FILE - In this April 28, 1961 file photo, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, left, meets with President John Kennedy during a visit to the general's hotel suite at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel, here he was a long-term resident. The word "grand" matched few hotels in the world better than New York City's Waldorf Astoria, which has welcomed well-heeled guests including every American president, but this bastion of gilded splendor is now closing for two to three years for a transformative makeover. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)