The Patriarch (113 page)

2
. KKH to family, n.d., box 3; REFK to girls, July 25, 1949, box 3, JPKP.

3
. JPK to Calder, July 31, 1946, box 216, JPKP.

4
. Commissioner of Internal Revenue to JPK, [1947], w.b. 22, JPKP.

5
. “How to Have Your Own Foundation,”
Fortune
, Aug. 1947.

6
. “Information guide,” Aug. 8, 1946, box 9, JFKPP.

7
.
BP,
Aug. 13, 1947; “Archbishop Cushing Announces,” Feb. 16, 1956, box 221, JPKP.

8
. Brian Burns to author, Apr. 22, 2010.

9
. Landis, oral history, 552–53, CUOH.

10
. Landis to JPK, July 20, 1951, box 51, LandisLC; JPK to Palmer, Mar. 22, 1955, box 233, JPKP.

11
. JPK to KKH, June 10, 1947, box 3, JPKP.

12
. JPK, Hotel Continental speech, Oct. 23, 1947, box 256, JPKP; Dalton, oral history, JPKOHP.

13
. JPK, Hotel Continental speech, Oct. 23, 1947, box 256, JPKP.

14
.
BP,
Apr. 18, 1948.

15
. Cunningham, “Kennedy Plan Purposeful,”
BH,
May 20, 1948.

16
. KKH to JKP, July 2, 1947, box 3, JPKP.

17
. JPK, May 14, 1948, Smith,
HTF,
636.

18
. Much of this account is taken from Lynn McTaggart,
Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times
(New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1983), 224–38; Leaming,
Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman,
194.

19
. JPK to Beaverbrook, July 27, 1948, c/193, Beaverbrook.

20
. JPK to Duchess of Devonshire, Sept. 1, 1948, Smith,
HTF,
637.

21
. Cavanaugh,
FB
folders, EMKP.

22
. Landis, memorandum on Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Memorial, Sept. 26, 1951, box 217, JPKP.

23
. JPK to EKS, Jan. 25, 1950, box 4, JPKP.

24
. Ange to JPK, Jan. 25, 1950, box 266; JPK to Ange, Jan. 31, 1950, box 266, JPKP.

25
. Landis, memorandum on Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Memorial,” Sept. 26, 1951, box 217; JPK to Ange, Aug. 8, 1951, box 266, JPKP.

26
. JPK to Wright, Sept. 18, 1951, box 266, JPKP.

27
. Cushing to JPK, Sept. 27, 1951, box 217, JPKP.

28
. JPK to Cushing, Aug. 6, 1952, box 217, JPKP.

29
. Cushing to JPK, Aug. 10, 1952, box 217, JPKP.

30
. Cushing,
FB
folders, EMKP.

31
. Spellman to JPK, Aug. 21, 1950, with enclosure of Spellman to Hartford, July 31, 1950, S/C-78, folder 10, AANY.

32
.
NYT,
Sept. 8, Oct. 30, 1950.

33
. JPK to Ford, Dec. 3, 1948, box 220, JPKP; Cushing to JPK, Dec. 4, 1948, Cushing.

34
. Sister Maureen to Ford, Dec. 21, 1948, box 220, JPKP.

35
. JPK to Ford, Dec. 31, 1948, box 220, JPKP.

36
. Daniel Bellei to author, June 2, 2010; JKS to author, Apr. 27, 2009; REFK,
TTR,
245.

37
. Ford to Sister Anastasia; Ford to Danforth, Jan. 16, 1950; JPK to Ford, Sept. 24, 1951, box 220, JPKP.

38
. Sister Anastasia to Ford, May 21, 1958, w.b. 3, JPKP.

39
. JPK to Sister Anastasia, May 29, 1958, w.b. 3, JPKP.

THIRTY-THREE: “THE GREAT DEBATE”

1
. JPK to Truman, Jan. 31, 1950, box 237, JPKP.

2
. JPK, “Summary of Talk,” June 30, 1950, Smith,
HTF,
638–41.

3
. JPK to Galeazzi, July 3, 1950, box 221, JPKP.

4
. Robert Donovan,
Tumultuous Years
(New York: Norton, 1982), 309, 275; Melvyn Leffler,
A Preponderance of Power
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), 398; Arnold A. Offner,
Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945–1953
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002), 396.

5
. JPK, Virginia Law School Forum speech, Dec. 12, 1950, 256, JPKP.

6
.
NYDM,
Dec. 13, 1950; Krock,
NYT,
Dec. 15, 1950; Lippmann,
NYHT,
Dec. 19, 1950.

7
. Joseph and Stewart Alsop,
NYHT,
Dec. 24, 1950.

8
. Press release, Jan. 6, 1951, box 8, JFKPP.

9
. JPK, Harmonie Club remarks, Feb. 3, 1951, box 258, JPKP.

10
.
BH,
Feb. 7, 1951;
BT,
Feb. 8, 1951.

11
. JFK, statement before the Committee on Foreign Relations, Feb. 22, 1951, box 6, JFKPP.

