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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Jan. 20, 1661
Military Might Marks Big Parade
WASHINGTON — (UFI) — The United States amassed a dazzling display of military power today for President John F. Kennedy's triumphal procession to the White House after solemn oath-taking ceremonies at the capitol.
Mighty missiles, aircraft, battlefield weapons and 16,000 members of the armed forces — all symbols of the nation's power to prevent war—were mobilized for the three-hour march down Pennsylvania Avenue.
Thirty-two thousand civilian participants ranging from high-ranking federal and state dignitaries to high school bandsmen and Boy Scouts were on hand with 40 colorful floats and 40 military and civilian bands to complete the pageantry.
STARTING POINT of the parade was the capitol plaza — the scene of Kennedy's swearing in. Its climax was Kennedy's special reviewing stand in front of the White House.
"World Peace Through New Frontiers" was the theme. It derived from Kennedy's acceptance speech at the nomination convention last summer.
There were precedent breakers for an inaugural parade. For the first time, 50 states were represented, marking the admission of Hawaii and Alaska. Marking scientific advance was an assembly line space vehicle that had been orbited and recovered. Four years ago, there was no successful U.S. space vehicle in existence.
Leading the parade as grand marshal was retired Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin, the famed World War II
Frost's Inaugural Poem Tailored To'New Frontier
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — In 1942, when the United States was engaged in the biggest war in its history, Poet Robert Frost wrote a 16-line poem entitled "The Gift Outright."
It was about the American Revolution, and its theme was the need for a people to expend themselves in defense of a land before it really is theirs.
President-elect Kennedy asked the white-haired New England poet to read "The Gift Outright" at the Inaugural ceremony.
Frost agreed that the poem was appropriate to the advent of a new administration which is pledged to the conquest of "New Frontiers," and to a period in history when the United States again faces grave international dangers.
Here is the complete text of the poem:
"The Cift Outright"
"The land was ours before we were the land's.
Before we were her people. She was ours
In Massachusetts, in Virginia.
But we were England's, still colonials.
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by.
Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
Something we were withholding made us weak
Until we found out that it was ourselves
We were withholding from our land of living.
And forthwith found salvation in surrender.
THE NEW PRESIDENT, escorted by the 100-member U.S. Army Band and 3rd U.S. infantry troops in dress blues, was near the vanguard of the procession in an open car with his wife Jacqueline and Sen John Sparkman, D-Ala.
paratrooper, selected by Kennedy in contrast with the custom of assigning the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
Such as we were we gave ourselves outright
Following was Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson accompanied by his wife Ladybird, his daughters Lynda and Lucy Baines and Speaker Sam Rayburn.
(The deed of gift was many deeds of war)
Others in the presidential section and joining Kennedy in the presidential reviewing stand were Chief Justice and Mrs. Earl Warren, former President and Mrs. Harry S. Truman, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, a joint congressional committee, cabinet members, Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and the chiefs of the military services.
To the land vaguely realizing westward.
But still unstoried, artless, un-enhanced.
THE OLD GUARD Fife and Drum Corps, dressed in Revolutionary War uniforms, brought up the rear of the presidential escort.
The service academies sent 8,650 cadets, 1,750 from West Point, 3,800 from Annapolis, 1,750 from Colorado Springs, 600 from the Coast Guard Academy and 750 from the Merchant Marine Academy.
Such as she was, such as she would become."
In the exhibition of military night, there was displayed for the first time a half-scale model of the 2000-mile-an-hour B70 bomber.
The millions along the oarate route and around television screens saw a 60-ft. model of the Minute Man intercontinental ballistic missile, a Polaris missile, a bomber-
The Air Force paraded the X15 rocket ship designed to carry man to the fringes of space and the Navy both its A4D Eantam bomber and huge F4H Phantom interceptor.
carried "Hound Dog" missile and a Thor space booster.
A TRANSIT navigation satellite, of the type already successfully used, gave an idea how ships and aircraft may be guided in the future.
Of special sentimental interest for Kennedy was a 35-ft. boat marked PT-169. Carried on a truck bed, it was identical with the motor torpedo boat in which Kennedy almost was killed when it was rammed by a Japanese destroyer in 1943. In the PT-169 were his former crew members.
The Army displayed an array of missiles ranging from its Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile to its new Pershing ballistic weapon for supporting battlefield troops.
Most of the marching military men were attired in dress or street uniforms. But the Second Airborne Battle Group of the 82nd Airborne Division, which Gavin once commanded and which won 3,000 purple hearts in World War II, marched in full battle dress. Even blued steel bayonets were used.
THE 2ND BATTALION of the 8th Marine Regiment, a distinguished unit of the Pacific fighting in World War II. also was in combat-ready uniform.
Military and civilian elements were alternated in the parade in an effort to prevent the procession running on into the night as it did in the two Eisenhower inaugurals. Parade chiefs reasoned that the military units would keep up the precise pace and compel civilia marchers to do the same.
The contingent representing Kennedy's home state of Massachusetts included the 115-member Boston Latin School Band and Color Guard, representing the oldest high school in America. Kennedy's father and grandfather attended the school. The Massachusetts Military Academy sent a cadet corps from Boston and the 26th (National Guard) infantry Division in Cambridge sent its band.
Capital Catholics Eat Meat Today
WASHINGTON —(UPI) — President John F. Kennedy and all other Catholics in Washington were permitted to eat meat today even though it's Friday.
Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle granted a special dispensation from the usual rule of abstinence from meat on Fridays in recognition of the fact that inauguration day is a legal holiday.
The dispensation applied to all Catholic visitors to the city as well as residents of the Archdiocese of Washington.
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