The Patriarch (112 page)

27
. Assorted bills, 1948, w.b. 3, JPKP.

28
. REFK,
TTR,
245.

29
. JPK to Sister Anastasia, May 29, 1958, w.b. 3, JPKP.

30
. REFK,
TTR,
245.

TWENTY-NINE: WAR

1
. JPK to FDR, Dec. 7, 1941; Early to JPK, Dec. 9. 1941, PPF 207, FDRL.

2
. JPK to FDR, Mar. 4, 1942, Smith,
HTF,
541.

3
. JPK, diary, Jan. 17, 1942, box 100, JPKP; Fine,
Frank Murphy,
221.

4
. REFK to children, Jan. 26, 1943, box 2; JPK to Beaverbrook, Feb. 5, 1942, box 214, JPKP.

5
. REFK to children, Jan. 20, 1942, box 2, JPKP.

6
. Pearson to Winchell, Jan. 6, 1942, G 210, 3 of 5, “Public Figures,” Pearson.

7
. See letter dated Nov. 16, 1940, from Columbia University and other documents in Inga Arvad file, J. Edgar Hoover official and confidential file, FBI.

8
. Arvad to JFK, “Tuesday,” n.d., box 4, JFKPP.

9
. Arvad to JPK, Jan. 27, Mar. 11, 1942, box 4, JFKPP.

10
. JFK to Arvad, Mar. 7, 1942, ARV summary, Inga Arvad file, J. Edgar Hoover official and confidential file, FBI.

11
. Arvad to JFK, “Wednesday,” n.d.; Feb. 23, 1942, box 4, JFKPP.

12
. JPK to Kane, Jan. 25, 1943, box 225; JPK to Sarnoff, Feb. 2, 1942, box 234, JPKP.

13
. JPK to FDR, Mar. 4, 1942, Smith,
HTF,
541–42.

14
. FDR to JPK, Mar. 7, 1942, PPF 207, FDRL.

15
. KKH to JPK, n.d., box 4, JPKP; JPK to FDR, Mar. 12, 1942, PPF 207, FDRL

16
. FDR, “Presidential Memorandum for Admiral Land, Commissioner Vickery,” Mar. 16, 1942, PPF 207, FDRL.

17
. JPK, diary, Apr. 10, 1942, Smith,
HTF,
544–46.

18
. CBL to JPK, Feb. 5, 1942, JPK to JFK, Feb. 9, 1942, box 4, JPKP.

19
. JPK to JPK, Jr., July 6, 1942, box 2, JPKP.

20
. JPK to JPK, Jr., July 18, Aug. 7, 1942, box 2, JPKP.

21
. JPK, Jr., to REFK and JPK, [Sept. 1942], box 2; REFK to children, Oct. 9, 1942, box 2, JPKP.

22
. JPK to JPK, Jr., June 20, 1942, box 2, JPKP.

23
. Robert Dallek,
An Unfinished Life
(Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2003) 81, 85–87; JPK to JPK, Jr., Oct. 1, 1942, box 2, JPKP.

24
. JPK to REFK, Nov. 23, 1942, box 2, JPKP.

25
. JPK to REFK, Nov. 23, 1942, box 2, JPKP.

26
. JPK to REFK, Nov. 23, 1942, box 2, JPKP; Halifax, diary, Nov. 10, 1942, Halifax.

27
. JPK to REFK, Nov. 23, 1942, box 2, JPKP.

28
. JPK to RFK, Oct. 14, 1942, box 2, JPKP.

29
. JPK to REFK, Nov. 23, 1942, box 2, JPKP.

30
. JPK to Sheehy, Oct. 28, 1942, box 235, JPKP.

31
. RFK to REFK, Dec. 7, 1941, box 2; JPK, diary, Dec. 5, 1942, box 101, JPKP.

32
. JKP, diary, Jan. 14, 1943, box 101; JPK to Brickley, Jan. 25, 1943, box 215, JPKP.

