The Patriarch (107 page)

9
. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,
The Crisis of the Old Order: 1919–1933
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957), 206.

10
. Joe McCarthy,
The Remarkable Kennedys
(New York: Popular Library, 1960), 46.

11
. William E. Leuchtenburg,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
(New York: Harper, 1963), 4.

12
. JPK to WRH, Apr. 19, 1982; WRH to JPR Apr. 19, 30, 1932, box 7, Hearst.

13
.
NYT,
May 9, 10, 1932.

14
. JPK to WRH, May 10, 1932, box 7, Hearst.

15
. REFK and RC, Jan. 4, 1972, box 10, REFKP.

16
.
NYT,
July 14, 1932; statements, w.b. 8, JPKP.

17
. Raymond Moley,
The First New Deal
(New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966), 379.

18
. Wheeler,
FB
folders, EMKP; Schlesinger,
Crisis of the Old Order,
300.

19
. Roy Howard to Newton Baker, July 12, 1932, box 122, Baker; WRH to Millicent Hearst, July 3, 1932, carton 12, Hearst.

20
.
NYT,
July 11, 12, 13, 1932.

21
. St. John to JPK, June 14, 1932, box 20, JPKP.

22
. JKS to author, Oct. 19, 2009.

23
. EMK to author, Aug. 21, 2007.

24
. JPK, Jr., to JPK, Jan. 26, 1930, Smith,
HTF,
89; JKS to author, Oct. 19, 2009.

25
. FDR to JPK, Aug. 23, 1932, in
FDR: His Personal Letters,
ed. Elliott Roosevelt (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947–1950), 3:294.

26
. JPK to Giannini, Sept. 8, 1932, Smith,
HTF
, 98–9; JPK to WRH, Sept. 6, 1932, box 7, Hearst.

27
.
NYT,
Sept. 9, 1932; James L. Wright, “Joe Kennedy Sits in Inner Circle,”
BSG,
Sept. 25, 1932.

28
. James Roosevelt,
FB
folders, EMKP.

29
. Wright,
BSG,
Sept. 25, 1932.

30
. Moley,
First New Deal,
380; Dowling, oral history, 311–12, CUOH.

31
. Farley and Walker to JPK, Sept. 16, 1932, box 72, JPKP.

32
. Wright,
BSG,
Sept. 25, 1932.

33
. Jack Warner, with Dean Jennings,
My First Hundred Years in Hollywood
(New York: Random House, 1965), 215–16; Jack Warner,
FB
folders, EMKP.

34
. JPK, Jr., to REFK, Oct. 9, 1932, Smith,
HTF,
99.

35
. On campaign contributions, w.b. 31, JPKP; Louise Overacker, “American Government and Politics: Campaign Funds in a Depression Year,”
American Political Science Review
(October 1933), 778–79.

36
. JPK to WRH, Oct. 19, 1932, box 7, Hearst.

37
. FDR to JPK, Oct. 24, 1932, box 70, JPKP; Raymond Moley,
After Seven Years
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939), 63.

38
. JPK to Elliott Roosevelt, [Nov. 10, 1932], Smith,
HTF,
101–2.

ELEVEN: WAITING FOR THE CALL

1
. WRH to JPK, Nov. 14, 15, Hearst.

2
.
NYT,
Nov. 20, 1932; Hays to JPK, Nov. 9, 1932, box 70, JPKP.

3
. JPK to Hiram Brown, box 70, JPKP.

4
. Moley,
First New Deal,
381; REFK, “Married Life,” box 12, REFKP; Frank Friedel,
FDR: Launching the New Deal,
(Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1973) 138; Democratic National Committee papers, box 460, FDRL.

5
. JPK to Willicombe, Dec. 1, 1932, box 7, Hearst.

6
. JPK to WRH, Dec. 14, 24, 1932, box 7, Hearst.

7
. WRH to JPK, Dec. 28, 1932, box 7, Hearst; JPK to FDR, Dec. 29, 1932, box 70, JPKP.

8
. Moley,
First New Deal,
381.

9
. E. J. Kahn, Jr.,
The World of Swope
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965), 378–79.

10
. Schlesinger,
Crisis of the Old Order,
457.

11
. JPK to FDR, Mar. 14, 1933, Smith,
HTF,
116.

12
. FDR to JFK, Mar. 29, 1933, PPF 227, FDRL.

13
. JPK to JFK, Feb. 10, 1933, Smith,
HTF,
116.

14
. Details of sale, w.b. 23, JPKP.

15
. FDR to JPK, May 11, 1933, PPF 207, FDRL.

16
. JPK to FDR, May 19, 1933, Smith,
HTF,
117.

17
. Moley,
First New Deal,
381–82.

18
. Warburg, oral history, vol. 3, 233, 407, 410, CUOH.

19
. U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, “Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency,” 73rd Cong., 2nd sess., 1933, 6,218–46.

20
. Consolidated balance statement, Dec. 31, 1933, w.b. 9, JPKP.

