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519 “I told ‘em …”: LL interview with Grayston Lynch.
519 “75 percent of”: memorandum for the record, Washington, D.C., April 24, 1961, National Defense University, Maxwell Taylor papers, FRUS.
519 “I don’t specifically …”: LL interview with Colonel Jack Hawkins.
520 “How could you…”: LL interview with Roberto San Roman, and Thomas, pp. 124-25.
520 “He [Kennedy] was taking …”: RKHT, p. 447.
520 “a positive course …”: recommendation 5, in Aguilar, p. 51.
521 other crucial sources: There were several extraordinarily perceptive memorandums, including a paper, with five attached annexes, prepared for the National Security Council by an interagency task force on Cuba, Washington, D.C., May 4, 1961, FRUS. The interagency task force on Cuba was composed of representatives of the Departments of State, Defense, and Justice, as well as the CIA and USIA. See also President’s Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Rostow) to President Kennedy, memorandum, Washington, D.C., April 21, 1961, FRUS. 521 no longer fully trusted: LL interviews with Myer Feldman and John Kenneth Galbraith.
23. A Cold Winter
523 often stayed: Kay Halle, CBS interview, n.d., NHP.
523 For Kennedy, it was: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.
523 checked into the Mayflower Hotel: Mayflower Hotel receipt, May 6, 1961, JEP.
523 “This was the first…”: Exner, p. 221.
523 The president strained: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.
523 “You could see …”: LL interview with Ben Bradlee.
523 Because he often woke up: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.
523 He was so allergic: ibid.
523 To help immunize: ibid.
524 There were six pills: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.
524 He also took: James A. Nicolas, M.D., Charles L. Burstein, M.D., Charles J. Umberger, Ph.D., and Philip D. Wilson, M.D., “Management of Adrenocortical Insufficiency During Surgery,” AMA Archives of Surgery, November 1955. The technical term is desoxycorticosterone acetate trimethylacetate, commonly known as BOCA.
524 “He’s all hopped….”: Arthur Krock, “Memorandum: (Aspects of John F. Kennedy),” February 9, 1972, AKP.
524 If he took too much: H. J. Sturenburg, U. Fries, and K. Kunze, “Glucocorticoids and Anabolic/Androgenic Steroids Inhibit the Synthesis of GABAergic Steroids in Rat Cortex, Neuropsychobiology 35, no. 3 (1997): 143-46; S. S. Sharfstein, D. S. Sack, and A. S. Fauci, “Relationship Between Alternate-Day Corticosteroid Therapy and Behavioral Abnormalities,” JAMA 248, no. 22 (December 10, 1982): 2987-89; Department of Neurology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany.
525 Dr. Cohen put a syringe: LL interview with Dr. David V. Becker.
525 two months before: Admiral George G. Burkley, KLOH.
525 Dr. Burkley and his colleagues: PJFK, p. 121.
526 “I had the opportunity …”: Dr. Dorothea E. Hellman to Joan and Clay Blair Jr., March 31, 1977, BP.
526 “Dr. Cohen got her …”: OTR interview with a physician long associated with Dr. Eugene Cohen.
526 “a deceiving, incompetent…”: Eugene J. Cohen, M.D., to Admiral George Burkley, February 20, 1964, RWP.
526 a passionate doctor: LL interview with Lorraine Silberthau, and paid death notices, New York Times, July 17 and July 18, 1999.
526 “He was totally …”: LL interview with Dr. David V. Becker.
526 in 1957 had drained: Janet Travell, Office Hours: Day and Night (1968), p. 320.
526 “Then, as you know…”: Eugene J. Cohen, M.D., to Admiral George Burkley, February 20, 1964, RWP.
527 “Does JFK…”: New York Daily News, May 12, 1961.
527 Then Dr. Jacobson: Dr. Max Jacobson, unpublished memoir, courtesy Mrs. Max Jacobson.
527 The treatment varied: ibid.
528 “That dosage would have…”: LL interview with Dr. Mauro G. Di Pasquale.
528 He was becoming: LL interview with Joseph Paolella.
529 Bobby had set up the meeting: Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, “One Hell of a Gamble”: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964 (1997), p. 112.
529 “We were appalled …”: LL interview with Cartha DeLoach. 529 “If this underestimation …”: Fursenko and Naftali, p. 113.
529 “new progressive policy …”: ibid., p. 114.