by David Nasaw
25. Thompson, WP, Jan. 22, 1941; Time, Feb. 3, 1941; Life, Feb. 3, 1941.
26. JPK to JB, Feb. 10, 1941, box 21, Boettiger.
27. FDR to JB, Mar. 3, 1941, box 21, Boettiger.
TWENTY-EIGHT: A FORCED RETIREMENT
1. JPK to Gowen, May 14, 1941, box 222, JPKP.
2. Memo to director, Feb. 23, 1942, Arvad file, J. Edgar Hoover official and confidential file, FBI.
3. EMK to author, Aug. 21, Oct. 8, 2007, May 15, 2008; JKS to author, Oct. 4, 2007, July 16, 17, 2008, Oct. 19, Dec. 11, 2009.
4. Benedict Neenan, Thomas Verner Moore (New York: Paulist Press, 2000), 183–90; REFK’s secretary to mother superior, St. Gertrude’s, Oct. 24, 1940, box 26, REFKP.
5. EMK, TC, 61–62.
6. JPK to WRH, June 25, 1941, box 7, WHRP; JPK to Wellington, May 28, 1941, box 215, JPKP.
7. JPK to MacDonald, Apr. 22, 1941, box 229, JPKP.
8. Klemmer, in Whitehead et al., The Kennedys.
9. JPK to JF, Dec. 18, 1940, box 220; JPK to Gurnett, Mar. 13, 1941, box 221, JPKP.
10. JPK to J. Russell Young, Apr. 24, 1941, box 245, JPKP.
11. JPK, Oglethorpe address, May 24, 1941, box 253, JPKP.
12. FDR, May 27, 1941, http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/052741.html.
13. JPK, Notre Dame commencement address, May 29, 1941, box 254, JPKP.
14. HH to JPK, July 1, 1941; JPK to HH, July 11, 31, 1941, box 110, HHPP.
15. KKH to JPK, Oct. 3, 1941, box 7, folder 59, EKSP; KKH to JPK, Oct. 20, 1941, box 2, JPKP.
16. REFK, TTR, 244–45.
17. JPK to Casey, July 26 [1941], box 215; JPK to RK, Oct. 10, 1941, in author’s possession; JPK to Cavanaugh, Oct. 28, 1941, box 216, JPKP.
18. Thomas Moore to JPK, Nov. 12, 1941, w.b. 34, JPKP.
19. Ann Gargan to author, Sept. 30, 2008; Gargan, in Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, 640.
20. JKS to author, Apr. 27, 2009; REFK, TTR, 245.
21. Brockley, “Rearing the Child Who Never Grew,” in Mental Retardation in America, 147.
22. Jack El-Hai, The Lobotomist (New York: Wiley, 2005), 226–27.
23. Jack D. Pressman, Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 102.
24. El-Hai, The Lobotomist, 167.
25. El-Hai, The Lobotomist, 167; JPK to Woodward, Nov. 28, 1941, JPKP.
26. JPK to REFK, Nov. 23, 1942, box 2; JPK to JFK, July 5, 1943; JPK to JPK, Jr., Feb. 21, 1944; JPK to KKH, Mar. 8, 1944, box 2, 3, JPKP.
27. Assorted bills, 1948, w.b. 3, JPKP.
28. REFK, TTR, 245.
29. JPK to Sister Anastasia, May 29, 1958, w.b. 3, JPKP.
30. REFK, TTR, 245.
TWENTY-NINE: WAR
1. JPK to FDR, Dec. 7, 1941; Early to JPK, Dec. 9. 1941, PPF 207, FDRL.
2. JPK to FDR, Mar. 4, 1942, Smith, HTF, 541.
3. JPK, diary, Jan. 17, 1942, box 100, JPKP; Fine, Frank Murphy, 221.
4. REFK to children, Jan. 26, 1943, box 2; JPK to Beaverbrook, Feb. 5, 1942, box 214, JPKP.
5. REFK to children, Jan. 20, 1942, box 2, JPKP.
6. Pearson to Winchell, Jan. 6, 1942, G 210, 3 of 5, “Public Figures,” Pearson.
7. See letter dated Nov. 16, 1940, from Columbia University and other documents in Inga Arvad file, J. Edgar Hoover official and confidential file, FBI.
