360 “Russian doctors are …”: ibid., p. 307.
361 about twenty pounds: Boston Globe, October 23, 1955.
361 “As a result…”: Douglas, p. 307.
362 Bobby not only edited: Robert F. Kennedy to David Lawrence, October 5, 1955, RFK papers, JFKPL.
362 invited a reporter: Boston Globe, October 23, 1955.
362 Yet he agreed: Maggie Duckett to Robert F. Kennedy, September 27, 1955, RFK papers, JFKPL.
362 “The pictures were …”: quoted in RKHT, p. 127. 362 He was still mining: New York Times Magazine, April 8, 1956. 362 “I hope the United States…”: Robert F. Kennedy to J. Edgar Hoover, September 11, 1956, FBIFOI.
362 “cherish it even more”: C. A. Evans to Mr. Rosen, March 5, 1957, FBIFOI.
363 Ethel’s losses began: New York Times, October 5, 1955.
363 sometimes he had to: “Because of weather Ethel refuses to fly so we’re delaying our trip until next week.” Robert F. Kennedy to Murray Kempton, telegram, October 8, 1957, RFK papers, JFKPL.
363 “Bobby accompanied …”: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.
363 “He’s got no balls”: WNJ, p. 115.
364 “an appearance of insincerity”: RKHT, p. 135.
364 “Oh, my God …”: quoted in John Bartlow Martin, Adlai Stevenson and the World (1977), p. 235. 364 women nearly fainted: “Dem Ladies Mob ‘Elvis’ Kennedy,” clipping, JFKPP.
364 “I hate to impinge …”: Robert F. Kennedy to Adlai Stevenson, Illinois State University at Normal, DHP.
365 “He had a tendency…”: Clark R. Mollenhoff, Tentacles of Power (1965), p. 129.
365 “Occasionally, I…”: ibid., p. 124.
365 He argued with: RKHT, p. 142.
366 “Unless you are …”: ibid., p. 141.
367 “out of his investigation …”: Louisville Courier-Journal, March 24, 1957. 367 walked out of a speech: Joseph E. Persico, Edward R. Murrow: An American Original (1997), p. 485.
367 “were charming and poised …”: New York Times, September 14, 1957. 367 “We have been working …”: Francis X. Morrissey to Robert F. Kennedy, February 10, 1958, RFK papers, JFKPL. 367 taken steps to ensure: ibid., March 28, 1958.
367 “I think some reporter…”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Robert F. Kennedy, n.d. (probably 1957), family correspondence, RFK papers, JFKPL.
368 his Christmas gift list contained: 1957 gift list, RFK papers, JFKPL.
368 The next summer: James Brady, “How Conveniently We Forget What Hoffa Really Was,” Advertising Age, December 2, 1996.
368 he even suggested: Murray Kempton to Robert F. Kennedy, telegram, n.d., RFK papers, JFKPL.
368 “ought to be cleared …”: Robert F. Kennedy to Jack Anderson, April 18, 1957, RFK papers, JFKPL.
368 “My objective has always …”: Jack Anderson to Robert F. Kennedy, April 26, 1957, RFK papers, JFKPL.
368 “if there are some steps…”: Robert F. Kennedy to FCC Chairman George C. McConnaughey, May 30, 1957, RFK papers, JFKPL.
368 “Spoken bits of praise …”: Clark R. Mollenhoff to Robert F. Kennedy, December 23, 1957, RFK papers, JFKPL.
368 Bobby called in: Patrick Munroe, KLOH.
369 “[Bobby’s] ‘a great…”: Boston Globe, March 20, 1957.
369 “the look of a man …”: TEW, p. 74.
370 “Nobody can describe …”: quoted in Dan E. Moldea, The Hoffa Wars: Teamsters, Rebels, Politicians, and the Mob (1978), p. 26.
370 he wanted to be present when: Mr. Jones to Mr. DeLoach, September 19, 1959, FBIFOI.
370 suggesting that Cheasty was anti-black: Arthur A. Sloane, Hoffa (1991), P-71.
371 “Come on now …”: Stein and Plimpton, pp. 57-58.
371 “the work of Williams …”: TEW, p. 58.
371 “Oh, I used to …”: RFK, pp. 107-8.
371 “a young, dim-witted, curly-headed …”: Kansas City Star, July 23, 1961, FBIFOI.
371 “Is there any …”: RFK, p. 111.
372 “relentless, vindictive …”: Alexander Bickel, “The Case Against Him for Attorney General,” The New Republic, January 9, 1961.
372 “The sworn statements…”: Clark Mollenhoff to Robert F. Kennedy, January 8, 1957 (but possibly 1958), HP.
373 Every day Ethel sat: Washington Star, March 24, 1957.
373 “mash notes”: New York Daily News, August 24, 1957.
