The Patriarch (111 page)

23
. JPK to SS, June 14,
FRUS,
1940, 1:248–49.

24
. JPK, diary, June 14, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
443; SS to JPK, June 13,
FRUS,
1940, 1:250.

25
. JPK, diary, June 14, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
443.

26
. JPK, diary, June 15, 16, 1940, box 100, JPKP.

27
. JPK, “DM,” 36:40, JPKP.

TWENTY-FOUR: THE WORST OF TIMES

1
. REFK to JPK, July 27, 1940, box 2; assorted letters from children to JPK, box 2, JPKP.

2
. JPK to JKS, Aug. 2, 1940, box 2, JPKP.

3
.
Diaries of Sir Alexander
Cadogan,
308; Halifax, diary, July 9, 1940, Halifax.

4
. Winston Churchill,
Their Finest Hour
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1949), 24; FDR, Charlottesville speech, June 10, 1940, http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/detail/3317.

5
. JPK to Hull, July 12, 1940, two cables, box 176, JPKP; Welles to FDR, July 12, 1940, PSF 62 FDRL; JPK to Hull, July 13, 1940, box 176, JPKP.

6
. FDR to Knox, July 13, 1940, PSF 62, FDRL.

7
.
The London Journal of General Raymond E. Lee
, ed. James Leutze (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1971), 27–28.

8
. JPK to Hull, Aug. 2, 1940, 700.0001, RG 59, NAUS.

9
. JPK, diary, Aug. 1, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
452–53.

10
. JPK to children, Aug. 2, 1940; EKS to JPK, n.d., box 2, JPKP.

11
. JPK to REFK, Aug. 2, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
454–57; JPK to Davies, Aug. 2, 1940, box 105; JPK to CBL, Aug. 2, 1940, box 96, CBLP.

12
. Balfour minutes, May 23, 1940, FO 371/24251, NAUK; JPK to REFK, Aug. 2, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
454–57.

13
. JPK to REFK, Aug. 2, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
454–55.

14
. JPK to Hull, Aug. 7, 1940, box 176, JPKP.

15
. JPK to Hull, Aug. 8, 1940, box 176, JPKP.

16
. JPK to SS, July 31, 1940,
FRUS,
1940, 3:57–58; Churchill,
Their
Finest Hour,
401–3.

17
. FDR, memorandum, Aug. 2, 1940,
FRUS
, 1940, 3:58.

18
. Churchill to Lothian, Aug. 7, 1940, in Churchill,
Their Finest Hour,
405–6.

19
. JPK, diary, Aug. 14, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
460–61.

20
. Leutze, ed.,
London Journal of General Raymond E. Lee,
36; JPK, diary, Aug. 15, 16, 1940, box 100, JPKP.

21
. Perrone, Sept. 3, 1940, FO 371/24251, NAUK.

22
. JPK, diary, handwritten entry, Aug. 15, 1940, box 100, JPKP.

23
. JPK, diary, handwritten and typed entries, Aug. 15, 1940, box 100, JPKP.

24
. Halifax, diary, Aug. 29, 1940, Halifax.

25
. CBL to JPK, Aug. 26, 1940, box 96, CBLP.

26
. JPK, diary, Aug. 23, 1940, box 100, JPKP.

27
. JPK to FDR, Aug. 27, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
463.

28
. FDR to JPK, Aug. 28, 1940, PSF 62, Navy (Destroyers-Bases), FDRL.

29
. JPK, diary, Sept 2, 1940, box 100, JPKP.

TWENTY-FIVE: THERE’S HELL TO PAY TONIGHT

1
. JPK, diary, Sept. 6, 1940, box 100, JPKP.

2
.
London Journal of General Raymond E. Lee,
47.

3
. Royal Air Force, “Battle of Britain Campaign Diaries,” Sept. 7, 1940, http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/campaign_diaries.cfm?diarymonth=9&diaryyear=1940&diaryday-7.

4
. Philip Ziegler,
London at War
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), 113–16.

5
. Klemmer, in Whitehead et al.,
The Kennedys
.

6
. JPK to REFK, Sept. 10, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
466–67.

7
. JPK to JFK, Sept. 10, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
468–69.

8
. JPK to RFK, Sept. 11, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
469–70.

9
. JPK to EMK, Sept. 11, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
470–71.

10
. JPK to Burns, Sept. 11, 1940, Burns to JPK, Sept. 18, 1940, box 103, JPKP.

11
. JPK to JPK, Jr., Sept. 10, 1940, box 2, JPKP.

12
. JPK to Hull, Sept. 11, 1940, 740.0011, RG 59, NAUS.

13
. JPK, diary, Sept. 15, 1940, box 100, JPKP.

14
. JPK to Welles, Sept. 16, 1940, box 176, JPKP.

15
. JPK to SS, Sept. 27,
FRUS,
1940, 3:48–49.

16
. JPK to LeHand, Sept. 30, 1940, box 111; JPK to REFK, Sept. 30, 1940, box 2, JPKP.

17
.
LAT,
Oct. 5, 1940.

18
. Alsop and Kintner,
AC,
Oct. 8, 1940.

