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committees and set up events, but we can’t be sitting in this office doing it from 10 Post Office Square. Well, Mark Dalton would not even ask either the father or candidate if we could begin to do it, he was too afraid of them. I had nobody to get any action from. I would tell this [to] Dalton, Dalton would agree and say he would ask the old man or Jack, but he never would. He’d go to Morrissey, who’d bury it and nothing ever happened.”

127 He wouldn’t fire Dalton: Dalton OH. “The major thing at the time which came as a very grave disappointment and a very grave blow to me was that a release had been prepared by John Galvin announcing that I was the campaign manager of John Kennedy’s campaign for the Senate. John Kennedy never spoke to me, but John Kennedy would not issue that release.”

127 If Dalton was too weak: KOD. “I had told Bobby you got to come up here, this is just chaos. Dalton can’t handle it, he’s got to go and you’ve got to take over.”

128 “We arrived at the Ritz”: Healey OH.

128 a smart combination: The teas, Parmet, p. 250.

129 As David Powers would note: KOD. Dave Powers, as said to Sander Vanocur, saw that “the success of these receptions was because the only thing these poor working ever get in the mail was a bill. He said when some of these people got an invitation to have tea with the Kennedys, they were amazed. It was great, because these are all very poor people.”

130 “You’re talking two or three”: Ibid.

130 X-rays taken of Jack’s spine: X-rays are available for December 14, 1944, and November 6, 1950, medical records of Dr. Janet Travell at the John F. Kennedy Library.

131 “I must say”: Bartlett OH.

131 “The whole operation”: KOD.

131 “I knew the Kennedys well enough”: Ibid.

131 He phoned Bobby: Ibid.

131 Bobby hated what: Ibid. “He [Bobby] had no intention of coming up. He gave me the devil. He was really mad, he wanted me to do it, but it had to be him. It had to be someone with the authority to take on the father.”

131 Now that Bobby seemingly: Ibid. In a car ride meeting in mid-April, “he [Kennedy] threw Frank Morrissey out of the car . . . it was Bob Kennedy, the congressman, and myself and I had really, this was the closest I’d really seen him, in my life to this moment, or had substantive discussion with him. I recollect he was irritated and as I look back I think he was irritated because he felt I had in a sense been telling tales out of school to his brother, who was reporting to his father, perhaps instead of telling him, who I really worked for.”

132 “As far as I’m concerned”: Ibid.

132 “That was the day that Bobby”: Ibid.

132 “Bobby, as I recall”: Ibid.

132 “He got in the car”: Dalton int.

133 “He didn’t like the building”: KOD.

133 “I decided that I could”: Dalton OH.

133 “I didn’t become involved”: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 94.

133 This was, just for the record: Bobby’s work on 1946 campaign, Ibid. , p. 64.

134 “Yes, Dad”: Thomas, p. 60.

134 “Our secretaries were making”: O’Brien, No Final Victories, p. 36.

134 At their April 6 meeting: KOD.

136 “Lodge was always on the popular side”: Horton OH.

136 “Lodge’s Dodges”: Ted Reardon took down the leather loose-leaf binder from the top shelf of his closet to show me it. It was nearly a half century since it had been put to very good political use.

136 “The major credit belongs”: Healey OH.

136 “Any decision you wanted”: KOD. 137 “How much money”: Ibid.

138 “Don’t give in to them”: Ibid.

138 “Nobody went to one”: Ibid.

138 “The ‘tea party’ technique”: Fraser OH.

138 The reason, according to O’Donnell: KOD.

139 “We appreciated the fact”: Ibid.

139 “We’d be in those homes”: Ibid.

140 “kicked the living hell”: Matthews, p. 88.

140 Here Joe Kennedy: Ibid., p. 87.

141 “buy a fuckin’ “: Ibid.

141 “100 percent”: Ibid.

141 “Well, for Christ’s sake”: Alastair Forbes, John F. Kennedy Oral History Program.

141 “I told them I’d go up”: