XXIX DON’T LET IT BE FORGOT
(pages 976–1008)
976 star role: Fab VII 138; Sorenson 489–90. 977 ready for him: WA 1963 102; NYT 4/3/63. King’s, followed: NYT 4/13/63, 4/14/63, 5/10/63, 4/13/63. for reinforcements: NYT 5/3/63, 5/8/63, 5/4/63, 5/8/63. 978 base he wished: T 5/24/63; NYT 5/13/63, 5/24/63, 5/19/63. southern jails: NYT 5/16/63; Sidey 396; NYT 5/16/63, 5/1/63, 5/13/63; Sorensen 489; Schlesinger Thousand 964. 979 way of thinking: Guthman 207–208; NYT 1/5/63. “hands in despair”: Guthman 207–10. 980 “risk I take”: NYT 5/19/63, 5/22/63, 6/6/63. on television: NYT 6/10/63. obstruct them: Guthman 215; WA 1963 106, 109–10; Sidey 399–403; Thousand 964; Sorensen 493. “central government”: NYT 6/12/63. 981 Wallace walked away: Sidey 401; NYT 6/12/63. “suspected were there”: NYT 6/13/63; Guthman 217–18. “life or law”: Thousand 965; NYT 6/12/63. 982 “can treat them”: NYT 6/12/63; Thousand 966. encourage violence: Fab VII 144; Sidey 405; Sorensen 504–505; Thousand 969. HOUSING—NOW!: NYT 8/29/63. Lincoln Memorial… “of their character”: ibid. 983 didn’t regret it: Sorensen 505. “nonviolent talk”: NYT 5/10/63; Fab VII 154; NYT 5/15/63. “fire next time!”: Guthman 219–20. 984 meeting deteriorated: NYT 9/19/63. youth repeated it: Guthman 220–21; Thousand 962–63. fire next time: Guthman 221. 985 the Honey Fitz: Sidey 405; NYT 5/30/63. “than I have”; NYT 5/14/63. pay that price: Sidey 416; Thousand 978; Halberstam 295. 986 “our own attitude”: Thousand 891; NYT 6/11/63; Sorensen 733. “since Roosevelt”: Sorensen 733. “beneficial to all”: Thousand 920. in 1964, either: Sidey 388. to the 88th: Thousand 713. 987 “serves his nation”: NYT 6/29/63, 6/6/63; Thousand 881; NYT 10/27/63; John Kennedy 817. 988 he said Texas: NYT 9/4/63, 9/9/63, 10/4–11/63, 10/13/63. “guarded optimism”: John Kennedy 11; NYT 1/15/63; Thousand 982–86; NYT 4/23/63. 989 “McNamara says so too”: Thousand 983. struggle between them: Halberstam 250. a “barbecue show”: NYT 5/10/63, 6/11/63; Sorensen 657. 990 “for all time”: NYT 6/16/63, 7/8/63; John Kennedy 459–64. shocking treachery: NYT 6/28/63. “Binh Xuyen in 1955”: Halberstam 261; Thousand 989–90; NYT 8/16/63. he tell them?: NYT 8/23/63. 991 “afraid to die”: Halberstam 264–65. “same country?”: ibid 266–67; Thousand 993. 992 “promptly as possible”: Halberstam 283–84; NYT 10/3/63; Goldman Tragedy 399. “people of Vietnam”: T 11/8/63; Sorensen 658–59; NYT 9/3/63; Halberstam 272. were reporters: NYT 10/8/63; Thousand 966; Halberstam 283; T 11/8/63; NYT 11/1/63; T 10/25/63. 993 was imminent: NYT 11/3/63, 11/2/63, 11/13/63; T 11/8/63. “fatherland’s interests”: NYT 11/2/63, 11/3/63. stabbed repeatedly: NYT 11/2/63; T 12/6/63. 994 but not here: NYT 11/14/63; Thousand 997; T 12/6/63; Halberstam 291–93. stable government: NYT 11/3/63. “so could he”: NYT 12/3/63; Halberstam 286. Thursday, November 21: NYT 11/25/63. 995 January 1, 1964: Rose Mary Woods to the author 8/4/64. effete snobs: NYT 11/20/62; T 11/22/63. (would end publication): NYT 10/16/63; Fab VII 130. “foe of Communism”: T 11/22/63. 996 “waning confidence”: NYT 5/5/63, 11/16/63. “been an assassin”: NYT 11/16/63. “Spindle, or Mutilate”: NYT 9/4/63, 9/4/64; Customer Relations Office, U.S. Post Office, New York City; NYT 7/1/63; Sally Morgan to the author 4/10/63. (“I got screwed”): Life 8/23/63; NYT 4/21/63; Greene 115. 997 in Bryan, Texas: T 6/21/63, 12/6/63, 11/22/63, 1/21/73. “break up anyway”: T 11/22/63, 10/20/63. 998 “of a man”: T 10/5/63. in fact ignored: NYT 11/17/63; T 11/22/63. in the Rain: NYT 4/14/64. 999 by its publisher: NYT 8/25/63, 5/27/63, 8/9/63, 1/31/63, 8/25/63, 1/31/63, 9/8/63. (ten inches) reason: NYT 11/18/63, 12/30/63, 11/11/63, 4/25/63; T 11/22/63. 1000 and “Standing There”: NYT 12/1/63; T 11/15/63; DeMott 78. of self-destruction: NYT 11/3/63. heavily chaperoned: NYT 11/22/63, 12/7/63, 2/2/63. the labor movement: John Brooks Leap 157–58. nearly ten million: Bird 257. 1001 “that is rising”: ibid 267. dollars a year: Servan-Schreiber 83–90. upper middle class: Leap 138. million Americans: Theodore White 1964 365. 1002 political potency: Leap 11; NYT 4/16/63; Leap 104. across state lines: Leap 120–21. 1003 those with it: Manchester Death 189–91. in guerrilla warfare: T 9/10/73, 11/22/63. British prostitute: Sidey 390–91; NYT 11/13/63, 6/7/63. “the New Frontier”: Reader’s Digest November 1963; NYT 11/24/63. 1004 at his funeral: NYT 11/14/63; T 11/22/63. “a stiller town”: Death 462. 1005 Arlington National Cemetery: ibid. 190. 1006 DEAD JT135PCS: NYT 11/23/63; Death 221, began to build: NYT 11/23/63. field of stars: Death 442. 1007 “one more awful”: NYT 11/25/63. “separate and apart”: NYT 11/26/63; Death 572, 627. “deep for tears”: NYT 11/29/63, 12/25/63, 12/4/63, 12/11/63, 5/5/65. 1008 “for their own”: NYT 11/30/63; Death 642.
XXX THE LONG ARM
(pages 1010–1040)
1010 “domestic policy”: WM/Dwight D. Eisenhower 8/27/64. 1011 “his administration”: Goldman Tragedy 20–21, 523; NYT 1/30/67, 10/15/64, 10/3/68. as he spoke: NYT 1/5/65, 11/1/64, 8/20/64. 1012 the United States: NYT 1/21/64; T 1/5/68; NYT 8/28/64; Theodore White 1964 413. of its region: NYT 2/4/64; Tragedy 525. over a thousand: NYT 1/19/66, 4/28/64; Theodore White 1968 103–104. 1013 much more damaging: NYT 11/18/67, 4/23/64. “comfort the country”: Carpenter 31, 331. 1014 to the men’s: NYT 6/20/64, 7/7/64. proved nothing: NYT 9/15/64; Tragedy 228–29; NYT 9/25/64. 1015 “after the Kennedys”: Tragedy 78–79. his calendar: NYT 7/31/64; Theodore White 1964 315–16, 317. “side with me”: NYT 7/31/64; Tragedy 199. 1016 American provocation: White 1964 328; W 1964 152–56. supporting hostilities: NYT 8/8/64, 8/5/64. 