The Passage of Power (142 page)

“Every time”
:
Bell, quoted in Miller,
Lyndon,
p. 305.
“Mr. President” and “Johnny”
:
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 169.
“Always talked”
:
Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 598.
“They hardly”
:
Isaiah Berlin, quoted in Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 233.
“Osmosis”
:
Thimmesch and Johnson,
Robert Kennedy at Forty,
p. 110.

Jenkins call:
Seigenthaler interview.
Kitchen scene:
Spalding OH, March 22, 1969, p. 64; Spalding interview with Stein, from Stein Papers, quoted in Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 623; Seigenthaler interview, OH; Shesol,
Mutual Contempt,
p. 9. Bobby gives a summary of it in his OH, Feb. 29, 1965, Guthman and Shulman, eds.,
Robert Kennedy: In His Own Words,
p. 26.
Checking with Seigenthaler:
Seigenthaler interview; Seigenthaler OH, Vol. 2 of 4, pp 158–61, JFKL.
“Genuine contempt”
:
Life,
Jan. 22, 1962.
“Lies all the time”
:
Guthman and Shulman, eds.,
In His Own Words,
p. 26.

“A bunch”
;
“simply because”
:
Joseph Kennedy, quoted in Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 473.
“There is”
:
Joseph Kennedy, quoted in Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 47.
“To write off”
:
Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 569.
“Came clad”
:
Goodwin,
Remembering America,
p. 447.
“Horrified”
:
Rose Kennedy, quoted in Goodwin,
Remembering America,
pp. 446–47.

“A subjugated”
:
Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
pp. 73–74.
“I never saw”
;
“have become”
:
Robert Kennedy, quoted in Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
pp. 75–76.
“A maturity”
:
Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 77.

“Nothing came easy”
:
Jean Kennedy Smith, quoted in Smith,
Bad Blood,
p. 34.
Graduated 56th:
Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 87.
Bunche incident:
Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
pp. 85–87; Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
pp. 55–56.
“His black and white”
;
“the madder”
:
Davison, quoted in Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 86.
“Gutless”
:
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 55.
“An experiencing nature”
:
Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 602.

“Overloaded”
:
Seigenthaler interview.
As he was:
Interviews with children in TV specials.
“Unlike”
;
“And please”
;
“Hush, now”
:
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 187.
As if;
“Cannot bear”
:
Paul O’Neill, “The No. 2 Man.”
“There wasn’t”
:
Buchwald, quoted in Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 585.
“Children in”
;
“Children dissolved”
:
Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 585.
“Because he”
:
Robert Kennedy, quoted in Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 589.

“Would fly down”
:
Baldridge, quoted in Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 190.
“Dad”
:
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 190; Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 589.
“Jack … was off”
:
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 91.
“You knew that”
:
Jacqueline Kennedy, quoted in Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 91.

Frankfurter incident:
Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 379.
“It’s pretty easy”
:
Spalding OH.
“His most tenaciously”
:
Goodwin,
Re-membering America,
p. 444.

Soviet Union trip:
Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
pp. 121–26.
“Already Bobby’s reputation”
:
Wofford,
Of Kennedys and Kings,
pp. 32–33.
Meeting frequently:
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
pp. 137–38; Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
pp. 499–502.

“The sharpest”
;
“One immediately”
;
“Thought he was”
:
Shesol,
Mutual Contempt,
p. 69.
“The most impressive”
:
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 111.
“His willingness”; a quality “he had”
:
Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
pp. 240–41.
“He had … a way”
:
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 246.
“Bob never pauses”
:
Dolan OH, quoted in Shesol,
Mutual Contempt,
p. 69.
“The band of brothers”
:
One of them, Ed Guthman, named his book
We Band of Brothers.

“In the manner”; less [than]
:
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 114.
“It was”
;
“That was”
;
“rather precious”
:
Clark, Morgenthau, Longworth, quoted in Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
pp. 243, 240, 592.

“The strong, stern”
:
Quoted in Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 190.

“Bullshit”
:
Goodwin,
Remembering America,
p. 447.

Schulberg episode:
Budd Schulberg, “RFK—Harbinger of Hope,”
Playboy,
Jan. 1960.

“The worst of times brought”
:
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 210.
“I’m older”
:
Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 508.
“Very much”
:
Ball, quoted in Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 210.

Harriman episode:
Shesol,
Mutual Contempt,
p. 71.
Bowles episode:
Sidey,
John F. Kennedy,
p. 125; Reeves,
President Kennedy,
pp. 104–5.
“Became suddenly”
:
Goodwin,
Remembering America,
p. 187.

“Most obvious fault”
;
“Why”
:
Pat Anderson, “Robert’s Character,”
Esquire,
April 1965.
“His eyes get steely”
:
Collier and Horowitz,
The Kennedys,
p. 294.
Patterson photograph:
Pat Anderson, “Robert’s Character”; New field interview.
“Even approaching”
:
Thimmesch and Johnson,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 28.
“I’d like”
:
Paul O’Neill, “No. 2 Man.”
“Just when”
:
Schaap,
R.F.K.,
p. 47.
“From day one”
:
Irwin Ross and Joseph Wershba, “The Kid Brother,”
NYP,
March 29, 1964.

