“I’m going to run!”: Smathers int.
“I’m not going to stay in the House”: Lawrence O’Brien, No Final Victories (New York: Doubleday, 1974), p. 17.
“For the Kennedys, it’s either the castle”: Jack Newfield, Robert Kennedy (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1969), p. 42.
Henry Cabot Lodge: account of Lodge’s masterful engineering of the Eisenhower presidential campaign drawn from Herbert Parmet, Eisenhower and the American Crusade (New York: Macmillan, 1972), pp. 46-56.
Back in Washington: Kennedy letter obtained from Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace.
Three hundred Capitol Hill news correspondents: United Press story ran in Boston Globe, June 2, 1952.
He first heard the news: Boston Globe, July 2, 1952.
CHAPTER 5: CLOTH COATS AND LACE CURTAINS
“I am in your corner 100 percent”: James Cannon, Time and Change (New York: HarperCollins, 1994), p. 61.
“There comes a time”: Tom Wicker, One of Us, p. 93.
“Dick was sitting”: Wicker, One of Us, p. 89.
But the final blow was still to come: account of “Checkers” drawn primarily from Ambrose, Nixon, pp. 276–92.
For several minutes: Hillings int.
Riding back to the hotel: Patrick J. Hillings, Pat Hillings, published by Howard D. Dean, 1993, p. 61.
In the same weeks: Dalton int.
“In all my years of public life”: O’Neill, Man of the House, p. 87.
His father had to “buy a fuckin’ newspaper”: Parmet, Jack, p. 511.
The one man: William F. Buckley, Jr., Boston Sunday Globe, September 30, 1962.
The Kennedy campaign: Parmet, Jack, p. 250.
Their son’s sex appeal was such a tremendous asset: Robert Griffin int.
But Tip O’Neill recalled: O’Neill, Man of the House, p. 88.
If Dick Nixon: Eisenhower, Pat Nixon, p. 188.
CHAPTER 6: HALL MATES
“It was a busy corridor”: Evelyn Lincoln, notes written for author, July 20, 1993.
“We had a very nice relationship”: Evelyn Lincoln int.
“I have known Senator Kennedy for a number of years as a personal friend”: letter courtesy of Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace.
“Jack had the ability”: Reardon int.
“If you work for a politician”: O’Brien, No Final Victories, p. 39.
“I gave everything a good deal of thought”: Fay, The Pleasure of His Company, p. 160.
He managed to keep secret his engagement: Kenneth P. O’Donnell and Dave F. Powers, “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye” (Boston: Little, Brown, 1970), p. 95.
“That would be a helluva place”: quoted in Thomas C. Reeves, A Question of Character, p. 114
“If we do not stand firm”: quoted in Parmet, Jack, p. 276.
Ho Chi Minh: Aitken, Nixon, p. 227.
He backed a secret plan: Wicker, One of Us, p. 146.
“We simply cannot afford further losses in Asia”: Des Moines Register, April 22, 1954.
“To pour money, material and men into the jungles”: quoted in Cross, JFK—A Hidden Life (Boston: Charles E. Tuttle, 1992), p. 68.
“What Indo-China proves”: U.S. News & World Report, 1954.
“Vietnam represents the cornerstone”: Richard Reeves, President Kennedy—Profile of Power (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), p. 254
He became a founding member of the Friends of Vietnam: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 254
“I resented being constantly vilified”: quoted in Aitken, Nixon, p. 233.
Tormented, he had already made several trips: Aitken, Nixon, p. 196.
“We used to ride home together”: Reardon int.
“He was always talking about dying”: Smathers int.
“At least half”: John H. Davis, The Kennedys—Dynasty or Disaster (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984), p. 137.
“Please call the vice president’s office”: Evelyn Lincoln notes.
“The doctors did not expect”: Lincoln notes.
“That poor young man”: Aitken, Nixon, p. 137; conversation with Rex Scouten.
“The doctors don’t understand”: Lincoln notes.
“I’m the new night nurse”: C. David Heymann, A Woman Named Jackie (New York: Lyle Stuart, Carol Communications, 1989), p. 171.
“You know when I get downstairs”: Parmet, Jack, p. 310.
