by Scott Farris
216and a dozen university presidents: Meisler, When the World Calls, pp. x–xi
217Bring me only bad news; good news weakens me: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 339.
217they felt guilty and ashamed: Hoffman, All You Need Is Love, p. 9.
217self-examination to determine why they have not: Nye, This Almost Chosen People, p. 204.
Chapter 15: Crises and Charisma
218a unique, magical power: Bendix, Max Weber, p. 299.
218Journalists picked up and popularized the term: Webster’s Word Histories, p. 103.
218or groups for the good of the community: McBrien, Encyclopedia of Catholicism, pp. 299–300.
218and from his disciples’ faith in that power: Bendix, Max Weber, p. 301.
218they surrender themselves to a heroic leader: Bendix, Max Weber, p. 300.
219charismatic leadership is inherently transitory: Bendix, Max Weber, p. 301.
219–20the Freedom Riders, and a dozen more: Wills, The Kennedy Imprisonment, p. 171.
220a wartime speech without a war: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 56.
220it is very frightening: Reeves, President Reagan, p. 110.
221a holy war mentality: Reeves, President Reagan, p. 141.
221ask what you can do for your country: Clarke, Ask Not, p. 206.
221assure the survival and success of liberty: Clarke, Ask Not, pp. xiii–xvi
221full of “extravagant rhetoric”: Clarke, Ask Not, p. 33.
221clarion calls in the manner of Henry V at Agincourt: www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/opinion/28brooks.html?_r=2&ref=davidbrooks&.
221during his 1960 campaign: Wills, The Kennedy Imprisonment, p. 179.
222turn away from the established rules: Bendix, Max Weber, p. 300.
222about change and freedom: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 123.
222You’re lifting the horizons of Negroes: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 357.
222nobody ever asked me to. Kennedy asked: Clarke, Ask Not, p. 6.
222words are usually more important than deeds: Reeves, President Reagan, p. 7.
222all the power of the President amounts to: Neustadt, Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents, pp. 10–11.
223the safety of our homeland would be put in jeopardy: Reeves, President Reagan, pp. 157–58.
223won [only] because it could not be lost: Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 356.
224and nineteen U.S. servicemen were killed: Morris, Dutch, p. 504.
224bombing had occurred less than forty-eight hours before: Reeves, President Reagan, p. 187.
224public’s short patience with uncertainties: Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 357.
224succeeded beyond his own expectations and desire: Sorensen, Kennedy, p. 615.
224the level of near-hysteria: Sorensen, Kennedy, p. 615.
225live like a worm in a hole in the ground: Reeves, President Kennedy, pp. 271–72.
225and kiss your ass good-bye: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 391.
226fraction of the size enjoyed by Kennedy and Reagan: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/newsconferences.php.
226“couldn’t do it without TV,” he told aides: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 326.
226coverage is limited to the cable networks: Chase and Lerman, Kennedy and the Press, p. x.
227and the law says they cannot strike: Reeves, President Reagan, p. 79.
227I certainly take no joy out of this: Cannon, President Reagan, p. 437.
228when Reagan broke the controllers’ strike: Johnson, Sleepwalking Through History, pp. 153–54.
228Reagan took as president to control inflation: Troy, Morning in America, p. 78.
228steel that showed: Morris, Dutch, p. 793n.
228most important foreign policy decision Ronald Reagan ever made: Noonan, When Character Was King, p. 226.
228that I meant what I said: Reagan, An American Life, p. 283
229We’ve got to try to fuck them: O’Brien, Rethinking Kennedy, p. 147.
230In the last twenty-four hours we had their answer: Chase and Lerman, Kennedy and the Press, pp. 223–24.
230like a national emergency: Perret, Jack, p. 360.
230“the weekly wives’ bridge group out at the Country Club,” he said: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 302.
230Khrushchev praising Kennedy’s “style: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 303.
230this was the way Hitler took over: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 297.
230decisiveness in the executive: Sorensen, Kennedy, p. 458.
231no prosperity without profit: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 303.
231the quintessential corporate liberal: Matusow, The Unraveling of America, p. 33.
231decisively, and usually, very wisely: Reeves, President Reagan,, p. 61.
231coolly and unemotionally: Fay., The Pleasure of His Company, pp.188–89.
232without midnight phone calls and tapped telephones: Noonan, When Character Was King, p. 223.
232come to Washington for, to meet these challenges: Wills, The Kennedy Imprisonment, p. 171.
232Neustadt observed—and not in a complimentary way: Wills, The Kennedy Imprisonment, p. 177.
232Eisenhower ladled out to his cabinet officers: Wills, The Kennedy Imprisonment, p. 167.
233“to answer a simple yes or no,” Kennedy complained: Wills, The Kennedy Imprisonment, p. 222.
233anti-Washington counterinsurgency that Kennedy began: Wills, The Kennedy Imprisonment, pp. 197–98.
233in our whole scheme of government: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 315.
233his own authority into programs and institutions: Wills, The Kennedy Imprisonment, p. 201.
235promising to last throughout eternity: Clarke, Ask Not, p. 5.