1017 one of them: W 1968 46; NYT 8/3/64. from the coast: NYT 8/2/64, 8/4/64, 8/3/64. North Vietnamese forces: NYT 2/21/68; W 1964 152–56, 1968 46. 1018 “no wider war”: Halberstam 413–14; Tragedy 175; NYT 3/6/64. “jungles of Vietnam”: NYT 7/16/64; WA 1965 41. Fulbright agreed: NYT 8/6/64. 1019 “a fisheries bill”: NYT 8/6/64, 8/8/64. “historic mistake”: Fab VII 204; Tragedy 181–83; Halberstam 442; NYT 8/7/64; Halberstam 419. 1020 stimulate backlash: Theodore White 1964 281; NYT 5/6/64, 5/20/64, 7/20/64; WA 1965 166. killing him instantly: White 1964 266–68; NYT 7/17/64. million dollars: NYT 7/21/64. 1021 and white policemen: White 1964 278; Graham and Gurr 51; Collier’s 86. “Burn, baby, burn!”: Tragedy 172–73. “Freedom Summer” of 1964: NYT 8/3/64, 8/29/64, 8/17/64, 4/3/64. 1022 “television sets”: White 1964 269; John Brooks Leap 291–92; Economist 5/10/69; White 1964 277. reached Jackson: NYT 11/8/64; White 1964 220–22; NYT 6/21/64. had been burned: NYT 6/23/64; W 1964 233–35. in the North: NYT 11/8/64. 1023 rounds of ammunition: NYT 7/9/64. being murdered: NYT 7/11/64; W 1964 233–35. 1024 any trouble: W 1967 210–11; T 10/27/67; NYT 12/5/67, 1/17/65, 2/26/65, 10/29/66, 10/21/67. defense challenges: NYT 2/26/65, 12/14/64; W 1967 220–21. “me a nigger”: W 1967 211. 1025 the maximum: NYT 10/21/67; T 10/27/67; NYT 12/30/67. deep right field: NYT 7/16/64. the real thing: Leap 319; White 1964 458. 1026 said he was: NYT 1/4/64, 1/28/64, 3/11/64, 1/3/64, 6/7/64. “is no virtue!”: White 1964 151, 153; NYT 5/31/64, 6/3/64, 7/17/64. no one was home: White 1964 252. 1027 “Nazi methods”: NYT 7/15/64. “it’s the truth”: ibid. in the black: NYT 7/18/64; White 1964 377–79. platform with him: NYT 8/13/64. 1028 he was right: Daedalus Spring 1958; White 1964 359. he was wrong: NYT 11/1/63. to the end. T 11/1/63. KNOW HE MIGHT: White 1964 384; NYT 9/7/64; White 1964 387. 1029 of greater interest: NYT 10/23/64; White 1964 361. public toilet: NYT 6/19/64; White 1964 385, 375. 1030 He declined: T 10/23/64; NYT 10/15/64; WA 1964 175–76. votes, elsewhere: NYT 10/14/64, 10/16–17/64, 8/15/64; Tragedy 359–61. standing ovation: Tragedy 245–48. 1031 “war in Asia”: NYT 9/26/64. “trying to do”: NYT 9/29/64; Tragedy 235–37, 412; NYT 10/22/64, 10/28/64. “for themselves”: NYT 10/22/64. “all Americans”: NYT 10/28/64. the following summer: Tragedy 224, 412–13. 1032 for the Democrats: NYT 11/4/64; WA 1964 40; NYT 12/15/64; W 1964 206–10. prove valuable: NYT 11/6/64, 11/11/64. seemed symbolic: NYT 9/9/64, 10/4/64, 12/30/64, 12/31/64. 1033 were under way; NYT 11/4/64, 11/5/64. lost their appeal: W 1966 38; NYT 6/16/64. House to protest: W 1966 38. “and stop it!”: NYT 1/3/65, 2/14/65, 11/21/64; Raskin “Berkeley.” 1034 “to our terms!”: NYT 12/4/64. putting them on: W 1965 54; NYT 3/11/64. was often electrifying: Fab VII 181. 1035 “American it is”: ibid 246. Laff’s
