JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President
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“Well, I didn’t say that”: Tretick, JFKLOH.
“We’d better get this out of the way”: Ibid.
“the mood of the boy”: Ibid.
“the six o’clock comedy hour”: Heller Papers, Box 6, JFKL.
“a major foreign policy mistake”: WP, October 11, 1963.
“the worst political mistake”: Beschloss (Crisis), p. 644.
Kennedy opened the press conference: Transcript at JFKL Web site.
“President Nudges”: NYT, October 10, 1963.
“Give me good old Barry”: Fay, p. 259.
“No vice whatsoever”: Ibid.
“God, I’d like to be able to do”: David Bell, JFKLOH.
“Keep your seat, Barry”: Baker, p. 143.
“I’m a great big wolf”: Halle, JFKLOH.
Caroline walked into the room: Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.
“You know, I’ve been taking care of”: Halle, JFKLOH.
“a sight to gladden the eye”: Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.
“What do you think of him?”: Tretick, JFKLOH; Bergquist and Tretick, p. 125.
He struck Tretick: Ibid.
“joyous, funny, mutually fascinated”: Tretick, JFKLOH; Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.
“a hell of a picture”: Tretick, JFKLOH.
Churchill was already four sheets: Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.
“Oh no! No! No! No!”: Bergquist and Tretick, p. 126.
They were there when John stood outside: Ibid., p. 128.
“I’m cute! I’m cute!”: Ibid., p. 127.
Bergquist claimed she was not: Bergquist, JFKLOH.
she always saved her best jokes for him: Martin (Seeds), p. 294.
“a somber, sobering quality”: Bergquist, JFKLOH; Bergquist and Tretick, p. 31.
something “remote and tragic”: Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.
“Oh, you caught that”: Ibid.; Bergquist, JFKLOH; Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.
“subject to moods”: NYT, October 14, 1963.
“a very serious preoccupied”: Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.
He weighed himself: Powers, JFKLOH.
He had recently complained to Fay: Fay, JFKLOH.
He should have been more concerned: JFK Personal Papers, Box 48, JFKL.
Jackie’s secretary Mary Gallagher: Gallagher, pp. 268–69.
during the campaign he had ordered Lincoln: Lincoln (My Twelve), p. 113.
“look so handsome at these parties”: Hamilton, pp. 358–59.
“Why don’t we go out on to the terrace”: Gromyko, p. 181.
“Could we go for a ride”: Ibid., p. 137.
“I don’t deny”: Ibid., p. 177.
“The fact is, there are two groups”: Ibid., pp. 181–82.
His caution was a good example: Strober and Strober, p. 43.
“I don’t want you to get discouraged”: Presidential Recordings, Tape 115/A51, JFKL; FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume V, Soviet Union, Document 363.
As they were talking, one of Kennedy’s children: Presidential Recordings, Tape 115/A51, JFKL.
A reporter meeting the usually dour Gromyko: WP, October 11, 1963.
“eager to maintain a show”: Ibid.
“to develop further the success”: FRUS, 1961–1963, Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges, Document 118.
“I am convinced then”: Beschloss (Crisis), pp. 662–63.
The State Department never sent it: Ibid., p. 663.
Earl Blaik and Kenneth Royall followed Gromyko: Blaik, JFKLOH; Newsweek, October 28, 1963; Time, October 4, 1963.
American women were by comparison “not glamorous”: JFKPP, Box 40, JFKL.
“Thank you very much, Mr. President”: Tree, JFKLOH.
“Madam, you are raising”: Ibid.
“I never know whether women”: Ibid.
“If they are politicians, they don’t care”: Louchheim Papers, Box 78, Library of Congress.
“I don’t know how to treat women”: Tree, JFKLOH.
“just thought of themselves”: Ibid.
“quite uneasy with women”: Ibid.
Nancy Dickerson had a similar take: Dickerson, pp. 63–64.
“Let’s get women off the weather beat”: Ibid.
Jackie encouraged: Jacqueline Kennedy, pp. 305–6.
“Look, I may not be the best-looking”: Graham, pp. 290–91.
Assistant Secretary of Labor Esther Peterson: Peterson, JFKLOH.