8. Arvad to JFK, “Tuesday,” n.d., box 4, JFKPP.
9. Arvad to JPK, Jan. 27, Mar. 11, 1942, box 4, JFKPP.
10. JFK to Arvad, Mar. 7, 1942, ARV summary, Inga Arvad file, J. Edgar Hoover official and confidential file, FBI.
11. Arvad to JFK, “Wednesday,” n.d.; Feb. 23, 1942, box 4, JFKPP.
12. JPK to Kane, Jan. 25, 1943, box 225; JPK to Sarnoff, Feb. 2, 1942, box 234, JPKP.
13. JPK to FDR, Mar. 4, 1942, Smith, HTF, 541–42.
14. FDR to JPK, Mar. 7, 1942, PPF 207, FDRL.
15. KKH to JPK, n.d., box 4, JPKP; JPK to FDR, Mar. 12, 1942, PPF 207, FDRL
16. FDR, “Presidential Memorandum for Admiral Land, Commissioner Vickery,” Mar. 16, 1942, PPF 207, FDRL.
17. JPK, diary, Apr. 10, 1942, Smith, HTF, 544–46.
18. CBL to JPK, Feb. 5, 1942, JPK to JFK, Feb. 9, 1942, box 4, JPKP.
19. JPK to JPK, Jr., July 6, 1942, box 2, JPKP.
20. JPK to JPK, Jr., July 18, Aug. 7, 1942, box 2, JPKP.
21. JPK, Jr., to REFK and JPK, [Sept. 1942], box 2; REFK to children, Oct. 9, 1942, box 2, JPKP.
22. JPK to JPK, Jr., June 20, 1942, box 2, JPKP.
23. Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2003) 81, 85–87; JPK to JPK, Jr., Oct. 1, 1942, box 2, JPKP.
24. JPK to REFK, Nov. 23, 1942, box 2, JPKP.
25. JPK to REFK, Nov. 23, 1942, box 2, JPKP.
26. JPK to REFK, Nov. 23, 1942, box 2, JPKP; Halifax, diary, Nov. 10, 1942, Halifax.
27. JPK to REFK, Nov. 23, 1942, box 2, JPKP.
28. JPK to RFK, Oct. 14, 1942, box 2, JPKP.
29. JPK to REFK, Nov. 23, 1942, box 2, JPKP.
30. JPK to Sheehy, Oct. 28, 1942, box 235, JPKP.
31. RFK to REFK, Dec. 7, 1941, box 2; JPK, diary, Dec. 5, 1942, box 101, JPKP.
32. JKP, diary, Jan. 14, 1943, box 101; JPK to Brickley, Jan. 25, 1943, box 215, JPKP.
33. REFK to children, Mar. 11, 1943, box 2; JPK, diary, Mar. 12, 1943, box 101, JPKP.
34. JPK, diary, June 17, 1943, box 101, JPKP.
35. JPK to JFK, Apr. 22, 1943, box 2, JPKP.
36. Halifax, diary, Mar. 11, 1943, Halifax.
37. JPK to KKH, July 3, 1943, box 2, JPKP.
38. KKH to JFK, July 29, 1943, box 2, JPKP.
39. KKH to family, July 14, 1943, box 2, JPKP.
40. KKH to JFK, July 29, 1943, box 2, JPKP.
41. KKH to family, Aug. 10, 1943, box 128, REFKP.
42. KKH to family, Aug. 31, 1943, box 128, REFKP.
43. JPK to KKH, Sept. 8, 1943, box 2, JPKP.
44. REFK to children, Aug. 25, 1943, box 2; JPK to JFK, Nov. 16, 1943, box 3, JPKP.
45. JPK to Houghton, June 3, July 13, Aug. 16, Sept. 14, 1943, box 224, JPKP.
46. JPK to McInerny, Aug. 3, 1943, box 230, JPKP.
47. JPK to JFK, July 6, 1943, box 2, JPKP.
48. JPK to KKH, Aug. 7, 1943, box 128, REFKP.
49. JPK to JFK, Aug. 7, 1943, box 2, JPKP.
50. John Hersey, “A Reporter at Large: Survival,” New Yorker, June 17, 1944, 31; JPK to JFK, Oct. 15, 1943, box 2, JPKP.
51. Joan and Clay Blair, Jr., The Search for JFK (New York: Berkley, 1976), 267–306; on PT incident, see Hamilton, JFK, 581–602.
