224-25 “I took a piece …”: ibid.
225 “he had it…”: interview, Chuck Spalding, BP.
226 “Kennedy will not…”: Arthur Krock, KLOH.
226 “an international…”: New York Journal-American, May 2, 1945, BP.
226 “throwing curves”: ibid., May 14, 1945.
226 “juggled the ball”: ibid., May 16, 1945.
226-27 “Americans can now …”: ibid., May 4, 1945.
227 “the product of…”: ibid., May 20, 1945.
227 “Our preoccupation …”: ibid.
227 tired of nothing: Hearst Newspapers, July 27, 1945.
228 They played with: interview, J. Patrick Lannan, BP.
228 “He really didn’t…”: interview, Pat Stammers, BP.
228 “All the centers …”: Deirdre Henderson, ed., Prelude to Leadership: The European Diary of John F. Kennedy (1995), p. 43.
228 “raping and looting”: ibid., p. 45. 228 “easily won the”: ibid., p. 15
228 “You can easily …”: ibid., p. 74.
229 “the eventual…”: ibid., p. 7.
229 “Pappy’s eyes …”: Paul B. Fay Jr., The Pleasure of His Company (1966), p. 132, and LL interview with Paul B. Fay.
229 Lem thought: Lem Billings to John F. Kennedy, January 1, 1946, JFKPP.
230 “was to convince …”: Time, July 1, 1946.
230 “aggressively shy”: interview, David Powers, BP.
230 “I think I know…”: Kenneth P. O’Donnell and David F. Powers, Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1972), p. 54.
231 They told Jack: LL interview with Mark Dalton.
231 Joe Kane, who was: Hamilton, p. 674.
232 Joe had Eddie Moore: interview, David Powers, BP. 232 When Powers offered: ibid.
232 “They gave me favors”: Steve Buckley, “The Other Joe Russo,” Boston magazine, June 1993.
232 “Naval hero of the South Pacific”: news release for weekly papers from Kennedy for Congress headquarters, n.d., JFKPP.
233 Red was a talker: LL interview with Paul B. Fay.
233 “I am not sure …”: Robert F. Kennedy to Dave Hackett, April 1945, ASP.
233 “I know that…”: Robert F. Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, n.d., on Harvard Law School stationery, ASP.
234 “from the lowest grade …”: RKHT. p. 60.
234 “mentally the most…”: John F. Kennedy speech to Veterans of Foreign Wars, July 2, 1946, DPP, JFKPL.
235 “I have noticed …”: John F. Kennedy, speech dated 1945 or 1946, BP.
235 “If we turn our …”: John F. Kennedy, VFW speech, 1946, DPP.
236 “You don’t feel good …”: Thomas Broderick, KLOH. 236 sat soaking: interview, Paul Fay, BP.
236 One afternoon: TEEK, p. 48.
236 “Sinatra! Sinatra!”: untitled clipping, n.d., in JFK pre-presidential scrap-book from December 1945-46, JFKPL.
237 “He appeared to me …”: SJFK, p. 161.
237 “I got the impression …”: LL interview with Mark Dalton.
13. A Kind of Peace
238 any student who lived: Harvard Crimson, freshman issue, 1946, n.d., HUA.
238 Men found themselves: “War and Peace: Five Years, Two Classes in Retrospect,” Harvard Album, DHP.
238 There were 659 Harvard: Harvard Crimson, January 6, 1947, HUA.
239 As a 165-pound: Harvard University 1947 roster, HUA.
239 “For Christ’s sake, would …”: LL interview with Wally Flynn.
240 “I think my leg’s…”: ibid.
240 “Oh, those guys were …”: ibid.
240 Harvard had a predominantly: On April 6, 1948, the Harvard Advocate took a presidential straw poll in all the houses of Harvard College. The three leading candidates were Republicans. Harold Stassen, Dwight Eisenhower, and Arthur Vandenberg received 55.5 percent of the vote. Henry Wallace, a Democrat, was fourth with 12.5 percent, while President Truman received a pathetic 4.4 percent of the 1,464 votes cast. HUA.
240 Sam Adams, Bobby’s: LL interview with Sam Adams.
241 “He was one of us”: LL interview with Chuck Glynn, Wally Flynn, Sam Adams, Nick Rodis, and Paul Lazzaro.
241 “Nick, I think he …”: LL interview with Wally Flynn.
241 When the team played: LL interview with Chuck Glynn.
241 Bobby’s football teammate: ibid.
242 “people like the Jews…” : John Deedy, “Whatever Happened to Father Feeney,” The Critic, May-June 1973, ASP.
242 “What am I gonna …” : LL interview with Chuck Glynn.
