The Patriarch (108 page)

67
.
Time,
July 22, 1935;
Literary Digest,
Aug. 24, 1935.

68
.
WSJ,
Sept. 25, 1935.

THIRTEEN: REELECTING ROOSEVELT

1
. FDR to Bingham, Emmet, Dodd, Long, Straus, Sept. 23, 1935, PPF 207, FDRL; Krock letters, box 70, JPKP.

2
. BB to Churchill, Sept. 25, 1935, 2/237, CHAR.

3
. Hamilton,
JFK,
141.

4
. JPK to Bingham, JPK to JFK, Nov. 11, 1935, Smith,
HTF,
164.

5
. JFK to JPK, May 9, 1936, w.b. 1, JPKP.

6
. JPK to Delmar Leighton, Aug. 28, 1936, in Smith,
HTF,
187–88.

7
. RFK, “Married Life,” box 12; “Joe Kennedy’s Friends,” box 7, REFKP.

8
. KKH to RFK, Feb. 8, 1936, Smith,
HTF,
172–73.

9
. Hamilton,
JFK,
142; JPK, Jr., to JPK, n.d.; JPK to JPK, Jr., Feb. 27, 1936, Smith,
HTF,
176.

10
. JPK to JPK, Jr., Feb. 27, 1936, Smith,
HTF,
176.

11
. RK to RFK and JPK, Jan. 12, 1936, Smith,
HTF,
167–68.

12
. JPK to KKH, Jan. 20, 1936, Smith,
HTF,
170.

13
. JPK to EKS, Feb. 11, 1936, Smith,
HTF,
174.

14
. JPK to RFK, Jan. 11, 1936, Smith,
HTF,
167.

15
. JPK to EKS, PKL, JKS, Feb. 27, 1936; JPK to RFK, EMK, Feb. 27, 1936, Smith,
HTF,
177.

16
. Correspondence between JPK and JB, box 70, JPKP; JPK to McCormick, Jan. 31, 1936, Smith,
HTF,
171.

17
. LeHand to JPK, Aug. 5, 1936, JPKP.

18
. JPK to LeHand, Feb. 17, 1937; JR to JPK, Feb. 19, 1937, JR; FDR to JPK, Mar. 18, 1937, PPF 207, FDRL.

19
. JPK to FDR, Jan. 20, 1936, Smith,
HTF,
169–70.

20
. JPK,
I’m for Roosevelt
, 7.

21
. Block to JPK, Apr. 10, 1936, box 69, JPKP.

22
. Morgenthau, diaries, transcript of telephone conversation, vol. 22, Apr. 28, 1936, Morgenthau.

23
. JPK to LeHand, May 4, 1936; FDR to JPK, June 17, 1936, PPF 207, FDRL.

24
. JPK to Krock, June 24, Aug. 19, 1936, box 70, JPKP; Krock,
Memoirs,
331–32.

25
.
BSG,
July 26, 1936.

26
. Muriel Palmer to author, Apr. 12–13, 2010.

27
. JPK to Allen, Aug. 8, 1936, Smith,
HTF,
186–87.

28
. Ruppel to JPK, Aug. 4, 25, 1936, box 71, JPKP.

29
. JPK to Campbell, Oct. 1, 1936, letters of congratulation, box 70, JPKP.

30
. JPK,
I’m for Roosevelt,
106.

31
. Corcoran to JPK, Sept. 21, 1936, box 70; JR to JPK, Sept. 18, 1936, box 71; Early to JPK, Oct. 7, 1936, box 71, JPKP.

32
. Ruppel to JPK, Oct. 2, 1936; JPK to Ruppel, Oct. 9, 1936, box 71, JPKP.

33
. Pearson to JPK, Oct. 7, 1936, box 71, JPKP.

34
. JPK to Bingham, Oct. 6, 1936, box 69, JPKP.

35
. JPK, Oct. 24, 1936, radio address, box 75, JPKP.

