The Kennedy Men_ 1901-1963 - Laurence Leamer [489]
58 “Would you please …”: Kathleen Kennedy to “Dear Daddy,” January 31, 1930, Eunice Kennedy Shriver letters. 58 “How is little Gloria?”: ibid., March 23, 1930.
58 “he would have seen …”: LL interview with Kerry McCarthy.
59 between $200,000 and: interview, James Landis, RWP.
59 “Who are you?”: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.
59 “The story got around …”: ibid.
60 “Forty is a …”: LL interview with Harvey Klemmer.
60 “was always the first …”: TFB, p. 194.
60 “Daddy did not …”: Kathleen Kennedy to “Dear Mother,” February 13, 1932, Eunice Kennedy Shriver letters.
60 “They were considered …”: LL interview with David Wilson.
61 Some of the teenagers: LL interview with Paul Morgan.
61 “People said, ‘Why do you …’”: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.
61 “After that we became …”: LL interview with Manuel Angulo.
62 “Perhaps Joe …”: ibid.
62 Jack was so shy: ibid.
62 “I’m going to be …”: LL interview with Alan Gage.
62 “As a mother …”: interview, Rose Kennedy, Laura Berquist papers, Boston University.
63 could not remember: K, p. 34.
63 jumping again and again: Paul Healy, “Investigator in a Hurry,” Sign, August 1957.
63 into a glass door: RKHT, p. 22.
63 A half-hour later: New York Herald Tribune, September 13, 1961.
63 Jack won a commencement prize: Riverdale School archives.
63 “Bobby looked …”: interview, Lem Billings, ASP.
64 “Bobby got along …”: interview, Jean Kennedy Smith, ASP.
64 “I put an end …”: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.
64 “might have a religious vocation”: Sister M. Ambrose to Robert F. Kennedy, September 29, 1957, RFK preadministrative working files, JFKPL.
64 “Bishop Bernard from the Bahama …”: ibid., August 24, 1957.
64 “where they’d meet …”: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.
64 “He is a rare youth …”: Frank S. Hackett to George St. John, May 29, 1929, AAML.
65 “My nose my leg …”: quoted in Nigel Hamilton, JFK: Restless Youth, (1992), p. 86.
65 “began to get sick …”: John F. Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, 1930-31, JFKPP.
65 “Joe fainted twice …”: ibid.
65 “I see things blury”: “Jack” to “Dear Mother,” undated letter on Canterbury School stationery, NHP.
65 “I smashed into …”: ibid.
66 “I hope my marks …”: John F. Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, April 15, 1931, NHP.
67 Joe Jr. took Teddy: AWRJ, p. 59.
67 never played … again: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.
67 “My lord, this is …”: LL interview with Harry Fowler.
67 “Don’t come in second …”: TR, p. 143.
68 “He always trusted …”: LL interview with Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
68 “All children can be de-throned …”: Adler, p. 381.
68 “I wasn’t supposed to …”: interview, Edward Kennedy, RCP.
69 “Probably three times …”: ibid.
69 “I wanted him …”: Boston Globe, December 11, 1937.
70 “I doubt that …”: interview, Frank Waldrop, BP.
71 “He, himself …”: C. H. Cramer to John F. Kennedy, undated quoting Roy Howard to Newton D. Baker, Baker Collection, Library of Congress, LC.
71 “Roosevelt was under …”: ibid.
71 “You may rest …”: Joseph P. Kennedy to William Randolph Hearst, October 19, 1932, William Hearst papers, Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley.
71 To them, he appeared: C. H. Cramer to John Kennedy, quoting a letter of July 12, 1932, Roy Howard to Newton D. Baker, found in Baker collection, LC.
71 “If we live …”: Eddie Dowling, CUOH.
72 Joe helped Jimmy: Koskoff, p. 51; Whalen, p. 136.
72 “I didn’t want anything …”: James Warburg, CUOH.
72 Joe finagled: Koskoff, p. 53.
73 “Your taste in dumb cruise …”: KR, p. 98.
73 Roosevelt laughed loudly: ibid.
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75 “in any part Hebraic”: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., application, May 1, 1929, AAML.
75 students voted: Choate yearbooks, AAML.
76 “friendliness”: Clara St. John to Rose Kennedy, October 7, 1931, ibid.
76 One of the teachers: Sheldon Stern, JFKPL resident historian, interviewed Harold Taylor for the library. Taylor was afraid of a tape recorder, and this information is based on Stern’s notes.
76 “some one send to …”: George St. John to Joseph P. Kennedy, October 20, 1932, AAML.
76 “We’ll try to show …”: ibid., April 22, 1932.
76 “one