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75 Alsop assumed an avuncular: Elizabeth Winthrop interview.
75 “when to put a touch”: ibid.
75 “Jackie was a Bouvier”: Ben Bradlee interview.
75 Kennedy relished Alsop’s acerbic: Joseph Alsop OH; Yoder, p. 168.
75 Like other prominent journalists: Merry, p. 357; Joseph Alsop OH.
75 “enjoyed pleasure”: Joseph Alsop OH.
76 “All the lights on the outside”: ibid.; Alsop II, p. 434.
76 “in the bright light”: Joseph Alsop OH.
76 “like something on the stage”: ibid.
76 “made a small, almost imperceptible”: JKWH, p. 96.
76 Alsop offered a bowl: Alsop II, pp. 94, 435.
76 Kennedy mingled for: Merry, p. 358.
76 “the greatest of American delicacies”: Alsop II, p. 435.
Chapter Eight
77 “let’s get this country”: Anderson, p. 29; Walt Rostow OH.
77 “The atmosphere bubbles”: Isaacson and Thomas, p. 601.
77 The economy, however, had slid: PK, p. 37; Merry, p. 340.
78 “The glow of the White House”: ATD, p. 207.
78 Jack Kennedy had a deep: KE, pp. 260, 278, 281; Arthur Schlesinger interview.
78 “an idealist without illusions”: John Morton Blum, “Kennedy’s Ten-Foot Shelf,” NYT Magazine, Mar. 12, 1961; KE, p. 22.
78 “on action, not philosophy”: KE, p. 386.
78 The Eisenhower White House: Dillon interview.
78 “President Kennedy was under”: ibid.
78 “ministry of talent”: KE, p. 254.
78 He slashed the size: Sorensen interview.
78 “I can’t afford only”: Neustadt interview, Schlesinger Papers, JFKL.
78 “to get information in his mind”: KE, p. 259.
78 “unimpressed by the emotional”: Neustadt interview, Schlesinger Papers, JFKL.
78 “clash of ideas”: Tanzer, p. xvii.
79 “deal up and down the line”: Richard Helms interview.
79 “enormous energy to maintain”: Walt Rostow OH.
79 “on the phone more than 50”: KE, p. 371.
79 “great man” theory: Berlin OH.
79 JFK had studied: Halle OH.
79 “astonishing” list: White II, p. 469.
79 “read and reread”: Jacqueline Kennedy, “Kennedy Memorabilia: These Are the Things I Hope Will Show How He Really Was,” Life, May 29, 1964.
79 The first book JFK gave: ATD, p. 105. Four decades later, President George W. Bush would name The Raven as his favorite book (WP, Mar. 9, 2003).
79 “was dubious about the theory”: Sorensen interview.
79 “Kennedy felt individuals”: Arthur Schlesinger interview.
80 “the reception room in a Radcliffe dorm”: AJ, p. 210.
80 On white linen tablecloths: NYT, May 20, 1963.
80 “snow” a visitor: Baldrige interview.
80 She always ate: Newsweek, Jan. 7, 1963.
80 “complex little area”: Gamarekian OH.
80 “headlong into a closet”: AJ, p. 17.
80 For display in the Oval: Newsweek, Feb. 6, 1961.
80 “hanging pictures”: JBK to LBJ, Nov. 26, 1963, LBJL.
80 “setting out his collection”: ibid.
80 “austere formality”: NYT, Jan. 29, 1961; Abbott and Rice, p. 212.
80 “still restless” . . . “He paces”: Salinger to White, Mar. 6, 1961, White Papers, Harvard University.
80 “opening letters himself”: Time, Mar. 3, 1961.
80 Kennedy would stroll: Barbara Gamarekian interview.
80 “sort of floating on”: Gamarekian OH.
81 Kennedy fostered an almost: WS, Jan. 20, 1961; Reed OH; Bartlett OH; Anderson, p. 197.
81 “how Kennedy generated love”: Rostow OH.
81 “was like being Alice”: JKWH, p. 99.
81 Stamped by his privileged: David Powers interview, JCBC.
81 Powers’s parents had been: ibid.
81 for whom Joe Alsop served: Yoder, p. 49.
81 “irrepressible leprechaun”: Newsweek, Apr. 23, 1962.
81 He knew nearly every detail: JWH, p. 252; LG, p. 808.
81 “always had someone”: HTF, p. 694.
81 they underestimated his savvy: Galbraith interview.
82 “aggressively shy”: Powers interview, JCBC.
82 “tub talk”: JWH, p. 291.
82 “Irish on his chauffeur’s”: White memo, Jan. 13, 1963, White Papers, Harvard University.
82 tales of Chinese peasants: Powers interview, JCBC; JWH, p. 252.
82 “my kind of Shah”: Newsweek, Apr. 23, 1962.
