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The Kennedy Men_ 1901-1963 - Laurence Leamer [518]

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The authors of this important book benefited from unprecedented access to Russian archives. The comparable documents from the American side may still not have been released by the JFKPL.

530 “woman of loose morals”: ibid., p. 115.

530 “almost a taboo subject”: Edward Lansdale, KLOH.

531 “understand what Robert Kennedy…”: Fursenko and Naftali, p. 119.

531 “Goddamn it!”: Frank Saunders, with James Southwood, Torn Lace Curtain (1982), p. 38.

531 He had gone: TFB, p. 264.

531 “The weather be …”: Saunders, p. 38.

532 “Send in the broads”: ibid., p. 43.

532 Lem had seen: interview, Ralph Horton, BP.

533 “opportunism …”: “National Intelligence Estimate,” November 9, 1960, Washington, D.C., December 1, 1960, FRUS.

533 “From the particular vantage point…”: Embassy in Yugoslavia (Kennan) to Secretary of State (Rusk), telegram, at Paris/1/Belgrade, June 2, 1961, 3:00 P.M.., FRUS.

533-34 “In an exchange …”: Department of State, Washington, D.C., May 23, 1961, FRUS.

534 “First, and most important…”: Washington, DC, February 11, 1961, NSC files, countries series, USSR (top secret), drafted by McGeorge Bundy on February 13, 1961, “The Thinking of the Soviet Leadership, Cabinet Room,” February 11, 1961, FRUS.

534 “when the push …”: Martin J. Medhurst,” “Reconceptualizing Rhetorical History: Eisenhower’s Farewell Address,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 80, 1994.

535 Instead, she perused: LL interview with Joseph Boccehir. Robert White has visited Mr. Boccehir and seen many of Jacqueline Kennedy’s sketches.

535 “so identical”: Sarah Bradford, America’s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (2000), p. 196. 535 “This evening, Madame …”: ibid.

535 “without mixing in politics…”: AWRH, p. 150.

536 he turned away a glass: Don Shannon papers, JFKPL.

536 the doctor attended: Dr. Max Jacobson, unpublished memoir.

536 Travell shot him up: CY, p. 189.

536 “Once an idea …”: memorandum of conversation, Vienna, June 3, 1961, drafted by Akalovsky, approved by the White House on June 23, 1961, FRUS.

536 “without affecting …”: ibid.

538 “The calamities of a war …”: memorandum of conversation, Vienna, June 4, 1961, drafted by Akalovsky and approved by the White House on June 23, 1961, FRUS.

538 “I had no …”: Joseph Alsop, KLOH.

538 When Kennedy arrived: LL interviews with Marcus Raskin and Myer Feldman.

539 a myriad of advice: All of these letters are found in Dr. Travell’s papers, file correspondence, box 1, JFKPL.

539 The doctor diagnosed: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.

539 “mild virus infection”: “Kennedy Authorized Briefings on Illness,” n.d., Washington Star collection, Martin Luther King Library, Washington, D.C.

539 “Were any of the exhibits …”: memorandum for Secretary of Defense (McNamara), July 10, 1961, RWC.

540-41 “With this weekend’s…”: ibid., August 14, 1961.

541 “The fact is that…”: Joseph Alsop KLOH.

541 “Ever since the crossbow …”: Henderson, p. xxviii.

541 Decades later: LL interview with Hugh Sidey.

542 “The H-Bomb! The H-Bomb! …”: “The Complacent Americans,” available at: www.conelrad.com/media/atomicmusic/complacent.html.

542 “The every-family-for-itself approach …”: David Arnold, “Blast from the Past: The Bombs Never Fell, but Underground Shelters Still Dot the Suburban Landscape,” Boston Globe Magazine, December 12, 1999.

542 “Some of us had been …”: Yarmolinsky, Virginia Quarterly, Autumn, 1996.

542 “There’s no problem here”: RKHT, p. 429.

543 Joe and the president: Dr. Janet Travell, KLOH.

543 In the six months: The author has in his possession the bills that Dr. Jacobson submitted for the period from May 13 to October 17, 1961. In that six-month period he charged $25 daily for incidental expenses for thirty-six days, plus travel expenses. This does not include the days he was with President Kennedy on his European trip. Expenses May 12, 1961, to October 17, 1961, Max Jacobson, M.D., October 20, 1961, RWC.

543 “He wasn’t a real”: LL interview with Joseph Paolella.

543 “I wasn’t sure …”: LL interview with George Smathers.

543-44 “Get it away from here!”: Chuck Spalding, KLOH.

544 “That’s out

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