“I don’t think…”: Jane Suydam, author interview.
“eyes filled with…”: Ibid.
“the humiliation she…”: Lem Billings quoted in Goodwin, Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys.
“I expect to be…”: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla von Post, March 2, 1953, Legendary Auctions.
“never alone”: Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy.
“It now appears…”: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla von Post, June 28, 1953, Legendary Auctions.
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“kind of strange”: Elmer Bartels, interview, Massachusetts Historical Society.
“behind the drapes”: Ibid.
“good control”: Ibid.
As late as August: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla von Post, August 16, 1954, Legendary Auctions.
By September: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla von Post, September 13, 1954, Legendary Auctions.
“a normal life…” Bill Adler, The Uncommon Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Portrait in Her Own Words (Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel, 1994).
“spend weekends with”: Ibid.
“I don’t care.…”: Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (New York: Hyperion, 2011).
self-dramatizing: Isaiah Berlin, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.
“liberated”: Frank Waldrop, interview, Massachusetts Historical Society.
to take notes: Martin, A Hero for Our Time.
“American cousin”: Anne Tree, author interview.
“the brightest man…”: Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy.
“the most wounded”: Ibid.
virtually as a brother: Andrew Devonshire, author interview.
“short straw in life”: Ibid.
“prime runner”: Victoria Lloyd, author interview.
“another cousin”: Alexander Stockton, author interview.
Jackie prayed: Carl Sferrazza Anthony, As We Remember Her: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the Words of Her Family and Friends (New York: Harper Perennial, 2003.)
ten days: Jacqueline Kennedy to Henry Luce, 1954, Library of Congress.
“It will be…”: Jacqueline Kennedy to Lyndon B. Johnson, November 4, 1954, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.
“I was terribly…”: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla von Post, November 11, 1954, Legendary Auctions.
“without fail”: Ibid.
haunted him: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla von Post, December 18, 1954, Legendary Auctions.
to fantasize about: Ibid.
“just to keep…” Jacqueline Kennedy, Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy.
“foreign ideology that…”: John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956).
arranging to have a backup: John F. Kennedy to Elsa Fogelstrom, August 22, 1955, Legendary Auctions.
“to work and learn…” Evelyn Lincoln, My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy (New York: McKay, 1965).
telegraphed Gunilla: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla von Post, August 10, 1955, Legendary Auctions.
contacted his father: John F. Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, n.d., in Amanda Smith, ed., Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy (New York: Viking, 2001).
reported to Gunilla: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla von Post, August 22, 1955, Legendary Auctions.
“It’s best if…”: Janet Travell, Office Hours Day and Night: The Autobiography of Janet Travell, M.D. (New York: New American Library, 1968).
a one-story house: Janet Auchincloss, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.
drawers and shoe shelves: Ibid.
“very intrigued”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Edward Kennedy, September 3, 1955, John F. Kennedy Library.
“surreptitious candidacy”: Herbert S. Parmet, Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy (New York: Dial, 1980).
expected to go with George Smathers: John F. Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, June 29, 1956, John F. Kennedy Library.
“redneck”: George Smathers, Senate interview.
disliked Smathers: Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy.
Smathers for his part: George Smathers, author interview.
that politician had been George Smathers: Ted Sorensen, Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History (New York: Harper, 2008).
“Don’t feel sorry…”: Parmet, Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy.
crying openly: George Smathers, Senate interview.
“like Jack in a wig”: Deborah Devonshire, author interview.
“very disappointed”: George Smathers, Senate interview.
“Jackie got too excited…”: Travell, Office Hours Day and Night.
“I could really be president…”: George Smathers, Senate interview.
“Why don’t you…”: Ibid.
“pulled something fishy”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978).
“raging spirit”: Charles Spalding, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.
“fight his way to the top”: Ibid.
“Action Man”: Jane Ormsby-Gore, author interview.
at the urging of George Smathers: George Smathers, author interview.
worried that: Lem Billings quoted in Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987).
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“Let’s face it.…”: Laura Bergquist, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.
“modeled himself, his gestures…”: Charles Spalding, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.
“picked up a lot…”: Laura Bergquist, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.
“passionate self-effacement”: Ibid.
“self-abnegation”: Joseph Alsop to Theodore Sorensen, November 10, 1960, Library of Congress.
“such a crush”: Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (New York: Hyperion, 2011).
“a relationship that…”: McGeorge Bundy, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.
“more than fair”: Ted Sorensen, Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History (New York: Harper, 2008).
“sneaky”: Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy.
“rather heatedly”: Laura Bergquist, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.
“Well, that’s not…”: Ibid.
wheeled in the newborn: Janet Auchincloss, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.
“I don’t think…”: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.
he later told: Deborah Devonshire, author interview.
“starter”: Joseph Alsop to Jacqueline Kennedy, September 9, 1964, Library of Congress.
