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280 missing over one-quarter: Time, November 7, 1960.

280 as often as not with one woman: The pattern is discernible in JFK’s many cables: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, April 9, 1949 (“reserving single room for Mrs. Pamela Farrington”), to Miss Jane Blodgett in New York City, April 27, 1949 (“Dear, Could you go out Friday night”), to Waldorf Astoria Towers, May 11, 1949 (requesting “double room for Miss Use Bay”), and to Mrs. Adele O’Connor, June 9, 1949 (saying he was coming to New York and would she “be interested in going to Cape for few days”). JFKPP.

281 He was an internationalist: Clay Blair Jr., “The Evolution of Cabot Lodge,” Saturday Evening Post, October 22, 1960.

281 “My God, man …”: interview, George Smathers, BP.

281 “Florida will not…”: quoted in Robert G. Sherill, “The Power Game: George Smathers, the Golden Senator from Florida,” The Nation, December 7, 1964.

281 “I’m running”: interview, George Smathers, BP.

282 “turned a strong …”: Joseph Alsop, with Adam Piatt, I’ve Seen the Best of /r(1992), p. 4ll.

282 “He had leukemia …”: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.

282 “intermittent slight…”: Dr. Vernon S. Dick to Dr. William P. Herbst Jr., March 20, 1953, JFKPP.

283 needed an imprimatur: RKIHOW, p. 436.

283 “Yugoslavia—Belgrade—Stones…”: John F. Kennedy’s diary of his 1951 trips to Europe and Asia has been ably transcribed by Robert White, who has made sense of JFK’s often almost illegible handwriting, RWC and JFKPL.

283 “the Italian economy …”: ibid.

284 “Why should they …”: “Statement of the Honorable John F. Kennedy,” February 22, 1951, BP.

284 it was not without reason: “Kennedy Acquiring Title, ‘America’s Younger Statesman,’ “Boston’s Political Times. Quoted in SJFK, p. 220.

284 “a pain in the ass”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (1984), p. 181.

284 “courage is the virtue”: PIC, p. xi.

284 had been on crutches: SJFK, p. 225.

285 “Eisenhower looking very fit…”: John F. Kennedy, 1951 diary, October 3, 1951, JFKPL.

286 “You can feel…”: ibid., n.d.

286 “It was almost…”: RKIHOW, p. 436.

286 “It depended on …”: John F. Kennedy 1951 diary, RWC and JFKPL.

287 the young man had : LL interview with Wilson Gathings.

287 “7 met murder…”: quoted in John F. Kennedy diary, October 7, 1951?, JFKPL.

287 “Drove to Haifa…”: Robert F. Kennedy diary, October 5, 1951?, JFKPL.

288 Four days after: JFK and RFK met with the Pakistani leader on October 12, 1951 (JFK diary). Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was murdered on October 16, 1951.

288 “Bored by westerners …”: John F. Kennedy 1951 diary, n.d., RWC and JFKPL.

288 “when [Indian] independence …”: ibid.

289 “would not eat…”: ibid.

289 “I would like to …”: LL interview with Seymour Topping, p. 142.

289 “Two years ago …”: ibid.

290 “One great reason …”: John F. Kennedy 1951 diary, RWC and JFKPL.

290 “that French realize”: ibid.

291 “And everybody there …”: RKIHOW, p. 438.

291 “He’d be in the hospital…”: Grace Burke, KLOH.

291 “Foreign policy today …”: John F. Kennedy, “Report on the Trip to the Middle and Far East.” Mutual Broadcasting Network, November 15, 1951, BP.

292 “Our resources …”: address to the Boston Chamber of Commerce, November 19, 1951, AAML.

292 “unconscious of the fact…”: ibid

292 “It is France…”: John F. Kennedy, address to the Boston Chamber of Commerce, November 19, 1951, AAML.

293 Jack spoke as: Meet the Press, December 2, 1951, BP.

293 “young college graduates …”: Lowell Sun, December 9, 1951, and Springfield Union, December 19, 1951, quoted in Ronald J. Nurse, “America Must Not Sleep: The Development of John F. Kennedy’s Foreign Policy Attitudes, 1947-1960,” thesis, Michigan State University, 1971, p. 89.

293 “the closest…”: interview, David Powers, BP.

294 had such a strong Republican: David Halberstam, The Fifties (1993), p. 224.

294 “no one will ever know…”: quoted in “Report of Meeting with Wickliffe W. Crider and John Elliott of the Staff of BBD&O in New York City, Tuesday, February 26, 1952, Some Observations and Recommendations” JFKPL.

294 “marked by informality…”: Mark Dalton to Joseph