JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President (52 page)

“Those bastards, they’re always there”
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
), p. 128.

“the breath-taking talents”
:
John F. Kennedy (
Profiles
), p. 221.

“his precise and persistent concern with the figure”
:
Schlesinger (
Journals
), p. 107.

her famous post-Dallas “Camelot interview”
:
Theodore White Papers, JFKL.

his goal was “greatness”
:
Collier and Horowitz, p. 263.

“go for the top”
:
Sidey introduction to Kennedy’s diaries (
Prelude
), p. xvi.

“the romantic conviction that he was astride”
:
Ibid., p. xxii.

sensed an “unknown quality”
:
Bohlen, JFKLOH.

During a White House dinner
:
Berlin, JFKLOH.

When he discovered that Bradlee
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
), p. 153.

“I thought you might find this”
:
Bundy Papers, Box 34, JFKL.

“Look at that damn interview”
:
Manuscript for Paul Fay’s book,
The Pleasure of His Company,
Fay Papers, JFKL. Fay cut this conversation from his final manuscript, probably to avoid distressing Schlesinger.

kept the current issue of
History Today
:
Gallagher, p. 115.

When he heard that the Princeton
:
Hersh, p. 255; Rostow, JFKLOH; Collier and Horowitz, p. 289.

“This is a man determined”
:
Hersh, p. 255. (Account is based on Hersh’s 1996 interview with Donald.)

He asked Sorensen to study the Gettysburg Address
:
Sorensen (
Kennedy
), p. 240.

“There has never been a more formidable”
:
Sidey (
John F. Kennedy
), p. 218.

“Courage is rightly esteemed”
:
Reeves. p. 668n.

“This is a book about”
:
John F. Kennedy (
Profiles
), p. 1.

Kay Halle never forgot
:
Halle, JFKLOH.

“Just listen to this”
:
Dalton, JFKLOH.

While he was in Florida
:
Fay, p. 149.

“who is willing and able to summon his national constituency”
:
JFK speech to National Press Club, January 14, 1960.

“dictators ride to and fro”
:
From Churchill’s speech to the House of Commons following the 1938 Munich pact.

engage in some historical stage-managing
:
Clarke, pp. 99–101.

When Bradlee and Cannon asked
:
tape at JFKL.

“That’s the trouble, Arthur”
:
Rowe, JFKLOH.

the Sunday
New York Times Magazine
:
“Our Presidents: A Rating by 75 Historians,”
NYT,
July 29, 1962.

“At first I thought it was too bad”
:
Schlesinger (
Journals
), p. 162.

“For years Eisenhower has gone along”
:
Ibid., p. 178.

“These were the great years”
:
The Speeches of John F. Kennedy: Presidential Campaign of 1960—Final Report of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, p. 193.

Before ordering a ban
:
Brinkley, p. 151.

“Of all the world’s leaders”
:
“The Short Classy Voyage of JFK,”
Esquire,
December 1963; “Havanas in Camelot,”
Vanity Fair,
July 1996.

“bright and persistent interrogation”
:
Ibid.

“My God! They’d have my hide”
:
Ibid.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

“to plant a statement”
:
Description of the Cronkite-Salinger conversations preceding the interview, Cronkite, pp. 246–47.

Cronkite was still smarting
:
Cronkite, pp. 185–88; Cronkite, JFKLOH.

He began by asking
:
JFKPOF (speech files), Box 46, JFKL.

“He both threatened and reassured Diem”
:
NYT,
September 4, 1963.

“effectively pulled the rug out from under Diem”
:
Cronkite, p. 247.

His last appointment was a conference
:
Fay, pp. 1–5; Fay, JFKLOH.

Like most White House aides
:
Smathers, JFKLOH.

“a very insecure, sensitive man”
:
Dallek (
Flawed Giant
), p. 10.

“That man can’t run this committee”
:
Guthman and Shulman, p. 153.

“We’re all going to forget”
:
Duke, JFKLOH.

He had invited Johnson to opening day
:
Rowe, LBJLOH.

“worse than drafting a state document”
:
Thomas (
Dateline
),
p. 22.

“That will never be a sport”
:
Beschloss (
Crisis
), p. 666.

“The three most overrated things”
:
Woods, p. 376.

“It’s not very noble to watch”
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
),
p. 194.

“I think I’m the antithesis of”
:
Cannon and Bradlee interview, JFKL.

“Nobody cares whether I come”
:
Fay, p. 3.

“I cannot stand Johnson’s damn long face”
:
Woods, p. 382.

“an insufferable bastard”
:
Reedy, p. 130.

He spoke of withdrawing from the ticket
:
Lincoln (
Kennedy and Johnson
), p. 196; Woods (
LBJ
), p. 414.