373 “It’s ridiculous to wait…”: San Francisco News, July 12, 1957.
373 The two men went: Stein and Plimpton, p. 56.
373-74 “I don’t understand …”: TEW, p. 144.
374 He took startling restimony: Walter Sheridan, The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa (1972), pp. 99-100.
374 interviewing 1,525 witnesses: Sloane, p. 159.
374 15 unions and more than 50 companies: Robert F. Kennedy, “An Urgent Reform Plan,” Life, June 1, 1959.
374 “appalling public apathy”: ibid.
374 He ate gourmet meals: Sloane, p. 139.
375 “At thirty-three …”: notes on The Jack Paar Show, June 23, 1959, Museum of Broadcasting, DHP.
375 “My God, this is…”: oral history, Howard E. Shuman, U.S. Senate Historical Office.
375 “Did that tragic episode …”: quoted in JFKOA, p. 20.
376 Of the 138 editorials: ibid., p. 21.
376 “You lucky mush”: Bums, p. 196.
377 “I’ve got a very important…”: LL interview with Arnold Beichman, and New York Post, December 12, 1997.
18. The Rites of Ambition
378 “wary of being known …”: SJFK, p. 407.
378 “It’s awful…”: interview, John F. Kennedy, JMBP.
379 Then the dog that Jackie: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.
379 In the middle of September: ibid.
379 “You know, that’s…”: ibid.
379 “a virus infection”: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.
379 canceled a dinner: John F. Kennedy to Lord Beaverbrook, September 28, 1957, NHP.
379 “discouraged”: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.
380 “You know, what you need …”: ibid.
381 “as robust as a sumo wrestler”: WNJ, p. 200.
381 “Now, Lem, which …”: Janet Lee Auchincloss, KLOH.
381 accompanied … by Bill Thompson: George A. Smathers, oral history by Donald A. Ritchie, U.S. Senate Historical Office.
382 took great interest: CY, p. 99.
382 had his picture taken: The author has seen this picture in Patty McGinty Gallagher’s home in Palm Beach, Florida.
382 Jack had been accompanied: Mr. Rosen to Mr. Boardman, March 4, 1958, FBIFOI.
382 “Batista had a …”: LL interview with George Smathers.
383 Sarge came from: Robert A. Liston, Sargent Shriver: A Candid Portrait (1964), p. 25.
383 “I found a man …”: Learner, p. 426.
383 “White Slave activities …”: FBI investigation, January 29, 1954, FBIFOI.
384 start Cleary Brothers: Dinneen (1959), p. 187.
384 Jean settled for a more: Collier and Horowitz, pp. 215-16.
384 “one of the great American fortunes”: Forbes, October 21, 1991.
384 “I think they will…”: Archbishop Cushing to Joseph P. Kennedy, May 17, 1956, PC.
385 “I didn’t get…”: Archbishop Cushing to Joseph P. Kennedy, June 8, 1956, PC.
385 “weak as a cat”: quoted in TEEK, p. 104.
386 “darn good looking fellow”: LL interview with Joan Kennedy.
387 “What do you …”: LL interview with Joan Kennedy, and interview, Joan Kennedy, RCP.
387 “proposed in a …”: ibid.
387 “When the interview …”: ibid.
388 “I was young and naive …”: interview, Joan Kennedy, RCP.
388 engagement ring that: ibid.
389 an entourage of pretty young women: Vincent J. Celeste, KLOH. 389 “customarily surrounded by …”: quoted in SJFK, p. 452.
389 slapped as many bumper: TEEK, p. 108.
389 “house to house”: interview, John F. Kennedy, JMBP.
389 Celeste thought that he: Vincent J. Celeste, KLOH.
390 “a professional tattletale”: TEEK, p. 54.
390 “to a law firm …”: Eddie O’Dowd to John F. Kennedy, June 20, 1955, RWC.
390 “have been running …”: “Could not give my name for good reasons but am a resident of the block” to John F. Kennedy, June 20, 1955, RWC.
391 paying Feldman $15,000: LL interview with Myer Feldman.
391 “I think it’s the …”: ibid.
391 At each stop he introduced: Paul Fay, CBS interview, n.d., NHP.
391 “I really hate this”: LL interview with Joseph P. Miller, and Joseph P. Miller, unpublished memoir.
392 “Be sure to keep …”: John F. Kennedy to Steve Smith, “Saturday afternoon (en route to California),” n.d., RWC.
392 “probably as nearly perfect…”: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 145. 392 “Should we get…”: John F. Kennedy to Steve Smith, “Saturday afternoon …” RWC. 392 an estimated $1.5 million: SJFK, pp. 451-52.
392 “I wouldn’t change …”: Boston Sunday Herald, April 7, 1957, HUA.
