The Kennedy Men_ 1901-1963 - Laurence Leamer [529]
714 “I’ll talk to Ethel…”: William V. Shannon, “Bobby’s Day,” New York Post, May 6, 1963.
31. To Live Is to Choose
715 “long, hard fight…”: Boston Globe, November 17, 1963.
715 “The New Frontier …”: AP, August 5, 1963.
715 “Of course, they are …”: John F. Kennedy and Harold Hughes, telephone conversation March 9, 1963, presidential recordings, tape E, JFKPL.
716 “I don’t know …”: John F. Kennedy and C. Douglas Dillon, IRS rules on expense accounts, March 12, 1963, ibid.
716 “We might just as well…”: John F. Kennedy and Paul Fay, naval base closings, March 12, 1963, ibid.
716 “to keep them …”: John F. Kennedy and Arthur Schlesinger Jr., prospective posting to Latin America for Samuel Beer, March 22, 1963, ibid.
716 “withdrawal from Vietnam …”: presidential doodles, April 2, 1963, JFKPP.
717 “Military aid … aid etc …”: notes of President Kennedy written during a NSC meeting, April 20, 1963, ibid.
717 In January 1963, General: Kaiser, p. 188.
717 “they didn’t know …”: quoted in ibid., p. 245.
717 Diem’s own elder brother: Ellen J. Hammer, A Death in November: America in Vietnam, 1963 (1987), p. 62.
718 almost been killed in 1962: Kaiser, p. 275.
718 “an authoritarian organization …”: ibid., p. 61.
718 “To govern is to choose”: John F. Kennedy, notes, August 26, 1963, JFKPP.
718 That summer: Cape Cod Times, November 20, 1983, and O’Donnell and Powers, p. 13.
719 “felt that he had …”: RKIHOW, p. 394.
719 “plans to withdraw 1,000 U.S….”: national security action memorandum no. 263, “Subject: South Vietnam,” Department of State, S/S-NSC files: Lot 70 D 265, NSC meetings (secret), printed in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John P. Kennedy, 1963, pp. 759-60.
720 “Viet-Nam is not a …”: from Saigon to secretary of State, October 16, 1963 (top secret), Roger Hilsman papers, JFKPL.
720 “The United States can …”: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. papers, vol. 2, Massachusetts Historical Society.
720 “McCone hated …”: RKIHOW, p. 397.
720 “Diem and Nhu were undoubtedly…”: Department of State, memorandum of conversation, “Subject: Viet-Nam,” August 28, 1963 (no distribution), Roger Hilsman papers, JFKPL.
720-21 “You’d better get…”: quoted in Kaiser, p. 264.
721 “The difficulty is, I’m sure …”: president’s office files, October 29, 1963, meetings recordings, tape 118/A54, JFKPL.
722 A top-secret October 25: “Top Secret Check-List of Possible U.S. Actions in Case of Coup,” October 25, 1963, Roger Hilsman papers, JFKPL.
723 “taken alive …”: memorandum of August 30, 1963, quoted in Hammer, p. 295.
723 “It’s hard to believe he’d commit…”: assessment of the coup in Vietnam, Ex Comm meeting, November 2, 1963, president’s office files, meetings recordings, tape A55, JFKPL.
726 “One two three …”: president’s office files, telephone recordings addendum, cassette M, JFKPL.
728 bases in Costa Rica and Nicaragua: memorandum for the record, Special Group meeting, November 12, 1963, FRUS.
728 “Bob Kennedy, it seems…”: Blight and Kornbluh, p. 122.
728 trained for an operation: Jack Anderson, “Oil Raid Story Told,” St. Paul Dispatch, April 22, 1971; LL interviews with Bradley Ayers and Samuel Halpern; and Bradley Earl Ayers, The War that Never Was (1976), pp. 210-36.
729 “He [Fitzgerald] offered me …”: Rolando Cubela Secades, HSCA interview, August 28, 1978, p. 10.
729 “I have looked …”: quoted in Russo, p. 433.
729 the administration began: Peter Kornbluh, “JFK and Castro: The Secret Quest for Accommodation,” Cigar Aficionado, September-October 1999.
729 “the U.S. must require …”: memorandum for the record, minutes of the special meeting of the Special Group, November 5, 1963, FRUS.
730 FitzGerald was convinced: Russo, p. 390.
730 The president spent: appointments book, president’s office files, JFKPL.
730 “Look who’s here, Dad”: Dallas, p. 11.
731 At least his foreign aid: Boston Globe, November 16, 1963.
732 “complaints … to pour …”: Boston Globe, November 3, 1963. 732 “During her nearly …”: Advertiser, November 3, 1963.
734 “vibrating so violently…”: DP, p. 85. 734 “You know,