52. JFK to family, Aug. 13, 1943, box 2, JPKP.
53. REFK to children, Aug. 25, 1943, box 2, JPKP.
54. Joey Gargan, FB folders, EMKP.
55. REFK to children, Aug. 25, 1943, box 2, JPKP.
56. JPK to McInerny, Aug. 31, 1943, box 230, JPKP.
57. JPK to Taylor, Jr., Aug. 24, 1943, box 237, JPKP.
58. REFK to children, Oct. 27, 1943, box 2, JPKP.
59. JFK to JPK, Oct. 30, 1943, box 2, JPKP.
60. JPK to JFK, Nov. 4, 1943, box 3, JPKP.
61. Soucy to director, Oct. 18, 1943, Dec. 27, 1943, Hoover file, A 0729, FBI.
62. JPK to Calder, Dec. 20, 1943, box 216, JPKP.
63. JPK to PKL, Mar. 8, 1944, box 3, JPKP.
64. JPK to JPK, Jr., Feb. 21, 1944, box 3, JPKP.
65. Ross to JPK, May 18, 1944, box 52, New Yorker; JPK to JPK, Jr., May 24, 1944, JPKP.
66. KKH to family, Jan. 29, 1944, box 3, JPKP.
67. JPK to JPK, Jr., Feb. 21, 1944, box 3, JPKP.
68. KKH to family, Feb. 22, 1944, Smith, HTF, 574–77.
69. REFK to KKH, Feb. 24, 1944, Smith, HTF, 577–78.
70. Vivian Mercier, The Irish Comic Tradition (London: Oxford University Press, 1962), 47; JPK to KK, Mar. 8, 1944, box 3, JPKP.
71. KKH to JPK, REFK, Mar. 22, 1944, Smith, HTF, 580.
72. KKH to family, Apr. 4, 1944, Smith, HTF, 581–82.
73. JPK to KKH, Apr. 27, 1944, box 498, folder 11, Schlesinger.
74. REFK, “Notes,” n.d., Smith, HTF, 584.
75. JKS to author, Feb. 2, 2011.
76. Godfrey to Spellman, May 4, 1944, Smith, HTF, 586.
77. KKH to JPK, May 5, 1944, Smith, HTF, 586.
78. JPK, Jr., to JPK, May 7, 1944; KKH to JPK, May 8, 1944, Smith, HTF, 587.
79. KKH to REFK, May 9, 1944, Smith, HTF, 589–91.
80. JPK to JPK, Jr., May 24, 1944, box 3, JPKP.
81. JPK to Beaverbrook, May 24, 1944, d/400, Beaverbrook.
82. JPK, “Address . . . June 12, 1944,” box 255, JPKP.
83. CBL to JPK, June 12, 1944, box 228; JPK to JPK, Jr., Aug. 9, 1944, box 3, JPKP.
84. JPK to Houghton, July 7, 1944, box 224, JPKP.
85. JPK to Beaverbrook, May 24, 1944, d/400, Beaverbrook.
86. JPK, Jr., to REFK and JPK, July 26, 1944, Smith, HTF, 598.
87. JPK to JPK, Jr., Aug. 9, 1944, box 3, JPKP.
THIRTY: “A MELANCHOLY BUSINESS”
