13 John F. Kennedy, “Commencement Address at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut,” JFKL, June 11, 1962, http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHA-104.aspx.
14 Tevi Troy, Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians? (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002), 27; Don Munton and David Welch, The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History (Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 2007), 40.
15 AMS to Bundy, Aug. 22, 1962, JFKL, AMS, Series 09.2, Box WH 69, 1962; Alan Brinkley, John F. Kennedy (New York: Times Books/Henry Holt, 2012), 113–114.
16 Michael Beschloss, Kennedy v. Khrushchev: The Crisis Years 1960–63 (London: Faber, 1991), 411–413.
17 AMS to JFK, memorandum for the president, “Cuba,” Sept. 5, 1962, JFKL, AMS, Series 09.2, Box WH 69, 1962; Beschloss, Kennedy v. Khrushchev, 412; Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008), 10; AMS, Robert Kennedy and His Times (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), 515, 545–546, 558.
18 AMS to JFK, memorandum for the president, June 6, 1962, JFKL, AMS, Series 11.2, Box WH 67, Yale 6/11/62.
19 Diary entry, Oct. 28, 1962, AMS Journals, 172–173; AMS, A Thousand Days, 808–809.
20 John Bartlow Martin, Adlai Stevenson and the World: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson (New York: Doubleday, 1977), 723–724; Ernest May and Philip D. Zelikow, eds., The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1997), 198–199.
21 See Sheldon M. Stern, The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myth versus Reality (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), 129–133.
22 Martin, Adlai Stevenson and the World, 724; AMS to Stevenson (draft), Oct. 29, 1962, JFKL, AMS, Series 09.2, Box WH 69, 1962.
23 Diary entry, Oct. 28, 1962, AMS Journals, 175; Martin, Adlai Stevenson and the World, 724. AMS later left out the phrase “that fellow is ready to give everything away,” AMS, A Thousand Days, 811.
24 Diary entry, Oct. 28, 1962, AMS Journals, 175.
25 Martin, Adlai Stevenson and the World, 725–728; text of Stevenson’s speech, Oct. 23, 1962: The Papers of Adlai Stevenson, 309–325.
26 Ibid., 325–335; Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight, 129–132.
27 Diary entry, Oct. 28, 1962, AMS Journals, 176; Rudy Abramson, Spanning the Century: The Life of Averell Harriman, 1891–1986 (New York: William Morrow, 1992), 593–594.
28 Diary entries, Oct. 28, Oct. 29, 1962, AMS Journals, 177–178.
29 AMS to Elizabeth Schlesinger, Dec. 1, 1964, NYPL 294–295.
Chapter Sixteen: The Watchman Waketh But in Vain
1 Summary of electoral position: Robert Dallek, Camelot’s Court: Inside the Kennedy White House (New York: Harper, 2013), 335–336.
2 Thomas C. Reeves, A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy (New York: Free Press, 1991), 401.
3 Ted Sorensen, Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History (New York: Harper, 2008), 325–327; Parmet quoted in Reeves, A Question of Character, 399.
4 AMS to Theodore Sorensen, Jan. 7, 1963, AMS Series 11.2, WH 67, State of the Union, 1/14/63; Andrew Cohen, Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours That Made History (New York: Signal, 2014), 9–11, 21; diary entry, June 16, 1963, AMS Journals, 194.
5 AMS to JFK, memorandum for the president, “The nuclear test ban issue,” July 17, 1961, JFKL, Schlesinger, Series 09.2, Box WH 69, 3/20/61–7/20/61.
6 AMS to JFK, memorandum for the president, “The nuclear test ban issue,” July 17, 1961, JFKL, Schlesinger, Series 09.2, Box WH 69, 3/20/61–7/20/61; AMS to JFK, memorandum for the president, “The European Tour,” June 8, 1963, JFKL, Schlesinger, Series 09.2, Box WH 69, 3/20/61–7/20/61.
