4 “Joe’s courage and devotion”: “Joseph Kennedy Jr.’s Death Recalled,” New York Times, March 20, 1970.
5 “Luckily, I am a Kennedy”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), 697.
6 “the Big One”: Barbara Leaming, Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2016), 30.
7 “they can not have what they want most”: Thomas Maier, The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 149.
8 “two Joes”: Leaming, 18.
9 “Kick’s soul”: Edward Klein, The Kennedy Curse: Why America’s First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003), 145.
10 “Thursday—Engaged”: Paula Byrne, “‘Kick’ Kennedy: JFK’s Forgotten Sister,” Telegraph (UK), May 20, 2016.
11 “MARRIED LIFE AGREES WITH ME”: Leaming, Kick Kennedy, 157.
12 “nothing but goodbyes”: Leaming, 158.
13 Patricia Wilson: Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, 670.
14 “I had better get a gal”: Kearns Goodwin, 685.
15 Personal Effects Distribution: Rick Long/ Cape Cod Curmudgeon, “August 12, 1944, Operation Aphrodite,” Today in History (website), August 12, 2017.
16 Peter Fitzwilliam resembling Rhett Butler: Leaming, Kick Kennedy, 235-6.
17 Rose opposes marriage to divorced man: Leaming, Kick Kennedy, 241.
18 “Darling Daddy”: Leaming, Kick Kennedy, 241.
19 “I’d like to get Dad’s consent”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 169.
20 boozy lunch: Edward Klein, The Kennedy Curse: Why America’s First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003), 159.
21 Discovery of bodies: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, 169-70.
22 “he will be forgotten”: Jennifer Newton, “Calls Grow for Memorial to JFK’s Older Brother Joe to Be Built in English Village Where WW2 Bomber Exploded—Paving the Way for Younger Sibling to Go on and Become President,” Daily Mail (UK), December 6, 2014.
23 “dinner during an air raid”: Edward J. Renehan Jr., The Kennedys at War, 1937–1945 (New York: Doubleday, 2002), 314.
PART FOUR
The President: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Chapter 10
1 “your blue underwear”: Thomas Bilodeau, recorded interview by James Murray, May 12, 1964, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program, 3.
2 “godawful suits”: Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 (New York: Little, Brown, 2003), 2.
3 “best sense of humor”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), 464.
4 “never thought Jack would do anything”: Ronald Kessler, The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (New York: Warner Books, 1996), 286.
5 “shadowboxing”: Edward J. Renehan Jr., The Kennedys at War, 1937–1945 (New York: Doubleday, 2002), 314.
6 Rose’s belief that Jack had a lower IQ: Barbara A. Perry, Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013), 51.
7 “never wanted us to talk about this”: Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (New York: Little, Brown, 1997), 15.
8 “sick so much”: Donald Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis: A Life (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 87.
9 “a very definite flair”: Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, 481.
10 “good motion”: Ian Young, “The Man Who Loved JFK,” review of Jack and Lem: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship, by David Pitts, Gay & Lesbian Review, September 1, 2007.
11 “Jack’s winning smile”: Alexis Coe, “Portrait of a Troublemaker: A Rare Glimpse of John F. Kennedy’s Life at Boarding School,” Town and Country, May 2017.
12 Jackie’s gifts as a mimic: Spoto, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 47.
13 “two boys from the same family”: Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, 487.
14 “a nearly impossible task to restore it”: Kearns Goodwin, 489.
15 “Most Likely to Succeed”: Kearns Goodwin, 489.
Chapter 11
1 Ralph Horton: Cari Beauchamp, “Two Sons, One Destiny,” Vanity Fair, December 2004.
2 “frightened to death they’d get VD”: Thomas Maier, The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 85.
3 “mother him or marry him”: Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 (New York: Little, Brown, 2003), 5.
4 “what did not interest him”: Nik DeCosta-Klipa, “Four Things You Might Not Know About John F. Kennedy’s Years at Harvard,” Boston.com, May 25, 2017.
5 Mildred Finley: Lorna Hughes, “Teachers’ Account of How She Was Shipwrecked and Met JFK in Glasgow Within a Few Fateful Days in September 1939,” Daily Record (UK), September 8, 2013.
6 “wisdom and sympathy”: DeCosta-Klipa, “Four Things.”
7 “Appeasement at Munich”: Joseph M. Siracusa, Encyclopedia of the Kennedys: The People and Events That Shaped America (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2012), 25.
Chapter 12
1 “Nordic beauty”: Scott Farris, Inga: Kennedy’s Great Love, Hitler’s Perfect Beauty, and J. Edgar Hoover’s Prime Suspect (Holland, OH: Dreamscape Media, LLC, 2016), 137.
2 “a boy with a future”: Barbara Leaming, Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2016), 101.
3 Arvad’s pieces on Goering and Hitler: Farris, Inga, 13.
4 Autographed photo from Hitler: Farris, 148.
5 “gooey eyes”: Leaming, Kick Kennedy, 100.
6 “He had the charm”: Leaming, 100.
7 “could be a spy?”: Farris, Inga, 106.
