JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President (48 page)

“I’d better keep my nose clean”
:
Cassini, p. 323.

During his first congressional campaign
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 70; Dalton, JFKLOH.

He was sensitive about being the first Catholic
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 405.

While recuperating in Palm Beach
:
JFKPP, Box 40, JFKL.

A tense 1961 summit
:
Lincoln (
My Twelve
), pp. 229–30.

That fall, after the Berlin crisis
:
Sidey, p. 214.

He saw a severely burned
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 377.

“He put up quite a fight”
:
Ibid.

he ducked into a boiler room
:
Salinger (
With Kennedy
),
p. 101.

After returning to his room
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 377.

His eyes were red
:
Boston Record-American,
August 10, 1963;
Boston Globe,
August 9, 1963 (evening edition).

As he described Patrick’s death
:
Anthony (
Kennedy White House
), p. 234.

Lincoln called Patrick’s death
:
Lincoln (
My Twelve
), p. 296.

Sorensen thought
:
Sorensen (
Kennedy
), p. 367.

Jackie said, “He felt the loss”
:
Bergquist and Tretick, p. 120.

“There’ll be no crying in this house”
:
Edward Kennedy, p. 41.

Ormsby-Gore detected
:
Ormsby-Gore (Lord Harlech), JFKLOH.

In
Pilgrim’s Way
:
Sorensen (
Kennedy
), p. 14.

His first words to the crew
:
Hamilton, p. 599.

But the bravado ended
:
Ibid., p. 606.

While delivering a Veterans Day address
:
McNeely, JFKLOH.

At a Memorial Day event
:
JFKPP, Box 40, JFKL.

Moments after his inauguration
:
Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 153.

After John’s birth Ireland’s ambassador
:
Kiernan, JFKLOH.

During the Cuban missile crisis
:
Pitts, p. 236.

after the Bay of Pigs
:
Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 185.

He cried again while discussing the Bay of Pigs
:
Leaming (
Mrs. Kennedy
), pp. 94, 96; Anthony (
As We Remember
),
p. 179.

Kennedy asked Judge Francis Morrissey
:
Morrissey, JFKLOH.

Kennedy wept throughout
:
Cushing, JFKLOH.

“Come on, dear Jack”
:
Ibid.

As Cushing spoke at the grave
:
Manchester (
Death
),
p.
8.;
Look,
November 19, 1964.

Seeing him bent over the grave
:
Manchester (
Death
), p. 37.

Back at Otis, he wept
:
Jacqueline Kennedy, pp. 185–86; Leaming (
Mrs. Kennedy
),
p. 299; Anthony (
Kennedy White House
),
p. 234; Manchester (
Death
),
p.
8.

His reference to “the work we have to do”
:
Auchincloss, JFKLOH.

MONDAY, AUGUST 12

harebrained and ultimately unsuccessful
:
Edward Kennedy (
True Compass
), p. 86.

The White House announced that the president was missing
:
NYT,
August 13, 1963.

“shadowboxing in a match”
:
Collier and Horowitz, p. 146.

The headmaster of Choate
:
Parmet (
Jack
),
p. 136.

“an oasis of stability”
:
Edward Kennedy (
True Compass
), p. 63.

“Good morning, Mr. President”
:
Speech by Edward Kennedy to Democratic National Convention, August 15, 2000.

so they could play flashlight tag
:
Edward Kennedy (
True Compass
), p. 34.

Cousins provided a list
:
Cousins, pp. 128–36.

Notes he scribbled on the way to Otis and in the Ritz
:
JFKPP, Box 12, JFKL.

he telephoned Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield
:
JFK telephone call to Mansfield on August 12:
Presidential Recordings, transcript of dictabelt 25B.2, August 12, 1963, JFKL.

Meeting with Dirksen in 1961
:
Baker, p. 98.

Rusk concerned that his office was bugged
:
Schoenbaum, p. 280.

“You bugging, Hoover?”
:
Bishop (
Confession
), p. 383.

JFK ordered microphones installed
:
Bouck, JFKLOH.

“I don’t want to hear your bad words”
:
NYT,
December 26, 1994.

Secret Service agents swept through the Oval Office
:
Bishop (
A Day
),
pp. 5–6.

JFK took King into the Rose Garden
:
Branch, p. 837.

King concluded that JFK was worried about surveillance in the White House
:
Schlesinger (
Robert Kennedy
), p. 258. After his meeting with the President, King, referring to the fact that he and JFK had held their discussion outside, told his aide Andrew Young, “The President is afraid of Hoover himself. . . . I guess Hoover must be buggin’ him too.”

“I would like for you to surrender”
:
Baker, pp. 97–99.

Conversation between JFK and RFK
:
Ibid.

