The Patriarch (114 page)

9
. JPK to Spellman, June 21, 1958, S/C-27, folder 2, AANY.

10
. EKS,
FB
folders, EMKP.

11
. JPK to Rusk, Feb. 7, 1958, June 4, 1958, box 233; JPK to Bundy, May 13, 1958, box 267, JPKP.

12
. EKS,
FB
folders, EMKP.

13
. Sargent Shriver to JPK, n.d., box 2, folder 4, EKSP.

14
. JPK to Sachar, May 11, 1959, box 11, JFKOF.

15
. JPK to Opdenaker, Oct. 29, 1959, box 267, JPKP.

16
. Elizabeth Boggs, “Federal Legislation Affecting the Mentally Retarded, 1955–1967,”
Mental Retardation
3 (1971).

17
. JPK to Eisenhower, Dulles, Jan. 14, 1956, box 263, JPKP.

18
. William Colby and Peter Forbath,
Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978), 109.

19
. JPK to Galeazzi, Jan. 30, 1956, box 221, JPKP.

20
. JPK to Galeazzi, Mar. 5, 1956, box 221, JPKP.

21
. JPK to Cavanaugh, May 5, 1956, box 216, JPKP.

22
. Colby and Forbath,
Honorable Men,
129.

23
. Wyzanski memo, Oct. 20, 1964, box 498, folder 11, Schlesinger.

24
. “Bailey Report,” Victor Lasky,
JFK: The Man and the Myth
(New York: Macmillan, 1963), appendix B, 587–98; Theodore C. Sorensen,
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History
(New York: Harper Collins, 2008), 159.

25
. JPK to JFK, May 25, 1956, box 4, JPKP.

26
. JFK to JPK, June 29, 1956, box 4, JPKP.

27
. O’Donnell and Powers,
“Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,”
105.

28
. JPK to Beaverbrook, June 15, 1956, c/194a, Beaverbrook; JPK to Downey, n.d., box 218, JPKP.

29
. JPK to Sargent Shriver, July 18, 1956, box 236, JPKP.

30
. JPK to EMK, July 18, 1956, box 4, JPKP; Dallek,
An Unfinished Life,
262.

31
. JPK to Galeazzi, July 30, 1956, box 222, JPKP.

32
. JPK to JFK, July 23, 1956, box 4, JPKP.

33
. REFK,
TTR,
281.

34
. Bartlett, oral history, Jan. 6, 1965, JFKOHP.

35
. O’Donnell and Powers,
“Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,”
138.

36
. RFK,
FB
folders, EMKP; JKS to author, Oct. 5, 2011.

37
. JPK to Downey, Aug. 24, 1956, box 218, JPKP.

THIRTY-SEVEN: THE CATHOLIC CANDIDATE

1
. JPK to Beaverbrook, Oct. 27, 1956, c/194a, Beaverbrook.

2
. Theodore Sorensen,
Kennedy
(New York: Harper & Row, 1965), 100; REFK, diary, June 23, 1960, box 4, REFKP.

3
. JPK to Galeazzi, Nov. 9, 1956, box 222, JPKP.

4
. O’Donnell and Powers,
“Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,”
144.

5
. Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
, 153–54.

6
. JFK to LBJ, July 27, 1956, “Three Western Union Telegrams,” JFKL.

7
. Burns,
John Kennedy,
187; JPK to JFK, July 18, 1957, box 4, JPKP.

8
. JPK to JFK, Aug. 7, 1957, box 4, JPKP.

9
. Harold Martin, “The Amazing Kennedys,”
Saturday Evening Post
, Sept. 17, 1957, 48.

10
.
NYT,
Oct. 28, 1957.

11
. JPK to Henry Luce, Nov. 28, 1957, box 228, JPKP.

12
. JPK to Galeazzi, Sept. 12, Dec. 9, 1957, box 222, JPKP.

13
. Clark Clifford, with Richard Holbrooke,
Counsel to the President
(New York: Random House, 1991), 306–10.

14
.
NYT,
Jan. 5, 1958; JPK to JFK, Jan. 14, 1958, box 4, JPKP.

15
. JPK to Hesburgh, May 21, 1958, box 250, JPKP.

16
. REFK to RFK, Feb. 19, 1958, box 4, JPKP.

17
. JPK to Galeazzi, Feb. 7, 1958, box 222, JPKP.

18
. JPK to Morrissey, Feb. 4, 1958, box 231; JPK to des Rosiers, Apr. 10, 1958, box 218, JPKP.

19
.
WP,
Mar. 16, 1958.

20
.
WP,
Mar. 15, 1959.

21
. O’Brien,
John F. Kennedy,
400–401.

22
. JPK to Galeazzi, Apr. 15, 1958, box 222, JPKP.

