Three days later, the forty-three-year-old President-elect, the youngest ever elected, was driven to the North Portico entrance of the White House to meet the seventy-one-year-old President, the oldest man ever elected. Then he swept an imaginary hat from his head, bowed, and said: "Good morning, Mr. K-e-e-nnedy," he said, imitating Eisenhower, who sometimes mispronounced his name. On the first Saturday night of December, at a casual dinner in the big kitchen with a few friends and members of his campaign staff, someone asked him whether he was nervous about his first meeting with President Dwight Eisenhower, the next Tuesday. Kennedy spent as much time as he could relaxing in the sun at his father's house in Palm Beach, Florida. In the weeks between his election and inauguration as the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John F.
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