An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (126 page)

p. 199: “one of the most far-reaching”: JFK, “Election of President and Vice President: Electoral College Reform,” Mar. 20, 1956, Compilation of Speeches, JFKL.

p. 200: On the fight with Furcolo, see Burns, 147-48; O’Donnell and Powers, 85-86; Parmet,
Jack,
291-95.

p. 201: “Leave it alone”: Quoted in O’Donnell and Powers, 105.

p. 201: Speculation on JFK as Stevenson’s VP: Fletcher Knebel, Feb. 23, 1956, Box 8, Sorensen Papers.

p. 201: Consequently, they urged Jack: Ibid., 103-5.

p. 201: “There is a great ‘hassle’”: Philip Philbin to JFK, Mar. 3, 1955, Box 503, PPP. JFK to O’Brien and O’Donnell, Mar. 8, 1955, Box 504, PPP.

p. 201: Jack persuaded and “So we can’t let”: O’Donnell and Powers, 106.

p. 202: For JFK’s role in the primary, see Adlai Stevenson to Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Mar. 26, 1956, Box P-23, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Papers, JFKL.

p. 202: For the fight, see “Burke Opposed: Kennedy Fight Gains Support,”
Christian Science Monitor,
May 9, 1956.

p. 202: “I do not relish”: Frank Morrissey to JFK, May 9, 1956, Box 31, POF. Also see Parmet,
Jack,
346-54.

p. 202: For JFK’s campaign, see the correspondence between May 2 and May 17, 1956, in Boxes 498, 523, 546, and 549, PPP.

p. 202: For the choice of Lynch, see O’Donnell and Powers, 110-16.

p. 203: “caught in a mud-slinging”: Ibid., 110.

p. 203: The “nation’s first great politicians”: JFK,
Vogue,
April 1, 1956; and JFK, Harvard Commencement Address, June 14, 1956, Box 895, PPP.

p. 203: “The men who create power”:
PPP: JFK, 1963,
815-18, Oct. 26, 1963.

pp. 203-4: On LBJ, see Dallek,
Lone Star Rising,
489-90.

p. 204: “unforgivably discourteous”: “The Boston-Texas Axis,” a chap. in Thomas G. Corcoran ms. memoir, Corcoran Papers, LC. Also see Dallek,
Lone Star Rising,
490-91, and n. 61, 683.

p. 204: Start such a campaign: Senator Andrew P. Quigley to JFK, Jan. 25, 1956; JFK to Quigley, Jan. 31, 1956, Box 507, PPP.

p. 204: Keeping a low profile: See Irv Slomowitz to Ted Reardon, Jan. 26, 1956; Reardon to Slomowitz, Feb. 6, 1956, Box 509, PPP. John W. King to JFK, Feb. 18, 1956; JFK to King, Feb. 21, 1956, Box 549, PPP.

p. 204: Fletcher Knebel, column, Feb. 23, 1956, Box 8, Sorensen Papers. Sorensen to Knebel, April 6, 1956, Box 810, PPP. Knebel, “Can a Catholic Become Vice President?”
Look,
June 12, 1956.

p. 205: For Sorensen’s comparison: “The Democratic Nominee for Vice President in 1956,” n.d.; “Memorandum on Kennedy and the Vice-Presidency”; and Sorensen to Ken Hechler, Aug. 1, 1956, Box 810, PPP.

p. 205: For the endorsements and the Farley and Rayburn quotes, see Parmet,
Jack,
354, 361-62.

p. 205: JPK’s reluctance: JPK to JFK, May 25, 1956, Box 9, Sorensen Papers.

p. 205: A straw poll: Gallup, 1431.

p. 205: “while I think”: JFK to JPK, June 29, 1956, Box 9, Sorensen Papers.

p. 205: “100% behind”: Shriver to JPK, July 18, 1956, Box 810, PPP.

p. 206: “better known”: Eunice Kennedy to JPK, Aug. 1, 1956, JPK Papers.

p. 206: Stevenson’s decision: Parmet,
Jack,
372-75.

p. 206: “looked like a thin year”: Krock OH.

p. 206: “movie star,” and set up a headquarters:
New York Times,
Aug. 12, 13, and 14, 1956.

p. 206: For JFK’s belief that the invitation to nominate AES was a compensatory gesture, see JFK Interview, Martin Papers.

pp. 206-7: For the clash with JPK, see O’Donnell and Powers, 122, and Rose Kennedy, 328.

p. 207: “a sudden warmth”: Quoted in Doris Goodwin, 783.

p. 207: a “realistic sense of futility”: Parmet,
Jack,
376-80.

pp. 207-8: “we lost because”: RFK Interview and JFK Interview, Martin Papers. Also see John J. Mitchell to JFK, Aug. 22, 1956, Box 534, PPP; Mitchell shared RFK’s view.

p. 208: On Eleanor Roosevelt’s response to JFK, see Roosevelt, 164.

p. 208: “probably rates as”:
Boston Herald,
Aug. 18, 1956.

p. 208: “out of the convention”: Quoted in Doris Goodwin, 785.