Dirksen wrote Eisenhower a carefully worded letter
:
Beschloss (
Crisis
), p. 635.

“Forgive your enemies”
:
Adler and Folsom, p. 194.

“a very real, a very earthy”
:
Knebel, JFKLOH.

“Kennedy doesn’t pay”
:
McCarthy, p. 123.

he slighted his own family
:
Ibid., p. 124.

He had resisted his father’s demand
:
Clifford, pp. 336–39.

“a positive force for public good”
:
Edward Kennedy (
Words Jack Loved
), JFKL.

“He may be a fine politician”
:
Ridder, author interview.

“nothing more than a bright ribbon”
:
NYT,
January 18, 1962.

Dirksen had issued a statement
:
Neil MacNeil, p. 219.

Eisenhower had also been critical
:
Time,
August 9, 1963.

Kennedy remained pessimistic
:
Cousins, pp. 128–29.

“militant activated atheism”
:
Hulsey, p. 178.

“His nose counts”
:
WP,
October 13, 1963.

Kennedy replied, “Maybe not”
:
Baker, p. 98.

July 25 telephone call between JFK and Katzenbach
:
Presidential Telephone Records, 23D.5, July 25, 1963, JFKL.

he finally filled in his blank checks
:
Baker, pp. 98–99.

“emotionally more wrapped up”
:
Bohlen, JFKLOH.

Seaborg believed treaty was “like a religion”
:
Strober and Strober, p. 260.

On July 31, he had told Seaborg
:
Presidential Recordings, tape 103/A39, JFKL.

His decision proved
:
Adler and Folsom, p. 57.

“Ike said I had coin in his bank”
: and subsequent conversation:
Baker, pp. 98–99.

about the “tactics” of the IRS
:
Beschloss (
Crisis
), p. 636.

he called an attractive Hungarian émigrée
:
Sally Bedell Smith, p. 380, pp. 395–96.

Mimi Beardsley watched him reading condolence letters, one after another
:
Alford, p. 120.

She believed, she wrote later
:
Ibid., p. 125.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 13

On
Tuesday morning Kennedy complained
:
JFKPP, box 48 (medical files), JFKL.

“We should stress the fact”
:
Ibid.

he was “suffering terribly”
:
Hamilton, pp. 110–11.

a dietary regimen
:
JFKPP, Box 58 ( medical files), JFKL.

loved fish chowder
:
Gallagher, p. 40.

“with gallantry and
with
no
perceptible
loss”
:
Michael O’Brien, p. 764.

“a word of self-pity”
:
NYT,
November 17, 2002.

“In retrospect, it is amazing”
:
Sorensen (
Counselor
),
p. 106.

“There is always inequity”
:
JFK press conference #28, March 21, 1962, JFKL Web site.

His physicians, however, knew a man
:
“The Medical Ordeals of JFK,” Robert Dallek,
The Atlantic,
December 1962; “The Medical Afflictions of President John F. Kennedy,”
White House Studies,
volume 6, number 4, 2006.

He swallowed a pharmacopoeia of capsules
:
JFKPP, Box 47 (medical files), JFKL.

“It’s best if you don’t”
:
Travell, p. 312.

During a taped January 5, 1960, interview
:
Transcript of January 5, 1960, discussion among Bradlee, Cannon, and Kennedy, JFKL.

It called his health “excellent”
:
JFKPP, Box 58 (medical files), JFKL.

first postelection press conference
:
NYT,
November 11, 1960.

A month after Cohen and Travell
:
NYT,
May 3, 1973.

His search for a quick fix
:
Ibid.,
December 4, 1972.

“You cannot be permitted to receive therapy”
:
JFKPP, Box 58 (medical), JFKL.

“a potential threat to your well-being”
:
Leamer, p. 545.

Cohen unburdened himself
:
JFKPP, Box 58 (medical), JFKL.

Kraus’s pioneering studies
:
Schwartz, pp. 121–24.

Burkley and Cohen threatened to go to the president
:
Burkley, JFKLOH; Schwartz, p. 176.

When Kraus examined Kennedy
:
Schwartz, p. 178.

“You will be a cripple soon”
:
Ibid., pp. 177–79.

Kraus flew to Washington
:
JFKPP, Box 47 (medical), JFKL; Kraus Papers, Box 1, JFKL.

“a definite increase of strength”
:
Kraus Papers, Box 1, JFKL.

“in a not too distant future”
:
Ibid.

“a very long step”
:
JFKPP, Box 47 (medical), JFKL.

Kennedy asked Ken O’Donnell to fire Travell
:
JFKPP, Box 58 (medical), JFKL.

“I hate to use the word blackmail”
:
Ibid.

Kennedy’s back improved
:
Schwartz, pp. 192–93.