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Stoughton also filmed
:
Audiovisual collection, JFKL.

She knelt down . . . to show him how to do it correctly
:
Blaine, p. 71.

“I guess we all go through that”
:
Stoughton and Clifton, p. 174.

“The Saints today are the peacemakers”
:
WP,
November 11, 1963.

he was an outspoken civil rights advocate
:
“Civil Rights Movement in Middleburg, Virginia,” Eugene Scheel, www.loudounhistory.org.

On November 10, Pereira gave him a Bible
:
Moon, p. 19.

Bill Walton confirmed her impression
:
Ridder, author interview.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11–TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12

“many miracles”
:
Hirsh, JFKLOH.

“I think he’ll be lonely”
:
Helen Thomas, p. 33.

“Okay. Time to salute Daddy”
:
Blaine, p. 72.

“This is one of the really beautiful places”
:
Reeves, p. 654.

“I suppose I’ll have to go back to Boston”
:
Thompson, p. 15.

he persuaded Hirsh to repeat it
:
Hirsh, JFKLOH.

Hirsh took Caroline on an excursion
:
Ibid.

“Well, I think it’s time”
:
Ibid.

whose facility with languages had left him somewhat jealous
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
), p. 95.

“I can assure you that this flag”
:
Reeves, p. 445.

These strategies converged on November 12
:
FRUS, 1961–1963, Volume XI, Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath, Document 376.

Bundy called Attwood to deliver a message from the president
:
Ibid., Document 377.

Attwood told Bundy he would ask
:
Ibid.

Kennedy convened
:
Sorensen (
Counselor
), pp. 347–48; O’Donnell and Powers, pp. 386–87; Sidey (
John F. Kennedy
), pp. 351–52; Guthman and Shulman, pp. 390–92; Reeves, pp. 655–57; Presidential Recordings, transcript on JFKL Web site.

Lincoln had noticed Johnson’s name appearing less often
:
Lincoln (
Kennedy and Johnson
),
p. 161.

Sorensen believed he had been excluded
:
Sorensen (
Counselor
), p. 346

Kennedy even raised the subject of his forthcoming
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 386.

McGeorge Bundy was even thinking ahead
:
Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 130.

“Goldwater doesn’t have a prayer”
:
Saturday Evening Post,
November 2, 1963.

A recent Gallup poll
:
Boston Globe,
October 27, 1963.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13

Kennedy stopped at Lincoln’s desk to chat
:
Lincoln (
Kennedy and Johnson
), p. 200.

Bryant had noticed an increase
:
Bryant, pp. 65–66.

Kennedy had dismissed the rumors
:
Transcript of October 31 press conference, JFKL Web site.

when Bartlett raised the possibility
:
Sally Bedell Smith, p. 426.

Lincoln was in a different category
:
Kennedy had given Lincoln’s home address to a mistress living in Europe, and she wrote him there several weeks after the inauguration. Lincoln Papers, Box 3, JFKLOH.

After examining Kennedy on Wednesday
:
JFKPP, Box 46, JFKL.

Kennedy chaired an afternoon meeting
:
Sorensen Papers, Box 37, JFKL;
NYT,
November 13, November 14, 1963; Gordon, JFKLOH.

he and Jackie appeared together
:
Shaw, p. 113.
WP,
NYT,
and
ES,
November 14, 1963.

“What would the people think”
:
Lincoln (
My Twelve
), pp. 302–3.

Lincoln and Shaw took the children into the Rose Garden
:
Ibid.

A prime example was his treatment of Stevenson
:
Cassini, pp. 325–26.

he had persuaded Bradlee to participate
:
Bradlee (
Conversations
), pp. 237–39.

Kennedy had invited Garbo
:
Pitts, pp. 205–6; Michaelis, pp. 177–78.

Garbo became inebriated
:
Details of the dinner are based on three Garbo biographies—Barry Paris,
Garbo
; Scott Reisfield,
Greta Garbo—Portraits from Her Private Collection
; Karen Swenson,
Greta Garbo: A Life Apart
.

“He never gave
me

:
Ibid.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14–FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15

Kennedy’s sixty-fourth press conference
:
Transcript at JFKL Web site.

If there was ever a year when he owed Jackie
:
Lincoln (
My Twelve
), p. 303.

At 4.00 p.m. his helicopter landed
:
NYT,
November 15, 1963.

The previous week he had driven
:
Boston Sunday Globe,
November 17, 1963;
NYT,
November 15, 1963;
ES,
November 15;
Time,
November 22, 1963; Blaine, pp. 26–27.

A policeman told a reporter
:
Time,
November 22, 1963.

A police official criticized him
:
NYT,
November 15, 1963.

