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343 “It will have to be for much bigger”: JFK to O’Donnell, Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 430.
344 “never come face to face with such evil”: Pitts, p. 220.
344 “Our position in Europe”: Ibid., p. 55.
344 “He’s imprisoned by Berlin”: Hugh Sidey, John F. Kennedy, President (New York: Atheneum, 1964), p. 218.
345 On June 21, he would suffer: Leaming, pp. 321–22.
345 “showcase of liberty, a symbol”: Kempe, p. 423.
345 Five days later, Senator William Fulbright: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 204.
345 “Why would Khrushchev put up a wall”: Kempe, p. 379.
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348 We’d agreed, as had the Soviets: Leaming, p. 337.
348 “fucked again!”: David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (New York: Random House, 1972), p. 84.
349 “If we test only underground”: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 462.
350 With it came a new pressure: Leaming, pp. 378–80.
350 “A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 551.
350 “hard-boiled . . . soft-boiled”: Bradlee, Conversations, pp. 52–53.
350 Kennedy’s national security team: Leaming, pp. 378–80.
352 “we were actually superior to the Soviets”: Author interview with John Glenn.
353 In the fall of 1961: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 482.
353 Afterward, JFK called both sides: KOD.
353 His company was raising the price of steel: Ibid.
353 “what you are doing is in the best interest”: Fay int.
353 “You have made a terrible mistake”: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 296.
353 “These guys felt they were so powerful”: KOD.
354 “cold, deliberate fucking”: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 76.
354 “wrongly, he could not or would”: KOD.
354 “You find out about these guys”: Fay int.
354 “I don’t think U.S. Steel or any other”: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 486.
354 “where possible”: Fay int.
354 “the American people will find it hard”: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 485.
355 “Kennedy’s style of politics”: KOD.
355 “We looked over all of them as individuals”: Robert F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.
355 “Good night, pal”: To Dave Powers, Smith, p. xiv.
355 He always exhibited great fondness: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 148.
356 Even social friends might step: Ibid., pp. 114–15.
356 He regularly went for a swim: Nancy Tuckerman and Pamela Turnure, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program. Nancy Tuckerman: “Yes, twice a day.”
356 “Information has been developed”: Perret, p. 346.
357 He’d regularly see Meyer: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 54.
359 Washington efforts: “Summary of Civil Rights Progress,” Box 63, Papers of the President, John F. Kennedy Library.
359 On September 10, the U.S. Supreme Court: KOD.
360 “I won’t agree to let that boy get to Ole Miss”: Ibid.
360 Jack and Bobby both were hoping: Ibid.
361 Jack was now involved in checking: Ibid.
361 When two thousand demonstrators: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 515.
361 “neither Meredith nor any of those men”: KOD.
361 “we knew that most of the National Guard”: Ibid.
362 Kennedy was responsible: Reeves, President Kennedy, pp. 359–64.
362 “They always give you their bullshit”: Ibid, p. 363.
363 “the occupation regime”: Letter from Khrushchev to JFK, July 5, 1962, ibid., p. 41.
363 “bone in my throat”: Ibid., p. 168.
363 “We will not allow your troops to be in Berlin”: From State Department, Foreign Relations of the United States: Cuba, 1962– 1963, pp. 1045–57.
364 he told Udall that he wanted to meet: Frederick Kempe, Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth (New York: Putnam, 2011), p. 493.
364 He sent JFK a letter: Leaming, pp. 378–80.
364 Suddenly it came: Ibid., p. 413.
365 Kennedy now assembled: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 286.
366 “Virtually everyone’s initial choice”: Ibid., pp. 288–89.
367 If Khrushchev was attempting: Dallek,