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224 “Everyone evidently …”: Robert Kennedy to John F. Kennedy, envelope dated January 1, 1945, JFKPL.
224 “Anyways their…”: John F. Kennedy to Lem Billings, February 20, 1945, JFKPL.
224-25 “I took a piece …”: ibid.
225 “he had it…”: interview, Chuck Spalding, BP.
226 “Kennedy will not…”: Arthur Krock, KLOH.
226 “an international…”: New York Journal-American, May 2, 1945, BP.
226 “throwing curves”: ibid., May 14, 1945.
226 “juggled the ball”: ibid., May 16, 1945.
226-27 “Americans can now …”: ibid., May 4, 1945.
227 “the product of…”: ibid., May 20, 1945.
227 “Our preoccupation …”: ibid.
227 tired of nothing: Hearst Newspapers, July 27, 1945.
228 They played with: interview, J. Patrick Lannan, BP.
228 “He really didn’t…”: interview, Pat Stammers, BP.
228 “All the centers …”: Deirdre Henderson, ed., Prelude to Leadership: The European Diary of John F. Kennedy (1995), p. 43.
228 “raping and looting”: ibid., p. 45. 228 “easily won the”: ibid., p. 15
228 “You can easily …”: ibid., p. 74.
229 “the eventual…”: ibid., p. 7.
229 “Pappy’s eyes …”: Paul B. Fay Jr., The Pleasure of His Company (1966), p. 132, and LL interview with Paul B. Fay.
229 Lem thought: Lem Billings to John F. Kennedy, January 1, 1946, JFKPP.
230 “was to convince …”: Time, July 1, 1946.
230 “aggressively shy”: interview, David Powers, BP.
230 “I think I know…”: Kenneth P. O’Donnell and David F. Powers, Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1972), p. 54.
231 They told Jack: LL interview with Mark Dalton.
231 Joe Kane, who was: Hamilton, p. 674.
232 Joe had Eddie Moore: interview, David Powers, BP. 232 When Powers offered: ibid.
232 “They gave me favors”: Steve Buckley, “The Other Joe Russo,” Boston magazine, June 1993.
232 “Naval hero of the South Pacific”: news release for weekly papers from Kennedy for Congress headquarters, n.d., JFKPP.
233 Red was a talker: LL interview with Paul B. Fay.
233 “I am not sure …”: Robert F. Kennedy to Dave Hackett, April 1945, ASP.
233 “I know that…”: Robert F. Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, n.d., on Harvard Law School stationery, ASP.
234 “from the lowest grade …”: RKHT. p. 60.
234 “mentally the most…”: John F. Kennedy speech to Veterans of Foreign Wars, July 2, 1946, DPP, JFKPL.
235 “I have noticed …”: John F. Kennedy, speech dated 1945 or 1946, BP.
235 “If we turn our …”: John F. Kennedy, VFW speech, 1946, DPP.
236 “You don’t feel good …”: Thomas Broderick, KLOH. 236 sat soaking: interview, Paul Fay, BP.
236 One afternoon: TEEK, p. 48.
236 “Sinatra! Sinatra!”: untitled clipping, n.d., in JFK pre-presidential scrap-book from December 1945-46, JFKPL.
237 “He appeared to me …”: SJFK, p. 161.
237 “I got the impression …”: LL interview with Mark Dalton.
13. A Kind of Peace
238 any student who lived: Harvard Crimson, freshman issue, 1946, n.d., HUA.
238 Men found themselves: “War and Peace: Five Years, Two Classes in Retrospect,” Harvard Album, DHP.
238 There were 659 Harvard: Harvard Crimson, January 6, 1947, HUA.
239 As a 165-pound: Harvard University 1947 roster, HUA.
239 “For Christ’s sake, would …”: LL interview with Wally Flynn.
240 “I think my leg’s…”: ibid.
240 “Oh, those guys were …”: ibid.
240 Harvard had a predominantly: On April 6, 1948, the Harvard Advocate took a presidential straw poll in all the houses of Harvard College. The three leading candidates were Republicans. Harold Stassen, Dwight Eisenhower, and Arthur Vandenberg received 55.5 percent of the vote. Henry Wallace, a Democrat, was fourth with 12.5 percent, while President Truman received a pathetic 4.4 percent of the 1,464 votes cast. HUA.
240 Sam Adams, Bobby’s: LL interview with Sam Adams.
241 “He was one of us”: LL interview with Chuck Glynn, Wally Flynn, Sam Adams, Nick Rodis, and Paul Lazzaro.
241 “Nick, I think he …”: LL interview with Wally Flynn.
241 When the team played: LL interview with Chuck Glynn.
241 Bobby’s football teammate: ibid.
242 “people like the Jews…” : John Deedy, “Whatever Happened to Father Feeney,” The Critic, May-June