“Gentlemen, we are here to talk about”: WP, October 11, 1963.
praising their report as “very useful”: Ibid.
Bergquist asked if he had seen the recent photograph of the Nixons: Bergquist and Tretick, p. 129.
“What are you doing tonight?”: Schlesinger (Journals), p. 201.
“My name is Polly Parrot”: Bergquist and Tretick, pp. 129–30.
Kennedy obtained copies of the photographs: Tretick, JFKLOH; Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library; Bergquist and Tretick, p. 130.
“No, Jack. I guess it’s your year”: Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.
A Newsweek article titled: Newsweek, October 28, 1963.
Other articles reported: ES, October 11, 1963; NYT, October 8, 1963.
“all-night parties in foreign lands”: WP, October 15, 1963.
“the lavish hospitality of a man”: Martin (Hero), p. 470.
Communication proved difficult: NYT, October 12, 1963.
“You’re a good swimmer, Jackie”: Pottker, p. 196.
“inexplicably fascinating and beautiful”: Galitzine, p. 157.
During the cruise she noticed: Ibid., p. 169.
“I loved you from the first moment”: Bradford, p. 258.
“I think that I am lucky to miss you”: William Manchester Papers (Death of a President), Box 43, Wesleyan University.
She shopped in the bazaars: NYT, October 15, 1963.
“a Parisian style to suit her personality”: WP, October 15, 1963.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14–FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18
Articles that morning: NYT and WP, October 14, 1963.
A Gallup poll released that weekend: WP, October 13, 1963.
There was better news in a second Harris poll: WP, October 14, 1963.
“the most widely disliked Democratic President”: Newsweek, October 28, 1963.
Writing about the impasse in the New York Times: NYT, October 14, 1963.
Bobby Kennedy testified: NYT, October, 16, 1963; NYT, October 18, 1963,
“politics in its purest definition”: NYT, October 20, 1963.
“There always comes a time”: Ibid.
reported an “improved climate”: NYT, October 16, 1963.
A spokesman for the Washington NAACP: Bryant, p. 449.
Kennedy’s back had continued bothering him: Schwartz, p. 204.
“I was melancholy after the death”: WP, November 13, 1963. Maier first revealed the details of McSorley’s counseling sessions with Jackie, see Maier, pp. 467–75.
Before, Kiernan said: Kiernan, JFKLOH.
Back at the White House, he had shoved: Manchester (Death), p. 55.
Jackie was willing to indulge his affection: Kiernan, JFKLOH.
Kiernan sensed that the Irish were “getting her down”: Ibid.
Kennedy’s insistence that the three days: Tubridy, JFKLOH.
“like a desert queen she sat before”: WP, October 16, 1963.
Eunice had bought a recording: LeMass, JFKLOH.
such sadness so plainly visible: Reed, JFKLOH; Sally Bedell Smith, pp. 415–16.
“To the disgra
ce of every living American”: WP, October 18, 1963.
Kennedy attempted to make: Reeves, pp. 631–32.
leading Kennedy to complain: Louchheim Papers, Box 78, LOC.
“Look, I asked for your opinion”: Duke, JFKLOH.
Jackie called before leaving Morocco: Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 292.
“No, no, you mustn’t be like that”: Ibid.
During a short layover: NYT, October 18, 1963.
Caroline carried a clay bird’s nest: WP, October 18, 1963.
Caroline recited a French sentence: Hirsh, JFKLOH.
“I’ll never be away again”: Anthony (White House), pp. 251–52.
“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”: Manchester (Death), p. 31.
Standing on a platform on the South Lawn: WP, October 19, 1963.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19–MONDAY, OCTOBER 21
JFK speech at the University of Maine: JFKL Web site.
Two hours later he walked into: NYT, October 20, 1963; Boston Sunday Advertiser, October 20, 1963; Boston Globe, October 20, 1963; Bilodeau, JFKLOH.
His own Harvard football career: Leamer, p. 102.
“I want to go to Patrick’s grave”: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 378.
He had designed Patrick’s headstone: Lincoln (My Twelve), p. 298.
He had also brought: Michael O’Brien, p. 779.
“Patrick seems so alone here”: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 39.
