ABSTRACT
The crisis-prone relations between Adenauer and Kennedy are well known. What is of interest here is not how Bonn dealt with Kennedy and vice versa, but how Adenauer and the CDU reacted to the emerging affiliation between Kennedy and Brandt. While this was an ongoing process, the high-profile visits of Vice President Johnson and President Kennedy in August 1961 and June 1963 are aptly suited to serve as case studies to show the underlying development.
