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142should be touring the country making speeches: Morris, Dutch, p. 282.
142along came Nancy Davis and saved my soul: Morris, Dutch, p. 280.
143in three television dramas in 1962 before retiring: Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 181.
143Together, they are complete: D’Souza, Ronald Reagan, p. 220.
144a combination of good and evil: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, pp. 194–95.
144no matter how useful it may be to a leader: Wills, The Kennedy Imprisonment, p. 54.
145“by a desire for money,” suggests historian Thomas C. Reeves: Reeves, A Question of Character, p. 111.
145suddenly disappear with some pretty young girl: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 194.
146with her threats to divorce him: Perret, Jack, p. 226.
146Why not do a story on me: Clarke, Ask Not, p. 59.
146romance of Jack and Jackie was about them, not between them: Perret, Jack, p. 348.
Chapter 11: The Book and The Speech
147known to work in secret with a speech coach: Clarke, Ask Not, p. 6.
147most integrated political philosophy that I’ve seen in anyone: Morris, Dutch, p. 342.
147who he was and what he wanted to say: Clarke, Ask Not, p. 45.
148disparaging liberals as “honkers”: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 63.
148I am a realist: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 177.
148Kennedy replied simply, “I do.”: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 236.
148clique of oil and real estate pirates: Morris, Dutch, pp. 292–93.
148straight from “old Karl Marx”: Morris, Dutch, p. 316.
148have to be here for twenty years: O’Brien, Rethinking Kennedy, pp. 62–63.
149think long-term regarding his political career: O’Brien, Rethinking Kennedy, p. 65.
150Lodge to Kennedy just a few days before the election: Nasaw, The Patriarch, p. 669.
150on “Communism and domestic subversives”: Nasaw, The Patriarch, p. 668.
151to stay out of the civil liberties fight: Nasaw, The Patriarch, p. 666.
151he would not say anything negative about Kennedy: Nasaw, The Patriarch, p. 668.
151a box of corn flakes: McKeever, Adlai Stevenson, p. 250.
152another reason why I say it’s time for a change: Halberstam, The Fifties, p. 231.
152how Jack should be dressed and how his hair should be: Nasaw, The Patriarch, p. 665.
153caught the attention of Kennedy’s Justice Department: Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 266.
153since he was MCA’s client, he never explained: Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 271.
154weren’t beating a path to my door, offering me parts: Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 267.
154third-rated show in all of television during the 1956–1957 season: Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 268.
154nearly $2 million on the sale—a 3,000 percent profit: Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 269.
154and in 1970 he had paid no state taxes at all: Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 270.
156How dare you couple the name of a great American patriot with that of a traitor: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 162.
156see what the bastard was up to: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 189.
157without committing “hari-kiri”: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 190.
158with the educated knowledge of its representatives”: Parmet, Jack, p. 326.
158Sorensen, whom Kennedy had hired in 1953 as part of his Senate staff: Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, p. 17.
158that basically it is his book: Parmet, Jack, pp. 330–31.
159the choices, message, and tone of the volume are unmistakably Kennedy’s: Parmet, p. 324.
159most of the nation’s first great writers and scholars: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 203.
159(fn)like the Gettysburg Address: Noonan, What I Saw at the Revolution, pp. 86–87.
159great for Franklin Roosevelt. But it’s no good for me: Parmet, Jack, p. 239.
159–60which photos of himself would be released to the public: Clarke, Ask Not, p. 50.
160so that it was clear she was black: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 64.
160using that charm to articulate serious thoughts and ideas: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 22.
160of credit for at least spiritual and intellectual inspiration: Parmet, Jack, p. 480.
16199 percent of that was done by JFK himself: Clarke, Ask Not, p. 17.
161and phrases destined for his inaugural address: Clarke, Ask Not, p. 18.
162“as a movie star,” reported the New York Times: Parmet, Jack, p. 367.
162contained the passion of a magnanimous loser: Parmet, Jack, p. 380.
163a hundred speaking requests a week: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 229.
163John Rousselot, a leading member of the John Birch Society: Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 287.
164He used to be a liberal: Morris, Dutch, p. 316.
164more than 250,000 minutes giving speeches during his eight years at GE: Morris, Dutch, p. 305.
164“physical forcefulness” that would serve him well in political speechmaking: Morris, Dutch, p. 98.
164(fn)used to write my own speeches, you know: Noonan, What I Saw at the Revolution pp. 74, 95.
165Reagan “would constantly be writing”: Skinner, Anderson, and Anderson, Reagan In His Own Hand, pp. xv–xvi.
165always lively, with entertaining stories: Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 283.
1651896 Democratic Convention with his ‘Cross of Gold’ speech: Schaller, Reckoning With Reagan, p. 12.
166We did all that could be done: Reagan and Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me?, p. 312.
166a vital battle that would surely end in victory: Cannon, Governor Reagan, p. 124.
Chapter 12: The Mad Dash for President
167qualification for the most powerful job in the world was wanting it: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 14.
167was inspired by Kennedy’s meteoric rise: Cannon, Governor Reagan, p. 269.
