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the radical students: vanden Heuvel and Gwirtzman, p. 168.
when he learned: Ibid., p. 169.
“I’m afraid I would”: Ibid.
On November 22: vanden Heuvel and Gwirtzman, p. 171.
“I’m against it—in all cases”: Mankiewicz, p. 190.
20. AFFIRMATION
“It is from numberless diverse”: Robert Kennedy “Day of Affirmation” speech, University of Cape Town, South Africa, June 6, 1966.
“nervous Nellies”: Lyndon B. Johnson remarks at a Democratic Party dinner in Chicago, May 17, 1966.
“I am an old man”: vanden Heuvel and Gwirtzman, p. 209.
“regain its proper course”: Ibid.
“France and General de Gaulle”: “Must Accept French Peace Help, Bobby,” Chicago Tribune, February 1, 1967.
A later one in: “Kennedy ‘Signal’ in Capital: Report of Peace Feeler from Hanoi Strains Senator’s Relations with Johnson,” The New York Times, February 6, 1967.
over the course of: Schlesinger, p. 768.
“It’s not my State Department”: Ibid.
“to shuttle back and forth”: Edward Kennedy, True Compass, p. 249.
Bobby proposed: Mankiewicz, p. 164.
“There isn’t a chance in hell”: Schlesinger, p. 768.
“I’ll destroy you and every one”: Ibid.
“These guys are out of their minds”: Ibid.
“As one who was involved”: Newfield, p. 137.
“Let us reflect for a moment”: Schlesinger, p. 733.
“the poor, white and negro”: Address by Martin Luther King, Jr., The Nation Institute, Los Angeles, California, February 25, 1967.
he refused to side with antiwar: Schlesinger, p. 774.
presented an hour-long: “The Image of America and the Youth of the World,” RFK with Governor Ronald Reagan, CBS Television and Radio, May 15, 1967.
“One of Reagan’s many”: Mankiewicz, p. 166.
“My God, I didn’t know”: Schlesinger, p. 795.
“He was so passionate”: Author interview with Ethel Kennedy.
21. THE MOVEMENT
One of the antiwar speakers: Theodore H. White, The Making of the President 1972 (New York: HarperCollins: 2010), p. 81.
“I love Bobby Kennedy more”: Ibid., p. 84.
“People would say that”: Steel, p. 140.
“I must have spoken”: White, p. 82.
Deciding to call together: Schlesinger, Journals, p. 273.
He was aware that his brother: Schlesinger, Journals, p. 273.
Ted was one of those: vanden Heuvel and Gwirtzman, p. 278.
Bobby wasn’t at the meeting: Newfield, p. 192.
“The consensus of the meeting”: vanden Heuvel and Gwirtzman, p. 279.
On October 12, the National Mobilization: Jeff Leen, “The Vietnam Protests: When Worlds Collided,” Washington Post, September 27, 1999.
“It was like looking for your father”: White, p. 82.
“His general feeling is that”: Schlesinger, Journals, p. 264.
“He thinks that McCarthy’s”: Ibid.
“They say I’m committing”: Sandbrook, p. 172.
“As the party’s heir apparent”: Bill Clinton, My Life: The Early Years (New York: Vintage, 2005), p. 118.
A meeting at Bill vanden Heuvel’s apartment: Edward Kennedy, True Compass, p. 252.
The two Teds: Newfield, p. 193.
“We haven’t decided anything”: Schlesinger, Journals, p. 270.
In the year-end issue: Newfield, pp. 195–96.
“I just have to decide now”: Ibid., p. 196.
“I don’t want it to hurt”: Ibid.
22. VIGIL
“My problem is that”: Newfield, p. 199.
Ted Kennedy was the one person: Clymer, p. 105.
“We weren’t that far away”: Ibid.
Ted knew their father: Edward Kennedy, True Compass, p. 262.
Yet Ted also was willing: Ibid.
“It was not just the war”: Ibid., p. 264.
Ted believed his brother: Ibid.
At a New York dinner in early January: Schlesinger, Journals, p. 273.
urging him on whose agendas were their own: Ibid.
“Suppose, in the middle”: Ibid., p. 274.
“prepared to escalate or de-escalate”: Ibid., p. 277.
“I have told friends and supporters”: Steel, p. 144.
Mankiewicz stopped the departing reporters: Clymer, p. 104.
But the far more: Ibid., p. 104.
In one city, Hue, alone: “The Massacre at Hue,” Time, October 31, 1969.
“The views that I represent”: Joan Walsh, “44 Years Ago, Harry Belafonte Hosted the Tonight Show—And It Was Amazing: He Interviewed RFK and MLK Months Before Their Death. Fifteen of Twenty-five Guests Were African American,” The Nation, February 16, 2017.
“We have been too often disappointed”: CBS News, Walter Cronkite editorial on the Vietnam War, February 27, 1968.
“You must run for president”: Mankiewicz, p. 198.
“Clean for Gene”: Ken Rudin, “Remembering Eugene McCarthy,” NPR, December 12, 2005.
“beat the spread”: Sandbrook, p. 177.
winning over 42 percent to Johnson’s: White, p. 102.
“I don’t blame him at all”: Schlesinger, Journals, p. 280.
“What do I do now?”: Richard Goodwin, Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties, 1st ed., p. 516.
“He failed to realize”: Ibid., p. 520.
“I’m reassessing the possibility”: Clymer, p. 107.
“If it could be done”: Ted Sorensen, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Oral History Collection.
On Thursday morning, two days after: Newfield, p. 221.