33
. REFK to children, Mar. 11, 1943, box 2; JPK, diary, Mar. 12, 1943, box 101, JPKP.

34
. JPK, diary, June 17, 1943, box 101, JPKP.

35
. JPK to JFK, Apr. 22, 1943, box 2, JPKP.

36
. Halifax, diary, Mar. 11, 1943, Halifax.

37
. JPK to KKH, July 3, 1943, box 2, JPKP.

38
. KKH to JFK, July 29, 1943, box 2, JPKP.

39
. KKH to family, July 14, 1943, box 2, JPKP.

40
. KKH to JFK, July 29, 1943, box 2, JPKP.

41
. KKH to family, Aug. 10, 1943, box 128, REFKP.

42
. KKH to family, Aug. 31, 1943, box 128, REFKP.

43
. JPK to KKH, Sept. 8, 1943, box 2, JPKP.

44
. REFK to children, Aug. 25, 1943, box 2; JPK to JFK, Nov. 16, 1943, box 3, JPKP.

45
. JPK to Houghton, June 3, July 13, Aug. 16, Sept. 14, 1943, box 224, JPKP.

46
. JPK to McInerny, Aug. 3, 1943, box 230, JPKP.

47
. JPK to JFK, July 6, 1943, box 2, JPKP.

48
. JPK to KKH, Aug. 7, 1943, box 128, REFKP.

49
. JPK to JFK, Aug. 7, 1943, box 2, JPKP.

50
. John Hersey, “A Reporter at Large: Survival,”
New Yorker,
June 17, 1944, 31; JPK to JFK, Oct. 15, 1943, box 2, JPKP.

51
. Joan and Clay Blair, Jr.,
The Search for JFK
(New York: Berkley, 1976), 267–306; on PT incident, see Hamilton,
JFK,
581–602.

52
. JFK to family, Aug. 13, 1943, box 2, JPKP.

53
. REFK to children, Aug. 25, 1943, box 2, JPKP.

54
. Joey Gargan,
FB
folders, EMKP.

55
. REFK to children, Aug. 25, 1943, box 2, JPKP.

56
. JPK to McInerny, Aug. 31, 1943, box 230, JPKP.

57
. JPK to Taylor, Jr., Aug. 24, 1943, box 237, JPKP.

58
. REFK to children, Oct. 27, 1943, box 2, JPKP.

59
. JFK to JPK, Oct. 30, 1943, box 2, JPKP.

60
. JPK to JFK, Nov. 4, 1943, box 3, JPKP.

61
. Soucy to director, Oct. 18, 1943, Dec. 27, 1943, Hoover file, A 0729, FBI.

62
. JPK to Calder, Dec. 20, 1943, box 216, JPKP.

63
. JPK to PKL, Mar. 8, 1944, box 3, JPKP.

64
. JPK to JPK, Jr., Feb. 21, 1944, box 3, JPKP.

65
. Ross to JPK, May 18, 1944, box 52,
New Yorker
; JPK to JPK, Jr., May 24, 1944, JPKP.

66
. KKH to family, Jan. 29, 1944, box 3, JPKP.

67
. JPK to JPK, Jr., Feb. 21, 1944, box 3, JPKP.

68
. KKH to family, Feb. 22, 1944, Smith,
HTF,
574–77.

69
. REFK to KKH, Feb. 24, 1944, Smith,
HTF,
577–78.

70
. Vivian Mercier,
The Irish Comic Tradition
(London: Oxford University Press, 1962), 47; JPK to KK, Mar. 8, 1944, box 3, JPKP.

71
. KKH to JPK, REFK, Mar. 22, 1944, Smith,
HTF,
580.

72
. KKH to family, Apr. 4, 1944, Smith,
HTF,
581–82.

73
. JPK to KKH, Apr. 27, 1944, box 498, folder 11, Schlesinger.

74
. REFK, “Notes,” n.d., Smith,
HTF,
584.