21
. James Roosevelt, with Bill Libby,
My Parents: A Differing View
(New York: Playboy Press, 1976), 210; Ronald Weir,
The History of the Distillers Company, 1877–1939
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), 280; Alva Johnson, “‘Jimmy’s Got It,’”
Saturday Evening Post,
July 2, 1938.

22
. JPK to JPK, Jr., Nov. 21, Dec. 4, 1933, box 1, JPKP; Weir,
History of the Distillers Company,
280.

23
. Murphy to JPK, Sept. 19, 1940, w.b. 32; abstract of trust agreements, w.b. 22, JPKP.

24
. REFK,
TTR,
145.

25
. KKH to JPK, Jan. 8, 1934, Smith,
HTF,
123.

26
. JPK to JPK, Jr., Nov. 21, 1933, box 1, JPKP.

27
. JPK to G. St. John, Nov. 21, 1933, Smith,
HTF,
120.

28
. G. St. John to JPK, Nov. 27, 1933, box 20, JPKP.

29
. Michael O’Brien,
John F. Kennedy
(New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2005), 70; JPK to JPK, Jr., Feb. 14, 1934, Smith,
HTF,
126.

30
. Krock, “Sweeping Changes,”
NYT,
Nov. 12, 1933.

31
. JPK to FF, Dec. 5, 1933, Smith,
HTF,
121–220.

32
. FF, oral history, JFKOHP; Isaac Kramnick and Barry Sheerman,
Harold Laski: A Life on the Left
(New York: Penguin Press, 1993), 187, 309.

33
. JPK to JPK, Jr., Feb. 14, 1934, Smith,
HTF,
126–27; JPK to JPK, Jr., Feb. 21, JPK, Jr., to JPK, Feb. 23, 1934, box 1, JPKP.

34
. JPK to JPK, Jr., Feb. 14, 1934, Smith,
HTF,
126–27.

35
. Cited in Deborah E. Lipstadt,
Beyond Belief
(New York: Free Press, 1986), 14.

36
. JPK, Jr., to JPK, Apr. 23, 1934, Smith,
HTF,
130–31.

37
. JPK to JPK, Jr., May 4, 1934, Smith,
HTF,
133–35.

38
. JPK to FF, Feb. 14, 1934, Smith,
HTF,
124–25.

TWELVE: TO WASHINGTON

1
.
Time,
Feb. 26, 1934.

2
. JPK to FF, Feb. 14, 1934, Smith,
HTF,
124; FF to JPK, Mar. 19, 1934, box 37, JPKP.

3
. JPK, memorandum, n.d., Smith,
HTF,
127–29.

4
. JPK to JPK, Jr., May 4, 1934, Smith,
HTF,
133–36.

5
. JPK to Louis Ruppel, May 18, 1934, box 71, JPKP.

6
. Harold Ickes,
The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes
(New York, Simon & Schuster, 1953), 1:172.

7
. Corcoran to FF, May 11, 1934, http://www.sechistorical.org/museum/papers/1930.

8
. Moley,
After Seven Years,
286.

9
. REFK, “Married Life,” box 12, REFKP.

10
. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.,
The Coming of the New Deal
(1958: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988), 468; Dowling, oral history, 366–67, CUOH; JPK, memorandum, n.d., Smith,
HTF,
137.

11
. JPK, memorandum, n.d., Smith,
HTF,
136–39; Moley,
After Seven Years,
 288.

12
.
New Republic,
July 11, 18, 1934.

13
. Sullivan to Swope, Aug. 1, 1934, w.b. 1, JPKP.

14
. Ronald Steele,
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
(Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1980), 200–201.

15
. Arthur Krock,
Memoirs
(New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968), 330–32.

16
. S. J. Woolf,
NYT,
Aug. 12, 1934; JPK, as told to John B. Kennedy, “Shielding the Sheep,”
Saturday Evening Post,
Jan. 18, 1936, 61, 64.

17
.
News-Week,
Aug. 4, 1934, 28;
Time,
July 22, 1935, 43, Mark Walston, “Riverside Palace,”
Bethesda Magazine
, March–April, 2009.

18
. REFK, “Married Life,” box 12, REFKP.

19
. Krock, memorandum, July 1, 1936, box 1, vol. 1, 64–66, Krock.

20
. Assorted letters, box 76; ER to Moore, Nov. 22, 1934, box 80, JPKP.

21
. Milton Freeman, in
The Making of the New Deal
, ed. Katie Louchheim and Jonathan Dembo (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983), 142.

22
. William O. Douglas,
Go East, Young Man: The Early Years
(New York: Random House, 1973), 258–59.

23
. Freeman, in
The Making of the New Deal,
141–42.

24
. Douglas,
Go East, Young Man,
269; Freeman, in
The Making of the New Deal,
141.

25
. Swope to JPK, July 24, 1934, http://www.sechistorical.org/museum/papers/1930.