23
. EMK,
TC,
124.

24
. LBJ to JPK, Mar. 25, 1958, Senate, master file index KEM-KEQ, box 103, folder 143, LBJL; Lawrence O’Brien,
No Final Victories
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1954), 54–55; O’Donnell and Powers,
“Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,”
160.

25
. JPK to McIntyre, June 6, 1958, box 230, JPKP.

26
. Knebel, “Democratic Forecast: A Catholic in 1960,”
Look,
Mar. 3, 1959.

27
. Cogley, oral history, Feb. 20, 1966, JFKOHP.

28
.
Commonweal,
Mar. 20, 1959.

29
. JPK to Galeazzi, Mar. 30, 1959, box 222, JPKP.

30
. JPK to Galeazzi, Apr. 17, 1959, box 222, JPKP.

31
. Cushing, oral history, 1966; Cogley, oral history, 1968, JFKOHP.

32
. JPK to Galeazzi, Apr. 17, 1959, box 222, JPKP.

THIRTY-EIGHT: ELECTING A PRESIDENT

1
. Sorensen,
Kennedy,
119–21; Sorensen,
Counselor,
180.

2
. REFK, diary, June 23, 1960, box 4, REFKP;
NYT,
Oct. 23, 1959.

3
. JPK to Galeazzi, Jan. 1, 1960, box 222, JPKP.

4
. Krock,
NYT,
Jan. 10, 1958.

5
. JPK to Galeazzi, Mar. 9, 1960, box 222, JPKP.

6
. JPK to Harry Brandt, Jan. 27, 1960, box 214, JPKP.

7
. JPK to RFK, Feb. 8, 1960, box 248, JFKPP.

8
. JPK to Steve Smith, Feb. 8, 1960, box 4, JPKP.

9
. David Lawrence, oral history, Jan. 26, 1966, JFKOHP.

10
. O’Donnell and Powers,
“Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,”
92.

11
. JPK to Galeazzi, Mar. 9, 31, 1960, box 222, JPKP.

12
. Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys,
797.

13
.
NYT
, Feb. 21, 1960; JPK to Beaverbrook, Feb. 18, 1960, c/194b; Beaverbrook.

14
. Carrillo to JPK, Mar. 25, 1960; JPK to Carrillo, Apr. 4, 1960, box 216, JPKP.

15
.
NYT,
Apr. 9, 1960.

16
. JPK to Clemens, Apr. 4, 1960, box 216, JPKP.

17
. Drew Pearson,
WP,
Apr. 5, 1960.

18
. O’Donnell and Powers,
“Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,”
180.

19
. JPK to M. Morrissey, Apr. 8, 1960, box 230, JPKP.

20
. JPK to Beaverbrook, Apr. 20, 1960, c/194b, Beaverbrook.

21
. Benjamin C. Bradlee,
Conversations with Kennedy
(New York: Norton, 1975), 16.

22
. Racine to author, Mar. 19, 2009.

23
. O’Donnell and Powers,
“Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,”
186–88.

24
.
NYT,
Apr. 22, 1960; O’Donnell and Powers,
“Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,”
187–88; Sorensen,
Kennedy,
145.

25
.
NYT,
May 18, 1960.

26
. JPK to Galeazzi, May 27, 1960, box 222, JPKP.

27
.
BP,
May 22, 1960.

28
. Sorensen,
Kennedy,
152; Timilty,
FB
folders, EMKP.

29
. Robert A. Caro,
The Passage of Power
(New York: Random House, 2012), 95–97.

30
. Seigenthaler, oral history, July 22, 1964, JFKOHP; “Pride of the Clan,”
Time
, July 11, 1960.

31
. EMK,
TC,
150.

32
. Charles Bartlett, oral history, Jan 6, 1965, JFKOHP.

33
. Charles Spalding, oral history, Blair.

34
. Henry Luce, oral history, Nov. 11, 1965, JPKOHP.

35
.
Newsweek,
Aug. 8, 1960.

36
. “A Talk with the Silent Kennedy,”
U.S. News & World Report,
Aug. 22, 1960.

37
. Pearson, “The Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round,” July 11, 1960, http://www .aladin.wrlc.org/gsdl/collect/pearson/pearson.shtml.

38
.
NYT,
Sept. 1, 1960.

39
. Anti-Kennedy pamphlet, box 31, Schiff.

40
. Feldman to JPK, Oct. 11, 1960, box 219, JPKP.

41
. JPK to Beaverbrook, Sept. 9, 1960, c/194b, Beaverbrook.

42
. “Protestant Unit Wary on Kennedy,”
NYT,
Sep. 8, 1960.

43
. JFK, “Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association,” Sept. 12, 1960, JFKL.

