Grace and Power
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120 “God’s angry woman”: Bradlee II, p. 198.
120 “to make [JFK] growl”: Manchester II, p. 32.
120 “Fred didn’t do it on purpose”: Nancy Dutton interview.
121 “the court publicist”: Anderson, p. 213.
121 He ran a chaotic: Gamarekian interview.
121 “In the tradition of”: NYHT, Feb. 3, 1961.
121 “Pierre would poke”: Sidey II, p. 4.
121 The Irish mafia: Laura Bergquist Knebel OH.
121 “Kenny thought he was a foppish”: John Reilly interview.
121 “Get back into long pants”: Anderson, p. 231.
121 Underneath the banter: ibid., p. 233.
121 Growing up in San Francisco: ibid., p. 230.
121 he pushed JFK to conduct: ibid., p. 233.
121 “It’s really crazy”: Salinger interview, Booknotes, Nov. 12, 1995, C-SPAN.
122 “We were simply there”: Peter Lisagor OH.
122 “elaborately serious”: NYT, Jan. 26, 1961.
122 “sometimes gets lost in a fog”: NYHT, Mar. 16, 1961.
122 “It was hard to find a verb”: Howard K. Smith OH.
122 “He was always in control”: Pierpoint OH.
122 “When it comes to evasion”: Galbraith interview.
122 “Our presidents are selected”: Joe Kane to JPK, Apr. 6, 1944, JPKP.
122 “remember, reporters are not”: RKHL, p. 114.
122 “kind reference”: JPK to JFK, Oct. 1, 1945, JPKP.
122 to use influential contacts: ibid., July 23, 1956.
122 “of great political import”: JPK to Enrico Galeazzi, Apr. 15, 1958, JPKP.
122 the Ambassador made a $500,000: Whalen, pp. 429–31.
123 “You know we had to”: Laura Bergquist Knebel OH.
123 “It was studied and calculated”: Smathers OH.
123 “was fascinated that I had”: Otis Chandler interview.
123 “Protect me”: LG, p. 759.
123 Unbeknownst to: John F. Stacks, Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism, pp. 196–99.
123 “I always had the feeling”: Alsop I, p. 192.
123 JFK granted reporters: Laura Bergquist Knebel OH; Sidey I, pp. 98–99.
123 “both of us were naked”: Sidey interview.
123 “typically, when Jackie surprised”: Stewart Alsop to Martin Sommers, Jan. 16, 1962, Alsop Papers, LOC.
124 “unbelievable private candor”: Laura Bergquist Knebel OH.
124 “a total shit”: CWK, p. 84.
124 “bastard”: ibid., p. 104.
124 “probably illegal”: ibid., p. 218.
124 Sometimes Kennedy stipulated: Sidey OH.
124 “He put you on your mettle”: Henry Brandon OH.
124 Cy Sulzberger suggesting: LG, p. 760.
124 Teddy White arguing: White to JFK, Aug. 9, 1961, White Papers, Harvard University.
124 CBS correspondent David Schoenbrun: CWK, p. 158.
124 “playing the game”: Pierpoint OH.
124 JFK had met Bartlett: Charles Bartlett interview.
124 “Chicago industrial aristocracy”: Krock interview, JCBC.
124 The family had made: Charles Bartlett interview.
125 “kind of classy”: Louchheim Journal, Nov. 22, 1962, KSLP.
125 “cosy, conspicuous way”: ibid.
125 “kind of cheerful lightning”: Charles Bartlett tribute to JFK, November 1963, WMP.
125 “had the same view”: Charles Bartlett interview.
125 Like Walton, Bartlett had: ibid.
125 “intellectual beau”: Yusha Auchincloss interview.
125 with “foreigners”: JBK to Lee Bouvier, ND, 1950, Lee Radziwill book proposal.
125 “became so dull”: Salinger OH.
125 “nothing mattered to me”: Charles Bartlett interview.
125 “Ben had a different”: ibid.
125 “without embarrassment”: Ben Bradlee interview.
126 “got pleasure and reward”: ibid.
126 “could never make it”: Ben Bradlee to JFK, ND, Charles Bartlett Papers, JFKL.
126 “I am a little stuffy”: Charles Bartlett interview.
126 “a dweeb”: Ben Bradlee interview.
126 “cast no shadow”: ibid.
126 Bartlett had written: Charles Bartlett interview; Chattanooga Times, July 13, 15, 21–24, 26–29, 1955; Aug. 2, 1955.
126 “make it tough”: Charles Bartlett interview.
126 “Bartlettisms”: KE, p. 315.
