JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President (49 page)

“I wish I could have known you”
:
Anthony (
Kennedy White House
), p. 253.

James Joyce had taught Kraus English
:
Schwartz, p. 7.

“I know, Doctor, you’ve come a long way”
:
Ibid., p. 187.

Kraus returned to his office
:
Ibid., p. 188.

Kraus considered Kennedy cured
:
Ibid., p. 197.

“I wish I had more good times”
:
Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 21.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14

When
Kennedy arrived
:
Hennessey-Donovan, JFKLOH.

Hennessey was a cheerful
:
Ibid.; Edward Kennedy (
True Compass
), p. 45; Hennessey-Donovan,
“Bringing Up the Kennedys,”
Good Housekeeping,
August 1961.

he was paying her tuition
:
Ibid.; Hennessey-Donovan, JFKLOH.

“There are ninety-six thousand”
:
Hennessey-Donovan, JFKLOH.

Jackie presented the hospital staff
:
Boston Globe,
August 15, 1963.

“You’ve been so wonderful to me”
:
Pottker, p. 194.

The
improvements had been as modest
:
Travel, JFKLOH.

he read about the renovations in the
Washington Post
:
WP
, July 25, 1963.

He
telephoned
:
Presidential Recordings, “Furniture at Otis Air Force Base,” cassette G, July 25, 1963, JFKL.

he called
:
Ibid.

“To think that big blockhead”
:
Fay, JFKLOH.

“the nice people of Boston”
:
Pottker, p. 138.

“Money is never to be squandered”
:
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, p. 118.

He did not give his children bicycles
:
Edward Kennedy (
True Compass
), p. 70; I have also relied on Beran’s discussion of Joe Kennedy’s determination to emulate the old-money values of the Boston Brahmins.

“It’s all right to struggle”
:
Ibid., p. 94.

the duke “does have great integrity”
:
John F. Kennedy (
Prelude
),
p. 14.

His legal residence in Boston
:
Morrissey, JFKLOH; Lincoln (
My Twelve
), p. 75.

offering fashion tips to friends
:
Fay, p. 48, 177.

“I hope to make this house”
:
Halle, JFKLOH.

“You’ve got great taste”
:
Ibid.

He later gave his friend Joe Alsop
:
Joseph Alsop, JFKLOH.

He bought monogrammed handkerchiefs
:
Fay, JFKLOH.

“like a rich man’s plane”
:
Bergquist and Tretick p. 123; Tretick, JFKLOH.

“Are you out of your mind?”
:
Fay, JFKLOH; Fay, pp. 246–47.

In the Navy, he had preferred
:
Renehan, p. 243.

“receptive to everybody”
:
Hamilton, pp. 512–13; Renehan, p. 231.

“He is a terribly cold man”
:
Schlesinger (
Thousand
), p. 18.

“and then getting into his government limousine”
:
Fay, JFKLOH.

“Of course, they’d be so great”
:
Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 66.

U. E. Baughman, who headed the Secret Service
:
Baughman, p. 256.

Deirdre Henderson, who served
:
Henderson, author interview.

“I was taken into the kitchen”
:
John F. Kennedy, “A Dictated Letter (Circa 1959) to Jacqueline Kennedy on Weekend in Rhode Island,” audio-visual collection, JFKL.

“These are the kind of people”
:
Manchester (
Remembering
),
p. 18.

“a plain, inexpensive casket”
:
Lawrence O’Brien, p. 161.

“Kiss her again”
:
Laura Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.

“like a couple of kids”
:
Boston Globe,
August 15, 1963.

An old friend who saw the resulting photograph
:
Leaming,
p. 301; photograph of them holding hands,
WP,
August 15, 1963, and
NYT,
August 15, 1963.

“a small gesture”
:
Hill, p. 248.

“extremely close and affectionate”
:
Anthony (
As We
), p. 193.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 15

Eisenhower began honoring
:
NYT,
August 16, 1963.

he had sent Senator Fulbright
:
Hulsey, p. 179.

Lodge told Clifton
:
Lodge, JFKLOH.

he received a condescending letter
:
William J. Miller, p. 336.

“American security must always be considered”
:
Ibid., p. 337.

Bobby warned him that in about six months
:
Guthman and Shulman, p. 301.

Sorensen . . . joked that he hoped he was being sent to North Vietnam
:
Sorensen (
Counselor
), p. 357; Sorensen, JFKLOH.

“instinct for magnanimity”
:
Schlesinger (
Thousand Days
), p. 989.

“involving a leading Republican”
:
Ibid.

“The idea of getting Lodge mixed up”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 16.

It had started when Lodge’s grandfather
:
Doris Kearns Goodwin, pp. 100–103.

