JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President (55 page)

“This war here is a dirty business”
:
Hamilton, pp. 614–18.

“He said we were a ‘fine looking crowd’”
:
Ibid., pp. 561–62.

“the terrific discrepancy between people at home”
:
Maier, p. 169.

He told a friend that his brother’s death
:
Renehan, p. 2.

“The world organization that will come out”
:
John F. Kennedy (
Prelude
), p. 86.

“any man who has risked his life”
:
Hamilton, pp. 700–701.

Fifteen years later, he told Sidey
:
John F. Kennedy (
Prelude
),
Sidey introduction, p. xxv.

“If I had to single out one element”
:
Ibid., p. xxix.

“You know, there are only two pacifists”
:
Strober and Strober, pp. 67–68.

“My boss has abandoned me”
:
Baker, p. 180.

“Somehow I got it into my head”
:
Ibid.

Three days later, Williams declared
:
WP,
October 10, 1963.

“Bobby, Lyndon and I just want you to know”
:
Baker, p. 182

“petrified that he’d be dragged down”
:
Ibid.

“Bobby, my brother is fond of you”
:
Ibid., p. 183.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8–SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13

“What have we got today?”
:
Heller Papers, Box 6, JFKL.

the
Look
photographer Stanley Tretick
:
Tretick, JFKLOH.

“journalistic thieves”
:
Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.

“Well, I didn’t say that”
:
Tretick, JFKLOH.

“We’d better get this out of the way”
:
Ibid.

“the mood of the boy”
:
Ibid.

“the six o’clock comedy hour”
:
Heller Papers, Box 6, JFKL.

“a major foreign policy mistake”
:
WP,
October 11, 1963.

“the worst political mistake”
:
Beschloss (
Crisis
), p. 644.

Kennedy opened the press conference
:
Transcript at JFKL Web site.

“President Nudges”
:
NYT,
October 10, 1963.

“Give me good old Barry”
:
Fay, p. 259.

“No vice whatsoever”
:
Ibid.

“God, I’d like to be able to do”
:
David Bell, JFKLOH.

“Keep your seat, Barry”
:
Baker, p. 143.

“I’m a great big wolf”
:
Halle, JFKLOH.

Caroline walked into the room
:
Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.

“You know, I’ve been taking care of”
:
Halle, JFKLOH.

“a sight to gladden the eye”
:
Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.

“What do you think of him?”
:
Tretick, JFKLOH; Bergquist and Tretick, p. 125.

He struck Tretick
:
Ibid.

“joyous, funny, mutually fascinated”
:
Tretick, JFKLOH; Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.

“a hell of a picture”
:
Tretick, JFKLOH.

Churchill was already four sheets
:
Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.

“Oh no! No! No! No!”
:
Bergquist and Tretick, p. 126.

They were there when John stood outside
:
Ibid., p. 128.

“I’m cute! I’m cute!”
:
Ibid., p. 127.

Bergquist claimed she was not
:
Bergquist, JFKLOH.

she always saved her best jokes for him
:
Martin (
Seeds
), p. 294.

“a somber, sobering quality”
:
Bergquist, JFKLOH; Bergquist and Tretick, p. 31.

something “remote and tragic”
:
Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.

“Oh, you caught that”
:
Ibid.; Bergquist, JFKLOH; Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.

“subject to moods”
:
NYT,
October 14, 1963.

“a very serious preoccupied”
:
Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.

He weighed himself
:
Powers, JFKLOH.

He had recently complained to Fay
:
Fay, JFKLOH.

He should have been more concerned
:
JFK Personal Papers, Box 48, JFKL.

Jackie’s secretary Mary Gallagher
:
Gallagher, pp. 268–69.

during the campaign he had ordered Lincoln
:
Lincoln (
My Twelve
), p. 113.

“look so handsome at these parties”
:
Hamilton, pp. 358–59.

“Why don’t we go out on to the terrace”
:
Gromyko, p. 181.

“Could we go for a ride”
:
Ibid., p. 137.

“I don’t deny”
:
Ibid., p. 177.

“The fact is, there are two groups”
:
Ibid., pp. 181–82.

His caution was a good example
:
Strober and Strober, p. 43.

“I don’t want you to get discouraged”
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 115/A51, JFKL; FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume V, Soviet Union, Document 363.

