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...Monday evening Pierre Salinger told the Women's National Democratic Club that there is "nothing more vital in government than the freest possible flow of information." Two days later it was revealed that the newly-sworn director of the United States Information Agency had attempted (unsuccessfully) to suppress the showing in Britain of a controversial television documentary on the plight of migrant laborers in this country...
...discussion of whether President Kennedy put his hand on the Bible when he took the oath: Apparently Rutherford B. Hayes and Calvin Coolidge were sworn in as President without putting their hands on the Bible, as shown in Lorant's The Presidency...
...York City's hapless Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner tried, and failed. New York state's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller tried, and made no visible progress. Then, on the day after he was sworn in as U.S. Secretary of Labor, longtime Union Lawyer Arthur Goldberg flew to Manhattan to make his own effort toward ending the railroad-tugboat strike that had stranded some 100,000 commuters and stalled railroad travel as far west as Chicago. After 14 hours behind closed doors with union and management negotiators, Goldberg emerged triumphant-and next day the trains began to run again...
Sense of History. In his address, John Kennedy told the nation and the world: "I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago." This sense of history, this understanding of the U.S. and its government as continuing institutions, gave strength to the Kennedy speech and underlined the orderly transition that last week characterized the changeover of presidential power...
...Kennedy planned to fly to Washington for a party at the home of his sister Jean, to New York for another round of meetings, and then by midweek back to the capital. His exhausted camp followers could only hope that he would stand still long enough to get himself sworn in as the President...