JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President (50 page)

“Barring greatly increased resupply”
:
Rust, pp. 90–91.

Kennedy activated the hidden Oval Office microphone
:
Recording of Kennedy-Lodge conversation, Tape 104/A40, JFKL.

“when he was bored”
:
Dickerson, p. 63.

he filled a page with doodles
:
JFKPP, Box 43, JFKL.

“I suppose these are the worst press relations”
:
Lodge, JFKLOH.

“Are you getting any lately?”
:
Dickerson, p. 67.

“How’s your romance going?”
:
Bergquist Papers, Box 20, Boston University Library.

“Who does he sleep with?”
:
Ibid.

“cool, brainy, blunt”
:
Ibid.

“a very swinging sexual animal”
:
Ibid.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 16–SUNDAY, AUGUST 18

“It’s my daddy’s turn!”
:
Meyers, p. 207. This account was given to Meyers by Kennedy’s military aide Major General Chester V. Clifton. Clifton does not date the story of Caroline and JFK at the candy store, but given its placement in the book, it happened during the summer of 1963, after Patrick’s death, most likely when JFK arrived on Friday, August 16.

“What You Don’t Know About Kennedy”
:
Fletcher Knebel, “What You Don’t Know About Kennedy,”
Look,
January 17, 1961.

“I would describe Jack as rather like me”
:
Fletcher Knebel Papers, Boston University Library, also cited in Sally Bedell Smith, pp. 7–8.

“I’d say Jack didn’t want to reveal”
:
Rose Kennedy Papers, Box 82, JFKL.

“strangely remote”
:
Gallagher, p. 159,

“something quite remote”
:
Mailer, p. 44.

“the subtle smile”
:
Newsweek,
January 27, 1961.

“a smile that had nothing public”
:
Reporter,
February 16, 1961.

“have a hard time getting to the bottom”
:
Bergquist and Tretick, p. 179.

“A penny for your thoughts”
:
Martin (
Seeds
), p. 72.

“a bright young woman”
:
Anthony (
As We Remember
), p. 60.

praised her “brilliant imagination”
:
Ibid., p. 49.

an iron will
:
West, p. 195.

“Look, Frank. Just smile”
:
Taraborelli, pp. 25–26.

“tremendous awareness”
:
Anthony (
As We Remember
), p. 110.

“The trouble with you, Jack”
:
Adler (
The Eloquent
), pp. 37–38.

“Where is this great Irish wit”
:
Martin (
Seeds
),
p. 322.

“Jackie is superb in her personal life”
:
Ridder, author interview.

“Don’t ask Jack mean questions”
:
Dickerson, p. 65.

“never allowing intimacies”
:
Clifford, p. 304.

“You have to believe that he loves”
:
Ridder, author interview.

“Fitzgerald breasts”
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
),
p. 29.

During a campaign trip to Oregon
:
Lubin, pp. 78–79. Lubin pointed out the similarities between the Hopper painting and the Lowe photograph, placing them side by side in his book.

“the two most isolated”
:
Andersen, p. 1.

“See that smile on her face?”
:
Martin (
Hero
), p. 472.

“Maybe now I’m getting through to him”
:
Leaming, p. 303.

he read at meals, in the bathtub
:
Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 41.

When he returned that weekend, she reciprocated
:
NYT,
August 17, 1963.

MONDAY, AUGUST 19–TUESDAY, AUGUST 20

Senator Mansfield handed him a three-page memorandum
:
JFKPOF, digital locator 060-008, JFKL Web site; Mansfield Papers, series XXII, Box 103, Folder 14, Mansfield Papers, University of Montana.

August 20 press conference
:
NYT,
August 21, 1963; JFKL Web site.

“tragic mistake”
:
Boston Globe,
August 21, 1963.

“There’s no doubt that any man”
:
Presidential Recordings, transcript of dictabelt 25B.5, 26C.1, August 23, 1963, JFKL.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21–FRIDAY, AUGUST 23

he received an early morning call
:
Transcript in Ball Personal Papers, Box 9, JFKL.

“eager young ladies”
:
Baker, p. 47.

Her FBI file described her
:
Rometsch FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) FBI file, available online and at the FBI.

“illicit relations with highly”
:
Ibid.

According to
Evans’s memorandum
:
Ibid.

“You’ve got to be careful”
:
Evan Thomas, p. 255.

“high-level sex contacts”
:
Rometsch FOIA-FBI file.

“Of course, no mention will be made”
:
Ibid.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall
:
Koehler, pp. 250–51.

“It is hard to overstate”
:
Leaming, p. 268.

While editing a draft
:
Katie Louchheim Papers, Box 78, LOC.