As they were talking, one of Kennedy’s children
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 115/A51, JFKL.

A reporter meeting the usually dour Gromyko
:
WP,
October 11, 1963.

“eager to maintain a show”
:
Ibid.

“to develop further the success”
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges, Document 118.

“I am convinced then”
:
Beschloss (
Crisis
),
pp. 662–63.

The State Department never sent it
:
Ibid., p. 663.

Earl Blaik and Kenneth
Royall followed Gromyko
:
Blaik, JFKLOH;
Newsweek,
October 28, 1963;
Time,
October 4, 1963.

American women were by comparison “not glamorous”
:
JFKPP, Box 40, JFKL.

“Thank you very much, Mr. President”
:
Tree, JFKLOH.

“Madam, you are raising”
:
Ibid.

“I never know whether women”
:
Ibid.

“If they are politicians, they don’t care”
:
Louchheim Papers, Box 78, Library of Congress.

“I don’t know how to treat women”
:
Tree, JFKLOH.

“just thought of themselves”
:
Ibid.

“quite uneasy with women”
:
Ibid.

Nancy Dickerson had a similar take
:
Dickerson, pp. 63–64.

“Let’s get women off the weather beat”
:
Ibid.

Jackie encouraged
: Jacqueline Kennedy, pp. 305–6.

“Look, I may not be the best-looking”
:
Graham, pp. 290–91.

Assistant Secretary of Labor Esther Peterson
:
Peterson, JFKLOH.

“Gentlemen, we are here to talk about”
:
WP,
October 11, 1963.

praising their report as “very useful”
:
Ibid.

Bergquist asked if he had seen the recent photograph of the Nixons
:
Bergquist and Tretick, p. 129.

“What are you doing tonight?”
:
Schlesinger (
Journals
), p. 201.

“My name is Polly Parrot”
:
Bergquist and Tretick, pp. 129–30.

Kennedy obtained copies of the photographs
:
Tretick, JFKLOH; Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library; Bergquist and Tretick, p. 130.

“No, Jack. I guess it’s your year”
:
Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.

A
Newsweek
article titled
:
Newsweek,
October 28, 1963.

Other articles reported
:
ES
, October 11, 1963;
NYT
, October 8, 1963.

“all-night parties in foreign lands”
:
WP,
October 15, 1963.

“the lavish hospitality of a man”
:
Martin (
Hero
), p. 470.

Communication proved difficult
:
NYT,
October 12, 1963.

“You’re a good swimmer, Jackie”
:
Pottker, p. 196.

“inexplicably fascinating and beautiful”
:
Galitzine, p. 157.

During the cruise she noticed
:
Ibid., p. 169.

“I loved you from the first moment”
:
Bradford, p. 258.

“I think that I am lucky to miss you”
:
William Manchester Papers (
Death of a President
), Box 43, Wesleyan University.

She shopped in the bazaars
:
NYT,
October 15, 1963.

“a Parisian style to suit her personality”
:
WP,
October 15, 1963.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 14–FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18

Articles that morning
:
NYT
and
WP,
October 14, 1963.

A Gallup poll released that weekend
:
WP,
October 13, 1963.

There was better news in a second Harris poll
:
WP,
October 14, 1963.

“the most widely disliked Democratic President”
:
Newsweek,
October 28, 1963.

Writing about the impasse in the
New York Times
:
NYT,
October 14, 1963.

Bobby Kennedy testified
:
NYT,
October, 16, 1963;
NYT,
October 18, 1963,

“politics in its purest definition”
:
NYT,
October 20, 1963.

“There always comes a time”
:
Ibid.

reported an “improved climate”
:
NYT,
October 16, 1963.

A spokesman for the Washington NAACP
:
Bryant, p. 449.

Kennedy’s back had continued bothering him
:
Schwartz, p. 204.

“I was melancholy after the death”
:
WP,
November 13, 1963. Maier first revealed the details of McSorley’s counseling sessions with Jackie, see Maier, pp. 467–75.

Before, Kiernan said
:
Kiernan, JFKLOH.

Back at the White House, he had shoved
:
Manchester (
Death
), p. 55.

Jackie was willing to indulge his affection
:
Kiernan, JFKLOH.

Kiernan sensed that the Irish were “getting her down”
:
Ibid.

Kennedy’s insistence that the three days
:
Tubridy, JFKLOH.