36
. JPK to Marx, Oct. 27, 1936, box 70; JPK to Byrnes, Oct. 30, 1936, series 2 senatorial, box 47, Byrnes.

37
. Galeazzi,
FB
folders, EMKP; EMK,
TC,
42.

FOURTEEN: MARITIME COMMISSIONER

1
. JPK to Byrnes, Mar. 15, 1937, box 47, Byrnes.

2
. JPK to JB, Mar. 22, 1937, box 21, Boettiger.

3
. JPK to WRH, Mar. 29, 1937, box 7, Hearst.

4
. Poole to WRH, June 23, 1937; WRH to JPK, June 27, 1937, box 45, JPKP.

5
. Walter Cummings to JPK, July 31, 1937; JPK to Cummings, Aug. 2, 1937, box 45, JPKP.

6
. JPK to White, Mar. 28, 1938, box 117, JPKP.

7
. JPK to Fisher, May 12, 1937, Smith,
HTF,
199.

8
. JPK to Benchley, May 24, 1937, Smith,
HTF,
210.

9
. JPK, commencement address, June 1937, box 92, JPKP.

10
. JPK, “New Blood in American Shipping,”
Vital Speeches of the Day,
vol. 3, issue 317, June 15, 1937, 532–35.

11
. Oursler to FDR, June 7, 1937; FDR to JPK, June 18, 1937, OF 1705, FDRL.

12
. JPK to Davenport, May 25, 1937, Smith,
HTF,
211.

13
. JPK to Davenport, Aug. 6, 1937, Smith,
HTF,
212.

14
. JPK to Galeazzi, Aug. 25, 1937, Smith,
HTF,
213.

15
. Herrick to REFK, June 16, 1937; Rohde to REFK, Oct. 18, 1936, w.b. 3, JPKP.

16
. Rohde to REFK, Oct. 18, 1936, w.b. 3, JPKP.

17
. Dearborn to REFK, June 28, 1937, w.b. 3, JPKP.

18
. Hourigan to REFK, July 23, 1937, w.b. 3, JPKP.

19
. REFK, diary notes, box 10, REFKP.

20
. Dearborn to REFK, June 28, 1937, w.b. 3, JPKP.

21
. Hennessey-Donovan, oral history, Sept. 25, 1991, 1–2, JFKOHP; JPK to Cummings, Sept. 9, 1937, w.b. 32, JPKP.

22
. JPK to FDR; JPK to JR, Sept. 8, 1937, OF 1705, FDRL.

23
. Krock,
Memoirs,
332.

24
.
NYT,
Sept. 11, 1937;
Time,
Sept. 20, 1937.

25
. Curran and Perkins correspondence, OF 1705, FDRL; JPK to Curran, Nov. 4, 1937, Smith,
HTF,
215–16.

26
. FDR [dictated by James Roosevelt] to JPK, July 10, 1937, OF 1705, FDRL.

27
. Klemmer, Philip Whitehead et al.,
The Kennedys,
DVD (Thames/PBS, 1992); JPK to Wesley Stout, Nov. 7, 1937, Smith,
HTF
, 216;
NYT,
Nov. 11, 1937.

28
.
NYT,
Dec. 3, 1937.

29
. JPK to BB, Mar. 3, 1937, PPF 207, FDRL.

30
.
NYT,
Dec. 8, 1937, 1, 22.

31
. James Roosevelt,
My Parents,
208–9.

32
. Krock,
Memoirs,
333.

33
. Byrnes to JPK, Dec. 13, 1937, Byrnes; Krock to JPK, Dec. 8, 1938, box 93, JPKP; FDR to Welles, Jan. 7, 1938, in Benjamin Welles,
Sumner Welles: FDR’s Global Strategist
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 200.

34
. Morgenthau, diaries, Dec. 8, 1937, vol. 101, Morgenthau.

35
. Ickes, diary, Dec. 18, 1937, Ickes.

36
. Carter to JPK, Dec. 28, 1937, box 90, JPKP.

