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94 “People have always said”: Ibid.
94 “Listen to this fellow”: Ibid.
94 “I’d like you to meet Richard Nixon of California”: Ibid.
94 In the coming years Jack would be: Author interview with Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith.
94 “ ‘Kennedy is courageous’ “: Mark Dalton, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.
94 “I told him that day”: Sutton OH.
94 “You can imagine”: Dalton OH.
94 McKeesport debate: McKeesport Daily News, April 17 and 25, 1947; July 21, 1960.
100 “So many people said”: Mary Davis, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.
100 “And then I remember”: Kay Halle, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.
101 “He was very particular”: Sutton OH.
101 “I would say that”: Davis OH.
102 “I got a call from”: Healey OH.
102 “I guess I’m going”: Ibid.
102 “My strong reaction”: Parmet, p. 183.
103 “lived for some ten years”: Healey OH.
103 “Curley was crooked”: Author conversation with Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr.
103 “I don’t know whether”: Edmund S. Muskie, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.
103 “I’m going to debate”: Dalton int.
104 “I was never so”: Davis OH.
105 “At the hearing”: Author interview with Timothy J. “Ted” Reardon.
105 “He was not feeling well”: Davis OH.
105 “Emaciated!”: Author interview with George Smathers.
105 For a bon voyage: Jonathan Aitken, Nixon: A Life (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993), p. 136.
106 “That American friend”: Leaming, p. 192.
106 On those nights: Davis OH.
106 “He was someone”: Ibid. 106 “Thinking about girls”: Sutton int. 107 “He did have a lot”: Davis OH.
107 “He used to enjoy”: Bartlett OH.
107 Confiding that he voted: Ted Sorensen, Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History (New York: Harper, 2008), pp. 146–47. Ted Sorensen reveals that in Profiles in Courage Kennedy was referring to Smathers and “decided, for reasons of senatorial courtesy, not to identify in his opening chapter the name of the fellow senator ‘who acknowledged to him one day during a roll call that he voted with the special interests on every issue, hoping that, by election, all of them added together would constitute nearly a majority that would remember him favorably while the other members of the public would never know about it, much less remember his vote against their welfare.’ I see no reason for anonymity now: It was his close friend, the late Senator George Smathers of Florida. Maybe Smathers was joking when he said that; maybe not.”
107 “because he doesn’t give a damn”: Bartlett OH.
108 “deeply preoccupied by death”: Smathers int.
108 “Quick”: Ibid.
108 “It was a bright, shining day”: Reardon int.
108 “Unless I’m very mistaken”: Joseph W. Alsop, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.
108 “He used to turn green”: Ibid.
108 Billy Sutton recalls: Sutton OH.
109 “Did you ever read”: Dalton OH.
109 “As I look back”: Ibid.
109 “Another day I can”: Ibid.
110 “He was in terrible pain”: Goodwin, pp. 742–44.
110 “He always heard the footsteps”: Collier and Horowitz, pp. 207–9.
110 One of those who thrilled: Kenny O’Donnell background, Thomas, p. 50.
110 “took on the American Legion”: KOD.
110 “When we’ve got the map”: Kenneth P. O’Donnell and David F. Powers with Joe McCarthy, “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye”: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973), pp. 77–79.
111 “the Russians, by their actions”: General Lucius D. Clay quote, Perret, p. 156.
111 Back home, the pursuit: Nixon’s exposure of Hiss, account of Hiss case, drawn from Stephen E. Ambrose, Nixon: Volume I: The Education of a Politician 1913– 1962 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), pp. 169– 72, and Allen Weinstein, Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case (New York: Random House, 1997), pp. 5–7.
111 For denying that: Parmet, p. 245. In February 1952, a speaker at an anniversary evening at Kennedy’s Harvard club told the gathered alumni how proud he was that their college had never