You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos (75 page)

9.
        Sect. largely from Wallace,
Intimate Sex Lives
, pp. 390–394.

10.
      Quote and sect. from Wallace,
Intimate Sex Lives
, pp. 394–396.

11.
      Hagood,
Presidential Sex
, p. 140.

12.
      FBI director J. Edgar Hoover kept a file on Kennedy’s sex life. It is believed this is why Kennedy did not fire him, even though Kennedy thought he was a “queer son of a bitch.” Ibid., p. 145.

13.
      Wallace,
Intimate Sex Lives
, p. 398.

14.
      Hagood,
Presidential Sex
, p. 138.

15.
      Robert Caro,
Means of Ascent
(1991), p. 58.

16.
      Robert Caro,
Path to Power
(1990), p. 484.

17.
      Robert Caro,
Master of the Senate
(2002), pp. 121–123

18.
      Ibid., pp. 121–123

19.
      Ibid., p. 147.

20.
      Ibid.

21.
      Ibid., p. 141.

22.
      Ibid., pp. 224–225.

23.
      Caro,
Path to Power
, pp. 161, 198, 294.

24.
      Sect. largely from Kitty Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
(1991).

25.
      Ibid., p. 74.

26.
      Ibid., p. 78.

27.
      Ibid.

28.
      Ibid., p. 82.

29.
      Davis’ actress mother was friends with the actor Spencer Tracy. Tracy fixed Davis up with Clark Gable in the late 1940s and Gable took her out several times when he was in New York City. Gable must have enjoyed the dates because a number of his friends would date her when they were in New York. “Nancy was one of those girls whose phone number got handed around a lot.” This led to an affair with MGM executive Benny Thau. MGM signed her. Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, pp. 56–63.

30.
      Sect. from Kitty Kelley,
Family
(2004).

31.
      Ibid., p. 522.

32.
      Ibid., p. 524.

33.
      Christopher Andersen,
Bill and Hillary
(1999), p. 63.

34.
      Ibid.

35.
      Andersen,
Bill and Hillary
, p. 76.

36.
      Ibid., p. 83.

37.
      Ibid., p. 119.

38.
      Ibid., p. 128.

39.
      Ibid., p. 131.

40.
      Wesley Hagood,
Presidential Sex
(1995), pp. 207, 208–209.

41.
      Sect. from Kitty Kelley,
Family
(2004).

42.
      Ibid., p. 264.

43.
      Ibid., p. 265.

44.
      Ibid., p. 261.

45.
      Ibid., pp. 550–551.

46.
      Ibid., pp. 599–600.

47.
      Numerous people allege that W. Bush has used marijuana and cocaine in the past, and he was frequently in drug-using environments. Perhaps most telling is that he has never denied it. Ibid., pp. 578–579.

48.
      Ibid., p. 550.

49.
      Ibid., p. 584.

50.
      Clinton’s close friend Vernon Jordan was once asked what he and Clinton were always talking about; Jordan had the same response. Christopher Andersen,
Bill and Hillary
(1999), p. 305.