Mary's Mosaic (79 page)

4
.    Nancy P. Pittman, “James Wallace Pinchot (1831–1908): One Man’s Evolution Toward Conservation in the Nineteenth Century,”
Yale F&ES Centennial News
(Fall 1999): 4.

5
.    Char Miller, “All in the Family: The Pinchots of Milford,”
Pennsylvania History
(Spring 1999): p. 126.

6
.    Ibid., p. 130.

7
.    Elaine Showalter, ed.,
These Modern Women: Autobiographical Essays from the Twenties
(New York: Feminist Press, 1989), p. 126.

8
.    Ibid., pp. 3-27.

9
.    Ibid.

10
.   Ibid.

11
.   Ruth Pinchot to Amos Pinchot, July 2, 1923, Amos Pinchot Papers, 1863–1943, Family Correspondence, container 3, Library of Congress.

12
.   William Attwood, diary entries, December 21, 1935–January 30, 1936. The Attwood family graciously allowed me access to Bill Attwood’s private diaries, which were extensive, right up until his death in 1989.

13
.   Robert Dallek,
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963
(Boston: Little, Brown, 2003), p. 79.

14
.   Ralph G. Martin,
Seeds of Destruction: Joe Kennedy and His Sons
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1995), p. xxi.

15
.   Choate School letter to Leo Damore, October 5, 1992. The letter documents William Attwood’s date for Winter Festivities Weekend, February 1936, and the fact that John F. Kennedy (Class of 1935) was in attendance.

16
.   Nina Burleigh,
A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
(New York: Bantam, 1998), p. 57.

17
.   William Attwood, diary entry, February 21, 1936.

18
.   Ibid.

19
.   William Attwood,
The Reds and the Blacks: A Personal Adventure
(New York: Harper & Row, 1967), pp. 133–134.

20
.   William Attwood, diary entry, March 24, 1936.

21
.   Ibid., May 11, 1939.

22
.   Ibid., June 14, 1939.

23
.   Ibid.

24
.   Ibid, June 15, 1939.

25
.   Bibi Gaston,
The Loveliest Woman in America
(New York: William Morrow, 2008), p. 32.

26
.   Burleigh,
A Very Private Woman
, p. 61.

27
.   Mary Pinchot, “Requiem,”
New York Times
, January 25, 1940, p. 16.

28
.   Gaston,
Loveliest Woman
, p.18, p. 253.

29
.   Rosenbaum and Nobile, “Curious Aftermath,” p. 25.

30
.   A former 1942 Vassar classmate of Mary Meyer’s who asked to remain anonymous, interview by the author, November 27, 2009.

31
.   Cord Meyer Jr.,
Facing Reality: From World Federalism to the CIA
(New York: Harper & Row, 1980), p. 34.

32
.   Croswell Bowen, “Young Man in Quest of Peace,”
PM Sunday
3, no. 237 (March 21, 1948): p. 8.

33
.   Rosenbaum and Nobile, “Curious Aftermath,” p. 29.

34
.   Anonymous Meyer classmate, interview.

35
.   Burleigh,
A Very Private Woman
, pp. 72–73.

36
.   Robert L. Schwartz, interview by the author, New York, N.Y., October 16, 2008.

37
.   Ibid.

38
.   Burleigh,
A Very Private Woman
, p. 76.

39
.   Schwartz, interview.

40
.   James McConnell Truitt to Deborah Davis, January 30, 1979.

41
.   Schwartz, interview.

42
.   Ibid.

43
.   Ibid.

Chapter 7.
Cyclops

1
.    Croswell Bowen, “Young Man in Quest of Peace,”
PM Sunday
3, no. 237 (March 21, 1948): p. m6.

2
.    Cord Meyer Jr., “Waves of Darkness,”
Atlantic Monthly
, January 1946, p. 77.

3
.    Ibid, p. 80.

4
.    Bowen, “Young Man,” p. m 7.

5
.    Ibid.

6
.    Ibid.

7
.    Charles Bartlett, interview by the author, Washington, D.C., December 10, 2008.

8
.    Bowen, “Young Man,” p. m7.

9
.    Cord Meyer Jr.,
Facing Reality: From World Federalism to the CIA
(New York: Harper & Row, 1980), pp. 4–5.

10
.   Merle Miller, “One Man’s Long Journey: From a One World Crusade to the ‘Department of Dirty Tricks,,’”
New York Times Magazine
, January 7, 1973.

11
.   Bowen, “Young Man,” p. m8.