126 “Spartan diet”: Charles Bartlett to JFK, Dec. 29, 1961, Bartlett Papers, JFKL.
126 “Are you trying to change”: Bartlett OH.
126 “I’d shoot things in”: Charles Bartlett interview.
127 Jack Kennedy relied on: Gore, “The Centres of Power in the Kennedy Administration,” Jan. 23, 1962, PRO.
127 “need to know something about”: LG, p. 762.
127 “We told him everything”: Walton OHCU.
127 “started boasting how”: ibid.
127 “Mr. Facing Both Ways”: Merry, p. 356.
127 “guy from Iowa”: Sidey interview.
127 “impeccable Arthur Krock”: Manchester II, p. 84.
127 It was Krock who had suggested: Blair, p. 138.
127 “the single major influence”: James Rousmanière OH-CU.
127 Krock had seen the commercial: Krock OH; HTF, p. 417.
127 “work over”: Krock OH; Goodwin I, p. 605.
127 “gave [JFK] my house man”: Krock interview, JCBC.
127 the only black Kennedy knew: Krock OH.
127 “natural conservatism”: ibid.
128 Krock had written favorable: HTF, pp. 228, 255.
128 Although Krock was Jewish: Beale, p. 68.
128 Krock had accepted his $5,000: HTF, p. 114.
128 “a kind of bribe”: Krock interview, JCBC.
128 “the racial question”: Krock OH.
128 “come out for Jack”: ibid.
128 “Probably he never liked”: Krock interview, JCBC.
128 “Mr. Krock”: Krock OH.
128 “Bust it off”: CWK, p. 141.
128 “his easy domination”: ATD, p. 214.
128 “How does such a benign-looking”: Charles Bartlett interview.
128 Krock continued to “jab”: KE, p. 317.
128 “It was very very hard”: Billings OH.
128 “rarely saw”: KE, p. 314.
128 the most influential: JFK to Henry Luce, Aug. 8, 1961, including Ted Sorensen’s memo on press bias, Aug. 4, 1961, JFKL.
128 “I read that damn magazine”: Sidey interview.
129 “swing opinion”: Prendergast and Colvin, p. 31.
129 “JPK in bedroom”: Sylvia Jukes Morris, Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce, p. 372.
129 “political power relationship”: Baldrige interview.
129 “Give me a half an hour’s”: JPK to Clare Luce, Dec. 10, 1947, JPKP.
129 “devastating remark”: RK to Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., June 15, 1942, JPKP.
129 “considerable national figure”: Elson, p. 469.
129 Putting his Republican principles: ibid., p. 465.
129 “He seduces me”: Martin II, p. 361.
129 “like a cricket”: ATD, p. 63.
130 “no doubt my feminine weakness”: Clare Luce to Baldrige, May 20, 1963, Clare Luce Collection, LOC.
130 “sacred medal”: Blair, p. 198.
130 “They liked each other”: AH, p. 359.
130 “mean and bitter”: Billings OH.
130 Each Sunday night JFK: Sidey interview.
130 “in cheerfully profane style”: Martin II, p. 380.
130 “who lived in Greenwich”: Prendergast and Colvin, p. 32.
130 “file the Bible”: CWK, p. 141.
130 “slanted, unfair”: KE, p. 316.
130 “never worried about Newsweek”: Fuerbringer interview.
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130 “Has anybody been”: ibid.
130 “paid attention”: ibid.
131 “was groping”: White II, pp. 496, 498, 499.
Chapter Twelve
132 “Here they were in that house”: Kloman interview.
132 “Jack missed things”: Crespi interview.
132 “historians are great gossips”: Marian Schlesinger interview.
132 “took the opinion”: Alsop OH.
132 “what people were thinking”: Hass interview.
133 “It was light, but not idle”: Battelle interview.
133 “liked to meet friends”: CWK, p. 96.
133 “Liz Taylor would scream”: Herter interview.
133 He dutifully inquired: Spalding OH.
133 “all-time favorite subjects”: CWK, p. 73.
133 “Who does Castro sleep with”: Laura Bergquist Knebel OH.
133 Jackie’s approach: Herter interview; Crespi interview.
133 “Jackie would say disparaging”: Hass interview.
133 “She liked to hear things”: Radziwill interview.
133 “He was seldom sure”: JKWH, p. 248.
133 Jackie would signal Evelyn: CWK, p. 161.
133 “the pizza palace”: ibid., p. 110.
134 For example, Bill Walton: Charles Bartlett interview; Ben Bradlee interview; Walton interview, JCBC.
134 “There was underground jealousy”: Laura Bergquist Knebel OH.
