JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President (54 page)

While cruising on the
Honey Fitz
:
Fay, JFKLOH.

“stretched prone on the long pier”
:
Associated Press story published on September 21, 1963; UPI story in
NYT,
September 21, 1963.

“Look desperate, like you heard shots”
:
Blaine, pp. 130–31.

While he was down, Knudsen said
:
NYT,
August 14, 1983.

some kind of “premonition”
:
Ibid.

He was so furious with Cormier and Merriman
:
Martin (
Seeds
),
pp. 449–50.

Two weeks later
:
Ibid., p. 450.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

Monday was one of the busiest days
:
NYT,
September 22, 1963.

recent events in Vietnam had “raised serious questions”
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963, Document 142.

let whatever cutbacks occurred “speak for themselves”
:
Ibid., Document 143.

“work out a time schedule”
:
Ibid.

“the need for reform and change”
:
Ibid.

“The only thing that really counts for us”
:
Schlesinger, unpublished diaries, October 2, 1963, NYPL.

“still trying too hard to get a national consensus”
:
Ibid.

believed the mission would be “a disaster”
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963, Document 124.

Hilsman wrote a “Top Secret; Personal and Private”
:
Ibid., Document 144.

Kennedy met with Bobby and Burke Marshall
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 112/A47, JFKL.

William Hamilton, an aide
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 12/A47–113/A48, JFKL; Rosenberg and Karabell, pp. 149–73.

“firmly, deeply dedicated to the principle of segregation”
:
WP,
September 24, 1963.

He asked the ABC correspondent
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume XI, Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath, Document 374.

she informed the CIA
:
George Washington University, National Security Files, May 1, 1963, memorandum from Helms to McCone.

Richard
Helms wrote in a memorandum
:
Ibid.

During what he called
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume XI, Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath, Document 275.

When Kennedy heard
:
George Washington University, National Security Files, March 4, 1963 memorandum by Gordon Chase.

Donovan returned in April
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume XI, Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath, Document 310.

Kennedy expressed more interest
:
Ibid., Document 315.

Attwood met with Lechuga
:
Ibid., Document 374.

Bobby told Attwood he was concerned
:
Ibid.

Three days later,
Attwood ran into Lechuga at the UN
:
Ibid.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24–MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

“The next time I watch”
:
Sander Vanocur, “Kennedy’s Voyage of Discovery,”
Harper’s Magazine
,
April 1964.

mocking him as “Johnny Appleseed”
:
Sidey, p. 350.

“I want the crowds”
:
Bruno, p. 15.

Vanocur thought he seemed happier
:
Vanocur, “Kennedy’s Voyage of Discovery,”
Harper’s Magazine,
April 1964.

admitted to feeling a “little rivalry”
:
Sally Bedell Smith, p. 411.

While speaking of his administration’s
:
JFKPOF (speech files), Box 46, JFKL.

After finishing, he turned
:
Cliff, JFKLOH.

“one of the worst reporters could remember”
:
Vanocur, “Kennedy’s Voyage of Discovery,”
Harper’s Magazine,
April 1964.

“The message that he brought”
:
Newsweek,
October 7, 1963.

“unresponsive and restless”
:
Bruno, p. 25.

“the center of action”
:
Sorensen (
Legacy
), p. 38.

“just crazy about planes”
:
ES,
September 26, 1963.

JFK speech at Billings
:
JFKPOF (speech files), Box 46, JFKL.

Lisagor noticed a look of total surprise
:
Press Panel (Lisagor), JFKLOH.

“Well, I think I know how you ladies”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, pp. 54–55; Bishop (
A Day
),
p. 35.

“A politician is a communicating”
:
Rostow, JFKLOH.

The students listening to him speak
:
U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Subcommittee on Communications,
The Speeches, Remarks, Press Conferences and Statements of Senator John F. Kennedy, August 1, 1960, through November 7, 1960.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961.

he had “inadvertently, intuitively”
:
Richard Goodwin, p. 120.

Great leaders drew vitality
:
Schlesinger (
Journals
), p. 92.

“I am confident that when the role”
:
JFKPOF (speech files), Box 46, JFKL.

On the flight to Jackson Hole
:
Udall, JFKLOH.

He scribbled down some ideas and facts
:
JFKPP, Box 12, JFKL.

“I’ve got to take the black one”
:
Thompson, p. 9.

he wanted to visit Mike Mansfield’s father
:
Bruno, p. 17.

“Would you thank him for me?”
:
Ibid.

“I wonder how many majority leaders”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 379.

Instead of reading his prepared speech
:
JFKPOF (speech files), Box 46, JFKL.

“it may well be that man recognizes”
:
Ibid.

Yet the largest and most enthusiastic crowd
:
NYT,
September 27, 30, 1963.

JFK speech at Salt Lake City
:
JFKPOF (speech files), Box 46, JFKL.

JFK 1960 speech in Salt Lake City
:
U.S. Senate Subcommittee of the Subcommittee on Communications,
The Speeches, Remarks, Press Conferences and Statements of Senator John F. Kennedy, August 1, 1960, through November 7, 1960.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961.

“That was a great speech”
:
Press Panel (Lisagor), JFKLOH.

admitted feeling the same way
:
Ibid.

“If JFK had any doubts”
:
Vanocur, “Kennedy’s Voyage of Discovery,”
Harper’s Magazine,
April 1964.

“I never know when I press these”
:
NYT,
September 28, 1963.

He arrived at the lodge
:
Stoughton and Clifton, p. 125.

“the Blue Hills of Boston”
:
NYT,
September 28, 1963.

“I do not think that these trips”
:
Newsweek,
October 7, 1963.