12
. JFK to JPK, Mar. 13, 1951, box 6, JFKPP; REFK to children, May 7, 1951, box 4, JPKP.

13
. JPK, meeting with Eisenhower, Apr. 1951, Smith,
HTF,
646–50.

14
. JPK to Galeazzi, May 18, 1951, box 221, JPKP.

15
. Reston to JPK, Nov. 7, 1951, box 233, JPKP; JPK to Duchess of Devonshire, June 22, 1951, Smith,
HTF
, 650.

16
. JPK to Ordway, June 11, 1951, box 232, JPKP.

17
. JPK to Galeazzi, July 3, 1950, May 18, 1951, box 221, JPKP.

18
. Rosenbloom,
FB
folders, EMKP.

19
. JPK to Howey, Mar. 4, 1954, box 223, JPKP.

20
. JPK to Poole, Nov. 20, 1951, box 233, JPKP.

21
. EMK,
TC,
95–56; EMK, in REFK,
TTR
, 123.

22
. EMK,
TC,
99.

23
. JPK to Biddle, Jan. 18, 1952, box 214, JPKP.

24
. JPK to Calder, Nov. 24, 1951, box 216, JPKP; EMK,
TC,
95–97.

25
. Cavanaugh,
FB
folders, EMKP.

26
. John Cavanaugh to JPK, with attachments, Sept. 24, 1951, box 249, JPKL.

THIRTY-FOUR: THE NEXT SENATOR FROM MASSACHUSETTS

1
. REFK,
TTR,
274.

2
. O’Donnell and Powers,
“Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,”
86–87.

3
. JPK to McInerny, Aug. 10, 1951, box 230, JPKP.

4
. JPK to JFK, Oct. 13, Nov. 2, 1951, box 4, JPKP.

5
. JFK to JPK, Oct. 31, 1951, box 4, JPKP.

6
. JFK, transcript of radio address, Nov. 14, 1951, box 135, JFKOF.

7
. JPK to Poole, Nov. 20, 1951, box 233, JPKP.

8
. Eunice Shriver,
FB
folders, EMKP.

9
. JPK to C. Fitzgerald, Oct. 22, 1951, box 220, JPKP.

10
. JPK to Calder, Nov. 24, 1951, box 216, JPKP.

11
. JPK to Spivak, Jan. 4, 1952, box 235, JPKP.

12
. JPK, Dec. 17, 1951 radio address, box 259, JPKP.

13
. JPK to Stevenson, Jan. 8, 1952, box 259, JPKP.

14
. JPK to Powers, Dec. 21, 1951, box 233, JPKP.

15
. JPK to Beaverbrook, Feb. 18, 1952, c/193, Beaverbrook; REFK and RC, Jan. 4, 1972, REFKP; EMK to author, Oct. 8, 2007; Downey,
FB
folders, EMKP.

16
. JPK to Galeazzi, Jan. 15, Feb. 19, 1952, box 221, JPKP.

17
. Sargent Shriver, oral history, Blair.

18
. Landis, oral history, 590, CUOH.

19
. Sargent Shriver, oral history, Blair; O’Donnell, in
American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy
, interviews by Jean Stein, ed. George Plimpton (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970), 40–41; O’Donnell and Powers, “
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,”
159.

20
. Droney, oral history, Nov. 30, 1964, JFKOHP.

21
. O’Donnell, in
American Journey,
41.

22
. O’Donnell and Powers,
“Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,”
98–99.

23
. Sargent Shriver, oral history, Blair.

24
. Robert David Johnson,
Congress and the Cold War
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 42–43; Lewin,
FB
folders, EMKP.

25
. Schlesinger to Landis, July 10, 1952, box 288, JPKP.

26
. Irwin Ross, “Joseph P. Kennedy: The True Story,”
New York Post
, Jan. 9, 1960.

27
. Trohan,
LAT,
July 25, 1960.

28
. James MacGregor Burns,
John Kennedy: A Political Profile
(New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1959), 113–14; Scott Stossel,
Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver
(Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2004), 109.

29
. David Oshinsky,
A Conspiracy So Immense
(New York: Free Press, 1983), 239–42.

30
. JPK to EMK, June 25, 1952, box 4, JPKP.

31
. “Up from South Boston: The Rise & Fall of John Fox,”
Time,
July 7, 1958; RFK, in O’Brien,
John F. Kennedy,
257.

32
. JPK to Ordway, Nov. 13, 1952, 232, JPKP.

33
. JPK to Clark, Nov. 15, 1952, box 216, JPKP.

THIRTY-FIVE: RETIREMENT

1
. Rowe to LBJ, Jan. 12, 1953, Rowe to JPK, James Landis, Jan. 12, 1953, LBJA Famous Names, James H., Jr., LBJL.

2
. JPK to Brickley, Mar. 12, 1953, box 215; JPK to C. Fitzgerald, Apr. 6, 1953, box 220, JPKP.

3
.
NYT,
July 10, 1953; Kevin Michael Schultz,
Tri-Faith America
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 76–77; JPK to Cavanaugh, July 22, 1953, box 216, JPKP.