82 “a nice employee”: Billings OH.
82 “He was a perennial”: Gamarekian interview.
82 “thought he was crude”: Baldrige interview.
82 “friends from the past”: ibid.
82 Few knew that he carried: O’Donnell, p. 295; Anderson, p. 230.
82 “quiet almost fanatical”: DOAP, p. 120.
83 “A lot of noise, huh?”: O’Donnell, p. 210.
83 He was the varsity quarterback: Evan Thomas interview; O’Donnell, p. 32.
83 O’Donnell had grown: O’Donnell, p. 38.
83 “Kenny’s genius was simply”: ibid., p. 193.
83 Not only did the thirty-six-year-old: Nancy Dutton interview; JWH, p. 226; O’Donnell, p. 271.
83 “hovering, grim-faced”: Bartlett OH.
83 He was decisive and crisp: KE, p. 263; Anderson, p. 240.
83 “with his gut”: Nancy Dutton interview.
83 plenty of friends and aides: Dillon interview.
84 But in her disarming fashion: Newsweek, Jan. 7, 1963.
84 “I thought I fired her”: Sorensen interview.
84 she was one of the few: Anderson, p. 106.
84 O’Donnell considered Lincoln’s: ibid., p. 206.
84 “to talk about leaks”: Sorensen interview.
84 staff meetings only stirred: Anderson, p. 201.
84 disbanded the council’s: Dillon interview; PK, p. 53.
84 “a waste of time”: Arthur Schlesinger interview; KE, p. 283.
84 When Kennedy did call: KE, p. 283.
84 “curious dim figures”: Stewart Alsop to Martin Sommers, Sept. 7, 1961, Alsop Papers, LOC.
84 “We didn’t even have”: Udall interview.
84 “hard driving but easy”: KE, p. 372.
84 With the exception: PR-JFK, vol. I, p. liv.
84 “Miz Lincoln”: Anderson, p. 106.
85 “enough of a remoteness”: Gamarekian OH.
85 A handful of key aides: KE, p. 374.
85 “quick, tough, laconic”: ATD, p. 438.
85 “more than thirty seconds”: Marcus Raskin interview.
85 ideological, earnest, or: Walt Rostow interview.
85 His preferred time frame: KE, p. 372.
85 “was terribly taut”: Berlin OH.
85 “a stimulant”: Ward OH.
85 “He often cut short”: KE, p. 372.
85 “lean forward, his eyes”: ATD, p. 673.
85 he would betray his impatience: ibid., p. 672; Rostow OH.
85 “exactly what the words”: Berlin OH.
85 He had little tolerance: Charles Bartlett interview.
85 “Never even in conversation”: AJ, pp. 554–55.
85 on the assumption that if: ATD, p. 673; Smathers OH.
85 “contrary arguments, sometimes”: Harlech OH.
86 “It was his habit”: Joseph Alsop OH.
86 “beautiful mind”: Curtis Prendergast, with Geoffrey Colvin, The World of Time Inc.: The Intimate History of a Changing Enterprise, 1960–1980, p. 22.
86 “acute” . . . “penetrating”: Andrei Gromyko to Comrade N. S. Khrushchev, “John Fitzgerald Kennedy—Political Character Sketch,” Aug. 3, 1960, Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
86 “aptitude f
or facts”: Joseph Alsop OH.
86 “a good catalyst”: Gromyko memo, Aug. 3, 1960.
86 “a city of southern efficiency”: Sorensen interview.
86 “Kennedy’s genius”: ibid.
86 a small black leather volume: Ben Bradlee, “He Had That Special Grace,” Newsweek, Dec. 2, 1963.
86 “I’ll read [an article]”: AH, p. 101.
86 although not profoundly: Joseph Alsop OH.
86 propping up a book: ATD, p. 105.
86 sometimes taking a volume: Horne, p. 289.
86 “information, comparison, insight”: Arthur Schlesinger interview.
86 an exploration of economic dissent: John Kenneth Galbraith interview with Harry Kreisler, UC Berkeley, Mar. 27, 1986.
86 “two or three once-famous”: Henry Luce OH.
87 “did not go out”: Neustadt interview, Schlesinger Papers, JFKL.
87 When he hired Dillon: Dillon interview.
87 “to protect myself”: ibid.
87 a necessary “counterweight”: PK, p. 27.
87 “Heller was supposed to”: Dillon interview.
87 Kennedy wouldn’t put up: KE, pp. 55, 374.
87 “all the eggheads”: Harold Macmillan, Pointing the Way: 1959–1961 (Macmillan I), p. 352.
87 “When Bundy passed”: Anderson, p. 207.
87 Sorensen and his deputy: Leamer II, p. 477.
87 “political buccaneers”: AJ, p. 19.
