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22 Jackie was determined: Yusha Auchincloss interview.
22 “I felt like a moth”: AH, p. 282.
22 Only days after her son’s: NYT, Dec. 13, 1960; Cassini II, pp. 305–307.
22 “on the Paris Couture fashion ticket”: Women’s Wear Daily, July 13, 1960.
22 “a Fifth Avenue store”: NYT, Sept. 15, 1960.
22 “A newspaper reported”: ibid.
22 “Put Jackie and Joan back”: Bergquist manuscript for profile of Jackie Kennedy, ND, Laura Bergquist Papers, Boston University.
22 The ladies’ garment workers union: Bowles, Met Catalogue, p. 27.
22 “gotten so vulgarly out of hand”: Cassini II, p. 310, citing letter from JBK on Dec. 13, 1960.
22 “a single person, an American”: JKWH, p. 21.
23 “Veronese green”: Cassini I, p. 31.
23 a first in White House history: Cassini II, pp. 298–99, 308.
23 He was the scion: ibid., pp. 16, 20, 139.
23 “wise-cracking ladies’ man”: WP, Dec. 9, 1960.
23 “fantasy life”: Cassini II, pp. 146–48.
23 Cassini became friendly with: ibid., p. 300.
23 “Don’t bother them”: ibid., p. 308.
23 “sophisticated simplicity”: JKWH, p. 22.
23 He in turn could: Cassini interview.
24 Jackie had been intrigued: Bowles, Met Catalogue, p. 32.
24 For nearly a decade: Wilson, Life, Aug. 24, 1959; Bowles, Met Catalogue, p. 20.
24 “excellent cut and unobtrusive”: Jacqueline Bouvier, “Fashion-Question 1,” Vogue Prix de Paris application, May 21, 1951, JFKL.
24 “look delicious in front of”: ibid.
24 At a time when: Rhea, p. 36; Bowles, Met Catalogue, p. 44.
24 “Just remember I like”: Bowles, Met Catalogue, p. 28, citing JBK to Vreeland, Aug. 1, 1960.
24 “a pace setter who has worn”: NYT, July 15, 1960.
24 “a great dip brimmed”: Jacqueline Bouvier, “Thesis-Topic I, IV, for the girl with more taste than money, NOSTALGIA HAS NINE LIVES,” Vogue Prix de Paris application, May 21, 1951, JFKL.
24 “an American Versailles”: Cassini II, p. 306.
24 “continue to dress”: JKWH, pp. 22–23.
24 “that I would wear if”: Cassini II, p. 309, citing JBK to Cassini, Dec. 13, 1960.
24 “fat little women hopping”: ibid., p. 310.
25 “Whenever I was upset”: AH, p. 221.
25 “Mors tua vita mea est”: Cassini I, p. 152.
25 “demeaning and vulgar”: Leamer I, p. 434, citing Robert Coughlan interview with Rose Kennedy.
25 “Women are very idealistic”: NYHT, Nov. 11, 1960; U.S. News & World Report, July 25, 1960.
25 “I’d love to get to know”: Sunday Standard-Times, Feb. 28, 1954.
25 “I don’t think Jack has changed”: AH, p. 227.
25 “skittish and edgy”: Bergquist manuscript for Jackie Kennedy profile, ND, Laura Bergquist Papers, Boston University.
25 “curled up on the campaign plane”: ibid.
25 “Don’t ask Jack mean questions”: Dickerson, p. 65.
25 “looking daggers”: Peter Lisagor OH; Collier and Horowitz, p. 237.
25 she had worked for fifteen months: JKWH, p. 97.
25 “You could make the column”: Heller, p. 71.
26 “an old man’s darling”: Rhea, p. 100.
26 “What makes little boys”: ibid., p. 118.
26 “Are wives a luxury”: ibid., p. 68.
26 “the candybox spillings”: Jacqueline Bouvier, “Feature-Question 3,” Vogue Prix de Paris application, May 21, 1951, JFKL.
26 “vague little dreams”: JBK to Mary E. Campbell, May 1, 1951, Vogue Materials, JFKL.
26 “there was no routine”: WP, Jan. 19, 1961.
26 “field course in psychology”: Rhea, p. 167.
26 “to learn how people thought”: ibid., p. 168.
26 Within two days of Kennedy’s election: JKWH, p. x.
26 Molly Thayer was no ordinary: Baldrige interview; Eugenie Rahim interview.
26 Jackie and Thayer agreed: Bruce and Beatrice Gould OH-CU.
27 “Jackie did a lot of the writing”: Mary Bass Gibson OH-CU.
27 Thayer sent the completed: JKWH, pp. x–xi.
27 “complete sellout”: Gould OH-CU.
27 “exactly how Jackie wanted”: Baldrige interview.
27 “the best legal mind” . . . “the most devout”: Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Thayer II), pp. 102–104.
