An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (132 page)

p. 375: “intended to examine”:
PPP: JFK, 1961,
335.

p. 375: Philandering: Conversation with Robert Novak. Other journalists, Haynes Johnson, James Kilpatrick, Nick Kotz, Marianne Means, Bruce Morton, and Don Oberdorfer, echoed Novak’s assertion.

p. 375: Ultra-right-wing press stories: Conversation with Ronald Whalen, JFKL.

p. 375: “underground market”: Parmet,
JFK,
114.

p. 375: LBJ’s womanizing: Dallek,
Lone Star Rising,
189-91, 637, n13; and
Flawed Giant,
186-87.

p. 376: People around the president worried: Confidential source.

p. 376: “Once every two”: Evan Thomas, 116.

p. 376: JFK-NSK Messages between November and February:
FRUS: Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges,
1-6.

p. 376: “It is a secret”: NSK to JFK, April 18, 1961; JFK to NSK, April 18, 1961, ibid., 7-10. Also see Nixon, 234-35, and Beschloss,
Crisis Years,
120-21.

p. 377: Khrushchev answered Kennedy: NSK to JFK, April 22, 30, May 16, 1961; also see JFK to NSK, April 12, 1961:
FRUS: Kennedy-Khrushchev,
10-16, 18-21.

p. 377: His dilemma:
PPP: JFK, 1961,
288.

p. 377: Department of urban affairs and housing: Ibid., 285.

pp. 377-78: On political opposition: Lee C. White to JFK, Aug. 21, 1961, Box 30, POF.

p. 378: On the bill’s secondary priority: Legislative Items Recommended by the President, May 15, June 30, 1961, Box 49, POF.

p. 378: On the economy, see Walter Heller to JFK, April 6, 27, and May 10, 1961, Box 5, Walter W. Heller Papers, JFKL; Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
630; and Bernstein, 126-27.

p. 378: Tax reform bill:
PPP: JFK, 1961,
290-303.

p. 378: Business leaders’ opposition: Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
631.

p. 378: LBJ: Dallek,
Flawed Giant,
11.

p. 378: Gains in domestic affairs:
PPP: JFK, 1961,
220, 282, 344, 353, 365, 486, 488, 524, 552.

p. 379: “highest-priority items”: Legislative Items Recommended by the President, May 15, June 30, 1961, Box 49, POF.

p. 379: On defeat of the education and health insurance bills: Bernstein, chaps. 7 and 8.

p. 380: “Phase Two”: Lou Harris to JFK, June 22, 1961, Box 63A, POF.

p. 380: Vow to renew his efforts in 1962: See the undated 8-page memo headed: “Is the Kennedy Administration financially responsible?” Box 50, POF.

pp. 380-81: “the limited goal,” “quick-talking,” and “the smartest politician”: Quoted in Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
315.

p. 381: “This is the way”: Bayard Rustin OH, Columbia University.

p. 381: Executive Order: Bernstein, 51-52.

p. 381: “kept muttering”: Wofford, 169-70.

p. 381: “timid and reluctant”: Louis Martin to Sorensen, May 10, 1961, Box 66, Gen. Corresp., RFK Papers, JFKL.

pp. 381-82: Polls: Gallup, 1705, 1713, 1723-24.

p. 382: Burke Marshall: Branch, 405.

p. 382: The Charleston incident: Ibid., 399-400.

pp. 382-83: “King’s name,” O’Donnell’s response, and the Mayflower meeting: Ibid., 404-7. Martin Luther King OH.

p. 383: “Summary of Civil Rights Progress,” Box 63, POF.

pp. 383-84: Freedom Riders: Burke Marshall OH; Guthman and Shulman, 82-84, 92-93; Branch, 412-30; Richard Reeves, 122-25.

p. 384: “Can’t you get”: Quoted in Richard Reeves, 125.

p. 384: “What sort of help”: Branch, 428.

p. 384: Gallup, 1723.

pp. 384-85: Nashville students: Burke Marshall OH; John Patterson OH; Guthman and Shulman, 84-86; Branch, 429-44.

p. 385: “Do you know”: Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
296.

p. 385: “I never recovered”: Guthman and Shulman, 93.

p. 385: “Oh, there are fists”: Quoted in Guthman,
We Band,
170-71. For the rest, Branch, 444-50.

p. 386: The response to King’s decision: Ibid., 451-54.

p. 386: JFK statement:
PPP: JFK, 1961,
391.

p. 386: Bobby consulted him constantly: Guthman and Shulman, 95-96.

p. 386: Riots at Abernathy’s church: Branch, 454-65.

p. 386: “If they don’t get here”: Ibid., 460.

pp. 386-87: “Now, Reverend”: Wofford, 154.

p. 387: “destroying us politically”: Quoted in Branch, 464-65.

