Atlanta Daily World

By LOUIS LAUTIER For NNPA

Weaver, Johnson Meet

ROBERT WEAVER, whom President Kennedy will appoint as Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, was closeted Wednesday with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Vice President's office in the Capitol.

This can mean only one thing-that Johnson will see that Weaver's nomination get through the Senate with only token opposition from the Southerners.
Weaver's nomination has not yet been sent to the Senate, but Pierre Salinger, Presidential press secretary, has repeatedly said it will be.
These are stirring times in which to have a ringside seat and watch the Kennedy Administration unfold. It is young, vigorous and imaginative.
Things are being done differently. For example, President Eisenhower was an early riser - habit carried over from his Army days and usually began work by 8 o'clock.
President Kennedy arrived at his office at 8:15 a.m., Monday, Jan. 23, and met briefly with Kenneth O'Donnell, one of his special assistants, and Brig. Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster, who was staff secretary under Eisenhower.
A scheduled staff meeting was called off, and President Kennedy went into a meeting at 10 a.m. with Dean Rusk, Secretary of State; Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense; Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; McGeorge Bundy, the President's assistant on national security; Chester Bowles, Under Secretary of State, and Paul M. Nitze, new Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.

LUNCH WITH WIFE

The meeting recessed at 12:30, and President Kennedy returned to the White House for lunch with his wife, Jacqueline, in the White House family dining room.
The conference participants lunched on their own. The meeting resumed at 2:30.
When Jim Hagerty was with the White House press secretary, he would not touch Mrs. Eisenhower's affairs. The gal reporters had to get their news of Mrs. Eisenhower from Mary Jane McCaffree, Mrs. Eisenhower's personal and social secretary.
But not so Salinger. He is handling Mrs. Kennedy's press relations. Some of the male reporters balked at this, but Pierre would not give in.
Robert Frost, the elderly poet visited President Kennedy at the White House Sunday. He presented the President with the handwritten copy of the dedication of the original poem Mr. Frost read at the inaugural ceremony. Mrs. Kennedy is arranging to have the dedication framed. It will be hung on one of the walls of Mr. Kennedy's office.
Sunday night Mrs. Kennedy talked with Caroline, their two-year old daughter, who is staying with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, in Palm Beach.
Mrs. Kennedy met Monday with Mrs. Helen Parish, a New York decorator, who is assisting her with some redecoration she is doing of the White House. Previously, Mrs. Parish aided Mrs. Kennedy with the decoration of her N street home and also helped her with the Kennedy country home, Glen Ora, in the Virginia horse country in the vicinity of Leesburg.
Mrs. Kennedy met Tuesday with William Walton, an artist and close friend of the President, and discussed the possibility of borrowing paints from American museums and art galleries for display in the private living quarters in the White House.
She also met with David E. Finley, chairman of the Fine Arts Commission, and Ralph Walker, a member of the Fine Arts Commission.
Salinger emphasized that the redecoration will be kept to a minimum. The plan is to keep the present atmosphere of the White House but make it fit in with the Kennedy taste. No changes are planned for the public rooms.
Salinger also said the President has asked Mrs. Kennedy to find a naval battle painting to go over the fireplace in his office. The costs of the redecoration will come out of a fund of $25,000 Congress allows for that purpose.

HAND ON BIBLE

A reporter asked whether President Kennedy had his hand on the Bible while Chief Justice Earl Warren was administering the oath of office to him.
Salinger replied that he did but apparently the photographs did not show it. The Bible was open.
Reporters insisted that they had examined dozens of photographs but none of them showed Mr. Kennedy with his hand on the Bible. All of them showed him with his hands down at his sides. James R. Browning, clerk the Supreme Court, who held the Bible, said Mr. Kennedy did not have his hand on the Bible.
Pierre insisted it was his understanding that the President did. He checked and reported that the President said he had had his hand on the Bible. It may have dropped to his side, but the important thing was the taking of the oath.
Another change developed Tuesday morning. The President met at 9 o'clock with the Vice President and the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate including Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana, the Senate leader; Speaker Sam Rayburn and Representative John W. McCormack of Massachusetts, the House floor leader.
After meeting of Republican congressional leaders with President Eisenhower, the Senate and House minority leaders would meet with reporters in Hagerty's office and brief them on what they discussed with the President.