Chris Matthews Complete Library E-book Box Set: Tip and the Gipper, Jack Kennedy, Hardball, Kennedy & Nixon, Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think, and American

by Matthews, Chris

  When two thousand demonstrators: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 515.

  “neither Meredith nor any of those men”: KOD.

  “we knew that most of the National Guard”: Ibid.

  Kennedy was responsible: Reeves, President Kennedy, pp. 359–64.

  “They always give you their bullshit”: Ibid, p. 363.

  “the occupation regime”: Letter from Khrushchev to JFK, July 5, 1962, ibid., p. 41.

  “bone in my throat”: Ibid., p. 168.

  “We will not allow your troops to be in Berlin”: From State Department, Foreign Relations of the United States: Cuba, 1962–1963, pp. 1045–57.

  he told Udall that he wanted to meet: Frederick Kempe, Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth (New York: Putnam, 2011), p. 493.

  He sent JFK a letter: Leaming, pp. 378–80.

  Suddenly it came: Ibid., p. 413.

  Kennedy now assembled: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 286.

  “Virtually everyone’s initial choice”: Ibid., pp. 288–89.

  If Khrushchev was attempting: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 554.

  “I now know how Tojo felt”: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 507.

  Might not an American attack on Cuba: On January 15, 1992, the New York Times reported that the Soviet Union had 43,000 troops in Cuba during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, not 10,000 as was reported by the Central Intelligence Agency. This was according to Robert McNamara, who had just returned from a conference on the crisis in Havana. He said Soviet officials had told him that Moscow had sent short-range nuclear weapons to Cuba and that Soviet commanders there were authorized to use them in the event of an American invasion.

  Grab your balls: JFK to Salinger, Salinger, p. 115.

  “I think the pressure of this period”: Bartlett OH.

  “You’d be interested to know”: Ibid.

  “ ‘Any communication with any skipper’ ”: Fay OH.

  He then instructed Bobby: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 302.

  “the greatest defeat in our history”: LeMay quote, Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 571.

  “If Kennedy never did another thing”: Macmillan quote, O’Donnell and Powers, p. 284.

  There was an equal number of warheads: Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (New York: Knopf, 2008), p. 98.

  “My thinking went like this”: Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers (Boston: Little, Brown, 1970), p. 494.

  “The final lesson of the Cuban missile crisis”: Robert Kennedy, Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969), p. 95.

  CHAPTER FIFTEEN: GOALS

  “The tax laws really screw people”: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 218.

  “The decision to make the speech available”: New York Times, June 13, 1963.

  “The speech and its publication in Izvestia show”: Ibid.

  “He’s just challenging us”: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 195.

  “Make him look ridiculous”: Dan T. Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), p. 149.

  “most precious and powerful right in the world”: Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy: 1963, p. 14.

  “the most sweeping and forthright ever”: Martin Luther King, June 20, 1963, Box 97, President’s Office Files at John F. Kennedy Library.

  Driving through the streets: Bradlee, Conversations, pp. 95–96. “Just before his trip to Berlin in June, 1963,” wrote Bradlee, “he spent the better part of an hour with the Vreelands (Frederick ‘Frecky’ Vreeland, a young foreign service officer and the son of Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, and his wife) before he could master ‘Ich bin ein Berliner.’ ”

  In fact, Jack was secretly: Ibid., p. 84. “For some reason it bugs Kennedy that I speak French.”

  A million Germans lined the parade route: Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963 (New York: Edward Burlingame Books, 1991), pp. 604–8.

  “like a man who has just glimpsed Hell”: Hugh Sidey, Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 535.

  Jack called the time he spent in Berlin: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 325.

  “When my great-grandfather left here to become a cooper in East Boston”: President Kennedy to the people of New Ross, Ireland, June 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.

  “The wind from that machine blew my chickens away”: Duchess of Devonshire, The House: A Portrait of Chatsworth (London: Papermac, 1987), p. 222.

  During those negotiations: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 327.

  On July 25, 1963, envoys from the three: Leaming, p. 435.

  John Kennedy considered this his greatest achievement: Sorensen int.

  “With all human beings, one of the things”: Ormsby-Gore quote, Lord Harlech OH.

  “He put up quite a fight”: Leaming, p. 298.

  “defeat Communist insurgency”: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 50.

  “I can remember one particular case”: Fay OH.

