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...John Kennedy's treehouse, swing and jungle-gym set. Johnson walked through the flower garden into the oval presidential office. There secretaries had cleared Jack Kennedy's desk of personal mementos: a coconut shell on which he had carved a message of his survival after his PT boat sank in World War II, a silver calendar noting the dates of his confrontation with Nikita Khrushchev over Soviet missiles in Cuba, photos of Jackie and the children. Johnson lingered only briefly, decided to work out of his three-room vice-presidential suite in the adjacent Executive Office Building...
...House room-mate Charles Rousmaniere (now chairman of the Harvard Alumni Fund) says Kennedy told most questioners that he wished to go into journalism. In truth, Kennedy was very much unsure about the future. He did not decide on a career in politics until after the destruction of his PT boat in the Pacific and the death of his brother Joe (who had been two years ahead of him at Harvard...
...relieved to read that TIME, too, remains puzzled about Last Year at Marienbad! I'm sure the U.S. film industry could create the same sensation by running PT 109 backward in slow motion. HULON W. MYERS San Francisco...
...navy is considered more an extension of border forces than a true seagoing arm. It includes 25 to 30 submarines, mostly of Russian origin, that have been inoperable since the withdrawal of Soviet technicians, three or four old destroyers and destroyer escorts, an effective fleet of several hundred PT boats, and a number of old World War II landing craft...
...attacking the Kennedy "myth," Lasky writes that J.F.K.'s "military experience included having the PT boat of which he was the skipper rammed and sunk by a much slower Japanese destroyer." A Pulitzer Prize author? "Kennedy had considerable help." Even Kennedy's use of naval power to pressure Khrushchev to withdraw his missiles from Cuba was, to Lasky, merely a ploy for domestic political advantage, since "among other things, Kennedy was able to accomplish the political destruction of his former rival, Richard M. Nixon, in California...