The Kennedy Men: 1901-1963 (147 page)

519 “I told ‘em …”: LL interview with Grayston Lynch.

519 “75 percent of”: memorandum for the record, Washington, D.C., April 24, 1961, National Defense University, Maxwell Taylor papers, FRUS.

519 “I don’t specifically …”: LL interview with Colonel Jack Hawkins.

520 “How could you…”: LL interview with Roberto San Roman, and Thomas, pp. 124-25.

520 “He [Kennedy] was taking …”: RKHT, p. 447.

520 “a positive course …”: recommendation 5, in Aguilar, p. 51.

521 other crucial sources: There were several extraordinarily perceptive memorandums, including a paper, with five attached annexes, prepared for the National Security Council by an interagency task force on Cuba, Washington, D.C., May 4, 1961, FRUS. The interagency task force on Cuba was composed of representatives of the Departments of State, Defense, and Justice, as well as the CIA and USIA. See also President’s
Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Rostow) to President Kennedy, memorandum, Washington, D.C., April 21, 1961, FRUS. 521 no longer fully trusted: LL interviews with Myer Feldman and John Kenneth Galbraith.

23. A Cold Winter

523 often stayed: Kay Halle, CBS interview, n.d., NHP.

523 For Kennedy, it was: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.

523 checked into the Mayflower Hotel: Mayflower Hotel receipt, May 6, 1961, JEP.

523 “This was the first…”: Exner, p. 221.

523 The president strained: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.

523 “You could see …”: LL interview with Ben Bradlee.

523 Because he often woke up: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.

523 He was so allergic: ibid.

523 To help immunize: ibid.

524 There were six pills: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.

524 He also took: James A. Nicolas, M.D., Charles L. Burstein, M.D., Charles J. Umberger, Ph.D., and Philip D. Wilson, M.D., “Management of Adrenocortical Insufficiency During Surgery,”
AMA Archives of Surgery,
November 1955. The technical term is desoxycorticosterone acetate trimethylacetate, commonly known as BOCA.

524 “He’s all hopped….”: Arthur Krock, “Memorandum: (Aspects of John F. Kennedy),” February 9, 1972, AKP.

524 If he took too much: H. J. Sturenburg, U. Fries, and K. Kunze, “Glucocorticoids and Anabolic/Androgenic Steroids Inhibit the Synthesis of GABAergic Steroids in Rat Cortex,
Neuropsychobiology
35, no. 3 (1997): 143-46; S. S. Sharfstein, D. S. Sack, and A. S. Fauci, “Relationship Between Alternate-Day Corticosteroid Therapy and Behavioral Abnormalities,”
JAMA
248, no. 22 (December 10, 1982): 2987-89; Department of Neurology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany.

525 Dr. Cohen put a syringe: LL interview with Dr. David V. Becker.

525 two months before: Admiral George G. Burkley, KLOH.

525 Dr. Burkley and his colleagues: PJFK, p. 121.

526 “I had the opportunity …”: Dr. Dorothea E. Hellman to Joan and Clay Blair Jr., March 31, 1977, BP.

526 “Dr. Cohen got her …”: OTR interview with a physician long associated with Dr. Eugene Cohen.

526 “a deceiving, incompetent…”: Eugene J. Cohen, M.D., to Admiral George Burkley, February 20, 1964, RWP.

526 a passionate doctor: LL interview with Lorraine Silberthau, and paid death notices,
New York Times,
July 17 and July 18, 1999.

526 “He was totally …”: LL interview with Dr. David V. Becker.

526 in 1957 had drained: Janet Travell,
Office Hours: Day and Night
(1968), p. 320.

526 “Then, as you know…”: Eugene J. Cohen, M.D., to Admiral George Burkley, February 20, 1964, RWP.

527 “Does JFK…”: New York
Daily News,
May 12, 1961.

527 Then Dr. Jacobson: Dr. Max Jacobson, unpublished memoir, courtesy Mrs. Max Jacobson.

527 The treatment varied: ibid.

528 “That dosage would have…”: LL interview with Dr. Mauro G. Di Pasquale.

528 He was becoming: LL interview with Joseph Paolella.

529 Bobby had set up the meeting: Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali,
“One Hell of a Gamble”: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964
(1997), p. 112.

529 “We were appalled …”: LL interview with Cartha DeLoach. 529 “If this underestimation …”: Fursenko and Naftali, p. 113.

529 “new progressive policy …”: ibid., p. 114. The authors of this important book benefited from unprecedented access to Russian archives. The comparable documents from the American side may still not have been released by the JFKPL.

530 “woman of loose morals”: ibid., p. 115.

530 “almost a taboo subject”: Edward Lansdale, KLOH.

531 “understand what Robert Kennedy…”: Fursenko and Naftali, p. 119.

531 “Goddamn it!”: Frank Saunders, with James Southwood,
Torn Lace Curtain
(1982), p. 38.

531 He had gone: TFB, p. 264.

531 “The weather be …”: Saunders, p. 38.

532 “Send in the broads”: ibid., p. 43.

532 Lem had seen: interview, Ralph Horton, BP.

533 “opportunism …”: “National Intelligence Estimate,” November 9, 1960, Washington, D.C., December 1, 1960, FRUS.

533 “From the particular vantage point…”: Embassy in Yugoslavia (Kennan) to Secretary of State (Rusk), telegram, at Paris/1/Belgrade, June 2, 1961, 3:00
P.M.
., FRUS.

533-34 “In an exchange …”: Department of State, Washington, D.C., May 23, 1961, FRUS.

534 “First, and most important…”: Washington, DC, February 11, 1961, NSC files, countries series, USSR (top secret), drafted by McGeorge Bundy on February 13, 1961, “The Thinking of the Soviet Leadership, Cabinet Room,” February 11, 1961, FRUS.

534 “when the push …”: Martin J. Medhurst,” “Reconceptualizing Rhetorical History: Eisenhower’s Farewell Address,”
Quarterly Journal of Speech
80, 1994.

535 Instead, she perused: LL interview with Joseph Boccehir. Robert White has visited Mr. Boccehir and seen many of Jacqueline Kennedy’s sketches.

535 “so identical”: Sarah Bradford,
America’s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
(2000), p. 196. 535 “This evening, Madame …”: ibid.

535 “without mixing in politics…”: AWRH, p. 150.

536 he turned away a glass: Don Shannon papers, JFKPL.

536 the doctor attended: Dr. Max Jacobson, unpublished memoir.

536 Travell shot him up: CY, p. 189.

536 “Once an idea …”: memorandum of conversation, Vienna, June 3, 1961, drafted by Akalovsky, approved by the White House on June 23, 1961, FRUS.

536 “without affecting …”: ibid.

538 “The calamities of a war …”: memorandum of conversation, Vienna, June 4, 1961, drafted by Akalovsky and approved by the White House on June 23, 1961, FRUS.

538 “I had no …”: Joseph Alsop, KLOH.

538 When Kennedy arrived: LL interviews with Marcus Raskin and Myer Feldman.

539 a myriad of advice: All of these letters are found in Dr. Travell’s papers, file correspondence, box 1, JFKPL.

539 The doctor diagnosed: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.

539 “mild virus infection”: “Kennedy Authorized Briefings on Illness,” n.d.,
Washington Star
collection, Martin Luther King Library, Washington, D.C.

539 “Were any of the exhibits …”: memorandum for Secretary of Defense (McNamara), July 10, 1961, RWC.

540-41 “With this weekend’s…”: ibid., August 14, 1961.

541 “The fact is that…”: Joseph Alsop KLOH.

541 “Ever since the crossbow …”: Henderson, p. xxviii.

541 Decades later: LL interview with Hugh Sidey.

542 “The H-Bomb! The H-Bomb! …”: “The Complacent Americans,” available at: www.conelrad.com/media/atomicmusic/complacent.html.

542 “The every-family-for-itself approach …”: David Arnold, “Blast from the Past: The Bombs Never Fell, but Underground Shelters Still Dot the Suburban Landscape,”
Boston Globe Magazine,
December 12, 1999.

542 “Some of us had been …”: Yarmolinsky,
Virginia Quarterly,
Autumn, 1996.

542 “There’s no problem here”: RKHT, p. 429.