He claimed that the Kennedy inner circle had convened a secret meeting
:
Henggeler, p. 64.

an “almost spectral” presence
:
Schlesinger (
Robert Kennedy
), p. 622.

His aide Harry C.
McPherson, Jr., was appalled
:
McPherson (Interview I), LBJLOH.

“obvious depression”
:
Reedy, p. 127.

“I think it would be a good idea”
:
Fay, pp. 3–6; Fay, JFKLOH.

Although Kennedy had gutted his speech
:
Bartlett, LBJLOH.

The Scandinavian trip
:
Reedy, pp. 25–26.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3–FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6

The official diary of Kennedy’s engagements
: JFKL Web site.

he filled two pages with doodles
:
JFKPP, Box 12, JFKL.

Many of his doodles
:
Greenburg, pp. 136–57.

“I don’t understand all this”
:
Ibid., p. 144.

“something out of Ian Fleming”
:
NYT,
September 4, 1963.

Roger
Hilsman attended a meeting
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963, Document 63.

Kennedy missed most of Friday’s
:
Ibid., Document 66.

“a symptom of the state the U.S. government was in”
:
Mecklin, p. 206.

Lincoln affixed a memorandum
:
JFKPP, Box 12, JFKL.

a recent memorandum from the pollster Louis Harris
:
JFKPOF, Box 30, JFKL.

“dismiss him as a second rate figure”
:
JFKPP, Box 12, JFKL.

Lincoln noted that he was experiencing “discomfort”
:
Lincoln Papers, Box 6, JFKL.

“Dr. McDonald came”
:
Ibid.

Kennedy fussed over the trappings of his presidency
:
Stoughton, pp. 59–60; Day, p. 141.

pored over the guest lists
:
Baldrige, JFKLOH.

no one dared leave a heel print
:
Powers, JFKLOH.

He oversaw the placement
:
Baldrige, JFKLOH.

Much of what King Zaher
:
Stoughton, pp. 59–60;
NYT,
September 29, 1963; see also “Entertaining in the White House” on JFKL Web site—excerpt from
Entertaining in the White House
by Marie Smith, Acropolis Books, Washington, D.C., 1967.

“as pleased as a small child”
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
), p. 82.

Kennedy had recently noticed
:
Stoughton, p. 60.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7–SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8

“I think it would be good for Jackie”
:
Turkerman and Turnure, JFKLOH.

he made a humorous show
:
Sally Bedell Smith, p. 398.

“she did it”
:
Ibid.

“How do you think Lyndon would be”
:
Bartlett, JFKLOH; Bartlett, LBJLOH.

Bartlett knew that
:
Bartlett, JFKLOH.

“He could have shot you, Charlie”
:
Manchester (
Death
),
p. 35.

“Brother, they could have gotten me”
:
Martin (
Hero
), p. 474.

“What do you think of the rule”
:
Travell, pp. 361–63.

“My wife will have a pension”
:
Ibid.

“I guess that is one of the least desirable”
:
Fay, pp. 113–14.

“What would you have done”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 19.

During a game of charades in Palm Beach
:
Merriman Smith, p. 229.

“Did you ever stop and think”
:
Martin (
Seeds
),
p. 449.

“Boy! Aren’t we targets?”
:
Stein, p. 291.

“Crowds don’t threaten me”
:
Louchheim, p. 149.

“I will not live in fear”
:
Travell, pp. 364–65.

“If this plane goes down”
:
Sorensen (
Counselor
),
p. 248.

“Well, probably neither you nor I”
:
Lawrence, JFKLOH.

“I firmly expect this commitment to be kept”
:
Richard Lewis, p. 504.

“Well, if anyone’s going to shoot me”
:
Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 251.

“Get it away from here!”
:
Spalding, JFKLOH.

His sensitivity to the narrow margins
:
Rostow, JFKLOH.

On Saturday evening
:
Dallas, pp. 228–29.

“more than any other man except my husband”
:
Pottker, p. 155; Andersen, p. 116.

“loyal to the extreme”
:
Dallas, p. 221.

“He’s pretty good, Daddy”
:
Ibid., p. 226.

“I think it is the Second Most Important Man”
:
Collier and Horowitz, p. 289.

“We don’t want any losers”
:
Rose Kennedy, p. 143.

“It was all due to my father”
:
Schlesinger (
Journals
), p. 150.

“I’m not going to listen”
:
Thompson, p. 13.

“This is my rocker”
:
Dallas, p. 207.

Joe Kennedy’s birthday party continued
:
Ibid., pp. 228–29; Rose Kennedy, pp. 414–15.