242 “tough and rough …”: RKHT, p. 68.
242 Bobby’s friends: LL interview with Chuck Glynn.
243 “Bobby and his mother …”: LL interview with Wally Flynn.
243 In his postwar tenure: Harvard College Record 1948, ASP.
243 “How long would…”: LL interview with Billy Sutton, Billy Sutton KLOH, and Chris Matthews, Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America (1996), p. 44.
245 unemployment stood: John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997), p. 47.
244 “From Stettin in …”: ibid., p. 41.
244 “Was it politically …”: Time, March 24, 1947.
244 Joe was all for: ibid.
245 “free peoples …”: Gaddis, p. 49.
245 “The greatest danger…”: John F. Kennedy, “Aid for Greece and Turkey,” Record of House of Representatives, April 1, 1947, BP.
246 Jack had Mark Dalton: LL interview with Mark Dalton.
246 “There is no need to …”: John F. Kennedy, “Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947,” Record of House of Representatives, April 16, 1947, BP.
246 “Could you tell…”: Paul F. Healy, “Galahad in the House,” The Sign, July 1950, BP.
247 “an effective anti-Communist…”: ibid.
247 The union was: Time, March 31, 1947.
247 in 1941, at the time: SJFK, p. 178.
247 “The responsibility for …”: quoted in Seymour Topping, Journey Between Two Chinas (1972), p. 141.
247 “Jack was fearless…”: LL interview with Mark Dalton.
248 “Has anybody talked …”: quoted in SJFK, p. 183.
248 “one field in which …”: John F. Kennedy, speech, September 28, 1946, DPP.
248 “Everything you said …”: JFK to Clare Boothe Luce, January 21, 1947, Clare Boothe Luce papers, LC.
249 The Associated Press: Leonora Ross, “Boston Girls Spurn Rich Bachelors, They Prefer Personality,” JFK scrapbooks, 1946-48, JFKPL.
249 “Joe was using me …”: LL interview with George Smathers.
249 On one occasion: interview, Ralph Horton, BP.
249 “Guess I just haven’t…”: Paul I. Murphy, “Unmarried Millionaires: Jack Kennedy,” JFK scrapbooks, 1946-48, JFKPL.
250 “He was a guy …”: LL interview with George Smathers.
250 “Jack was crippled …”: ibid.
251 “I spent…”: John F. Kennedy to Professor James Burns, August 25, 1959, JMBP.
251 “When we got home …”: LL interview with Pamela Churchill Harriman.
252 He may well have: Dr. Elmer Bartels believed that Jack could have had the disease no more than a year before it was diagnosed. Dr. Dorothea E. Hellman, who knew about his illness as a faculty member at the Harvard Medical School and later observed his treatment in Washington, was convinced that Jack’s illness had begun years before his attack in London. “At that time he was already pigmented and had obviously lost weight,” Dr. Hellman stated to Joan and Clay Blair Jr. “Many subsequent photographs confirm this impression and can be added to the… multiple puzzling illnesses that required long stays in hospitals both in New England and in the United Kingdom.” BP.
252 Queen Elizabeth, where: C. A. Buchanan to Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, cable, October 7, 1947, James Forrestal papers, Mudd Library, Princeton University.
252 the photos of Jack: Fitchburg Sentinel,
October 10, 1947, and Boston Post, October 17, 1947.
253 “He had to take …”: interview, Dr. Elmer C. Bartels, BP.
253 “agitation, euphoria, insomnia …”: “Steroids,” Mayo Clinic Health Letter, September 1994, www.mayohealth.org.
253 As it was: This section, as well as all other parts of The Kennedy Men dealing with JFK’s health, have been read by Dr. Mauro Di Pasquale, a world-renowned expert on steroids.
253 “Jack, the way …”: Paul Fay, unedited manuscript, The Pleasure of His Company, Myrick E. Land papers, Boston University Special Collections.
254 “They actually didn’t …”: interview, Dick Clasby, RCP.
254 “You better stop that”: interview, Joseph C. Kernell, BP.
254 “Excuse me …”: LL interview with Bruce Sundlun.
255 At Catholic Cranwell: Adam Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography (1999), p. 17.
255 In the first two summers: LL interview with Joe Gargan.
256 “He was a marvelous…”: interview, Edward Kennedy, RCP.
256 “Finally it stalled …”: Edward M. Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, April 11, 1948, RCP.
256 “This morning I served …”: ibid., April 25, 1948, RCP.
257 Without even one visit: TFB, p. 45, and The Economist, February, 4, 1977.
257 $35 million: Kessler, p. 254.