Salinger explained
:
NYT,
November 14, 1963.

“zeroing in on the ‘safe-motorists’ vote”
:
Time,
November 22, 1963.

Once he arrived at the Carlyle Hotel
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 387;
NYT,
November 15, 1963.

Stevenson was at the party
:
Cassini, p. 239.

Oleg Cassini, who overheard
:
Ibid.

he met with Henry Luce
:
William Manchester Papers (
Death of a President
),
Box 43, Wesleyan Library.

In his speech to the AFL-CIO
:
JFKL Web site.

When he finished, a young Irish nanny
:
Boston Globe,
November 16, 1963.

he told delegates to the Catholic Youth Organization’s national convention
:
JFKL Web site.

Ignoring the protests of his Secret Service detail
:
NYT,
November 16, 1963.

At another red light
:
Ibid.

When Smathers remarked offhandedly
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 5 ; .. Smathers, JFKLOH.

“When will I put your picture on there?”
:
Bishop (
The Day
), p. 87.

While Kennedy was out of town
:
Dobrynin, pp. 110–11.

On Friday, she entertained her friend Robin Douglas-Home
:
Robin Douglas-Home, “New Humility,”
News of the World,
March 12, 1967, cited by Sally Bedell Smith, p. 431, and Bradford, p. 261.

“You won’t believe it”
:
Baldrige, p. 208.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16

“You had the feeling the air was electrified”
:
Miami Herald,
November 17, 1963.

“in the very best of health”
:
Von Braun, JFKLOH.

Inside the windowless blockhouse
:
Ibid.; Seamans, p. 113.

“Amazing!” “Fantastic!”
:
Von Braun, JFKLOH.

Robert Seamans, who headed NASA, believed
:
Seamans, p. 113.

He had mentioned this when they met in 1953
:
Von Braun, JFKLOH.

When von Braun later recounted their conversation
:
Ibid.

“Now, this will be the largest payload”
:
Seamans, pp. 113–14.

While briefing Kennedy at the Marshall Space Flight Center
:
Von Braun, JFKLOH.

“When this goes up we’ll be ahead”
:
Time,
July 25, 1994; William Manchester Papers (
Death of a President
), Box 43, Wesleyan Library.

“I will take my television black and white”
:
JFK speech at Municipal Auditorium, Oklahoma City, November 3, 1963.

“What can we do now?”
:
Time,
July 25, 1994; Murray and Cox, pp. 78–79.

JFK speech at Rice University, September 12, 1962
:
JFKL Web site.

“Now, I’m not sure I have the facts straight on this”
:
Seamans, p. 114.

Seamans did as he was told
:
NYT,
November 17, 1963.

Four days before leaving
:
Logsdon, p. 193.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17–MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18

the weekend had been “really living”
:
Lincoln (
Kennedy and Johnson
), p. 203.

The weather had been perfect
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 388; Manchester (
Remembering
), p. 263.

The weekend reminded Macdonald
:
Beschloss (
Crisis
), p. 665.

Macdonald asked Kennedy
:
Collier and Horowitz, p. 310.

“a fundamental strategic shift”
:
NYT,
November 19, 1963.

“the withdrawal of 1000 U. S. servicemen”
:
NYT
and
WP,
November 16, 1963.

“legislation to provide health care”
:
NYT,
November 19, 1963.

the administration was “hopeful”
:
Ibid., November 18, 1963.

Walter Heller received a memorandum
:
Sorensen Papers, Box 37, JFKL.

Jim
Bishop and Pierre Salinger happened to dine
:
Bishop
(
A Day
), p. x.

“I have a feeling it’s going to be a great day”
:
Blaine, p. 145.

Agent Emory Roberts . . . had received a call
:
Ibid., pp. 136–37.

The Secret Service had tracked Milteer
:
Bugliosi, pp. 1268–71.

“Mr. President, we have a very long motorcade”
:
Blaine, pp. 145–46.

“Floyd, this is a political trip”
:
Ibid.

The
Secret Service had not guarded
:
Tampa Tribune,
November 19, 1963.

Evelyn Lincoln remembered Kennedy
:
Lincoln (
My Twelve
), p. 303.

Reporters described him being
:
Tampa Tribune,
November 19, 1963.

He wore three different outfits
: Ibid.

He was smiling and relaxed
:
Ibid.

“Floyd, have the Ivy League charlatans”
:
Blaine, p. 148.

“It’s excessive, Floyd”
:
Ibid., p. 149;
NYT,
November 24, 1964; Warren Commission, exhibit 1025.

After arriving at MacDill
:
Tampa Tribune,
November 19, 1963.

After eating lunch
:
Ibid.

He delayed his departure from Tampa
:
Ibid.

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