In 1961, Harper’s Magazine carried an article by John Fischer in which he wrote that "Every President needs about twelve months to get his team organized, to feel his way into the vast and dangerous machinery of bureaucracy… while Kennedy was still trying to move in the furniture, in effect, he found the root falling in and the doors blowing off."

Kennedy had been forewarned, both by the CIA and his deputies, about the tumultuous scenario of world politics. But he never entertained any illusions about avoiding or postponing these crises. In the first week in office he prepared intermittently with his deputies on the first state of Union address. He sought to forewarn the country of the dangers that lay ahead. His address was written down by the press and the media as "unnecessarily grim and gloomy". But the world was changing fast. In the weeks that followed the address the world bore witness to the assassination of former premier Lumumba of Congo. This was in February. Following is the date wise chronicle of events during the Kennedy era.

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