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49 “We’ll have to go along”: ATD, p. 143.
49 “profoundly realistic mind”: ibid., p. 479.
49 “would have loved”: Marian Schlesinger OH.
49 “a good address but no clear”: AJ, p. 24.
49 “I am not sure what”: ATD, p. 162.
49 “that no American historian”: Arthur Schlesinger to Eleanor Roosevelt, Mar. 14, 1961, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY.
49 “In Jack’s mind he must”: William vanden Heuvel interview.
49 “I’ll write my own official”: JWH, p. 243.
49 “Adlai was not in”: Arthur Schlesinger interview.
50 “same mood and tempo”: ATD, p. 23.
50 “became sort of prissy”: Arthur Schlesinger interview.
50 “never saw Stevenson”: ATD, p. 463.
50 Behind Stevenson’s back: Smathers OH; RKHL, p. 134.
50 “They’re not queer”: John Monagan OH.
50 “a certain amount of arrogance”: Elizabeth Ives OH-CU.
50 Kennedy lobbied hard: Newton Minow OH-CU; Arthur Schlesinger to Adlai Stevenson, May 16, 1960, Stevenson Papers, Princeton University.
50 As an inducement: Adlai Stevenson to Arthur Schlesinger, June 7, 1960, Stevenson Papers, Princeton University.
50 “Had [Adlai] come out”: Arthur Schlesinger OH-CU.
50 He felt that he: In his letter to Arthur Schlesinger on June 7, 1960, Stevenson wrote: “I have always felt in a way responsible for Jack’s recent political progress. . . . In short, I have felt that I launched him.” Stevenson Papers, Princeton University.
50 Stevenson still hoped: William Blair interview.
50 “I don’t have a cult”: Charles Bartlett interview.
50 “I do not feel he’s the right”: Barbara Ward OH.
51 “You’ve got twenty-four hours”: William Blair interview.
51 “wild demonstration”: Dickerson, p. 38.
51 “behaved indecisively and stupidly”: Pierre Salinger to Theodore White on JFK in Hyannis from July 27, 1960, to Aug. 8, 1960, Theodore White Papers, Harvard University.
51 Still, Stevenson pined: Agnes Meyer to Adlai Stevenson, Sept. 16, 1960, Stevenson Papers, Princeton University; LG, p. 692, quoting David Bruce; Arthur Schlesinger to JFK, Nov. 14, 1960, Schlesinger Papers, JFKL.
51 But Kennedy didn’t want: John Sharon OH-CU; John Kenneth Galbraith, Name-Dropping (Galbraith III), pp. 99–100.
51 “second-rate job”: Marietta Tree OH.
51 “You must never again”: Agnes Meyer to Adlai Stevenson, Dec. 14, 1960, Stevenson Papers, Princeton University.
51 “on the phone between the two”: Marietta Tree OH.
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52 “Kennedys were everywhere”: ATD, p. 166.
52 The occasion was: WP, Jan. 18, 1961.
52 with the rest of the family: Beale, p. 55.
52 “had all the glamour of”: WP, Jan. 18, 1961.
52 “Where do you come from”: ibid.
52 Her friend Deeda: Deeda Blair interview.
53 “the beautiful nymphets”: Marian Schlesinger OH.
53 “the agreeable enthusiasm”: AJ, p. 104.
53 A graduate of: Leamer I, p. 388.
53 the Kennedy sister most: Arthur Schlesinger interview.
53 Jean’s husband, Steve: Leamer I, p. 457.
53 “Listening to the Kennedy brothers”: Arthur Schlesinger interview.
53 “He rowed to his objective”: Laura Bergquist to James Ellison, ND, “Kennedy—Very Casually,” Laura Bergquist Papers, Boston University.
53 In the new administration: NYHT, Mar. 10, 1961.
53 Jack came alone: WP, Jan. 18, 1961.
53 The President-elect was beaming: Fay, pp. 82–83.
53 “people were having too much”: ibid., p. 86.
53 When Jackie flew north: WP, Jan. 18, 1961.
53 “almost unnoticed”: ibid., Jan. 19, 1961.
54 Nobody came to the airport: ibid.; NYT, Jan. 19, 1961.
54 “womenfolk”: ibid.
54 “curtail her activities”: JKWH, p. 43.
54 In fact, her time: Janet Travell, Office Hours: Day and Night: The Autobiography of Janet Travell, M.D., p. 44.
54 The place was swarming: Lincoln, p. 108; JKWH, p. 49.
54 For weeks Jack Kennedy had: KE, p. 239.
54 “I had heard it in bits”: JKWH, p. 76.
54 “less daring”: AJ, p. 14.
54 Kennedy had also sought: ATD, p. 163.
54 “adversary” . . . “enemy”: Ronald Steel, Walter Lippmann and the American Century, p. 525.
