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Author, PRESIDENTS OF WAR, 9 other books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. @PBS contributor. Born Chicago.

Sep 25, 2021, 5 tweets

LBJ welcomes Danny Kaye, Judy Garland, Carol Burnett and Richard Adler to his Vice Presidential office (with bathroom visible), November 1962: #JFKL

Danny Kaye enjoys a sit in JFK’s rocking chair with Presidential portrait in Oval Office, November 1962 (with Kennedy’s military aide General Chester Clifton as minder):

Judy Garland enjoys a smoke while leaning against Resolute desk, while JFK and Dave Powers shoot the breeze with Danny Kaye, November 1962. From White House, JFK sometimes called Garland in L.A. and asked her to sing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” to him over telephone: #JFKL

“Most Exciting Program Ever Staged!” 1962:

List of “Entertainers” for JFK, Madison Square Garden, 1962:

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