The Kennedy Men_ 1901-1963 - Laurence Leamer [510]
428 “the crash of…”: February 24, 1959, religious issues file, JFKPP. 428 “Wherever I go …”: Cardinal Cushing to Joseph P. Kennedy, May 20, 1960, PC.
428 “This letter really …”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Richard Cardinal Cushing, March 23, 1959, PC.
429 “I hope that…”: ibid., May 20, 1959, PC.
429 “the religious issue …”: Cardinal Cushing to Joseph P. Kennedy, May 22, 1959.
429 “Nobody asked me …”: Chafin and Topper, pp. 123-24.
429 And pity poor Humphrey: MP 1960, p. 119.
430 “A sin against God …”: ibid., p. 117.
430 “I suppose if I…”: John F. Kennedy, n.d., FMC.
431 a soft-core porn item….: Benjamin C. Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy (1975), p. 27.
431 Jackie stood alone: ibid., p. 28.
431 trying to gauge: Hugh Sidey, Time file, 1960.
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433 “Yes, this candidate …”: Norman Mailer, The Presidential Papers (1963), p. 39.
433 The Los Angeles police guarding: LL interview with former LA Police Detective Dan Stewart. 433 “These things happened …”: O’Neill, p. 92.
433 In the Maryland primary: Torbert Macdonald, KLOH.
434 “I remember …”: quoted in TEEK, pp. 122-23.
434 With the help of New York City’s: MP 1960, pp. 153-54. 434 He helped to add Illinois: ibid., p. 195.
434 “Senator Kennedy, who appears …”: “Should Health of Presidential Candidates Be a Campaign Issue?,” Medical World News, February 9, 1976.
435 “outstanding possibility”: Myer Feldman, KLOH.
435 “We need Texas”: interview, Joseph Timilty, BP.
435 “I knew he hated Jack”: Jeff Shesol, Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade (1997), p. 59.
436 “Well, you know …”: LL interview with Myer Feldman.
436 “In your first move after…”: The author draws heavily on the best account of this convoluted process in Jeff Shesol’s Mutual Contempt.
436 “Jack, I don’t want you …”: LL interview with Charles Bartlett.
437 originally written by Sorensen: LL interview with Myer Feldman.
438 “an example of…”: interview, Chuck Spalding, BP.
438 “Time Inc. realizes …”: interview, Henry Luce, RWP.
438-39 “I see Otto …”: Pierre Salinger, P.S.: A Memoir (1995), p. 76.
439 “a remarkable political demonstration”: Myer Feldman, KLOH.
439 “Our next president…”: quoted in Matthews, p. 136.
439-40 “anxiety and discomfort”: Time, November 7, 1960.
440 “I think that in the …”: interview, John F. Kennedy, JMBP.
441 “didn’t like publicity”: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.
441 “With respect…”: Dr. Janet Travell and Dr. Eugene J. Cohen to John F. Kennedy, June 11, 1960, RWC.
441 the two doctors traveled: Janet G. Travell, M.D., to John F. Kennedy, June 24, 1960, RWC.
441 “about the security …”: Dr. Janet Travell to Dr. Elmer C. Bartels, June 24, 1960, RWC.
441 “Senator Kennedy does not…”: Janet Travell, M.D., to Robert F. Kennedy, July 11, 1960, DHP.
441 “You do not have …”: Eugene J. Cohen, M.D., and Janet Travell, M.D., to John F. Kennedy, July 29, 1960, DHP.
441 “I tracked down …”: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.
442 “No, Lyndon …”: LL interview with Myer Feldman.
442 “lift its bloody hand …”: quoted in K, p. 194.
442 “In every Catholic-dominated …”: brochure of Baptist Sunday School Committee of the American Baptist Association, DHP.
442-43 “American freedom grew…”: Carol V. R. George, God’s Salesman: Norman Vincent Peale and the Power of Positive Thinking (1993), p. 198.
443 “Post Protestant Pluralism”: ibid, p. 196.
443 “Recently I spent…”: ibid., p. 200.
443 “moral character of…”: ibid., p. 210.
443 “the old, strong, narrow …”: ibid., p. 197.
443 “People have often …”: William Geoghegan, KLOH.
445 “the right and duty …”: New York Times, May 17, 1960.
445 twice as many Protestants: Charles R. Morris, American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America’s Most Powerful Church (1997), p. 281.
445 Jack’s speech that morning: LL interview with Bill Wilson.
445 he could never be …: George, p. 202.
446 “Protestant America …”: ibid., p. 208.
446 “Henry, if you …”: Henry Brandon, KLOH.
446 “anxiety about…”: Adelaide King Eisenmann to John Seigenthaler and Mike Feldman, Democratic National Committee