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that one leg: One of Kennedy’s legs may have been shorter than the other, but it is curious that a few years later Dr. Travell, who was White House physician, also told the presidential aide Mike Feldman that one of his legs was shorter than the other. LL interview with Myer Feldman.

346 “She began to really…”: interview, John F. Kennedy, JMBP.

346 “The use of novocaine …”: Dr. Alexander Preston, M.D., to James Mac-Gregor Burns, July 29, 1959, JMBP.

347 “Tender? Oh, he was tender”: LL interview with Gunilla Von Post.

348 “I just got word …”: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla Von Post, August 22, 1955, courtesy Gunilla Von Post.

348 “I wish you …”: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla Von Post, September 1955, courtesy Gunilla Von Post.

348 “Jack has called me …”: Lem Billings to Gunilla Von Post, n.d., courtesy Gunilla Von Post.

349 “I had a wonderful…”: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla Von Post, date uncertain, courtesy Gunilla Von Post.

349 “I am looking forward …”: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla Von Post, 1966, courtesy Gunilla Von Post.

349 scholarly tone of the first draft: draft dated February 8, 1955, RWC.

349 “When I’d finished …”: Boston Globe, May 22, 1955.

349 “opening and closing …”: SJFK, p. 327.

349 “lying on a board …”: Arthur Krock, KLOH.

350 “the public’s appreciation …”: PC, p. 4.

350 “Our political life …”: ibid., p. 19.

350 “And only the very courageous …”: ibid., p. 20.

351 “The stories of past…”: ibid., p. 258.

351 Jack used: “Kennedy’s Magic Formula,” Saturday Evening Post, August 13, 1960.

351 “One of his slogans…”: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.

352 the members may well have been: SJFK, p. 397.

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353 more than one hundred million: Sig Mickelson, “Two National Political Conventions Have Proved Television’s News Role,” Quill, December 1956.

353 “I am Senator…”: Senator John Kennedy, final text of narration for Democratic keynote film, RWC.

353 sounded overwrought: “Look and Listen with Donald Kirkley,” Baltimore Sun, August 15, 1956.

354 “Not much”: Berkshire Eagle, undated clipping, 1956.

354 “his intelligence, farsightedness…”: AWRH, p. 98.

355 “spending] the whole …”: John F. Kennedy to James Finnegan, May 2, 1956, KP.

355 “if someone who is as…”: John F. Kennedy to Walter T. Burke, Esq., May 11, 1956, RWC.

355 “that for the first…”: Stan Karson, interoffice memo, May 22, 1956, KP.

355 “Should be married …”: Burns, p. 182.

356 “As long as you …”: Jerry Williams, interview with Congressman Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., WBZ-TV, Boston, and O’Neill papers, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

356 One citizen: RFK, p. 98.

356 “She had seen me …”: interview, John F. Kennedy, JMBP.

356 “My point was that…”: ibid.

357 “too much time”: TEEK, p. 100. 357 “So many people …”: RFK, p. 99.

357 “a forlorn figure”: AWRH, p. 100.

358 “one of the ablest…”: Clearwater Sun, August 24, 1956.

358 two-week visit: AP, August 18, 1956.

358 “I do not wish …”: John F. Kennedy to H. W. Richardson, April 10, 1956, RWC.

358 Jack arranged: W. F. B. Morse and William Thompson, memorandum of agreement May 2, 1956, RWC.

358 Those who disliked: For descriptions of Thompson, see Edward Klein, All Too Human (1996), pp. 195-97, and Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (1997), pp. 388-90.

359 “Unique among them …”: quoted in Collier and Horowitz, p. 209.

359 “exhaustion and nervous…”: UPI, undated clipping, JFKPL.

360 “I told him, ‘You …”: LL interview with George Smathers.

360 Bobby attempted to ingratiate: A. Rosen to L. N. Conroy, February 9, 1955, FBIFOI.

360 visited the FBI chief again the next year: M. A. Jones to Mr. Nichols, July 1, 1955, FBIFOI.

360 “Kennedy was completely uncooperative…”: J. Edgar Hoover to Mr. Nichols, July 20, 1955, FBIFOI.

360 Bobby grasped the Bible: William O. Douglas, The Court Years, 1939-1975(1980), p. 306.

360 “Russian doctors are …”: ibid., p. 307.

361 about twenty pounds: Boston Globe, October 23, 1955.

361 “As a result…”: Douglas, p. 307.

362 Bobby not only edited: Robert F. Kennedy to David Lawrence, October 5, 1955, RFK papers, JFKPL.

362 invited