1. EMK, TC, 85–86; REFK, TTR, 257; JKS to author, Feb. 2, 2011.
2. JKS to author, Feb. 2, 2011; JPK, Jr., to JKS, n.d. [1942–1943], in author’s possession.
3. JPK to Howey, Mar. 4, 1954, box 223, JPKP.
4. JPK to Forrestal, Sept. 5, 1944, box 27, folder 86, Forrestal.
5. JPK to Kane, Sept. 8, 1944, box 225; JPK to Houghton, Sept. 11, 1944, box 224, JPKP.
6. JKS to author, Feb. 2, 2011.
7. Halifax, diaries, Sept. 19, 1944, Halifax.
8. JPK, “Diary Notes on the 1944 Political Campaign,” Smith, HTF, 605–12.
9. Halifax, diaries, Oct. 26, 1944, Halifax.
10. JPK, “Diary Notes on the 1944 Political Campaign,” Smith, HTF, 605–12.
11. Merle Miller, ed., Plain Speaking (New York: Berkley, 1974), 186.
12. JPK to Beaverbrook, Oct. 23, 1944, d/400, Beaverbrook.
13. JPK to Calder, Dec. 5, 1944, box 216, JPKP.
14. JPK to Houghton, May 28, June 21, 1945, box 224, JPKP.
15. H. W. Brands, Traitor to His Class (New York: Doubleday, 2008), 813.
16. JPK to KKH, May 1, 1945, Smith, HTF, 615–18.
17. HH, notes on meetings of Apr. 19, May 15, 1945, box 110, HHPLPPI.
18. Forrestal, diary, Dec. 27, 1945, Forrestal.
19. Robert I. Gannon, The Cardinal Spellman Story (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962), 359.
20. JPK to C. Patterson, Nov. 26, 1945, Smith, HTF, 622.
21. JPK, memorandum of conversation, Jan. 31, 1946, box 101, JPKP.
22. JPK, Colby Junior College commencement, June 17, 1946, box 255, JPKP.
23. Dinneen, cited in Whalen, The Founding Father, 388.
24. JPK to Kane, Mar. 19, Apr. 6, 1945, box 225, JPKP.
25. JPK to KKH, May 1, 1945, Smith, HTF, 615–18.
26. JPK to KKH, May 1, 1945, box 3, JPKP.
27. JPK, memorandum, June, 1945, box 101, JPKP.
28. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times (1978; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), 59; JPK to Kane, Mar. 19, 1945, box 225, JPKP.
29. EMK, TC, 40; EMK to author, Aug. 21, 2007.
30. EKS, oral history, box 42, Blair; http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/hh-fam/ms2.csv.
31. JPK to EKS, Feb. 12, Oct. 7, 1945, box 8, folder 60, EKSP.
32. Fayne to JPK, Mar. 25, 1945, box 219, JPKP.
33. JKS to author, Feb. 2, Oct. 5, 2011.
34. See statements from Arthur Andersen & Co., Mar. 1947, JPKP.
35. Real estate records, w.b. 34, JPKP.
36. NYT, Sept. 29, Oct. 4, 1944.
37. CK to author, Apr. 2, 2009; JPK to Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, “In re Merchandise Mart,” n.d., w.b. 22; JPK to McCormack, Sept. 5, 1945, box 230, JPKP.
38. Ollman, FB folders, EMKP.
39. CK to author, Apr. 2, 2009.
40. Ollman, FB folders, EMKP.
41. Heddal, FB folders, EMKP.
THIRTY-ONE: THE CANDIDATE’S FATHER
1. JPK, address, Apr. 17, 1945, box 255, JPKP.
2. CSM, Aug. 18, 1945.
3. Burns to JPK, Dec. 29, 1944, in author’s possession.
4. Forrestal to JPK, July 14, 1945, folder 86, box 27, Forrestal.
5. Forrestal to JPK, Sept. 8, 1945, in Blair and Blair, Jr., The Search for JFK, 440.
6. JPK to Calder, Aug. 22, 1945, box 216, JPKP.
7. Sam Stavisky, “Where Does the Veteran Stand Today?” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 259 (Sept. 1948): 134.
8. JFK to Donnelly, Dec. 17, 1945, box 11, JFKPP.
9. EKS in Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, 707.
10. Mark Dalton, oral history, Aug. 4, 1964, JPKOHP; JPK to Kane, Feb. 11, 1946, box 225, JPKP.
11. Dalton, in Whitehead et al., The Kennedys.
12. JPK to Krock, Feb. 28, 1946, Smith, HTF, 625.
13. JPK to Kane, Smith, HTF, 625–26.
14. Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall, America’s Cold War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), 67.
15. JPK to Cropley, Feb. 25, 1946, box 217, JPKP.
16. Life, Mar. 18, 1946, 36.
17. Hacker report, Mar. 14, 1946, series III, box 51, folder 11, Knopf records; JPK to Emily Morison, Mar. 25, 1946, general correspondence, box 7, folder 7, Knopf.
18. Samuel Bornstein, oral history, Apr. 15, 1977, JFKOHP; Kenneth P. O’Donnell and David F. Powers, with Joe McCarthy, “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye” (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1970), 72; JPK to McKelvey, May 4, 1946, box 31, JPKP.
19. REFK to KK, June 6, 1946, box 3, JPKP.
20. John Droney, oral history, Nov. 30, 1964, JFKOHP; Dalton, in Whitehead et al., The Kennedys.
21. KKH to JFK, July 13, 1946, Smith, HTF, 627.
22. JPK to Houghton, July 30, 1946, box 224, JPKP.
23. See materials in Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, box 9, JFKPP.
24. Truman, “Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, Mar. 12, 1947, in http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/trudoc.asp.
25. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, 69.
26. Krock, Memoirs, 338; NYT, Mar. 12, 1947.
27. “The New Appeasement,” Mar. 29, 1947; Reston, NYT, Mar. 23, 1947; A. J. Muste, NYT, Mar. 16, 1947.
