The Passage of Power (131 page)

St. Lawrence proposal:
Sorensen,
Kennedy,
pp. 58–59.; O’Brien, pp. 272–75.
“Malaria”
:
Collier and Horowitz,
The Kennedys,
p. 167.
His back, requesting a suite; obtained permission:
Parmet,
The Struggles,
p. 308.

Broke into tears;
“looking tanned”
;
“37th year”
;
“inspiring”
:
Parmet,
Struggles,
pp. 309–15.
“Young Jack”
:
NYHT,
May 25, 1955, quoted in Parmet,
Struggles,
p. 316.
“Applauded”
:
Parmet,
Struggles,
p. 287.

“ ‘Old pal’ ”
;
“very sharp pain”
:
Smathers OH.

Effective star turn:
O’ Brien,
Kennedy,
p. 481; Rubin,
Forty Ways to Look at JFK,
p. 8.
“To
want
to be”
:
Caro,
Master of the Senate,
pp. 564–64.
“In the terms”
:
Sorensen interview.

“Telling me”
;
“I kept picturing”
:
Johnson, quoted in Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 790.
But the real:
Corcoran, Reedy, Rowe interviews.

“For the first time”
:
Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
p. 554.
NYT:
Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 790.
“even Democrats”
:
Douglass,
JFK and the Unspeakable,
p. 8.
Africa subcommittee:
Marcy OH.
Met at least
once:
Senate Historian Donald Ritchie, in Holt OH.
“Not in the top”
:
Smathers OH.

“He’s smart enough”
:
Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing,
p. 45.
“Pathetic”
:
Johnson, “Reminiscences of Lyndon B. Johnson,” Aug. 19, 1969, transcript of tape recording, p. 9, LBJL.
“A young whippersnapper”
:
Johnson, from a conversation with Goodwin, quoted in
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 780.
“weak and pallid”
:
Johnson, from a conversation with Goodwin, quoted in
Lyndon Johnson,
p. 201.

Jack Kennedy’s illnesses, back condition, and overall physical condition are dealt with in many biographies, including Dallek,
An Unfinished Life,
Hamilton,
JFK: Reckless Youth
and Reeves,
President Kennedy.
The discussion of his medical problems in this book is based also on the author’s discussions with Dr. Janet G. Travell, who treated the author’s own back problems (and to whom his first book,
The Power Broker:
Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
, is dedicated).
“Pretty tired”
:
Hamilton,
Reckless,
p. 87.
“We are still”
:
Dallek,
Unfinished,
p. 35.
Leukemia; prayers were said:
Hamilton,
Reckless,
p. 104.
“The Goddamnest”
:
Hamilton,
Reckless,
p. 110.
“Shit!!”
:
Dallek,
Unfinished,
p. 74.
“They were unable”
:
Hamilton,
Reckless,
p. 113.
“7,000”
:
Hamilton,
Reckless,
p. 219.
“Jack’s sense”
:
Hamilton,
Reckless,
p. 104.
“I’ve never”
:
Chafe,
Private Lives/Public Consequences,
p. 103.
“Jack Kennedy all during his life”
:
Billings, quoted in Hamilton,
Reckless,
p. 196.

Tried to enlist; fixed examination:
Gilbert,
The Mortal Presidency
, p. 146; Hamilton,
Reckless,
pp. 405–9; Dallek,
Unfinished,
pp. 81–83.

“Bucking bronchos”
:
Frank Henry, “Bucking Bronchos of the Sea,”
Science Digest
(condensed from the
Baltimore Sunday Sun,
April 23, 1944).
“Was in pain”
:
Iles, quoted in Hamilton,
Reckless,
pp. 517–18.
“Jack came home”
:
quoted in Hamilton,
Reckless,
p. 507.

“The most confused”
:
Dallek,
Unfinished,
p. 95.
PT-109 episode:
This account is based on John Hersey, “A Reporter at Large—Survival,”
The New Yorker,
June 17, 1944, and on Donovan,
PT-109: John F. Kennedy in World War II.

“He wanted to”
:
Cluster, quoted in Hamilton,
Reckless,
p. 610.
“ ‘What are you’ ”
:
Maguire, quoted in Hamilton,
Reckless,
p. 610.
“What impressed”
:
Rhoads, quoted in Hamilton,
Reckless,
p. 610.

Sinking three barges:
Hamilton, pp. 621–24.
“A definite”
:
Dallek,
Unfinished,
pp. 100–102.
Obviously:
Parmet,
Struggles,
p. 116.

“Joe used to”
:
Joseph Kennedy, Sr., quoted in Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 699.
“A temperament”
:
Joseph Kennedy, Sr., quoted in Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 705.
“He looked”
:
Lannan, quoted in Hamilton,
Reckless,
p. 680.
“Ill, sad and lonely”
:
Ernest W. Rose, Sr., quoted in Travell,
Office Hours,
p. 411.
“Very thin”
;
“My father”
:
Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 705.
“I’m just”
:
Dallek,
Unfinished,
p. 123.
“We played”
:
Blair and Blair,
The Search for JFK,
p. 191.
“He made us”
:
Dallek,
Unfinished,
p. 113.

“He was very retiring”
:
Kelly, quoted in Blair and Blair,
Search for JFK,
p. 448.
“He was not the ordinary”
:
Dalton, quoted in Parmet,
Struggles,
p. 150.
“Hard”
:
Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 646.

Trolley car scene:
Parmet,
Struggles,
p. 154.
5,000 to 1:
Joseph Kennedy, quoted in Hamilton,
Reckless,
p. 757.

