Chapter One
A cold day in December. Long afterward, after the assassination and all the
pain, the older man would remember with great clarity the young man’s
grace, his good manners, his capacity to put a visitor at ease. He was concerned
about the weather, that the old man not be exposed to the cold or to the probing
questions of freezing newspapermen, that he not have to wait for a cab. Instead
he had guided his guest to his own car and driver. The older man would remember
the young man’s good manners almost as clearly as the substance of their
talk, though it was an important meeting.
In just a few weeks the young man would become President of the United States,
and to the newspapermen standing outside his Georgetown house, there was an air
of excitement about every small act, every gesture, every word, every visitor to
his temporary headquarters. They complained less than usual, the bitter cold
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