134 “stimulating people”: JKWH, p. 249.
134 the names often supplied: Arthur Schlesinger interview; Cassini interview.
134 “social treadmill”: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis OH, John Sherman Cooper Oral History Project, University of Kentucky.
134 “men can talk to”: ibid.
134 “intense concentration”: Graham, p. 290.
134 “hit-and-run”: Marian Schlesinger interview.
134 “social samurai”: Cassini II, p. 321.
134 “the conversation jumped”: CWK, p. 123.
134 “relaxed but scattered”: ibid., p. 129.
134 “He used ‘prick’”: ibid., p. 135.
134 Yet Kennedy scarcely swore: Charles Bartlett interview; James Reed interview.
134 “an eclectic blend”: Manchester II, p. 86.
135 Jackie discouraged “gen con”: Marian Schlesinger OH.
135 “extremely sensitive and high-strung”: Spalding OH.
135 “She conceived it right”: Harlech OH.
135 “to talk about parties”: Earl E.T. Smith Jr. interview.
135 “sybarites in ancient Egypt”: Smith I, p. 50.
135 “Old-fashioned Washington”: Elizabeth Burton interview.
135 “historian of le tout monde”: Cassini II, p. 321.
135 Another favorite was Arkady: RK to children, Aug. 18, 1955, JPKP.
135 “Arkady was very close”: Herter interview.
135 she wore a size 10A: Time, March 23, 1962. When Jackie shed her shoes to enter a shrine in India, Keyes Beech of the Chicago Daily News looked inside and reported, “I can state with absolute certainty that she wears 10A and not 10AA.”
136 “stable-companion”: Walton, p. 26.
136 “Adams managed to be”: ibid., p. 25.
136 “a size too small”: JBK to Walton, Dec. 31, 1960, Walton Papers, JFKL.
136 “charmingly ugly”: Nuala Pell interview.
136 “against a million smiles”: JBK collage, ND, Walton Papers, JFKL.
136 He played bridge: Katharine Graham interview.
136 “slightly crumbling mansion”: Walton, p. 46.
136 “He was at once”: Hector interview.
136 “gay as a goose”: Ben Bradlee interview.
136 Walton had gone through: Truitt interview; JKWH, p. 51; Walton interview, JCBC.
137 The furniture was draped: Kloman interview.
137 “enormous gold bucket”: Alsop II, p. 437; JKWH, p. 101.
137 a fifty-something widow: Rudy Abramson, Spanning the Century: The Life of W. Averell Harriman, 1891–1986, p. 677.
137 The third of FDR’s: Ted Morgan, FDR: A Biography, p. 457.
137 Young Roosevelt had been the son: Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (Goodwin II), p. 386.
137 As a girl, Jackie had: Justin Feldman interview.
137 “He didn’t do his homework”: Kloman interview.
137 Like his siblings, Franklin: Goodwin II, p. 178; Morgan, p. 454.
137 FDR Jr. intrigued Kennedy: Arthur Schlesinger interview.
138 “a little pathetic”: FDR to John Boettiger, Mar. 3, 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.
138 “cold and calculating person”: Eleanor Roosevelt to Adlai Stevenson, Aug. 11, 1960, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.
138 “did a lot to win her over”: Charles Bartlett interview.
138 “Jack honestly didn’t like”: Walton OH.
138 “huge fun”: Charles Bartlett interview.
138 Early in 1960: White notes, Feb. 28, 1960–Mar. 6, 1960, White Papers, Harvard University.
138 “In a certain sense he was”: Charles Peters OH.
138 Under intense pressure: RKHL, p. 95; Leamer II, p. 426, citing Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. interview, Schlesinger Papers, JFKL: “Bobby had been bringing pressure on me to mention it. He kept calling—five or six calls a day.”
138 It was the turning point: Poughkeepsie Journal, Sept. 16, 1988, quoting Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on the occasion of FDR Jr.’s death: “You know, President Kennedy could not have been President without Franklin.”
138 But McNamara rejected: McNamara interview; Tobie Roosevelt interview.
138 “Jack Kennedy owed Franklin”: Kloman interview.
139 “didn’t dare give one”: CWK, p. 147.
139 The first of these honorees: Time, Sept. 14, 1962; Diana DuBois, In Her Sister’s Shadow: An Intimate Biography of Lee Radziwill, p. 79.
139 She had been married: Time, Mar. 19, 1959, and Sept. 14, 1962.
139 “Why he is nothing but”: Lee Radziwill, Happy Times, p. 72.
139 “gold-brown like a glass”: ibid.
