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by Thurston Clarke


  “The most forgotten of all”: NYT, November 22, 1963.

  “God, what does it matter, Ben?”: Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 277.

  Walter Heller asked Johnson: Look, November 23, 1964.

  “What Happened to the Kennedy Program”: Look, November 17, 1964.

  “Tell Mr. Khrushchev”: JFK: A Presidency Revealed, History Channel film.

  “Khrushchev did not want a repetition”: Taubman, p. 604.

  “This is bad news”: “When Castro Heard the News,” New Republic, December 7, 1963.

  On November 25, Chase sent Bundy a memorandum: FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume XI, Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath, Document 378.

  When Lechuga ran into Attwood: Ibid., Document 382.

  Bundy described the recent contacts: Ibid., Document 388.

  Chase wrote in a memorandum: Ibid.

  In January, Chase told Attwood: Attwood (Twilight), p. 263.

  Bobby Kennedy sent a memorandum to Dean Rusk: WP, April 23, 2009.

  Johnson met with Lodge on November 24: Douglass, p. 374.

  “It remains the central object of the United States”: National Security Action Memorandum 273, South Vietnam, November 26, 1963, FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963, Document 331.

  “On the basis of personal intuition”: Clifford, p. 381.

  Robert McNamara wrote in his memoirs: McNamara, p. 87.

  Walter Cronkite, whose interview had elicited: Cronkite, p. 243.

  Senator Wayne Morse, who frequently butted: Boston Globe, June 24, 1973,

  In his 1970 oral history: Gilpatric, JFKLOH.

  John Connally wrote: Connally, p. 358.

  While riding a ski lift in Aspen: Ridder, author interview.

  In an oral history archived: Bundy, LBJLOH.

  In 1993, Schlesinger wrote in his diary: Schlesinger (Journals), p. 754.

  Bundy believed that: Bundy, LBJLOH.

  The military analyst Daniel Ellsberg: Ellsberg, pp. 195–96.

  “Now is not the time to cry, Provie”: WP, November 22, 1964.

  Later that winter, a nun: Ibid.

  In the spring of 1964, Jackie told: Maier, p. 475.

  She asked West to install: West, p. 287; Bradford, p. 284.

  After Nixon won the 1968 election: Mathews (Kennedy & Nixon), p. 276.

  “Mr. West, will you be my friend”: West, p. 279.

  That summer she told Stan Tretick: Bradford, p. 149.

  Bradlee remembered the weekends demonstrating: Bradlee (Good Life), p. 262.

  A reminder of her last weekend: NYT, February 5, 2010.

  After buying several of Elaine de Kooning’s drawings: Hall, p. 230.

  In the fall of 1964, Jackie invited Henry Brandon: Brandon (Special Relationships), p. 201.

  She kept returning to his place in history: Ibid.

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