JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President (53 page)

“He did it so well”
:
Sally Bedell Smith, p. 399.

“Happy Birthday, Dad”
:
Dallas, p. 229.

“too young to write my memoirs”
:
Bartlett, JFKLOH: MacNeil, p. 153.

“because it would be good for Jackie”
:
Ibid.

“then nobody will want to talk to me”
:
Ibid.

“What
are
you going to do, Jack?”
:
Ibid.

He once told Paul Fay
:
Fay, p. 260; Fay, JFKLOH.

“I didn’t have the feeling from this conversation”
:
Bartlett, LBJLOH; Martin (
Seeds
), p. 473.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

Kennedy appointed John Gronouski
:
NYT,
September 11, 1963.

“Kennedy Building for ’64”
:
ES,
September 11, 1963.

no single issue troubled him
:
Ira Mehlman, “John F. Kennedy and Immigration Reform,”
The Social Contract,
Summer 1991; Thomas Maier, “A Legacy of Diversity,”
Newsday,
November 20, 2003; and Maier, pp. 424–27.

Typical were his dogged efforts
:
Gallagher, pp. 10–11, 27–29.

“The idea of the ‘melting pot’”
:
Kennedy (
Nation
), p. 35.

“strong orientation of an indefensible”
:
Ibid., p. 45.

“The famous words of Emma Lazarus”
:
Ibid.

“the principle of equality and human dignity to which our nation subscribes”
:
Ibid., p. ix.

“I don’t think that would be helpful”
:
Transcript of JFK interview with Huntley-Brinkley, JFKPOF, Box 46, JFKL.

“What do you think about cutting taxes”
:
Ibid.

“I think they should shoot everyone”
:
Lincoln Papers, Box 6, JFKL.

He met with Mansfield
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 108/A44, JFKL.

“an exercise in political assassination”
:
NYT,
September 8, 1963.

During their meeting, Senator Jackson
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 109/A44, JFKL.

“The treaty is being so chewed up”
:
Schlesinger, unpublished journals,
September 16, 1963, NYPL.

“lead to a real turning point”
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume V, Soviet Union, Document 355 (editorial note).

“The President wishes Mr. Khrushchev to know”
:
Department of State, Presidential Correspondence, Lot 77 D 163.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10–THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

At a National Security Council meeting
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 109/A44, JFKL; Hilsman, pp. 502–3; Strober and Strober, p. 433.

Kennedy attended a luncheon meeting of the Business Committee for Tax Reduction
:
Remarks at National Conference of the Business Committee for Tax Reduction, JFKL Web site.

Lincoln noted in her diary
:
Lincoln Papers, Box 6, JFKL.

On that occasion he had poured
:
New Yorker,
August 7, 2000.

He had left this second gift
:
Lincoln Papers, Box 6, JFKL.

Kennedy had “fallen in love” with one
:
Artful Tom:
A Memoir,
chapter 24, www.artnet.com.

“the best humored briefing breakfast”
:
Heller Papers, Kennedy/Johnson files, Box 6, JFKL.

a
declassified summary
:
“Did the U.S. Military Plan a Nuclear First Strike for 1963,”
The American Prospect,
number 19, Fall 1994.

“And we call ourselves the human race”
: and Rusk’s comments on the 1961 briefing:
Rusk, pp. 246–47.

In their 1993 article
:
“Did the U.S. Military Plan a Nuclear First Strike for 1963?”
The American Prospect,
Number 19, Fall 1994.

McNamara made a similar observation in 2003
:
Recollecting JFK Forum, 2003, JFKL.

A summary that the Pentagon provided
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume VIII, National Security Policy, Document 141.

“JFK Press Talk”
:
Boston Globe,
September 13, 1963.

“more nearly an instrument of Presidential power”
:
Tom Wicker, “Q’s and A’s About the Press Conference,”
NYT Magazine,
September 8, 1963.

Thursday briefing
:
Transcript, JFKL Web site.

he offered his own “thank you”
:
Ibid.;
NYT,
September 13, 1963.

“I saw your picture in the paper”
:
Lincoln Papers, Box 6, JFKL.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12–SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

“a little toe dance”
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
),
p. 205.

“Boy, he learns fast”
:
Ibid., p. 206.

As he disembarked
:
Ibid.

As he entered the house
:
Ibid., pp. 205–12; Auchincloss, JFKLOH.