“The collar”
:
Damore,
Cape Cod,
p. 87.
“Both mediocre”
:
Parmet,
Struggles,
p. 149.
Eunice mouthed:
Dallek,
Unfinished,
p. 124.
“A
quick”
:
Damore,
Cape Cod,
p. 87.
Neville incidents:
O’Donnell, Powers, and McCarthy,
“Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,”
p. 69.
Gold Star Mothers speech:
O’Donnell and Powers,
“Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,”
p. 54; Powers, quoted in Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
pp. 711–12.

A long day:
For example, Dallek,
Unfinished,
p. 123.
“At his best”
:
Burns,
John Kennedy,
p. 67.
“It was tough”
:
Patsy, quoted in Blair and Blair,
Search for JFK,
pp. 439–40.
“In agony”
:
Patsy, quoted in Blair and Blair,
Search for JFK,
p. 440.
“Off we’d go”
:
Kelley, quoted in Blair and Blair,
Search for JFK,
p. 438.
“I knew”
:
Broderick,
quoted in Parmet,
Struggles,
p. 154.
“I feel great”
:
Broderick, quoted in Parmet,
Struggles,
p. 154.
“I’d say”
:
Sutton, quoted in Blair and Blair,
Search for JFK,
p. 441.
Bunker Hill Day collapse:
Lee, quoted in Hamilton,
Reckless,
pp. 768, 769. See also Parmet,
Struggles,
p. 161.

“That young”
:
Parmet,
Struggles,
p. 191.
“Touch and go”
:
Waldrop, quoted in Blair and Blair,
Search for JFK,
p. 565.
Every three months:
Reeves,
President Kennedy,
p. 43.
“A whole new”
:
Billings, quoted in Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 745.

“Jack was aiming”
: Garside,
Camelot at Dawn,
p. 6.
His father’s money:
Someone “could live the rest of [their] lives on [his] billboard budget alone,” one observer said. “Cabot was simply overwhelmed by money” (Dallek,
Unfinished,
p. 171).
$500,000 loan:
For example, Parmet,
Struggles,
p. 242. “You know, we had to buy that fucking paper,” Joe was to say once (Dallek,
Unfinished,
p. 172).
“But … then”
:
O’Donnell and Powers,
“Johnny, We Hardly,”
p. 79.

“Just made up”
:
Bell, quoted in Parmet,
Struggles,
p. 271.
“Keep”
:
Brooklyn Eagle,
April 26, 1954.

“He could”
:
Billings, quoted in Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 774.
“Even getting”
:
Bartels, quoted in Blair and Blair,
Search for JFK,
p. 566.
“A
47-year-old”
:
Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 774.
“He told his father”
;
“inconceivable”
:
Rose Kennedy, quoted in Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 774.
“Thirty–seven”
:
Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 775.
“He told me”
:
Krock, quoted in Blair and Blair,
Search for JFK,
p. 571.

Back wouldn’t heal; the two operations:
Travell interview.
“And the doctors”
:
Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 776. “It was a terrible time,” Billings was to recall. “He was bitter and low. We came close to losing him. I don’t mean losing his life. I mean losing him as a person” (quoted in Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 776).
“Tanned and fit”
:
NYHT,
May 24, 1955.
“Aside from”
:
Boston Post,
May 24, 1955.

“It must have”
; first visit to Travell; Travell treatment:
Travell interview; Travell,
Office Hours,
pp. 5–7.
“Jack had”
:
Billings, quoted in Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 776.
“Higher office”
:
Garside, Anne,
Camelot at Dawn,
p. 6.
“I’m against vice”
:
Alsop with Platt,
“I’ve Seen the Best of It,”
p. 406.
Map:
Whalen,
The Founding Father,
pp. 446–47.
“Wide incision”
;
“Maybe Jack;”
Travell,
Office Hours,
p. 320.
“Scarcely”
:
Travell,
Office Hours,
p. 322.
Travell’s Palm Beach visit:
Travell interview, Travell,
Office Hours,
pp. 305–13.

Johnson’s first campaign:
Caro,
The Path to Power,
pp. 389–436.
“A candidate by El Greco”
:
Caro,
Path,
p. 434.
Johnson’s collapse:
Caro,
Path,
p. 435.

Johnson’s illness during 1948 campaign:
Caro,
Means,
pp. 194–208.
“Agonizing”
;
“unbearable”
:
Caro,
Means,
p. 195.
“How in the
world”
:
Dr. William Morgan, quoted in Caro,
Means,
p. 196.

“Learn on the run”
:
Mayer et al.,
The Making of the Presidential Candidates,
p. 232; Sorensen interview.
“The Senate”
;
“No matter”
:
Time,
Dec. 2, 1957.
One reason that:
Burns,
John Kennedy,
p. 189; Parmet,
Struggles,
pp. 380, 381. In 1957, in fact, Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor party had canceled Kennedy’s invitation to be the speaker at its Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner after he had voted “wrong” on the farm bill (Cabell Philips, “How to Be a Presidential Candidate,”
NYT Sunday Magazine,
July 13, 1958). And,
Time
said, “Kennedy’s major 1960 problem: he is still in the Senate, and he must vote on highly controversial issues.
In his votes last summer on the [1957] civil rights bill, Kennedy managed to please hardly anyone.”
“Pieces of power”
:
White,
Making 1960
; Rowe interview.
“Johnson thinks”
:
Sorensen interview.

“Just … jumped at you”
:
Schary, quoted in Parmet,
Struggles,
p. 367.
“Came before”
:
NYT,
Aug. 14, 1956.
“And then”
:
Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 784.
“The dramatic”
:
Burns,
John Kennedy,
p. 190.
“Jim, do you know?”
:
Rowe
interview.
“The most telegenic”
:
BG,
July 22, 1956, quoted in Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 780.
As long as he wore:
Travell,
Office Hours,
p. 320; Travell interview.