Jack Kennedy - Chris Matthews [179]
CHAPTER TWO: THE TWO JACKS
27 The blood-count roulette: Kennedy’s health diminished at Princeton, Hamilton, pp. 144–45.
27 Back he went to: JFK’s stay at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Pitts, p. 45.
27 he spent the remainder: Parmet, p. 43.
27 Interestingly, he followed: Ibid., p. 159.
27 Jack’s new friend was: Jack and Torby as friends and roommates, Torbert Macdonald, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.
27 Now at Harvard: JFK placed poorly in Harvard freshman student election, Rose Kennedy, p. 186.
27 But then he chalked up: Chairman of the Smoker, Macdonald OH.
28 “It was a leadership activity at Harvard”: Said Harvard classmate Jimmy Rousmaniere about the Smoker, Parmet, p. 50.
28 During his sophomore: Besting Joe Sr. by being accepted to Spee Club, Hamilton, pp. 205–9.
28 Demonstrating what we might: Joe Sr.’s group of Boston friends as described by Ralph Pope in ibid., p. 207.
28 According to Joe’s tutor: John Kenneth Galbraith said Joe Sr. was “slightly humorless,” ibid., p. 165.
28 And more than that: Observations of JFK’s inquisitive mind at Harvard, Parmet, p. 49.
28 As Jack started to make: Meeting Lem Billings at the Stork Club, Pitts, p. 48.
28 Only in his “Gov”: Initially only serious about government classes, Hamilton, p. 175.
28 Before an injury sidelined him: Macdonald practices throwing passes with JFK, Parmet, p. 45.
29 After spending Jack’s freshman year: Pitts, p. 65.
29 Jack showed himself willing: Ibid., p. 54.
30 “Hi yah, Hitler!”: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 51.
30 His friend even snuck Jack: Description of Macdonald trying to keep JFK in shape for the swim team is detailed in Parmet, p. 47.
34 Jack knew the valor Britain: As late as May of 1963, Jack Kennedy recited verbatim Churchill’s lines about Raymond Asquith, surprising Asquith’s sister, Violet Bonham Carter, Leaming, pp. 431–32.
35 Even in front of them: “decadent,” ibid., p. 57.
36 When the Nazis invaded: Macdonald OH.
36 “I don’t think he really”: Macdonald on JFK, Hamilton, p. 242.
36 “The failure to build up”: Parmet, p. 68.
37 “I do not believe necessarily”: John F. Kennedy, Why England Slept (New York: W. Funk, 1940), p. xxiii.
38 Why England Slept: On donating the British royalties, Michael O’Brien, John F. Kennedy: A Biography (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2005), p. 105.
38 “Democracy is finished in England”: Joseph P. Kennedy quote, Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 33.
39 “He loved his youth”: John Buchan, Pilgrim’s Way: An Autobiography (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1984), p. 60.
CHAPTER THREE: SKIPPER
In this chapter I have relied on the accounts of Jack’s navy exploits in Robert Donovan’s PT 109: John F. Kennedy in World War II (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961), p. 39.
42 Look back at Raymond Asquith: On the life and death of Asquith, Buchan, pp. 49–60.
42 Jack and Lem Billings were: Pitts, p. 83.
43 In fact, the navy had turned: For a chronology of JFK’s struggles to enter the military, the intervention of Joe Sr.’s former London attaché, Captain Alan Kirk, and his entry into Naval Intelligence, Hamilton, pp. 405–6.
43 His specific distraction: Inga Arvad’s background, Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987), pp. 729–30.
43 “Her conversation was miles”: Hamilton, pp. 684–85.
44 “He had the charm that makes birds”: Leaming, pp. 122–23.
44 Struck by the beautiful: Goodwin, pp. 731–32.
44 They maintained surveillance: FBI surveillance on Inga Arvad, Pitts, p. 85.
44 Hoover’s agents bugged: Pitts, pp. 85–86.
45 “They shagged my ass back down”: Geoffrey Perret, Jack: A Life Like No Other (New York: Random House, 2001), p. 98.
45 Now, more than ever: Goodwin, p. 734. “He had become disgusted with the