“An insult”
:
Collier and Horowitz,
The Kennedys.
“It was almost”
;
“hysterical,” etc.
:
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
pp. 146–49.
“The Kennedys made clear”
:
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 153.
“The truth is unknowable”
:
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 154.
In April, 1963:
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 239.
“My God”
:
Collier and Horowitz,
The Kennedys,
p. 290.

“Despite”
:
Collier and Horowitz,
The Kennedys,
p. 227.
“Walkie-talkies”
:
Schaap,
R.F.K.,
p. 108.
Fourteen grand juries; Orchestrated;
“It would”
:
Thimmesch and Johnson,
Robert Kennedy,
pp. 262, 78.

“Bobby hates like me”
:
NYP,
March 29, 1964. And see
note, Chapter 3
.

“I’m affected”
:
Guthman and Schulman, eds.,
In His Own Words,
pp. 410–17.

“They went”
:
Gonella interview. She had resigned from his staff in 1962, but was still a part of the Johnson group socially, and would later return to work for him.

Two middle-level:
Shesol,
Mutual Contempt,
p. 105.

“No one can outlast”
;
“I can’t stand”
:
Goodwin,
Remembering America,
pp. 72, 415.
“He just eats up”
:
Guthman and Shulman, eds.,
In His Own Words,
p. 415.
“If your brother”
:
Shesol,
Mutual Contempt,
p. 108.
“A manipulative”
:
Smith,
Grace and Power,
p. 175.
“Makes it very difficult”
:
Guthman and Schulman, eds.,
In His Own Words,
pp. 415, 417.
“He [Bobby] recoiled”
:
Schlesinger interview.
“It was southwestern”; No affection
:
Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
p. 623.

“I don’t”
;
“He insisted”
:
Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 205.
“Bobby, literally sick”
:
Bradlee,
A Good Life,
p. 210.
He couldn’t:
The day before the balloting, “the count showed 740—21 short of a majority. He concluded crisply: ‘We can’t miss a trick in the next twenty-four hours. If we don’t win tonight, we’re dead’ ” (Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 206). Ted Kennedy interview.

Johnson knew:
Connally, Corcoran, Reedy interviews.
“Ruin”
:
Caro,
Master,
p. 831.
“That’s Bobby”
:
Corcoran interview.
“If it had had”
:
Shesol,
Mutual Contempt,
p. 8.
“Never would”
:
Collier and Horowitz,
The Kennedys,
p. xxx.
“Always”
:
Richard Goodwin interview.

“Losers’ table”
:
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 290.

Voodoo doll:
Hugh Sidey, “He Made a Truce with a Man He Came Almost to Hate,”
Life,
Nov. 18, 1966. “The merriment was overwhelming,” Sidey reported.
He would pore:
Busby interview.
“The humane”
;
“all sorts”
:
Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 592;
A Thousand Days,
p. 696.
“They’re trying”
:
Busby interview.
A storm:
Califano,
The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson,
pp. 294–95.
“The response”
:
Goldman,
The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson,
p. 250.
“He just”
:
Baker,
Wheeling.

“Time is”
:
Gore Vidal, “The Best Man—1968,”
Esquire,
March 1963.
lbj may face:
NYHT,
April 6, 1963.
“A great many”
:
Gould Lincoln,
WES,
March 7, 1963.
“Emphatically not”
;
“This certainly”
:
Philadelphia Inquirer,
March 2, 1963.
“At this time”
:
Wichita Falls Record-News,
March 4, 1963.
“The Washington press corps”
:
Reedy to Johnson, Jan. 12, 1963, Office Files of George Reedy.
“My future”
:
Busby interview.

Received:
Fullerwood and Hawthorne to Johnson, Feb. 23, 1963, “Public Activities—Travel [Florida March 11, 1963],” Box 226, Vice Presidential Papers, 1963 Subject File, LBJL. (Unless otherwise specified, all documents in the St. Augustine section are from this file.)
“I cannot go”
:
Peek interview.
“Nothing to get excited”
; would embarrass:
Reedy to Johnson, Feb. 28, 1963. Trying to head off the embarrassment, Holland tried—unsuccessfully—to get an appointment with Johnson, and finally sent a message: “I am very anxious to find out what the Vice President’s plans are.… The Negroes … are just trying to make trouble” (Jenkins to Johnson, March 4, 1963).

Reedy learned:
Peek interview; Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
p. 37.
Exactly 62:
Hall to Johnson, March 1, 1963.
“St. Augustine does not have”
;
“if necessary”
;
“emerge”
:
Reedy to Johnson, Feb. 28, 1963.

How, with barely:
Caro,
Master of the Senate,
p. 741.
“Squat in the road”
:
Caro,
Master,
p. 889.
Johnson told Reedy:
Peek interview.
Peek found them amenable:
Newton to Peek, Feb. 27, 1963, “March 11, 1963, Remarks by Vice President at Dinner Commemorating …, Box 77, Statements File; Roberts to Johnson, March 1, 1963.
Reedy
then persuaded:
Reedy interview; Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
p. 38.
He didn’t want; It wasn’t just:
Reedy interview.
Peek was able to assure:
Roberts to Johnson, March 1, 1963.
“No event”
:
Johnson to Fullerswood, March 7, 1963, David Colburn Papers, University of Florida, quoted in Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
p. 36.