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as passed on by Giancana did not materialize when the Kennedy administration, especially the Department of Justice under Robert Kennedy which intensified the investigation of organized crime, Giancana lost considerable face because of the reliance of the leadership of organized crime on Sinatra’s representations and Giancana never forgave Sinatra for this situation.” CG 137-349, p. 11, Chicago, HSCA records, NA.

466 ninety minutes to move: New York Times, November 8, 1960.

467 “You know …”: LL interview with Bob Healy.

467 “The campaign is now …”: New York Times, November 8, 1960.

468 Jack was no more: K, p. 212.

468 “If I were he …”: Salinger, p. 49, and LL interview with Pierre Salinger. 468 bill of about $ 10,000: MP 1960, p. 377.

468 even without: Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover, “‘Dark Side of Cam-elot’ Takes Liberties with the Truth,” Baltimore Sun, November 19, 1997.

468 “Mr. President”: LL interview with Myer Feldman.

468 his hands were trembling: MP 1960, p. 380.

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471 stranding ten thousand: Time, January 27, 1961, p. 9.

471 One million other Americans: Washington Post, January 21, 1961.

472 did not even applaud: ibid.

473 Sorensen had added: LL interview with Harris Wofford, and Wofford, p. 99.

473 four million Americans: New York Times, January 21, 1961.

473 black ministers in the South: Branch, p. 384.

473 peoples of Europe: A Gallup poll showed that 72 percent of Germans had a favorable feeling toward Kennedy, as did 60 percent of the French, and 59 percent of the British. Washington Post, January 31, 1961.

473 “begin anew”: New York Times, January 21, 1961.

473 “radical improvement”: ibid.

474 inundated with telegrams: David Powers, handwritten note, DPP.

474 “Jack doesn’t belong …”: Life, December 19, 1960.

475 “I assure you …”: Newsweek, September 12, 1960. 475 “I can’t”: Life, December 19, 1960.

475 “Goddamn it…”: LL interview with George Smathers.

476 “That’s it, general”: LL interview with John Seigenthaler.

476 known as the Irish Mafia: Stewart Alsop, “The White House Insiders,” Saturday Evening Post, June 10, 1961.

477 arrived by bicycle: Kai Bird, The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms (1998), p. 185.

477 Kennedy could not run: William Attwood, CUOH. 477 “I want to help …”: Steve Smith to Arthur Schlesinger Jr., March 5, 1976, ASP.

477 visited the White House only once: TR, p. 393.

477 “We had this confidence …”: LL interview with Myer Feldman.

478 “Kennedy put the knife …”: LL interview with Marcus Raskin.

478 “i AM SURE …”: Claude Hooton Jr. to Robert F. Kennedy, December 16, 1960, DHP.

478 “There is some talk…”: Robert F. Kennedy to Claude Hooten Jr., December 22, 1960, DHP.

478 “Why can’t a …”: LL interview with Sam Adams.

478 “decotative butterflies…”: Kay Halle, CBS interview, NHP.

479 they worked all night: See David Bell on Sorensen’s efforts. David Bell, KLOH.

479 the same salary: WK, p. 63.

479 He wanted no staff meetings: ibid., p. 74.

479 “Listen, you sons of bitches…”: quoted in Ralph Martin, A Hero for Our Time (1984), p. 223.

479 “I never knew …”: LL interview with Myer Feldman.

479 “was capable because of…”: Walter Rostow, KLOH.

480 “By ‘toughness’ I meant…”: Adam Yarmolinsky, “Camelot Revisited,” Virginia Quarterly, Autumn 1996.

480 He began shortly: Myer Feldman KLOH, and LL interview with Myer Feldman.

480 “People, even if…”: Lord Harlech, KLOH.

481 left by the golf shoes: Myer Feldman, KLOH, and LL interview with Myer Feldman.

481 The president had to: LL interview with Myer Feldman.

482 The mysterious coverings: Joseph Alsop, KLOH.

482 “I’d like to make this…”: Kay Halle, CBS interview, n.d., NHP, confirmed by John Kenneth Galbraith in letter to the author, September 2000.

482 One of the few calls: White House, telephone memorandum, January 26, 1961, JFKPL.

482 Mrs. Oswald had come: Atlanta Constitution, December 7, 1963.

482 “Jack feels that…”: Arthur Schlesinger Jr., memo dictated February 22, 1961, ASP.

483 Jackie’s stepbrother: The New York Times, a stickler on