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A Gift from the President:
At the end of October, President Kennedy decided to present a memento to each of his advisers who assisted him through the ordeal. His secretary later recalled, "the one thing that was fixed in his mind was the idea of having the month of October ... with the dates 16-28 either circled or standing out in different print."
He commissioned Tiffany & Company to create 34 silver-and-wood calendar paperweights. In addition to those who participated in the Ex Comm meetings during the most intense phase of the crisis, Jacqueline Kennedy and the President's personal secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, were among the recipients. |