146 “Jack Kennedy is down”: Billy Brammer to Hazel Foshee, July 19, 1961, courtesy of Harry McPherson.
147 “You heard there was a special”: Gamarekian interview.
147 upper-class New Yorker: Raskin interview.
147 in a strange coincidence: The Shaw-Parkman Family Tree of Col. Robert Gould Shaw and BG Henry Sturgis Russell (website). Robert Gould Shaw had two sisters. Susanna Shaw and her husband, Robert Minturn, were the great-grandparents of Mary and Tony Pinchot. The other sister was Ellen Shaw, who married Francis Canning Barlow. Their great-granddaughter is Diana de Vegh.
147 “There was an empty”: Davis, CBS, Nov. 17, 1993.
147 Mac Bundy, then dean: Raskin interview.
147 “Bundy said to Kennedy”: ibid.
147 “We would have dinner”: Davis, CBS, Nov. 17, 1993.
147 “a way to get even”: Raskin interview.
147 “She was put to work for me”: Leamer II, p. 478.
148 Her work involved: Raskin interview.
148 afterwards JFK and de Vegh: Davis, CBS, Nov. 17, 1993.
148 “the kind of peace”: Sidey I, p. 279.
148 “I never did experience John”: Davis, CBS, Nov. 17, 1993.
148 “of his time” . . . “He was limited”: ibid.
148 “There were a couple of the girls”: Gamarekian OH.
149 The most conspicuous: Gamarekian interview; Lincoln I, pp. 229–30.
149 “The President said to Fiddle”: Phyllis Mills Wyeth interview.
149 “these girls would go on”: Gamarekian interview.
149 “doing his hair”: ibid.; Sorensen, p. 24, also described JFK’s “regular scalp massages” by a “succession of secretaries,” a “habit acquired from his father.”
149 “I said I didn’t think”: AH, p. 300.
149 “long-legged, tawny”: Gamarekian interview.
149 “joking, warm, easygoing”: Wendy Taylor Foulke interview.
149 “They would go off”: Gamarekian interview.
149 “swimming and cavorting”: ibid.
150 “The President came in”: Foulke interview.
150 “that gal needs”: Hamilton, p. 215.
150 With Billings in tow: ibid., p. 121; Blair, p. 34.
150 “was a sensuous man”: Krock interview, JCBC.
150 “Look around and see how”: Walton interview, JCBC.
150 “Jack wanted more”: Cassini interview.
150 “Most women have no influence”: Louchheim Journal, July 12, 1959, KSLP.
150 longtime labor organizer: WP, Jan. 13, 1961; NYT, Oct. 1, 1961.
151 “I was the only woman”: Liz Carpenter interview.
151 “compounded of grit”: AH, p. 401.
151 “the girl for Jack”: Kathleen Kennedy to family, Sept. 23, 1943, JPKP.
151 “a leading Catholic”: ibid., Mar. 24, 1945.
151 “As usual, he was absolutely”: Ward OH.
151 “one of the rare and unexpected”: AJ, p. 28.
151 “vivandière”: Ward OH.
151 “On the whole he had little”: ibid.
151 “They treat one in quite”: Kathleen Kennedy to JFK, July 29, 1943, JPKP.
151 “vibrated sympathetically”: Arthur Schlesinger interview.
151 “to make the most of”: David Cecil, Melbourne, pp. 20, 23.
152 “The chase is more fun”: Crespi interview.
152 According to Judith Campbell: Leamer II, p. 523.
152 “lousy lover”: AH, p. 56.
152 “He was such a warm, lovable”: Blair, p. 599.
152 “Jack was caring”: Chavchavadze interview (and following quotes).
153 Still, the extent: Jewel Reed interview.
153 “disease”: Charles Bartlett interview; Leamer II, p. 407.
153 “I haven’t seen those beautiful”: JPK to EMK, Aug. 15, 1955, JPKP.
153 “I think Jack had better”: Krock interview, JCBC.
153 “there’s a lot of life”: Kathleen Kennedy to family, Jan. 12, 1944, JPKP.
153 “He was totally open”: Walton interview, JCBC.
154 “underlying sexual tension”: Barbara Gamarekian, “My Turn,” Newsweek, June 16, 1997.
154 “license in the air”: Marian Schlesinger OH.
154 the love affair of: Nancy Hogan Dutton interview.
154 “There are more votes”: ibid.
154 “like a God”: PK, p. 291.
154 The romance between: Nancy Dutton interview.
154 “She kept getting heavier”: Gamarekian interview.
