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ASK NOT, TELL NOT.(Book Review)

The New Yorker

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Catholics in the Washington, D.C., area were relieved of the proscription against eating meat on Friday, January 20, 1961, by special order of His Holiness Pope John XXIII, in recognition of the inauguration, that day, of the first Roman Catholic President of the United States. John F. Kennedy took advantage of the papal dispensation by having bacon for breakfast. He was a man accustomed to the discreet aid and succor of the intelligent, the beautiful, and the well-placed.

The Pope's dietary intercession must be one of the very few stories with a connection to the inauguration that did not make it into "Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech ...

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