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Kennedy urges nationwide shelter plan next to White House
President Kennedy promotes a national fallout shelter program while noting the Executive Office Building basement, near the White House, is unsafe for a shelter due to hot water pipes. Civil defense workers mark off inner corridor shelters. Private citizens could shelter there alongside officials like Gen Maxwell D. Taylor and McGeorge Bundy, though they would likely head to secret command posts in a nuclear emergency.
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