“They’re not queer at State”: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, p. 264.
“I’d be very happy to tell them”: Parmet, Jack, p. 171.
“One thing about Nixon, God bless him”: Reardon int.
To take the pressure off Kennedy: Sorensen int.
“Dear Mr. Vice President”: letters courtesy of Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace.
“It made Jack feel very good”: Reardon int.
When a Senate page: Martin Dowd int.
Greeting the Massachusetts senator: Parmet, Jack, p. 315; Reardon int.
CHAPTER 7: PROFILES IN AMBITION
In June 1954: Richard Nixon, Leaders (New York: Warner Books, 1982), pp. 7-9.
“I think he thought”: Heymann, A Woman Named Jackie, p. 178.
Privately, he kept turning the screws: Ambrose, Nixon, p. 388.
Robert Kennedy, now chief counsel: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, p. 218.
Called to testify: Herbert Parmet, Richard Nixon and His America (Boston: Little, Brown, 1990), p. 271.
However, committee chairman John McClellan: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, p. 218.
Former House colleague Gerald Ford: Gerald Ford int.
“Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession”: John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956), p. 7.
“We’ve got the Pulitzer”: Evan Thomas, Jr., int.
“Dear Jack”: letter courtesy of Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace.
William “Onions” Burke: account of the “Onions” Burke episode drawn from Parmet, Jack, pp. 347-51, 354.
“Anybody who’s for Stevenson”: quoted in O’Donnell and Powers, “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,” p. 109.
Ted Sorensen prepared: Parmet, Jack, p. 359.
“two tough candidates”: quoted in Parmet, Jack, p. 372.
“George, old pal”: Smathers int.
“The senator was convinced”: O’Donnell and Powers, “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,” p. 123.
“If we have to have a Catholic”: quoted in Parmet, Jack, p. 362.
One moment: Time, August 27, 1956.
“I’ve learned”: O’Donnell and Powers, “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,” p. 126.
“Our nation stands”: New York Times, November 6, 1956.
CHAPTER 8: TWO MEN ON THIRD
“Give me some reasons”: Robert Choate letter courtesy of Princeton University Library.
“I am quite confident”: Robert Choate letter courtesy of Princeton University Library.
Rose Kennedy: Lawrence Learner, The Kennedy Women (New York: Villard Books, 1994), p. 467.
“Sue the bastards!”: Clark Clifford int.
“He had the publicity”: Hubert Humphrey, John F. Kennedy Library oral history.
“Kennedy has been regarded”: Winchester Evening Star, February 15, 1957.
“Once he started in 1956”: Smathers int.
“He never said a word of importance”: Robert Dallek, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 555.
“I might have used a Latin phrase”: Charles Colson int.
“I always had a feeling”: Charles Bartlett int.
“a vote against the right to vote”: Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988), p. 221.
“Their doors were opposite each other”: Bob Thompson int.
“Parents are always special people”: letter courtesy of Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace.
“Welcome to the Father-Daughter club”: telegram courtesy of Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplac
e.
Using Smathers: Ambrose, Nixon, p. 494.
Despite a growing possibility: Dave Powers int.
“that didn’t mean”: Lincoln int.
One fall day: Joan Gardner int.
Kennedy told: New York Times Magazine, July 1958.
“Nixon is a nice fellow in private”: Ralph Martin, A Hero for Our Time (New York: Macmillan, 1983), p. 221.
“When Mr. Eisenhower talks”: Associated Press, October 15, 1959.
“strongest possible”: Time, July 18, 1960, p. 10.
Tip O’Neill would recall: Paul Clancy and Shirley Elder, Tip: A Biography of Thomas P. O’Neill, Speaker of the House (New York: Macmillan, 1980), p. 139; conversations with O’Neill.
A Washington Post editorial cartoon: New York World Telegram & Sun, August 15, 1959.
“Before the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates”: Benjamin C. Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy (New York: W. W. Norton, 1975), p. 32.
Longtime journalist: Bartlett int.
“You think I’m out here”: Thomas Reeves, A Question of Character, p. 159.
“You could go to the A & P store”: Hubert Humphrey, JFK Library oral history.
“I believe to this day”: Louis Harris int.
Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.: Robin Cross, JFK: A Hidden Life, (Boston: Little, Brown, 1992), p. 90.
“They went through West Virginia”: Charles McWhorter int.
After trying another theater: Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy, p. 17.
CHAPTER 9: KENNEDY VERSUS NIXON
Pat Hillings: Hillings int.
“It was the goddamndest thing”: Cross, JFK, p. 78.
“Our next president”: quoted from Freedom of Information, Senate Commerce Committee, Government Printing Office. All Nixon campaign speeches taken from this source.
Appearing on the Jack Paar Show: Freedom of Information, Senate Commerce Committee, Government Printing Office. All Kennedy and Nixon campaign statements, as well as their debates, taken from this source,
“The case that there”: Eric Sevareid, Boston Globe.
“If I have to”: O’Donnell and Powers, “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,” p. 201.
Manhattan fashion: Robert Lacey, Grace (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994), p. 204.
he had been coached: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 41.
One campaign worker: Fred Dutton int.
Billy Sutton: Sutton int.
“I wonder where Dick Nixon is”: Powers int.
Western Union Telegram: telegram courtesy of Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace.
To: The Hon John F Kennedy: courtesy of Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace.
Lou Harris: Harris int.
Robert S. Strauss: Robert Strauss int.
“He’s eating them blood-raw!”: O’Donnell and Powers, “Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye,” p. 210.
CHAPTER 10: THE GREAT DEBATE
Kennedy was already moving: Don Hewitt int.
Lou Harris: Harris int.
headed by Prof. Archibald Cox: Richard N. Goodwin, Remembering America (Boston: Little, Brown, 1988), p. 113.
“I will never forget”: Harris int.
“he came out”: Harris int.
“He was upset”: Robert Finch int.
“We kept pushing”: Finch int.
“Erase the assassin image!”: Theodore White, The Making of the President—1960 (New York: Atheneum, 1961), p. 285.
“He was in the right seat”: Herb Klein int.
“He and I”: Hewitt int.
“He looked like a young Adonis”: Hewitt int.
“Do you want some makeup?”: Hewitt int.
he discarded his long reliance: Ambrose, Nixon, p. 430.
Herb Klein: Klein int.
Lawrence O’Brien: O’Brien, No Final Victories, p. 93.
“I couldn’t believe”: Finch int.
Lyndon Johnson: Reeves, A Question of Character, p. 195.
“Right after”: Harris int.
“That son”: Fawn Brodie, Richard Nixon (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983), p. 427.
an apparent Nixon booster: Los Angeles Times, January 30, 1990.
For the rest of his life: Klein int.
CHAPTER 11: BEARING ANY BURDEN
Newsman John Harter: John Harter int.
Nixon sent a memo: Ambrose, Nixon, p. 550.
Bissell struck up a relationship: Harris int.
“Of course”: Goodwin, Remembering America, p. 75.
“Are they falling dead”: Ambrose, Nixon, p. 550.
Lou Harris was pushing: Harris int.
the vice president exploded: Ambrose, Nixon, p. 502.
Gov. John Patterson: Gerald S. and Deborah Strober, Let Us Begin: An Oral History of the Kennedy Presidency (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), p. 326.
CHAPTER 12: THE VERDICT
Mrs. King: Harris Wofford, Of Kennedys and Kings (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980), p. 16.
Nixon now feared: Klein int.
Jackie Robinson tried: Wicker, One of Us, p. 238.
“I had expected”: Wofford, Of Kennedys and Kings, p. 23.
they found a pair: Wofford, Of Kennedys and Kings, p. 24.
“I earnestly and sincerely feel”: Wofford, Of Kennedys and Kings, p. 24.
“I’m going to do”: Wicker, One of Us, p. 242.
“Goddammit”: Wicker, One of Us, p. 242.
“he had stood”: Hillings int.
“Now I’ve heard complaints”: quoted in Wicker, One of Us, p. 244.
“Unlike a lot of Republicans”: O’Donnell and Powers, “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,” p. 216.
“Last week Dick Nixon”: Fay, The Pleasure of His Company, p. 60.
“I knew Kennedy too well”: Eisenhower, Pat Nixon, p. 290.