27 “a rock . . . I lean on him”: ibid., p. 113.
27 “many-faceted character”: ibid., p. 115.
27 It was an account of: ibid., p. 88; Jacqueline and Lee Bouvier, in One Special Summer, wrote that they set sail on June 6, 1951.
27 “looked into Jack’s laughingly aroused”: Thayer II, p. 95.
Chapter Four
29 “long, white, vaguely Spanish”: AJ, p. 8.
29 had been designed: John Castle interview; Leo Racine interview.
29 “Bastard-Spanish-Moorish”: WP, Mar. 30, 1995.
29 he sunbathed in the nude: Collier and Horowitz, p. 212.
29 “like a Stradivarius”: ibid.
30 After his election, JFK declined: Racine interview.
30 “relishing the mob scenes”: JKWH, p. 11.
30 with whom he was frequently confused: The Billings Collection, ed. Nan Richardson, p. 94, Nigel Hamilton Research Collection, Massachusetts Historical Society.
30 But Billings had a loud raspy: ibid., pp. 22, 57, 178.
30 “among hundreds of others”: ibid., p. 181.
30 The Billings voice: ibid., p. 23.
30 “a mystifying relic”: ibid., p. 188.
30 sharing a sandwich: NYT, Jan. 3, 1961.
30 Another time he might: ibid., Jan. 2, 1961.
30 “I thought, ‘Jesus, this is strange’”: Fletcher Knebel OH.
30 “a stable pony”: Charles Bartlett interview.
30 Jack and Lem met: Lem Billings interview, JCBC.
30 Lem’s mother was from: Blair, p. 35.
31 An Episcopalian descended: Richardson, p. 50; Billings interview, JCBC.
31 “Jack had the self-assurance”: Michaelis, p. 134.
31 They had countless nicknames: Richardson, p. 48.
31 “Muckers”: Goodwin I, p. 488.
31 A poignant measure: Peter Kaplan interview.
31 Billings even pretended: Michaelis, p. 141.
31 Jack and Lem enrolled: HTF, p. 187.
31 “Lem and his battered”: Richardson, p. 67.
31 Billings’s full-time mission: ibid., pp. 19, 26.
31 “Lem had the ability to”: Michaelis, p. 144.
31 Joe Kennedy often subsidized: Blair, p. 62; Richardson, pp. 74, 119.
31 After college Billings received: Richardson, p. 68.
31 “Fizzies”: ibid., p. 158.
31 Finally in 1960 he moved: ibid., pp. 134, 158, 209.
31 In the White House, Billings came: Billings OH.
32 Before Jack and Jackie were: ibid.; Bradford, p. 69.
32 “I thought it was a challenge”: Billings OH.
32 “Lem was a bridge”: Kaplan interview.
32 “I didn’t see anything overtly”: Paul Fay interview.
32 “idolatrous”: Ben Bradlee interview.
32 “Can you imagine”: Michaelis, p. 172.
32 “superb physical condition”: NYT, Jan. 17, 1961, quoting Today’s Health.
33 The report was guilty of: Hamilton, p. 655.
33 Nor were there references: Robert Dallek, “The Medical Ordeals of JFK,” Atlantic Monthly, December 2002.
33 The second and third: Evelyn Lincoln, My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy (Lincoln I), p. 69.
33 Addison’s disease, diagnosed: Blair, pp. 640–41.
33 “rather like a bad portrait”: Joseph W. Alsop, “I’ve Seen the Best of It”: Memoirs (Alsop
II), p. 411.
33 His critical illness: Blair, pp. 641, 646.
33 “doomed to die”: Arthur Krock interview, JCBC.
33 he could be treated with: Blair, pp. 643–44.
33 side effects including insomnia: Dallek, Atlantic Monthly, December 2002.
34 “looked like a spavined hunchback”: CWK, p. 68.
34 “adrenal insufficiency”: NYT, Jan. 17, 1961.
34 “I don’t have Addison’s”: Pierre Salinger OH.
34 “hard knot”: Billings OH.
34 family friend Kay Halle recalled: Kay Halle OH.
34 “set him somewhat apart”: ATD, p. 80.
34 “the face . . . a little whiter”: AH, p. 97.
34 “I’ve always said he’s a child”: JPK to JBK, Aug. 25, 1957, JPKP.
35 “It was so crowded”: JKWH, p. 11.
35 She had arrived in a state: ibid., p. 9.
35 largely kept to herself: Lady Bird Johnson OH.
35 “she was not feeling well”: AJ, p. 5.
35 Occasionally she ventured: WP, Dec. 26, 1960; NYT, Dec. 31, 1960. The JPKP contain letters JPK wrote proposing candidates for membership in the Everglades on Jan. 2, 1946, and the Bath and Tennis on Dec. 27, 1945.
