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230 “Well, I wondered why more people”: Forbes OH.
230 “always greatly interested”: Smathers OH.
230 “I remember very late”: Forbes OH.
231 July 19—Jack Kennedy called up around noon: Schlesinger, Journals, p. 56.
232 “I think he genuinely thinks he was wrong about it”: Ibid., p. 58.
233 “All his golfing pals are rich men he has met since 1945”: Ibid.
233 “He won’t stand by anybody”: Ibid.
233 “No one who has Addison’s disease ought to run for President”: Ibid.
233 The Senate Select Committee: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, pp. 147–60.
234 “If the investigation flops”: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 132.
234 The result of this rout: KOD. On the 1958 elevating of O’Donnell and O’Brien in eyes of Joe Sr.: “We had had some disagreements with him during the campaign. Mr. Kennedy has never been noted for his willingness to brook disagreements from someone whom he considered young kids who are hardly wet behind the ears. In addition, his sources of information about our conduct during the campaign had not always been friendly to us . . . The test had always been the score at the end of the game as far as he was concerned . . . He was very profuse in his congratulations to both of us. He could not have been warmer, kinder, or more grateful now that everything had turned out.”
234 The Rackets Committee managed: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, pp. 147–60.
235 “Would you tell us anything”: RFK interrogates Giancana, ibid., p. 165.
235 “We shall not flag or fail”: RFK banner, Thomas, p. 83.
235 “John F. Kennedy had clearly done his homework”: Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.
236 “was not only good in terms of defending the union”: KOD.
236 “I think that his performance”: Muskie OH.
236 “the Presidency is the source of action”: Kennedy Transcript, January 5, 1960, Bradlee, 16.
237 The image remains suspended: Photo of RFK and JFK in the Rackets Committee, courtesy of John F. Kennedy Library.
237 Jack Kennedy made few new personal friends: Ben Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy (New York: Norton, 1975), p. 21.
237 “Nothing in my education”: Ben Bradlee, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), p. 206.
238 “the mines”: Ibid.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: HARDBALL
Ken O’Donnell’s oral history provides the dominant source for the Kennedy presidential campaign’s hardball tactics. It gives a strategist’s look at the methods used to organize what was a breakthrough political effort. Where not otherwise identified, this chapter is based on O’Donnell’s account.
241 “Together, the two of them”: O’Neill, p. 86.
242 “There’s nothing there in 1960”: Bartlett OH.
242 “ ‘wounded tiger’”: Salinger OH.
242 It was Salinger’s first exposure: Ibid. “John F. Kennedy had the exterior façade of such an easygoing nature, and yet with this one remark he revealed something to me that I was later to find in him in other situations.”
243 “At Palm Beach, the senator was in full command”: Sorensen, Kennedy, p. 120.
246 “The truth of the matter is that Brown”: Frederick Dutton, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.
246 “There was no bullshit to the man”: Author interview with Pat Brown. 246 “His complete familiarity with California politics”: Dutton OH.
249 “Mike, it’s time to shit or get off the pot”: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 247, from Abraham Ribicoff Oral History, Columbia University.
249 “just another pretty boy”: Ben Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy, pp. 17–18.
251 “I always had a feeling”: Bartlett int.
251 “He hated the liberals”: Author interview with Ben Bradlee.
251 “You have no idea”: Author interview with Joan Gardner.
251 “did make it out there”: Ralph Martin, A Hero for Our Time: An Intimate Story of the Kennedy Years (New York: Macmillan, 1983), p. 221.
251 “I worked with