“He’s a filthy”: Goodwin, Remembering America, p. 105.
One Nixon aide: Bryce Harlow quoted in Wicker, One of Us, p. 248.
After a weak attempt: Ambrose, Nixon, p. 601.
“help of a few close friends”: Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy, p. 33.
One Chicago voter: Earl Mazo, New York Herald Tribune, December 5, 1960.
“Why don’t you”: O’Brien, No Final Victories, p. 96.
“I want to repeat”: telegram courtesy of Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace.
“Your sincere good wishes”: telegram courtesy of Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace.
“He went out”: Reeves, A Question of Character, p. 214.
CHAPTER 13: IF
They had enough reports: Finch int.
“We had enough evidence”: Finch int.
urged the Herald Tribune’s: Earl Mazo int.
“I had been through”: Nixon, RN, p. 225.
“Nixon was”: Klein int.
“Hello, Chief!”: account drawn from Richard M. Nixon, Six Crises (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962), p. 404.
“It was the difference”: Klein int.
“He was very, very chatty”: Klein int.
“if it won’t interfere”: Nixon, Six Crises, p. 405.
“Well, it’s hard”: Nixon, Six Crises, p. 407.
“My only regret”: form letter courtesy of Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace.
“Jack, if”: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 25.
“Kennedy has done”: Time, November 16, 1960.
“This is the first”: Time, January 13, 1961.
Eisenhower regarded: Clark Clifford int.
“No one noticed”: Nixon, RN, p. 227.
CHAPTER 14: BAY OF PIGS
Though he joked: Martin, A Hero for Our Time, p. 389.
“Wait till I’m ready”: George Tames int.
Robert Kennedy: New York Times, January 24, 1972.
At one point: Philip Kaiser, Journeying Far and Wide: A Political and Diplomatic Mission (New York: Macmillan Books, 1992), p. 186.
“Defeat Communist insurgency”: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 50.
Hoping to reverse: Reeves, Pres
ident Kennedy, p. 51.
RNC hired: Stephen Hess int.
“I traveled”: Robert Finch int.
“The State Department”: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, p. 264.
CIA efforts: Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared the Early Years of the CIA (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), pp. 226–29.
“It was on”: E. Howard Hunt, Undercover—Memoirs of a Secret Agent (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974), p. 130.
With fifteen hundred exiles: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 91.
“All my life”: Theodore Sorensen, Kennedy (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), p. 309.
He’d been “given to believe”: Thomas, The Very Best Men, p. 396.
“I certainly would”: Nixon, RN, p. 233.
“JFK called”: Nixon, RN, p. 233.
“I was assured”: account of meeting drawn from Nixon, RN, p. 234
Flattered by Kennedy’s rare: Wills, Nixon Agonistes, p. 40.
“Bobby is a wild man”: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 265.
“Get off your”: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 263.
“Pat, what”: Hillings, Pat Hillings, pp. 89-90.
Ted Sorensen: Sorensen int.
“Why is he running?”: O’Donnell and Powers, “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,” p. 345.
“The important thing”: Hess int.
“Nixon”: Hillings int.
“My own political”: Nixon, RN, p. 239.
“Despite all the talk”: Time, October 6, 1961.
“There would be the all-out”: Finch int.
“What do you feel”: Bartlett int.
CHAPTER 15: COUP DE GRCE
“Just the 1960 campaign stuff”: Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy, p. 75.
“Mr. Blough”: Fay int.
“You find out”: Fay int.
“I told him that”: Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy, p. 111.
“It looks like”: Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy, p. 76.
“We looked over”: Robert F. Kennedy, JFK Library oral history.
Aide Stephen Hess: Hess int.
The goal: Dutton int.
“If Kennedy”: quoted in O’Donnell and Powers, “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,” p. 284.
“We’re in LA”: Los Angeles Times, January 31, 1990.
Once, when candidate Nixon: Los Angeles Times, January 31, 1990.
“Yes”: Hess int.
“To hell with”: Hillings, Pat Hillings, p. 94.
“One last thing”: Jules Witcover, The Resurrection of Richard Nixon (New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1970), p. 19.
Back at home: Eisenhower, Pat Nixon, p. 318.
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