Chapter 16: To the Brink—And Back
237“We win. They lose.”: Reeves, President Reagan, p. xiv.
238“And we call ourselves the human race.”: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 346.
238debated and discarded during the 1960s: Ftizgerald, Way Out There in the Blue, p. 20.
239Eisenhower had warned against in his farewell address: Several interesting graphs comparing U.S. defense spending over the past fifty years can be found at www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/07/everything-chuck-hagel-needs-to-know-about-the-defense-budget-in-charts.
240easier to obtain than unity for peace: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 116.
240resources be lavished on the armed forces: Bacevich, Washington Rules, pp. 12–13.
240preserve American access rights to West Berlin: O’Brien, Rethinking Kennedy, p. 131.
240I squeeze on Berlin: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 186.
241treated him “like a little boy”: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 166.
241talked so big and acted so little: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 419.
242didn’t give a damn if it came to that: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 347.
242wall is a hell of a lot better than a war: O’Brien, Rethinking Kennedy, p. 131.
243favored a policy of “peaceful coexistence”: Gaddis, The Cold War, p. 70.
243I exaggerated a little: Gaddis, The Cold War, p. 69.
243a little of their own medicine: Stern, The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory, p. 2.
244The logical answer was missiles: Gaddis, The Cold War, pp. 76–77.
244slightly demented on the subject: Stern, The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory, p. 16.
244military always screws up everything: Stern, The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory, pp. 12–13.
244nothing is so self-blinding: Stern, The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory, p. 15.
245recordings made during the Cuban m
issile crisis: Stern, The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory, p. 16.
246almost as bad as the appeasement at Munich: Stern, The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory, p. 22.
246advantage of having a closed mind: Stern, The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory, p. 16.
247pioneered in handling nuclear confrontations: Neustadt, Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents, pp. 173, 175, 179.
248wrong lessons learned from the Cuban missile crisis, Wills states: Wills, The Kennedy Imprisonment, pp. 273–74.
249or the security of the slave: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 619.
249quarrels would not escalate to war: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 620.
250the Soviet Union has used to pursue its own aims: Morris, Dutch, p. 456.
250farmer has with his turkey—until Thanksgiving Day: Gaddis, The Cold War, p. 217.
250could see big changes in the Soviet Union: D’Souza, Ronald Reagan, p. 1.
250intended a nuclear first strike against their country: Anderson and Anderson, Reagan’s Secret War, p. 136.
250You should expect anything from him: Gaddis, The Cold War, p. 227.
251pressure on a presumably faltering Soviet economy: Hersch, The Target Is Destroyed, pp. 22–23.
251the focus of evil in the modern world: Anderson and Anderson, Reagan’s Secret War, p. 122.
251preamble to attacking or blackmailing the Soviets: Anderson and Anderson, Reagan’s Secret War, p. 136.
251such as the stockpiling of food or blood: Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan, pp. 119–20.
252suddenly reappearing near Soviet waters: Hersch, The Target Is Destroyed, pp. 23–26.
252The target is destroyed: Hersch, The Target Is Destroyed, p. 40.
253depressurized cabin without oxygen and frightfully cold: Hersch, The Target Is Destroyed, p. 41.
253knowingly shot down an airliner: Hersch, The Target Is Destroyed, p. 119.
253see no excuse whatsoever for this appalling act: Hersch, The Target Is Destroyed, p. 143.
253to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962: Cannon, President Reagan, p. 275.
253the Soviet occupation of their country: Hersch, The Target Is Destroyed, pp. 173–74.
254and we intend to keep it that way: Morris, Dutch, pp. 493–94.
254speaking loudly and carrying a very small stick: Morris, Dutch, p. 494.
254when Roosevelt formally recognized the USSR: Hersch, The Target Is Destroyed, p. 174.
254resembles Jimmy Carter more than anyone conceived possible: Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 354.
255might well have occurred eight years earlier: Gaddis, The Cold War, p. 221.
255“with the Russians if they keep dying on me?” Reagan said: Gaddis, The Cold War, p. 228.
255Soviet leaders I’d met until then: Gaddis, The Cold War, p. 229.
256the sickness of our system: Gaddis, The Cold War, p. 231.
257and it should know no exceptions: Gaddis, The Cold War, p. 236.
257Soviet Union would have collapsed sooner or later: Gaddis, The Cold War, p. 236.
257the collapse of the Soviet Union: Reeves, President Reagan, p. xv.
257going to happen. No small thing: Reeves, President Reagan, p. xv.
258Reagan . . . definitely did not: Gaddis, The Cold War, p. 222.
258ideological arrogance, and of the cold war’s dangers: Reeves, President Reagan, p. xv.
258cold war would surely have dragged on: Arquilla, The Reagan Imprint, p. 65.
Chapter 17: The Will Rogers of Covert Operations
259never met a covert operation he didn’t like: Goldberg, Barry Goldwater, p. 319.
259hero to both Kennedy and Reagan: Powers, Intelligence Wars, p. 357.
259I was a Democrat and brother: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 459.
259such expansion in the agency’s history: Goldberg, Barry Goldwater, p. 318.