and Friday’s: Ruffner 939; Fab VII 238. husband or wife: Fab VII 248. 1036 of Man (1964): T 4/8/66. going to jail: NYT 12/20/63; W 1965 96–97. in Las Vegas: WA 1967 93; W 1965 186; Fab VII 172; W 1965 206. Soviet Aeroflot: W 1966 98; Graham and Gurr 187–89; NYT 2/4/65; Bird 235; W 1965 114, 254, 1966 234. 1037 for commuters: NYT 1/26/64; Fab VII 109; NYT 12/23/65, 3/3/65; Life 5/14/65. New, Pussycat?: W 1965 252, 254; Fab VII 177. peepshow sex: Kendrick 509. 1038 director of CORE: NYT 7/15/65, 1/24/65; W 1965 24, 1967 47, 120; NYT 4/23/64. “to get known”: NYT 7/17/66; WA 1967 78, 85; NYT 8/2/66; W 1966 232. “is my President”: NYT 4/15/63; W 1966 208; NYT 4/28/67; W 1965 107, 264; Fab VII 178. 1039 told reporters: NYT 2/18/64, 3/15/64, 1/4/67, 3/26/64, 10/5/65; Carpenter 48; Halberstam 533. IS A JUNKIE: NYT 11/20/66, 2/4/66; W 1966 239–41; T 3/18/66, 10/10/66. “of public demand”: Fab VII 132; NYT 3/22/66; W 1966 164. lost in 1964: W 1966 228–29; NYT 11/9/66; WA 1967 42; NYT 11/10/66; Tragedy 334. “from Saigon”: Tragedy 498; Fab VII 204–205. 1040 the Vietnamese mire: Halberstam 630; NYT 11/28/67, 2/28/66, 4/26/66; Tragedy 509; NYT 4/24/66, 9/16/65, 12/15/66, 4/1/66; Halberstam 628. “kind of Presidency”: Tragedy 378.
XXXI A DREAM OF GREATNESS—AND DISENCHANTMENT
(pages 1041–1081)
1041 the Fair Deal: NYT 1/21/61; W 1965 9; Goldman Tragedy 281–82; NYT 1/13/66. Truman years: NYT 9/7/45; Truman II 29. 1042 patients a week: Tragedy 285ff; W 1966 136; NYT 7/31/65, 1/2/66. retired, beside him: NYT 1/13/65; Tragedy 307; NYT 4/12/65. since the 1930s; NYT 5/26/65, 7/3/64, 8/11/65, 4/1/65, 12/2/65; W 1965 187; Tragedy 332–33. 1043 seasonal workers: NYT 3/5/61; Economist 5/10/69; W 1966 204–205; NYT 5/19/65. in the state: W 1966 204–206, 1965 172. throughout the country: Carpenter 15; Tragedy 335. “and enjoy myself”: NYT 11/5/64; Tragedy 259–60. 1044 convert his critics: NYT 10/23/65; Tragedy 333; W 1965 187; NYT 5/19/65. to reassure people: NYT 6/26/67; W 1967 118–21; Life 6/30/67; T 6/30/67. “if less briefly”: Tragedy 439. fly at him: ibid. 446. 1045 “do they want?”: W 1965 168; NYT 10/6/65; Tragedy 337. “interested any more”: NYT 12/1/67; Halberstam 429. “a war on?”: Tragedy 451. do just that: NYT 11/1/64, 12/25/64. 1046 William Childs Westmoreland: Halberstam 129; NYT 11/17/61, 11/15/64. Ho Chi Minh trail: Halberstam 355–57, 503, 507–508. rise above 100,000: NYT 2/26/64, 2/15/65; Halberstam 369–70; NYT 1/8/65. 1047 sight of blood: NYT 2/3/65. were wounded: NYT 2/6/65; W 1965 28–30. “will do that”: W 1965 30; Halberstam 521. in North Vietnam: Halberstam 534; Theodore White 1968 23; NYT 2/11/65. 