Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy was still brooding over the matter at a naval reunion in April 1962, when he spotted a familiar face in the crowd. "What's Rose Bowl doing now?" he asked Navy Under Secretary Paul Fay Jr. "He's a very successful architect," Fay replied. "Have him give me a call," said Kennedy...
...This Is Perfect." From Bethesda Naval Hospital, where she waited while the President's body was embalmed, Jackie sent word to Artist William Walton, an old family friend, about a book containing sketches and photographs of Lincoln's White House lying-in-state. She even remembered just where the book was in the White House library. Walton found it, made sure that the White House East Room was prepared with the same simple drapings...
...capita annual income, Trinidad could expect no great influx of U.S. or British government aid. But the U.S. came through with a pledge of $30 million over a five-year period for development projects, and has promised to build a road from Port of Spain to the U.S. Chaguaramas Naval Base. So far, despite Trinidad's own slight recession, industrialization is proceeding faster than in Jamaica...
Moments. But he also had his fine presidential moments-and to many the finest came in October 1962, when he set up a naval blockade that forced Nikita Khrushchev to remove the missiles that the Soviets had sneaked into Cuba. During that dramatic showdown, which both Kennedy and Khrushchev later said had brought the world to the brink of thermonuclear war, Kennedy said: "This secret, swift and extraordinary buildup of Communist missiles-in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the U.S. and the nations of the Western Hemisphere-is a deliberately provocative and unjustified...
...body of John F. Kennedy, the youngest man ever elected to the Presidency, was flown last night to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. He will lie in state in the East Room of the White House today, and will then be moved to the Rotunds of the Capital...