JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President (56 page)

“like a desert queen she sat before”
:
WP,
October 16, 1963.

Eunice had bought a recording
:
LeMass, JFKLOH.

such sadness so plainly visible
:
Reed, JFKLOH; Sally Bedell Smith, pp. 415–16.

“To the disgrace of every living American”
:
WP,
October 18, 1963.

Kennedy attempted to make
:
Reeves, pp. 631–32.

leading Kennedy to complain
:
Louchheim Papers, Box 78, LOC.

“Look, I asked for your opinion”
:
Duke, JFKLOH.

Jackie called before leaving Morocco
:
Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 292.

“No, no, you mustn’t be like that”
:
Ibid.

During a short layover
:
NYT,
October 18, 1963.

Caroline carried a clay bird’s nest
:
WP,
October 18, 1963.

Caroline recited a French sentence
:
Hirsh, JFKLOH.

“I’ll never be away again”
:
Anthony (
White House
), pp. 251–52.

“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”
:
Manchester (
Death
), p. 31.

Standing on a platform on the South Lawn
:
WP,
October 19, 1963.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19–MONDAY, OCTOBER 21

JFK speech at the University of Maine
:
JFKL Web site.

Two hours later he walked into
:
NYT,
October 20, 1963;
Boston Sunday Advertiser
, October 20, 1963;
Boston Globe,
October 20, 1963; Bilodeau, JFKLOH.

His own Harvard football career
:
Leamer, p. 102.

“I want to go to Patrick’s grave”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 378.

He had designed Patrick’s headstone
:
Lincoln (
My Twelve
), p. 298.

He had also brought
:
Michael O’Brien, p. 779.

“Patrick seems so alone here”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 39.

A waitress cried, “Oh, my God”
:
Boston Globe,
October 20, 1963.

His impromptu walk was another security headache
:
Boston Sunday Advertiser,
October 20, 1963;
Boston Globe,
October 20, 1963.

He asked the family chauffeur
:
Martin (
Hero
),
pp. 473–74.

During the afternoon he crossed the street to visit Larry Newman
:
Martin (
Hero
), p. 442; Larry G. Newman, “Jack Kennedy Was My Neighbor,”
Parade,
November 22, 1964.

The weather was too cool
:
Martin (
Hero
), pp. 473–74; Dallas, pp. 4–5.

“Look who’s here, Dad”
:
Dallas, pp. 4–5.

“Mrs. Dallas, take good care of Dad”
:
Ibid.

“He’s the one who made all this possible”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 39.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 21

A front-page article
:
NYT,
October 20, 1963.

Kennedy had witnessed poverty like this
:
Clarke, p. 88.

he often referred to the “blight” of poverty
:
In his opening statement at the first televised debate, Kennedy said, “I saw cases in West Virginia here in the United States, where children took home part of their school lunch in order to feed their families.” JFK Pre-Presidential Papers, Box 914, JFKL.

“Tax reduction alone is not enough”
:
1963 State of the Union speech, JFKL Web site.

Heller had sent him a memorandum
:
Sorensen Papers, Box 31, JFKL.

Heller admitted that although the tax cut
:
Thompson (ed.), p. 156; Heller, p. 20.

He gave Kennedy an economic
:
Ibid.

“Walter, first we’re going to get your tax cut”
:
Ibid., p. 152.

He told Heller during their meeting
:
Heller Papers, JFK-Johnson files, Box 6, JFKL.

Bishop arrived at the White House
:
Bishop (
A Bishop’s
), p. 379.

“one never knew how much of the warmth”
:
Ibid., p. 381.

Instead, Kennedy stuck out his hand and said
:
Ibid., pp. 381–82.

“grown closer”
:
Thomas, p. 34.

“You could see now that he liked”
:
Martin (
Hero
), p. 471.

“It took us a very long time”
:
Anthony (
As We Remember
),
p. 189.

“Oh, Mr. West, I’ve gotten myself into something”
:
West, pp. 272–73.

“And you see, this is where”
:
Ibid.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22–FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25

“packing his bags and leaving”
:
Lincoln Papers, Box 6, JFKL.

During dinner with Jackie and the Bradlees
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
),
pp. 215–21.

Schlesinger believed that he was
:
Schlesinger, unpublished diaries, NYPL.

When Kermit Gordon described
:
Ibid.

“Sure I will, Jack”
:
Manchester (
Death
),
p. 9; William Manchester Papers (
Death of a President
), Box 43, Wesleyan Library.

Evelyn Lincoln passed along a tidbit
:
Lincoln Papers, Box 6, JFKL.