1048 girls with flowers: Halberstam 237; NYT 7/4/65, 2/28/65, 3/9/65. “how to think”: NYT 2/10/65, 5/16/65, 4/24/65. deputy prime minister: Fab VII 205; Halberstam 351; NYT 2/22/65; W 1965 32; NYT 6/31/65. 1049 “internal cohesion”: Fab VII 205; W 1965 32; NYT 6/25/65. blacked them out entirely: NYT 5/10–12/65; W 1965 119, 223; Kendrick 16–17. number had tripled: NYT 3/31/65, 4/1/65, 6/26/65, 5/8/65, 6/17/65. 1050 do the job: NYT 6/10/65, 6/14/65; Halberstam 582–83. the White House: Tragedy 409; N.Y. Herald Tribune 5/23/65; Washington Post 12/5/65. like central Texas: W 1965 119; NYT 4/8/65; Tragedy 407–409. 1051 terms before Christmas: NYT 4/20–21/65; Halberstam 576–78. and F-111s: Halberstam 575–79; W 1965 123. “than inform it”: Halberstam 584. 1052 outweighed their misgivings: NYT 7/21/65; W 1965 123; NYT 7/22/65, 7/29/65; Halberstam 597, 600. “no one else”: Theodore White 1968 23; NYT 7/24/65; Halberstam 599; NYT 7/29/65; W 1965 118. 1053 it was impossible: Halberstam 594, 595, 606, 614. “for the war”: ibid 604–10. 1054 runaway inflation: NYT 5/13/68. to top 200,000: Halberstam 594, 602; NYT 8/4/65; W 1965 26. and 137 wounded: W 1965 240; NYT 12/4/65. “doesn’t it?”: NYT 10/9/66; Halberstam 550. 1055 in Ann Arbor: Tragedy 432, 433; NYT 10/17/65, 10/16/65; WA 1966 87; W 1965 222–23. “be our own”: Fab VII 206. on the tracks: W 1965 222–23. into human torches: NYT 10/16/65,9/1/65, 11/3/65. murdering children: Fab VII 218–19. 1056 “the United States”: W 1965 223. author Michael Harrington: NYT 11/28/65. 66th Regiment: NYT 11/21/65; WA 1966 90–91. 1057 bring in transports: Halberstam 612–14. as the referee: NYT 8/27/66; W 1965 240; NYT 12/4/66; Halberstam 167; WA 1966 91; Halberstam 621; W 1965 238–39. “get the word”: NYT 12/3/66; Tragedy 322; NYT 3/16/65. “we shall overcome“: NYT 3/16/65. 1058 Negroes as equals: NYT 8/29/65, 4/20/65; W 1966 168. in “reparations”: NYT 2/22/65; W 1965 35–37, 153; Collier’s 90; W 1969 194. as a “fascist”: Theodore White 1968 102; NYT 11/25/65. 1059 revive their campaign: Tragedy 308–11; WA 1966 48, 52; NYT 1/2/65, 3/12/65. symbol of oppression: NYT 3/7/65, 3/8/65. 1060 “Turn Me Around”: NYT 3/8/65, 3/9/65. “constitutionally permissible”: NYT 3/10/65. a little garter: Tragedy 315; NYT 3/19/65, 3/21/65; W 1965 52–53. 1061 the second murder: NYT 3/22/65; Tragedy 324; NYT 3/26/65. police help: NYT 3/26/65. the maximum: NYT 8/21/65, 10/1/65, 3/11/65, 11/30/65; W 1965 196–99; NYT 8/21/65, 12/4/65. 1062 now erupted: WA 1966 57–58; NYT 3/16/65; Economist 5/10/69; NYT 5/27/66. “see your I.D.”: NYT 6/12/66. 1063 locally as Watts: NYT 8/12/65; W 1965 138. looting the stores: NYT 8/12/65. under control: NYT 8/11/65, 8/14/65. 1064 “mutilate themselves”: NYT 8/14/65; W 1965 142. 45 million dollars: NYT 8/19/65. in the South: Collier’s 88; W 1965 154–55; NYT 7/20/65. 