The Kennedy Men_ 1901-1963 - Laurence Leamer [494]
153 “WHEN YOU LAND …”: Mrs. Henry R. Luce, cable to Joseph P. Kennedy, October 21, 1940, Clare Boothe Luce papers, LC.
153 In early October: Viscount Halifax to Lord Lothian, British Foreign Office, F0371/2425, October 10, 1940, KP.
153 “not to make …”: Franklin D. Roosevelt to Joseph P. Kennedy, October 17, 1940, RL.
153 The president insisted: Franklin D. Roosevelt to Joseph P. Kennedy, October 26, 1940, RL.
153-54 “The president sent …”: Arthur Krock private memorandum, December 1, 1940, AKP.
154 Roosevelt had alerted: This account of the meeting is based on Joseph P. Kennedy’s diary, JPKP, HTF, pp. 480-82; Krock’s memo of the meeting, KP; and TR p. 274.
155 According to Roosevelt’s: KR, p. 218
155 “then he would support”: ibid., p. 221.
155 “his father’s greatest …”: FBI director, February 23, 1942, FBIFOI.
156 “self-success”: Torbert Macdonald to John F. Kennedy, n.d., JFKPP.
156 “In my years …”: JPKP, HTF, pp 482-89, RWP.
156 “There was that radio …”: interview, Henry Luce, RWP.
157 “more brains than …”: Boston Globe, November 10, 1940.
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158 “seemed to …”: Searls, p. 156.
159 “Still can’t get used …”: John F. Kennedy to Lem Billings, October 4, 1940, JFKPP.
159 “Because of his back …”: WNJ, p. 149.
159 “I’m not interested …”: Hamilton, p. 358.
160 “I think Jack knew …”: interview, Harriet Price, BP.
160 Jack was chosen: Stanford Daily, October 18, 1940.
160 “This draft has caused …”: John F. Kennedy to Lem Billings, November 14, 1940, JFKPP.
160 “When I hear these …”: Joseph P. Kennedy to John F. Kennedy, September 10, 1940, JFKPP.
160 “I think his father …”: quoted in Hamilton, p. 351.
161 “WHEN WILL OUTLINE…”: Joseph P. Kennedy to John F. Kennedy, December 5, 1940, JFKPP.
161 “I have seen the English stand …”: John F. Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, December 6, 1940, JFKPP.
161 “The danger of our …”: John F. Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, “Flying the Mainliner,” n.d., JFKPP.
162 “As I remember …”: John F. Kennedy to Harriet Price, read in interview, BP.
162 “I think in that…”: quoted in RKHT, p. 43.
163 “a personal favor…”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., March 17, 1941, ASP.
163 private flying lessons: LL interview with Benedict Fitzgerald.
163 “Year after year …”: Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, “We Want to Remember His Life, Nor Relive His Death,” Parade, June 30, 1988.
164 “Remember, too …”: Rose Kennedy to Robert F. Kennedy, January 12, 1942, ASP.
164 Bobby began to tremble: LL interview with Pierce Kearney.
165 Rose sent Teddy to join: RKHT, p. 34.
165 arrived in short pants: interview, Pierce Kearney, KP.
165 ten in all: TEEK, p. 38.
165 “That was hard to take …”: LL interview with Edward Kennedy.
165 “You’ll just have to…”: RKHT, p. 31.
165 “I had been …”: LL interview with Edward Kennedy.
166 “she’d read a Peter …”: ibid.
166 “The house for us …”: ibid.
166 “Teddy went outside …”: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.
167 “I saw a man and …”: LL interview with Joseph Gargan.
167 “I don’t know…”: John F. Kennedy to Cam Newberry, July 8, 1941, NHP.
167-68 “The boy has taken …”: A. G. Kirk to Captain C. W. Carr, Chelsea Naval Hospital, March 24, 1941, BP.
168 “I just had …”: interview, Edward Kennedy, RCP.
169 “Mr. Kennedy was so afraid…”: LL interview with Luella Hennessey Donovan.
169 In 1941: Elliot S. Valenstein, ed., The Psychosurgery Debate: Scientific, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives (1980), p. 25.
169 the medical kings of lobotomy: ibid., p. 22.
169 They had performed: see Walter Freeman, M.D., and James W. Watts, M.D., Psychosurgery: Intelligence, Emotion, and Social Behavior Following Prefrontal Lobotomy for Mental Disorders (1942).
170 Over half a century: This author was in a nearly empty restaurant in Nashville, the Pancake Palace, one afternoon in 1998. The only other customers were an elderly woman and a middle-aged woman in the next booth. The author overheard the older woman telling her daughter in mesmerizing detail about Rosemary Kennedy’s lobotomy and how