Jack Kennedy - Chris Matthews [195]
367 “I now know how Tojo felt”: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 507.
367 Might not an American attack on Cuba: On January 15, 1992, the New York Times reported that the Soviet Union had 43,000 troops in Cuba during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, not 10,000 as was reported by the Central Intelligence Agency. This was according to Robert McNamara, who had just returned from a conference on the crisis in Havana. He said Soviet officials had told him that Moscow had sent short-range nuclear weapons to Cuba and that Soviet commanders there were authorized to use them in the event of an American invasion.
369 Grab your balls: JFK to Salinger, Salinger, p. 115.
370 “I think the pressure of this period”: Bartlett OH.
370 “You’d be interested to know”: Ibid.
371 “ ‘Any communication with any skipper’”: Fay OH.
371 He then instructed Bobby: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 302.
372 “the greatest defeat in our history”: LeMay quote, Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 571.
372 “If Kennedy never did another thing”: Macmillan quote, O’Donnell and Powers, p. 284.
372 There was an equal number of warheads: Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (New York: Knopf, 2008), p. 98.
372 “My thinking went like this”: Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers (Boston: Little, Brown, 1970), p. 494.
373 “The final lesson of the Cuban missile crisis”: Robert Kennedy, Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969), p. 95.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: GOALS
376 “The tax laws really screw people”: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 218.
379 “The decision to make the speech available”: New York Times, June 13, 1963.
379 “The speech and its publication in Izvestia show”: Ibid.
379 “He’s just challenging us”: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 195.
379 “Make him look ridiculous”: Dan T. Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), p. 149.
380 “most precious and powerful right in the world”: Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy: 1963, p. 14.
381 “the most sweeping and forthright ever”: Martin Luther King, June 20, 1963, Box 97, President’s Office Files at John F. Kennedy Library.
382 Driving through the streets: Bradlee, Conversations, pp. 95–96. “Just before his trip to Berlin in June, 1963,” wrote Bradlee, “he spent the better part of an hour with the Vreelands (Frederick ‘Frecky’ Vreeland, a young foreign service officer and the son of Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, and his wife) before he could master ‘Ich bin ein Berliner.’ “
382 In fact, Jack was secretly: Ibid., p. 84. “For some reason it bugs Kennedy that I speak French.”
383 A million Germans lined the parade route: Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963 (New York: Edward Burlingame Books, 1991), pp. 604–8.
383 “like a man who has just glimpsed Hell”: Hugh Sidey, Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 535.
383 Jack called the time he spent in Berlin: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 325.
383 “When my great-grandfather left here to become a cooper in East Boston”: President Kennedy to the people of New Ross, Ireland, June 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.
383 “The wind from that machine blew my chickens away”: Duchess of Devonshire, The House: A Portrait of Chatsworth (London: Papermac, 1987), p. 222.
384 During those negotiations: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 327.
384 On July 25, 1963, envoys from the three: Leaming, p. 435.
384 John Kennedy considered this his greatest achievement: Sorensen int.
384 “With all human beings, one of the things”: Ormsby-Gore quote, Lord Harlech OH.
385 “He put up quite a fight”: Leaming, p. 298.
385 “defeat Communist insurgency”: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 50.
385 “I can remember one particular case”: Fay OH.
386 He had the added advantage: Schlesinger, A Thousand Days,