8 “in big trouble”: Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (New York: Little, Brown, 1997), 83.
9 “drag up the big guns”: Leaming, Kick Kennedy, 104.
10 “It took the FBI”: Frederick M. Winship, “New Book: Kennedy’s ‘Greatest Love’—but Was She a Spy?” United Press International, October 14, 1992.
11 “one thing I don’t want”: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, 85.
12 “The breakup with Inga”: Edward J. Renehan Jr., The Kennedys at War, 1937–1945 (New York: Doubleday, 2002), 220.
13 “Over the side, boy”: Thomas Bilodeau, recorded interview by James Murray, May 12, 1964, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program, 8.
14 “always had something to prove”: Renehan, The Kennedys at War, 220.
15 The postwar veterans’ vote: Joseph McBride, Searching for John Ford (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011), 403 (footnote).
16 “Without PT-109”: William Doyle, PT-109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy (New York: William Morrow, 2015), xi.
Chapter 13
1 “burnt so bad”: Dennis Georgatos, “PT-109 Survivor Saved in War by JFK Dead at 84,” AP, February 21, 1990.
2 “most exciting I’ve ever heard”: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 112.
3 Carving into coconut: “John F. Kennedy and PT 109,” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum website.
4 “letter for you”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), 657.
5 Inviting Pacific Islanders to inauguration: Kat Eschner, “Why JFK Kept a Coconut Shell in the Oval Office,” Smithsonian.com, August 2, 2017.
6 “still late for meals, still no money”: Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963, (New York: Little, Brown, 2003), 101.
7 “you have that feeling”: Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, 559–60.
8 “real
heroes”: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, 98.
9 “Joe’s business”: Ronald Kessler, The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (New York: Warner Books, 1996), 288.
10 “burden falls to me”: Cari Beauchamp, “Two Sons, One Destiny,” Vanity Fair, December 2004.
11 “like being drafted”: Kessler, The Sins of the Father, 288.
12 “going to be the President”: Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, 262.
13 James A. Reed: Kessler, The Sins of the Father, 288.
Chapter 14
1 A small garden party: Sarah Polus, “A History Buff with an Affinity for the Kennedys Just Bought the Home Where JFK Met Jackie,” Washington Post, March 15, 2018.
2 “unfailing antenna”: Robert D. McFadden, “Death of a First Lady; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Dies of Cancer at 64,” New York Times, May 20, 1994.
3 “disturbing influence”: Donald Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis: A Life (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 75.
4 “leaned across the asparagus”: Time, “Women: Jackie,” Januaty 20, 1961.
5 “shameless in their match-making”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 83.
6 “a little lonesome”: Spoto, 85.
7 “Such heartbreak would be worth the pain”: Spoto, 86.
8 “a challenge”: Spoto, 91.
9 “such a wit”: McFadden, “Death of a First Lady.”
10 “didn’t like her mother”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 43.
11 “My mother was a nothing”: Ronald Kessler, The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (New York: Warner Books, 1996), 44.
12 “my father wants”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 85.
13 “completeness of perfection”: Thomas Maier, The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 445.
14 “grandest fellow”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), 486.
15 “spent half of each week”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 85.
16 “she knew the score”: Helen Lawrenson, “Jackie at 50,” Washington Post Weekend Magazine, July 28, 1979.
17 “if she married into that family”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 64–65.
18 “nothing if not the most exciting”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 64.
19 “crazy about Jackie”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 99.
20 “Jack-leen”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 60.
21 “put through her paces”: Taraborrelli, 63.
81 “a better wife”: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 301.
81 “no mention of a fiancée”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 101.
22 Jack’s last letter: Emily Saul, “Letters Reveal Steamy Affair JFK Began Weeks Before Marrying Jackie,” New York Post, November 23, 2015.
23 “Half my time”: Godfrey Hodgen, “Obituary: Evelyn Lincoln,” Independent (UK), May 20, 1995.
24 “a splendid wedding”: Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember, 301.
25 “picture perfect”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 66.
26 “like the coronation”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 104.
27 Hersh reports on Durie Malcolm: Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (New York: Little, Brown, 1997), 326–40.
28 “I wouldn’t have married Jack”: Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, 329.
29 Possibility that Jack was a bigamist: Hersh, 328.
30 “American people don’t care”: Barbara Leaming, excerpt of Mrs. Kennedy (CITY: Publisher, 2001), New York Times, November 24, 2001.
31 “Kennedy men are like that”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 48.
32 “You can’t let it get to you”: Sally Bedell Smith, “Private Camelot,” Vanity Fair, May 2004.
33 “how that nearly killed Mummy”: “Jackie Kennedy Letters Shine Light on Her Marriage and Mourning,” NBC News, May 13, 2014.
34 “You just had to live with it”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 48.
35 “didn’t fully understand each other”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 106.
36 “I was alone”: Spoto, 108.
37 Jack’s health: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 67.
38 “Jackie placing her hand”: Taraborrelli, 67.
39 “I love being married”: “Jackie Kennedy Letters Shine Light.”
40 “atypical husband”: Caroline Hallemann, “Jackie Kennedy’s Love Letter to JFK Offers a Rare Glimpse into Their Marriage,” Town & Country, October 29, 2018.
