Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House (59 page)

405  
Lodge was now instructed
:
FRUS
, 75–79; JFK Interview with Cronkite, Sept. 2, 1963, online; Gibbons,
The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War
, 163.

406  
In suggesting that it was Vietnam’s
:
FRUS: Vietnam, August–December 1963
, 98–104, 111–12.

406  
Nonetheless, Vietnam remained
: Ibid., 146, 161–63, 165; tape 109, Sept. 10, 1963, JFKL.

407  
The inability of his advisers
:
FRUS: Vietnam, August–December 1963
, 169–71, 176.

408  
In the meantime, Kennedy:
Ibid., 166, 174–75.

409  
The continuing daily conversations
: Ibid., 192–93, 195, 203, 205, 208–209, 212, 218–20, 235; Gibbons,
The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War
, 177–80
.

409  
Because Kennedy saw no likelihood
:
FRUS: Vietnam, August–December 1963
, 252–56, 278–79, 282–83.

410  
Predictably, the McNamara-Taylor visit
: Ibid., 311, 317, 321, 336–39, 346, 353.

411  
The White House then issued
: PPP: JFK, 1963, 759–60.

411  
The public pronouncement
: Gibbons,
The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War
, 186, 188.

412  
Above all, now, he wanted to repress:
FRUS: Vietnam, August–December 1963
, 166, 350–52; Gibbons,
The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War
, 188–89.

412  
But Kennedy couldn’t plug leaks
:
New York Times
, Sept. 29, Oct. 3, 8, 17, 1963;
FRUS: Vietnam, August–December 1963
, 364–65.

413  
Kennedy made Halberstam the focus
: Halberstam,
Making of a Quagmire
, 201–03; Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones,
The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1999), 388–89.

414  
But Kennedy could no more control
:
FRUS: Vietnam, August–December 1963,
393, 423–24, n. 5, 427, 429.

414  
On the twenty-seventh, the divide
: Gibbons,
The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War
, 196;
FRUS
, 453–55, 467. The details about the cable on the twenty-seventh are noticeably absent from the
FRUS
volume; and the Kennedy Library, as Gibbons, the author of
The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War
, points out, has no record of this directive. We only have the recollections of Ball, Hilsman, and Johnson that such a cable was sent, but its date is in dispute.

415  
The limits of White House control
:
FRUS: Vietnam, August–December, 1963
, 468–75.

416  
But Lodge, who remained
: Ibid., 484–85, 488, 500–502.

417  
But the exchanges
: Ibid., 525–26, 533, 537.

417  
In a recording on November 4
: JFK tape, Nov. 4, 1963, JFKL.

418  
Regardless of what happened next
:
FRUS: Vietnam, August–December 1963
, 579–80; JFK Press Conference, Nov. 14, 1963; William J. Rust,
Kennedy in Vietnam
(New York: Da Capo Press, 1985), 3–5; Forrestal’s quote can be found on the Internet under JFK Nov. 21, 1963, discussion of Vietnam with Forrestal.

Epilogue: “What He Is Slated to Become Depends on Us”

422  
For those who saw themselves
: Sorensen,
Counselor
, 372; Jacqueline Kennedy,
Historic Conversations
, xiii; Glen Johnson, “Camelot Revisited,” Associated Press, 1995.

422  
In March 1964, Jackie Kennedy
: Jacqueline Kennedy,
Historic Conversations
, foreword and introduction, especially xv, xx–xxi.

423  
Schlesinger was more than happy
: Schlesinger,
Journals
, 218–19, 224.

424  
As soon as Schlesinger left
: Schlesinger,
Thousand Days
, ix, x.

425  
Like Jackie Kennedy and Schlesinger
: Sorensen,
Kennedy
, 3–8; Sorensen
, Counselor
, chaps. 27–28, especially 371–72, 382.

426  
No one was more determined
: Schlesinger,
Journals
, 210, 214–15, 228–30, 237; Dallek,
Flawed Giant
, 57, 137–43, 165.

427  
After Bobby won his Senate election
: Robert Kennedy,
Thirteen Days
;
Robert Kennedy: In His Own Words
.

427  
McGeorge Bundy was one member
: Schlesinger,
Journals
, 205, 238, 333; Bird,
Color of Truth
, 319–23, 348–49; Goldstein,
Lessons in Disaster
, 128–29, 193–201, 217–18.

428  
After he left the government
: Goldstein,
Lessons in Disaster
, 144–50.

429  
In his pursuit of this goal
: Schlesinger,
Thousand Days
, 432–37; Dallek,
Flawed Giant
, 87–88, 99; Rusk,
As I Saw It
;
Time
, Feb. 4, 1908.

430  
Robert McNamara’s historical reputation
: Dallek,
Flawed Giant
, 494–95; McNamara,
In Retrospect
.

431  
Walt W. Rostow was the most unrepentant:
Dallek,
Flawed Giant
, 296–97; interview with Walt W. Rostow, July 27, 1992.

432  
Paul Volcker, the chairman:
Paul Volcker, “What the New President Should Consider,”
New York Review of Books
, Dec. 6, 2012, 10.

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