4
. JPK to RFK, Aug. 15, 1954, box 4, JPKP.

5
. JPK to JFK, Aug. 19, 1954, box 4, JPKP.

6
. Nichols to Tolson, May 11, 1954, part ID, JPK file, FBI.

7
. Foster to JEH, July 2, 1954, JPK file, in JEH O&C, FBI.

8
. JPK to JEH, Oct. 11, 1955, box 224, JPKP.

9
. Memo to Tolson, Dec. 18, 1957, part VII, JPK file, FBI.

10
. JPK to Calder, Dec. 31, 1952, box 288, JPKP.

11
. Timothy Walch, “Some of My Best Friends Are Democrats,” in Walch,
Uncommon Americans: The Lives and Legacies of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003), 225–35; JPK to REFK, Apr. 20, 1955, box 4, JPKP.

12
. Foster to JEH, July 2, 1954, JPK file, in J. Edgar Hoover O&C, FBI.

13
. Macdonald to JPK, n.d.; JPK to Macdonald, July 22, 1953, box 229, JPKP.

14
. Christopher Lawford,
Symptoms of Withdrawal
(New York: HarperCollins, 2005), 6.

15
. EMK to author, Aug. 21, 2007.

16
. JPK to Downey, Aug. 23, 1954, box 218; JPK to JPK II, Sept. 24, 1954, box 4; JPKP.

17
. JPK to Champion, June 19, 1954, box 243, JPKP.

18
. REFK to children, Aug. 4, 1954, box 4; JPK to REFK, July 12, 1955; JPK to JKS, July 20, 1955, box 4, JPKP.

19
. JPK to EMK, Aug. 13, 1955, box 4, JPKP.

20
. JPK to McInerny, Aug. 29, 1954, box 230, JPKP.

21
. JPK to REFK, July 12, 1955, box 4, JPKP.

22
. JFK, EKS, JKS to JPK, Oct., 1954, box 4, JPKP.

23
. JPK to Downey, Aug. 23, 1954, box 218; JPK to Polly Fitzgerald, May 11, 1953, box 246, JPKP.

24
. JPK, diary, Aug. 14, 1954, box 101, JPKP.

25
. JPK to McInerny, Aug. 29, 1954, box 230, JPKP.

26
. JPK to JFK, Aug. 19, 1954, box 4, JPKP.

27
. JPK to McInerny, Aug. 29, 1954, box 230, JPKP.

28
. Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys,
774–75.

29
. JPK to Rosenbloom, Nov. 9, 1954, box 234, JPKP.

30
. Smathers to JPK, Nov. 9, 1954, box 235, JPKP.

31
. JPK to Watson, Dec. 3, 1954, box 252, JPKP.

32
. JPK to Jean Kerr McCarthy, n.d., box 230, JPKP.

33
. REFK to JPK, July 10, 1955, box 4; JPK to RFK, July 16, 1955, box 4, JPKP.

34
. JPK to Heffernan, Jan. 5, 1955, box 223, JPKP.

35
. Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys,
776.

36
. O’Donnell and Powers,
“Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,”
115.

37
. JPK to Galeazzi, Apr. 28, 1955, box 221, JPKP.

38
. JPK to JFK, July 30, 1955, box 4, JPKP.

39
. JPK to EMK, Sept. 3, 1955, box 4, JPKP.

40
. LBJ to JPK, Aug. 25, 1956, box 225, JPKP.

41
. McClellan to JPK, Sept. 11, 1954, box 230; JPK to ESK, July 20, Aug. 8, 1955, box 4, JPKP.

42
. William O. Douglas,
The Court Years, 1939–1975
(New York: Random House, 1980), 306.

43
. JPK to Dunn, July 30, 1955, box 218, JPKP.

44
. JPK to REFK, Aug. 24, 1955, box 4, JPKP.

45
. Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times,
137–38.

46
. Droney, oral history, Nov. 30, 1964, JFKOHP.

47
. EMK,
TC,
108–9.

48
. EMK to author, May 15, 2008.

49
. EMK to author, May 15, 2008; EMK,
TC
, 222.

THIRTY-SIX: MAKING MONEY AND GIVING IT AWAY

1
. Racine to author, Aug. 21, 2008.

2
. Kravis,
FB
folders, EMKP.

3
. Richard Austin Smith, “The Fifty-Million-Dollar Man,”
Fortune,
Nov. 1957; JPK to Ford, Aug. 3, 1954, box 226; JFK to JPK, July 31, 1954, box 4; JPK to JFK, Aug. 19, 1954, box 4, JPKP.

4
. REFK to girls, January 1952, box 4, JPKP.

5
. JPK to daughters, Feb. 18, 1952, box 4, JPKP.

6
. Wright to JPK, July 3, 1953, Wright; “Miscellaneous Donations,” box 267; “Archbishop Cushing Announces,” Feb. 16, 1956, box 221, JPKP.

7
. JPK to Denomy, Jan. 7, 1957, box 266; JPK to Royal, Jan. 27, 1953, box 235, JPKP.

8
. JPK to Edison, Oct. 31, 1957, box 267, JPKP.