167But he made a great appearance: Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 291.
167than a major mistake in writing a speech: Nixon, Six Crises, p. 422.
168if we were running for the presidency: Morris, Dutch, p. 342.
170a zinger that he foolishly included in a campaign film: Cannon, Governor Reagan, p. 151.
170–71a line later woven into the film The Candidate: Morris, Dutch, p. 347.
171we were novice amateurs: Cannon, Governor Reagan, p. 184.
171he had opened a national campaign office: Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 310.
171that he was very practical: Cannon, Governor Reagan, p. 197.
171and lead to passage of Proposition 13 in 1978: Cannon, Governor Reagan, p. 194.
171commendable record on protecting the environment and state lands: Cannon, Governor Reagan, p. 177.
172a handful of welfare cheats represented all the people on welfare: Morris, Dutch, p. 376.
172had proved himself a capable administrator: Cannon, Governor Reagan, p. 389.
172desire to be free and independent: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 222.
173Stevenson “made JFK possible”: Schlesinger, Journals: 1952–2000, p. 239.
173the heir and executor of the Stevenson revolution: Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, p. 23.
173campaign was among the most consequential in American history: Edwards, Goldwater), p. 353.
173Reagan would never have become president: Edwards, Goldwater, p. 353.
174Goldwater mutton, dressed up as lamb: Goldberg, Barry Goldwater, p. 252.
174and he never says ‘I’m sorry’: Rorabaugh, The Real Making of the President, p. 66.
174considered Stevenson “soft” and “a goddam weeper”: Rorabaugh, The Real Making of the President, p. 66.
174a Stevenson with balls: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 259.
175him “a black fascist bastard”: Goldberg, Barry Goldwater, p. 252.
175Reagan was actually more conservative than Ford: Goldberg, Barry Goldwater, p. 290.
175“ostentatious” nature of Reagan’s inaugural festivities: Goldberg, Barry Goldwater, p. 313.
176So, there’s basically no difference: Goldberg, Barry Goldwater, p. 315.
176hold [Reagan] in the great position that he now occupies: Goldberg, Barry Goldwater, p. 327.
176the national mood was less contentment than somnolence: O’Neill, American High, p. 285.
176spiritless, complacent, apathetic, confused, and poorly led: O’Neill, American High, p. 285.
177the precious resources of tomorrow: O’Neill, American High, p. 286.
177there were no limits to what America could achieve: O’Neill, American High, p. 287.
177If you give me a week, I might think of one: Rorabaugh, The Real Making of the President, p. 122.
178a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one: Halberstam, The Fifties, p. 730.
179my life would be dull as hell: Rorabaugh, The Real Making of the President, pp. 18–19.
179These two . . . bore the hell out of me: Halberstam, The Fifties, pp. 732–33.
181than when Mr. Carter became president of the United States: Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan, pp. 32–33.
Chapter 13: Sinatra, Disney, and Casals
184‘entertainment capital of the world,’ Hollywood or Washington, D.C.: Peretti, The Leading Man, pp. 8–9.
184the first movie star to become president: Wills, The Kennedy Imprisonment, p. 28.
184a clash of symbols and a collective search for meaning: Troy, Morning in America, p. 11.
184cultural dream factory: Peretti, The Leading Man, p. 4.
185understand the feelings and motivations of others: Cannon, President Reagan, pp. 31–32.
185perhaps as the head of a studio: Cannon, President Reagan, p. 33.
185of . . . national wish fulfillment: Peretti, The Leading Man, p. 4.
186and the secrets of Hollywood to the young politician: Wills, The Kennedy Imprisonment, p. 22.
186Do you think I could learn how to do it: Perret, Jack, p. 128.
187totally absorbed in its performance: Reagan, My Father at 100, p. 12.
187He’s no Robert Taylor, he’s just himself: Morris, Dutch, p 146.
187Reagan for best friend: D’Souza, Ronald Reagan, p. 51.
187unlike many [leaders] I have seen before and since: Hart and Strober, The Kennedy Presidency, pp. 54–55.
189A “real man,” never “feminine.”: Jeffords, Hard Bodies, p. 35.
189Reagan’s anti–big government philosophy: Jeffords, Hard Bodies, p. 16.
190sales have fallen. (Jack does not wear them.): Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 478.
191what to do the next time this happens: Jeffords, Hard Bodies, p. 28.
191if the world’s nations cannot peacefully resolve their differences: Cannon, President Reagan, p. 41.
192computers that controlled America’s nuclear launch codes: Cannon, President Reagan, p. 38.
192but I communicated great things: Schaller, Reckoning With Reagan, p. 179.
193opening of Disneyland, which drew an estimated seventy million viewers: Gabler, Walt Disney, p. 532.
193for Reagan, who read the great adventure stories as a boy: Gabler, Walt Disney, p. xiii.
193striving to make people feel better about themselves: Gabler, Walt Disney, p. 535.
193happier than it was eight years ago: Reeves, President Reagan, p. 486.
