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When Elaine de Kooning
:
Munro, p. 256.

“The assassin dropped”
:
Ibid.

“I felt that I had lost a brother”
:
Hall, p. 230.

A poll conducted within a week
:
Greenberg and Parker, pp. 149–77.

a grief-stricken empire of asphalt
:
A collection of descriptions, photographs, and documents pertaining to buildings, roads, and places named for John F. Kennedy is in the Steinberg Collection, available in the audiovisual department of the Kennedy Library.

George Orwell believed it was impossible
:
From Orwell’s essay “Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool,” in Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (eds.),
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume 4: In Front of Your Nose.

James MacGregor Burns called the memorials
:
Burns, JFKLOH.

His 1960 biography was admiring but suggested
:
Burns, pp. 276–81.

“Was it a fabrication?”
:
Burns, JFKLOH.

“who could have been the savior”
:
Salinger and Vanocur, p. 125.

William Attwood believed the next five years
:
William Attwood, “Twenty Years After Dallas,”
Virginia Quarterly Review,
Autumn 1983.

“an incalculable loss of the future”
:
Dallek (
Unfinished
),
p. 631.

“the future giving way to the present”
:
Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 318.

“the difference between what is”
:
Salinger and Vanocur, p. 125.

“He had great things to do”
:
William Manchester Papers (
Death of a President
), Box 42, Wesleyan Library.

He had told Henry Brandon
:
Brandon (
Special Relationships
), p. 200.

he told Averell Harriman that he planned
:
Seaborg (
Adventures
), p. 198.

“more often than not”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 75.

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

Johnson kept Hoover at the FBI
:
FOIA material, FBI archives.

The
Evening Star
reported
:
ES,
March 28, 1965.

“The most forgotten of all”
:
NYT,
November 22, 1963.

“God, what does it matter, Ben?”
:
Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 277.

Walter Heller asked Johnson
:
Look,
November 23, 1964.

“What Happened to the Kennedy Program”
:
Look,
November 17, 1964.

“Tell Mr. Khrushchev”
:
JFK: A Presidency Revealed,
History Channel film.

“Khrushchev did not want a repetition”
:
Taubman, p. 604.

“This is bad news”
:
“When Castro Heard the News,”
New Republic,
December 7, 1963.

On November 25, Chase sent Bundy a memorandum
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume XI, Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath, Document 378.

When Lechuga ran into Attwood
:
Ibid., Document 382.

Bundy described the recent contacts
:
Ibid., Document 388.

Chase wrote in a memorandum
:
Ibid.

In January, Chase told Attwood
:
Attwood (
Twilight
), p. 263.

Bobby Kennedy sent a memorandum to Dean Rusk
:
WP,
April 23, 2009.

Johnson met with Lodge on November 24
:
Douglass, p. 374.

“It remains the central object of the United States”
:
National Security Action Memorandum 273, South Vietnam, November 26, 1963, FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963, Document 331.

“On the basis of personal intuition”
:
Clifford, p. 381.

Robert McNamara wrote in his memoirs
:
McNamara, p. 87.

Walter Cronkite, whose interview had elicited
:
Cronkite, p. 243.

Senator Wayne Morse, who frequently butted
:
Boston Globe,
June 24, 1973,

In his 1970 oral history
:
Gilpatric, JFKLOH.

John Connally wrote
:
Connally, p. 358.

While riding a ski lift in Aspen
:
Ridder, author interview.

In an oral history archived
:
Bundy, LBJLOH.

In 1993, Schlesinger wrote in his diary
:
Schlesinger (
Journals
), p. 754.

Bundy believed that
:
Bundy, LBJLOH.

The military analyst Daniel Ellsberg
:
Ellsberg, pp. 195–96.

“Now is not the time to cry, Provie”
:
WP,
November 22, 1964.

Later that winter, a nun
:
Ibid.

In the spring of 1964, Jackie told
:
Maier, p. 475.

She asked West to install
:
West, p. 287; Bradford, p. 284.

After Nixon won the 1968 election
:
Mathews (
Kennedy & Nixon
), p. 276.

“Mr. West, will you be my friend”
:
West, p. 279.

That summer she told Stan Tretick
:
Bradford, p. 149.

Bradlee remembered the weekends demonstrating
:
Bradlee (
Good Life
), p. 262.

A reminder of her last weekend
:
NYT
,
February 5, 2010.

After buying several of Elaine de Kooning’s drawings
:
Hall, p. 230.

In the fall of 1964, Jackie invited Henry Brandon
:
Brandon (
Special Relationships
), p. 201.

She kept returning to his place in history
:
Ibid.

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