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252 “Had dinner with Jack and Jackie”: Bartlett int.
253 The official handout opened: Candidate’s biography that was stapled to prepared remarks, courtesy of John F. Kennedy Library.
254 “I asked him what he considered”: Schlesinger, Journals, p. 63.
256 “You think I’m out here”: Reeves, A Question of Character, p. 159.
256 Hubert Humphrey: Robert Caro, Master of the Senate (New York: Knopf, 2002), p. xiii.
257 “He was campaigning”: Author interview with Governor Pat Lucey.
257 “effective presentation of a celebrity”: Patrick Lucey Oral History, John F. Kennedy Library.
257 Using Lou Harris’s polling data: Author interview with Louis Harris.
258 “Shall I wear this blue overcoat?” Bartlett OH.
258 “I have great respect for the Polish people”: Fay, p. 17.
259 Probably his most famous stunt: Craig Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America (Wilmington: ISI Books, 2009), p. 424.
259 “On the day Wisconsin voters went to the polls”: Bradlee, Conversations, pp. 16–17.
260 thousand-dollar contribution he’d delivered from his father: Arnold, p. 21. A March 3, 1960, note from Rose Mary Woods to Vice President Nixon recalls the Kennedy campaign contribution, also Nixon’s “flabbergasted” reaction.
260 “In all fairness to myself”: Pitts, p. 160.
261 “Kennedy is, of course, Roman Catholic”: Cronkite’s broadcast on primary night is included in the Robert Drew documentary Primary.
261 “It means that we’ve got to go”: O’Donnell and Powers, pp. 159–60.
261 “When the question of West Virginia”: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 26.
262 “He knew that if he dropped”: Pitts, p. 161.
262 “The reversal was, of course”: Salinger OH.
263 Around this time: O’Neill int.
263 “Give Me That Old Time Religion”: Humphrey quote, Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 253.
263 “pretty well avoided the religious”: Billings quote, Pitts, p. 161.
264 “Nobody asked me if I was a Catholic”: O’Donnell and Powers, pp. 166–67.
264 “Young man, I should tell you”: Battle OH.
264 “I believe West Virginia brought”: Salinger OH.
265 had been in the “wor-ah”: Bradlee int.
265 Ben Bradlee knew: Ibid.
265 “basic strategy was a psychological one”: Salinger OH.
266 “We were running the campaign”: Ibid.
266 “They went through West Virginia”: Author interview with Charles McWhorter.
267 “I’d give my right testicle to win this one”: Bartlett OH.
267 “If Jack were beaten in West Virginia”: Macdonald OH.
268 “The Kennedys asked us to sweat”: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 27.
269 “Kennedy ignored Jackie”: Ibid., p. 28.
CHAPTER TWELVE: CHARISMA
272 “We talked to the governor”: KOD.
273 The Kennedy treatment: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 247.
273 Even with this agreement: Dutton OH.
274 “I’m not running a popularity contest”: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 213.
275 After West Virginia he was convinced: Author interview with William J. Green III.
275 “I could tell, as Governor Lawrence”: KOD.
276 “It was still the last moment”: Moynihan OH.
276 “This organization, this Kennedy-for-President”: Horton OH.
276 “God, why won’t he be satisfied”: Bill Blair, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.
277 Eleanor Roosevelt would arrive: Author interview with Lester Hyman.
277 “riverboat gambler”: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 18.
277 “He was having throat problems”: Ibid., pp. 30–31.
278 “six regions, and every region was manned”: KOD.
278 “looked like an impartial newspaper”: Salinger OH.
278 “It was the goddamndest thing”: Robin Cross, J.F.K.: A Hidden Life (Boston: C. E. Tuttle, 1992), p. 78.
279 “I wasn’t any Chamberlain-umbrella”: Robert Dallek, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908–1960 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 573–74.
279 “We seized on the opportunity”: Salinger OH.
279 “There were a few rough Irishmen”: KOD.
280 “I