26
. JPK, “Address . . . at National Press Club,” July 25, 1934, http://www.sechistorical.org/museum/papers/1930.

27
. “Topics in Wall Street,”
NYT,
July 26, 1934,
NYT;
Swope to JPK, July 25, 1934, http://www.sechistorical.org/museum/papers/1930; Berle to JPK, July 30, 1934, box 8, Berle.

28
. “First Annual Report . . . June 30, 1935,” http://www.sechistorical.org/museum/papers/1930.

29
. EMK,
TC,
34; REFK and RC, Jan. 4, 1972, box 10, REFKP.

30
. JPK to Father Nilus McAllister, Oct. 2, 1934, Smith,
HTF,
142.

31
. JPK to JPK, Jr., Oct. 2, 1934, Mar. 14, May 2, 1935, box 1, JPKP; JPK to JPK, Jr., Dec. 7, 1934, Smith,
HTF,
147.

32
. JPK to JPK, Jr., Oct. 2, 1934, box 1, JPKP; JPK to FF Oct. 9, 1934, Smith,
HTF,
143–34.

33
. JPK to JPK, Jr., Mar. 14, 1935, box 1, JPKP.

34
. Newton to REFK, n.d., w.b. 3, JPKP.

35
. JPK to JPK, Jr., Oct. 2, 1934; JPK to JFK, Oct. 10, 1934, box 1, JPKP.

36
. JPK to Newton, Oct. 14, 1934, Smith,
HTF,
145–46; RK to JPK, Oct. 15, 1934, Smith,
HTF,
146.

37
. JPK to Newton, Oct. 15, 1934, Smith,
HTF,
145; JPK to Good, Oct. 15, 1934; Good to JPK, Oct. 18, 1934, w.b. 3, JPKP.

38
. Good to JPK, Oct. 24, 1934, w.b. 3, JPKP.

39
. JPK to Lawrence, Nov. 21, 1934, w.b. 3, JPKP.

40
. JFK to JPK, Dec. 2, 1934; JPK to JFK, Dec. 5, 1934, Smith,
HTF,
146–47.

41
. KKH to JFK, n.d., in Hamilton,
JFK,
126.

42
. G. St. John to JPK, Feb. 9, 1935; JPK to G. St. John, Feb. 16, 1935, in Hamilton,
JFK,
126.

43
. JPK to KKH, Feb. 20, 1935, Smith,
HTF,
151.

44
. JPK to JFK, Apr. 29, 1935, box 1, JPKP.

45
. Thomas K. McCraw,
Prophets of Regulation
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984), 165; Douglas,
Go East, Young Man,
273–74.

46
. JPK, “Shielding the Sheep,” 68; JPK, “Address . . . at Union League Club of Chicago, Illinois,” Feb. 8, 1935, http://www.sechistorical.org/museum/papers/1930.

47
. “Address of Hon. Joseph P. Kennedy . . . at Union League Club of Chicago, Illinois,” Feb. 5, 1935, http://www.sechistorical.org/museum/papers/1930.

48
. “Address of Hon. Joseph P. Kennedy . . . Before American Arbitration Association, New York City,” Mar. 19, 1935, http://www.sechistorical.org/museum/papers/1930.

49
.
NYT,
Mar. 20, 1935.

50
. JPK to FDR, FDR to JPK, Feb. 19, 1935, OF 229, FDRL.

51
. JPK to BB, Apr. 26, 1935, box 79, JPKP.

52
. Ickes,
Secret Diary,
1:203, 206.

53
. JPK to JFK, Apr. 26, 1935, box 1, JPKP.

54
. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,
The Politics of Upheaval
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960), 345.

55
. Coblentz to WRH, May 9, 1935, outgoing box 1, Coblentz.

56
. WRH to Coblentz, May 15, 1935, box 4, Coblentz.

57
. FDR to JPK, May 15, 1935, PPF 207, FDRL.

58
. Edmond D. Coblentz, ed.,
William Randolph Hearst: A Portrait in His Own Words
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953), 179–80.

59
. JPK to Howe, Feb. 14, 1935, http://www.sechistorical.org/museum/papers/1930.

60
. JPK to Rayburn, June 28, 1935, Smith,
HTF
, 154.

61
. JPK to FDR, July 2, 1935, JPK to Wheeler, July 8, 1935, JPK to Pettengill, July 12, 1935; Pettengill to JPK, July 10, 15, 1935, http://www.sechistorical.org/museum/papers/1930.

62
. JPK to Swope, July 13, 1935, http://www.sechistorical.org/museum/papers/1930.

63
. FDR to JPK, July 11, 1935, box 71, JPKP.

64
. JPK to FDR, Sept. 6, 1935, OF 1060, FDRL.

65
. Robert S. Gallagher, “The Radio Priest,”
American Heritage,
Oct. 1972.

66
. Pearson and Allen, Sept. 3, 1935, http://www.aladin.wrlc.org/gsdl/collect/pearson/pearson.shtml.