“a higher handicap”: Ibid.
“as sizable as…”: Igor Cassini, I’d Do It All Over Again (New York: Putnam, 1977).
“objects that are…”: Joseph Alsop to Jayne Wrightsman, September 30, 1960, Library of Congress.
“as a true, independent…”: Ibid.
“sloppy kid”: William Walton, interview, Massachusetts Historical Society.
“at cross purposes…”: Jacqueline Kennedy to Joseph Alsop, n.d., Library of Congress.
“She got elegant…”: William Walton, interview, Massachusetts Historical Society.
ran out of the room in tears: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.
“on the Churchill ticket”: Harold Macmillan diary, Bodleian Library, Oxford University.
Churchill had first met Onassis: Anthony Montague Browne, Long Sunset: Memoirs of Winston Churchill’s Last Private Secretary (London: Cassell, 1995); and Martin Gilbert, Never Despair: Winston S. Churchill, 1945–1965 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988).
“the man or…”: Lord Moran, Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940–1965: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966).
“He is a…” Ibid.
“so hungry”: Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy.
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“his first…”: William Walton, interview, Massachusetts Historical Society.
“from the ravages…”: Joseph Alsop, I’ve Seen the Best of It: Memoirs (New York: Norton, 1992).
“The Auchinclosses lived…”: William Walton, interview, Massachusetts Historical Society.
“She knew all about…”: Frank Langella, Dropped Names (New York: Harper, 2012).
“really worth it”: Jacqueline Kennedy to Joseph Alsop, n.d., Library of Congress.
“It’s the only…”: Ibid.
reported to the decorator: Apple Parish Bartlett and Susan Bartlett Crater, Sister: The Life of the Legendary American Interior Designer Mrs. Henry Parish II (New York: St. Martin’s, 2000).
a gift for Jackie: Joseph Alsop to Eunice Shriver, August 4, 1960, Library of Congress.
“a ghastly little…”: Jacqueline Kennedy to Joseph Alsop, n.d., Library of Congress.
“adore”: Ibid.
“plain Mrs. Kennedy…”: Joseph Alsop to Jacqueline Kennedy, August 4, 1960, Library of Congress.
He suggested: Ibid.
“unreasonable”: Jacqueline Kennedy to Joseph Alsop, n.d., Library of Congress.
“I couldn’t…”: New York Times, September 15, 1960.
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“I had worked…”: Thomas Maier, The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings (New York: Basic Books, 2003).
“It took…”: Billy Baldwin, Billy Baldwin Remembers (New York: Harcourt, 1974).
a bantering manner: Letitia Baldrige, author interview.
“Jack got so…”: Jacqueline Kennedy, Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (New York: Hyperion, 2011).
boasting of a 72 percent: David Ormsby-Gore to Harold Macmillan, March 1, 1961, Public Record Office, Kew.
“shattered”: Chester Bowles Notes on Cuban Crisis, April 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy Library.
“an acute shock”: Ibid.
“inept”: Hervé Alphand, L’étonnement d’être, Journal 1939–1973 (Paris: Fayard, 1977).
“a soft, not very…”: Chester Bowles, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.
“She was undone…”: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.
her first injection: Max Jacobson, unpublished memoir.
Max Jacobson: Author background interviews with Patrick O’Neal and Betty Coxe Spalding.
he did not like: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.
In the course of their visit: Max Jacobson, unpublished memoir.
“the hit of…”: Kenneth P. O’Donnell and David F. Powers: Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (New York: Little, Brown, 1970).
“It’s not that…”: Larry Newman, author interview.
“as a means of…”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., A Thousand Days (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965).
enjoyed a tryst: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.
“He liked her…”: George Smathers, author interview.
“She quit bothering…”: Ibid.
“He loves pleasure…”: Alphand, L’étonnement d’être.
“low-key”: Mary Taylor, author interview.
“She was very…”: Ibid.
“a proper trip”: Larry Newman, author interview.
“I never saw…”: Ibid.
“Would you not…”: Concerned Citizens of America press release, August 29, 1962, John F. Kennedy Library.
“They had turned…”: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.
“never seen anything…”: Ibid.
“good for her”: Pamela Turnure and Nancy Tuckerman, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.
“a poor impression”: Henry Labouisse to Dean Rusk, September 3, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.
angry letter-writers: White House social files, Jacqueline Kennedy Greek trip, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.
“gesture of contrition”: First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: Memorial Tributes in the One Hundred Third Congress of the United States (Washington, D. C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995).
“big, hesitant smile”: Notes of Mrs. Johnson, June 15, 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.
“I think she…”: Pamela Turnure and Nancy Tuckerman, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.
“almost the focus…”: Charles Roberts, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.
“You were great…”: William Manchester, The Death of a President (New York: Harper & Row, 1967).
“And, then…”: Maier, The Kennedys.