“The leadership of the American Legion”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 74.

“more often than not, the right thing”
:
Ibid., p. 75.

Asked what issue
:
Issues and Answers
transcript, ABC, September 29, 1963.

“It’s because they really like you”
:
Bruno, p. 26.

“Jerry, he is very, very happy”
:
Ibid.

“Thank God, he got out of the state”
:
Oberdorfer, p. 203.

Kennedy drafted a press release
:
JFKPP, Box 12, JFKL.

he edited the release
:
Ibid.

“possible some people will join”
:
WP,
October 1, 1963.

Kennedy scribbled the kind of to-do list
:
JFKPP, Box 12, JFKL.

“I think there’s something ominous”
:
Schlesinger (
Journals
), p. 200.

Kennedy generously praised Schlesinger’s Salt Lake City speech
:
Schlesinger, unpublished journals, October 2, 1963, NYPL.

Kennedy objected to its stipulation . . . “What if I’m no longer president?”
:
Ibid.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1–SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6

“What are you trying to do?”
:
Gallagher, p. 295.

“he gently guided her ahead”
:
WP,
October 2, 1963.

“a man whose place in history”
:
NYT,
October 2, 1963.

“I am overcome”
:
WP,
October 2, 1963.

“See, Jack, he brought it to me!”
:
Ibid.

“I was wondering why”
:
Ibid.

she handed Chief Usher J. B. West a stack of prewritten postcards
: Jackie left postcards for her children:
Martin (
Hero
), p. 469.

and gave Evelyn Lincoln a letter
:
JFKPP, Box 12, JFKL.

General Krulak had overseen the drafting
:
Newman, p. 401.

“All through the Saigon briefings and in the field”
:
William Bundy Papers, unpublished manuscript, JFKL; also cited in Newman, p. 402.

McNamara and Taylor’s affirmed in their report
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, August–December 1963, Document 167.

An earlier draft of their report
:
Sullivan, JFKLOH; Jones, p. 379; Schlesinger (
Robert Kennedy
), p. 716.

As soon as Kennedy noticed the omission
:
Schlesinger (
Robert Kennedy
), p. 716.

When they returned
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 114/49, JFKL; transcript in Blight, Lang, and Welch, pp. 99–103.

He protested when McGeorge and Bill Bundy
:
Cooper, pp. 215–16.

“Look, I’m under instructions”
:
Ibid., p. 216.

“Reports of disagreements do not help”
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, August–December 1963. Document 169; Presidential Recordings, Tape 114/49, JFKL.

“set it in concrete”
:
McNamara, p. 80.

“And tell them that means”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 17.

“the military program in South Viet Nam”
:
While House Press Release, reported in
NYT,
October 3, 1963.

“was part of a plan the President asked him to develop”
:
Gilpatric, JFKLOH.

“Many, many were opposed to approving a plan”
:
McNamara made this statement while being interviewed by Anthony Lewis on NPR, October 22, 2003. The transcript is cited by James K. Galbraith in “Kennedy, Vietnam and Iraq,” Salon.com,
November 22, 2003.

Jackie had been careful not to spoil
:
Branch and Callaway, p. 233.

Kennedy asked his driver
:
Lincoln (
My Twelve
),
p. 299.

Kennedy played with him
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
), p. 192; Shaw, JFKLOH.

“I’m having the best time of my life”
:
Halle, JFKLOH.

Two years earlier,
Fulbright
:
Woods, pp. 266–67.

Fulbright urged Kennedy to skip Dallas
:
Manchester (
Death
), p. 39.

“Box Score for ’64”
:
Time,
October 4, 1963.

“Did you read that
Time
magazine yet?”
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 114/A49, JFKL.

“any one of a thousand”
:
Fulbright, JFKLOH.

promised not to become “Kennedy’s errand boy”
:
Manchester (
Death
), p. 22.

Connally went to the Capitol
:
Ibid.

“How about those fund-raising affairs in Texas, John?”
:
Connally, pp. 171–73; Reston, pp. 246–47.

Kennedy met with his Vietnam advisers again on Saturday
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 114/A50, JFKL.

“urgent covert effort”
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, August–December 1963, Document 182.

“directed that no formal announcement be made”
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape, 114/A50, JFKL; FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, August–December 1963, Document 179.

“Our decision to remove a thousand U.S. advisors”
:
Ibid.

“if you put a hat on a Kennedy”
:
Doris Kearns Goodwin, p. 718.

“You remind me of my Vietnam advisors”
:
Louchheim Papers, Box 78, LOC.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 7

Kennedy signed the instruments
:
WP,
October 8, 1063;
ES,
October 7, 1963;
NYT,
October 8, 1963.

“no single accomplishment in the White House”
:
Sorensen, p. 740.

“the deepest satisfaction of his three years”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 380.

“It doesn’t matter about you and me”
:
John F. Kennedy (
Prelude
), introduction by Hugh Sidey, p. xxxiii.

“Dave, if we were only thinking of ourselves”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 325.

“I’d rather my children”
:
Alford, p. 94.

“That’s what they tell me”
:
Time,
November 12, 2001.

“We have begun the process”
:
NYT,
October 5, 1963.

“the beginning of the end”
:
NYT,
October 2, 1963;
NYT
(editorial),
October 3, 1963.

“I firmly believe that as much as I was shaped”
:
Renehan, p. 2.

“men tend to like the idea of war”
:
Chattanooga Times,
November 4, 1961.

“all war is stupid”
:
“Warrior for Peace,” David Talbot,
Time,
June 21, 2007.

“War will exist until that distant day”
:
John F. Kennedy quotations, JFKL Web site.