54 “square, wintry, bespectacled”: Anderson, p. 298.
55 After signing on: ibid., p. 285; Tanzer, p. 8.
55 Sorensen even developed: Sorensen interview.
55 “I could predict”: ibid.
55 Sorensen routinely used: Louchheim Journal, July 12, 1959, KSLP.
55 “never have two people”: Richard Neustadt interview, Schlesinger Papers, JFKL.
55 He had never seen a finger bowl: Sorensen interview.
55 His father, the son: Tanzer, pp. 10–11.
55 When Sorensen joined: Anderson, p. 277.
55 “spoke easily but almost”: KE, p. 11.
55 “disliked shows of emotion”: ibid., p. 14, quoting John Buchan in Pilgrim’s Way, JFK’s “favorite book,” according to Sorensen.
56 “free man” . . . “free mind”: ibid., p. 21.
56 Kennedy had many: Frank Morrissey to JPK, July 15, 1955, JPKP.
56 at least once took a $5,000: HTF, pp. 114, 186.
56 They contributed research: PR-JFK, vol. I, p. xlix; Wills, p. 136; Anderson, p. 282; Charles Spalding OH.
56 “for his invaluable”: John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage (Kennedy I), p. xiv.
56 “log roll”: Arthur Krock interview, JCBC.
56 “I worked as hard as”: ibid.
56 “sole responsibility”: KE, p. 69.
56 he asked directly if: McNamara OH.
56 “I am not sure precisely”: McNamara interview.
56 “write prose of equal quality”: McNamara OH.
57 When Schlesinger wrote: KE, pp. 22, 117; ATD, p. 69.
57 “tended to resent”: ATD, p. 70.
57 “Ted is such a little”: AH, p. 148.
57 “indispensable”: ATD, p. 70.
57 The title had added: Tanzer, p. 21.
57 “Once Ted got the title”: Neustadt interview, Schlesinger Papers, JFKL.
57 By 1961 their writing: KE, p. 241.
57 “I don’t want people to think”: ibid., p. 242.
58 Instead of his predecessor’s: JKWH, p. 67.
58 “He recognized that even”: Goodwin I, p. 813.
58 On Thursday, January 19: NYT, Jan. 21, 1961.
58 Earlier in the day: WP, Jan. 19, 1961.
58 “If you stay in”: Walton OH.
58 “camped out”: Truitt interview.
58 Kennedy conducted meetings: JKWH, pp. iii, 50, 55.
58 A small task force: John Sharon OH-CU.
58 “understanding of the world”: ATD, p. 126.
58 “Aren’t you excited”: JKWH, p. 49.
58 “Not in love but”: Chiquita Astor interview, Nigel Hamilton Research Collection, Massachusetts Historical Society. In the transcript of this taped interview, Chiquita Astor recalled her days in New York working for Vogue, when JFK “used to ring up at odd times” to have “long conversations about everything under the sun.” She told Hamilton that in one such talk (“I did it on the telephone, not in a car”), “I just asked him, I said, ‘Have you ever been in love,’ this is such a private thing. And he said [sic] sort of silent for a while and he thought and he thought and he said, ‘No, not in love but very very interested,’ he said. He used the word interested. Very very interested . . . I think it wasn’t an only woman. I think he was very interested with lots of women.” Curiously enough, on p. 714 of his book, Hamilton described
this conversation as having occurred toward the end of Kennedy’s life while riding in a car: JFK “looked out of the window,” and said “No,” then “smiled, as he turned back to face her” and said, “though often very interested.”
58 Kennedy called “Billy Boy”: JKWH, p 60.
58 not only was white her favorite: Cassini I, p. 31.
59 “most ceremonial”: Bowles, Met Catalogue, p. 59.
59 “a sort of Overall Art Director”: Jacqueline Bouvier, “Feature-Question 3,” Vogue Prix de Paris application, May 21, 1951, Vogue Materials, JFKL.
59 “the night journey was eerie”: JKWH, p. 3.
59 “Turn on the lights”: ibid., p. 62.
59 The gala, a fundraiser: ibid., p. 63.
59 It was 3:48 a.m.: NYT, Jan. 21, 1961.
59 Actresses such as Angie: JKWH, pp. 87–88.
59 Dickinson’s lifelong friend: Arthur Schlesinger interview.
59 Six years earlier: Leamer I, pp. 446–47.
59 Like her sisters: ibid., pp. 330, 382.
59 The son of Sir Sydney: ibid., p. 446.
60 “Peter was good fun”: Sargent Shriver interview.
60 “the worst kind”: Cassini II, p. 264.
