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5. Referring to Eisenhower's often intractable secretary of state, John Foster Dulles (1888–1959).
6. "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate"—an admonition contributed to the speech by Galbraith.
7. Notably after the missile crisis, when Kennedy ordered his aides not to crow about the apparent American victory, explaining that if Khrushchev felt embarrassed, the Russian might feel compelled to launch some other gambit that might take the world to the edge of destruction. The President also knew that his private settlement with Khrushchev was less clear-cut than the public impression that he had managed to win the Soviet leader's unconditional surrender. In fact, Khrushchev had made a tacit deal with Kennedy to remove the missiles if the President would force the withdrawal of (outmoded) NATO missiles from Turkey and (on condition that Castro would permit on-site inspections of his military installations, which he never did) pledge never to authorize a U.S. invasion of Cuba.
8. JAWAHARLAL NEHRU (1889–1964), the Indian prime minister and Gandhi lieutenant who had been imprisoned during his country's independence struggle, came to the United States in November 1961. Kennedy found Nehru grimly unaffected by his charm. He later called it "the worst head-of-state visit I have had." (Actually Nehru was merely a head of government.)
9. From the Newport naval station, the Kennedys took Nehru to the Auchincloss estate, Hammersmith Farm.
10. His sister Patricia.
11. In fact, it was 1951.
12. During his visit to Southeast Asia, Kennedy greatly annoyed the commander of French forces in Indochina, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, by asking why the Vietnamese should want to give their lives merely so that their country would remain a French possession.
13. ANGIER BIDDLE DUKE (1915–1995) was a tobacco heir and diplomat who served as JFK's chief of protocol.
14. INDIRA GANDHI (1917–1984) later succeeded her father as Indian prime minister.
15. LEMOYNE BILLINGS (1916–1981), a New York advertising executive, had been Kennedy's friend since their time at Choate School. Mrs. Kennedy told the chief of the Executive Mansion's household staff that Billings had been their houseguest "every weekend since I've been married."
16. Meaning the Yellow Oval Room in the family quarters, which Jacqueline was transforming into an elegant parlor.
17. VENGALIL KRISHNAN KRISHNA MENON (1896–1974) was Nehru's defense minister and an impassioned critic of U.S. foreign policy.
18. MARIAN CANNON SCHLESINGER (1912– ) was the painter daughter of a Harvard physiology teacher, who indeed endorsed Stevenson in 1960.
19. "Can't you control your wife? Or are you like me?"
20. When Schlesinger announced his support of JFK before the 1960 convention, some old friends and Stevenson backers denounced him as a Benedict Arnold.
21. This refers to Mrs. Kennedy's official visit to India of March 1962, which she diplomatically balanced afterward with a stopover in the country's rival, Pakistan.
22. KRISHNA NEHRU HUTHEESING (1907–1967), a writer, was the prime minister's youngest sister.
23. Meaning the future Kennedy Library.
24. In the fall of 1961, after the Vienna summit, the Berlin Crisis, and the building of the Berlin Wall, Khrushchev tried to demonstrate Soviet might by ordering the largest nuclear test explosions ever. A furious JFK felt compelled to resume U.S. testing.
25. BERTRAND RUSSELL (1872–1970) was a British pacifist, philosopher, and Nobel laureate in literature.
26. DAVID LAWRENCE (1888–1973) was a conservative journalist and founder of U.S. News & World Report.
27. In 1958.
28. Actually in October 1963.
29. Mrs. Kennedy did not know Macmillan remotely as well as the President had, but after Kennedy's death, she achieved a moving kind of intimacy with her husband's British friend by letter. At the end of January 1964, at midnight, she wrote Macmillan by hand in response to his condolence letter: "Sometimes I become