19
. JPK, diary, Oct. 11, 1940, box 100, JPKP; Krock, private memorandum, Dec. 1, 1940, box 37, folder 2, Sulzberger.

20
. Long, diaries, Oct. 11, 1940, Long.

21
. FDR to JPK, Oct. 17, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
475.

22
. JPK, diary, Oct. 11, 1940, box 100, JPKP. Minutes, Oct. 10, 1940, FO 371/24251, NAUK.

23
. Halifax, diary, Oct. 17, 1940, Halifax.

24
. JPK, diary, Oct. 15, 1940,box 100, JPKP.

25
. JPK, diary, Oct. 16, 18, 1940, box 100, JPKP.

26
. JPK, diary, Oct. 19, 1940, box 100; JPK to Chamberlain, Oct. 22, 1940, box 104, JPKP.

TWENTY-SIX: HOME AGAIN

1
. CBL to JPK, Oct. 21, 1940, box 103, CBLP; JPK, diary, “Account of Ambassador’s Trip,” Smith,
HTF
, 478–79.

2
. Edwin M. Watson, “Memorandum for the President,” Oct. 25, 1940; Lauchlin Currie, “Memorandum for Miss LeHand,” Oct. 25, 1940, PSF 37, FDRL.

3
. FDR to JPK, Oct. 25, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
479; JPK, diary, “Account of Ambassador’s trip,” Smith,
HTF
, 478–79.

4
.
NYT,
Oct. 28, 1940; British Pathé newsreel, Nov. 21, 1940.

5
. JPK, diary, “Account of Ambassador’s Trip,” Smith,
HTF
, 478–79; Krock,
Memoirs,
334–35; Brian Burns to author, Apr. 22, 2010.

6
. JPK, diary, Nov. 4, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
491.

7
. JPK, diary, n.d., Smith,
HTF
, 480–82; REFK, diary, “Visit to Washington,” Oct. 29, 1940, box 3, REFKP; Frank Murphy, diary notes, Nov. 2, 1941, Gressman.

8
. JPK, diary, n.d., Smith,
HTF
, 480–82; REFK, diary, “Visit to Washington,” Oct. 29, 1940, REFKP.

9
. CBL to JPK, Oct. 28, 1940, in JPK, diary, box 100, JPKP.

10
. JPK, radio address, Oct. 29, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
482–89.

11
. FDR to JPK, Oct. 29; JFK to JPK, Oct. 30, 1940, Smith,
HTF
, 489.

12
. KKH to JPK, Oct. 31, 1940, box 2, JPKP.

13
. Murphy, diary notes, Nov. 2, 1940, box 1, Gressman.

14
. Long, diaries, Nov. 6, 1940, box 5, Long.

15
. Lyons to JPK, Nov. 8, 1940, box 111, JPKP.

16
. Lyons,
BSC
, Nov. 10, 1940.

17
. Joseph F. Dinneen,
The Kennedy Family
(Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1959), 84.

18
.
NYT,
Nov. 12, 1940; Krock to JPK, Nov. 12, 1940, box 31, Krock.

19
. Alsop and Kintner,
HC
, Nov. 12, 1940.

20
. JPK to Beaverbrook, Nov. 13, 1940, d/400, Beaverbrook.

21
.
LAT,
Nov. 30, 1940.

22
. Unsigned memorandums to Alsop and Kintner, box 33, Alsop.

23
. Fairbanks to FDR, Nov. 19, 1940, PSF 37, FDRL.

24
. David Welky,
The Moguls and the Dictators
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), 201–2.

25
. Cleugh, memorandum, Nov. 22, 1940, FO 371/339, NAUK; Fairbanks, Jr., to FDR, Nov. 19, 1940, PSF 37, FDRL; unsigned memorandum to Alsop and Kintner, box 33, Alsop.

26
. Balderston to Bell, telegram and letter, Nov. 18, 1940, box 30; “Dinner Meeting Agenda,” Nov. 20, 1940, box 50, FFF.

27
. Herbert Hoover, memorandum, Nov. 22, 1940, box 110, HHLPPI.

28
. Lindbergh,
Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh,
419–21.

29
. JPK, “DM,” 52:4–6, JPKP.

30
. JPK, diary, Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 1940, Smith,
HTF
, 494–97;
CDT,
Dec. 2, 1940.

TWENTY-SEVEN: THE MAN WHO OUT-HAMLETED HAMLET

1
. Ickes, diary, Dec. 1, 1940, Ickes.

2
. Alsop and Kintner,
WP,
Dec. 5, 1940.

3
. Wood to JPK, Dec. 11, 1940, Wood; JPK to Wood, Dec. 11, 14, 1940, box 237, JPKP.

4
.
WP,
Dec. 15, 1940;
LAT,
Dec. 16, 1940.

5
. Butler, Jan. 2, 1941, PRED 3/133/1, NAUK.

6
. JPK, diary, Dec. 14–18, 1940, box 100, JPKP.

