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386 The leader of that faction: Ibid., p. 985.
387 Now he was approving his former ally’s: Leaming, p. 309.
387 “U.S. Government cannot tolerate situation in which power lies in Nhu’s hands”: Reeves, President Kennedy, pp. 562–63.
387 August was also the month of: Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, pp. 972–73; Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, pp. 350–52.
388 “This was the first time we’d seen Jackie”: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 206.
388 He left at halftime: O’Brien, John F. Kennedy, p. 779.
388 In future visits to the confession booth: Fay, pp. 222–23.
388 light a candle for Joe Jr.: Dalton OH.
388 There were often times when friends: Ibid.
388 president would kneel: Dave Powers int.
389 “An American President, commander in chief”: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 123.
389 On October 4, Jackie left: Leaming, p. 314.
391 “Perhaps he should have guessed that”: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 354.
391 After retreating from the cabinet room: Leaming, p. 323.
391 “Over the weekend”: Presidential recordings, John F. Kennedy Library.
393 “He is instinctively against introduction”: United States State Department, Foreign Relations of the United States: Vietnam, 1961, pp. 532–33.
393 “They want a force of American troops”: Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, p. 547.
394 “I do not believe he knew”: Sorensen, Counselor, p. 359.
394 At about this same time: O’Neill, p. 177.
394 “mood of the city was ugly”: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 237.
394 “disgraced. There is no other way”: Time, November 1, 1963.
394 The following Thursday, Jack had invited: Pitts, pp. 205–6.
395 He was convinced: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 190.
395 “He’ll end up hating me”: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 465.
396 Jack spent the next weekend: Barbara Leaming, Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years (New York: Free Press, 2001), pp. 326–27.
396 “A small band of conspirators”: JFK speech to the Inter-American Press Association, November 18, 1963, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
397 “organize an in-depth study”: William J. Rust, Kennedy in Vietnam (New York: Da Capo Press, 1985), pp. 4–5.
397 While Wright laid some of the blame: Author interview with Jim Wright.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: LEGACY
399 “They were wider than pools”: Theodore White’s notes on his interview with Jacqueline Kennedy are at the John F. Kennedy Library.
402 Within hours she’d assumed the reins: Tuckerman/Turnure OH.
402 “Jackie was extraordinary”: Bradlee, Conversations, p. 244.
403 “to an exceptional degree”: Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, p. 78.
403 “each of us had a certain role we were cast into, whether we knew it or not”: Jim Reed, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.
404 “We had a hero for a friend”: William Manchester, The Death of a President: November 20–November 25, 1963 (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), p. 446.
404 “chemistry”: Author interview with Chuck Spalding.
404 “The most charming man I ever knew”: Smathers int.
404 “aura of royalty about him”: Bradlee int.
404 “chasing girls in the South of France”: Bartlett int.
405 “There’s no point in being Irish if you don’t know the world’s going to someday break your heart”: Moynihan, said to columnist Mary McGrory.
405 In a 2009 national poll: National survey conducted for CBS’s 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair, published in January 2010.
INDEX
ABC, 177
Abernathy, Ralph, 311
Acheson, Dean, 176, 307
Adams, John Quincy, 68, 171–72
Addison’s disease, 106, 169, 182, 183–84, 217, 224, 233, 278–79, 291
advertising, politics and, 85
Aeschylus, 321
African Americans, 97, 230–31, 308–11, 359–62, 379–81, 384
Agence France-Presse, 361
Age of Jackson, The (Schlesinger), 108
Alabama, University of, 379–80
Alexander the Great, 4
Algeria, 228, 229
Alliance for Progress, 333
Alsop, Joseph, 108, 193, 232
Ambrose, Margaret, 106
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