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I must also acknowledge Melody Miller in Senator Edward Kennedy’s office. I have disagreed with her at times over matters concerning the family she loves so much and serves so well, but I’ve always known that I was dealing with a person of the highest integrity and honor. I am also deeply indebted to the many other authors whose work I have found insightful.

I will not list here the various libraries and research institutions I visited since they are listed in the endnotes. I would, however, like especially to thank Harriet Young of Orlando, Florida, for giving me her wonderful collection of Kennedy materials that she has collected over a lifetime of interest in the family. I would like to make special note of the foreign relations series on the U.S. State Department web site. The documents about the Kennedy administration have been wonderfully annotated, and they are accessible to everyone. This speaks eloquently of a government agency that is not afraid of the truth.

The Kennedy Men employs dialogue and long narrative scenes in many places. These passages are neither invented nor imaginative reconstructions, but are based on sources cited in the endnotes including interviews, oral histories, diaries, letters, and tapes. The most important of these sources are the wide range of telephone conversations and meetings secretly recorded by President Kennedy from the summer of 1962 until his death. The Kennedy Men is the first book to make full use of these recordings. Kennedy intended these tapes for his own personal purposes. There is no indication that he thought that historians would ever use them. They are hardly the calculated utterances of a president aware that he is being recorded for posterity. The Kennedys destroyed some of these tapes before they were given to the Kennedy Presidential Library; others probably would have been destroyed if Kennedy’s secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, had not secreted them away. I transcribed many of these tapes. In a few places where I was not sure of the speaker, I asked Myer Feldman and Sheldon Stern to listen and to give their best judgments.

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