p. 208: “you clearly emerged”: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. to JFK, Aug. 21, 1956, Box 534, PPP. Also see Rep. Burr P. Harrison to JFK, Aug. 22, 1956, Box 534, PPP: “Your prestige has been enormously enhanced.”

p. 208: Campaigned for Stevenson: Parmet,
Jack,
384-86.

p. 209: “the most disastrous” and RFK’s assessment: Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
133-36.

p. 209: For JFK’s itinerary, see Compilation of Speeches, JFKL, for September- November, 1956. Also see JFK to Frank L. Dennis, July 9, 1958, Box 3, Sorensen Papers, and “Out of State Appearances of Sen. Kennedy, 1956 Campaign,” Box 25, David Powers Papers, JFKL.

p. 209: “be prepared”: JFK, Speech, Nov. 8, 1956, Box 896, PPP.

p. 210: “And, like me”: Rose Kennedy, 329.

p. 210: The best account of how JFK won the Pulitzer, including Macdonald’s telegram, is in Parmet,
Jack,
394-97.

p. 210: Thomas’s anecdote is in his OH, Columbia University.

p. 210: The FBI report: L. B. Nichols to Tolson, May 14, 1957, J. Edgar Hoover Official and Confidential File, FBI Microfilm, Folder 13, Reel 1.

p. 211: “this country is not” and “Well, Dad”: Quoted in Goodwin, 787-88.

p. 211: “I’m forty-three”: O’Donnell and Powers, 193.

pp. 211-12: JFK’s hospitalizations were May 26-June 2, 1955, July 3, 1955, July 14-20, 1955, Jan. 11-13, 1956; Jan. 31-Feb. 1, 1957; July 18-19, 1957; Sept. 3-4, 1957; Sept. 13-Oct. 1, 1957; Oct. 28, 1957. The records of these admissions, with diagnoses and treatments, are in the Dr. Janet Travell medical records, JFKL. Also see Travell OH.

p. 213: The side effects of testosterone: Conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Kelman, April 22, 2002. Dr. Kelman read the records at the JFKL with me and helped me understand them.

p. 213: “I’ve learned that”: Quoted in O’Donnell and Powers, 125-26. Immediately after the convention, JFK obtained a complete list of delegates with their home addresses as a prelude to courting them for 1960: See Sargent Shriver to Evelyn Lincoln, Sept. 5, 1956, Box 504, PPP.

p. 215: “all the credit for”: Quoted in Dallek,
Lone Star Rising,
517-18.

p. 215: “shaped primarily by”: Quoted in Parmet,
Jack,
409. For JFK and civil rights, also see JFK to Rep. Michael J. Kirwan, Nov. 1, 1956; JFK to Rep. Lenore K. Sullivan, Nov. 1, 1956; JFK to Gov. J. P. Coleman, Nov. 1, 1956, Box 781, PPP.

p. 215: “the balance of power”: Doris Fleeson, “John Kennedy for President,”
Washington Post,
Mar. 30, 1957.

p. 215:
Meet the Press,
Oct. 28, 1956, Transcript, Box 920A, PPP.

p. 216: “highly questionable”: JFK, “Highly Questionable Legislative Course,” June 20, 1957,
CR,
Compilation of Speeches, JFKL.

p. 216: “dangerous precedent”: JFK to Roy Wilkins, July 10, 1957, Box 23, Powers Papers.

p. 216: On the vote and the four Western liberals, see Doris Fleeson, “Kennedy Looks to the South,”
Washington Evening Star,
July 3, 1957; and Dallek,
Lone Star Rising,
521-22.

p. 216: For attacks on JFK, see JFK to Roy Wilkins, July 10, 1957, Box 23, Powers Papers, and Parmet,
Jack,
410.

p. 216: On Titles III and IV, see JFK, Civil Rights Act of 1957, July 23, 1957,
CR,
Compilation of Speeches; and Dallek,
Lone Star Rising,
522-24.

p. 216: For the controversy over jury trials, see Dallek,
Lone Star Rising,
524-26.

p. 217: For JFK’s consultations, see Paul Freund to JFK, July 23, 1957; JFK to Freund, July 30, 1957; Arthur E. Sutherland to JFK, July 26, 1957; JFK to Sutherland, July 30, 1957; Robert Troutman to JFK, July 26, 1957; Mark Dewolf Howe to JFK, Aug. 1, 1957; and conversation with Dean James Landis, n.d., Box 536, PPP.

p. 217: A vote against jury trials: JFK, Civil Rights Act of 1957, Aug. 1 and 7, 1957,
CR,
Compilation of Speeches.

p. 217: “impossible”: JFK to Bill, the Chronicle, n.d., Box 536, PPP.

p. 217: Enactment of the law: Dallek,
Lone Star Rising,
526-27.

p. 217: “Why not show” and “stout” bridge: Quoted in Parmet,
Jack,
412.

p. 217: The tensions with Wilkins: “Wilkins Scores Kennedy for Vote on Civil Rights,”
Berkshire Eagle,
April 28, 1958, clipping; JFK to Wilkins, May 6, June 6, July 18, 1958; Wilkins to JFK, May 29, 1958, Box 23, Powers Papers.