Twelve hundred guests
:
NYT,
September 13, 1953.

compared them to “fine art books”
:
West, p. 270.

“Now, you can only keep one”
:
Anthony (
As We Remember
),
p. 194.

“Got to steer her away”
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
), p. 207.

“It was the simplest thing”
:
Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 142.

Now he gave her
:
Leaming, p. 312.

She reciprocated with
:
Gallagher, p. 290.

she would write Charlie Bartlett
:
Sally Bedell Smith, p. 400.

“You two really are our best friends”
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
),
p. 208.

“You know, you’re my only friend”
:
Gallagher, pp. 243–44.

Jackie was not a keen golfer
:
ES,
September 15, 1963.

A home movie
:
Audio-Visual Collection, JFKL.

He sent a cable to Lyndon Johnson
: JFKPOF, Box 30, JFKL.

He decided to split the next summer
:
Pottker, p. 197.

“All around me I see ponies”
:
Martin (
Hero
), p. 427.

Still, it had great waters
:
Auchincloss, JFKLOH

“Jackie here always wanted to be a nun”
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
),
p. 212.

His phone logs
:
Lincoln, Box 5, JFKL.

but the notes he made
:
JFKPP, Box 12, JFKL.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16–SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

“outrage and grief”
:
WP,
September 17, 1963

The result was a
New York Times
story
:
NYT,
September 18, 1963.

On Tuesday morning he asked
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 111/A46, JFKL; FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume V, Soviet Union, Document 355.

But he did say that
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 111/A46, JFKL.

approved an
“eyes-only personal” cable to Lodge
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963, Document 125.

Lodge was not fooled
:
Ibid., Document 126.

“that their experiences there and Lodge”
:
Schlesinger, unpublished diaries, September 21, 1963, NYPL.

“Unless you do certain things”
:
Porter, p. 174.

“would make possible a termination”
:
Ibid.

“If further deterioration of the political situation”
:
Taylor, p. 298.

“a good orthodox economist”
:
Heller, JFKLOH; see also interview with Heller in
NYT,
June 21, 1987.

Director of the Budget Kermit
Gordon
:
Gordon, JFKLOH.

“a first-rate intellect”
:
Seaborg (
Adventures
), p. 182.

“All right, I’ve got the idea”
:
Rostow, JFKLOH.

“If you’re running for reelection”
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 66, JFKL.

“This woman kicks me”
:
Heller, JFKLOH.

JFK address to the nation on his tax-cut bill
:
JFKL Web site; JFKPOF, Box 46, JFKL.

Nevertheless, in response
:
NYT,
September 21, 1963.

Senator
Fulbright called
:
Heller, JFKLOH.

“In a presidential campaign”
:
White (
History
), p. 498.

“a touching little call”
:
Heller, JFKLOH.

Heller had complained to Louchheim
:
Louchhiem papers, Box 78, LOC.

she had sometimes noticed a “chilly aloofness”
:
Ibid.

“How warmly he greets ‘pals’”
:
Ibid.

“unspoken but very powerful affection”
:
Rostow, JFKLOH.

“Never in my time in public life”
:
Ibid.

“evidence of the impressively cool”
:
Schlesinger (
Journals
), pp. 77–78.

describing him as “warm, funny, quick”
:
Ibid., p. 80.

“in a state of civil disorder”
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 111/A46–112/A47; Rosenberg and Karabell, pp. 143–49.

Bobby’s first choice
: Blaik, JFKLOH.

“an instrument for social evolution”
:
Jet,
October 10, 1963.

The black journalist
Simeon Booker
:
Ibid.

Dr. King opened the
White House meeting
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 111/A46–112/A47; Rosenberg and Karabell, pp. 143–49.

“the kind of federal concern needed”
:
NYT,
September 20, 1963.

two men in a station wagon
:
WP,
September 20, 1963.

He told the UN General Assembly
:
NYT,
September 21, 1963.

“It must last”
:
WP,
September 21, 1963.

Before Kennedy left
:
Attwood (
Twilight
), p. 258.

a memorandum he had received
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume XI, Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath, Document 367.

“Unfortunately, the CIA is still in charge”
:
Attwood (
Twilight
), p. 259.

said he was “adventuresome enough”
:
Ibid.

Stevenson briefed the president
:
Ibid.

his twelve favorite books
:
JFKL Web site.

he was attempting to write his own Bond-style thriller
:
Martin (
Hero
), p. 501; Martin (
Seeds
), pp. 449–50.