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653 “it was not incoherent…”: TD, p. 66.
653 “not transport armaments…”: embassy in the Soviet Union to the Department of State, Moscow, telegram, October 26, 1962, 7:00 P.M.., president’s office files, FRUS, JFKPL.
654 “as not an unreasonable solution”: Ex Comm meeting, October 27, 1962, 10:00 A.M., JFKPL.
654 “The missiles [in Turkey] were …”: transcript of a discussion about the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1983, NSC archives 03307, DHP.
655 Joint Chiefs were preparing: Ex Comm meeting, October 27, 1962, FRUS.
655 In an invasion: Fursenko and Naftali, p. 276.
655 anyone within half a mile: ibid., p. 242.
655 “We all know….”: Ex Comm meeting, October 27, 1962, 4:00 P.M.., Cabinet Room, tapes 42 and 43, JFKPL.
656 “Well, the only …”: ibid.
657 “spoiling for a fight”: Dobrynin, p. 87.
658 Bobby was almost crying: Thomas, p. 228.
658 “that some day …”: Dobrynin, p. 90.
658 Castro himself had admonished: Fursenko and Naftali, pp. 272-73.
658 “In order to save …”: ibid., p. 284.
659 “has given a …”: Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy, Moscow, October 28, 1962, Department of State, FRUS.
659 “the greatest danger …”: John F. Kennedy, speech on aid for Greece and Turkey, record of House of Representatives, April 1, 1947.
660 “Once we’ve got these …”: National Security Council meeting, November 7, 1962, tape 53A. The dialogue here and in the rest of this chapter are from tapes at the JFKPL that are here transcribed for the first time.
661 “conducting surveillance …”: NSC meeting, November 12, 1962, tape 56, JFKPL.
662 “Bobby’s notion is…”: NSC meeting, either November 14 or 15, 1962, tape 58, JFKPL.
662 “personal opinion”: Fursenko and Naftali, p. 300.
662 “definite schedule … let’s say …”: ibid., p. 303.
662 “We have the firm impression …”: ibid, p. 310.
29. The Bells of Liberty
664 “Ted Kennedy in Italy”: Joseph A. Page, “The Precocious Ted Kennedy,” The Nation, March 10, 1962.
665 When he left Panama: Walter Trohan, Political Animals: Memoirs of a Sentimental Cynic (1975), p. 327.
665 “some 200 million …”: quoted in Clymer, p. 35.
665-66 “Bobby was opposed …”: John Sharon, KLOH.
666 “The only argument…”: LL interview with Chuck Spalding.
666 “Can you put it in …”: LL interview with Bob Healy. See also Clymer, p. 36, and TEEK, p. 158.
667 “Teddy and his brothers…”: LL interview with Milton Gwirtzman.
668 The count was: Clymer, p. 39.
669 “… it was wrong …”: ibid, p. 38.
669 “Now listen, Eddie”: Fay, p. 226.
670 talked to Trohan: LL interview with Walter Trohan.
670 “In Israel he almost…”: quoted in TEEK, p. 181.
670 “Now, Mr. President…”: LL interview with Milton Gwirtzman.
670-71 “his candidacy has already…”: Joe McCarthy, “One Election JFK Can’t Win,” Look, November 6, 1962.
671 “widely regarded here.…”: quoted in Clymer, p. 38.
671 “You want something …”: ibid., p. 47.
671 “Teddy, these ate….”: ibid.
672 “The major wheels….”-. Washington Star, April 27, 1962.
672 “In the field of party …”: Sidney Hyman, “Why There’s Trouble in the New Frontier,” Look, July 2, 1963.
672 “In rough issues…”: ibid.
672 There were 15,600: David Kaiser, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War (2000), p. 201.
673 “They’re not certain …”: presidential recordings, telephone conversations, cassette E, JFKPL.
673 The Americans placed: LL interviews with John Nolan and Barrett E. Prettyman Jr.
674 In a phrase: Thomas, p. 238.
674 “The time will probably …”: notes of President Kennedy’s remarks at the 508th NSC meeting, January 22, 1963, NSC files, FRUS.
674 “putting glass…”: ibid.
674 “He felt a very …”: LL interview with John Nolan.
674 On April 3: Thomas, p. 239.
674 “contingencies such as the …”: summary record of the second meeting of the NSC Cuba Standing Group, NSC files, April 23, 1963, FRUS, JFKPL.
675 Neither Bobby: LL interview with John Nolan.
675 they brought a wet suit: John Nolan has a picture of Castro in the wet suit hanging in his Washington law office.
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