Jack Kennedy - Chris Matthews [191]
280 With Lyndon Johnson’s arrows: KOD. “Adlai called Daley and said to Daley, ‘I have a lot of support in the convention and I am going to place my name before the convention. I would like to know from you how many votes I can count on out of the Illinois delegation?’ Mayor Daley said, ‘Well, Governor, you know I have always been for you. I supported you for the governorship. However, it is too late now, I think you are making a mistake. In answer to your question, Governor, in all candor the answer is none. You will not get one vote from the Illinois delegation.’ “
280 Despite some packing of the galleries: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 31. “At first glance it looked as if everyone on the floor was screaming and waving something. But a careful look showed most of the delegates sitting quietly, half-hidden by demonstrators.”
281 “operation was slick”: Author interview with John Ehrlichman.
281 “If Kennedy wants Johnson”: Dallek, Lone Star Rising, p. 575.
282 “ ‘Well, I’d just as soon’”: Salinger OH.
282 “It was a case of grasping”: Schlesinger, Journals, p. 75.
282 “Don’t worry, Jack, in two weeks”: Joe Sr. to JFK, Bartlett OH.
284 “They sat rapt, then content”: Theodore White, The Making of the President, 1960 (New York: Atheneum, 1961), p. 178.
284 “I took the telegram to him”: Pierre Salinger, P.S.: A Memoir (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995), p. 89.
285 “meeting of 150 ministers”: Account of the organized religious campaign to defeat Kennedy drawn from Shaun A. Casey, The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 146–49.
287 “It was night and we were late”: William Atwood, “In Memory of John F. Kennedy,” Look, December 31, 1963.
288 “ten times after we got”: KOD.
288 “In the end, he alone made”: Ibid.
289 “meanest, nastiest-looking”: Author interview with Robert S. Strauss.
289 “to satisfy this audience”: KOD.
290 The loud daily barking: Richard Reeves, President Kennedy: Profile of Power (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), p. 41.
291 Jack’s ongoing transformation: Sutton int.
291 “I wonder where Dick Nixon”: Author interview with Dave Powers.
292 “Kennedy took the thing”: Author interview with Don Hewitt.
292 “He was nervous”: Harris int.
292 Bill Wilson had been a young: Author interview with Bill Wilson.
293 “He and I were standing there”: Hewitt int.
293 “The design was that we attack”: Wilson int.
293 Once the two men were: Description of candidate rehearsal based on CBS recording of the event.
294 “Nixon looked awful off camera”: Salinger OH.
294 “Ted Rogers, who was Nixon’s”: Wilson int.
295 “Five minutes to airtime”: Ibid.
295 “erase the assassin image”: White, p. 285.
299 “That son of a bitch”: Fawn Brodie, Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983), p. 427.
300 “What the hell is this?”: Wilson int.
303 “I had the impression that”: Schlesinger, Journals, p. 88.
307 “He was likely to get himself”: Dean Acheson, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.
308 “There was hardly a place”: The account of Martin Luther King’s arrest and the Kennedys’ effort to free him is drawn from Harris Wofford, Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992), p. 16.
311 “Last week, Dick Nixon hit”: Fay, p. 60.
312 “He’s a filthy, lying son of a bitch”: Goodwin, p. 105.
312 “Nixon wanted the presidency so bad”: Fay, 9.
313 “They’re much more concerned”: KOD.
313 “I was beginning to panic now”: Ibid.
314 “It started out like gangbusters”: Salinger OH.
314 “Ohio did that to me”: JFK quote, White, p. 21.
315 “All those people now say”: KOD.
315 “Nebraska has the largest Republican”: Horton OH.
315 “Does this mean you’re president”: Matthews, p. 179.
315 “What am I going to tell the press?”: Salinger