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111 “The responsibility for the failure”: Congressional Record, January 29, 1949.
112 “a sick Roosevelt”: Parmet, p. 210.
113 “Isn’t this something”: Bill Arnold, Back When It All Began: The Early Nixon Years (New York: Vantage Press, 1975), p. 14.
113 Jack wanted what Nixon now had: George Smathers, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program. “I think Jack was that competitive. When I won, he figured he could do it. And at the same time in 1950 when I won my race—my big race was in the primary in May—Nixon ran for the Senate in California against Helen Gahagan Douglas. . . . And I think all of that worked on Jack and started him with the idea that when the time came he would run.”
113 “This rivalry developed”: Dalton OH.
113 “I think the thing”: Sutton OH.
113 “I’m up or out”: Lawrence O’Brien, No Final Victories: A Life in Politics—from John F. Kennedy to Watergate (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), p. 17.
113 “I’m going to use”: Smathers int.
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115 Whichever happened: Healey OH. Joseph Healey: “I remember him saying to me flatly that regardless of what was going to happen in terms of what the then incumbent governor of Massachusetts, Paul Dever, was planning to do, that he was not going to run for another term as congressman. He said to me one day, and I think that these are his exact words, ‘I would rather run for governor or the Senate and lose and take the shot, than to go back and serve another term as congressman.’ ”
116 “I’ve decided not to run”: O’Neill, p. 105.
116 “pain in the ass”: Collier and Horowitz, p. 155.
117 As Jack traveled with his brother: Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, p. 120.
117 More important: Getting to know RFK on Indochina trip, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), pp. 90–93.
117 As Jack was flown from Tokyo: Addison’s complications and evacuation to Okinawa, Collier and Horowitz, p. 156, and Bobby Kennedy’s foreword, Profiles in Courage, pp. xv–xvi.
117 “worms”: Referring to members in Congress, O’Brien, No Final Victories, p. 17.
117 He’d already begun spending: KOD.
118 “if he was going to get anywhere”: Charles Spalding, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.
118 “So, I think, he made”: Ibid.
118 When I was in Boston last week: Meet the Press, December 2, 1951.
119 “You can never defeat the Communist”: Ibid.
120 “unconscious of the fact”: Boston Globe, November 20, 1951.
121 The very first recruit: O’Brien, No Final Victories, pp. 11–14.
121 One day on Capitol Hill: Ibid., p. 18. “. . . [O]n a Sunday in March we had dinner at Kelly’s Lobster House in nearby Holyoke. Kennedy was not long in getting to the point. ‘Larry, I’m not going to stay in the House,’ he told me. ‘I’m not challenged there. It’s up or out for me. I’m definitely going to run for state-wide office next year. I don’t know many people in western Massachusetts and I’d like your help.’ ‘What are you running for?’ I asked. ‘I don’t know yet,’ he admitted. ‘I want to run against Lodge, but if Dever makes that race I’ll run for governor.’ ”
122 Larry O’Brien: “Republicans were respectable. Republicans didn’t get thrown in jail like Jim Curley . . . ,” ibid., p. 29.
122 “Larry, I don’t look forward”: Ibid., p. 27.
122 “For the Kennedys”: Jack Newfield, Robert Kennedy: A Memoir (New York: Dutton, 1969), p. 42.
123 “He called me and said”: KOD.
123 “lace-curtain”: Ibid.
124 “He started getting our attention”: Ibid.
125 “Lodge, killing off Walsh”: Ibid.
126 Mark Dalton: Campaign manager of 1946, O’Brien, John F. Kennedy, p. 193.
127 Therefore, the first thing: KOD. O’Donnell: “I had said to Dalton, look we need to name a secretary or leader in each community to be a Kennedy man and then that person can form