If someone disparaged Profumo
:
Spalding, JFKLOH.

“He thought this was not at all the way”
:
Berlin, JFKLOH.

Bobby decided it was too dangerous
:
Beschloss (
Crisis
), p. 616.

one of the most egregious instances of a womanizing
:
The most perceptive and succinct analysis of JFK’s womanizing can be found in Mark J. White’s essay “Behind Closed Doors: The Private Life of a Public Man,” pp. 256–76 in Mark J. White’s
Kennedy: The New Frontier Revisited.
Another excellent summary can be found in Hagood’s
Presidential Sex.

his need for a secret life
:
Sally Bedell Smith, p. 153.

“You’ve got to live every day”
:
Smathers, JFKLOH.

“I’ve got this slow-motion cancer”
:
Martin (
Hero
), p. 49.

He confided in Clare Boothe Luce
:
Beale, p. 76.

he suffered punishing headaches
:
Strober and Strober, p. 78.

being circumcised at the age of twenty-one
:
Hamilton, p. 219.

finding his father in flagrante
:
Madsen, pp. 240–41.

The fact that Kennedy’s sexuality remained so unchanged
:
Mark J.White, p. 259. White has a particularly insightful discussion of Kennedy’s sexuality.

“an adolescent in terms”
:
Strober and Strober, p. 56.

“an immature relationship with girls”
:
Billings, JFKLOH.

“seemed to relish sharing the details”
:
Baker, p. 78.

“part of him still seemed to be”
:
Alford, p. 65.

“a little boy who wouldn’t”
:
Storm, p. 158.

“a real compulsion”
:
Leaming, p. 60.

Charlie Bartlett, who had introduced
:
Pitts, p. 143.

“because I was thirty-seven years old”
:
McMillan, author interview.

“absolutely no guilty conscience”
:
Beaton, p. 301.

“to keep the White House white”
:
Sally Bedell Smith, p. 156.

showing a keen interest in polygamy
:
Cassini, p. 324.

letters, diary, and testimony of Margaret Coit
:
Coit Papers, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Coit, JFKLOH.

On August 21, he was still shifting gears
:
JFKPP, Box 12, JFKL.

“Personal Conduct in High Office”
:
ES,
August 21, 1963.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 24–SUNDAY, AUGUST 25

Jackie loved their rented house . . . rooms measured
:
Gallagher, p. 292.

The White House press office
:
NYT,
August 25, 1963.

“having had the foresight”
:
ES,
August 25, 1963.

spoke of the house being “full of sadness”
:
Martin (
Hero
), p. 467.

“Look at what the Pope said”
:
Ibid.

“I wish you would tell him”
:
Schlesinger (
Journals
),
p. 201.

“I
know
there is much joy”
:
JFKPP, Box 43, JFKL.

“She hung on to him and he held her”
:
Sally Bedell Smith, p. 396.

“Maybe he thought you were a waiter”
:
Douglas Home, JFKLOH.

“Does the ambitious Greek tycoon”
:
Evans, p. 194.

“Whatever you do in Greece”
:
Hill, p. 250.

Michael Forrestal called to ask Kennedy
:
Rust, pp. 114–15.

Cable 243
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume III, Vietnam, January–August 1963, Document 281.

Kennedy asked if he could delay making a decision
:
Rust, p. 114.

Hilsman and Harriman found Undersecretary Ball . . . on a golf course
:
Ball, LBJLOH.

Ball called Kennedy
:
Ball, pp. 371–72.

“ran counter to the grain of American principles”
:
Ibid., p. 371.

Kennedy asked the White House photographer
:
Van Buren, p. 74.

he received
Lodge’s response
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume III, Vietnam, January–August 1963, Document 285.

MONDAY, AUGUST 26–TUESDAY, AUGUST 27

“I think we should give priority”
:
Manchester (
Remembering
),
p. 204.

“It is important that he be corrected”
:
Cousins, pp. 24–25.

“a lonesome figure”
:
Ibid., p. 110.

“In closing, I want again to send my warm personal wishes”
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume VI, Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges, Document 95.

“One of the ironic things”
:
Cousins, pp. 113–14.

“The President is in a grave situation”
:
Nikita Khrushchev, pp. 497–98.

“Obviously, this is Khrushchev’s own version”
:
Ibid., p. 498.

Dobrynin’s account in his memoirs
:
Dobrynin, p. 90.

Knebel got the idea
:
NYT,
February 28, 1993.

Knebel also found inspiration
:
Reston, pp. 208–9.

a top-secret memorandum proposing
Operation Northwoods
:
George Washington University, National Security Archive.

After receiving a summary
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume X, Cuba 1962–1963, Document 314.