87 “an incompetent long-winded”: DBD, Mar. 28, 1961.
87 “should be spanked”: Rowe to White, May 25, 1961, White Papers, Harvard University.
88 “aggressive individualists”: KE, p. 260. Arthur Schlesinger also spoke of the “jostling and body checks” among Kennedy’s top aides (Arthur Schlesinger interview).
88 “soft jackets and easy shoes”: Tanzer, p. xvi.
88 “You have to understand”: Anderson, p. 217.
88 Jackie actually spent: Baldrige interview.
88 “unhappy and uncertain”: AJ, p. 23.
88 “Arthur was always worried”: Ben Bradlee interview.
88 “There were frustrating moments”: Arthur Schlesinger interview.
88 “bivouacking in his chair”: Halle OH.
88 “that wonderfully spare”: Rostow OH.
88 “They were meditations”: Arthur Schlesinger interview.
Chapter Nine
89 “dark and dreary”: JBK to Henry du Pont, June 8, 1962, Winterthur Archives.
89 “propped up in the enormous”: JKWH, p. 101.
89 “I couldn’t get out of bed”: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis OH, John Sherman Cooper Oral History Project, University of Kentucky.
89 She often made such: Jewel Reed interview; Baldrige interview.
89 In fact, Jackie left: West, p. 208.
89 She took walks: ibid., p. 198.
89 “We’ve got a lot of work”: ibid., p. 197.
90 “the conflict between what”: Joseph Alsop to JBK, Aug. 4, 1960, Alsop Papers, LOC.
90 “the most stylish and most effective”: ibid.
90 “very perceptive”: JBK to Joseph Alsop, ND (probably mid-August 1960), Alsop Papers, LOC.
90 “veil of lovely inconsequence”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., “Jacqueline Kennedy in the White House,” Met Catalogue, p. 3.
90 “caught in this maw”: Louchheim Journal, Mar. 21, 1959, KSLP.
90 “57-year-old grandmother”: NYT, Oct. 1, 1961.
90 She had been educated: WP, Jan. 13, 1961; NYT, Oct. 1, 1961.
90 “I was tired & I wanted”: JBK to Walton, June 8, 1962, Walton Papers, JFKL.
91 “ninety-nine things that I had to do”: Gallagher, p. 159.
91 “where a woman’s place is”: JBK to Nellie Connally, Dec. 1, 1963, courtesy of Nellie Connally.
91 “compassion for women”: Hugh Sidey, John F. Kennedy, President (Sidey I), p. 97; Sidey interview.
91 “great presence and control”: NYT, Nov. 26, 1960.
91 “I really don’t think I am better”: Jacqueline Bouvier to Yusha Auchincloss, Jan. 15, 1945, courtesy of Yusha Auchincloss.
91 wishing she had gone to Radcliffe: LG, p. 914.
91 “I did not want to live like”: Wilson, Life, Aug. 24, 1959.
91 “Jackie had a certain quality”: Cassini interview.
91 “you know everything”: Jacqueline Bouvier to Yusha Auchincloss, Nov. 20, 1945, courtesy of Yusha Auchincloss.
91 “make you feel quite secretly”: Jacqueline Bouvier, “Thesis-Topic 1,” Vogue Prix de Paris application, May 21, 1951, Vogue Materials, JFKL.
91 “sphinxlike”: Cassini II, p. 305.
91 Jackie’s favorite statue: Pierre-Marie Rudelle to author, May 28, 2001; Radziwill interview.
92 “A sphinx is rather what”: JBK to Adlai Stevenson, Feb. 4, 1963, Stevenson Papers, Princeton University.
92 “She has a great deal”: Newsweek, Feb. 6, 1961.
92 As a general’s wife: Beale, p. 39.
92 “a woman’s place in public”: ibid.
92 Yet Bess also went: AH, p. 278; Michael Beschloss on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, July 31, 2000; Beale, p. 39.
92 “she kept her family”: Bowles, Met Catalogue, p. 84; Bergquist manuscript for profile of Jackie Kennedy, ND, Laura Bergquist Papers, Boston University.
92 “it is very silly to try”: Janet Auchincloss OH.
92 “organizing things as well”: JBK to Walton, June 8, 1962, Walton Papers, JFKL.
92 “overall unified supervision”: JKWH, p. 320.
92 “the use of power that”: JBK to Walton, June 8, 1962, Walton Papers, JFKL.
92 “charismatic presence”: Nancy Tuckerman, “A Personal Reminiscence,” The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Catalogue, Sotheby’s, 1996, p. 15.
93 “all the accepted games”: WP, Feb. 23, 1963.
93 “distinctive looks”: Tuckerman, Sotheby’s catalogue, p. 16.
93 “a special bond”: ibid.
93 “Nancy knew everything”: Janet Felton Cooper interview.
