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the 1927 Harvard commencement: “They were … drinking champagne, which was illegal…. I remember that scene like it was yesterday, and I can still feel the anger I felt then…. Who the hell do these people think they are, I said to myself, that the law means nothing to them?” It was a question that Kennedy and O’Neill, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, answered in different ways. Tip O’Neill, with William Novak, Man of the House (1987), p. 6.

4. “Two Young ‘Micks’ Who Need Discipline”

43 “Gee, you’re a great mother …”: TR, p. 93.

43 four or five weeks: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.

43 “better take it in stride …”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, p. 353.

44 “a more distant figure”: interview, John F. Kennedy, JMBP.

44 eaten by lions: Time file, June 1, 1960, NHP.

44 “at exactly the same …”: L. Emmett Holt, M.D., The Care and Feeding of Children: A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children’s Nurses (1923), p. 88.

44 “gentle shaking”: quoted in Christina Hardyment, Dream Babies: Three Centuries of Good Advice on Child Care (1983), p. 127.

44 “twice as much food …”: ibid., p. 126.

45 she purchased approved books: Rose Kennedy, NPSOH.

45 “I wouldn’t have …”: TR, p. 111.

45 “Lack of precision in the mother …”: Mrs. Burton Chance, The Care of the Child (1909), p. 20-21.

45 Kikoo Convoy: TFB, p. 195.

46 “I didn’t think …”: interview, Rose Kennedy, Time file, 1960-61, RWP.

46 “He told me once …”: interview, Henry Luce, RWP.

46 “The mood of …”: Alfred Adler, The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler: A Systematic Presentation in Selections from His Writings, edited and annotated by Heinz L. Ansbacher and Rowena R. Ansbacher (1956), pp. 380-81.

46 “… Physically we used to have …”: interview, John F. Kennedy, JMBP.

46 the two boys kicked: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.

46 “Remember that Jack …”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., July 28, 1926, HTF, p. 48.

47 “When his sister was …”: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.

47 “man of broad hips …”: Joseph Collins, The Doctor Looks at Love and Life (1929), pp. 68, 74.

47 “they are the most …”: ibid., p. 74.

47 not allowed to play: LL interview with Robert Bunshaft.

47 “The boys have …”: TR, p. 93.

48 English chauffeur: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.

48 “because the more …”: Ralph LaRossa, The Modernization of Fatherhood: A Social and Political History (1997), p. 180.

48 “once children are …”: Chester T. Cromwell, American Mercury, October 1924.

49 “The old man …”: LL interview with Tom Finneran.

49 “Good Luck”: Joseph P. Kennedy to John F. Kennedy, May 19, 1926, HTF, p. 7.

49 “This is a shrine!”: Hank Searls, The Lost Prince: Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (1969), p. 44.

49 “When they’d shoot …”: LL interview with Holton Wood.

50 “very pugnacious …”: LL interview with Augustus Soule Jr. 50 “Well, coach, you’re …”: Willard K. Rice, KLOH.

50 “a wonderful idea”: ibid.

51 As a back, Joe Jr.’s greatest: Searls, p. 44.

51 Jack, a wiry: undated clipping, Dexter archives.

51 “At that time”: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.

52 “As long as they”: ibid.

53 “sexual affection for men”: James M. O’Toole, Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O’Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, 1859-1944 (1992), p. 191.

53 “the screen’s … leading family man”: Terry Ramsaye, “Intimate Visits to the Homes of Famous Film Magnates,” Photoplay, September 1927.

53 “spendthrift clause …”: Kessler, p. 41.

53 “spit in his eye”: ibid., p. 44.

5. Moving On

54 “I felt it was no place …”: Joe McCarthy, The Remarkable Kennedys (1960), p. 42.

54 “It is not a pleasant …”: Boston Globe, April 17, 1945.

55 her check bounced: LL interviews with Mary Lou McCarthy and Kerry McCarthy.

55 Eunice was suffering: Doris Kearns Goodwin, p. 368.

56 “He moved so quickly …”: Gloria Swanson, Swanson on Swanson (1980), p. 369.

57 catered food: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.

57 “Well, he felt sorry …”: ibid.

58 the next occupant of Gloria’s: Betty Lasky, RKO The Biggest Little Major of Them All (1984), pp. 55-57. See also Roland Flamini, Scarlett, Rhett, and a Cast of Thousands (1975),