in 1961 he passed power into a young democrat john. kennedy. three days in january looks at the high stakes presidential transition between i and j and k. the subject matter, the timing of this couldn t be better, tell us what we will learn from the book? thanks, three and a half years in the making and i started to think about, you know, covering politics, you always are dealing in sound bites and little snippeds and tweets this time around. but to look back at history and really dig in, i started to find at the eisenhower library a lot of nuggets about this time and i foe questioned on the farewell address, delivered january 17th, 1961, three days before kennedy s inauguration and looked at that and kind of