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205 “Call Dad and tell him I’m going for it”: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 132.
205 Bellowing what an “idiot”: Joe Sr. to Jack, O’Donnell and Powers, p. 140.
205 “Just talk about the war stuff”: Smathers int.
206 “If we have to have”: Parmet, p. 362.
206 “America is not ready”: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 132.
207 “troubled”: Eleanor Roosevelt quote, Matthews, p. 108.
207 “My name is Mary Jones”: KOD.
207 “After Stevenson had thrown”: Bartlett OH.
208 “Texas proudly casts its fifty-six”: Robert Dallek, Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 96.
208 “I’m going to sing ‘Dixie’”: JFK quote, Collier and Horowitz, p. 181.
208 “The second ballot was already under way”: Reeves, p. 466.
209 “He’s not our kind of folks”: Oklahoma governor quote, Sorensen, Kennedy, p. 89.
210 “He hated to lose anything”: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 142.
211 “I’ve learned that you don’t”: JFK quote, ibid., p. 144.
211 “It was too damned close”: Kennedy interview with Ben Bradlee, January 5, 1960.
212 “Magic”: Nickname given to Jack by Jackie, Parmet, p. 194.
212 “She wasn’t the carefree”: Pitts, p. 142.
CHAPTER TEN: CHARM
216 “Kefauver has never done”: Stevenson to Schlesinger, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Journals: 1952–2000 (New York: Penguin Press, 2007), p. 8.
218 “I know I’ll never be more”: JFK to Fay, Perret, p. 238.
219 “For Christmas that year”: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 172.
219 “The smaller states”: Ibid.
219 “It was more than a list”: Ibid., p. 175.
220 “When we said good-bye”: Ibid., p. 174.
220 “Those early trips were”: Ibid., p. 178.
221 Many of their stops: Ibid.
221 By late 1959: KOD.
221 “My main job, in those early months”: O’Brien, No Final Victories, p. 60.
221 “I introduced myself as a representative”: Ibid.
221 “I paid a courtesy call”: Ibid., p. 61.
222 “Senator Kennedy has every”: Ibid., pp. 61–62.
222 “As I moved from state”: Ibid., p. 62.
223 “I don’t think anybody realizes”: Bartlett OH.
223 “He was urged to accept”: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 160.
223 “As hard as it is”: Ibid., pp. 186–87.
223 Kennedy’s physical condition: Medical records of Janet Travell at the John F. Kennedy Library.
224 For everything that ailed him: For a list of Kennedy’s treatments in 1955, see Dallek, An Unfinished Life, pp. 212–13.
224 The cortisone he took: Sutton int. More than save his life, the cortisone he had taken during the 1950s had transformed his face, fleshing out his features until they coalesced into the radiant handsomeness, the familiar JFK image, that would linger in the nation’s fantasy years later. Billy Sutton, who had lived with Kennedy those early years in Washington, would remark that he never looked better than he did in those months of running for president against Richard Nixon.
224 “In the late 1950’s”: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 106.
224 “In retrospect, it is amazing”: Ibid.
224 “On the political circuit”: Ibid.
225 “best suited to fanatics, egomaniacs”: Ibid., p. 187.
225 It was still the age: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 225.
225 “Senator Kennedy, do you have”: Ralph Martin and Ed Plaut, Front Runner, Dark Horse (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960), pp. 461–62.
225 “You could go to the A&P Store”: Hubert Humphrey, John F. Kennedy Oral History Program.
226 While the stillbirth: Pitts, pp. 150–52.
226 “to promote Senator John F. Kennedy as a man of intensive”: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 145.
227 “Careful spadework”: Rose Kennedy quote, Laurence Leamer, The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family (New York: Villard Books, 1994), p. 467.
227 “who was on the committee”: Ibid.
227 “Things don’t happen”: Ibid.
228 “The most powerful single force”: JFK on Senate floor, July 2, 1957.
228 “The war in Algeria”: “Facing Facts on Algeria” speech, p. 3.
229 In the same year he gave: Taylor