37
. JPK to Byrnes, Dec. 23, 1937, Smith,
HTF,
219–20.

38
. Morgenthau, diaries, transcript of telephone conversation, vol. 107, Jan. 28, 1938, Morgenthau.

39
. Carter to JPK, Dec. 28, 1937, box 90, JPKP.

40
.
NYT,
Feb. 17, 1938, 1, 15;
Time,
Feb. 28, 1938.

41
.
Time,
Feb. 28, 1938.

FIFTEEN: A PLAINSPOKEN AMBASSADOR

1
. JPK, diary, Feb. 22, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
236–37.

2
.
NYT,
Feb. 23, 1938.

3
. JPK, diary, Feb. 23, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
237.

4
.
NYT,
Mar. 13, 1938.

5
. Byrnes to JPK, Feb. 21, 1938, box 47, Byrnes.

6
.
Time,
July 5, 1937; FDR to Young, Jan. 28, 1938, in author’s possession.

7
. JPK to JR, Mar. 3, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
237–39.

8
. Moore to Murphy, Mar. 6, 1940, box 134; JPK to Offie, May 13, 1938, w.b. 32, JPKP.

9
. JPK, diary, Mar. 2–9, 11, 1938, box 100, JPKP.

10
. Wise to FDR, Mar. 4, 1938, PSF 37, FDRL.

11
. Saul Friedländer,
Nazi Germany and the Jews
(New York: HarperCollins, 1997), 1:168.

12
. Wise to Szold, Mar. 1, 1938, Weizmann Archives; Wise to FDR, Mar. 4, 1938, PSF 37, FDRL.

13
. JPK to JR, Mar. 3, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
239.

14
. FDR, Quarantine Speech, Oct. 5, 1937, http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/detail/3310.

15
. JPK, diary, Mar. 2, 1938, box 100, JPKP.

16
.
NYT,
Mar. 5, 1938.

17
. JPK to FDR, Mar. 11, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
240–43.

18
.
Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 1838–1945
, ed. David Dilks (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1972), 62.

19
. Winston S. Churchill, “The Annexation of Austria, March 14, 1938,” in Churchill,
His Complete Speeches
(New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1974), 6:5, 923–27.

20
. JPK, diary, Mar. 4, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
239.

21
. Hinton to JPK, Feb. 3, 1938, box 93, JPKP.

22
. Moffat, diary, Mar. 11, 12, 1938, Moffat; Hull to JPK, Mar. 11, 1938, box 265, Hornbeck.

23
. Moffat to JPK, Mar. 14, 1938, Moffat; Hull to JPK, Mar. 14, 1938, box 265, Hornbeck.

24
. JPK, diary, Mar. 15, 1938, box 100, JPKP.

25
. Moffat, diary, Mar. 15, 1938, Moffat; transcript of telephone conversation between Hull and Kennedy, Mar. 15, 1938, box 66, Hull.

26
. Moffat, diary, Mar. 15, 1938, Moffat.

27
. JPK, Pilgrims Society speech, Mar. 18, 1938, box 155, JPKP.

28
. Dieckhoff to German Foreign Ministry, Mar. 22, 1938, in
Documents on German Foreign Policy
, series D, vol. 1,
From Neurath to Ribbentrop
(Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1949), 694–95.

29
. JPK to Corcoran, Apr. 2, 1938, box 104, JPKP.

30
. Transcript of telephone conversation, JPK to Hull, Mar. 30, 1938, box 66, Hull.

31
. JPK to JF, Apr. 7, 1938, box 107, JPKP.

32
.
New York World Telegram,
Mar. 9, 1938.

33
. Lord Harlech, Aug. 27, 1969, Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Program, JFKL.

34
. EMK,
TC
, 54–55.

35
. REFK, diary, Mar. 24, Apr. 10, 1938, box 1, 2, REFKP.

36
.
Washington Herald,
Apr. 27, 1938.

37
. JPK to JF, Apr. 7, 1938, box 107, JPKP.