p. 387: “They had made their point”: Guthman and Shulman, 97-98.

p. 387: “Negroes have been,” “Man, we’ve been,” and “You know”: Wofford, 155-57.

p. 387: “Wait means ‘Never!’”:
Time,
June 2, 1961.

p. 387: “could say something”: Wofford, 125-26.

p. 388: “Eisenhower never did”: Harris Wofford to JFK, May 29, 1961, Box 68, Gen. Corresp., RFK Attorney General’s Papers, JFKL.

p. 389: Speech to Canadian Parliament:
PPP: JFK, 1961,
380-88.

p. 389: Conflict with Diefenbaker: Sorensen, 648; Memo, April 7, 1961, Chalmers Roberts Papers, JFKL; Guthman and Shulman, 29; Lawrence Martin, 180-91; Bradlee,
Conversations,
167, 181-85.

p. 389: Special message:
PPP: JFK, 1961,
396-402. And see Memo on Defense Posture, to JFK, n.d., Box 84A, POF.

p. 390: Act for International Development: George Ball to JFK, Mar. 16, 1961, Box 87; Chester Bowles to JFK, May 22, 23, 1961, Box 28, POF. Gallup, 1700-1701.

pp. 390-91: “apathy, indifference”:
PPP: JFK, 1961,
402-3. Gallup, 1724-25, 1732, 1734, 1741, 1745.

p. 391: “What should I do”: Quoted in Sorensen, 691.

p. 391: Civil defense meetings: David Bell to Files, Mar. 20, 1961, Box 283A; McGeorge Bundy, “Civil Defense Meeting,” May 9, 1961, Box 295, NSF.

p. 391: “great fears”: Marc Raskin to Bundy, May 19, 1961, Box 295, NSF.

p. 391: Considerations governing expanded civil defense: David Bell to JFK, Mar. 18, 1961, Box 70; McGeorge Bundy to Sherley Ewing, April 26, 1961, Box 295, POF.

p. 391: “would show the world”: “Some Issues Relating to a Fallout Shelter Program,” n.d., but clearly before JFK’s May 25 State of the Union speech; Box 295, NSF.

p. 391: “which we could never”:
PPP: JFK, 1961,
402.

pp. 391-92: Rockefeller: Sorensen, 692.

p. 392: Landing a man on the moon:
PPP: JFK, 1961,
403-5.

p. 392: Only time he departed from his text in speaking to Congress: Sorensen, 592.

p. 392: Arguments against manned spaceflights: Michael R. Beschloss, “Kennedy and the Decision to Go to the Moon,” in Launius and McCurdy, 51-55.

p. 392: A majority of Americans agreed: Gallup, 1702-3, 1720.

p. 392: “that we shall”:
PPP: JFK, 1961,
404.

p. 393: “clearly one of the great”: Sorensen, 591.

p. 393: “But why”:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
669.

p. 393: Advantages of manned mission: JFK to Brook Overton, Mar. 22, 1961, Box 82, POF; Robert Dallek, “Johnson, Project Apollo, and the Politics of Space Program Planning,” in Launius and McCurdy, 72-74.

p. 393: JFK-LBJ exchange: JFK to LBJ, April 20, 1961; LBJ to JFK, April 28, 1961, Box 28, POF. McDougall, 320; Dallek, “Johnson, Project Apollo,” 70-72.

p. 394: The president “is afraid”: Lincoln Diary, May 1, 1961, Box 4, Evelyn Lincoln Papers, JFKL.

p. 394: “You know, Lyndon”: Newton Minow OH, LBJL.

pp. 394-95: Discussions with de Gaulle:
PPP: JFK, 1961,
405-6, 413.

p. 395: “a great captain”:
PPP: JFK, 1961,
405. De Gaulle and FDR: Dallek,
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
376-79.

p. 395: De Gaulle’s attitude:
FRUS: Laos Crisis,
22.

p. 395: De Gaulle and JFK’s shared views: C. L. Sulzberger, “De Gaulle—How Splendid the Day Was,”
New York Times,
April 29, 1961; President’s Visit to De Gaulle: Talking Points, May 27, 1961, Box 116A, POF.

pp. 395-96: Tensions with de Gaulle: R. W. Komer to JFK, Mar. 6, 1961, Box 220, NSF; President’s Visit: Talking Points, May 27, 1961, Box 116A, POF;
FRUS: Laos Crisis,
115;
FRUS: Vietnam, 1961,
254.

p. 396: “seemed to prefer”: Sorensen, 633.

p. 396: “Even when”: Nicholas Wahl to McGeorge Bundy, May 1961, Box 331, NSF. Also see Abram Chayes OH.

p. 396: Kennedy read de Gaulle’s: Sorensen, 631.

p. 396: “behind his patrician”: De Gaulle,
The War Memoirs,
78-84.