A waitress cried, “Oh, my God”: Boston Globe, October 20, 1963.
His impromptu walk was another security headache: Boston Sunday Advertiser, October 20, 1963; Boston Globe, October 20, 1963.
He asked the family chauffeur: Martin (Hero), pp. 473–74.
During the afternoon he crossed the street to visit Larry Newman: Martin (Hero), p. 442; Larry G. Newman, “Jack Kennedy Was My Neighbor,” Parade, November 22, 1964.
The weather was too cool: Martin (Hero), pp. 473–74; Dallas, pp. 4–5.
“Look who’s here, Dad”: Dallas, pp. 4–5.
“Mrs. Dallas, take good care of Dad”: Ibid.
“He’s the one who made all this possible”: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 39.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 21
A front-page article: NYT, October 20, 1963.
Kennedy had witnessed poverty like this: Clarke, p. 88.
he often referred to the “blight” of poverty: In his opening statement at the first televised debate, Kennedy said, “I saw cases in West Virginia here in the United States, where children took home part of their school lunch in order to feed their families.” JFK Pre-Presidential Papers, Box 914, JFKL.
“Tax reduction alone is not enough”: 1963 State of the Union speech, JFKL Web site.
Heller had sent him a memorandum: Sorensen Papers, Box 31, JFKL.
Heller admitted that although the tax cut: Thompson (ed.), p. 156; Heller, p. 20.
He gave Kennedy an economic: Ibid.
“Walter, first we’re going to get your tax cut”: Ibid., p. 152.
He told Heller during their meeting: Heller Papers, JFK-Johnson files, Box 6, JFKL.
Bishop arrived at the White House: Bishop (A Bishop’s), p. 379.
“one never knew how much of the warmth”: Ibid., p. 381.
Instead, Kennedy stuck out his hand and said: Ibid., pp. 381–82.
“grown closer”: Thomas, p. 34.
“You could see now that he liked”: Martin (Hero), p. 471.
“It took us a very long time”: Anthony (As We Remember), p. 189.
“Oh, Mr. West, I’ve gotten myself into something”: West, pp. 272–73.
“And you see, this is where”: Ibid.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22–FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25
“packing his bags and leaving”: Lincoln Papers, Box 6, JFKL.
During dinner with Jackie and the Bradlees: Bradlee (Conversations), pp. 215–21.
Schlesinger believed that he was: Schlesinger, unpublished diaries, NYPL.
When Kermit Gordon described: Ibid.
“Sure I will, Jack”: Manchester (Death), p. 9; William Manchester Papers (Death of a President), Box 43, Wesleyan Library.
Evelyn Lincoln passed along a tidbit: Lincoln Papers, Box 6, JFKL.
“Don’t you see how most of the people”: Bradlee (Conversations), pp. 223–24.
Thomas had also revealed: Ibid.
Bishop interviewed Jackie: Bishop (A Bishop’s), p. 386.
“We’ll start with Baker”: WP and NYT, October 24, 1963.
“an investigation of any possible conflicts”: WP, October 24, 1963.
“Highly reliable source reports”: FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963, Document 210.
“in the contest with Viet Cong”: Ibid., Document 207.
Kennedy decided to send his Harvard roommate: Parmet (JFK), p. 335.
During a two-hour conference with House leaders: Presidential Recordings, Tape 116/A52–117/ A53, JFKL.
“way beyond anything you asked”: Ibid.
“We’re the goats”: Ibid.
“The colored vote in my district”: Ibid.
On Wednesday evening Kennedy invited the Bradlees: Bradlee (Conversations), pp. 221–27.
At a meeting on Thursday with Rusk, Taylor, and Gilpatric: FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IX, Foreign Economic Policy, Document 38.
He took another step toward reducing cold war tensions: Jean Daniel, “Unofficial Envoy,” New Republic, December 14, 1963; Mahoney, p. 287.
“He says we’ve been screwing them”: Galbraith (Name-Dropping), p. 105.
On Thursday, Bishop announced: Bishop (A Bishop’s), pp. 386–87.
“My feelings about assassination are identical”: Bishop (The Day), p. xi.
Bishop thought he “seemed fascinated”: Bishop (A Day), p. ix.