7 AMS, A Thousand Days, 432–437.
8 Stewart Alsop and Charles Bartlett, “In Time of Crisis,” Saturday Evening Post, December 12, 1962, http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/1962-12-08-missile-crisis.pdf. On the Trollope ploy, see Sheldon M. Stern, The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myth versus Reality (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), 133–137. Gregg Herken, The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014), 278–279; AMS to JFK, memorandum for the president, “Alsop-Bartlett story and Stevenson,” Dec. 2, 1962, JFKL, Schlesinger, Series 09.2, Box WH 69, 1962.
9 AMS to G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Feb. 5, 1963; AMS to Editor of Publishers Weekly, April 13, 1963; William F. Buckley Jr. to Editor of Publishers Weekly, Apr. 19, 1963: AMS Letters, 257–263. On Buckley and the “liberal establishment,” see Kevin M. Schultz, Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties (New York: W. W. Norton, 2015), 42–43; Marian Cannon Schlesinger, I Remember: A Life of Painting, Politics and People (Cambridge, MA: TidePool Press, 2012), 131; diary entry, June 25, 1962, AMS Journals, 159.
10 Pierre Salinger, With Kennedy (New York: Doubleday, 1966), 69.
11 Diary entry, May 21, 1963, AMS Journals, 190–191.
12 On the story of Kennedy’s civil rights TV address, I follow Cohen, Two Days in June, 175ff. and particularly 326–331.
13 Sorensen, Counselor, 278–280.
14 Cohen, Two Days in June, 330–331, 336.
15 Sorensen, Counselor, 282.
16 Diary entry, June 16, 1963, AMS Journals, 195; Cohen, Two Days in June, 328–329; AMS to JFK, memorandum for the president, June 8, 1962, JFKL, Schlesinger, Series 09.2, Box WH 69, 1963–1964.
17 AMS to Fred Adams, May 1, 1962, NYPL 293/4; AMS to Jacqueline Kennedy, May 9, 1963, NYPL 102/6.
18 AMS to Arthur Schlesinger (Sr.), Feb. 20, 1963, NYPL 293/4.
19 Diary entry, August 11, 1963, AMS Journals, 199; Herken, The Georgetown Set, 288–291.
20 Jacqueline Kennedy to AMS, Aug. 26, 1963, NYPL 102/6; diary entry, August 20, 1963, AMS Journals, 200.
21 AMS to Adlai Stevenson, Sept. 16, 1963, JFKL, Schlesinger, Series 09.2, Box WH 68, Address to the 18th General Assembly of the UN, 9/20/63; Gerard DeGroot, Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest (London: Jonathan Cape, 2007), 180–181; John Bartlow Martin, Adlai Stevenson and the World: The Life of Adlai Stevenson (New York: Doubleday, 1977), 772; AMS to JFK, “Memorandum for the President,” Sept. 16, 1963, JFKL, Schlesinger, Series 09.2, Box WH 68, Address to the 18th General Assembly of the UN, 9/20/63.
22 AMS to JFK, “Memorandum for the President,” Oct. 18, 1963, JFKL, Schlesinger, Series 09.2, Box WH 68, National Academy of Sciences; diary entry, Oct. 27, 1963, AMS Journals, 201; AMS, A Thousand Days, 1015; John F. Kennedy, “Remarks at Amherst College, October 26, 1963,” JFKL, October 26, 1963, https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/80308LXB5kOPFEJqkw5hlA.aspx. See also “Annotated Draft of Kennedy’s Convocation Speech, prepared by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.” Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, October 26, 1963, https://www.amherst.edu/library/archives/exhibitions/kennedy/documents#Draft.
23 Remarks by the president at the Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas: for release 1 PM EST, Nov. 22, 1963, JFKL, Schlesinger, Series 09.2, Box WH 68, “Trade Mart, Dallas, TX.”
Chapter Seventeen: A Thousand Pages
1 Diary entry, Nov. 23, 1963, AMS Journals, 206; diary entry, Nov. 23, 1963, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ambassador’s Journal: A Personal Account of the Kennedy Years (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969), 592.
