Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (No Series) (78 page)

203
“None of us has any idea what Angleton did with the diary”: Bradlee,
A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures
, 271. In a letter sent to newspapers that carried reviews of Bradlee’s memoir, Anne Truitt and Angleton’s widow, Cicely, disputed his version of the diary caper. The two women claimed that Mary Meyer had asked that Angleton “take this diary into his safekeeping” in the event of anything happening to her. The CIA official had undertaken his search for the diary with Tony Bradlee’s consent, the women insisted. When Tony Bradlee found the diary and several papers bundled together in her sister’s studio, she handed them over to Angleton, requesting that he burn the documents. The spy followed Tony Bradlee’s instructions by burning the loose papers, and complied with her dead sister’s request by storing away the diary. When Tony Bradlee later asked for the diary, Angleton gave it to her, after which she burned it in Anne Truitt’s presence. The letter only added to the confusion around the incident.

203
“I thought Jim was just like a lot of men”: Author interview with Bradlee.

203
Helms could not recall just what it was about Mary’s passing: Burleigh, 17.

204
“What
are
they looking for in my house?”: Ibid., 226.

204
“The same sons of bitches that killed John F. Kennedy”: Quoted in Heymann,
The Georgetown Ladies’ Social Club
, 168.

204
“Mary Meyer became a female type”: Burleigh, 227.

204
“Suppose the Russians did something now”: Ibid., 212.

206
it elicited only 896 letters from the public: Beschloss, 601.

206
Khrushchev used it to win points with his Central Committee:
New York Times
, June 29, 1963.

206
“the world would have been different”: Author interview with McNamara.

208
“You want me to accept President Kennedy’s good faith?”: Quoted in Norman Cousins,
The Improbable Triumvirate
, 99.

209
“The language in the speech is Unitarian language”: Author interview with Sorensen.

210
“in that terrible era known as the nuclear age”: “What Would JFK Do?” forum, April 21, 2002, JFK Library.

210
Khrushchev’s eyes filled with tears: Reeves, 549.

211
“They literally hid him!”: Author interview with Kaysen.

211
The attorney general worried that…McCone…might be disloyal: Beschloss, 632.

211
“I speak to you tonight in the spirit of hope”: Quoted in Reeves, 549.

212
asking him to help activate “a whirlwind campaign”: Cousins, 127.

213
“Mr. President, you’re a hell of a horse trader”: Quoted in Beschloss, 635.

213
“The whole bosom of God’s earth”: Quoted in Reeves, 594.

214
“This one is mine”: Quoted in O’Donnell and Powers, 381.

215
“I think the issue of how JFK would have acted differently than LBJ [in Vietnam]”: Quoted in
Boston Globe
, June 6, 2005.

215
JFK told O’Donnell that…the United States must withdraw: O’Donnell and Powers, 16.

216
but he never put it in writing: Author interview with Ellsberg.

217
“He never made a decision”: Author interview with Sorensen.

218
“This is disorderly government”:
New York Times
, October 3, 1963.

218
brought cries for Congress to “turn a permanent floodlight on the [CIA]”:
New York Times Magazine
, October 26, 1963.

218
“He literally blanched”: Robert McNamara,
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
, 84.

219
JFK called Mary Meyer: Bedell Smith, 422.

219
“we must have a means of disengaging from this area”: McNamara, 79.

219
“I don’t want to talk about that”: Author interview with McNamara.

220
“Kennedy would have had a hell of a problem”: Ibid.

221
“He kept the peace”: O’Donnell and Powers, 343.

222
“So, yes, that’s how McNamara lives with himself”: Author interview with Ellsberg.

222
“it would not have bothered me”: Quoted in
New York Times
, February 6, 2004.

224
“Castro hadn’t taken his boots off”: Quoted in Summers,
Not in Your Lifetime
, 304.

224
Castro “made love to me efficiently”: Author interview with Fritzi Lareau.

224
McCone sternly advised that the “Lisa Howard report be handled in the most limited and sensitive manner”: Quoted in Peter Kornbluh, “JFK & Castro: The Secret Quest for Accommodation,”
Cigar Aficionado
magazine, September-October 1999.

