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Feb 6, 2022

Woodrow Wilson's Typewriter Returned to White House

Feb. 6, 1962 - Woodrow Wilson’s typewriter was returned today to the White House. It had been disposed of as surplus property during the...

Feb 6, 2022

Attorney General Kennedy Visits Waseda University, Reds Make a Scene

Feb. 6, 1962 - A small band of young Japanese Communists turned a warm university welcome for Robert F. Kennedy into a wild demonstration...

Feb 5, 2022

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy Enjoys Tokyo

Feb. 5, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy sat on the counter of a working-class bar in Tokyo tonight and discussed world problems...

Feb 5, 2022

President Kennedy Welcomes Congolese Premier to White House

Feb. 5, 1962 - President Kennedy entertained Premier Cyrille Adoula of the Congo at a White House luncheon today and then conferred with...

Feb 5, 2022

President Meets Astronaut Glenn at White House

Feb. 5, 1962 - Two men whose private lives are not very private compared notes at the White House today. Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr.,...

Feb 5, 2022

Robert F. Kennedy Debates Socialists in Japan

Feb. 5, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy replied sharply today to members of Japan’s Socialist party who criticized U.S....

Feb 4, 2022

Rockwell Booed Out of Lewisburg, PA

Feb. 4, 1962 - George Lincoln Rockwell (pictured), head of the American Nazi party, told a jeering crowd today that he had the right to...

Feb 4, 2022

Romney Makes Appearance on Meet the Press

Feb. 4, 1962 - George Romney told a national TV audience today that “the Republican image needs improvement.” In the past, he said, it...

Feb 4, 2022

Communist Military Assistance to Cuba Worth $100 Million and Counting

Feb. 4, 1962 - Cuba now has 50 to 100 MIG jet fighters and may be receiving some Soviet bombers and short-range rockets in new arms...

Feb 4, 2022

Attorney General Kennedy is Welcomed to Tokyo

Feb. 4, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s six-day visit to Japan began this evening with a noisy welcome at the airport in...

Feb 4, 2022

Castro Calls Kennedy's Trade Ban "Economic Aggression"

Feb. 4, 1962 - Cuban Premier Fidel Castro charged today that the U.S. embargo on imports from Cuba was “another economic aggression.” In...

Feb 3, 2022

President and Family Arrive in Palm Beach for Easter Holiday

Apr. 18, 1962 - President Kennedy and his family arrived in Palm Beach, Fla., this afternoon to begin a 10-day Easter holiday. The...

Feb 3, 2022

Edwin Walker Says Gubernatorial Run Part of Fight Against Communism

Feb. 3, 1962 - Edwin A. Walker (pictured in 1957), former Army major general, said today that his race for Governor of Texas was part of...

Feb 3, 2022

Virginia May Revoke Charter of American Nazi Party

Feb. 3, 1962 - A proposal to revoke the Virginia charter of the American Nazi party stirred debate in the state’s House of Delegates this...

Feb 3, 2022

Kennedy Bans Most Trade with Cuba

Feb. 3, 1962 - President Kennedy ordered a ban on almost all trade with Cuba today to deprive Premier Fidel Castro’s regime of an annual...

Feb 2, 2022

Edwin Walker to Run for Governor of Texas as Democrat

Feb. 2, 1962 - Edwin A. Walker (pictured right with evangelist Billy James Hargis), former Army major general, filed today as a...

Feb 2, 2022

Romney to Announce Decision on Michigan Governor Run by Feb. 10

Feb. 2, 1962 - The political credo of George Romney, the new hope of Michigan Republicans, is a mixture of strongly conservative views...

Feb 2, 2022

President Kennedy to Ban Cuban Imports

Feb. 2, 1962 - President Kennedy is expected to announce this weekend a ban on all remaining imports from Cuba, which give the Castro...

Feb 2, 2022

Tough Talk from Ike to GOP

Feb. 2, 1962 - Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Republicans last night to overhaul the party’s organization and get rid of incompetents if...

Feb 2, 2022

Governor Rockefeller Visits Iowa

Feb. 2, 1962 - More than 3,000 Iowa Republicans turned out last night to welcome Governor Rockefeller (pictured) of New York. They seemed...