The Kennedy Men_ 1901-1963 - Laurence Leamer [491]
95 He broke his arm: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. to Joseph P. Kennedy, telegram, April 19, 1935, HTF, p. 153.
95 The police arrived: Searls, p. 93.
95 “the Life-saver”: ibid., p. 94.
95 “Get out of this room!”: AWRJ, p. 14.
96 “I always thought that”: LL interview with Robert Purdy.
96 “My impression …”: ibid.
96 he chaired the: AWRJ, p. 17.
97 Galbraith wanted to choose: John Kenneth Galbraith, A Life in Our Times (1981), p. 51.
97 He thanked her: interview, Mrs. Josephine Fulton, NHP.
98 When he went: AWRJ, p. 51.
98 “You didn’t go …”: undated 1963 clipping by Gene School and Mina Wetzig, HUA.
98 “I have had a very …”: John F. Kennedy to Lem Billings, September 29, 1935, JFKPP.
99 “Today was most embarrassing …”: ibid., October 1935.
99 “a very good looking …”: ibid., n.d.
99 “turning yellow …”: Hamilton, p. 144.
99 Once again it was suspected: JPKP, HTF, p. 166.
100 “the most harrowing …”: John F. Kennedy to Lem Billings, January 3, 1936, JFKPP.
100 “I don’t know …”: ibid., January 1936.
100 “I’m writing Rip …”: ibid., January 18, 1936.
100 “It seems to me …”: ibid., January 1936.
100 “The next time …”: ibid., January 3, 1936.
100 “I think he was making …”: LL interview with James Rousmanière.
101 “getting rather fed up …”: John F. Kennedy to Lem Billings, January 27, 1936, JFKPP.
101 “Eat drink and make …”: ibid.
101 gave his father’s: John F. Kennedy, Harvard application, May 8, 1935, NHP.
101 “I ended up …”: John F. Kennedy to Lem Billings, May 9, 1936, JFKPL.
102 “Dr. Wild, I want …”: Payson S. Wild, KLOH.
102 even sleeping: LL interview with Robert Purdy.
102 “Four of us had dates …”: John F. Kennedy to Lem Billings, October 16, 1936, JFKPP.
102 “I am now known …”: ibid.
103 “I swear I don’t think …”: interview, Ralph Horton Jr. BP.
103 “I was very young”: Searls, p. 99.
103 “Gertrude Niesen was …”: James Rousmanière, CUOH.
104 “I guess he [Macdonald] …”: LL interview with James Rousmanière.
104 “It was obvious …”: ibid.
105 “attached ear …”: Harvard Crimson, March 24, 1939, KUA.
105 “One did not cultivate …”: Galbraith, p. 53.
105 “Jack devoted himself …”: interview, John Kenneth Galbraith.
105 “Did you see …”: John F. Kennedy to Lem Billings, February 13, 1936, JFKPP.
106 “Jack, if you want …”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, p. 505.
106 “Mind your own …”: ibid.
106 “I suppose I knew …”: AWRJ, p. 3.
108 donated $62,500: Thornwell Jacobs, president of Oglethorpe University, to Bernard Baruch, January 15, 1937, KP.
108 “I never heard …”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Bernard Baruch, n.d., KP.
108 Two years later: Jay Pierrepoint Moffat, The Moffat Papers: Selections from the Diplomatic Journals of Jay Pierrepoint Moffat, 1919-1943 (1956), p. 156, KP.
108 “The old man hired …”: interview, Charles Houghton Jr., BP.
109 Joe was no more disloyal: Frank R. Kent, “The Great Game of Politics,” 1937, KP.
109 “a shining star …”: Boston Sunday Post, August 16, 1936, and Joseph P. Kennedy to Father Charles Coughlin, August 18, 1936, HTF, p. 187.
109 “dissension and division …”: Whalen, p. 183.
109 Weisl recalled: LL interview with Edwin Weisl Jr.
110 “You should think …”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, p. 480.
110 “He wanted to know …”: Searls, p. 102.
111 To add a modicum: ibid., p. 105.
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112 “That neat little scheme …”: Frank Kent to Joe Kennedy, April 18, 1938, Maryland Historical Society, Frank R. Kent papers, KP.
113 “thereby breaking …”: Joseph P. Kennedy diary, March 8, 1938, JPKP, HTF, p. 239.
113 “An unemployed man …”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Frank Kent, March 21, 1938, KP.
113 “I think it is not …”: David E Koskoff, Joseph P. Kennedy: A Life and Times (1974), p. 127.
113 “I have shown …”: Cordell Hull to Joseph P. Kennedy, March 13, 1938, KP.
114 “difficult to let …”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Bernard Baruch, March 21, 1938, KP.
114 “parts of it fell …”: Joseph P. Kennedy diary, March 18, 1938, JPKP, HTF, p. 245.
114 “but rather the loud …”: Boston Globe, July 17, 1949.
114 “complete poppycock”: ibid
114 “his hope of …”: quoted in Carey McWilliams A Mask