75
. JKS to author, Feb. 2, 2011.

76
. Godfrey to Spellman, May 4, 1944, Smith,
HTF,
586.

77
. KKH to JPK, May 5, 1944, Smith,
HTF,
586.

78
. JPK, Jr., to JPK, May 7, 1944; KKH to JPK, May 8, 1944, Smith,
HTF,
587.

79
. KKH to REFK, May 9, 1944, Smith,
HTF,
589–91.

80
. JPK to JPK, Jr., May 24, 1944, box 3, JPKP.

81
. JPK to Beaverbrook, May 24, 1944, d/400, Beaverbrook.

82
. JPK, “Address . . . June 12, 1944,” box 255, JPKP.

83
. CBL to JPK, June 12, 1944, box 228; JPK to JPK, Jr., Aug. 9, 1944, box 3, JPKP.

84
. JPK to Houghton, July 7, 1944, box 224, JPKP.

85
. JPK to Beaverbrook, May 24, 1944, d/400, Beaverbrook.

86
. JPK, Jr., to REFK and JPK, July 26, 1944, Smith,
HTF,
598.

87
. JPK to JPK, Jr., Aug. 9, 1944, box 3, JPKP.

THIRTY: “A MELANCHOLY BUSINESS”

1
. EMK,
TC,
85–86; REFK,
TTR,
257; JKS to author, Feb. 2, 2011.

2
. JKS to author, Feb. 2, 2011; JPK, Jr., to JKS, n.d. [1942–1943], in author’s possession.

3
. JPK to Howey, Mar. 4, 1954, box 223, JPKP.

4
. JPK to Forrestal, Sept. 5, 1944, box 27, folder 86, Forrestal.

5
. JPK to Kane, Sept. 8, 1944, box 225; JPK to Houghton, Sept. 11, 1944, box 224, JPKP.

6
. JKS to author, Feb. 2, 2011.

7
. Halifax, diaries, Sept. 19, 1944, Halifax.

8
. JPK, “Diary Notes on the 1944 Political Campaign,” Smith,
HTF
, 605–12.

9
. Halifax, diaries, Oct. 26, 1944, Halifax.

10
. JPK, “Diary Notes on the 1944 Political Campaign,” Smith,
HTF,
605–12.

11
. Merle Miller, ed.,
Plain Speaking
(New York: Berkley, 1974), 186.

12
. JPK to Beaverbrook, Oct. 23, 1944, d/400, Beaverbrook.

13
. JPK to Calder, Dec. 5, 1944, box 216, JPKP.

14
. JPK to Houghton, May 28, June 21, 1945, box 224, JPKP.

15
. H. W. Brands,
Traitor to His Class
(New York: Doubleday, 2008), 813.

16
. JPK to KKH, May 1, 1945, Smith,
HTF,
615–18.

17
. HH, notes on meetings of Apr. 19, May 15, 1945, box 110, HHPLPPI.

18
. Forrestal, diary, Dec. 27, 1945, Forrestal.

19
. Robert I. Gannon,
The Cardinal Spellman Story
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962), 359.

20
. JPK to C. Patterson, Nov. 26, 1945, Smith,
HTF,
622.

21
. JPK, memorandum of conversation, Jan. 31, 1946, box 101, JPKP.

22
. JPK, Colby Junior College commencement, June 17, 1946, box 255, JPKP.

23
. Dinneen, cited in Whalen,
The Founding Father,
388.

24
. JPK to Kane, Mar. 19, Apr. 6, 1945, box 225, JPKP.

25
. JPK to KKH, May 1, 1945, Smith,
HTF,
615–18.

26
. JPK to KKH, May 1, 1945, box 3, JPKP.

27
. JPK, memorandum, June, 1945, box 101, JPKP.

28
. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
(1978; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), 59; JPK to Kane, Mar. 19, 1945, box 225, JPKP.

29
. EMK,
TC,
40; EMK to author, Aug. 21, 2007.