260bedeviled presidential studies for years to come: Neustadt, Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents, p. 270.
261with the OSS, a real guy with a dagger: Goldberg, Barry Goldwater, p. 319.
261would make a great movie someday: Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan, p. 165.
262better motives for all the trouble he caused: Reeves, President Kennedy, pp. 46–47.
263easy then and it’ll be easy now: Halberstam, The Fifties, p. 726.
264another black hole of Calcutta: Halberstam, The Fifties, p. 727.
264to stand up to Khrushchev?” Kennedy said: Halberstam, The Fifties, p. 729.
264At Secret Guatemalan Base: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 70.
265reduce the noise level of this thing,” he told the CIA: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 70.
265nearly seventy times during the previous one hundred years: Reeves, President Reagan, p. 152.
266aren’t as good as twenty-five thousand: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 361.
266one of those rare events in history—a perfect failure: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 363.
266Well, they had me figured all wrong: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 365.
267commit the flag, you commit to win: Halberstam, The Fifties, p. 376.
267something about those CIA bastards,” he fumed: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 103.
267How could I have been so stupid: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 367.
267annual budget of more than $50 million: Stern, The Cuban Missile Crisis, p. 41.
267operating a damn Murder, Inc., in the Caribbean: Caro, Passage of Power, p. 585.
268the time of the Bay of Pigs and thereafter: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 439.
268and files on Cuba than on the Soviet Union and Vietnam combined: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 340.
268he doesn’t even take his boots off: Clarke, Ask Not, p. 60.
268dagger pointing at the heart of Antarctica: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 342.
268we lose in Geneva and every place else: Reeves, President Reagan, p. 152.
268than in all of the Atlantic Ocean,” Reagan said: Morris, Dutch, p. 483.
268into our outstretched hands like overripe fruit: Reeves, President Reagan, p. 154.
269guerillas bent on robbing them of freedom: Reagan, An American Life, p. 479.
269during a civil war that killed 200,000 people: Reeves, President Reagan, p. 154.
269Nick-a-wog-wah [as Casey pronounced it] is that place: Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan, p. 152.
270in a letter, “I am pissed off.”: Goldberg, Barry Goldwater, p. 321.
270we’ll all be hanging by our thumbs in front of the White House: Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan, p. 153.
270beer logo on the tail of one of their airplanes: Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan, p. 155.
271Israeli leaders halt offensive operations in Lebanon: Morris, Dutch, p. 465.
271already served my time in Lebanon: Morris, Dutch, p 487.
271polling did not support this belief: Neustadt, Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents, p. 289.
272raise as much as $20 million for the Contras: Schaller, Reckoning With Reagan, p. 164.
27267 percent at the beginning of November to 46 percent in December: Schaller, Reckoning With Reagan, p. 165.
273his countrymen to see him arming Iran: Neustadt, Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents, p. 284.
273President Reagan knew everything: Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan, p. 167.
273however much you spend in men and money: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 149.
274and pulling out of Laos, and I can’t accept a third: Reeves, President Kennedy, 176.
274Vietnam is the place: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 112.
274a
one-word answer: “Yes.”: Guthman and Shulman, Robert Kennedy in His Own Words, p. 395.
275the assassinations of Trujillo and Diem: Caro, Passage of Power, p. 585.
275Robert Kennedy said, “and they hadn’t.”: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 616.
Chapter 18: Tax Cuts and Deficits
277when he heard I was elected,” Kennedy said: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 54.
278“to raise the grade from 93 to 96?”: Matusow, The Unraveling of America, p. 45.
278should pay in more than you spend: Matusow, The Unraveling of America, p. 53.
279go on carrying a deficit every year: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p.143.
279at the beginning of a recovery would be disastrous: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 198.
280government and business are necessary allies: Matusow, The Unraveling of America, p. 33.
280or $1.25 in comparison to something like this: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 370.
280of nearly 10 percent, or $2.5 billion: Matusow, The Unraveling of America, p. 35.
280$30 billion in economic activity that he had promised: Matusow, The Unraveling of America, p. 46.
281incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking: Matusow, The Unraveling of America, p. 51.
281economy would otherwise surely produce: Matusow, The Unraveling of America, p. 50.
281‘supply-side economics,’ but that’s exactly what it was,” Heller said: Heller, “Kennedy’s Supply-Side Economics,” p. 16.
282to cut the revenue loss very significantly: Heller, “Kennedy’s Supply-Side Economics,” p. 17.
282propose an antipoverty program in 1964: Heller, “Kennedy’s Supply-Side Economics,” pp. 17–18.
283a little too conservative to suit my taste: Caro, Passage of Power, p. 397.
283before you let him have his tax cut,” Johnson told Byrd: Caro, Passage of Power, p. 588.
283allowed federal spending to increase by 13.5 percent: Heller, “Kennedy’s Supply-Side Economics,” pp. 17–18.
283Time magazine headlined a story, We Are All Keynesians Now: Matusow, The Unraveling of America, p. 57.
283months before the tax cuts were approved: Matusow, The Unraveling of America, p. 58.