JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President (57 page)

JFK speech at the Amherst College cage
:
JFKL Web site.

“a thousand light years away”
:
New York Post,
October 28, 1963,

“He once said to me”
:
JFKL Web site.

Before leaving, he told Kay Morrison
:
Stewart Udall, “Robert Frost’s Last Adventure,”
NYT Magazine,
June 11, 1972.

“Robert had a serious operation”
:
JFKPOF, Box 29A, JFKL.

Jim
Reed had been with him
:
Reed, JFKLOH.

In an exclusive story appearing
:
Des Moines Register,
October 26, 1963.

He mentioned the Baker scandal to Schlesinger
:
Schlesinger, unpublished diaries, NYPL.

his official schedule noted
:
JFK daily schedule, JFKL Web site.

Evelyn Lincoln’s phone logs show
:
Lincoln Papers, Box 5, JFKL.

According to the FBI file
:
FBI memorandums, FBI FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) material at FBI archives or at paperlessarchives.com; see also Evan Thomas, pp. 263–67.

She knew he could not tolerate a sulker
:
Billings, JFKLOH.

then to almost $100,000
:
NYT,
November 10, 1963.

“Can you imagine me ending up”
:
Bartlett, JFKLOH.

“Why are we building”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 356.

She had a similar reaction
:
West, p. 237.

While driving with West to the warehouse
:
Ibid., p. 238.

“John detests the country”
:
Galitzine, pp. 170–71.

He had arrived at the White House
:
Thayer, pp. 120–22.

“Oh, Mr. West, he’s been a houseguest”
:
West, p. 235.

He had made a pass when they were teenagers
:
Pitts, pp. 22–23.

Eunice called it
:
Michaelis, p. 175.

Billings claimed to know
:
Billings, JFKLOH.

“because it was brand new”
:
Ibid.

There were not enough closets
:
JFK’s complaints about Wexford are mentioned in Gallagher, p. 300; Leaming, p. 319.

Nor did Wexford impress
:
Galitzine, pp. 171–72.

Jackie was riding when Galitzine arrived
:
Ibid.

“You’ll be so young”
:
Ibid.

Then he took her for a drive
:
Ibid.

He maintained the easy banter
:
Ibid., pp. 172–73.

During his 1946 campaign, Jim Reed had noticed
:
Reed, JFKLOH.

As the film flickered
:
Galitzine, p. 173.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 28–THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31

“The President came in all excited”
:
Lincoln Papers, Box 6, JFKL.

A note says, “Staff members conferred”
:
JFK appointment book, JFKL Web site.

The reporter
Dan Oberdorfer writes
:
Oberdorfer, p. 204.

Bobby was given the task of persuading Hoover
:
Guthman and Shulman, p. 278.

Hoover also noted that the president had asked him
:
FBI memorandums, FBI FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) material at FBI archives or at paperlessarchives.com; also see Evan Thomas, pp. 263–67.

Hoover suggested that since the FBI
:
Ibid.

Mansfield and Dirksen left no record
:
Oberdorfer, p. 205.

According to Hoover’s memorandum
:
FBI memorandums, FBI FOIA material at FBI archives or at paperlessarchives.com; also see Evan Thomas, pp. 263–67.

Hoover told Bobby afterward
:
Ibid.

While Hoover was still in his office
:
Ibid.

“Had they not had that meeting”
:
Oberdorfer, p. 205.

Kennan had sent him a handwritten letter
:
Kennan, p. 317.

“the American diplomat who did more”
:
NYT,
March 18, 2005.

He responded on October 28
:
Kennan, p. 318.

When the Illinois congressman Roland Libonati persisted
:
Presidential Recordings, Telephone Recordings, Transcripts, Dictabelt 28A2, JFKL.

“Do you think he will know who we are?”
:
Lincoln (
My Twelve
), pp. 299–300.

He called his father
:
Stoughton and Clifton, p. 130.

Lincoln wrote in her diary
:
Lincoln Papers, Box 6, JFKL.

Kennedy scrawled “POVERTY”
:
JFKPP, Box 12, JFKL.

“a notable political achievement”
:
NYT,
October 30, 1963.

the
Boston Globe
called it
:
Boston Globe,
October 30, 1963.

An anonymous House Republican
:
WP
(Richard Lyons column), October 31, 1963.

Kennedy called Halleck that afternoon
:
Presidential Recordings, Telephone Recordings, Transcripts, Dictabelt 28A3, JFKL.

Since he had told Lodge
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, January–August 1963, Document 1.

