The Kennedy Men_ 1901-1963 - Laurence Leamer [503]
310 “was angling his columns…” J. J. Kelly to J. Edgar Hoover, August 28, 1953, FBIFOI.
310 “the most vocal…”: H. G. Foster to J. Edgar Hoover, July 2, 1954, FBIFOI.
310 “Knowing him from …”: interview, David Powers, BP.
311 “Dad says don’t…”: interview, Charles Bartlett, BP.
311 “I’ve got no …”: interview, Anthony Gallucio, BP.
311 “Well, I can’t pay …”: Mary Davis, KLOH.
311 “Mary, you wouldn’t…”: interview, Thomas P. O’Neill, BP.
312 When Sorensen was: SJFK, p. 262.
312 “far more interested …”: interview, Robert F. Kennedy, ASP.
313 After this first: James M. Landis, to Joseph P. Kennedy, January 21, 1953, Landis papers, LC.
313 nearly empty Senate: interview, John F. Kennedy, BP.
313 “The Atlantic Monthly …”: Theodore C. Sorensen to James M. Landis, November 1, 1953, James M. Landis papers, LC.
314 “chattel…”: interview, James Reed, BP.
314 “I remember …”: interview, Ben Smith, BP.
314 “You know, they’re going …”: interview, Charles Bartlett, BP.
315 “Excuse me, officer …”: Hugh D. Auchincloss, “Growing Up with Jackie, My Memories 1941-1953,” JFKPL.
315 decked out her stepbrother: ibid.
315 When she went to see: ibid.
315 “If I could be a …”: quoted in AWRH, pp. 53-54.
316 “If you’re so much …”: Janet Lee Auchincloss, KLOH.
316 The prospective groom: John F. Kennedy to Paul Fay, PFP.
316 “Flo Pritchett’s birthday! SEND DIAMONDS”: Blair and Blair, p. 553.
316 “Florence Pritchett was a serious…”: interview, Paul Fay, BP.
316 “I was very stuck …”: interview, John F. Kennedy, JMBP.
317 “too young and too old”: John F. Kennedy to Paul Fay, n.d., PFP.
317 “I am hoping…”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Torbert Macdonald, July 22, 1953, HTF, p. 662.
317 “Jack! What are…”: This section on the relationship between John F. Kennedy and Gunilla Von Post is based on LL interviews with Von Post and on her book, Love, Jack (1997).
319 “Their wealth is from.…”: original manuscript of Fay, The Pleasure of His Company, PFP.
320 “Oh Mummy, you …”: TFB, p. 232.
320 “When he turned …”: ibid.
320 “I was seated next…”: John Droney, KLOH.
320 “I was seated next…”: LL interview with Paul Fay, CBS interview, HP, and Fay, p. 145.
321 “Wish you were here. Jack”: AWRH, p. 80.
321 on to Pebble Beach: LL interview with Paul Fay.
322 “the kind of honeymoon …”: Fay, p. 141.
322 He even may: LL interview with Jewel Reed.
322 “He would find love…”: quoted in AWRH, p. 85.
16. Aristocratic Instincts
323 “I don’t know why!”: Lord Harlech, KLOH.
323 Jackie worked on a private: AWRH, p. 87.
323-24 a drawing of a: interview, Langdon Marvin Jr., HP.
324 “a sad look …”: interview, Charles Bartlett, BP.
324 sell many of her wedding gifts: LL interview with Carey Fisher.
324 “Jack went crazy …”: Collier and Horowitz, p. 196.
324 “Miss New Zealand isn’t…”: J. V. Bouvier III to Senator John F. Kennedy, June 13, 1956, JFKPP.
324 “Harvard’s outstanding [1941] graduate”: Edward B. Lockett, “Life’s Reports: Progress of a Harvard Man,” Life, February 7, 1944.
325 “Do you remember …”: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla Von Post, March 2, 1954, courtesy Gunilla Von Post.
325 “I thought I might get…”: ibid., June 28, 1954, courtesy Gunilla Von Post.
325 had to cable her: interview, Gunilla Von Post, and Von Post, pp. 39-49.
325 “We plopped him …”: interview, Langdon Marvin Jr., HP.
325 “Renaissance ideal…”: YM, p. 8.
325 Down in Palm Beach: There have been some suggestions that Kennedy was reading Young Melbourne. Cecil’s second volume had just been published, and it is far more likely that he was reading volume 2.
326 “all salt and sunshine …”: LM, p. 13.
326 “more interesting because …”: handwritten notes by JFK while sitting by the pool late in 1955, JFKPP.
326 “Jack did have aristocratic …”: LL interview with Charles Bartlett.
327 He knew—and this rankled: LL interview with Paul B. Fay.
327 “tend[s] to lack…”: John F. Kennedy essay or speech, box 39, JFKPP.
327 “Life is real…”: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Psalm of Life” (1839).
327 “Let us have wine …”: Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto II.
327 “rather pompous”: handwritten