12
.   Cord Meyer Jr., Journal, 1945–1967, September 1944, box 5, Papers of Cord Meyer, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

13
.   Bowen, “Young Man,” p. m8.

14
.   Ibid., p. m6.

15
.   John H. Crider, “Veterans Caution on Parley Hopes,”
New York Times
, May 3, 1945.

16
.   Nigel Hamilton,
JFK: Reckless Youth
(New York: Random House, 1992), p. 702.

17
.   Ibid., p. 700.

18
.   Robert Dallek,
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963
(Boston: Little, Brown, 2003), pp. 114–116.

19
.   Benjamin C. Bradlee,
Conversations with Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1975), pp. 34–35. See also Nina Burleigh,
A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
(New York: Bantam, 1998), p. 315–20.

20
.   U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), Restricted, top secret testimony given by Joseph W. Shimon, September 12, 1975. The document was provided to the author from Joseph Shimon’s daughter, Toni Shimon.

21
.   Bowen, “Young Man,” p. m7.

22
.   Bartlett, interview.

23
.   Cord Meyer Jr., Journal, 1945–1967, entry dated November 2, 1945, box 5, Papers of Cord Meyer, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

24
.   Hamilton,
JFK
, p. 703.

25
.   Ibid., pp. 690–691.

26
.   Anne Truitt,
Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
(New York: Pantheon, 1982), pp. 200–201.

27
.   Bowen, “Young Man,” p. m9.

28
.   Cord Meyer Jr., “A Serviceman Looks at the Peace,”
Atlantic Monthly
, September 1945.

29
.   Bowen, “Young Man,” p. m 9.

30
.   Ibid.

31
.   Ibid.

32
.   Hubert H. Humphrey to Cord Meyer Jr., October 21, 1949, box 1, Papers of Cord Meyer, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress..

33
.   Wesley T. Wooley, “Finding a Usable Past: The Success of the American World Federalism in the 1940s,”
Peace & Change
24, no. 3 (July 1999).

34
.   “Young Men Who Care,”
Glamour
, July, 1947, pp. 27–29.

35
.   Meyer,
Facing Reality
, p. 55.

36
.   Meyer Journal, January 3, 1950.

37
.   Ibid., March 18, 1950.

38
.   Ibid., May 24, 1951.

39
.   Ibid., June 8, 1951.

40
.   Ibid., March 31, 1951.

41
.   Allen Dulles to Cord Meyer Jr., February 23, 1951, and March 31, 1951, box 1, Papers of Cord Meyer; Cord Meyer Jr. to Allen Dulles, March 14, 1951, and May 23, 1951, box 1, Papers of Cord Meyer; Cord Meyer Jr. to Gerald E. Miller, May 23, 1951, box 1, Papers of Cord Meyer; Dean Acheson to Cord Meyer Jr., February 8, 1951, box 1, Papers of Cord Meyer. There were also letters between journalist Walter Lippman and Cord during 1951 that might have suggested Lippman’s assistance to Cord in procuring some kind of job as a journalist, but nothing specific.

42
.   Meyer, Journal, December 10, 1945.

43
.   Ibid.

44
.   Victor Marchetti, interview by the author, Ashburn, Va., October 4, 2007.

45
.   Meyer, Journal, January 3, 1950.

46
.   Anonymous source, interview by the author, February 3, 2004.

47
.   Meyer, Journal, February 26, 1953.

48
.   Ibid., September 7, 1953. Here, Cord wrote several pages on what had occurred on the afternoon of August 31.

49
.   Meyer,
Facing Reality
, pp. 70–71.

50
.   Meyer, Journal, February 1, 1954. Cord recorded here the outcome of his trip to New York.

51
.   Ibid., November 8, 1954.

52
.   Benjamin C. Bradlee,
A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), p. 159.

53
.   James McConnell Truitt letter to Deborah Davis, May 11, 1979. The letter was part of the files of the late author Leo Damore and was subsequently verified by author Deborah Davis.

54
.   Meyer., Journal, October 18, 1955.

55
.   Ibid.

56
.   James McConnell Truitt letter to Deborah Davis, January 30, 1979. This event was also reported in Deborah Davis’s
Katharine the Great
(p. 230) and Nina Burleigh’s
A Very Private Woman
(p. 204).

57
.   David, Acheson, interview by the author, Washington, D.C., December 10, 2008.

58
.   Meyer, Journal, December 30, 1956.

59
.   Ibid., January 15, 1957.

60
.   Cord Meyer Jr., “Notes” 1957, box 5, Papers of Cord Meyer.

61
.   Truitt,
Daybook
, p. 165.