Kennedy recorded the October 29 meeting
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 118/A54; Hilsman, pp. 518–19; FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963, Document 226.

When the meeting reconvened
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 118/A54; FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963, Document 235.

He and Bundy had received a cable from Lodge
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963, Document 226.

In a reply from Bundy
:
Ibid., Document 236.

In his reply, Lodge called out Kennedy
:
Ibid., Document 242.

This was not good enough for Bundy and Kennedy
:
Ibid., Document 249.

On October 30, 1960, Kennedy had driven
:
NYT,
October 31, 1960.

women hurled themselves
:
Dilworth, JFKLOH.

His motorcade had been well advertised
:
NYT,
October 31, 1963;
Newsweek,
November 4, 1963;
WP,
October 31, 1963.

In August, a mob of jeering
:
NYT,
August 31 and September 1, 1963.

One thousand heads of families
:
Ibid., September 3, 1963.

When Kennedy spoke in Convention Hall
:
Text of the speech in Sorensen Papers, Box 73, JFKL.

he told a joke that Lawrence would call
:
Lawrence, JFKLOH.

According to Larry Newman
:
Martin (
Hero
), p. 267.

“one of the things of the time”
:
Taylor, JFKLOH.

The Washington attorney Clark Clifford
:
Clifford, p. 331.

“I really am not in a position to do”
:
Fay, JFKLOH.

He told Hilsman, “What we’re going to do”
:
Strober and Strober, p. 270.

The following week, Kennedy gave Bradlee
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
),
pp. 227–29.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1–SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10

Bundy woke Kennedy just after 3
:00 a.m.:
Reeves, p. 644.

Three hours later, a CIA cable
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963, Document 256.

At an early morning White House staff meeting
:
Ibid., Document 263.

“I think we have to make it clear this is not”
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 118/A54, JFKL.

He jumped to his feet
:
Taylor, p. 301.

Schlesinger thought he looked
:
Schlesinger (
A Thousand
), p. 997.

Forrestal believed that the deaths
:
McNamara, p. 84.

Jackie noticed that he had
:
Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 304.

and would later tell Cardinal Spellman
:
Parmet (
The Presidency
), p. 335.

“We must bear a good deal of responsibility”
:
McNamara interview on
JFK: A Presidency Revealed,
a History Channel documentary.

“She’s responsible for the death”
:
Fay, JFKLOH.

While Jackie was at Wexford
:
Leaming, p. 323.

By the time he reconvened his advisers
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 118/A55, JFKL.

When he began dictating his first speech
:
Mary Davis, JFKLOH.

“the words rolling out of his mouth”
:
Lincoln (
My Twelve
),
pp. 131–32.

He dictated his announcement that he was running
:
Ibid., pp. 105–6.

and
dictated passages for his inaugural address
:
Lincoln Papers, Box 2, JFKL; cited in Clarke, pp. 29–37.

On November 4, he dictated
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 118/A55, JFKL; transcript on JFKL Web site.

He may have been atoning for his complicity
:
Claflin, p. 279.

In a covering letter, Skelton wrote
:
William Manchester Papers (
Death of a President
), Box 43, Wesleyan Library.

While reviewing foreign policy issues
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 118/A55, JFKL.

On Tuesday, Attwood briefed Bundy and Chase
:
The developments that Attwood described in the briefing are summarized in his subsequent memorandum: FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume XI, Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath, Document 374.

Bundy and Chase asked Attwood to write a memorandum
:
Ibid.

Bundy added that the president was more interested
:
Attwood (
Twilight Struggle
), p. 261.

At a Tuesday White House meeting on Cuba
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume XI, Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath, Document 373.

Kennedy was in an expansive mood
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
), pp. 227–35.

“You know, I have made up my mind”
:
Ormsby-Gore, JFKLOH.

An article by Attwood
:
William Attwood, “We Face a New Kind of World,”
Look,
November 5, 1963.

Kennedy liked the article so much
:
JFKPP, Box 43, JFKL.

He criticized congressmen who found it
:
JFK’s “Remarks before the Protestant Council, November 8, 1963,” JFKL Web site.

William Styron was surprised to see him
:
William Styron, “The Short Classy Voyage of JFK,”
Esquire,
December 1983.

Salinger informed reporters
:
WP,
November 7, 1963.

He arrived at Wexford early
:
Bradlee
(
A Good Life
), pp. 255–57; Bradlee (
Conversations
), pp. 235–39; Stoughton and Clifton, pp. 99, 126, 139.