“Don’t you see how most of the people”
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
),
pp. 223–24.

Thomas had also revealed
:
Ibid.

Bishop interviewed Jackie
:
Bishop (
A Bishop’s
),
p. 386.

“We’ll start with Baker”
:
WP
and
NYT,
October 24, 1963.

“an investigation of any possible conflicts”
:
WP,
October 24, 1963.

“Highly reliable source reports”
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963, Document 210.

“in the contest with Viet Cong”
:
Ibid., Document 207.

Kennedy decided to send his Harvard roommate
:
Parmet (
JFK
),
p. 335.

During a two-hour conference with House leaders
:
Presidential Recordings, Tape 116/A52–117/ A53, JFKL.

“way beyond anything you asked”
:
Ibid.

“
We’re
the goats”
:
Ibid.

“The colored vote in my district”
:
Ibid.

On Wednesday evening Kennedy invited the Bradlees
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
), pp. 221–27.

At a meeting on Thursday with Rusk, Taylor, and Gilpatric
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IX, Foreign Economic Policy, Document 38.

He took another step toward reducing cold war tensions
:
Jean Daniel, “Unofficial Envoy,”
New Republic,
December 14, 1963; Mahoney, p. 287.

“He says we’ve been screwing them”
:
Galbraith (
Name-Dropping
),
p. 105.

On Thursday, Bishop announced
:
Bishop (
A Bishop’s
), pp. 386–87.

“My feelings about assassination are identical”
:
Bishop (
The Day
), p. xi.

Bishop thought he “seemed fascinated”
:
Bishop (
A Day
),
p. ix.

Kennedy woke Friday to front-page articles
:
NYT,
October 25, 1963;
WP,
October 25, 1963.

a law that made flying the United Nations flag a criminal offense
:
Wright, p. 39.

Stevenson had celebrated the new spirit
:
NYT,
October 25, 1963;
WP,
October 25, 1963.

An angry crowd surrounded him
:
Ibid.

“We are patriots,” she explained
:
NYT,
October 26, 1963.

She later blamed
:
William Manchester Papers (
Death of a President
), Box 43, Wesleyan Library.

Kennedy asked Schlesinger to call Stevenson
:
Schlesinger (
Thousand
),
pp. 1020–21.

“You know, there was something very ugly”
:
Ibid.

a bomb threat delayed Tito’s departure
:
Duke, JFKLOH.

As he and Duke were driving to the pier
:
Ibid.; Reeves, pp. 633–34.

Lodge reported that the generals
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963, Document 216.

“We are particularly concerned”
:
Ibid., Document 217.

Kennedy doodled
:
JFKPP, Box 12, JFKL.

“a casual sort of grandeur”
:
Cassini, p. 247.

Jackie finally invited him
:
Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 293.

She considered them “really not very nice”
:
Ibid.

He told Alphand he was wearing the same shirt
:
Alphand, p. 409.

After dinner, he offered Alphand the same analysis
:
Alphand, JFKLOH.

Jackie told Alphand
:
Alphand, pp. 409–10.

He wrote in his diary
:
Beschloss (
Crisis Years
),
p. 611.

The Roosevelts mentioned the attack
:
Ibid., p. 410.

The next day, she told the Secret Service agent
:
Hill, pp. 266–67.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26–SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27

Kennedy criticized the speech
:
Schlesinger (
Journals
), p. 202.

with an eye to including the “poetry and power”
:
Schlesinger (
Thousand
), p. 1015.

He liked Schlesinger’s version better
:
Schlesinger (
Journals
), p. 202.

“the first American president to give art”
:
Troy, p. 96.

“The Arts in America”
:
John F. Kennedy, “The Arts in America,”
Look,
December 18, 1962.

“I don’t think he liked music”
:
Strober, p. 62.

“Your children live on streets”
:
Bergquist and Tretick, p. 177.

Americans were “too liberal to fight”
:
Stewart Udall, “Robert Frost’s Last Adventure,”
NYT Magazine,
June 11, 1972.

Kennedy was so furious
:
Ibid.

During the flight he reminded him
:
Reed, JFKLOH.

“Apparently he never did anything wrong”
:
Schlesinger (
Journals
), p. 202.

“I really don’t think too much”
:
Reed, JFKLOH.

He added a preamble
:
Ibid.; Schlesinger unpublished diaries, NYPL. A draft of the speech with JFK’s edits was published in the Amherst College magazine,
About Amherst,
Fall and Winter edition, 2003–2004. The notes that Kennedy wrote during the flight are on the JFKL Web site, and at JFKPOF, Box 47, JFKL.