28. Douglas, Go East, Young Man, 200.
29. Coniff, NYJA, Apr. 30, 1947.
THIRTY-TWO: FAMILY MATTERS
1. JPK to Ordway, Nov. 17, 1950, box 232, JPKP.
2. KKH to family, n.d., box 3; REFK to girls, July 25, 1949, box 3, JPKP.
3. JPK to Calder, July 31, 1946, box 216, JPKP.
4. Commissioner of Internal Revenue to JPK, [1947], w.b. 22, JPKP.
5. “How to Have Your Own Foundation,” Fortune, Aug. 1947.
6. “Information guide,” Aug. 8, 1946, box 9, JFKPP.
7. BP, Aug. 13, 1947; “Archbishop Cushing Announces,” Feb. 16, 1956, box 221, JPKP.
8. Brian Burns to author, Apr. 22, 2010.
9. Landis, oral history, 552–53, CUOH.
10. Landis to JPK, July 20, 1951, box 51, LandisLC; JPK to Palmer, Mar. 22, 1955, box 233, JPKP.
11. JPK to KKH, June 10, 1947, bo
x 3, JPKP.
12. JPK, Hotel Continental speech, Oct. 23, 1947, box 256, JPKP; Dalton, oral history, JPKOHP.
13. JPK, Hotel Continental speech, Oct. 23, 1947, box 256, JPKP.
14. BP, Apr. 18, 1948.
15. Cunningham, “Kennedy Plan Purposeful,” BH, May 20, 1948.
16. KKH to JKP, July 2, 1947, box 3, JPKP.
17. JPK, May 14, 1948, Smith, HTF, 636.
18. Much of this account is taken from Lynn McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times (New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1983), 224–38; Leaming, Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman, 194.
19. JPK to Beaverbrook, July 27, 1948, c/193, Beaverbrook.
20. JPK to Duchess of Devonshire, Sept. 1, 1948, Smith, HTF, 637.
21. Cavanaugh, FB folders, EMKP.
22. Landis, memorandum on Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Memorial, Sept. 26, 1951, box 217, JPKP.
23. JPK to EKS, Jan. 25, 1950, box 4, JPKP.
24. Ange to JPK, Jan. 25, 1950, box 266; JPK to Ange, Jan. 31, 1950, box 266, JPKP.
25. Landis, memorandum on Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Memorial,” Sept. 26, 1951, box 217; JPK to Ange, Aug. 8, 1951, box 266, JPKP.
26. JPK to Wright, Sept. 18, 1951, box 266, JPKP.
27. Cushing to JPK, Sept. 27, 1951, box 217, JPKP.
28. JPK to Cushing, Aug. 6, 1952, box 217, JPKP.
29. Cushing to JPK, Aug. 10, 1952, box 217, JPKP.
30. Cushing, FB folders, EMKP.
31. Spellman to JPK, Aug. 21, 1950, with enclosure of Spellman to Hartford, July 31, 1950, S/C-78, folder 10, AANY.
32. NYT, Sept. 8, Oct. 30, 1950.
33. JPK to Ford, Dec. 3, 1948, box 220, JPKP; Cushing to JPK, Dec. 4, 1948, Cushing.
34. Sister Maureen to Ford, Dec. 21, 1948, box 220, JPKP.
35. JPK to Ford, Dec. 31, 1948, box 220, JPKP.
36. Daniel Bellei to author, June 2, 2010; JKS to author, Apr. 27, 2009; REFK, TTR, 245.
37. Ford to Sister Anastasia; Ford to Danforth, Jan. 16, 1950; JPK to Ford, Sept. 24, 1951, box 220, JPKP.
38. Sister Anastasia to Ford, May 21, 1958, w.b. 3, JPKP.
39. JPK to Sister Anastasia, May 29, 1958, w.b. 3, JPKP.
THIRTY-THREE: “THE GREAT DEBATE”
1. JPK to Truman, Jan. 31, 1950, box 237, JPKP.
2. JPK, “Summary of Talk,” June 30, 1950, Smith, HTF, 638–41.
3. JPK to Galeazzi, July 3, 1950, box 221, JPKP.
4. Robert Donovan, Tumultuous Years (New York: Norton, 1982), 309, 275; Melvyn Leffler, A Preponderance of Power (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), 398; Arnold A. Offner, Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945–1953 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002), 396.