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If only she had been looking to the right: Jacqueline Kennedy, Warren Commission testimony.
random backfire: Theodore White, original notes delivered to Mrs. Kennedy, December 19, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.
“My God, they are…”: Nellie Connally, notes on the assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.
First with her right, then with…: Zapruder film and film stills; Gerald Posner, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (New York: Random House, 1993).
“I have his brains…” Nellie Connally, notes on the assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.
feared she was about: Dave Powers, Warren Commission testimony.
pushed her: Clint Hill, Warren Commission testimony.
to keep the brains: Theodore White, original notes delivered to Mrs. Kennedy, December 19, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.
“He’s dead…”: Ibid.
“No, I want…”: Paul Landis, Secret Service internal report testimony.
judged that the president: Posner, Case Closed.
looking but not seeing: Clint Hill, Mrs. Kennedy and Me (New York: Gallery, 2012).
pushed her out of the way: Diana Bowman, Warren Commission testimony.
dropped to her knees: Dr. Malcolm Perry, Warren Commission testimony.
erupted from his skull: Dr. Marion Jenkins, Warren Commission testimony.
presented him with a fragment: Posner, Case Closed.
in four sheets: Doris Nelson, Warren Commission testimony.
plastic mattress cover: Ibid.
“deathly still”: Charles Roberts, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.
“a completely glazed…” Ibid.
In the belief that any delay…: Kenneth O’Donnell, Warren Commission testimony.
“We arrived…”: Kenneth O’Donnell, interview, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.
Gazing in the bathroom mirror: Theodore White, original notes delivered to Mrs. Kennedy, December 19, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.
“almost saturated…”: Charles Roberts, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.
“were in a…”: Liz Carpenter, December 1963 notes on assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.
sweltering: Charles Roberts, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.
“by the elbows”: Ibid.
“God bless you…”: Ibid.
“streaked with tears”: Liz Carpenter, December 1963 notes on assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.
“a kind of chemical…”: Joseph Alsop, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.
“It was as though…”: Ibid.
those returning from the battlefield: See Charles W. Hoge, Once a Warrior, Always a Warrior (Guilford, Conn.: GPP Life, 2010).
spoke of the motorcade: William Manchester, The Death of a President (New York: Harper & Row, 1967).
bereaved and traumatized: On the distinction, see Lenore Terr, Too Scared to Cry: Psychic Trauma in Childhood (New York: Harper & Row, 1990).
talkathon: Manchester, Death of a President.
“She moved in a…”: Benjamin C. Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy (New York: Norton, 1975).
“She was in…”: Robert McNamara quoted in Manchester, Death of a President.
“keyed up”: Manchester, Death of a President.
it was quickly discovered: George W. Ball, The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs (New York: Norton, 1982).
“under no circumstances…”: Merle Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography (New York: Ballantine, 1981).
might target: Ball, Past Has Another Pattern.
revenge-seeker: Ibid.
“They can ride…”: Hill, Mrs. Kennedy and Me.
“I shall walk…”: Dean Rusk, As I Saw It (New York: Norton, 1990).
“From the tone…”: Rita Dallas, The Kennedy Case (New York: Putnam, 1973).
“in total detail”: Ibid.
“total recall”: Theodore White, original notes delivered to Mrs. Kennedy, December 19, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.
“the scene took over…”: Theodore H. White, In Search of History: A Personal Adventure (New York: Harper & Row, 1978).
“provoked John Kennedy…”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978).
“When this is over…”: Theodore White, original notes delivered to Mrs. Kennedy, December 19, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.
“I said to myself…”: Ibid.
“blood scene”: White, In Search of History.
“it was all told…”: Ibid.
“There’d been…”: Theodore White, original notes delivered to Mrs. Kennedy, December 19, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.
“softly”: White, In Search of History.
“These big Texas…”: Theodore White, original notes delivered to Mrs. Kennedy, December 19, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.
“she lived the…”: White, In Search of History.
the brain’s limbic system: On the nature of limbic memory, see Hoge, Once a Warrior.
“floodgates”: Jacqueline Kennedy, interview, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.
“I want to say…”: Theodore White, original notes delivered to Mrs. Kennedy, December 19, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.
“lonely sick boy”: Ibid.
“reverted to the…”: White, In Search of History.
“satin-red history”: Theodore White’s handwritten notes of Camelot interview with Jacqueline Kennedy, November 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.
“rough-typed”: Theodore White to Jacqueline Kennedy, April 27, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.
“historical material”: Ibid.
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“I just wanted…”: Lyndon Johnson conversation with Jacqueline Kennedy, December 2, 1963, Miller Center, University of Virginia.
initially hoped: Deborah Devonshire diary.
“didn’t dare bother”: Lyndon Johnson conversation with Jacqueline Kennedy, December 2, 1963, Miller Center, University of Virginia.
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