1065 a real torch: NYT 8/20/65, 12/7/65; Collier’s 89; Theodore White 1968 26–27. riots that year: Collier’s 88–89; Theodore White 1968 201; NYT 3/16/66; W 1966 166–71. into its own: NYT 10/17/66. 1066 in their ranks: NYT 8/27/66, 8/31/66, 1/4/66. peppered with birdshot: NYT 6/6/66; W 1966 112; NYT 6/7/66. another Selma: NYT 6/7/66, 6/8/66. 1067 “Black power!”: W 1964 233–35; NYT 12/5/64. “black… power!”: NYT 9/10/66. “Black power!”: W 1966 166–67. 1068 “rights and integration”: NYT 7/3/66. “I don’t like”: W 1966 116. were not there: NYT 6/24/66, 6/27/66. polls, he lost: W 1966 124; NYT 12/6/66, 6/1/66. 1069 was absurd: Fab VII 155; Graham and Gurr 671. “committed to error”: NYT 9/22/66; W 1966 171; NYT 10/14/66, 10/15/66. “declared war”: Life: The 1960s; W 1967 106; Theodore White 1968 201; T 1/5/68; NYT 6/16/67. 1070 “intolerance of it”: W 1966 226–29; NYT 10/15/66; Economist 5/10/69. years after Watts: NYT 5/27/66; T 6/14/68, 6/21/68; W 1968 119. critics at home: Collier’s vi; W 1967 34; Sheehan 513. 1071 be 100,000 men: NYT 6/30/66; W 1966 126, 251, 249. “come in view”: Sheehan 512; W 1967 248–49; NYT 4/29/67. “a good question”: W 1966 249, 1967 92–94; Halberstam 641; W 1967 91; Halberstam 642. 1072 garrison troops: W 1967 90. “11,000 miles away”; W 1967 94, 1966 32, 1967 251. 1073 off in handcuffs: WA 1968 75–76 W 1967 95; Rovere Muddy 8, 9; Collier’s 158; W 1967 132; NYT 6/4/67. to the war: NYT 12/11/67; W 1967 41–43; Graham and Gurr 515–16; NYT 10/22/67; W 1967 252; Fab VII 212. in Toronto: NYT 11/11/67; W 1967 252. 1074 the people were: W 1966 36; NYT 12/1/66. Viet Cong colors: Life: The 1960s; NYT 3/19/67, 10/18/66, 10/23/66, 10/22/66; W 1966 189; U.S. News & World Report 10/31/66. 1075 FBI checks: WA 1967 69; NYT 5/18/66; Tragedy 499–502. worse and worse: Kendrick 24; NYT 11/28/67, 1/25/67; Halberstam 640; Fab VII 30. the White House: Fab VII 97–98. 1076 obeyed them: NYT 11/7/67; Tragedy 511; Halberstam 640. of Minnesota: Tragedy 265; NYT 8/18/67; WA 1968 85. “is your enemy”: Collier’s 196, 422; NYT 5/13/67. 1077 the new goal: W 1967 143–44; NYT 7/21/67. “black revolution”: NYT 8/16–21/67. “black man’s resolution?”: Walter Goodman “Black Power.” 1078 the word Negro: ibid. snapped his picture: NYT 6/23/73, 4/17/65, 1/14/66, 1/7/66, 8/25/66, 6/14/67, 7/1/67, 12/9/67, 7/8/67, 9/22/67, 11/8/67, 9/7/67, 6/25/67; W 1966 24, 1970 137. 1079 John Bell Williams: NYT 9/27/67, 8/8/67, 1/11/67, 6/24/67, 11/8/67. “right at home”: Good “Odyssey.” catastrophe of 1967: WA 1968 77; NYT 4/9/67. vast junkyard: NYT 1/3/67. 1080 Wednesday, July 12: W 1967 137–39; Theodore White 1968 201. since Watts: NYT 7/13/67, 7/14/67, 7/18/67. 1081 of Negro homes: NYT 7/24/67, 8/7/67; Fab VII 148. Cambridge (Maryland): NYT 7/28/67. “as cherry pie”: W 1967 142–43. Richard M. Nixon: NYT 5/23/68.
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