154 Shortly afterwards, Kennedy transferred: Nancy Dutton interview.
155 “the rich are different”: ibid.
155 “nomadic lives”: Sidey I, p. 94.
155 “While in the White House”: Salinger interview, Booknotes, Nov. 12, 1995, C-SPAN.
155 “Kennedy is doing for sex”: Nancy Mitford, Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford, p. 393 (Nancy Mitford to Jessica Truehaft, Dec. 18, 1961); Duke of Devonshire interview.
155 “if the First Lord doesn’t”: Mitford, p. 393 (Nancy Mitford to Duchess of Devonshire, July 3, 1961).
155 to symbolize “integration”: “In Memoriam: Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith, 1921–1986,” eulogy by Mary M. Chewning.
155 “Magnolia, you’re the only”: Charles interview.
155 “The President made a request”: Thomas Guinzburg OH-CU.
155 “decent person”: Dillon interview.
155 “Didn’t you know all about”: Kaplan, p. 575.
156 “the stories in circulation”: Schlesinger to Stevenson, Jan. 4, 1960, Stevenson Papers, Princeton University.
156 “just a bull”: Ives OH-CU.
156 “I’m going to keep”: Charles Bartlett interview.
156 “a President is watched”: Walton, p. 120.
156 “Like everyone else”: Bradlee II, p, 268.
156 “Lem didn’t want to know”: Peter Kaplan interview.
157 “He gave a lightning look”: Kaplan, p. 488.
157 Kennedy had first met: Goodwin I, p. 582.
157 “wasn’t that attractive”: Coleman interview.
157 The son of a stockbroker: Blair, pp. 98–99, 143; Charles Bartlett interview; Betty Spalding interview, JCBC.
157 “Brune” for Brunhilde: Coleman interview.
157 “the most engaging person”: Spalding OH.
157 By the time Kennedy entered: Betty Spalding interview, JCBC.
157 “to keep a totally abnormal”: Spalding OH.
157 he would escape: Betty Spalding interview, JCBC; Charles Bartlett interview.
157 “Betty was in Greenwich”: Coleman interview.
157 “would talk to me”: Betty Spalding interview, JCBC.
158 “always on the outside”: Dick Spalding interview.
158 “She was not given”: Coleman interview.
158 “got White House fever”: Charles Bartlett interview.
158 “hunting expeditions”: Collier and Horowitz, p. 147.
158 “Chuck would serve as a beard”: Betty Spalding interview, JCBC.
158 “He knew how to take precautions”: Charles Spalding OH.
158 When he expected: Bryant, p. 18.
158 “has even been known”: WP, May 11, 1963.
158 Secret Service agents rarely: Alvin Shuster, “The Forty Watchdogs of the President,” NYT Magazine, Oct. 21, 1962; Bryant, p. 18.
158 “naked blonde office girl”: Bryant, p. 18.
159 “a slightly mussed bed”: Time, Dec. 19, 1960.
159 Newsweek further revealed: Newsweek, Dec. 19, 1960.
159 Kennedy and his guests: WP, Jan. 10, 1961.
159 “It was kind of a weird”: AH, p. 402.
159 “The fact is a lot of reporters”: Seymour Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (Hersh II), pp. 23–24.
159 “the woman disappeared”: AH, p. 475.
159 “The affairs that I knew about”: Pierpoint OH.
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159 “there sitting on the sofa”: Fuerbringer interview.
159 “We knew about his affairs”: Ruth Montgomery OH-CU.
160 “very swinging sexual animal”: Laura Bergquist to James Ellison, ND, “Kennedy—Very Casually,” Laura Bergquist Papers, Boston University.
160 “entertained other women”: Dickerson, p. 67.
160 “reciprocal forbearance”: Arthur Schlesinger interview.
160 “marvelous self-control”: Janet Auchincloss OH.
160 “I knew exactly what [Jack] was”: Cecil Beaton, Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries (Beaton III), pp. 246–47.
161 “in her bare feet”: Gamarekian interview.
161 “walked into Mrs. Lincoln’s”: Gamarekian OH. The reporter was probably Mathias Polakovitz, a friend of Jackie and Lee who knew everyone in the international set.
161 “What is going on here?”: Gamarekian interview.
161 “And of course my reaction too”: Gamarekian OH.
161 Vivian Stokes Crespi was two: Crespi interview.
161 “creatures of their time”: ibid. (and following quotes and biographical facts).
162 “She told me she knew”: Tony Bradlee interview.
162 “She was very dignified”: Bradford, p. 205.
162 “The men she liked were all”: Radziwill interview.