60 Lawford compensated for: Kurt Niklas, The Corner Table, pp. 204–205.
60 By the time of: Leamer I, pp. 487, 523, 542.
60 Jack Kennedy visited: ibid., p. 482; Niklas, pp. 204–207.
60 The Kennedy family grew: Coleman interview; Betty Spalding interview, JCBC.
60 “Why did [Gary] Cooper”: Blair, p. 548.
60 “OK now it’s time to turn”: ibid., p. 160.
60 “enjoyed the game”: Gore Vidal, “The Holy Family: The Gospel According to Arthur, Paul, Pierre, and William and Several Minor Apostles,” Esquire, April 1967.
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61 “We went to the ceremony”: Diana Vreeland, D.V., p. 224.
61 “shining young couple”: William Walton, The Evidence of Washington, p. 51.
61 “greige”: Bowles, Met Catalogue, p. 55.
61 “I thought she was going to freeze”: Vreeland, p. 224.
61 “were coated in mink”: WP, Jan. 21, 1961.
61 “I just didn’t want”: JKWH, p. 67.
62 22-degree chill: NYT, Jan. 21, 1961.
62 JFK removed his: JKWH, p. 73; Dickerson, p. 60.
62 “he whistled and rocked”: Dickerson, p. 60.
62 The poet had agreed to read: NYT, Jan. 15 and 21, 1961.
62 “a poet’s benediction”: Stewart Udall interview.
62 “It’s a good idea”: ibid.
62 Instead, he recited: NYT, Jan. 21, 1961.
62 it was backed up by: August Heckscher OH; ATD, p. 731.
62 Jack Kennedy took only: WP, Jan. 21, 1961; NYT, Jan. 21, 1961.
62 “with shaking hands and”: WS, Jan. 21, 1961.
63 The New York Times drew: NYT, Jan. 21, 1961.
63 “remarkable . . . a revival”: ibid., Jan. 22, 1961.
63 “so pure and beautiful”: JKWH, p. 75.
63 “It was short, to the point”: ibid., p. 100.
63 Jack didn’t kiss: Bergquist manuscript for profile of Jackie Kennedy, ND, Laura Bergquist Papers, Boston University.
63 “Mrs. Truman sat stolidly”: ibid.
63 “old kitchen chairs”: WP, Jan. 19, 1961.
63 “a prisoner of the Secret Service”: ibid.
63 TV viewers wrote letters: Bergquist manuscript for profile of Jackie Kennedy, ND, Laura Bergquist Papers, Boston University.
63 “I was so proud of Jack”: JKWH, p. 75.
63 Three District of Columbia: WP, Jan. 21, 1961.
63 “It was an extraordinary”: Goodwin I, pp. 815–16.
64 In his exuberance: NYT, Jan. 21, 1961.
64 “the first members of British”: Goodwin I, p. 812.
64 “a blow to the family”: HTF, p. 584.
64 although Joe had accepted: ibid., p. 581.
64 Three months later: Goodwin I, pp. 622, 686; Hamilton, p. 660.
64 She was buried: Goodwin, pp. 740–41.
64 On inauguration day: Duchess of Devonshire interview; Duke of Devonshire interview.
64 JFK could scarcely contain: JKWH, p. 81.
64 Reflecting the intermingled themes: NYT, Jan. 21, 1961.
64 “like a beatnik”: ibid.
64 headed for the reviewing: NYHT, Jan. 21, 1961.
65 His heroism had resulted: Hamilton, pp. 556, 559.
65 “pitch black night”: ibid., p. 569.
65 Despite the force: ibid., p. 577; Goodwin I, p. 655.
65 They were marooned: Hamilton, pp. 590, 594.
65 Lost in the myth: ibid., p. 567.
65 “give him a medal”: ibid., p. 637.
65 The famous coconut, encased: Manchester II, p. 156.
65 When the PT boat display: NYT, Jan. 21, 1961.
65 He came from a West Coast: Fay interview.
65 “Kennedy liked people who”: Evans interview.
66 “His laugh kind of exploded”: Fay interview.
66 “coldly serious man”: Fay, p. 74.
66 Fay lacked the necessary experience: ibid., pp. 77, 107.
66 “It was the only appointment”: Roswell Gilpatric OH.
66 “it was good to show the President”: Fay interview.
66 “You’re my pal”: ibid.
66 Reed was a Harvard-educated: James Reed interview.
66 “Jack had so many”: Jewel Reed interview.
66 During the Depression: James Reed interview.
67 “We had enormous rapport”: ibid.
67 Jackie left the inaugural: JKWH, p. 84.
67 “I’m not leaving”: ibid.
67 Inside the White House: ibid., p. 86.
67 “Lawzy, we sho’ is”: Richardson, p. 257; Michaelis, p. 173.
67 eight-foot-high headboard: Monkman, pp. 125, 291.
67 “who had drunk a little”: Alphand, pp. 349–50.
