The Kennedy Men: 1901-1963 (135 page)

RKIHOW: Edwin O. Guthman and Jeffrey Shulman, eds.,
Robert Kennedy: In His Own Words
(New York: Bantam, 1988)

RL: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, New York

RWC: Robert White Collection, Florida International Museum, St. Petersburg. Courtesy of Robert White RWP: Richard Whalen Papers, JFKPL. Courtesy of Richard Whalen,

SB: Richard D. Mahoney,
Sons and Brothers: The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy
(New York: Arcade, 1999)

SJFK: Herbert S. Parmet,
Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy
(New York: Dial, 1980)

TD: Robert F. Kennedy,
Thirteen Days
(New York: Norton, 1969)

TEEK: Burton Hersh,
The Education of Edward Kennedy
(New York: William Morrow, 1972)

TEW: Robert F. Kennedy,
The Enemy Within
(New York: Harper, 1960)

TFB: Edward M. Kennedy, ed.,
The Fruitful Bough: A Tribute to Joseph P. Kennedy
(privately printed, 1965)

TKL: Theodore C. Sorensen,
The Kennedy Legacy
(New York: Macmillan, 1969)

TOB: Burton Hersh,
The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA
(New York: Scribner’s, 1992)

TR: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy,
Times to Remember
(Garden City, N.Y.: Double-day, 1974)

WES: John F. Kennedy,
Why England Slept
(New York: Wilfred Funk, 1940)

WK: Pierre Salinger,
With Kennedy
(New York: Doubleday, 1966)

WNJ: C. David Heymann,
A Woman Named Jackie
(New York: Lyle Stuart, 1989)

YM: David Cecil,
The Young Melbourne
(New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1939)

Notes

1. A True Man

3 arranged for her only son: This account of Joe Kennedy’s journey to Boston to deliver hats is based on a LL interview with Mary Lou McCarthy, and on KMPK.

3 piercing, dismissive eyes: LL interview with Mary Lou McCarthy, and KMPK.

3 Driven from their land: Andrew Buni and Alan Rogers,
Boston, City on a Hill
(1984), p. 76.

4 an estate of: 1860 census, ward 2, East Boston, June 1860, p. 203, Boston Vital Records.

4 As the driver guided:
East Boston Argus-Advocate,
souvenir edition, May 1897.

4 She sent one daughter: Laurence Leamer,
The Kennedy Women
(1994), p. 20.

4 shot glass filled: Interview, Joe Kane, KP.

4 “slick as grease”:
East Boston Argus-Advocate,
August 20, 1892.

5 He and his business associates: Leamer, pp. 99-100.

5 the largest Jewish community: Sari Roboff,
East Boston: Boston 200 Neighborhood History Series
(1976), p. 6.

6 jammed together: Buni and Rogers, p. 92. 6 if an Italian: ibid., p. 93.

6 Susan Southworth and Michael Southworth,
The AIA Guide to Boston
(1984), p. 437.

7 quasi-apes, as looming, salivating simian wretches: L. Perry Curtis Jr.,
Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Caricature
(1997), p. 58.

7 “simply an Americanized …”: Stephen Halpert and Brenda Halpert, introduction and narrative,
Brahmins and Bully boys: G. Frank Radway’s Boston Album
(1973), p. 3.

8 a rented house: Tax Assessor’s Records, BPL, 1886, p. 94.

9 had Joe photographed in a long dress: Joseph Kennedy sent a copy of the photo to his son, Edward Kennedy. “What I would particularly like you to observe is the sharp piercing eyes, the very set jaw and the clenched left fist,” he wrote. “Maybe all of this meant something!” Quoted in TFB, P.8.

10 “Any nation that cannot …”: Mary Cable,
The Little Darlings: A History of Child Rearing in America
(1975), p. 172. 10 “a perfect gentleman …”: E. Anthony Rotundo,
American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
(1993), p. 269.

10 “An able-bodied young …”: G. Stanley Hall,
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
(1904), p. 94. 10 “Better even …”: ibid., p. 100.

10 hitched a ride: Richard J. Whalen,
The Founding Father: The Story of Joseph P. Kennedy
(1964), p. 21.

