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446 “Americans are wondering …”: U.S. News & World Report, August 22, 1960.

447 “You know I came …”: LL interview with Bonnie Williams.

447 the candidate pushed: Gormley, p. 130.

447 “I was just aghast…”: LL interview with Archibald Cox.

447 wrote a futile letter: Gormley, p. 130.

448 called Feldman: Myer Feldman, KLOH, and LL interview with Myer Feldman.

449 Jack told his two aides: LL interview with Myer Feldman.

449 Jack believed that this area: ibid.

449 at home started injecting: LL interview with Betty Coxe Spalding.

449 Truman Capote might be: New York Times, December 4, 1972.

450 “The demands of his…”: Dr. Max Jacobson, unpublished memoir, courtesy Mrs. Max Jacobson.

450 hitting his fist: Matthews, p. 146.

450 “No, Senator …”: K, p. 198.

451 “Kick him in the balls”: LL interview with Bill Wilson.

451 hit his kneecap: MP1960, p. 298.

452 87 percent: Mary Watson, The Expanding Vision: American Television in the Kennedy Years (1990), p. 8.

452 “#x2018;Party,’ not ‘pawty’ “: Myer Feldman, KLOH.

452 Reinsch hurried: Watson, p. 13.

453 “we must attempt…”: quoted in Matthews, p. 166.

454 “Senator Kennedy made …”:

454 the action would have taken: The original CIA memo for “A Program of Covert Action Against the Castro Regime,” dated March 16, 1960, stated that “it will not reach its culmination earlier than 6 to 8 months from now.” Foreign Relations 6 (1958-1960), pp. 850-51.

454 “in the full hearing …”: Washington Post, August 8, 2000. See also Gus Russo, Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK(1998), p. 365.

454 “we wish to give …”: Russo, p. 365.

455 Manuel Artime, the political leader: ibid., pp. 169-70.

456 “I want you to …”: Gerald S. and Deborah H. Strober, Let Us Begin Anew: An Oral History of the Kennedy Presidency (1993), pp. 325-26.

456 “I think Kennedy …”: ibid, p. 325.

456 “She … absolutely curled …”: Lord Harlech, KLOH.

456 “that it [the pregnancy] was planned …”: Washington Star, September 2, 1960.

457 “I’m sure I spend less…”: AP, September 15, 1960.

457 “oddly humorous …”: quoted in Merry, pp. 353-54.

457 60 percent had voted: Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 (1988), p. 374.

458 “And I know those …”: ibid., p. 342.

458 $300,000 cash to get out the: ibid., p. 343.

458 King had been looking: Harris Wofford, Of Kennedys and Kings (1980), p. 12.

459 “super idealistic”: LL interview with Harris Wofford.

459 “Look, our real…”: ibid.

460 “Governor, is there …”: Jack Bass, Taming the Storm (1993), p. 170.

460 “The trouble with”: Wofford, p. 18.

460 “You bomb-throwers…”: Branch, p. 364.

461 “Do you know”: Wofford, p. 19.

461 “screwing up my brother’s …”: Branch, p. 367.

461 “we would lose …”: Bass, p. 171.

461 “Did you see”: Wofford, p. 28. 461 two million copies: Bass, p. 171.

461 “deeply indebted …”: Branch, p. 369,

462 Later in Honolulu: LL interview with Dick Livingston.

462 In that final week: Don Shannon papers, JFKPL.

463 The next to the last day: MP 1960, p. 371.

463 “If the younger …”: quoted in JFKMM, p. 433.

463 “Man, I’m tired …”: RKHT, p. 219.

463 “How much is that?”: John Richard Reilly, KLOH.

464 Joe shut: Arthur Krock, KLOH.

464 “You know, there …”: LL interview with Joe Dolan.

464 “I believe in this man …”: Hersh, p. 138.

465 A different story: ibid., pp. 135-36. 465 Another story has Joe: SB, p. 44.

465 In yet another scenario: Anthony Summers, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover (1993), p. 269.

465 In June of that election: The author has in his possession a letter from a private collection addressed to Joseph P. Kennedy at Cal-Neva Lodge and dated June 14, 1960, PC.

465 “many gangsters with …”: Mahoney, p. 165, and J. Edgar Hoover, personal memo to the attorney general, August 16, 1962, FBIFOI.

466 Sinatra had boasted: The FBI taps of the Armory Lounge in Chicago show Giancana’s displeasure. In 1975 the FBI noted: “When Kennedy was successfully elected and when Sinatra’s representations