Kennedy woke Friday to front-page articles: NYT, October 25, 1963; WP, October 25, 1963.
a law that made flying the United Nations flag a criminal offense: Wright, p. 39.
Stevenson had celebrated the new spirit: NYT, October 25, 1963; WP, October 25, 1963.
An angry crowd surrounded him: Ibid.
“We are patriots,” she explained: NYT, October 26, 1963.
She later blamed: William Manchester Papers (Death of a President), Box 43, Wesleyan Library.
Kennedy asked Schlesinger to call Stevenson: Schlesinger (Thousand), pp. 1020–21.
“You know, there was something very ugly”: Ibid.
a bomb threat delayed Tito’s departure: Duke, JFKLOH.
As he and Duke were driving to the pier: Ibid.; Reeves, pp. 633–34.
Lodge reported that the generals: FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963, Document 216.
“We are particularly concerned”: Ibid., Document 217.
Kennedy doodled: JFKPP, Box 12, JFKL.
“a casual sort of grandeur”: Cassini, p. 247.
Jackie finally invited him: Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 293.
She considered them “really not very nice”: Ibid.
He told Alphand he was wearing the same shirt: Alphand, p. 409.
After dinner, he offered Alphand the same analysis: Alphand, JFKLOH.
Jackie told Alphand: Alphand, pp. 409–10.
He wrote in his diary: Beschloss (Crisis Years), p. 611.
The Roosevelts mentioned the attack: Ibid., p. 410.
The next day, she told the Secret Service agent: Hill, pp. 266–67.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26–SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27
Kennedy criticized the speech: Schlesinger (Journals), p. 202.
with an eye to including the “poetry and power”: Schlesinger (Thousand), p. 1015.
He liked Schlesinger’s version better: Schlesinger (Journals), p. 202.
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sp; “the first American president to give art”: Troy, p. 96.
“The Arts in America”: John F. Kennedy, “The Arts in America,” Look, December 18, 1962.
“I don’t think he liked music”: Strober, p. 62.
“Your children live on streets”: Bergquist and Tretick, p. 177.
Americans were “too liberal to fight”: Stewart Udall, “Robert Frost’s Last Adventure,” NYT Magazine, June 11, 1972.
Kennedy was so furious: Ibid.
During the flight he reminded him: Reed, JFKLOH.
“Apparently he never did anything wrong”: Schlesinger (Journals), p. 202.
“I really don’t think too much”: Reed, JFKLOH.
He added a preamble: Ibid.; Schlesinger unpublished diaries, NYPL. A draft of the speech with JFK’s edits was published in the Amherst College magazine, About Amherst, Fall and Winter edition, 2003–2004. The notes that Kennedy wrote during the flight are on the JFKL Web site, and at JFKPOF, Box 47, JFKL.
JFK speech at the Amherst College cage: JFKL Web site.
“a thousand light years away”: New York Post, October 28, 1963,
“He once said to me”: JFKL Web site.
Before leaving, he told Kay Morrison: Stewart Udall, “Robert Frost’s Last Adventure,” NYT Magazine, June 11, 1972.
“Robert had a serious operation”: JFKPOF, Box 29A, JFKL.
Jim Reed had been with him: Reed, JFKLOH.
In an exclusive story appearing: Des Moines Register, October 26, 1963.
He mentioned the Baker scandal to Schlesinger: Schlesinger, unpublished diaries, NYPL.
his official schedule noted: JFK daily schedule, JFKL Web site.
Evelyn Lincoln’s phone logs show: Lincoln Papers, Box 5, JFKL.
According to the FBI file: FBI memorandums, FBI FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) material at FBI archives or at paperlessarchives.com; see also Evan Thomas, pp. 263–67.
She knew he could not tolerate a sulker: Billings, JFKLOH.
then to almost $100,000: NYT, November 10, 1963.
“Can you imagine me ending up”: Bartlett, JFKLOH.
“Why are we building”: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 356.
She had a similar reaction: West, p. 237.
While driving with West to the warehouse: Ibid., p. 238.
“John detests the country”: Galitzine, pp. 170–71.
He had arrived at the White House: Thayer, pp. 120–22.