10 playing with a toy pistol: P. J. Kennedy letter in Loretta Kennedy Connelly collection, courtesy Mary Lou McCarthy and Kerry McCarthy.

11 One Memorial Day: TFB, p. 7.

11 One summer Joe got together: Whalen, p. 21.

11 finest public school: Philip Marson,
Breeder of Democracy
(1963), p. 68.

12 His grades were pathetic: Boston Latin School transcript, HUA. 12 Joe took his friend: interview, Walter Elcock Jr., RWP.

12 prove their manhood: Hasia R. Diner,
Erin’s Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century
(1983), pp. 22-23.

12 “homosexuality …”: G. Stanley Hall,
Life and Confessions of a Psychologist
(1923), pp. 132-33.

14 “in a very roundabout way”: Whalen, p. 24.

2. Gentlemen and Cads

16 “Compared to any …”: M. M., “The Yard Dormitories,”
Harvard Advocate,
1909, p. 3, KUA.

16 “A hundred or so …”: quoted in Charles Hawthorne Weston, “The Problem in Democracy at Harvard,”
Harvard Advocate,
Spring 1912, KUA.

16 “Three Cs and …”: A. M. Schlesinger Jr., “Harvard Today,”
Harvard Advocate,
September 1936, KUA.

16 “Our friendships …”: H. E. P., “The Importance of Being a Sport,”
Harvard Advocate,
May 1908, HUA.

17 About two-thirds: Ronald Story,
Harvard and the Boston Upper Class: The Forging of an Aristocracy, 1800-1870
(1980), p. 173.

17 young men largely dominated: Morrison I. Swift wrote in the
Harvard Illustrated
in May 1911: “The irreducible fact [is] that the rich men’s sons, whether confessedly or not, are the central figures of the college,” KUA.

17 almost all Irish immigrant: James Joseph Kenneally,
The History of American Catholic Women
(1990), p. 113.

17 One of them: M. A. DeWolfe Howe,
Barrett Wendell and His Letters
(1924), p. 47.

17 “over-civilized man …”: Theodore Roosevelt,
The Strenuous Life
(1904), P.7.

18 “When the students entered …”:
Harvard Crimson,
October 19, 1908, KUA.

18 “Our ancestors have bred …”: William James,
The Moral Equivalent of War and Other Essays
(1971), pp. 5-7. 18 finance committee of the Freshman:
Harvard Crimson,
February 20, 1909, KUA.

18 one of the fifteen ushers: ibid., March 12, 1909, KUA.

19 “the private school …”: ibid., April 10, 1912, KUA. 19 in one typical …: ibid., December 6, 1911, KUA.

19 “the most magnificent sight …”: Thomas Goddard Bergin,
The Game: The Harvard-Yale Football Rivalry, 1875-1983
(1984), p. 100.

19 graduate of Worcester:
Harvard Crimson,
December 6, 1911, KUA.

20 Fisher was class: Harvard class alumni bulletin, 1912, p. 101, KUA.

20 “Important fall baseball …”:
Harvard Crimson,
October 1, 1908, KUA.

20 “We’re the two …”: TFB, p. 283.

21 “For a short while …”: Joseph F. Dinneen,
The Kennedy Family
(1959), p. 14, and Whalen, p. 30.

21 in a typical year: Weston, “The Problem in Democracy …”

22 The tap on Joe’s door: Doris Kearns Goodwin, p. 215.

22 “Everywhere was to be seen …”:
Harvard Crimson,
February 25, 1911, KUA.

23 “a peculiar kind …”: Winfield Scott Hall,
A Manual of Sex Hygiene
(1913), pp. 75-76.

23 “He talked himself …”: interview, Arthur Goldsmith, RWP.

23 first professional baseball coach: Joe Bertagna,
Crimson in Triumph
(1986), p. 151.

24 thrown our his arm: Whalen, p. 27.

24 he did as well: Joe Kennedy batted .285, getting two hits in seven times at bat.
Harvard Crimson,
September 26, 1911, KUA. 24 “No year and no …”: ibid., May 13, 1909.

