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675 “very interested”: Gordon Chase, memorandum for the record, “Subject: Mr. Donovan’s Trip to Cuba,” March 3, 1963, NSC archives, www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/.
676 “always the possibility”: President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy) to the Standing Group of the National Security Council memorandum, April 21, 1963, NSC files, “The Cuban Problem,” FRUS.
676 “desire for some noise level…”: Gordon Chase, NSC staff, to President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy), memorandum, April 11, 1963, FRUS.
676 “a railway bridge …”: ibid.
676 “might initially intensify…”: memorandum for the NSC Cuba Standing Group, NSC files, countries series, Cuba, general, May 1-15, 1963, FRUS.
677 Manuel Artime, their leader, received: Russo, p. 172.
677 “I had many chances …”: Blight and Kornbluh, p. 121.
678 One Sunday morning: Thomas, p. 239.
678 “in the dark-of-the-moon …”: memorandum for the record, June 19, 1963, CIA, “Subject, Meeting at the White House Concerning Proposed Covert Policy and Integrated Program of Action Towards Cuba,” FRUS.
678 “sabotage of Cuban …”: paper prepared by the CIA for the NSC Cuba Standing Group, Washington, D.C., June 8, 1963, NSC files, FROUS JFKPL.
678 when they had burned: LL interview with Samuel Halpern.
678 “We fixed that”: LL interview with Bradley Earl Ayers.
679 “set Cuba aflame”: LL interview with Grayston Lynch, and Lynch, p. 171.
679 “We could float…”: summary record of the tenth meeting of the NSC Cuba Standing Group, July 16, 1963, NSC files, FRUS, JFKPL.
680 “I need a phrase …”: LL interview with Myer Feldman.
681 “if he had said …”: Lord Harlech, KLOH.
681 “These were the three happiest…”: Dorothy Tubirdy, KLOH, and LL interview with Dorothy Tubirdy.
682 “more British than Irish”: Dr. Thomas J. Kiernan, KLOH.
682 “You’ll have to move it”: LL interview with Malcolm Kilduff.
683 “I think he felt back home”: LL interview with Mary Ryan.
683 “He had always …”: Jacqueline Kennedy, in a worldwide broadcast on what would have been JFK’s forty-seventh birthday, clipping, May 30, 1964, JFKPL.
685 “Bells mark…”: JFK notes written sometime on European trip, June 1963, JFKPP.
685 “Heroes of the past…”: President John F. Kennedy, “Heroes Watch Us!: Some Words to Live by for Independence Day,” ibid.
686 “Admiral, I want to express…”: audiotape of 1963 reunion. Courtesy R. F. Duffy.
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688 At the first dance of the winter of 1962-63: Nina Burleigh, A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer (1998), p. 217.
688 Once, at Hickory Hill: ibid., p. 177.
688 For a year: ibid., pp. 208-16.
688 “She was a very interesting …”: LL interview with Ben Bradlee.
689 “Mary, where have …”: Burleigh, p. 217.
689 “What is the scandal?”: presidential recordings, telephone conversations, John F. Kennedy and Arthur Schlesinger Jr., March 22, 1963, cassette E, JFKPL.
690 “How serious do …”: interview, George Smathers, BP.
690 “Have we learned …”: Evans to Belmont, July 2, 1963, FBIFOI.
691 Baker’s assertion: LL interview with Bobby Baker. See also Thomas, p. 255.
691 “the best oral sex I ever had”: Thomas, p. 444.
691 LaVern Duffy, one of Bobby’s: ibid., p. 257.
691 “The White House was…”: LL interview with Marcus Raskin.
692 “I don’t know …”: LL interview with Joseph Paolella.
692 “debaucher of a girl…”: memorandum to Mr. Mohr, October 27, 1961, FBIFOI.
692-93 “I think that all men …”: The Thunderbolt, no. 54, November 1963.
693 In July, the FBI: M. Jones to Cartha DeLoach, July 9, 1963, FBIFOI.
693 “would have been …”: LL interview with Edwin Guthman.
693 Kennedy’s aide Mike Feldman: LL interviews with Myer Feldman and Cartha DeLoach.
693 “I know how you dislike …”: Charles Bartlett to John F. Kennedy, July 19, 1963, PC.
694 “the committee would have …”: Charles Bartlett, memo of conversation with Kenny O’Donnell, February 1, 1963, PC.
694 “the buffer and the string cutter”: LL interview with John Seigenthaler.
694 “O’Donnell’s remark…”: Charles