruise on the presidential yacht, Honey Fitz,* Kennedy hobbled up the gangplank without crutches...
...infection, she added, had one good side effect: by forcing the President to bed, it gave the back an additional chance to heal. There was not much time for healing: after 31 supine hours, impatient John Kennedy got up out of his sick bed to say farewell to Ikeda, hold a three-hour crisis conference with his foreign-policy advisers on Berlin. Then, still weak but "feeling fine," he flew off to recover over a weekend at Glen...
There is nothing particularly wrong with U.S.-Japanese relations these days. Thus there was nothing urgent about last week's visit to Washington of Japan's brusque, imperturbable Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda. He came to the U.S. mostly to score points at home, where, as is often the case with Japanese Prime Ministers, he is not very popular...
...Ikeda, a stocky man with a hoarse voice who recovered from a near-fatal skin disease in the 1930s, proved highly durable on the Washington ceremonial circuit. He chatted, via interpreter, with President Kennedy at the White House, made a hit at a stag luncheon given by Vice President Johnson by expressing, with deep feeling, Japan's appreciation for U.S. financial aid. Ikeda spent an afternoon in discussions with Rusk and aides in the State Department, and he and his pretty kimono-clad wife Mitsue and three daughters were guests at a Japan-America Society reception...
Tasting blood, the Socialists announced that next week they will send still bigger crowds into the streets in demonstrations designed to protest against the U.S.-Japanese security pact signed last year and, if possible, to prevent Premier Ikeda's departure for an official visit...