38
. JPK, diary, May 30, 1938, box 100, JPKP; REFK, diary, May 17, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
238; CBL, appointment calendar, 1938, box 29, CBLP; Luce, oral history, Nov. 11, 1965, 8, JFKOHP.

39
. JPK, appointment books, box 99, 100, JPKP; EMK to author, Aug. 21, 2007.

40
. Moore to Murphy, May 19, 1939, box 135, JPKP.

41
. Styne to Kirstein, Apr. 16, 1938, Kirstein.

42
. JPK to Hull, Mar. 22, 1938, box 109, JPKP.

43
.
NYT,
Mar. 25, 1938.

44
. JPK to Krock et al., Mar. 28, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
248.

45
. Allen to JPK, Apr. 5, 1938, JPKP.

46
. Halifax, Apr. 6, 1938, FO 371/214934, NAUK.

47
. JPK to Hull, Apr. 6, 1938, Wilson.

48
. JPK to Welles, Apr. 15, 1938; Welles to JPK,
FRUS,
1938, 1:143–45, 127–28.

49
. Pearson and Allen, Apr. 22, 1938, http://www.aladin.wrlc.org/gsdl/collect/pearson/pearson.shtml.

50
. JPK to Pearson, May 3, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
255.

51
. Pearson to JPK, May 4, 1938, G210, 3 of 5, “Public Figures,” Pearson.

52
.
NYT,
July 1, 1937.

53
. KKH to NA, n.d., MS 1416/1/2/478; JPK, Jr. to NA, Apr. 27, 1939, MS 1416/1/2/478, Astor; JPK to NA, Dec. 8, 1938, 1416/1/2/471, Astor.

54
. JPK to NA, May 10, 1938, in Smith,
HTF,
256.

55
. Friedländer,
Nazi Germany and the Jews,
1:241; SS to [American ambassadors], Mar. 23,
FRUS,
1938, 1: 740–41;
NYT,
Mar. 26, 1938.

56
. Halifax, Apr. 6, 1938, FO 371/21494, NAUK; Louise London,
Whitehall and the Jews: 1933–1948
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 60–61.

57
. Karmel to JPK, Mar. 25, 1938; JPK to Karmel, Mar. 29, 1938, box 109, JPKP.

58
. Ickes, diary, July 3, 1938, Ickes.

59
. Foreign Office minutes, June 9, 1938, FO 371, NAUK.

60
. JPK, diary, Apr. 6, 1938, JPK to Hull, Apr. 9, 1938, box 100; JPK to Welles, Apr. 19, 1938, box 117, JPKP.

61
. JPK to JR, Apr. 26, 1938, box 71, JPKP.

62
. Ribbentrop memorandum, June 10, 1938, in
Documents on German Foreign Policy
, series D, vol. 1, 713–18.

63
. Dirksen to Weizsäcker, June 13, 1938, in
Documents on German Foreign Policy
, series D, vol. 1, 713–18.

SIXTEEN: A RATHER DREADFUL HOMECOMING

1
. JPK to Fisher, May 20, 1938, box 106, JPKP.

2
. British Pathé newsreel, June 8, 1939.

3
. Byrnes to JPK, Apr. 12, 1938, box 47, Byrnes.

4
. WRH to JPK, May 16, 1938, box 109, JPKP.

5
. JPK to Krock, May 24, 1938; Krock to JPK, June 1, 1938, box 110, JPKP.

6
.
NYT,
June 21, 1938.

7
. Ickes, diary, July 3, 1938, Ickes.

8
. JPK to Krock, Oct. 10, 1941, box 56, Krock.

9
. Joseph P. Lash,
Eleanor: The Years Alone
(New York: Norton, 1972), 287; Gore Vidal to author, Oct. 21, 2009.

10
. Krock to JPK, Clark to Krock, June 23, 1938, box 109, JPKP.

11
. JPK to Bignay, July 22, 1938, Smith,
HTF,
268–69; McCormick to JPK, n.d., Smith,
HTF,
269, n. 109.