JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President (51 page)

After finishing the book
:
Bergquist and Tretick, p. 15.

During a discussion
:
Fay, pp. 189–90.

“I just don’t see”
:
Zelikow and May, pp. 113–17.

“Can you imagine LeMay saying”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 318.

“the President is not sure that”
:
Nikita Khrushchev, pp. 497–98.

“the greatest defeat in our history”
:
Cowley, p. 259.

“The military are mad”
:
Schlesinger, unpublished diary
,
NYPL.

“The first advice I’m going to give”
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
), p. 122.

A year later McNamara informed
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 118/A57, JFKL.

“Do you intend to make a movie”
:
Douglas, p. 349.

“as a warning to the Republic”
:
Schlesinger (
Robert Kennedy
), p. 450.

“as a warning to the generals”
:
Talbot, p. 148.

“if there were a third Bay of Pigs”
:
Fay, p. 190.

ran a full-page advertisement
:
ES,
August 20, 1963.

“Rebellion in the Air Force?”
:
The New Republic,
Raymond Sentier,
September 28, 1963.

“damned everywhere as a Communist appeaser”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 16.

“The time has come when he who is successful”
:
Sergei Khrushchev, p. 674.

“some absolutely unusual things”
:
Ibid.

“You plan hundreds of targets”
:
Ibid., p. 675.

Khrushchev also recommended scaling back the conventional army
:
Ibid.

“Availing myself of the return”
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume VI, Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges, Document 115.

Thompson’s official memorandum
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume V, Soviet Union, Document 350.

omits some of Kennedy’s playful banter
:
Dobrynin, pp. 105–6; Presidential Recordings, Tape 107/A43, JFKL.

“certain aspects of the exploration of space”
:
Interview with Senator John Kennedy,
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
November 1960.

“Dramatic achievements in space”
:
Logsdon, pp. 104–7; McNamara-Webb memorandum, JFKL Web site.

Kennedy had promised Americans a “New Frontier”
:
JFK acceptance speech to the 1960 Democratic National Convention, delivered at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on July 15, 1960.

“I believe that this nation should commit itself”
:
JFK speech to joint session of Congress, full text on JFKL Web site.

“We set sail on this new sea”
:
Rice University speech, full text on JFKL Web site.

“All right—why not?”
:
Sorensen (
Kennedy
), p. 544.

“a very heavy burden”
:
JFK press conferences, JFKL Web site.

During a November 1962
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 60, November 16, 1962, JFKL.

July 20, 1963, press conference
:
Transcripts of JFK press conferences on JFKL Web site.

“appeared to be looking for an agreement”
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume V, Soviet Union, Document 351.

“Soviet propaganda has shown unusual restraint”
:
NYT,
August 28, 1963.

The meeting was among the most contentious
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 107/A42, Tape 108/A43, JFKL.

“an egregious ‘end run’”
:
Taylor, p. 292.

“we began to lose”
:
Forrestal, LBJLOH.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28

“massive, militant, and monumental sit-in demonstration”
:
NYT,
June 12, 1963.

“We want success in Congress”
:
Wilkins, p. 291.

“They’re going to come down here”
:
Raywid, JFKLOH.

“They [the marchers] are going to express”
:
July 17, 1963, press conference, JFKL Web site.

“Oh, Bruce, I wish I were out there”
:
Bruce, p. 97.

a natural “instinct” for the medium
:
Hersh, p. 224.

“We wouldn’t have had a prayer”
:
Salinger, p. 54.

Kennedy had ordered
:
Traphes Bryant, pp. 17, 43.

“Jesus Christ, that’s a terrific speech”
:
Lee White, author interview.

“I have a dream”
:
Ibid.;
NYT,
August 29, 2963.

“relief written all over his face”
:
Wilkins, p. 293.

“a superb job of making your case”
:
Ibid.

“the education of JFK on the race question”
:
Roy Wilkins, JFKLOH.

King had a similar take on his evolution
:
King, JFKLOH.

the “joys and hardships” of being black
:
Roy Wilkins, JFKLOH.

His black valet George Taylor protested
:
Taylor, JFKLOH.

“That’s not acceptable”
:
Richard Goodwin, p. 4.

“Oh, I see, the back of the bus for Catholics”
:
Recollecting JFK Forum, October 22, 2003, JFKL.

“What the hell. That’s a decent thing to do”
:
Branch, p. 362.

“I’m not going to just play at this business”
:
Thompson, p. 52.

“an offering of a cactus bouquet”
:
NYT,
May 11, 1963.