139 At five foot six: DuBois, p. 30.
139 “have twelve children”: Radziwill, p. 135.
139 Horses frightened Lee: Radziwill interview, Larry King Live, Mar. 27, 2001, CNN.
140 Both girls received: Radziwill, p. 135.
140 “be the best”: ibid., p. 34.
140 Their mother prodded: ibid., p. 24.
140 “where she cried”: Radziwill, Larry King Live, Mar. 27, 2001.
140 a crooked seam: Jacqueline Bouvier, “Feature-Question 1,” Vogue Prix de Paris application, May 21, 1951, Vogue Materials, JFKL.
140 “She was overbearingly proper”: Herter interview.
140 “was always grateful”: Bradford, p. 24.
140 the crisp gabardine suits: Lee Radziwill, “Opening Chapters,” Ladies’ Home Journal, January 1973.
140 “To be with him when”: Radziwill, p. 133.
140 Jackie and Lee were caught: Bradford, p. 13.
140 Lee was hit especially: DuBois, p. 2; Gloria Steinem, “And Starring . . . Lee Bouvier!” McCall’s, February 1968.
140 “to press the button”: Bradford, p. 13.
140 He was reduced: Crespi interview.
140 “If I didn’t come in”: Radziwill, p. 134.
141 “They were like little orphans”: Chavchavadze interview.
141 Their mother had a soft: Kay Meehan interview.
141 “could never tell us apart”: Radziwill interview, Larry King Live, Mar. 27, 2001.
141 “galloping tongue”: Pell interview.
141 “the odd habit of halting”: LG, p. 914.
141 “My voice cracked”: Jacqueline and Lee Bouvier, p. 30.
141 “We jitterbugged”: ibid., p. 52.
141 Lacking Jackie’s intellectual: DuBois, pp. 46–47.<
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141 “I often thought”: Symington interview.
142 He was difficult to miss: Time, Sept. 14, 1962.
142 Stas had helped: LG, p. 696; DuBois, p. 107.
142 Jack and Jackie enjoyed: Radziwill, p. 44; DuBois, pp. 110, 247.
142 “In a way, Jackie”: Agnelli interview.
142 “the one person with whom”: Gallagher, p. 46.
142 Letters flew back: Bradford, p. 172. Radziwill told Bradford that in her letters, Jackie was “imploring me to come over, what pleased Jack or didn’t please him, what would make him happy and a lot about our children and trying to keep them together and seeing each other every summer. Those letters showed great anxiety to keep us together and the children together as often as possible.”
142 “Lee wanted to be”: Baldrige interview.
142 “There was drama”: Charles interview.
142 Jackie was warmer: Crespi interview.
142 When Lee arrived at the White: Ketchum interview.
142 Jackie and Lee embraced: WP, Mar. 9, 1961.
143 Accompanied by two: ibid.
143 who had been keeping JFK: WP, Mar. 6, 1961.
143 Lee occupied the Queen’s: West, p. 234.
143 To the delight of: WP, Mar. 13 and 14, 1961; NYT, Mar. 26, 1961.
143 “JK 102”: NYT, Mar. 22, 1961.
143 Jackie brought ten suitcases: ibid.; WP, Mar. 24, 1961.
143 a duplex on the top: NYT, Mar. 26, 1961; WP, Jan. 10, 1961.
143 It was said that: AH, p. 402.
143 “very precious”: Baldrige e-mail to author, July 11, 2002.
143 “Jackie was in charge”: Chavchavadze interview.
144 “no New York Times, no Luce”: Stewart Alsop to Martin Sommers, Mar. 28, 1961, Alsop Papers, LOC.
144 “From that moment the city’s”: Sidey I, p. 92.
144 Guests mingled first: WS, Mar. 17, 1961; WP, Mar. 17, 1961.
144 After a dinner of saumon: Merry, p. xvi; WS, Mar. 17, 1961.
144 “dramatic white sheath”: WP, Mar. 17, 1961.
144 “moved from one group”: ATD, p. 215.
144 “champagne flowing”: Stewart Alsop to Martin Sommers, Mar. 28, 1961, Alsop Papers, LOC.
144 “full Johnson treatment”: ibid.
144 “the Beautiful People”: Bradlee II, p. 232; Ben Bradlee interview.
145 “Jack was always so complimentary”: Tony Bradlee interview.
145 “the sense of possibility”: ATD, p. 215.
145 “Well, girls, what did”: Truitt interview.
Chapter Thirteen
146 Marilyn Monroe, with whom: Niklas, p. 210.
146 “Billy said, ‘Hugh, this’”: Sidey interview.