  He had the added advantage: Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, pp. 988–89.

  The leader of that faction: Ibid., p. 985.

  Now he was approving his former ally’s: Leaming, p. 309.

  “U.S. Government cannot tolerate situation in which power lies in Nhu’s hands”: Reeves, President Kennedy, pp. 562–63.

  August was also the month of: Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, pp. 972–73; Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, pp. 350–52.

  “This was the first time we’d seen Jackie”: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 206.

  He left at halftime: O’Brien, John F. Kennedy, p. 779.

  In future visits to the confession booth: Fay, pp. 222–23.

  light a candle for Joe Jr.: Dalton OH.

  There were often times when friends: Ibid.

  president would kneel: Dave Powers int.

  “An American President, commander in chief”: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 123.

  On October 4, Jackie left: Leaming, p. 314.

  “Perhaps he should have guessed that”: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 354.

  After retreating from the cabinet room: Leaming, p. 323.

  “Over the weekend”: Presidential recordings, John F. Kennedy Library.

  “He is instinctively against introduction”: United States State Department, Foreign Relations of the United States: Vietnam, 1961, pp. 532–33.

  “They want a force of American troops”: Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, p. 547.

  “I do not believe he knew”: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 359.

  At about this same time: O’Neill, p. 177.

  “mood of the city was ugly”: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 237.

  “disgraced. There is no other way”: Time, November 1, 1963.

  The following Thursday, Jack had invited: Pitts, pp. 205–6.

  He was convinced: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 190.

  “He’ll end up hating me”: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 465.

  Jack spent the next weekend: Barbara Leaming, Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years (New York: Free Press, 2001), pp. 326–27.

  “A small band of conspirators”: JFK speech to the Inter-American Press Association, November 18, 1963, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

  “organize an in-depth study”: William J. Rust, Kennedy in Vietnam (New York: Da Capo Press, 1985), pp. 4–5.

  While Wright laid some of the blame: Author interview with Jim Wright.

  CHAPTER SIXTEEN: LEGACY

  “They were wider than pools”: Theodore White’s notes on his interview with Jacqueline Kennedy are at the John F. Kennedy Library.

  Within hours she’d assumed the reins: Tuckerman/Turnure OH.

  “Jackie was extraordinary”: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 244.

  “to an exceptional degree”: Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, p. 78.

  “each of us had a certain role
we were cast into, whether we knew it or not”: Jim Reed, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.

  “We had a hero for a friend”: William Manchester, The Death of a President: November 20–November 25, 1963 (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), p. 446.

  “chemistry”: Author interview with Chuck Spalding.

  “The most charming man I ever knew”: Smathers int.

  “aura of royalty about him”: Bradlee int.

  “chasing girls in the South of France”: Bartlett int.

  “There’s no point in being Irish if you don’t know the world’s going to someday break your heart”: Moynihan, said to columnist Mary McGrory.

  In a 2009 national poll: National survey conducted for CBS’s 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair, published in January 2010.

  INDEX

  ABC, 177

  Abernathy, Ralph, 311

  Acheson, Dean, 176, 307

  Adams, John Quincy, 68, 171–72

  Addison’s disease, 106, 169, 182, 183–84, 217, 224, 233, 278–79, 291

  advertising, politics and, 85

  Aeschylus, 321

  African Americans, 97, 230–31, 308–11, 359–62, 379–81, 384

  Agence France-Presse, 361

  Age of Jackson, The (Schlesinger), 108

  Alabama, University of, 379–80

  Alexander the Great, 4

  Algeria, 228, 229

  Alliance for Progress, 333

  Alsop, Joseph, 108, 193, 232

  Ambrose, Margaret, 106

  American Field Service Ambulance Corps, 60

  American Friends of Vietnam, 387

  American Labor Party, 176

  American Legion, 77, 110

  Americans for Democratic Action, 226, 231

  American University, 376, 379

  American Veterans Committee, 226

  anti-Semitism, 33, 143–44, 256

  Apalachin, N.Y. mob summit (1957), 235

  Apollo 5, 402

  appeasement, 31–38, 99, 100–101, 173, 252, 304

  “Appeasement in Munich” (Kennedy), 36–37

  Arlington National Cemetery, 401

  arms race, 252, 285, 308, 348–52, 384

  Army, U.S., 361

  Army Air Corps, U.S., 110, 123

  Army Department, U.S., 329

  Army-McCarthy hearings (1954), 176–77, 179, 181

  Art of Living, 286

  Arvad, Inga Marie, 40, 43–45, 50, 161

  JFK’s war letter to, 57–59

  Asquith, Herbert, 34

  Asquith, Raymond, 34, 35, 39, 40, 42, 62

  atomic bomb, 74, 111, 172, 348, 349, 372

  Attwood, Bill, 287–88

  Augustine, Saint, 388

  Austria, Nazi Anschluss of, 31, 304

  Bailey, John, 202, 247, 255, 323

  “Bailey Memorandum,” 201–2

  Ball, George, 391

  Barnett, Ross, 360, 361

  Barry, John, 145

  Bartlett, Charlie, 8, 64, 107, 167, 191, 206, 207, 218, 223, 252, 323, 324–25, 327–28, 357, 370

  Jackie and, 162–63, 183, 212

  JFK presidential run and, 242, 250–51, 258, 267, 282

  JFK’s death and legacy and, 404

  JFK’s political aspirations and, 76–77

  JFK’s wedding and, 165, 166

  newspaper career of, 159–60

  Senate campaign of 1952 and, 131, 134

  Bartlett, Martha, 251, 323, 327

  Battle, William, 49, 264

  Bay of Pigs invasion (1961), 331–38, 343, 347, 360, 362, 373

  Beck, Dave, 233–34

  Berlin, Germany, 111, 303, 326–27, 337, 338, 339–45, 362–64, 366–67, 368, 373, 374, 381

  Berlin Wall in, 345, 405

  JFK’s visit to, 382–83

  Billings, Fred, 18

  Billings, Kirk LeMoyne “Lem,” 68

  Choate school and, 18–23

  election of 1946 and, 75, 86

  Garbo White House visit and, 394–95

  Jackie and, 165–66, 167, 356

  JFK presidency and, 323, 328, 344, 345

  JFK’s European trip with, 29–30

  JFK’s House term and, 110

  JFK’s presidential run and, 260, 262, 263

  JFK’s wedding and, 164, 165, 166

  Kathleen Kennedy and, 21, 110

  Princeton and, 24, 26–28

  World War II and, 42, 47, 48, 60

  Birmingham, Ala., 379–80, 381, 384

  Bissell, Richard, 332, 334, 335

  Blackett Strait, Solomon Islands, 51

  Blough, Roger, 353

  Bohlen, Charles “Chip,” 69, 70

  Boston Globe, 82, 145

  Boston, Mass., 27

  Chelsea Naval Hospital in, 60–61

  Curley as mayor of, 8

  election of 1952 and, 139

  Fitzgerald as mayor of, 13

  JFK office in, 180

  1956 Democratic committee meeting in, 200–201

  St. Lawrence Seaway and, 170–71

  Somerset Club in, 230

  Boston Post, 140–41

  Bouvier, Caroline Lee, 161

  Bouvier, Janet (Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss), 161, 164

  Bouvier, John Vernou “Black Jack”, III, 160, 161

  Bradlee, Ben, 8, 10, 214, 237–38, 249, 251, 259, 262, 267–68, 277, 322, 323, 350, 354, 356, 357, 376, 379, 388, 394, 402, 404

  Bradlee, Dino, 237

  Bradlee, Tony, 237, 269, 277–78, 323, 357, 379, 394

  Braun, Wernher von, 238–39

  Brief (Choate yearbook), 18, 23

  Briggs, Le Baron Russell, 23

  Brinkley, David, 300

  Britain, Battle of (1940), 44, 175

  Brown, Pat, 220, 222, 245, 246, 273–74

  Buchan, John, 38–39, 41, 161

  Buchanan, Frank, 94

  Buddhists, Buddhism, 386

  Bulge, Battle of the (1944–1945), 123, 176

  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 226

  Bundy, McGeorge, 332, 364, 365, 367, 369

  Bunker Hill Day (1946), 64, 86

  Burke, Arleigh, 346

  Burke, William “Onions,” 198–201, 218, 248

  Cabell, Earle, 394

  Calhoun, John C., 227

  California, 220, 222, 245, 246, 273–74, 312

  Camelot, 400–401

  Campbell, Judith E., 357

  Camp David, Md., 357

  Canada, Kennedys’ trip to, 338–39

  Capehart, Homer, 365

  Capone, Al, 235

  “Case of Martin Luther King, The,” 310

  Castro, Fidel, 239, 306, 307, 333, 335, 336, 396

  Castro, Raúl, 306

  Catholics, see Roman Catholics

  CBS, 144, 175, 292

  Cecil, David, 151, 161, 399

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 70, 307, 321–22

  Bay of Pigs invasion and, 331–36

  Cuban missile crisis and, 365

  Chacharis, George, 242

  Chamberlain, Neville, 35–38, 252, 280

  Chapel of the Chaplains, 290

  Charleston, S.C., 45

  Charleston, W.Va., JFK campaign in, 240

  Charlestown, Mass., 86

  Chattanooga Times, 160

  Chelsea Naval Hospital, 60–61

  Chiang Kai-shek, 111, 173, 300

  Chicago, Ill., 220

  Democratic convention of 1956 in, 2–3, 196, 202–11, 216, 217, 225, 229, 241

  Chicago Herald-American, 69, 71

  China, Nationalist, 111, 300–303

  China, People’s Republic of, 120, 141, 206, 300–303, 339

  China, Republic of, Communist takeover of, 111–12, 173, 176, 300, 306, 334

  Choate school:

  Archbold Infirmary at, 15

  Billings and, 18–23

  Brief yearbook of, 18, 23

  JFK and, 14–23, 26, 27, 29, 162, 326

  JFK’s near expulsion from, 21–22, 26

  Joe Kennedy, Jr. and,
14, 16, 18

  Muckers group at, 19–23, 164, 181, 326

  Christoffel, Harold, 98, 111, 142

  Churchill, Winston S., 17, 39, 41, 59, 65, 108–9, 235, 239, 252, 277, 285, 325, 347

  anti-Nazi warnings of, 33, 34–35

  postwar dismissal of, 72–73

  civil rights movement, 97, 206, 229–31, 256, 287, 308–11, 323, 359–62, 374, 375, 379–81, 383, 384, 387, 389–90, 394, 396

  Clay, Henry, 227

  Clay, Lucius, 111

  Cleveland, Ohio, 220

  Clifford, Clark, 324

  coal industry, 264–65

  Coca-Cola, 85

  Cohn, Roy, 168, 178, 179, 181

  Coldstream Guards, British, 62

  Cold War, 5, 9, 87, 96, 98–101, 104, 105–6, 111–13, 121, 135, 149, 156, 206, 228–29, 238–39, 283–84, 285, 296–97, 300–303, 305–8, 323, 325, 333, 334, 336–37, 339–45, 347–52, 362–73, 406

  Berlin and, 111, 303, 326–27, 337, 338, 339–45, 362–64, 366–67, 368, 373, 374, 381, 382–83, 405

  civil rights issue and, 380–81

  Indochina and, 172–73, 301, 303

  JFK’s “Peace speech” and, 376–79, 383

  nuclear arms testing and, 347–52, 376, 378, 384, 386

  Rosenberg case and, 112

  Colliers, 197

  Columbia, 225

  Commons, House of, 36

  see also Parliament, British

  Communism, 91, 92, 96, 97–99, 105–6, 111–13, 142, 296–97, 326–27, 377, 382, 405–6

  McCarthy’s campaign against, 112, 173–82

  Congress, U.S.:

  Truman’s address to joint session of, 96, 97

  see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.

  Connally, John, 278–79, 394, 397

  Connecticut, 314

  Connor, Eugene “Bull,” 379

  Conservative Party, British, 72–73

  Conway, Jack, 236

  Corbin, Paul, 259

  Council of Economic Advisers, 353

  Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, 380

  Croix de Guerre, 125

  Cronkite, Walter, 261

  Cuba, 239, 306–7, 396

  Batista overthrow in, 239

  Bay of Pigs invasion in, 331–38, 343, 347, 360, 362, 373

  U.S. naval blockade of, 368, 369, 370

  Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), 9, 364–73, 376

  Cuban Revolutionary Council, 338

  Curley, James Michael, 8, 68, 122

  O’Neill’s assessment of, 103

  pardon petition for, 101–3, 124, 170

  Curley, Mary, 101, 102

  Czechoslovakia, Nazi seizure of, 31, 32, 34, 304

  Daley, Richard J., 255, 323, 369, 389–90