The Presidency: On The Road

THE PRESIDENCY

President Kennedy had another of those busy, busy weeks. Traveling westward, he watched massive demonstrations of nuclear weaponry in the broiling heat of desert missile ranges and from the breezy decks of aircraft carriers. He made speeches on subjects ranging from the bright future of the U.S. Air Force to the nation's earthier civil rights dilemma. He politicked with Democratic officeholders and made a chatty appearance at another of those $1,000-a-couple fund-raising dinners.

"No Way to Stop Them." At Maryland's Andrews Air Force Base, young John Kennedy Jr. was on hand with a family nurse to bid the President farewell....

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