67 The only absentee: NYT, June 6, 1961.
68 “Janet never pushed herself”: Jane Ridgeway interview.
68 “the guardians of tradition”: Walton, p. 81.
68 The irony was that: Jan Pottker, Janet and Jackie: The Story of a Mother and Her Daughter, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, pp. 7, 53.
68 “She is just lace curtain”: Wood interview.
68 Yet Jackie was more of: Molly Nicoll interview.
68 He was a tough-minded tyrant: Pottker, p. 40.
68 “the smartest old rooster”: JPK to Bernard Gimbel, July 13, 1953, JPKP.
68 A governess taught her: Pottker, pp. 45, 53.
68 The Bouviers had their own: JKWH, pp. 39–41.
69 In fact, the first: Pottker, p. 9.
69 Janet insisted that: ibid., p. 86.
69 Like Jack Bouvier, he was: Yusha Auchincloss interview.
69 Frequently disparaged as: Bradford, pp. 21–22; Kaplan, pp. 65, 495.
69 Auchincloss was actually: Yusha Auchincloss interview; Ridgeway interview.
69 “be famous”: JBK to Yusha Auchincloss, Jan. 15, 1945, courtesy of Yusha
Auchincloss.
69 “take short rest periods”: NYT, Jan. 18, 1961.
69 She and Jack had been: ibid., Jan. 21, 1961.
69 “I couldn’t get out”: JKWH, p. 85.
70 “breathlessly, in a gentle”: ibid., p. 90.
70 once more intended: Rhea, p. 134; Bowles, Met Catalogue, p. 66.
70 The Kennedys followed: JKWH, pp. 92–93.
70 “I just crumpled”: ibid., p. 94.
70 In Kennedy’s restless: NYT, Jan. 21, 1961.
70 Earlier in the week: Alsop II, p. 432.
70 “If the lights are on”: ibid.
70 “Over a long period”: Blair, p. 362.
70 “the fascinating people”: Duke interview.
70 Flo had been: Earl E.T. Smith Jr. interview.
70 a wealthy and solidly: ibid.
71 “Man i
s by nature”: Florence Pritchett Smith, These Entertaining People (Smith I), p. 1.
71 “very keen”: Duke interview.
71 “Send Diamonds!”: Blair, p. 632.
71 Flo grew close: Smith interview.
71 “the best collection of English”: New York Journal-American, Nov. 2, 1960.
71 “Why don’t you jump in”: Fay, p. 94.
71 “Neither Angie nor Kim Novak”: Fay interview.
71 “there were no Hollywood stars there”: Peter Duchin interview.
72 Helen Chavchavadze, a twenty-seven-year-old: Helen Chavchavadze interview.
72 “She was just gorgeous”: Ben Bradlee interview.
72 “a role model of freedom”: Chavchavadze interview.
72 “He was not at that point”: ibid.
72 “He followed me home”: ibid.
72 “One of the reasons is”: JFK to Helen Chavchavadze, ND, courtesy of Helen Chavchavadze.
72 “A little innuendo”: Chavchavadze interview.
72 “he was cold and negative”: ibid.
73 “By his appearance”: ibid.
73 “I never knew if Jackie”: ibid.
73 “almost an artifact”: Hector interview.
73 Savile Row suits and waistcoats: Edwin M. Yoder Jr., Joe Alsop’s Cold War, p. 29.
73 “weirdly shaped and more”: Philip Graham fiftieth birthday toast to Joseph Alsop, Oct. 11, 1960, Alsop Papers, LOC.
73 “dear boy” . . . “darling”: Robert W. Merry, Taking On the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop—Guardians of the American Century, p. xxiv.
73 During a trip to the Soviet: ibid., pp. 362–63.
74 “Joe was gay”: Ben Bradlee interview.
74 “exaggerated WASP”: ibid.
74 “cousin Eleanor”: Joseph Alsop to JBK, Aug. 4, 1960, Alsop Papers, LOC.
74 she entered the marriage: Merry, p. 365.
74 commanded “general conversation”: ibid., p. 367.
74 Alsop had never liked: Joseph Alsop OH.
74 “made my flesh crawl”: Alsop II, p. 406.
74 “I am not like [Jack] who”: HTF, p. xxiii.
74 Alsop had dismissed: Alsop II, pp. 410–11.
74 It was only when Alsop: Merry, p. 341.
74 “wears gloom like a toga”: Time, July 25, 1960.
75 But their partnership: Merry, p. xvii.
75 “stuffy and self-satisfied”: Yoder, p. 147.
75 “Joe Alsop was a fawner”: Tom Braden interview.
75 By cultivating Alsop: James Symington interview.
75 “a voluptuous daydream”: JBK to Joseph Alsop, ND (probably April 1960), Alsop Papers, LOC.