44
. Theodore White,
The Making of the President
(New York: Atheneum, 1960), 346.

45
. Sorensen,
Counselor
, 190.

46
.
NYT,
May 25, 1960, 13;
NYT,
May 31, 1960, 23.

47
. Debate transcript,
NYT
, Oct. 8, 1960.

48
. JPK, “An American Foreign Policy for Americans,” Dec. 12, 1950, box 256; “Excerpts from Kennedy Talk on Cuba,”
NYT,
Oct. 7, 1960.

49
. Frank Stanton, oral history, 331–32, CUOH.

50
. “Spellman Sees,”
NYT,
Oct. 24, 1960, 1.

51
. Sorensen,
Kennedy,
208–9; Lawrence Fuchs,
Kennedy and American Catholicism
(New York: Meredith Press, 1967), 184–85.

52
. O’Donnell and Powers,
“Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,”
245.

THIRTY-NINE: “HE BELONGS TO THE COUNTRY”

1
. EMK,
TC,
158; O’Donnell and Powers,
“Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,”
250–51.

2
. REFK,
TTR,
322.

3
. Jacqueline Kennedy,
Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
(New York: Hyperion, 2011),
97.

4
. Jacques Lowe,
JFK Remembered
(New York: Random House, 1993), 100.

5
. REFK,
TTR,
323.

6
. “Winner’s Pledge,”
NYT,
Nov. 10, 1960, 1.

7
. EMK,
TC
, 158.

8
. Hugh Sidey, “Joe Kennedy’s Feelings About His Son,
Life,
Dec. 19, 1960, 32.

9
. Sorensen,
Kennedy,
223; Philip E. Converse et al., “Stability and Change in 1960: A Reinstating Election,”
American Political Science Review
55, no. 2 (June 1961): 278.

10
. Converse et al., “Stability and Change,” 275; Dallek,
An Unfinished Life,
296.

11
. Chris Matthews,
Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), 318–19.

12
. John J. Binder, “Organized Crime and the 1960 Presidential Election,”
Public Choice
130 (2007): 241–66.

13
. JPK to Galeazzi, Jan. 6, 1961, box 222, JPKP.

14
. JPK to Galeazzi, Feb. 6, 1961, box 222, JPKP.

15
. JPK to Galeazzi, Oct. 24, 1961, box 222, JPKP.

16
. Spellman to RFK, Apr. 10, 1961; “Memorandum for His Eminence, Apr. 11, 1961,” folder 10, S/C-78, AANY.

17
. Schiff, memorandum, Dec. 1, 1960, box 31, Schiff.

18
. JPK to Galeazzi, Jan. 6, 1961, box 222, JPKP.

19
. Sidey, “Joe Kennedy’s Feelings About His Son,” 32.

20
. Billy Graham,
Just As I Am
(San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997), 394–96.

21
. Thurston Clarke,
Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America
(New York: Henry Holt, 2004), 39–40.

22
. Clifford,
Counsel to the President,
336–37.

23
. EKS,
FB
folders, EMKP; EKS, oral history, May 7, 1968, JFKOHP.

24
. Robert E. Cooke, oral history, Mar. 29, 1968, JFKOHP.

25
.
NYT,
Oct. 12, 1961, 1.

26
. JPK to Rogers, Jan. 14, 1961, box 234; JPK to Regan, Feb. 2, 1961, box 234; JPK to Henry, Jan. 16, 1961, box 247, JPKP.

27
. Sammy Davis, Jr., and Jane and Burt Boyar,
Sammy: An Autobiography
(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000), 388–89.

28
. Clarke,
Ask Not,
158–61; Paul B. Fay,
The Pleasure of His Company
(New York: Harper & Row, 1966), 90.

29
. EMK,
TC,
165.

30
. Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys,
815–16.

31
. REFK,
TTR,
335, 337.

32
. EMK to author, Aug. 21, 2007; JPK to Steele, Feb. 20, 1961, box 226, JPKP.

33
. EMK,
TC,
170; EKS,
FB
folders, EMKP; JPK to EMK, Apr. 15, 1961, box 4, JPKP.

34
. JKS to author, July 16, 2008.

35
. EMK to author, Oct. 8, 2007.

36
. JPK to Stearn, Feb. 6, 1961, box 251, JPKP.

37
. REFK, diary, Apr. 19, 1961, in
TTR,
342; William Manchester,
Portrait of a President
(Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1962), 35.

38
. EMK to author, Aug. 21, 2007, May 15, 2008.

39
. JPK to Morrissey, June 3, 1960, box 231, JPKP.

40
. Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
, 375–76; Victor Navasky,
Kennedy Justice
(1971; repr., New York: Authors Guild Backinprint.com, 2000), 410.

41
. Navasky,
Kennedy Justice,
429–40.