41 “sadness shared brings married people closer”: “Jackie Kennedy Letters Shine Light.”
42 “handsome, well-endowed”: Cabell Phillips, “How to Be a Presidential Candidate,” New York Times, July 13, 1958.
43 “not a natural-born campaigner”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 133.
44 “When Jackie was traveling with us”: Spoto, 131.
45 “lunching with my husband”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 134.
46 “Do you really think”: Ben Bradlee, “Jack Kennedy, My Friend, My President,” Newsweek, January 17, 2011.
Chapter 15
1 “very, very private”: Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (New York: Little, Brown, 1997), 136.
2 Giancana’s name in the “Black Book”: John M. Glianna, “Sam Giancana’s Daughter Aims to Cash in on Gangster’s Memorabilia,” Los Angeles Times, November 21, 2014.
3 “constitutional psychopath”: Glianna, “Sam Giancana’s Daughter.”
4 “I own Chicago”: Glianna, “Sam Giancana’s Daughter.”
5 RFK interrogation: Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, 134.
6 “no ballot stuffing”: Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, 136.
7 “most perfectly manicured”: Steve Chawkins, “George Jacobs Dies at 86; Frank Sinatra’s Longtime Valet,” Los Angeles Times, December 31, 2013.
8 “least talented member”: Bruce Fessier, “Brother-in-Lawford Was Sinatra’s Key to White House,” Desert Sun, October 20, 2015.
9 Affair between Pat Kennedy and Sinatra: Lee Server, “The Real Reason Frank Sinatra Was Banned from the Kennedy White House,” Town & Country, November 7, 2018.
10 “well-known movie actor”: Fessier, “Brother-in-Lawford was Sinatra’s Key to White House.”
11 “Kennedy wanted to be Sinatra”: Diana Pearl, “New Book Details John F. Kennedy’s Short-lived, Intense Friendship with Frank Sinatra,” People, November 28, 2016.
12 “Elizabeth Taylor category”: Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, 296.
13 “a genuine mutual admiration society”: Kitty Kelley, “The Dark Side of Camelot,” People, February 29, 1988.
14 Sinatra introduction of Judith Exner to Kennedys: Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, 294.
15 “Do a ‘Youth for Kennedy’”: Fessier, “Brother-in-Lawford Was Sinatra’s Key to White House.”
16 “That little rascal”: Kelley, “The Dark Side of Camelot.”
17 “anxious to get together”: Lindsay Kimble, “The Truth Behind JFK’s Mobbed Up Mistress—and What She Might Have Known About the Assassination,” People, September 19, 2017.
18 “world’s greatest listener”: Sara Stewart, “All The President’s Women,” New York Post, November 10, 2013.
19 “Thinking of you”: Kelley, “The Dark Side of Camelot.”
20 “set up to be the courier”: Kimble, “The Truth Behind JFK’s Mobbed Up Mistress.”
21 “help me with the campaign”: Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, 303.
22 Mink coat: Hersh, 303–4.
23 “plans had all been made without me”: Hersh, 304.
24 West Virginia campaign law: Marc J. Selverstone, “John F. Kennedy: Campaigns and Elections,” Miller Cente
r for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
25 “Don’t buy a single vote more”: Elaine Kamarck, “The 1960 West Virginia Primary: Can It Happen Again?” Brookings, May 10, 2016.
26 “hopes and threats”: Selverstone, “John F. Kennedy: Campaigns and Elections.”
27 “way to the White House”: Pearl, “New Book Details John F. Kennedy’s Short-Lived, Intense Friendship with Frank Sinatra.”
28 “constant, unremitting labor”: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 320.
29 “Your boyfriend wouldn’t be president”: R. C. Longworth, “Woman Says She Was JFK’s Mob Liaison,” Chicago Tribune, October 7, 1991.
Chapter 16
1 “Rather vain”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 56.
2 JFK as “Superman”: Robert McCrum, “Eunice Kennedy and the Death of the Great American Dream,” Guardian (UK), August 15, 2009.
3 George E. Thomas: Barbara A. Perry and Alfred Reaves IV, “Inside the Unsung Life of the Man Who Was John F. Kennedy’s Most Personal Assistant,” Time, November 20, 2018.
4 “Dr. Feelgood”: Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 (New York: Little, Brown, 2003), 398.
5 “more promiscuous with physicians”: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, 399.
6 “Urgent National Needs”: Douglas Brinkley, “How JFK Sent the U.S. to the Moon,” Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2019.
7 “this was a disastrous idea”: Mark White, “Bay of Pigs Invasion: Kennedy’s Cuban catastrophe,” BBC History Magazine, May 2011.
8 “Two full days of hell”: White, “Bay of Pigs Invasion,” BBC History Magazine.
9 “a pretty bad fix”: Rick Klein, “JFK Tapes: New Insight Into White House Tensions During Cuban Missile Crisis,” ABC News, September 24, 2012.
10 "stay right here with you": Associated Press, "Jackie O's Antiquated Views 'Horrified' Grandkids," NBC News, September 14, 2011.
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