543 Joe and the president: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.

543 In the six months: The author has in his possession the bills that Dr. Jacobson submitted for the period from May 13 to October 17, 1961. In that six-month period he charged $25 daily for incidental expenses for thirty-six days, plus travel expenses. This does not include the days he was with President Kennedy on his European trip. Expenses May 12, 1961, to October 17, 1961, Max Jacobson, M.D., October 20, 1961, RWC.

543 “He wasn’t a real”: LL interview with Joseph Paolella.

543 “I wasn’t sure …”: LL interview with George Smathers.

543-44 “Get it away from here!”: Chuck Spalding, KLOH.

544 “That’s out of the question”: Dr. Max Jacobson, unpublished memoir.

544 “He felt strongly …”: LL interview with Dr. David V. Becker.

544 “I am sorry …”: Eugene J. Cohen, M.D., to John F. Kennedy, November 12, 1961, RWC.

544 Dr. Cohen told: This story was confirmed in an LL interview with Milton Gwirtzman and by two other sources.

544 “I further told him that…”: Eugene J. Cohen, M.D., to Admiral George Burkley, February 20, 1964, RWC.

545 “Humbly and respectfully…”: Eugene Cohen, M.D., to John F. Kennedy, n.d. (late 1961?), RWC.

546 “obvious intense personal interest”: C. A. Evans to Mr. Belmont, June 4, 1962, FBIFOI.

546 “any barbiturates or narcotics…”: R. H. Jevons to L. W. Conrad, “Subject: Examination of Medicines for the Attorney General,” June 7, 1962, FBIFOI.

546 “there was no trace …”: Dr. Max Jacobson, unpublished memoir.

546 when John Jr. rushed forward: LL interview with Larry Newman.

547 “I will not treat this patient…”: Richard Reeves, p. 273. This was based on an interview with Dr. Kraus shortly before his death.

547 “Dr. Travell Quitting …”: Travell, p. 396.

547 “I hate to use …”: Eugene J. Cohen, M.D., to Admiral George Burkley, February 20, 1964, RWC. In her autobiography Dr. Travell asserts that the president told her that he did not want her resignation, and life went on as before. Travell, p. 397.

547 Dr. Burkley became in effect: Dr. George G. Burkley, KLOH. It was not until July 1963, when the new
Government Organization Manual
listed Dr. Burkley’s title as “White House physician,” that it became public knowledge that the navy doctor was Kennedy’s personal physician.

547 many members of the staff: LL interview with Myer Feldman. Deputy Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff says that when he asked what had happened with Travell, he was told not to ask any questions. LL interview with Malcolm Kilduff.

547 “I asked him many …”: LL interview with Dr. David V. Becker.

548 frolicking in the White House pool: LL interview with Malcolm Kilduff.

548 “to give him up …”: Cartha D. DeLoach,
Hoover’s FBI: The Inside Story of Hoover’s Trusted Lieutenant
(1997), p. 38.

548 “You must always…”: LL interview with John Kenneth Galbraith.

549 “I would say I…”: LL interview with Joseph Paolella.

549 “hit the White House …”: oral history, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, University of Kentucky Library.

549 At the first state dinner: interview, Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, DHP, and Maxine Cheshire, with John Greenya,
Maxine Cheshire, Reporter
(1978), p. 44.

549 “There was a tremendous …”: OTR interview.

550 “It all happened …”: LL interview with John White.

551 “A moment later …”: Exner, p. 205.

551 “I, Anthony Summers …”: LL interview with Anthony Summers.

551 $5,000 in “expenses”: deposition of Judith Exner, December 4, 1997,
Judith Exner, Plaintiff, vs. Random House, Inc., Ballantine Books, Villard Books, Laurence Leamer, Milt Ebbins,
does 2-100, and interview, Gerri Hirshey.

551 “I did try…”: LL interview with Liz Smith.

551 this is denied by both: LL interviews with Mark Obenhaus and Seymour Hersh.

552 “from extensive bone …”: transcript of proceedings,
Judith Exner vs. Random House, Inc., etal,
December 17, 1998, JEP.

552 “Whenever she’d come …”: LL interview with Robert J. McDonnell.

24. Bobby’s Game

553 he hid on the plane: Thomas, p. 110.