Read The Kennedy Men: 1901-1963 Online
Authors: Laurence Leamer
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #General, #History, #United States, #20th Century, #Rich & Famous
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412 “Johnnie Roselli who …”: unpublished memoir of Jeanne Humphreys, courtesy, Gus Russo.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.
426 “There’s another candidate …”: JFKMM, p. 344. 426-27 “I don’t have any …”: quoted in Whalen, p. 452.
427 “And the Star …”: John F. Kennedy, n.d., FMC.
427 “There was a lot…”: discussion between Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and Arthur Schlesinger Jr., February 12, 1975, ASP.
428 ‘“simply because he …”: memo to files, AKP.
428 “whatever one’s…”: Fletcher Knebel, “A Catholic in 1960,”
Look,
March 3, 1959.
428 “the crash of…”: February 24, 1959, religious issues file, JFKPP. 428 “Wherever I go …”: Cardinal Cushing to Joseph P. Kennedy, May 20, 1960, PC.
428 “This letter really …”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Richard Cardinal Cushing, March 23, 1959, PC.
429 “I hope that…”: ibid., May 20, 1959, PC.
429 “the religious issue …”: Cardinal Cushing to Joseph P. Kennedy, May 22, 1959.
429 “Nobody asked me …”: Chafin and Topper, pp. 123-24.
429 And pity poor Humphrey: MP 1960, p. 119.
430 “A sin against God …”: ibid., p. 117.
430 “I suppose if I…”: John F. Kennedy, n.d., FMC.
431 a soft-core porn item….: Benjamin C. Bradlee,
Conversations with Kennedy
(1975), p. 27.
431 Jackie stood alone: ibid., p. 28.
431 trying to gauge: Hugh Sidey,
Time file,
1960.
20. A Patriot’s Song
433 “Yes, this candidate …”: Norman Mailer,
The Presidential Papers
(1963), p. 39.
433 The Los Angeles police guarding: LL interview with former LA Police Detective Dan Stewart. 433 “These things happened …”: O’Neill, p. 92.
433 In the Maryland primary: Torbert Macdonald, KLOH.
434 “I remember …”: quoted in TEEK, pp. 122-23.
434 With the help of New York City’s: MP 1960, pp. 153-54. 434 He helped to add Illinois: ibid., p. 195.
434 “Senator Kennedy, who appears …”: “Should Health of Presidential Candidates Be a Campaign Issue?,”
Medical World News,
February 9, 1976.
435 “outstanding possibility”: Myer Feldman, KLOH.
435 “We need Texas”: interview, Joseph Timilty, BP.
435 “I knew he hated Jack”: Jeff Shesol,
Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade
(1997), p. 59.
436 “Well, you know …”: LL interview with Myer Feldman.
436 “In your first move after…”: The author draws heavily on the best account of this convoluted process in Jeff Shesol’s
Mutual Contempt.
436 “Jack, I don’t want you …”: LL interview with Charles Bartlett.
437 originally written by Sorensen: LL interview with Myer Feldman.
438 “an example of…”: interview, Chuck Spalding, BP.
438 “Time Inc. realizes …”: interview, Henry Luce, RWP.
438-39 “I see Otto …”: Pierre Salinger,
P.S.: A Memoir
(1995), p. 76.
439 “a remarkable political demonstration”: Myer Feldman, KLOH.
439 “Our next president…”: quoted in Matthews, p. 136.
439-40 “anxiety and discomfort”:
Time,
November 7, 1960.
440 “I think that in the …”: interview, John F. Kennedy, JMBP.
441 “didn’t like publicity”: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.
441 “With respect…”: Dr. Janet Travell and Dr. Eugene J. Cohen to John F. Kennedy, June 11, 1960, RWC.
441 the two doctors traveled: Janet G. Travell, M.D., to John F. Kennedy, June 24, 1960, RWC.
441 “about the security …”: Dr. Janet Travell to Dr. Elmer C. Bartels, June 24, 1960, RWC.
441 “Senator Kennedy does not…”: Janet Travell, M.D., to Robert F. Kennedy, July 11, 1960, DHP.
441 “You do not have …”: Eugene J. Cohen, M.D., and Janet Travell, M.D., to John F. Kennedy, July 29, 1960, DHP.
441 “I tracked down …”: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.
442 “No, Lyndon …”: LL interview with Myer Feldman.
442 “lift its bloody hand …”: quoted in K, p. 194.
442 “In every Catholic-dominated …”: brochure of Baptist Sunday School Committee of the American Baptist Association, DHP.
442-43 “American freedom grew…”: Carol V. R. George,
God’s Salesman: Norman Vincent Peale and the Power of Positive Thinking
(1993), p. 198.
443 “Post Protestant Pluralism”: ibid, p. 196.
443 “Recently I spent…”: ibid., p. 200.
443 “moral character of…”: ibid., p. 210.
443 “the old, strong, narrow …”: ibid., p. 197.
443 “People have often …”: William Geoghegan, KLOH.
445 “the right and duty …”:
New York Times,
May 17, 1960.
445 twice as many Protestants: Charles R. Morris,
American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America’s Most Powerful Church
(1997), p. 281.
445 Jack’s speech that morning: LL interview with Bill Wilson.
445 he could never be …: George, p. 202.
446 “Protestant America …”: ibid., p. 208.
446 “Henry, if you …”: Henry Brandon, KLOH.
446 “anxiety about…”: Adelaide King Eisenmann to John Seigenthaler and Mike Feldman, Democratic National Committee interoffice memorandum, October 3, 1960, PA/PF Corr 59-60 JFKPL.
446 “Americans are wondering …”:
U.S. News & World Report,
August 22, 1960.
447 “You know I came …”: LL interview with Bonnie Williams.
447 the candidate pushed: Gormley, p. 130.
447 “I was just aghast…”: LL interview with Archibald Cox.
447 wrote a futile letter: Gormley, p. 130.
448 called Feldman: Myer Feldman, KLOH, and LL interview with Myer Feldman.
449 Jack told his two aides: LL interview with Myer Feldman.
449 Jack believed that this area: ibid.
449 at home started injecting: LL interview with Betty Coxe Spalding.
449 Truman Capote might be:
New York Times,
December 4, 1972.
450 “The demands of his…”: Dr. Max Jacobson, unpublished memoir, courtesy Mrs. Max Jacobson.
450 hitting his fist: Matthews, p. 146.
450 “No, Senator …”: K, p. 198.
451 “Kick him in the balls”: LL interview with Bill Wilson.
451 hit his kneecap: MP1960, p. 298.
452 87 percent: Mary Watson,
The Expanding Vision: American Television in the Kennedy Years
(1990), p. 8.
452 “#x2018;Party,’ not ‘pawty’ “: Myer Feldman, KLOH.
452 Reinsch hurried: Watson, p. 13.
453 “we must attempt…”: quoted in Matthews, p. 166.
454 “Senator Kennedy made …”:
454 the action would have taken: The original CIA memo for “A Program of Covert Action Against the Castro Regime,” dated March 16, 1960, stated that “it will not reach its culmination earlier than 6 to 8 months from now.”
Foreign Relations
6 (1958-1960), pp. 850-51.
454 “in the full hearing …”:
Washington Post,
August 8, 2000. See also Gus Russo,
Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK(1998),
p. 365.