Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (No Series) (72 page)

21
[Bobby] quietly asked Daniel Moynihan to explore…whether the Secret Service had been bought off”: William Turner,
Rearview Mirror: Looking Back at the FBI, the CIA and Other Tails
, 123.

22
Rowley…was adamantly opposed to the bill: Warren Commission hearings, Vol. V, 473.

22
“Clint Hill, he loved us”: from unpublished notes of Theodore H. White interview with Jacqueline Kennedy for
Life
magazine, released May 26, 1995, JFK Library.

22
all of whom said the order came from Secret Service officials: Palamara, 8.

23
“never interviewed a more tormented man”: Mike Wallace,
Between You and Me: A Memoir
, 15.

23
But he waved them off: Manchester, 70.

23
“He was never afraid”: Author interview with Guthman.

24
the two knelt and prayed: Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
, 282.

24
“It was a bleak day”:
New York Times
, November 29, 1963.

24
Bobby and Ethel “were putting up their usual good fronts”: Walter Sheridan oral history, JFK Library.

24
“I remember telling him what Hoffa had said”: Ibid.

25
“he was the most shattered man I had ever seen”: Pierre Salinger oral history, JFK Library.

25
“The key name was Marina Oswald”: Author interview with Richard Goodwin.

25
“Bob…was going to deal with truth”: Author interview with Guthman.

25
“I was even in his bedroom in the White House”: Clay Blair Jr. interview with William Walton, Blair papers, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

26
“just a wonderful-looking, kooky, young” photographer: Ibid.

26
“can’t resist those Marlboro men!”: Walton papers, JFK Library.

27
“she caught us on his bedroom floor”: Walton oral history, JFK Library, courtesy of Matthew Walton.

27
“the only civilizing influence”: Author interview with Gore Vidal.

27
“Jackie flung herself on the bed—free!”: Vidal,
Palimpsest: A Memoir
, 374.

28
“Jackie…dared not look in”: Ibid., 375.

28
“gay as a goose”: Quoted in Sally Bedell Smith,
Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
, 136.

28
“There are certain visceral dislikes”: Author interview with Vidal.

28
“The two people Bobby most hated”: Vidal, 350.

28
“They completely trusted him”: Author interview with Justin Feldman.

28
“My father was a believer”: Author interview with Matthew Walton.

29
“He was not out to get glory for himself”: Vidal, 360.

29
Walton visibly sagged: Manchester, 252.

29
“He was exactly the person”: Author interview with Vidal.

30
“Poets in Moscow have fans”: Notes on Moscow trip, Walton papers, JFK Library. 30 invited to take tea with Mrs. Khrushchev: Ibid.

30
“He was a man of peace”: Ibid.

30
Walton “detested” the new president: Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali,
One Hell of a Gamble: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
, 402.

31
“One time Bob wanted to invite Georgi to a party”: Author interview with James Symington.

31
“He gave me the creeps”: Robert Kennedy,
In His Own Words
, 338.

31
“You son of a bitch”: Quoted in Michael R. Beschloss,
The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev 1960–1963
, 578.

32
Bobby heatedly confronted his Russian friend: Pierre Salinger,
P.S.: A Memoir
, 254.

32
He said that Bobby and Jackie believed that the president had been killed by a large political conspiracy: Fursenko and Naftali, 345. Fursenko and Naftali based their account of the Walton-Bolshakov meeting on a memo that Bolshakov prepared for the GRU. Fursenko also interviewed Bolshakov in January 1989 before he died. In an interview for this book, Naftali observed, “It’s possible that Bolshakov exaggerated what Walton said to him to remind his superiors how close he was to the Kennedys. Bolshakov clearly liked the fact that he had become a player, and it’s possible he exaggerated a bit to get back into the inner circle. But I’d be surprised if he invented it out of whole cloth.” The authors note in their book that “the GRU material on Bolshakov has been corroborated in other cases and some of the details in this document have been corroborated.”

33
“irresponsible…act of backdoor diplomacy”: Thomas, 289.

33
“He just wandered around his office”: Quoted in Salinger,
With Kennedy
, 363.

2: 1961

35
“All war is stupid”: Quoted in Thurston Clarke,
Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech that Changed America
, 109.

35
“the principal reason Kennedy ran for the presidency”: Author interview with Theodore Sorensen.

37
“I had no choice”: Richard Nixon,
RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon
, 221.

37
“one foot in the Cold War”: Harris Wofford,
Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties
, 68.

38
“the Goths have left the White House”: Quoted in Clarke, 208.

38
“I have never heard a better speech”: Admiral Arleigh Burke oral history, JFK Library.

38
“through a membrane in time”: Clarke, 200.

38
“The line in the inaugural address that is the most important”: Author interview with Sorensen.

39
“the only human being who mattered to me”: Quoted in Beschloss, 126.

39
a “puppet who echoed his speechmaker”: Quoted in
New York Times
, June 19, 1962.

39
“a little boy in so many ways”: Quoted in Clarke, 66.

39
Nixon himself was more generous:
New York Times
, June 19, 1962.

40
“I was against killing”: Author interview with Sorensen.

40
Sorensen was raised to view war with a deeply skeptical eye: Victor Lasky,
JFK: The Man and the Myth
, 164.

40
Ted would meet his first wife: Author interview with Sorensen.

41
“I’m sure that would have provoked them further”: Ibid.

41
Barry Goldwater promptly turned the
Tribune
article into a political issue:
Newsweek
, October 9, 1961.

41
“It didn’t bother him at all”: Author interview with Sorensen.

42
“He’s all hopped up!”: Quoted in Beschloss, 187.

43
Bissell wrote a friend: Richard Bissell Jr.,
Reflections of a Cold Warrior
, 159.

43
Bill Walton was stunned to hear Dulles: Walton oral history, JFK Library.

44
“I’m not going to be able to change Allen”: Quoted in Peter Grose,
Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles
, 408.

44
“gentlemen”…were not bound by the same moral code: Ibid, 484.

45
“We’ve got to persuade the president!”: Quoted in Peter Wyden,
Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story
, 270.

45
“It was inconceivable to them”: Walt Rostow,
The Diffusion of Power
.

46
The invasion was “on the brink of failure”: Bissell, 189.

46
the brigade leaders were to mutiny: Johnson, 75.

46
Burke…had also flirted with insubordination: Mario Lazo,
Dagger in the Heart! American Policy Failures in Cuba
, 294.

47
“but we
are
involved!”: Quoted in Wyden, 270.

47
“they had me figured all wrong”: Quoted in Kenneth P. O’Donnell and David F. Powers,
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
, 274.

47
“our concept…is now seen to be unachievable”: Quoted in
Miami Herald
, August 11, 2005.

47
“The CIA knew that it couldn’t accomplish this”: Ibid.

48
“There was some indication that the Soviets”: Quoted in
Washington Post
, April 29, 2000.

48
“So I took the information to Allen Dulles”: Author interview with Charles Bartlett

49
“at the decisive moment of the Bay of Pigs operation”: Quoted in Bissell, 191. 49 Kennedy was “surrounded by doubting Thomases”: Quoted in Beschloss, 134.

49
“I was probably taken in by Kennedy’s charisma”: Quoted in Gus Russo,
Live By the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK
, 61.

49
“criminal negligence”: Quoted in Don Bohning,
The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations Against Cuba, 1959–1965
, 48.

49
“the boys killed during the botched Bay of Pigs operation”: Robert Maheu,
Next to Hughes
, 156.

50
“The [Bay of Pigs] failure was Kennedy’s fault”: Quoted in Russo, 20.

50
“absolutely reprehensible”: Quoted in Wofford, 350.