Letters from a Rocking Chair

With a quick pull on my arm he said: We sneaked up a narrow winding stairway, came to a small door, knocked three times and there appeared a junior officer with what Briton's call a torch and American's less frighteningly a flashlight. He cupped it with one hand so it would not disturb the surrounding blackness of the enclosed bridge. As we ducked in and crept into the only two seats in this tiny room, half of which was a semi-circle of the console, there was one silhouetted figure that was as still and sharp as a cut-out - the back of a man's head resting against the high back of a most extraordinary chair to be in this tiny cockpit, it was a rocking chair, and the head was of course the head of President John Kennedy.

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Later, I asked my old friend about it. I thought I knew everything about the physical condition of President Kennedy and how much of it was, by an unspoken agreement in those days, kept secret. I recalled the brief uproar during the primary campaign when Senator Lyndon Johnson was running against Kennedy and the Johnson team put out the scurrilous news that Senator Kennedy had Addison's disease.

So he had, which explained the yellowish pigment of his skin sometimes. He also occasionally appeared to have a hump, known I discovered later, as a cortisone hump.

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We noticed these things at the time, as simply on and off days of a very busy public man. Anyway, there was then a code, unwritten, never brought up, which would have made it tasteless to mention such things. As for Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson's foul accusation, the Kennedy camp promptly denied it and no more was said. So as I say, after the brilliant missile show that June in the Pacific, I asked my old sailor friend how about the rocking chair, where did you get it?

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They fly it everywhere, seems he has to have it, he can't walk for too long without either taking a bath or going to work in the rocking chair". More than a year later, when I was making a memorial album about President Kennedy, compiling many recorded interviews with every sort of person who'd known him, I mentioned to Mrs Kennedy that when he didn't have that slightly waxy complexion, he always looked as if he'd just emerged from a bath.

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It was the only place, the only time he didn't feel the pain in his back. You can see now why the most vivid memory of that memorable night on the Kitty Hawk was not the magic of the soaring missiles leaping like dolphins and playing the apocalypse, but that rocking chair. First, it made me realise how drastically the conventions, you might want to say courtesies, of reporting have changed in 30 years, some might say it deteriorated. The first hint I had of a new, not a new convention, but you might say a completely new emotion among a new generation of reporters, it was in just five years before that night with Kennedy in the Pacific.

There'd been, I recall, a long debate in the United Nations Security Council and Mr John Foster Dulles who was Eisenhower's secretary of state, finished long after midnight, a speech and went off home.

He didn't go home, he went straight to a hospital. Within two days, there appeared a banner headline on the front page of the New York Daily News, which was a tabloid, but then a good and responsible one: That is how I know about your products. When my friend's granddaught.

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