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J.F.K. did shake hands, but he saw to it that no cameraman recorded the event. Even the customary rocking-chair photos were ruled out in favor of a stiff shot of Kennedy and Tito facing each other across a conference table. Everything was done according to the book, from the traditional 21-gun salute to a luncheon for 59 guests at the White House-but without notable enthusiasm. After lunch, Tito and Jovanka took in Washington's sights, but the route of their ten-limousine motorcade was kept so secret-to avoid demonstrations-that puzzled pedestrians along...
When the news of Tito's visit was released, there were predictable protests. In California, a scheduled stopover on Tito's ten-day itinerary, demonstrators hanged him in effigy from trees, fences and buildings, even drowned him in effigy at a ferry terminal in San Pedro. In the Senate, Democrats Frank Lausche of Ohio and Tom Dodd of Connecticut blasted the visit, and Barry Goldwater, referring to the White House boycott of South Viet Nam's Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu (see following story), complained: "We are dining with our enemy and slapping our friends in the face...
...reaction was nowhere near as violent as it had been in 1951, and so the state visit was consummated. Fresh from a month-long tour of Brazil, Chile, Bolivia and Mexico, Tito flew into Virginia's Langley Air Force Base a full hour ahead of schedule. It was not that he was overanxious-just that he was operating on Standard Time instead of Daylight-Saving Time. From Langley, Tito and his statuesque wife Jovanka, 39, drove to colonial Williamsburg and spent 30 minutes touring the town that the Rockefellers restored to 18th century authenticity at an expense...
Between eating and rubbernecking, Tito squeezed in 2½ hours of talks with Kennedy, speaking in Serbo-Croatian but following Kennedy's remarks without the help of a translator. High among the topics discussed was last year's cancellation by Congress of Yugoslavia's most-favored-nation status in trade with the U.S. Kennedy promised to see what he could do to restore it, but his chances of persuading Congress...
...Afterward, in a bland communique, the two Presidents hailed the nuclear test ban as "a significant initial step in lessening international tension," called for "further progress" in "reducing the danger of war," and expressed hope for an expansion of economic, cultural and scientific exchanges between the U.S. and Yugoslavia. Tito thanked the U.S. for some $2.5 billion in military and economic aid since his 1948 break with Stalin, and for its help in the recent Skoplje earthquake. To house 10,000 of the 100,000 people left homeless by the quake, Kennedy announced that the U.S. would also send Yugoslavia...