7
. JPK, diary, Nov. 4, 1940, Smith,
HTF
, 491; Sidney Fine,
Frank Murphy: The Washington Years
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1984), 221–22, 229–31; JPK, diary, Nov. 30, 1940, Smith,
HTF,
494–95; Murphy, diary notes, box 1, Gressman.

8
. JPK, diary, Dec. 16, 1940, box 100, JPKP.

9
. Long, diaries, Dec. 16, 1940, Long.

10
. JPK to Burns, Dec. 19, 1940, box 141; JPK to Murphy, Dec. 27, 1940, box 144, JPKP.

11
. David Wyman,
The Abandonment of the Jews
(New York: Pantheon Books, 1984), 124–25.

12
. FDR, press conference, Dec. 17, 1940, vol. 16, 360–65, FDRL.

13
. FDR, Dec. 29, 1940, http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/122940.html.

14
. Stuart to Hufty, Jan. 4, 1941, box 64, America First.

15
. Hufty to Stuart, Jan. 7, 1941, box 7, America First.

16
. JPK to C. Fitzgerald, Jan. 2, 1941, box 220, JPKP.

17
. JPK, diary, Jan. 21, 1941, Smith,
HTF
, 524–29; Ickes, diary, Jan. 19, 1941, Ickes.

18
.
LAT,
Jan. 17, 1941.

19
. JFK to JPK, Dec. 6, 1940, Smith,
HTF
, 498–506.

20
. JPK, radio address, Jan. 18, 1941, box 253, JPKP.

21
. Ickes, diary, Jan. 19, 1941, Ickes;
NYT,
Jan. 19, 1941.

22
. RFK to REFK, [Jan. 19, 1940], box 2, JPKP.

23
. Trohan to Maloney, Nov. 17, no year, box 45, I-60 Robert R. McCormick: Business Correspondence, 1927–1965, McCormick.

24
. U.S. Congress,
Lend-Lease Bill: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1941), 231.

25
. Thompson,
WP,
Jan. 22, 1941;
Time
, Feb. 3, 1941;
Life,
Feb. 3, 1941.

26
. JPK to JB, Feb. 10, 1941, box 21, Boettiger.

27
. FDR to JB, Mar. 3, 1941, box 21, Boettiger.

TWENTY-EIGHT: A FORCED RETIREMENT

1
. JPK to Gowen, May 14, 1941, box 222, JPKP.

2
. Memo to director, Feb. 23, 1942, Arvad file, J. Edgar Hoover official and confidential file, FBI.

3
. EMK to author, Aug. 21, Oct. 8, 2007, May 15, 2008; JKS to author, Oct. 4, 2007, July 16, 17, 2008, Oct. 19, Dec. 11, 2009.

4
. Benedict Neenan,
Thomas Verner Moore
(New York: Paulist Press, 2000), 183–90; REFK’s secretary to mother superior, St. Gertrude’s, Oct. 24, 1940, box 26, REFKP.

5
. EMK,
TC,
61–62.

6
. JPK to WRH, June 25, 1941, box 7, WHRP; JPK to Wellington, May 28, 1941, box 215, JPKP.

7
. JPK to MacDonald, Apr. 22, 1941, box 229, JPKP.

8
. Klemmer, in Whitehead et al.,
The Kennedys.

9
. JPK to JF, Dec. 18, 1940, box 220; JPK to Gurnett, Mar. 13, 1941, box 221, JPKP.

10
. JPK to J. Russell Young, Apr. 24, 1941, box 245, JPKP.

11
. JPK, Oglethorpe address, May 24, 1941, box 253, JPKP.

12
. FDR, May 27, 1941, http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/052741.html.

13
. JPK, Notre Dame commencement address, May 29, 1941, box 254, JPKP.

14
. HH to JPK, July 1, 1941; JPK to HH, July 11, 31, 1941, box 110, HHPP.

15
. KKH to JPK, Oct. 3, 1941, box 7, folder 59, EKSP; KKH to JPK, Oct. 20, 1941, box 2, JPKP.

16
. REFK,
TTR,
244–45.

17
. JPK to Casey, July 26 [1941], box 215; JPK to RK, Oct. 10, 1941, in author’s possession; JPK to Cavanaugh, Oct. 28, 1941, box 216, JPKP.

18
. Thomas Moore to JPK, Nov. 12, 1941, w.b. 34, JPKP.

19
. Ann Gargan to author, Sept. 30, 2008; Gargan, in Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys,
640.

20
. JKS to author, Apr. 27, 2009; REFK,
TTR,
245.

21
. Brockley, “Rearing the Child Who Never Grew,” in
Mental Retardation in America,
147.

22
. Jack El-Hai,
The Lobotomist
(New York: Wiley, 2005), 226–27.

23
. Jack D. Pressman,
Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 102.

24
. El-Hai,
The Lobotomist,
167.

25
. El-Hai,
The Lobotomist,
167; JPK to Woodward, Nov. 28, 1941, JPKP.

26
. JPK to REFK, Nov. 23, 1942, box 2; JPK to JFK, July 5, 1943; JPK to JPK, Jr., Feb. 21, 1944; JPK to KKH, Mar. 8, 1944, box 2, 3, JPKP.