225
“She liked powerful men”: Author interview with Lareau.

225
He looked with dismay on “the creeping police state” mentality: William Attwood,
The Twilight Struggle: Tales of the Cold War
, 142.

226
“the word ‘America’ made Che think of a huge hand pressing down on his head”: Ibid, 251.

226
“we have something to gain”: State Department memo, September 18, 1963, NARA record number 176-10010-10052.

227
he felt the peace dialogue was “worth pursuing”: Quoted in Kornbluh.

227
JFK was even more enthusiastic: Ibid.

227
“if we recognize Cuba, they’ll buy our refrigerators”: Croft interview with Ebbins.

227
“he didn’t think there was any reason [to confront] Cuba”: Author interview with Paul “Red” Fay.

227
Schlesinger…later told Attwood that it was meant to help his diplomatic effort: Attwood, 262.

228
JFK’s speech “may have been meant for potential dissident elements”: Quoted in Waldron, 134.

228
“Mother was very naïve”: Author interview with Lareau.

228
Helms urged that the administration slow down the Attwood initiative: Bohning, 172.

229
“and to hell with the president it was pledged to serve”: Attwood, 263.

229
“It wasn’t that I was being smart or tricky”: Helms testimony, Church Committee, June 13, 1975.

230
“Bobby wouldn’t have backed away [from the Cubela meeting]: Thomas, 300.

230
Oswald “has been heralded as a pro-Castro type”: White House memo, November 25, 1963, NARA record number 178-10003-10066.

230
“a good opportunity to punish Bobby”: Author interview with Vidal.

231
“She’s being canned”: Quoted in
New York Times
, November 19, 1964.

231
“Lisa Howard Pleads to Be Visible Again”:
New York Times
, December 23, 1964.

231
“He is too inefficient to be ruthless”: RFK letter, June 1, 1965, Senator Robert F. Kennedy papers, JFK Library.

231
“Mother was…having a mental breakdown”: Author interview with Lareau.

232
“She was determined to die”: Ibid.

232
Attwood told Schweiker…he had some suspicions: Attwood letter, October 16, 1975, William Attwood papers, State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

232
“This is why Kennedy was killed,” Castro told him: Attwood memo on Cuba trip for Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, February 28, 1977, ibid.

233
Arthur Schlesinger concurred with Attwood’s assessment: Summers, 307.

233
“We thought there was more to Dallas”: Author interview with Simone Attwood.

233
“the secret negotiations with Cuba were the last straw”: Tomlinson notes on Attwood conversation, January 29, 1986, courtesy of Anthony Summers.

234
“These were fairly nutty people”: Quoted in
New Canaan Advocate
, June 12, 1980.

5: DALLAS

236
he mused that he found the job “rewarding”: televised JFK press conference, October 31, 1963, Museum of Television and Radio, Beverly Hills.

237
“Scramble is putting it mildly”: Author interview with Sorensen.

238
“the American people are going to save this country next year”: Quoted in
Dallas Morning News
, November 19, 1963.

238
“Barry Goldwater could give Kennedy a breathlessly close race”: Quoted in Perlstein, 234.

239
“a juicy steak for Connally, a sandwich for me”: Jerry Bruno and Jeff Greenfield,
The Advance Man
, 88.

239
“Yarborough…felt the trip was too heavy on visits with fat cats”: Ben Barnes,
Barn Burning, Barn Building: Tales of Political Life from LBJ to George W. Bush and Beyond
, 65.

239
“The president is not coming down to be hidden under a bushel basket”: Quoted in
Washington Post
, November 20, 1988.

239
“I told the driver to step on it”: Stanley Marcus oral history, Sixth Floor Museum, Dallas.

240
the American eagle [was turning] into a “dead duck”: “Walker Speaks Unmuzzled” pamphlet, General Edwin Walker collection, Sixth Floor Museum.

240
calling Dallas “a very dangerous place”: Quoted in Mahoney, 283.

240
“the president would have thought I had gone out of my mind”: O’Donnell and Powers, 18.

240
“It turned my father and brothers and sisters and I upside down”: Quoted in Edward J. Renehan, Jr.,
The Kennedys at War: 1937–1945
, 2.