193Nothing of the present exists in Disneyland: Gabler, Walt Disney, pp. 497–98.
193yesterday with the fantasy and dreams of tomorrow: Gabler, Walt Disney, p. 533.
194public support for space exploration: Gabler, Walt Disney, p. xiii.
194to film Advice and Consent on location at the White House: Peretti, The Leading Man, p. 145.
195as a service to the public: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times p. 450.
195traveling to Hyannis Port for the weekend: Whitefield, The Culture of the Cold War, p. 213.
195to make a quick buck off the new president’s popularity: Peretti, The Leading Man, p. 125.
195See the Japs Almost Get Kennedy: Perlstein, Before the Storm, p. 228.
195make himself the best-known person on earth: Peretti, The Leading Man, p. 9.
196things would be done differently from now on: Perdum, “From That Day Forth.”
196down the highway to the murmur of jazz: Peretti, The Leading Man, pp. 127, 132.
197what the Eisenhower administration did for golf: Heymann, Bobby and Jackie, p. 22.
197show-biz, if you please—has become the Sixth Estate: Perdum, “From That Day Forth.”
197not excluding the clergy: Morris, Dutch, p. 307.
198what lay ahead was already experienced: Blumenthal and Edsall, The Reagan Legacy, p. 260.
198he had been scrubbed clean by it: Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 205.
199bandleaders who had frequently performed for Eisenhower: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 153.
199as an integral part of a free society: Reeves, President Kennedy, pp. 475–76.
199and a few sentimental Irish ballads: Kirk, Musical Highlights from the White House, p. 136.
199meat-and-potatoes guy, a middlebrow: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 476.
199–200not necessarily what was popular at the time: Kirk, Musical Highlights from the White House, p. 135.
200it’s the song of the exile: Kirk, Musical Highlights from the White House, p. 137.
201referencing the comedians’ zany rendition in A Night at the Opera: Kirk, Musical Highlights from the White House, p. 163.
Chapter 14: A City on a Hill and a Man on the Moon
202and a unique contribution to make to it: Nye, This Almost Chosen People, p. 164.
202(though those surveyed were not asked about Kennedy): www.gallup.com/poll/145358/americans-exceptional-doubt-obama.aspx.
202in the development of an American ideology: Nye, This Almost Chosen People, p. 164.
203set aside as a promised land: Pemberton, Exit with Honor, p. 49.
203and that God intended America to be free: Pemberton, Exit with Honor, p. 62.
204for at least a century after Winthrop’s sermon: Hodgson, The Myth of American Exceptionalism, p. 2.
204an American solution to every world problem: Nye, The Almost Chosen People, p. 202.
204the name of John F. Kennedy will be remembered: Hart, The 100, p. 419.
205so many other pressing needs on Earth: Logsdon, John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon, p. 228.
205series of setbacks rare in the history of the Republic: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 106.
206the better they like you: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 106.
206and entitled to claiming such an extraordinary feat: Logdson, John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon, pp. 225–26.
206the use of federal power for public good: Logsdon, John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon, p. 233.
206use of extensive national resources to achieve success: Logsdon, John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon, p. 225.
207That’s all there is to it: Wolfe, The Right Stuff, pp. 216–17.
207He thought it was good for the country: Logsdon, John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon, pp. 225–27.
208will be more impressive to mankind: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 138.
208put it
in foreign aid. But I cannot: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 139.
208the great human adventures of modern history: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 393.
209sufficiently explained or sufficiently debated: Logsdon, John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon, p. 198.
209and one which we intend to win: Logsdon, John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon, p 1.
209Why does Rice play Texas: Logsdon, John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon, p 1.
209space achievement had lost some of its urgency: Logsdon, John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon, p. 197.
210methods passed from the military to the civilian realm: Logsdon, John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon, p. 234.
211some agreement on nuclear disarmament first: Logsdon, John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon, p. 167.
211would reverse three decades of official U.S. nuclear policy: Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue, p. 19.
211technologies, some of which were nowhere near reality yet: Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue, p. 245.
212up to two-thirds of Americans supported development of SDI—if it was foolproof: Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue, p. 258.
212as atonement for being the nation that developed them: Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue, p. 23.
213at once isolationist and internationalist: Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue, p. 24.
214Hitler’s celebration of Arian youth at the Berlin Games in 1936: Troy, Morning in America, pp. 152–53.
214into war in World War I, World War II, and Korea: Meisler, When the World Calls, p. 4.
214hit the winning number: Hoffman, All You Need Is Love, p. 12.
215role in history be that of peacemongers: Meisler, When the World Calls, p. 8.
215and customs they will need to know: Meisler, When the World Calls, pp. 8–9.
215join the Peace Corps upon graduation in the spring of 1961: Meisler, When the World Calls, p. 9.
216and it could be an important experience for them: Meisler, When the World Calls, p. 24.
216Kennedy did not find amusing and which Nehru did not mean as a joke: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 69.
216more or less the same as it was before they came: Meisler, When the World Calls, pp. 24–25.