2 AMS to Jacqueline Kennedy, Saturday [Nov. 23. 1963], NYPL 102/6.
3 Diary entry, Nov. 26, 1963, AMS Journals, 209.
4 Diary entry, Nov. 28, Dec. 30, 1963, AMS Journals, 209, 218–219; Tevi Troy, Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians? (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002), 48–49; AMS to Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger, Jan. 8, 1964, NYPL 294–295; LBJ phone call, Nov. 16, 1964: Michael Beschloss, ed., Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson’s Secret White House Tapes, 1964–1965 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001), 143.
5 Theodore H. White, In Search of History (New
York: Harper & Row, 1978), 520; AMS to Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger, Jan. 8, 1964, NYPL 294–295; AMS to Jacqueline Kennedy, Jan. 6, 1964, NYPL 102/6; AMS, Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy: Interviews with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., ed. Michael Beschloss (New York: Hyperion, 2011), xxi.
6 Ted Sorensen, Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History (New York: Harper, 2008), 389–390.
7 AMS to Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger, Jan. 8, 1964, NYPL 294–295.
8 Diary entry, Jan. 31, 1964, AMS Journals, 224; Troy, Intellectuals and the American Presidency, 47.
9 AMS to Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger, Jan. 8, 1964, NYPL 294–295.
10 AMS to Elizabeth Schlesinger, Feb. 22, 1964, NYPL 294–295.
11 “The former friends of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. invite you . . .” [1964], NYPL 102/4; Sorensen, Counselor, 408–409.
12 Sorensen, Counselor, 402, 407.
13 Diary entry, March 27, 1963, AMS Journals, 226–227; Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy, 62.
14 These interviews, including the original recordings, would be published after her death as AMS, Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy: Interviews with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., ed. Michael Beschloss (New York: Hyperion, 2011); “Oral History Program,” JFKL, https://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/About-Our-Collections/Oral-history-program.aspx.
15 Diary entry, June 16, 1963, AMS Journals, 227; AMS to Robert Kennedy, Aug. 31, 1964, and AMS to the editor of the New York Times, Aug. 29, 1964, AMS Letters, 277–280; “The Kennedy Blitzkrieg,” New York Times, Aug. 22, 1964, http://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/22/the-kennedy-blitzkrieg.html?_r=0.
16 AMS, Robert Kennedy and His Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), 697.
17 Diary entry, Nov. 26, 1963, AMS Journals, 208.
18 Theodore C. Sorensen, interview by Carl Kaysen, “Theodore C. Sorensen Oral History Interview—JFK #6, 5/20/1964,” JFKL, https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKOH-TCS-06.aspx; diary entry, July 15, 1960, AMS Journals, 78–79; Ira Stoll, JFK: Conservative (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013), 3–5.
19 Christopher Hitchens, “Brief Shining Moments,” London Review of Books, February 19, 1998, http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n04/christopher-hitchens/brief-shining-moments.
20 Robert Bartlett, Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things: Saints and Worshipers from the Martyrs to the Reformation (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013), especially 18, 505, 519; AMS, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965), 1030–1031; AMS to John Blum, Sept. 5, 1985, NYPL 15/4.
21 AMS, A Thousand Days, 11–19; Garry Wills, “Fierce in His Loyalties and Enmities,” New York Times, Nov. 12, 1978.
22 Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, 19. For questions on Addison’s disease in 1960 and 1967, see W. H. Lawrence, “Johnson Backers Urge Health Test,” New York Times, July 5, 1960, http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/07/05/99503749.html?pageNumber=19; “Candidates Pressed on Data of Any Ills,” New York Times, November 6, 1960, http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/11/06/100888445.html?pageNumber=132; Howard Rusk, “Health of Presidents,” New York Times, August 6, 1967, http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/08/06/94109957.html?pageNumber=56; Schlesinger quoted in Lawrence Altman, “In J.F.K. File, Hidden Illness, Pain and Pills,” New York Times, Nov. 17, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/17/us/in-jfk-file-hidden-illness-pain-and-pills.html?_r=0.
