On another January day in 1961, Nixon (the outgoing vice president) would stand behind Kennedy to watch his rival take the oath of office. A week later, on January 9th, Richard Nixon likewise declared his candidacy. Kennedy officially announced his candidacy on January 2nd–on January 3rd the announcement made front page news as Kennedy added his name to a growing list of White House-hungry Democrats. In 1960 Nixon would argue experience Kennedy would insist that after eight years of Ike, the country was ready for something new. While Kennedy finished his Senate term, Nixon spent eight years traveling the world on Ike’s behalf. Although Kennedy had followed Nixon to the Senate, Nixon had become Dwight D. The message? Joseph Kennedy wanted Nixon to win.īy 1960, the two would be rivals. According to Farrell’s biography, John Kennedy stopped by Nixon’s office with a check from his father for one thousand dollars. When Nixon ran for Senate he had the support of the Kennedy clan. I understood these qualities because I shared them.” The Nixons were later invited to attend Jack Kennedy’s wedding. “He was shy…but it was a shyness born of an instinct that guarded privacy and concealed emotion. “Neither one of us was a backslapper,” Nixon wrote later.
They bonded over their passion for international affairs. Farrell, the two young congressmen once shared a train car back to D.C. According to the 2017 Nixon biography Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Kennedy, circa 1947Īlthough they would face each other in the bitterly contested election of 1960, Kennedy and Nixon were friendly in the House. He was joined by his future political rival Richard Nixon. JFK wasn’t the only young Congressman to be sworn in that day in 1947.
On January 3rd in 1960, 13 years later, it was reported that JFK had thrown his hat in the ring to be the next president. In 1947, it was the day that he was sworn into Congress for the first time as a member of the House of Representatives. January 3rd is a day that holds special significance for John F.
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