p. 396: The only topic: President’s Visit to De Gaulle, May 27, 1961, Box 116A, POF. JFK’s arrival in Paris:
New York Times,
June 1, 1961;
Time,
June 9, 1961; Charles de Gaulle,
Memoirs of Hope,
254, including “suffering the drawbacks”; Richard Reeves, 145-46.

p. 397: De Gaulle’s formal dinner toast:
PPP: JFK, 1961,
424-25.

p. 397: “somewhat fumbling”: De Gaulle,
Memoirs of Hope,
254.

p. 397: Memorized quotes: Beschloss,
Crisis Years,
183.

p. 397: The gift: Sorensen, 633.

p. 397: “You’ve studied”: Charles Bohlen OH.

p. 397: The conversations: De Gaulle,
Memoirs of Hope,
254-59;
FRUS: Berlin Crisis, 1961-1962,
80-86;
FRUS: Laos Crisis,
214-20; Talking Points Reviewing Conversations between Pres. Kennedy and Pres. De Gaulle, May 31- June 2, 1961, Box 116A, POF.

p. 397: Told an English friend: Sir Alec Douglas-Home OH.

pp. 398-99: Medical problems: Dr. Janet Travell medical records, JFKL. Dr. Max Jacobson, “John F. Kennedy,” in NHP. Parmet,
JFK,
120-21; Beschloss,
Crisis Years,
189-91.

p. 399: “I don’t care”: Reeves,
President Kennedy,
36.

p. 399: “was in overall charge”: Beschloss,
Crisis Years,
191.

p. 399: “doctors came and went”: Richard Reeves, 146-47.

p. 399: Jacobson and Jackie: Dr. Max Jacobson, “John F. Kennedy,” in NHP; Richard Reeves, 146-47.

p. 399: Jackie and de Gaulle: Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
349.

p. 399: Jackie’s impact on the French: Leaming, 112-13.

p. 399: “Charm”: Ibid., 425.

p. 399: The French press: Quoted in Richard Reeves, 154.

p. 400: “I do not think”:
PPP: JFK, 1961,
429.

p. 400: JFK resented: Interview with Marianne Means.

p. 400: Contingency planning for the Dominican Republic and Haiti:
FRUS: American Republics, 1961-1963,
614, 616-18, 623-24, 629-33; the report of the assassination plot is on 629n.
FRUS: Cuba, 1961-1962,
472-73, 478, 481. Salinger, 225-26.

pp. 400-401: The Bowles-RFK clash:
FRUS: American Republics,
634-41.

p. 401: “gutless bastard” and Bowles conversation with JFK: Halberstam,
Best and Brightest,
88-89.

p. 401: British Guiana:
FRUS: American Republics,
513-19.

p. 402: “I hear there is something”: Halberstam,
Best and Brightest,
94-95.

p. 402: JFK and de Gaulle on Khrushchev:
FRUS: Berlin Crisis,
80-81. Also see Halberstam,
Best and Brightest,
96-97.

pp. 402-3: The quotes in the documents preceding the summit are in
FRUS: Soviet Union,
130-33, 135-37, 153, 161, 163, 168.

p. 403: Kennan’s analysis: Ibid., 168-70.

p. 403: The initial reception:
New York Times,
June 4, 1961; Kenneth O’Donnell Tapes, Tape 51, JFKL; Beschloss,
Crisis Years,
191-92.

p. 403: “You make a hell”: Quoted in Schoenbaum, 335.

p. 405: For the opening exchanges: Richard Reeves, 159;
FRUS: Soviet Union,
172-73.

p. 405: “ways and means”: Ibid., 173-74.

pp. 405-6: Additional JFK-Khrushchev exchanges in the first conversation: Ibid., 174-78.

p. 406: The luncheon exchanges: Ibid., 178-81.

pp. 406-7: The stroll in the garden: O’Donnell and Powers, 296;
FRUS: Soviet Union,
182; Beschloss,
Crisis Years,
198-99.

p. 407: The afternoon meeting:
FRUS: Soviet Union,
183-96.

p. 407: Khrushchev’s exhilaration: Sergei Khrushchev, 106.

p. 407: “He’s very young”: Quoted in Richard Reeves, 166.

p. 408: “to connect the questions”:
FRUS: Soviet Union,
196-97.

p. 408: For the JFK, Thompson, Bohlen reactions: Beschloss,
Crisis Years,
205; Richard Reeves, 165-67.

pp. 408-9: The competition for international prestige: “John F. Kennedy, USIA, and World Public Opinion,”
Diplomatic History,
Winter 2001, 63-84.

pp. 409-10: The dinner party:
New York Times,
June 4, 1961; Rose Kennedy, 404-5; Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
367; Nikita Khrushchev, 498-99; Beschloss,
Crisis Years,
207-9.