“It’s good to see you,” said President Kennedy, shaking King’s hand for the first time since their campaign meeting seven months earlier. Kennedy said he had been keeping up with King’s work through the Attorney General. He alluded briefly to the confidential plans to promote Negro registration in the South and promised his support. To King’s polite inquiries about how he was doing, Kennedy replied that everything was fine except that the world had fallen in on him since the disaster in Cuba. In honor of his pledge to keep the Mayflower meeting secret, King made no public reference to it then
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