& P Chair's rocking chair famous. In 1955, Kennedy, who suffered from chronic back problems, was prescribed swimming and the use of a rocking chair by his physician. The President so enjoyed the rocker that, after he was inaugurated in 1961, he took the chair on Air Force One when he traveled around the country and the world. He bought additional rockers for Camp David and for the Kennedy estates; and he gave them as gifts to friends, family, and heads of state. Kennedy's rocking chair from the White House is on permanent display at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. Per the manufacturing design, the Kennedy Rocking Chair is shaped, steam-bent, and assembled while the wood is still green. See also Bassinet, another rocking piece of furniture Glider (furniture), a chair that rocks via suspension from a four-bar linkage "Rockin' Chair" (song) by Hoagy Carmichael Swing (seat), the rocking movement comes from suspension References External links Pictorial history of rocking chairs Chairs