ABSTRACT
The rest of the legislative record of the 87th Congress, the initial two years of the John F. Kennedy administration, represented a promising start on the administration’s New Frontier program. Jackie Kennedy’s decorators discovered a huge crystal chandelier hanging in a public corridor on the Senate side of the Capitol. It had been removed from the White House in a refurbishing during the Grant administration and consigned to a junk dealer. Jackie Kennedy pleaded with Lyndon Johnson for help, promising dire consequences for Stewart if he persisted in ignoring her demand for the chandelier. The emplacement of the missiles, however, was discovered by US aerial reconnaissance in October 1962, prompting Kennedy to summon a high council of state. Kennedy’s planned reaction involved a US naval interdiction of Soviet ships carrying missiles for Cuba as they approached the island and a demand for the removal of the emplacements already on the island.