30
. EKS, oral history, box 42, Blair; http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/hh-fam/ms2.csv.

31
. JPK to EKS, Feb. 12, Oct. 7, 1945, box 8, folder 60, EKSP.

32
. Fayne to JPK, Mar. 25, 1945, box 219, JPKP.

33
. JKS to author, Feb. 2, Oct. 5, 2011.

34
. See statements from Arthur Andersen & Co., Mar. 1947, JPKP.

35
. Real estate records, w.b. 34, JPKP.

36
.
NYT,
Sept. 29, Oct. 4, 1944.

37
. CK to author, Apr. 2, 2009; JPK to Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, “In re Merchandise Mart,” n.d., w.b. 22; JPK to McCormack, Sept. 5, 1945, box 230, JPKP.

38
. Ollman,
FB
folders, EMKP.

39
. CK to author, Apr. 2, 2009.

40
. Ollman,
FB
folders, EMKP.

41
. Heddal,
FB
folders, EMKP.

THIRTY-ONE: THE CANDIDATE’S FATHER

1
. JPK, address, Apr. 17, 1945, box 255, JPKP.

2
.
CSM,
Aug. 18, 1945.

3
. Burns to JPK, Dec. 29, 1944, in author’s possession.

4
. Forrestal to JPK, July 14, 1945, folder 86, box 27, Forrestal.

5
. Forrestal to JPK, Sept. 8, 1945, in Blair and Blair, Jr.,
The Search for JFK, 
440.

6
. JPK to Calder, Aug. 22, 1945, box 216, JPKP.

7
. Sam Stavisky, “Where Does the Veteran Stand Today?”
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
259 (Sept. 1948): 134.

8
. JFK to Donnelly, Dec. 17, 1945, box 11, JFKPP.

9
. EKS in Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys,
707.

10
. Mark Dalton, oral history, Aug. 4, 1964, JPKOHP; JPK to Kane, Feb. 11, 1946, box 225, JPKP.

11
. Dalton, in Whitehead et al.,
The Kennedys
.

12
. JPK to Krock, Feb. 28, 1946, Smith,
HTF,
625.

13
. JPK to Kane, Smith,
HTF,
625–26.

14
. Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall,
America’s Cold War
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), 67.

15
. JPK to Cropley, Feb. 25, 1946, box 217, JPKP.

16
.
Life,
Mar. 18, 1946, 36.

17
. Hacker report, Mar. 14, 1946, series III, box 51, folder 11, Knopf records; JPK to Emily Morison, Mar. 25, 1946, general correspondence, box 7, folder 7, Knopf.

18
. Samuel Bornstein, oral history, Apr. 15, 1977, JFKOHP; Kenneth P. O’Donnell and David F. Powers, with Joe McCarthy,
“Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye”
(Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1970), 72; JPK to McKelvey, May 4, 1946, box 31, JPKP.

19
. REFK to KK, June 6, 1946, box 3, JPKP.

20
. John Droney, oral history, Nov. 30, 1964, JFKOHP; Dalton, in Whitehead et al.,
The Kennedys
.

21
. KKH to JFK, July 13, 1946, Smith,
HTF,
627.

22
. JPK to Houghton, July 30, 1946, box 224, JPKP.

23
. See materials in Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, box 9, JFKPP.

24
. Truman, “Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, Mar. 12, 1947, in http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/trudoc.asp.

25
. Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times,
69.

26
. Krock,
Memoirs,
338;
NYT,
Mar. 12, 1947.

27
. “The New Appeasement,” Mar. 29, 1947; Reston,
NYT,
Mar. 23, 1947; A. J. Muste,
NYT,
Mar. 16, 1947.

28
. Douglas,
Go East, Young Man,
200.

29
. Coniff,
NYJA
, Apr. 30, 1947.

THIRTY-TWO: FAMILY MATTERS

1
. JPK to Ordway, Nov. 17, 1950, box 232, JPKP.