393 “I have told …”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Archbishop Cushing, May 1, 1958, PC.
393 “Among our civic …”: Archbishop Cushing to Joseph P. Kennedy, n.d. (1958), PC.
393 “I do hope that sometime …”: Bishop of Covington to Archbishop Cushing, May 9, 1958, PC.
393 “if you can get any …”: Archbishop Cushing to Bishop Malloy, May 14, 1958, PC.
394 “a program was carried …”: Lawrence F. O’Brien to Robert F. Kennedy, February 19, 1953, RFK miscellaneous correspondence, JFKPL.
394 normally reserved for bishops: Archbishop Cushing to Joseph P. Kennedy, December 4, 1958, PC.
394 “I am really …”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Cushing, May 13, 1958, PC.
395 “I haven’t been …”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Lord Beaverbrook, June 27, 1958, NHP.
395 he assumed it was one of: interview with campaign aide, OTR.
395 “At the beginning …”: ibid.
396 was outraged: LL interview with Marcus Raskin, and OTR interview with Kennedy’s mistress.
396 “These men … died for …”: “Handwritten Notes of Senator Kennedy to Be Used by Him in Making Memorial Day Speeches at Brookline and Dorchester, Massachusetts, on May 30, 1958,” JFKPP.
398 changed his mind: oral history, Father Cavanaugh, Notre Dame University.
398 “We almost…”: LL interview with Joan Kennedy.
398 “I remember at…”: Edward M. Kennedy to Lord Beaverbrook, November 18, 1958, NHP papers.
399 “He stayed …”: interview, John F. Kennedy, JMBP.
398
400 “We were dumped …”: LL interview with Joan Kennedy.
400 “When Ted told …”: interview, Joan Kennedy, RCP.
19. “A Sin Against God”
402 On the first day: K, p. 119.
403 “quiet confidence”: ibid.
403 Non-Catholic staff members: ibid.
403 Jack’s staff had already: David Hackett, KLOH, LL interview with David Hackett, and LL interview with Myer Feldman.
403 “I want you to …”: interview, Robert Wallace, DHP.
404 “Now wait…”: ibid.
404 “Where the hell…”: Joe Miller, unpublished recollection, and LL interview with Joe Miller.
405 “Virtually everyone …”: ibid.
405 “You have been …”: ibid.
405 Already, in March: Mr. Jones to Mr. DeLoach, July 13, 1960, FBIFOI.
406 Florence Kater wrote: The Thunderbolt, November 1963. 406 She had in her possession: ibid.
406 “racing like a…”: Florence Mary Kater to Robert Kennedy, April 2, 1963, Hedda Hopper collection, Margaret Herrick Library, Los Angeles.
406 “Here comes the agony …”: LL interview with Chuck Spalding.
407 “I was taken into …”: Dictated letter to Jacqueline Kennedy on weekend in Rhode Island, n.d., presidential recording, cassette L, JFKPL.
407 “Jenny Ryan …”: ibid.
407 I Jacqueline … : Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy to Evelyn Lincoln, January 11, 1960, RWC.
408 he was checking…: C. D. DeLoach to Mr. Mohr, April 19, 1960, FBIFOI.
408 “in Miami he had …”: To Director, FBI, from Special Agent in Charge, New Orleans, March 23, 1960, FBIFOI.
409 “some bimbos and …”: interview, Blair Clark, HP.
409 by the following evening: Judith Exner, My Story (1977), pp. 52-54.
409 “the main topic …”: ibid, pp. 90-91. In a deposition in Judith Exner vs. Random House, et al., Exner stated that these were among the truthful statements in her autobiography.
410 “kind of spooky”: Gerri Hirshey, “The Last Act of Judith Exner,” Vanity Fair, April 1990.
410 alimony of $433.33: testimony of FBI informant at Bank of America, FBI file LA, 92-113, JEP.
410 “financially independent”: deposition of Judith Exner, in Judith Exner, Plaintiff, vs. Defendants Random House, Inc., Ballantine Books, Villard Books, Laurence Learner, Milt Ebbins, does 2-100, December 4, 1997, JEP.
410 “family money …”: Hirshey, p. 221.
410 “without sufficient funds …”: Exner deposition, December 3, 1997, JEP.
410 owed $2,784 … : Field Audit Company, March 4, 1959, JEP.
410 behind in her car payments: Utter Pontiac Company, July 16, 1959, JEP.
410 about $100 a week: Judith Exner deposition, December 3, 1997, JEP.
410 took out a number: Stephen Monka, Los Angeles, 92-113, August 8, 1962, FBIFOI, JEP.
411 Just two weeks before: Exner stayed at the Sands from January 23, 1960, to January 25, 1960. Ellwood signed the bill for $110.82. JEP.