162 Robert McNamara periodically: McNamara interview.
162 McNamara sensed that the poem: ibid.
162 “You say he was cruel?”: Gabriela Mistral, “Prayer,” translated by Langston Hughes, copy courtesy of Robert McNamara.
163 “he was very quick”: Radziwill interview.
163 “Men can’t understand”: CWK, p. 230.
163 “She was flirtatious”: McNamara interview.
163 “insidious slim little volume”: JBK to Gilpatric, June 13, 1963, quoted in WP, Feb. 10, 1970.
163 Gilpatric fielded her questions: AH, p. 319.
163 “force and kindness”: JBK to Gilpatric, June 13, 1963.
163 “happy for one whole”: ibid.
163 “my little friend Jackie”: Ives OH-CU.
163 For Valentine’s Day: ibid.
163 “There was real rapport”: Sharon OH-CU.
163 “had troubles that she liked”: Ives OH-CU.
163 “Look, I may not be”: Graham, p. 291.
164 “I always push”: JBK to Gilpatric, June 13, 1963.
165 Because of her position: Frank Finnerty interview; Frank Finnerty unpublished memoir. The following quotations and facts of Dr. Finnerty’s friendship with Jackie Kennedy were from these accounts, backed up by an earlier interview of Finnerty conducted by his cousin by marriage, veteran journalist Clare Crawford Mason.
166 “the sex symbol”: Kaplan, p. 494; Gore Vidal, Palimpsest: A Memoir, p. 380.
166 “Kennedy never thought she”: Finnerty interview.
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167 “The Ambassador was never”: AH, p. 137.
167 Joe had entertained Democratic: HTF, p. 688, citing RK Diary on June 23, 1960; White I, p. 153; RKHL, p. 104.
167 “If Jack had known”: AH, p. 171.
167 “Joe Kennedy would use indirection”: Carmine de Sapio interview.
168 “tyrannical old man”: NYT, Jan. 8, 1961; Time, July 11, 1960.
168 “sometimes four or five”: JPK interview, WMP.
168 “It was another one”: Charles Bartlett interview.
168 The baby of the Kennedy family: Adam Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy, p. 32.
168 He graduated from: Phyllis Macdonald interview, JCBC.
168 “they were tailhounds”: Ben Bradlee interview.
168 “chased everything”: Richard Krolik interview.
169 “the latest backroom word”: Clymer, p. 32.
169 Almost immediately: Garrett Byrne OH.
169 at age twelve: JPK to Kathleen Kennedy, Apr. 6, 1944, JPKP.
169 “used to say he wished”: Tubridy OH.
169 “Teddy on the hoof”: Duke of Devonshire interview.
169 “the scapegrace younger brother”: Arthur Schlesinger interview.
169 After he was kicked: Collier and Horowitz, p. 216.
169 “would mention him”: Thomas Winship OH.
169 “Ted had no real choice”: Joan Kennedy interview.
169 During the presidential: Winship OH.
169 As president, Jack continued: Clymer, p. 32.
169 JFK’s choice created: KE, p. 355; JPK interview, WMP. In the interview, conducted on Oct. 20, 1961, Joe Kennedy told William Manchester, “Teddy is going to win. McCormack’s son [sic] has no more chance than you have.”
170 “Without Johnson, Kennedy would”: ATD, p. 703.
170 a mutual mistrust that had begun: McPherson interview; Kenneth O’Donnell OH; RKHL, p. 96.
170 “sealed their enmity”: George Christian interview.
170 With JFK’s narrow election: Sorensen interview.
170 The southerners controlled: PR-JFK, vol. 1, p. liii.
170 Although Johnson had been: ATD, p. 42; Dillon OH.
170 “likable man”: Alsop I, p. 297.
170 When Mansfield was elected: Caro, pp. 1035–1036.
170 “the place I know best”: ibid., p. 1036.
170 Mansfield supported: McPherson interview; Caro, p. 1038.
171 When Mansfield said: Time, Feb. 23, 1962.
171 But the unexpectedly large: Caro, p. 1039.
171 “The steam really went”: CWK, p. 226.
171 “Johnson beat an angry”: Sorensen interview.
171 “tactful and courteous”: Carpenter interview.
171 But Johnson mostly limited: Caro, p. 1039; McPherson, p. 184.
171 a graduate of Northeastern University: Sidney Hyman, “Inside the Kennedy Kitchen Cabinet,” NYT Magazine, Mar. 5, 1961; Time, Sept. 1, 1961; Anderson, p. 251.
171 “ovoid torso”: DOAP, p. 306.
