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173 “To pour money, material”: JFK speech on the Senate floor, April 6, 1954.
175 “My good friends”: Joseph R. McCarthy in response to Edward R. Murrow, CBS, April 6, 1954.
176 “The reason why we find”: Joseph R. McCarthy speech, Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950.
177 “not fit to wear that uniform”: McCarthy quote, Zwicker hearing, February 1954.
178 A close friend of Bobby’s: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 152.
179 “Senator McCarthy and Mr. Cohn”: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 113.
180 “He was told to sit down”: KOD.
180 “political suicide”: Ibid.
180 “to avoid the vote”: Ibid.
181 “I was in the Bellevue bar”: Ibid.
182 “JFK knew that if he voted”: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 152.
182 According to the historian: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 196. “He could not bend down to pull a sock on his left foot and he had to climb and descend stairs moving sideways.”
183 “I don’t understand Jack’s”: Bartlett int.
183 “This is the one that kills”: O’Brien, No Final Victories, p. 45.
183 “They said the best thing”: Galvin OH.
184 “empty suit”: Sorensen, Counselor, pp. 127–28.
185 “ ‘sometimes party asks’ “: Ibid.
185 Late that summer: KOD.
185 “Furcolo told him”: Ibid.
186 “We’d been building up”: Ibid.
187 On October 10: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 196.
187 “I kept pushing and”: KOD.
187 “the only wrong political move”: Powers and O’Donnell, pp. 85–86.
187 The back operation: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 196.
187 The odds made by the political wise guys: KOD.
188 “the doctors didn’t expect him”: Evelyn Lincoln notes.
188 “That poor young man is going to die”: Conversation with Rex Scouten, Aitken, p. 137.
188 “The doctors don’t understand”: Evelyn Lincoln notes.
188 “The tenor of his voice”: KOD.
188 “feared the wrath”: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 154.
189 “You know, when I get downstairs”: Parmet, p. 310.
189 Junior Chamber of Commerce dinner: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, pp. 115–16.
189 When the senator died: Ibid., p. 173.
189 “In January 1955, Bobby”: Fay, p. 159.
190 Oil painting and Monopoly: JFK’s oil painting described, Rose Kennedy, p. 127; Monopoly playing, Jean Kennedy Smith int.
190 “I think we hit it off”: Peter Lawford, John F. Kennedy Oral History Program.
190 “I don’t think anybody ever”: Ibid.
190 “He was really ill”: Ibid.
191 “He was enormously well read”: Fraser OH.
191 “I think the whole concept”: Bartlett OH.
191 “Kennedy played an especially serious role”: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 146.
191 The theme and the bulk: Ibid., p. 38.
191 nowhere as well read: Author interview with Ted Sorensen.
191 “Where else, in a non-totalitarian society”: Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, p. 7.
192 the prospect of forced retirement: Ibid.
192 “One senator, since retired”: Sorensen, Counselor, pp. 146–47.
192 “He must have been getting”: Ormsby-Gore quote, Lord Harlech, John F. Kennedy Oral History Program.
193 “Shut that door!”: Martin Dowd interview.
193 “Larry and I got a call”: KOD.
CHAPTER NINE: DEBUT
198 Onions was a John McCormack guy: Parmet, pp. 347–51, 354.
198 For Jack to woo: Ibid.
199 “Anybody who’s for Stevenson”: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 109.
199 “ You’re either going to get”: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 131.
200 “We argued that Onions shouldn’t be allowed”: O’Brien, No Final Victories, p. 50.
201 “He and his millions”: Parmet, pp. 347–51, 354.
202 To camouflage the effort: Ibid., p. 359.
202 “You know, about the Catholic vote”: Finnegan quote, Sorensen, Counselor, p. 160.
203 The applause in the hall: Parmet, p. 356.
203 “I didn’t even know Senator Kennedy existed”: Edmund Reggie, John F. Kennedy Oral History Program.
204 Kennedy and Sorensen then: Parmet, p. 359.
204 The knock on Vice President: