Word: mckone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wonderful Thing. By that time, Colonel Godfrey McHugh, White House Air Force aide, had telephoned to Connie McKone and Gail Olmstead to report that their husbands were free. Memories of the news-breaking conversations are blurred with emotion. "There was silence and heavy breathing over the phone," said McHugh. "It got me, too. In their voices you could tell how they felt." Later, after his press conference, President Kennedy, too, decided to call the wives. But their phones were already jammed. The operator announced that President John Kennedy was among those waiting to get through. Which call did Mrs. McKone...
Flown in by Air Force Globemaster, the two women beat their husbands to Washington. Captains Olmstead and McKone were forced to delay overnight in Goose Bay, Labrador, while weather cleared along their route. It was a convenient layover. It gave the two men time to outfit themselves with Air Force uniforms at the base post exchange; it gave Air Force doctors a chance to convince themselves that both men were in good mental and physical health. But there was no need to worry about what either man might say to the press. Newsmen were kept far out of reach...
...Complaint. The Air Force Constellation carrying Olmstead and McKone landed at Washington in weather that surely reminded the men of their Moscow winter. But once they walked down the steps from their plane, tossed a brisk salute to President Kennedy and located their wives, snow and the cutting wind were of no concern. Oblivious to Air Force brass and Government dignitaries turned out to do them honor, both officers kissed their wives with unabashed enthusiasm. The McKones held a long, long embrace. The first kiss left a great smear of lipstick around the flyer's mouth. Connie McKone clasped...
...Room with Jacqueline Kennedy, Vice President and Mrs. Johnson, Air Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert and Kansas Representative J. Floyd Breeding was a time of relaxed small talk. The President advised the two officers to head south for a vacation. "You had lipstick all over you," he told McKone, remembering the captain's airport reception. But nothing could fluster the man who had stood up to seven months of solitary confinement. "I don't think either one of us has anything to complain about one bit," said McKone...
...reaction to the release of Olmstead and McKone was overwhelmingly enthusiastic. But a few warning voices were raised. Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken charged that Khrushchev was merely "playing power politics." Cried New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits: "There is no thaw in the cold war, and this doesn't change anything on critical matters like Berlin, Laos or the Congo...