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142 “Dear Dick: I was tremendously”: Letter courtesy of Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace.
142 “was the man”: Parmet, p. 250.
142 “a Joseph McCarthy or an Alger Hiss”: Ibid., p. 245.
143 “You and your . . . sheeny friends”: Ibid., p. 251. Transcript, Mutual Broadcasting Network, February 6, 1951, Pre-Presidential Papers, Box 95, John F. Kennedy Library.
143 “He didn’t have to”: O’Neill, p. 119.
144 “the Rabbi”: Parmet, p. 248.
144 “You can’t stop a whispering”: KOD.
144 “They have problems”: Ibid.
144 In October he made: Ibid.
144 “He was in intense pain”: John Galvin, John F. Kennedy Oral History Program.
144 “handsomest”: United Press International report in Boston Globe, July 2, 1952.
145 “ ‘It looks like Eisenhower’s’ “: Macdonald OH.
145 “John Barry, a well-known writer”: KOD.
145 “Well, all hell broke loose”: Ibid.
145 “Finally, he got so frustrated”: Ibid.
148 “That guy must never sleep”: Robert Caro, John F. Kennedy Oral History Program.
148 “The senator-elect got up”: KOD.
CHAPTER SEVEN: MAGIC
151 “Mary, now don’t be silly”: O’Neill, pp. 117–18.
152 “They were all experienced”: Davis OH.
154 “If you work for a politician”: O’Brien, No Final Victories, p. 40.
155 “I’d go down to his office”: Smathers OH.
156 “His mind was on bigger things”: Ibid.
157 “ability to write in clear”: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 96.
157 “Jack had the ability”: Reardon int. 158 “he was soft on Senator Joe McCarthy”: Sorensen, Counselor, pp. 98–99.
159 “He was much the same”: Ibid., pp. 102–3.
159 “Few could realize”: Ibid., p. 109.
159 “During my first year”: Ibid., pp. 103–4.
159 “I do not remember”: Ibid., p. 102.
160 “The thing to remember”: Author interview with Charles Bartlett.
160 “Black Jack” Bouvier: Leaming, pp. 4–5.
160 Jackie, who’d spent: Ibid., pp. 5–8.
161 While he was wooing her: Ibid., pp. 8–9.
162 “Jack appreciated her”: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 193.
162 “Jackie was certainly very”: Forbes OH.
162 “There was this beautiful girl”: Bartlett int.
162 “Well, she knew what”: Ibid.
163 “I gave everything a good deal”: Fay, p. 160.
163 In fact, with an eye: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 95.
163 “They haven’t seen you since”: KOD.
164 “I said, ‘God, she’s a fantastic-looking woman’ ”: Red Fay, John F. Kennedy Oral History Program.
164 “Almost across the street from”: Fay, p. 152.
165 “I want to tell you”: Ibid., p. 153.
165 “Torby Macdonald stood up”: Fay OH.
165 “There were only a few political”: KOD.
166 “She was terribly young”: Pitts, p. 137.
166 Chuck Spalding had his own telling: Spalding OH.
166 “This would be a helluva”: Thomas Reeves, A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy (New York: Free Press, 1991), p. 114.
166 “When Jack and Jacqueline”: Fay, p. 151.
167 “they spoiled him”: Bartlett int.
167 “He saw her as a kindred spirit”: Collier and Horowitz, p. 233. Based on interview with Lem Billings.
CHAPTER EIGHT: SURVIVAL
171 “The story circulated”: KOD.
171 “I knew Jack was serious”: O’Neill, p. 90.
171 “After he had been in the Senate”: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 145.
171 Kennedy had come upon accounts: John Quincy Adams story, Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 29–50.
172 “If we do not stand firm”: Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, February 1, 1953.
173 He also challenged the Republicans’: Parmet, p. 282. “Under these circumstances, we must ask how the new [Secretary of State Jim Foster] Dulles policy and its dependence upon the threat of atomic retaliation will fare in these areas of guerilla warfare. At what point would the threat of atomic weapons be used in the struggles in Southeast Asia—in French Indochina—particularly where the chief burden is carried on the one side by native communists and on the other by