257 Joe gave one-quarter: Washington Star, March 22, 1947.
257 In 1946, Joe divested: HTF, p. 521.
258 Jack was there: Holyoke Transcript, August 13, 1946.
258 $2,609,000: press release, February 16, 1956. “A copy of my article, in its present form, is enclosed,” Cushing wrote Joe. “If you have any changes to suggest I will be very happy to follow them.” Cushing to Joseph P. Kennedy, December 15, 1955, PC.
258 “They [the gifts] are made …”: The Pilot, February 11, 1956.
259 “If one has been …”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Archbishop Richard Cushing, February 13, 1956. PC.
259 “But it’s not just…”: Boston Herald, May 20, 1948, HUA.
260 “Time is man’s…”: TFB, p. 122.
261 “As far as I remember …”: Mrs. Christopher Bridge, KLOH.
261 He had left: TEEK, p. 78.
261 “He stood alone”: quoted in RKHT, p. 78.
261 He thought to himself: Joseph P. Kennedy to the Duchess of Devonshire, September 1, 1948, HTF, p. 637.
262 “broke down like…”: quoted in Jerry Oppenheimer, The Other Mrs. Kennedy (1994), p. 117.
262 Twice authorities picked: Robert F. Kennedy diary, March 29, 1948, Palestine, JFKPL.
262 “Met officers…”: ibid.
263 “Many of the leading …”: Israel, 4-8, ASP.
263 “I do not think …”: Boston Post, June 6, 1948.
263 “all eyes will now…”: Boston Sunday Advertiser, January 16, 1949.
263 Mindszenty was a great: Donald F. Crosby, God, Church, and Flag: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and the Catholic Church, 1950-1957 (1978), p. 12.
264 “The farmhouse he …”: Robert F. Kennedy diary, June 1948, JFKPL.
264 “freckled face …”: Joan Winmill Brown, No Longer Alone (1975), p. 47. 264—65 “He talked about…”: LL interview with Joan Winmill Brown.
265 “He was so …”: ibid.
265 When a handsome: Leamer, p. 390.
268 On one occasion: Oppenheimer, p. 113.
268 “It was very nice …”: LL interview with Nick Rodis.
268 “I think Ethel was …”: Gerald Tremblay, KLOH, 269 “Don’t cry…”: quoted in Oppenheimer, p. 119.
269 “about my coming …”: ibid.
270 “My financee [sic] …”: RKHT, p. 88.
14. The Grease of Politics
271 they had consumed: Paul E. Murphy to John F. Kennedy, June 30, 1950, and Alfred Martinez to John F. Kennedy, July 14, 1950, JFKPP.
272 kicking him full force: RKHT, p. 88.
272 Without Ethel’s knowledge: Oppenheimer, p. 131.
272 his bride traveled: Robert F. Kennedy to Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy, Honolulu, Hawaii, HTF, p. 643.
273 “Wally, come in”: LL interview with Wally Flynn.
273 “You’re Mary”: Mary Davis, KLOH,
274 “What is the rationalization”: Robert F. Kennedy, “A Critical Analysis of the Conference at Yalta, February 4-11, 1945,” University of Virginia Law Library, DHP.
274 “Mr. Syngman Rhee’s…”: Virginia Law Weekly, December 14, 1950, DHP.
275 The students were all: RKHT, p. 86.
276 Bobby’s football teammate: LL interview with Wally Flynn.
276 the amenable friend sat up front: TEEK, p. 79.
277 “How are you…”: Adam Clymer interview with Senator Edward Kennedy.
278 “Initially, my father …”: interview, Edward Kennedy, RCP.
278 “The father was terribly…”: TEEK, p. 81.
278 “If I had a …”: interview, Edward Kennedy, RCP.
278 “They had three …”: ibid.
279 “However, upon considering …”: Edward Kennedy to “Dear Mother and Dad,” n.d., RCP.
279 Scott Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda: Peter D. Kramer, “How Crazy Was Zelda?” New York Times Magazine, December 1, 1996.
280 Archbishop Richard Cushing had told him: Doris Kearns Goodwin, p. 642.
280 arranged for the building: This information on Rosemary Kennedy’s treatment at Craig House and her arrival at St. Coletta’s is based on the institution’s records as stated by Alan K. Borsari, Alverno House director in 1993 when the author visited the institution.
280 The first visit: Bob Healy of the Boston Globe accompanied JFK on a campaign trip to Wisconsin in 1958 when he says JFK made the visit. LL interview with Bob Healy.
280 missing over one-quarter: Time, November 7, 1960.
280 as often as not with one woman: The pattern is discernible in JFK’s many cables: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, April 9, 1949 (“reserving single room for Mrs. Pamela Farrington”), to Miss Jane Blodgett in New York City, April 27, 1949 (“Dear, Could you go out Friday night”), to Waldorf Astoria Towers, May 11, 1949 (requesting “double room for Miss Use Bay”), and to Mrs. Adele O’Connor, June 9, 1949 (saying he was coming to New York and would she “be interested in going to Cape for few days”). JFKPP.
281 He was an internationalist: Clay Blair Jr., “The Evolution of Cabot Lodge,” Saturday Evening Post, October 22, 1960.
281 “My God, man …”: interview, George Smathers, BP.
281 “Florida will not…”: quoted in Robert G. Sherill, “The Power Game: George Smathers, the Golden Senator from Florida,” The Nation, December 7, 1964.
281 “I’m running”: interview, George Smathers, BP.
282 “turned a strong …”: Joseph Alsop, with Adam Piatt, I’ve Seen the Best of /r(1992), p. 4ll.
282 “He had leukemia …”: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.
282 “intermittent slight…”: Dr. Vernon S. Dick to Dr. William P. Herbst Jr., March 20, 1953, JFKPP.
283 needed an imprimatur: RKIHOW, p. 436.
283 “Yugoslavia—Belgrade—Stones…”: John F. Kennedy’s diary of his 1951 trips to Europe and Asia has been ably transcribed by Robert White, who has made sense of JFK’s often almost illegible handwriting, RWC and JFKPL.
283 “the Italian economy …”: ibid.
284 “Why should they …”: “Statement of the Honorable John F. Kennedy,” February 22, 1951, BP.
284 it was not without reason: “Kennedy Acquiring Title, ‘America’s Younger Statesman,’ “Boston’s Political Times. Quoted in SJFK, p. 220.
284 “a pain in the ass”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (1984), p. 181.
284 “courage is the virtue”: PIC, p. xi.
284 had been on crutches: SJFK, p. 225.
285 “Eisenhower looking very fit…”: John F. Kennedy, 1951 diary, October 3, 1951, JFKPL.
286 “You can feel…”: ibid., n.d.
286 “It was almost…”: RKIHOW, p. 436.
286 “It depended on …”: John F. Kennedy 1951 diary, RWC and JFKPL.
287 the young man had : LL interview with Wilson Gathings.
287 “7 met murder…”: quoted in John F. Kennedy diary, October 7, 1951?, JFKPL.
287 “Drove to Haifa…”: Robert F. Kennedy diary, October 5, 1951?, JFKPL.
288 Four days after: JFK and RFK met with the Pakistani leader on October 12, 1951 (JFK diary). Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was murdered on October 16, 1951.
288 “Bored by westerners …”: John F. Kennedy 1951 diary, n.d., RWC and JFKPL.
288 “when [Indian] independence …”: ibid.
289 “would not eat…”: ibid.
289 “I would like to …”: LL interview with Seymour Topping, p. 142.
289 “Two years ago …”: ibid.
290 “One great reason …”: John F. Kennedy 1951 diary, RWC and JFKPL.
290 “that French realize”: ibid.
291 “And everybody there …”: RKIHOW, p. 438.
291 “He’d be in the hospital…”: Grace Burke, KLOH.
291 “Foreign policy today …”: John F. Kennedy, “Report on the Trip to the Middle and Far East.” Mutual Broadcasting Network, November 15, 1951, BP.
292 “Our resources …”: address to the Boston Chamber of Commerce, November 19, 1951, AAML.
292 “unconscious of the fact…”: ibid
292 “It is France…”: John F. Kennedy, address to the Boston Chamber of Commerce, November 19, 1951, AAML.
293 Jack spoke as: Meet the Press, December 2, 1951, BP.
293 “young college graduates …”: Lowell Sun, December 9, 1951, and Springfield Union, December 19, 1951, quoted in Ronald J. Nurse, “America Must Not Sleep: The Development of John F. Kennedy’s Foreign Policy Attitudes, 1947-1960,” thesis, Michigan State University, 1971, p. 89.
293 “the closest…”: interview, David Powers, BP.
294 had such a strong Republican: David Halberstam, The Fifties (1993), p. 224.
294 “no one will ever know…”: quoted in “Report of Meeting with Wickliffe W. Crider and John Elliott of the Staff of BBD&O in New York City, Tuesday, February 26, 1952, Some Observations and Recommendations” JFKPL.
294 “marked by informality…”: Mark Dalton to Joseph P. Kennedy, February 20, 1952, and “Report of Meeting with Wickliffe W. Crider and John Elliott of the Staff of BBD&O in New York City, Tuesday, February 26, 1952, Some Observations and Recommendations,” JFKPL.
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