A cornerstone of the presentation: Ibid.
with his new boss’s thumbs-down: vanden Heuvel and Gwirtzman, p. 312.
“Better reserve the Senate Caucus Room for tomorrow”: Mankiewicz, p. 173.
23. DEFIANCE
I credit Jack Newfield for my appreciation of Robert Kennedy, both as public figure and close-up human being. No one else has written as well about the tragic last months of this heroic figure.
“To take arms against a sea of troubles”: William Shakespeare, Hamlet.
he dispatched Ted to Wisconsin: Clymer, p. 109.
Abigail, listened to Ted: Ibid.
“What do you think I should do?”: Schlesinger, Journals, p. 283.
“Why not come out for”: Ibid.
“I can’t do it”: Ibid.
“by splitting the Democratic party”: Ibid., p. 284.
Dave Hackett signed on to put together: David L. Hackett, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Oral History Collection.
the plan was sixteen states: Steel, p. 170.
“Roars rolled out one after another”: Mankiewicz, p. 175.
Standing there before a fifteen-thousand: Thomas, p. 362.
“But past error is no excuse”: Guthman, p. 239.
Driving him, he declared: Robert F. Kennedy remarks at the University of Kansas, March 18, 1968, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
“feel the fabric ripping”: Clark, p. 50.
referred to him as a “demagogue”: Shesol, p. 426.
8,500 students at the University of Alabama: Newfield, p. 236.
“You don’t understand”: Ibid.
Lyndon Johnson had announced: Ibid., p. 243.
“The thing I feared from the first day”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (New York: Open Roads Media, 2015), p. 343.
“For all the advantages that we have”: Transcript of Robert F. Kennedy remarks at Notre Dame University, Irving Gymnasium, April 4, 1968.
“You’re placing a great deal”: Ibid.
As they were about to leave Muncie: Mankiewicz, p. 179.
“It grieves me”: Robert F. Kennedy to John J. Lindsay of Newsweek, in Schlesinger, p. 874.
“There were some people saying
”: Christopher Matthews, “Of Kennedy and King,” Image Magazine, San Francisco Examiner, June 6, 1993.
“Our local campaign leadership”: Mankiewicz, p. 179.
the local police who’d been assigned: Ibid.
“What am I going to say?”: Matthews, “Of Kennedy and King.”
his listeners didn’t believe: Ibid.
“Martin Luther King dedicated his life”: Robert F. Kennedy statement on assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana, April 4, 1968, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
“member of my family”: Matthews, “Of Kennedy and King.”
he believed in law and order: Richard Goodwin, Remembering America, p. 530.
scenes of the rioting on TV: Ibid.
At the City Club: Robert F. Kennedy speech transcript, Cleveland City Club, April 5, 1968, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
“That being touched all the time”: Clark, p. 212.
“The people here were fair to me”: Newfield, p. 261.
receiving 42 percent of the vote: “How Bobby Kennedy Won the ’68 Indiana Primary,” Newsweek, May 19, 1968.
“His inner urge toward defiance”: Richard Goodwin, Remembering America, p. 529.
“I’ve proved I can really be”: Clark, p. 219.
24. SACRIFICE
McCarthy had touched down in Nebraska for a single day: vanden Heuvel and Gwirtzman, p. 351.
“At every stage of the campaign”: Ibid., p. 322.
“Name something you’ve done”: Guthman, p. 241.
It was the first time he’d lost: Thomas, p. 382.
“He was devastated by that loss”: RFK, American Experience, PBS, July 2004.
“His graciousness in conceding defeat”: Patrick J. Buchanan, The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority (New York: Crown, 2014), p. 264.
“I’m not in much of a position”: Richard Goodwin, Remembering America, p. 533.
“I will work with all of you”: RFK, American Experience, PBS, July 2004.
a student had spat in his face: Richard Goodwin, Remembering America, p. 533.
“He’s getting more and more death threats”: Jim Whittaker, A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond (Seattle: Mountaineers Books, 2013).
“I can accept the fact I”: Newfield, p. 271.
asked his Washington Post editor: Ibid., p. 262.
“I’d like to say something nice”: Richard Goodwin, Remembering America, p. 537.
“You know, I feel now”: KOD interview.
Pilgrim’s Way, Jack’s favorite book: Thomas, p. 40.
“I have an association with those”: KOD interview with Sander Vanocur, NBC News.
25. SALUTE
“Is everybody else all right?”: Thomas, Robert Kennedy, p. 391.
“Senator Robert Francis Kennedy died”: Mankiewicz, p. 150.
“was that he felt the same empathy”: Newfield, p. 8.
On the morning after the shooting: John Glenn, A Memoir (New York: Bantam, 1999), p. 425.
“ ‘If there is any period one’ ”: “The American Scholar,” an address delivered by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Cambridge, MA, August 1837.
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INDEX
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Page numbers in italics refer to photographs.
ABC, 123, 335
Abel, Rudolf, 232
Abernathy, Ralph, 239
Acheson, Dean, 78, 229
Aeschylus, 255, 326
AFL-CIO, 240
African Americans, 16, 280, 294, 323–24, 328
at Justice Department, 214–15
see also civil rights
Alsop, Joe, 178
Americans for Democratic Action, 103
American Veterans Committee, 103
Arlington National Cemetery, 8
Army, U.S.:
Army-McCarthy hearings, 123–26
Communism and, 118, 120–23
Bahia, 277
Bailey, John, 133
Baldwin, James, 241, 242
Ball State University, 323–24
Barnett, Ross, 221–22
Bartlett, Charlie, 98, 183, 226
Bates College, 56, 57