24 “carrying in his …”: Henry James,
Charles W. Eliot: President of Harvard University,
vol. 2 (1930), p. 60.

24 On the football: ibid., p. 69.

25 “a rather hysterical …”:
Harvard Crimson,
May 6, 1909, KUA. 25 “Baseball is on trial …”: ibid., May 4, 1912, KUA.

25 At the beginning of : John A. Blanchard, ed.,
The H Book of Harvard Athletics: 1852-1922
(1923), p. 148.

26 “rather crude material”:
Harvard Alumni Bulletin,
1911, KUA.

27 The game stayed close:
Boston Globe,
June 24, 1911.

28 “My father and I …”: TR, p. 61.

27 did not even mention Joe:
Harvard Crimson,
June 22, 1911, KUA.

27 one of only 36: At the end of the football season, the
H
men at the university doubled to seventy. ibid., December 6, 1911.

27 “2,262 undergraduates …”: ibid., December 15, 1911, KUA.

27 petitioned to graduate: Joseph P. Kennedy to P. J. Kennedy, September 30, 1911, Joseph P. Kennedy Records, HUA.

27 during his four years: Joseph P. Kennedy records, HUA.

3. Manly Pursuits

28 “If you’re going …”: interview, Joe Kane, KP.

28 With the barest hint: LL interviews with Mary Lou McCarthy and Kerry McCarthy.

29 “I had read …”: interview, Rose Kennedy, RCP.

29 seventy-five guests: Gail Cameron,
Rose: A Biography of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
(1971), p. 69.

29 Honey Fitz began yelling: LL interview with Geraldine Hannon.

29 “is in a condition …”: Hall,
Manual,
p. 69.

30 “the most desperate cases …”: Barnarr A. Macfadden,
The Virile Powers of Superb Manhood: How Developed, How Lost, How Regained
(1900), p. 38.

30 Some experts: Hall,
Manual,
p. 83.

30 “Now listen, Rosie …”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, p. 392.

30 11 percent: Bruce A. Phillips,
Brookline: The Evolution of an American Jewish Suburb
(1990), p. 28.

32 “by accepting the idea …”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, p. 272.

32 “natural cynicism”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Lord Max Beaverbrook, October 23, 1944, NHP.

34 “The strikers …”:
Boston Globe,
November 1, 1917.

34 “probably no one …”: David Palmer, “Organizing the Shipyards, Unionization at the New York, Federal Ship and Fore River, 1898-1945,” Brandeis University Ph.D. diss., 1989, p. 19, NHP.

34 “The female sex … “: Charles G. Herbermann, et al.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia
(1912), p. 687.

35 suffered from an ulcer: TR, p. 80.

35 “Tommy, it’s so easy …”: interview, Oscar Haussermann, RWP. 35 close to seven hundred thousand dollars: Ronald Kessler,
The Sins of the Father
(1996), p. 31.

35 high-stakes game: ibid.

36 In January 1920: Doris Kearns Goodwin, p. 305. 36 “If you need more …”: quoted in ibid., p. 307.

36 “I don’t know how …”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Vera Murray, August 15, 1921, JPKP, HTF, p.29.

37 “I hope you have …”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Arthur Houghton, September 19, 1921, HTF, p. 31.

37 There were 125 beds: Doris Kearns Goodwin, p. 310.

37 half his wealth:
Boston Globe,
May 23, 1963.

38 forward-looking men: Lynn Dumenil,
The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
(1995), p. 233.

38 In 1926 the Canadian: A&E documentary,
Prohibition,
based on the book by Edward Behr,
Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America
(1996), an LL interview with Edward Behr.

39 “there was a …”: interview with Cartha DeLoach.

39 “Joe brought the …”: LL interview with Patty McGinty Gallagher. 39 He founded the famous: Hank Messick,
The Silent Syndicate
(1967), p. 163.

39 Fitzgerald says: LL interview with Benedict Fitzgerald. 39 confirmed by Q. Byrum Hurst: LL interview with Q. Byrum Hurst. 39 vowed he did not commit: Graham Nown,
The English Godfather
(1987), p. 47.