23 AMS, A Thousand Days, 671; Seymour Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (London: HarperCollins, 1998 paperback edition); Thomas C. Reeves, A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy (New York: Free Press, 1991); AMS to Adlai Stevenson, Sept. 4, 1960, AMS Letters, 224–225 and fn.
24 A summary of revisionist books on Kennedy can be found in Hitchens, “Brief Shining Moments.”
25 AMS, The Cycles of American History (New York: Mariner Books, 1999), 407; AMS, Jacqueline Kennedy, xxxi; AMS to Robert J. Alexander (Rutgers), Mar. 27, 1995, NYPL 1/1.
26 AMS, The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919–1933 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957), 5–8; AMS, A Thousand Days, 1–5.
27 AMS, A Thousand Days, 676–678, 714, 739, 1030–1031. On Schlesinger’s view of history, see Marcus Cunliffe and Robin Winks, eds., “Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.,” in Pastmasters: Some Essays on American Historians (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), especially 354–358.
28 AMS to Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger, undated [1965], NYPL 293/4; AMS to his children, Oct. 26, 1965, NYPL 293/1; AMS, “A Thousand Days: The First Close Portrait of John Kennedy,” Life, July 16, 1965, 5; Mark Lytle, email to author, November 10, 2016.
29 Theodore Sorensen to AMS, Mar. 31, 1965, NYPL 125/6.
30 AMS to Theodore Sorensen, Apr. 8, 1965, NYPL 125/6.
31 AMS, “A Thousand Days: The First Close Portrait of John Kennedy.”
32 New York Times, July 25, 29, Aug. 3, 6, 8 (newspaper roundup), Nov. 21, 1965; John Goshko, “Rusk Replies Indirectly to Schlesinger,” Washington Post, August 3, 1965; AMS, “A Thousand Days: The First Close Portrait of John Kennedy.”
33 AMS, “The Historian as Participant,” Daedalus 100, no. 2 (1971): 339–358, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024007; “At Home and Abroad,” New York Times, Aug. 8, 1965.
34 Hubert Humphrey to AMS, Dec. 7, 1965, AMS Letters, 303.
35 AMS to Theodore Sorensen, Aug. 14, 1965; AMS to Paul Brooks (Houghton Mifflin), Aug. 14, 1965, NYPL 125/6; Charles Poore, “The Presidency Makes Its Rules for Succession,” New York Times, July 29, 1965; M. S. Handler, “Sorensen Tells of Kennedy Fears,” New York Times, Aug. 14, 1965.
36 James MacGregor Burns, review of Kennedy, by Theodore C. Sorensen, New York Times, Oct. 31, 1965.
37 James MacGregor Burns, review of A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, by AMS, New York Times, Oct. 31, 1965.
38 Theodore Sorensen to AMS, Jan. 27, 1966, NYPL 125/6; Jacqueline Kennedy quoted in AMS to “the children,” Feb. 21, 1961, AMS Letters, 308.
39 AMS to Jacqueline Kennedy, January 6, 1964, NYPL 102/4.
Chapter Eighteen: The Swinging Soothsayer
1 AMS to Charles Wintour, Dec. 17, 1965, AMS Letters, 305; “A Brief, Not a History,” Newsweek, Dec. 20, 1965; “The Combative Chronicler,” Time, Dec. 17, 1965. Julie Christie was the star of a new film, Far From the Madding Crowd, directed by Arthur’s British namesake, John Schlesinger.
2 Theodore Sorenson to AMS, May 13, 1965, NYPL 125/6; Peter Kihss, “Pulitzer Drama Prize Omitted; Schlesinger’s ‘1,000 Days’ Wins,” New York Times, May 3, 1966, https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/26/specials/schlesinger-pulitzer66.html; “Schlesinger Captures National Book Award,” Harvard Crimson, March 17, 1966, http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1966/3/17/schlesinger-captures-national-book-award-parthur/; Albert H. Bowker, CUNY chancellor, to AMS, Feb. 2, 1965, NYPL 299/3; AMS to Jack Blank, CUNY, July 18, 1966, NYPL 128/1.