King criticized him for vacillating
:
Bergquist and Tretick, p. 26.

spoke of “two Kennedys”
:
King, JFKLOH.

had made him “sick”
:
Schlesinger (
Journals
),
p. 189.

“Lincoln had real agonizing moments”
:
King, JFKLOH.

“We are confronted primarily”
:
text of civil rights speech on JFKL Web site.

“Sometimes you look at what”
:
Newsweek,
July 8, 1963.

the “morality of integration” . . . “the most eloquent, passionate, and unequivocal plea”
:
King, JFKLOH.

Kennedy invited his widow and children
:
Martin (
Hero
), pp. 254–55.

“I don’t understand the South”
:
Schlesinger (
Thousand Days
), p. 966.

“to look into your hearts”
:
JFK statement to Congress on submission of his civil rights bill, JFKL Web site.

“a complete blueprint for a totalitarian state”
:
Gentile, p. 34.

“the destruction of the United States”
:
Ibid.

“Well, if we’re going down”
:
Manchester (
Remembering
),
p. 241.

“considerable anxiety over the President’s civil rights speech”
:
Schlesinger (
Journals
),
p. 199.

“widespread and intense panic in the suburbs”
:
Ibid.

A survey of non-Southern whites
:
Stewart Alsop and Oliver Quayle, “What Northerners Really Think of Negroes,”
Saturday Evening Post,
September 7, 1963.

As soon as Kennedy learned
:
Wilkins, JFKLOH.

Speaking first, Wilkins said
:
Rosenberg and Karabell, pp. 131–40; Presidential Recordings, Tape 108/A43, JFKL.

his doodles showed
:
JFKPP, Box 12, JFKL.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 29–SATURDAY, AUGUST 31

“When we move to eliminate a government”
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 107/ A42, JFKL.

“You’re not worth firing”
:
Rust, p. 119.

“what they feel their prospects are for success”
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 107/A42, JFKL.

“Ah, do we cut our losses in such a way”
:
Ibid.

On Wednesday, the CIA station chief
:
FRUS 1961–1963, Volume III, Vietnam, January–August 1963, Document 299.

“As of now there are no signs”
:
Ibid., Document 297.

“our knowledge of composition of coup group”
:
Ibid., Document 306.

“Situation here has reached point of no return”
:
Ibid., Document 307.

“I don’t think we ought to take the view”
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 107/A42, JFKL.

Harriman yelled, “Shut up!”
:
Weintel and Bartlett, p. 87.

“This shit has got to stop!”
:
Bird, p. 254; Reeves, p. 567.

“My God!
My government’s coming apart”
: Guthman and Shulman, p. 397.

“We are launched on a course”
:
FRUS 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963, Document 12.

He told Lodge, “We will do”
:
Ibid., Document 18.

“I wouldn’t be surprised”
:
WP
,
August 31, 1963.

Lincoln had left a message on his bed
:
JFKPP, Box 12, JFKL.

He gave in, calling Roosevelt
:
Sally Bedell Smith, p. 397.

“I don’t want to read anything in the papers”
:
Fay, p. 211.

He diagnosed a muscle sprain
:
JFKPP, Box 46, JFKL.

Kraus arrived on August 31
:
Schwartz, p. 198.

“I have just learned that you cut your vacation”
:
Ibid.

“the enclosed envelope should be opened”
:
FRUS 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963, Document 18, footnote 1.

Lodge’s reply was curt
:
Ibid., footnote 2.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

cruised to Martha’s Vineyard to collect Styron
:
Styron wrote two accounts of his cruise with JFK that differ primarily in the dates he ascribes to it. I have relied on the
Esquire
article because it was published thirteen years closer to the event described. The articles are: (1) “The Short Classy Voyage of JFK,”
Esquire,
December 1983; (2) “Havanas in Camelot,”
Vanity Fair,
July 1996.

“the sex appeal of a movie hero”
:
“The President and Other Intellectuals,”
The American Scholar,
October 1961.

“slick, cool, and empty”
:
Schlesinger (
Thousand
), p. 744.

“We wined him and dined him”
:
Ibid.

“wistful need for more confident learning”
:
Kazin, p. 253.

In 1961, he had become so exercised
:
Schlesinger (
Thousand
), p. 718.

After some one-sided articles
:
Sorensen Papers, Box 37, JFKL.

He and Ben Bradlee had been friends
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
), p. 114.

“at some future date”
:
January 9, 1960, speech to the Massachusetts State Legislature, JFKL Web site.