“I didn’t want them to go through”
:
McCarthy, p. 22.

“I’m afraid that they feel”
:
Fay, p. 165.

The Irish ambassador . . . Thomas Kiernan
:
Kiernan, JFKLOH.

“Do you know it is impossible”
:
Fay, p. 124.

He told the columnist Betty Beale
:
Beale, p. 67.

“the world should be made”
:
Talbot, JFKLOH.

“It won’t go over with the WASPs”
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
), p. 68.

“nursed an Irish distaste”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 16.

“That’s the last Nixon will see”
:
Ibid.

“I think a fair regard”
:
Guthman and Shulman, p. 401.

“a most loyal and devoted friend”
:
Lodge, p. 22.

“the only man I have ever met”
:
Ibid., p. 21.

“I never want to see”
:
Hilty, p. 30; Maier, p. 137.

“He is a total politician”
:
Halberstam (
Quagmire
), p. 154.

“In becoming a Republican”
:
“Modernize the GOP,”
Atlantic Monthly,
March 1950.

He had introduced a bill
:
Lodge, pp. 68–69.

“rich man’s club”
:
“Modernize the GOP,”
Atlantic Monthly,
March 1950.

“loft a pass, swap a joke”
:
NYT,
November 22, 1988.

“That in twenty years”
:
Reeves, p. 254.

Topping told him
:
Topping, pp. 151–57.

Bobby wrote in his diary
:
RFK Pre-administration Personal Folders, Box 24, JFKL. Bobby also described the trip in his oral history for the JFK Library (Guthman and Shulman, pp. 436–39).

“the desperate attempt”
:
Meet the Press,
December 2, 1951.

“a white man’s war”
:
Martin (
Hero
), p. 438.

“If we permit Laos to fall”
:
McNamara memorandum, JFKPOF, Box 29a, JFKL.

“There he sat, telling me”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 244.

The chiefs warned that if the Chinese
:
Hilsman, p. 147.

“Since he couldn’t think”
:
Schlesinger (
Kennedy
), p. 338.

“Do you understand?”
:
Porter, p. 146.

“his knowledge of the French problem”
:
Taylor, JFKLOH.

“When I sat there and looked”
:
Fay, JFKLOH.

“God, I hope you’ve been enjoying”
:
Ibid.

Kennedy told John Kenneth Galbraith
:
Galbraith (
A Life
), p. 383.

He told Rusk
:
Rusk, pp. 240–41.

“Dave, how would you like this to be said”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 14.

MacArthur told him
:
JFKPOF, Box 30, JFKL; Guthman and Shulman, p. 354.

“a hell of an impression”
:
Martin (
Seeds
), p. 444.

“Well, now, you gentlemen”
:
Schlesinger (
Robert Kennedy
),
p. 704; Taylor, RFK Oral History Collection, JFKL.

After returning from a fact-finding mission
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume I, Vietnam, 1961, Document 228.

“instinctively against the introduction”
:
Blight, Lang, and Welch, p. 56.

“when and if the U.S. military recommend it”
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume I, Vietnam, 1961, Document 253.

“I don’t recall anyone who was strongly”
:
Schlesinger (
Robert Kennedy
),
p. 704; Taylor, RFK Oral History Collection, JFKL.

“I want you to hear this”
:
Fay, JFKLOH; Paul Fay Forum, June 15, 2003, JFKL.

“We can see the light”
:
Oberdorfer, p. 190.

“with a feeling of depression”
:
Ibid., p. 192.

“Seven years and billions”
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume II, Vietnam, 1962, Document 330.

“This is not what my advisors”
:
Oberdorfer, p. 194.

“I got angry at Mike”
:
Ibid.

In a special “eyes only” annex
:
Hilsman, pp. 465–66.

an assessment from Edmund Gullion
:
Hilsman, JFKLOH.

“Keep it down”
:
Ibid.

“We don’t have a prayer”
:
Thompson (
Kennedy
), p. 16.

“to seize upon any favorable”
:
Report of a memorandum written by McGeorge Bundy’s aide Michael Forrestal,
NYT,
December 5, 1998.

“sucked into Vietnam little by little”
:
Brandon (
Anatomy
), p. 30.

In the spring of 1963, he told Mansfield
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 16.

“In 1965, I’ll become”
:
Ibid.

Mansfield confirmed
O’Donnell’s
:
Blight, Lang, and Welch, p. 136.

Kennedy could point to the Pentagon’s optimistic reports
:
Porter, p. 166. Porter makes a convincing case that Kennedy seized upon the overly optimistic reports from the Pentagon to justify reducing the U.S. commitment to South Vietnam.