35 “a sort of family home”: Alphand, p. 411.
35 “as a threat”: Goodwin I, p. 771.
35 “unbroken Shetland pony look”: Stewart Alsop to Martin Sommers, Sept. 27, 1961, Alsop Papers, LOC.
35 “called her ‘the Deb’”: Goodwin I, p. 771.
35 “why worry if you’re not”: ibid., pp. 771–72.
35 “If only she had realized”: ibid., p. 771.
35 “last will & testament”: JBK last will and testament, Jan. 11, 1960, on stationery of Half Moon Hotel, Montego Bay, Jamaica, Documents and Artifacts Relating to the Life and Career of John F. Kennedy, Guernsey’s, Mar. 18–19, 1998.
36 five foot three: Hamilton, p. 74.
36 Bright and inquisitive: Goodwin I, pp. 132, 145.
36 “greatest regret”: ibid., p. 144.
36 Rose had raised her nine: Nancy Tenney Coleman interview; Eunice Shriver interview.
36 “great on self improvement”: Leamer I, p. 499.
36 Rose’s own father: Goodwin I, pp. 248–49.
36 “She was never there”: AH, p. 31.
36 she was a daily communicant: Coleman interview.
36 “I have spent a long happy”: RK to JBK, June 9, 1958, JPKP.
36 “It might be noticed”: Oatsie Leiter Charles interview.
36 Jackie admired Rose’s faith: Yusha Auchincloss interview.
37 “there was just nothing afterwards”: JBK to Harold Macmillan, Jan. 31, 1964, HMA.
37 the daily ocean swims: Dorothy Tubridy OH; Standard-Times, Jan. 8, 1961.
37 “to live in a disorganized”: JBK to Walton, June 8, 1962, Walton Papers, JFKL.
37 She often slept: Gallagher, pp. 75–76; Goodwin I, p. 772.
37 When Rose pushed: John Corry, The Golden Clan, p. 74.
37 irreverence that shocked: Gallagher, p. 76.
37 Jackie recognized the pressures: Goodwin I, p. 772; HTF, p. 662.
37 “you don’t reveal yourself”: Leamer I, p. 433, citing Robert Coughlan interview with RK.
37 “It must have been difficult”: ibid.
37 happened to be Jackie’s favorite: AH, p. 98.
37 “the glue” that held : ibid., p. 32.
37 “architect of our lives”: Rose Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 57.
37 “We don’t want any losers”: ibid., p. 143.
37 “living in an intellectual”: Kay Halle, unpublished article on JPK, Halle Papers, JFKL.
37 “one of his Emperor Augustus”: AH, p. 91.
38 “I used to tell him”: Goodwin I, p. 772.
38 “they would talk about everything”: AH, p. 91.
38 “the Gibbon”: Manchester II, p. 83.
38 “Joseph Kennedy told me”: AH, p. 128.
38 “very quiet and beautiful”: JBK to JPK, Aug. 15, 1957, JPKP.
38 a horde of Kennedy family: Bergquist manuscript for profile of Jackie Kennedy, ND, Laura Bergquist Papers, Boston University.
Chapter Five
39 Yet with the exception: RKHL, p. 109.
39 Only one senator: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times (Schlesinger II), p. 236.
39 Washington reporters were so: Pierpoint OH.
40 “I just wanted to give”: JKWH, p. 122.
40 Joe Kennedy suggested the move: George Smathers OH; Fay interview.
40 Bobby at the Justice Department: RKHL, p. 109; Wills, pp. 34–37; Bartlett OH.
40 Jack could speak candidly: Walt Rostow OH.
40 “the unvarnished truth”: RKHL, p. 110.
40 until Jack ran for: ATD, p. 694.
40 Bobby had grown up: RKHL, pp. 31–32, 59.
40 He often made a poor: Schlesinger II, p. 589; LG, p. 852; RKHL, p. 23; HTF, p. 635.
40 His salient trait: RKHL, p. 45.
40 “He reminds me of a little donkey”: Joe Kane to JPK, March 14, 1945, JPKP.
40 “One had the impression”: ATD, p. 692.
40 Bobby muddled through: RKHL, p. 35.
40 Joe Kennedy was nearly sixty: Goodwin I, pp. 328, 339, 421; Richard J. Whalen, The Founding Father: The Story of Joseph P. Kennedy, p. 170.
41 “I thought money would give”: AH, p. 37.
41 “It would take a very great”: Robert T. Elson, The World of Time, Inc.: The Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise, vol. 2, 1941–1960, p. 471.
41 Joe Kennedy’s grand political: Joe Kane to JPK, Mar. 20, 1944: “Both boys are lashed to the mast for this election,” JPKP.
41 “buying The Boston Post”: JPK to Willard Kiplinger, June 30, 1961, JPKP.