171 He first worked: O’Brien, p. 6; Anderson, p. 215.
171 Both of O’Brien’s parents: O’Brien, p. 16.
171 During the 1952 campaign: Anderson, p. 247.
171 “audacity”: O’Brien, p. 17.
172 “Once he came to my cafe”: ibid., p. 21.
172 Since Kennedy’s first: ibid., p. 112.
172 On weekends: Sidey interview; Sander Vanocur interview.
172 “winning mixture of blarney”: Anderson, p. 251.
172 New Deal liberal: ATD, p. 93.
172 “always used less power”: John Kenneth Galbraith interview with Harry Kreisler, UC Berkeley, Mar. 27, 1986.
172 “he would have found”: McPherson interview.
172 “frustrated force of nature”: Ziegler, p. 307.
172 “powerless obscurity”: Alsop I, p. 46.
172 “a proud and imperious”: ATD, p. 705.
172 “a doomed relationship”: ibid., p. 703.
172 issuing edicts: Baldrige interview; Rostow OH.
173 At the dance in March: Crespi interview.
173 “the young beauties exuding”: Louchheim Journal, Dec. 22, 1963, KSLP.
173 “They were laughing”: McPherson interview.
173 “You know what he does”: ibid.
173 McPherson suspected that: ibid.
173 “J. Edgar Hoover has”: PK, p. 288, citing confidential dispatch in Time archives.
173 “Johnson said he was waiting”: Frank Stanton interview.
173 “poking fun at him”: Gilpatric OH.
174 “really likes [LBJ’s] roguish”: CWK, p. 92.
174 “a strange figure”: Alsop OH.
174 “not on the take”: CWK, p. 216.
174 “whom he loved to tease”: Alsop OH.
174 During his time: ATD, p. 705.
174 “errands”: Pierpoint OH.
174 “Johnson would have to be”: Hand interview.
174 “I can’t stand Johnson’s”: Smathers OH.
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174 O’Donnell kept in daily touch: AH, p. 265.
174 “Oh that”: Evans interview; O’Donnell, pp. 270–71.
174 “gilded impotence”: RKHL, p. 97.
174 “Bobby saw him as”: vanden Heuvel interview.
175 “that little shitass”: RKHL, p. 99; Collier and Horowitz, p. 243, quoting Bobby Baker.
175 “was a kind of chemical thing”: Alsop OH.
175 “squats to piss”: William Manchester interview.
175 Responding to her pleas: WP, June 29, 1962; JKWH, p. 260.
175 Since her husband disliked: Carpenter interview.
175 “the greatest act”: JBK to LBJ, Nov. 26, 1963, LBJL.
175 “was always nicer to me”: Michael Beschloss, ed., Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson’s Secret White House Tapes, 1964–1965 (Beschloss II), p. 19, quoting from a telephone conversation with Pierre Salinger on Dec. 23, 1963.
175 Jackie found little: Dickerson, p. 35; Lady Bird Johnson OH; Carpenter interview.
175 “willingness to assume”: JBK to LBJ, Nov. 26, 1963, LBJL.
175 “It was a disappointment”: David Gore, “Annual Review for 1961,” Jan. 1, 1962, PRO.
175 Dillon convinced JFK: Time, Aug. 18, 1961.
176 Behind the scenes: Dillon interview; Richard Bolling OH-CU.
176 “one of the greatest obstacles”: Douglas Dillon, “Remembering JFK,” speech at the Century Association, Oct. 20, 1996.
176 Both men were also willing: Dillon interview.
176 “I think Kennedy is trapped”: Rowe to White, Mar. 28, 1961, White Papers, Harvard University.
176 “The Soviets were on the move”: Rostow OH.
177 “ambassadors of peace”: Robert A. Liston, Sargent Shriver: A Candid Portrait, p. 112.
177 “at the same level as the citizens”: PK, p. 69.
177 “Jack never uttered”: Sargent Shriver interview.
177 It was Shriver who: Liston, p. 130.
177 “it would be easier”: ibid., p. 111.
177 Eunice was the only: JPK to JFK, Oct. 15, 1943, describing Eunice’s transfer to Radcliffe to complete course work for her Stanford degree, JPKP; Leamer I, pp. 201, 323.
178 “wild originality of countenance”: Ziegler, p. 308.
178 she was even diagnosed: Blair, p. 661.
178 “Eunice and Jack were”: Sargent Shriver interview.
178 “If that girl had been born”: Collier and Horowitz, p. 159.
178 Eunice had been an avid: Smathers interview, JCBC.
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