93 Quiet and somewhat withdrawn: Audrey Koehler interview; Elizabeth Boyd interview.
93 “intelligence, wit, and sense”: Tuckerman, Sotheby’s catalogue, p. 15.
93 At Farmington they would sneak: Jacqueline Bouvier to Yusha Auchincloss, Jan. 14, 1943, April 20, 1945, courtesy of Yusha Auchincloss. Jackie told her stepbrother that she and Tucky would often stare out the window of their dorm, pretending that their pencils were cigarettes.
93 “she had me walk under”: Tuckerman, Sotheby’s catalogue, p. 19.
93 When the Kennedy administration: Cooper interview.
93 “diabolically figure out”: JBK to Walton, June 8, 1962, Walton Papers, JFKL.
93 “for the very reason that”: JKWH, p. 33.
94 “Jackie Kennedy put a little”: Vreeland, p. 223.
94 “the stage on which the drama”: Abbott and Rice, p. 5.
94 Jackie had decided: NYT, Feb. 24, 1961.
94 “had such wonderful taste”: NYHT, Apr. 12, 1961.
94 Jackie moved quickly: Abbott and Rice, p. 18.
94 the suggestion of Wilmarth: Bradford, pp. 26, 29.
94 a trustee of Winterthur: Ruth Lord, Henry F. du Pont and Winterthur: A Daughter’s Portrait, p. 225.
94 Du Pont was shy: West, p. 243.
94 “snap the whip”: Cooper interview.
95 “my cozy little Rolls”: Henry du Pont to Jayne Wrightsman, Nov. 22, 1961, Winterthur Archives.
95 “He would leave and we would”: Cooper interview.
95 “reflect so eloquently”: Lord, p. 225.
95 “a symbol of cultural”: Henry du Pont to JBK, Mar. 9, 1961, Winterthur Archives.
95 But after Life magazine: JKWH, p. 284; Schlesinger, Met Catalogue, p. 4.
95 “monotonous” . . . “present living”: Julian Boyd and Lyman Butterfield, “The White House as a Symbol,” Apr. 24, 1961, Winterthur Archives.
95 “would come flying in”: JBK to H
enry du Pont, Sept. 20, 1963, JFKL.
95 they would exchange more than: Lord, p. 226.
95 “That hall was getting so”: JBK to Henry du Pont, Oct. 10, 1961, Winterthur Archives.
95 “purely a creation of”: JBK to Lady Bird Johnson, Dec. 1, 1963, LBJL.
95 “Jackie had everyone’s number”: Cooper interview.
95 “talked with me for hours”: WP, Sept. 5, 1962.
96 Jackie would eventually pull: Mary Lasker OH-CU.
96 “everything Jefferson was”: JKWH, p. 339.
96 “stood above all of them”: Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, p. 33.
96 “The Mellons didn’t have to”: Charles interview.
96 By 1961, Paul and Bunny: Paul Mellon, Reflections in a Silver Spoon, p. 381.
96 “the man who used to own Listerine”: RK to children, Jan. 7, 1950, JPKP.
96 “where girls didn’t go to college”: Burton Hersh, The Mellon Family: A Fortune in History (Hersh I), p. 406; Eve Fout interview.
96 She was educated at: Eve Fout interview.
97 outfits for gardening: Cooper interview.
97 “Bunny was kind of a star”: Duchess of Devonshire interview.
97 In 1948, Bunny married: Mellon, pp. 224–25.
97 “Having known each other”: ibid., p. 225.
97 “We became partners to help”: Hersh I, p. 407.
97 Both Paul and Bunny stayed: Janet Grayson Whitehouse interview; Eve Fout interview.
97 Paul Mellon was a gentleman: Mellon, pp. 270, 322.
97 she helped Joe Alsop devise: Paul Richard interview; Yoder, p. 29.
97 “interior landscapes”: Mellon, p. 271.
97 The spacious and perfectly: Charles interview; Richard interview.
97 She spent her days: Mellon, p. 226.
97 small vase of buttercups: Oliver Murray interview.
97 Shortly after the birth: Rachel Lambert Mellon, “Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy: A Reminiscence,” Met Catalogue, p. 13.
97 “Marvelous woman, frightfully”: Duke of Devonshire interview.
97 “Lady Foulmouth”: Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory: The Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman (Smith III), p. 101.
98 “I loved your house”: Mellon, Met Catalogue, p. 13.
98 “I even loved the stale”: ibid.
98 “It never bothered Mrs. Kennedy”: James Roe Ketchum interview.
98 “Bunny was pleased”: Baldrige interview.
98 Bunny shared Jackie’s: Paul Manno interview; Whitehouse interview; Kenneth Battelle interview.
98 “I’m not scholarly myself”: Hersh I, p. 406.