p. 218: “I think most of us agree”: JFK, Speech, Oct. 17, 1957, Box 898, PPP.

p. 218: On RFK, see Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
119, 137-42, 162-63.

p. 218: “If the investigation”: O’Donnell and Powers, 132.

p. 218: LBJ’s warning: Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
143.

p. 218: JFK’s decision: Martin and Plaut, 191.

p. 219: The Kennedys and Beck and Hoffa: Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
chap. 8, and Thomas, 74-89.

p. 219: JFK’s bill: “Disclosure of Financial Affairs of Labor Organizations,” Mar. 11, 1958, Compilation of Speeches.

p. 220: Meany’s response:
New York Times,
Mar. 28, 1958.

p. 220: NAM opposition: JFK, “National Association of Manufacturers Opposition to Kennedy-Ives Labor Bill,” July 29, 1958, Compilation of Speeches.

p. 220: “Jimmy Hoffa can rejoice”:
New York Times,
Aug. 19, 1958. Also see Parmet,
Jack,
429-33.

p. 220: For JFK’s 1959 labor reforms, see
Meet the Press,
Nov. 9, 1958, Box 920A, PPP.

p. 220: For Landrum-Griffin and “appalling public apathy,” see Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
182-84.

p. 221: “Justice, Labor and”: Quoted in Sorensen, 18.

p. 221: “Jesus, Jack”: Quoted in Collier and Horowitz, 246-47.

p. 221: “My father is conservative”: JFK Interview, Martin Papers.

p. 221: “I have never had”: LBJ conversation with Kefauver, Jan. 11, 1955, LBJA/CF, LBJL.

p. 221: “bombarded me”: Quoted in Doris Goodwin, 790.

p. 222: “The most powerful single force”: JFK, “Imperialism—The Enemy of Freedom,” July 2, 1957, Compilation of Speeches.

p. 222: JFK response to his critics: “Algeria,” July 8, 1957, Compilation of Speeches.

p. 222: “You lucky mush”: Quoted in Burns, 196.

pp. 222-23: JFK, “A Democrat Looks at Foreign Policy,”
Foreign Affairs,
Oct. 1957, 1-16.

p. 223: “the Democratic party”: JFK to J. K. Galbraith, Feb. 4, 1958, Box 691, PPP. Also see JFK to George Kennan, Feb. 13, 1958; Kennan to JFK, Feb. 19, 1958, Box 691, PPP. Also see JFK to Alton Hathaway, Mar. 6, 1958; and David C. Forbes, Mar. 6, 1958, Box 691, PPP. For examples of JFK’s policy statements, see “Address at 50th Anniversary Dinner, Bnai Zion, NYC,” Feb. 9, 1958, Box 563; “Social Science Foundation Lecture,” Feb. 24, 1958, Box 811, PPP; “The Struggle Against Imperialism, Part II—Poland and Eastern Europe,” Aug. 21, 1957; and “The Choice in Asia—Democratic Development in India,” Mar. 25, 1958, Compilation of Speeches; and Press Release, JFK and Sen. John Sherman Cooper, Mar. 25, 1958, Box 562, PPP.

pp. 223-24: On
Sputnik
and Gaither’s committee, see Ambrose,
Eisenhower,
423-35.

p. 224: JFK interview: “Kennedy Wants Us to Sacrifice,” Dec. 8, 1957,
New York Times
. JFK, “Mutual Security Act of 1958,” June 4, 1958, Compilation of Speeches.

p. 224: “dangerous period”: JFK, “U.S. Military Power—Preparing for the Gap,” Aug. 14, 1958, Compilation of Speeches. Also see Memo: “Foreign Policy Activities,” in a Folder titled “Missiles, Sept. 5-23, 1958,” Box 692, PPP.

p. 224: For the polls, see Gallup, 1523-24.

p. 225: “Seldom in the annals”: Quoted in Doris Goodwin, 792.

p. 225: “Senator Kennedy, do you have” and “This man seeks”: Quoted in Martin and Plaut, 461-62.

p. 225: “perfect politician,”
American Mercury,
1956.

p. 225: “Jack is the greatest”: Quoted in Martin and Plaut, 461.

p. 225: The best discussion of the 1958 campaign is in Parmet,
Jack,
chap. 25.

p. 225: “direct and personal participation”: Lawrence O’Brien to JFK, May 16, 1957, Box 527, PPP.

p. 225: “the flowering of another”: Harold Martin, “The Amazing Kennedys,”
Saturday Evening Post,
Sept. 7, 1957, 49.

Chapter 7: Nomination

p. 229: “terrible shapelessness”: Quoted in the
New York Times,
Sec. 4, p. 21, May 16, 2000.

p. 229: Speaking invitations: Martin and Plaut, 462; O’Donnell and Powers, 129.

p. 229: some Massachusetts newspapers:
Lynn Sunday Telegram-News,
July 14, 1957;
Boston Globe,
July 29, 1957.