3 William Shannon, “Controversial Historian of the Age of Kennedy,” New York Times, Nov. 21, 1965; “The Combative Chronicler,” Time; AMS to “Dearest Children,” Feb. 21, 1966, AMS Letters, 308.
4 Diary entry, July 16, 1965, AMS Journals, 239; AMS to “Dearest Children,” Feb. 21, 1966, AMS Letters, 308.
5 “Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., Historian, Dies at 77,” New York Times, Oct. 31, 1965, http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/26/specials/schlesinger-senior.html; AMS, “A Father Remembered,” Saturday Review, Nov. 27, 1965.
6 Arthur Schlesinger Sr. to AMS, Jan. 8, 1963, NYPL 293/4; AMS to Marcus Cunliffe, July 9, 1968, AMS Letters, 361.
7 AMS Jr. to Arthur Schlesinger [Sr.], Oct. 25, 1964, NYPL 293/4; AMS to Robert Kennedy, October, 21, 1964, JFKL, Series 3, Box P06, 1964 campaign correspondence 1964, RFK & AMS.
8 Arthur M. Schlesinger [Sr.], Paths to the Present (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964), viii; Elizabeth Schlesinger to AMS, undated [c. 1964], NYPL Schlesinger Papers, 294.
9 Marcus Cunliffe and Robin Winks, eds., “Arthur M. Schles
inger, Jr.” in Pastmasters: Some Essays on American Historians (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), 347–348; Marian Cannon Schlesinger, interview with author, March 9, 2014.
10 AMS to George Elsey, Dec. 21, 1965, NYPL 512/5; Christina Schlesinger, interview with author, April 16, 2014.
11 Marian Cannon Schlesinger, interview with author, March 9, 2014.
12 Christina Schlesinger, interview with author, April 16, 2014; Robert Schlesinger, email to author, Nov. 27, 2016.
13 Marian Cannon Schlesinger to AMS, undated [c. 1965], NYPL 515/2; AMS to Elizabeth Schlesinger, June 13, 1966, NYPL 294.
14 Andrew Schlesinger, interview with author, March 9, 2014; Christina Schlesinger, interview with author, Apr. 16, 2014; Marian Cannon Schlesinger, interview with author, March 9, 2014; Marie Brenner, “Marietta Tree: Serious Money,” Vanity Fair, Dec. 1991.
15 AMS to Elizabeth Schlesinger, June 13, 1966, NYPL 294.
16 AMS to Adolf A. Berle, May 2, 1966, NYPL 12/2; AMS to David M. Brown (Dean, University of Minnesota Medical School), Sept. 2, 1986, NYPL 18/5; AMS to “Dearest Children,” Feb. 21, 1966, AMS Letters, 308; AMS to “Dearest Children,” Oct. 2, 1966, NYPL 299/7; AMS to Gretchen Stewart, July 11, 1970, NYPL 531.
17 AMS to “Dearest Children,” Oct. 2, 1966, NYPL 299/7; AMS to John Blum, March 25, 1966, NYPL 15/4; AMS to Dean Acheson, Sept. 21, 1967, NYPL 01/4; AMS, “Origins of the Cold War,” Foreign Affairs 46 (1967): 22–52; AMS to “Dearest Children,” Feb. 19, 1968, NYPL 299/7; Walter LaFeber, interview with author, June 4, 2014.
18 AMS, The Politics of Hope and The Bitter Heritage: American Liberalism in the 1960s (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), ed. Sean Wilentz, vii–viii, 520; Louis B. Zimmer, The Vietnam War Debate: Hans J. Morgenthau and the Attempt to Halt the Drift Into Disaster (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011), 150, 347; AMS to George Kennan, Oct. 23, 1967, NYPL 176/3.
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