41 “not because it was natural”: JPK to John McCormack, Aug. 8, 1951, JPKP.
41 He had finally attracted: RKHL, p. 59; Goodwin I, p. 761.
41 When the call came: David Powers OH; RKHL, p. 62.
41 “new generation of leadership”: John F. Kennedy, “Acceptance Speech at the 1960 Democratic Convention,” July 15, 1960, The Greatest Speeches of President John F. Kennedy (Kennedy II), p. 7.
41 “unknown opportunities”: ibid.
41 His team had an overtly: KE, pp. 255–56.
41 a plurality of only: White I, pp. 336, 382–83.
42 “so thin as to be”: ibid., p. 382.
42 “The election of 1960 . . . totally devoid”: Theodore H. White, In Search of History (White II), p. 479.
42 Only anxiety about Soviet: PR-JFK, vol. I, p. xxxiii.
42 “just a member of”: Smathers OH.
42 “in the interests of national”: LG, p. 696.
42 Kennedy relied heavily: Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made, pp. 593–95.
42 “If I string along”: JWH, p. 236.
42 Only Dillon was a partisan: KE, p. 251.
42 “basic thinking . . . close”: LG, p. 696.
42 McNamara had been president: Tanzer, p. 161.
43 “range of issues which [JFK]”: McNamara interview.
43 McNamara was a rare: Tanzer, p. 178.
43 In keeping with Kennedy-style: McNamara interview.
43 “striking gifts”: ATD, p. 312.
43 “the blotched pink”: DOAP, p. 506.
43 a temperament of intense: Tanzer, p. 178; Deborah Shapley, Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara, p. 216.
43 He was a year older: Robert McNamara, In Retrospect, p. 6; Robert McNamara interview, Booknotes, Apr. 23, 1995, C-SPAN.
43 “The things that most men”: Tanzer, p. 178.
43 “a faintly quizzical expression”: Newsweek, Mar. 4, 1963.
43 a household that prized: ibid.
44 “sly of wit and with”: Kai Bird, The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms, p. 58.
44 “Mahatma Bundy”: ibid
., p. 59.
44 By the time Bundy rose: ibid., pp. 101, 110; Tanzer, pp. 34–36.
44 Bundy’s wife, Bostonian: Bird, p. 108; Ben Bradlee interview.
44 Bundy had been a wartime friend: Kathleen Kennedy to family, Jan. 2, 1943; Kathleen Kennedy to family, Jan. 12, 1944, in which she mentioned “Mac Bundy, who Joe says is the smartest guy he ever met and who is going to be my master of ceremonies at a truth and consequences program which I am running on Friday.” JPKP.
44 Bundy and Kennedy had renewed: Lincoln, p. 107; Bird, p. 151.
44 “there weren’t any Democrats”: Charles Bartlett interview.
45 Dillon’s paternal grandfather: Tanzer, p. 143.
45 an indignity also suffered: Whalen, pp. 12–13.
45 Similarly, both JFK and Doug: Goodwin I, p. 477.
45 made a $190 million: Time, Aug. 18, 1961.
45 Douglas Dillon was born: Douglas Dillon interview; Time, Aug. 18, 1961.
45 With six residences: Tanzer, p. 145.
45 “patrician reserve and almost”: ibid., p. 140.
45 Through Kennedy’s membership: ibid.
45 “We both had rather rapid”: Dillon interview.
46 “Liberal governments have foundered”: ibid.
46 The U.S. balance of payments: Douglas Dillon OH.
46 “Kennedy was a deeply conservative”: Dillon OH-CU.
46 “His father had tremendous”: Dillon interview.
46 “lack of confidence”: ATD, p. 623.
46 “pacifist father”: Galbraith interview.
47 “Along with people who like”: John Kenneth Galbraith, Letters to Kennedy (Galbraith II), citing Galbraith to JFK, Nov. 13, 1960.
47 “I don’t see why”: AJ, p. 44.
47 “a government of the rich”: LG, p. 700.
47 “suicides on Wall Street”: ibid.
47 “He’s a fine novelist”: Isaacson and Thomas, p. 594.
47 Ironically, Galbraith would: TCY, pp. 248, 712.
47 a prestigious post where: Dillon interview.
47 To Dillon, Galbraith would: ibid.
47 “kinetic Democrats”: Arthur Schlesinger to JFK, Aug. 26, 1960, Schlesinger Papers, JFKL.
48 Schlesinger was willing: KE, p. 49; Anderson, p. 281.
48 To Schlesinger, Jack was: Arthur Schlesinger interview.
48 “skeptical mind”: ATD, p. 91.
48 “inward and reflective quality”: ibid., p. 77.
48 “brawling Irishmen”: Hugh Sidey interview.
49 One after another: Arthur Schlesinger to JFK, Nov. 14, 1960, Schlesinger Papers, JFKL; LG, p. 700.