411 “almost certainly…”: Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker, Ail-American Mafioso: The Johnny Rosselli Story (1991), p. 208.
411 “shacking up with …”: C. A. Evens to Mr. Belmont, “Subject: Judith E. Exner, Associate of Hoodlums,” March 20, 1962, FBIFOI, JEP.
411 “It was common for Sinatra …”: HSCA interview of Mr. Fred Otash, July 24, 1978, JEP.
411 she stayed at: Tropicana Hotel receipt. Exner’s bill ran to $98.99, JEP.
411 apparently paying: On the few occasions when the mode of payment is listed, it is inevitably given as cash, JEP.
412 final settlement: deposition of Judith Exner, December 3, 1997, JEP.
412 The $6,000: two checks for three thousand dollars to Judith Campbell, from Executive Business Management, Trustee for William J. Campbell, March 4 and March 5, 1960, JEP.
412 “It was a wonderful night …”: Kitty Kelley, “The Dark Side of Camelot,” People, February 29, 1988.
412 “Johnnie Roselli who …”: unpublished memoir of Jeanne Humphreys, courtesy, Gus Russo.
412 A friend who had: FBINY 92-793, November 6, 1960, HSCA records, NA.
412 Clarke made the mistake: SAC Chicago to Director, FBI, April 3, 1961, HSCA records, NA.
413 “quietly arrange a meeting …”: Kelley, “The Dark Side of Camelot.”
413 “I was the one person …”: Seymour Hersh, p. 307.
414 “She came to Chicago …”: William Brashler, The Don: The Life and Death of Sam Giancana (1977), p. 210.
414 “She found out about …”: LL interview with Joe Shimon.
415 “Politics has …”: This dictation was undated, but based on references made by Kennedy, the JFKPL has dated it 1959.
416 “I moved into …”: John F. Kennedy, dictation concerning entrance into politics, presidential recording, cassette N, JFKPL.
416-17 “We planned …”: Carroll Kilpatrick, KLOH.
417 “something positive …”: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.
417 “very low estimate …”: C. H. Cramer to John Kennedy, quoting a letter of July 12, 1932, Roy Howard to Newton D. Baker, found in Baker collection LC, NHP.
417 “It definitely shows…�
��: John F. Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, n.d. (spring 1959), NHP.
418 “He had real contempt…”: Joseph Alsop, KLOH.
418 “I know how …”: Robert Monagan, KLOH.
418 “I’d be very happy …”: Paul Healy, “Senate’s Gay Young Bachelor,” Saturday Evening Post, June 13, 1953.
418 “I don’t want…”: Ken Gormley, Archibald Cox: Conscience of a Nation (1997), p. 118.
419 “wore a rather bemused …”: Robert W. Merry, Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop—Guardians of the American Century (1996), p. 345.
419 “I don’t think that I could say…”: Chuck Spalding, RFK papers, KLOH.
420 clamped his teeth: LL interview with Bob Healy.
420 “I went to the top …”: quoted in TEEK, p. 129.
420 “I wanted to get…”: ibid.
421 crowd of more than eight thousand: interview, Ted Kennedy, RCP.
421 “I have never seen …”: Joan Kennedy to Lord Beaverbrook, April 10, 1960, Beaverbrook papers, NHP.
421 National Review charged: Lasky, p. 132. Edwin Guthman confirms that Corbin was behind the pamphlets. LL interview with Edwin Guthman.
422 “My poll… in W.V….”: These JFK notes are owned by the Forbes Magazine Collection and are used here with their permission and acknowledgment.
422 no memory of: LL interview with Pierre Salinger.
422 I talked today …: John F. Kennedy, memo, April 8, 1960, RWC.
423 “house of prostitution”: Seymour Hersh, p. 113. 423 she had been jailed: ibid.
423 “public knowledge could have …”: ibid., p. 117.
423 “He’d pick up …”: O’Neill, p. 92.
424 two briefcases: Raymond Chafin and Topper Sherwood, Just Good Politics: The Life of Raymond Chafin (1994), p. 143.
424 Humphrey spent $25,000: MP1960, p. 120.
424 James McCahey Jr., a Chicago: LL interview with Mrs. James McCahey.
424 “They had a …”: LL interview with Charles Peters.
425 “I’ll be the first…”: LL interview with Bruce Sundlun. 425 “Well, Senator …”: ibid.
425 “When Frank came down …”: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.
426 “I remember discussing …”: Myer Feldman, KLOH, and LL interview with Myer Feldman.
426 “Bobby had been …”: discussion between Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and Arthur Schlesinger Jr., February 12, 1975, ASP. 426 “Is FDR Jr. there tonight?”: John F. Kennedy, n.d., FMC.
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