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...walled behind Assistant Sherman Adams. John Kennedy was undoubtedly more accessible than Nixon; he deliberately organized his staff to circumvent the massive federal bureaucracy. By contrast, Nixon has concentrated on trying to make the Government responsible to his aims?not always successfully. Lyndon Johnson was far more outgoing than Nixon???he saw or telephoned hundreds of people nearly every day?but he did almost all of the talking...
...vowing to "get the country moving again," John Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon???and by inference repudiated the Eisenhower era. Early in 1961, Ike, at 70, the oldest President in history, rode with Kennedy, the youngest elected President, down Pennsylvania Avenue. "The vitality of the man!" exclaimed J.F.K. his first night in office. "It stood out so strongly there at the Inauguration. There was Chris Herter, looking old and ashen. There was Allen Dulles, gray and tired. There was Bob Anderson, with his collar seeming two sizes too large on a shrunken neck. And there was the oldest of them...