An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (128 page)

p. 255: “God’s son”: Charles Peters OH.

p. 255: “stop-Kennedy”: “Memo from Lou Harris,” n.d., Box 27, Powers Papers; Press Releases, April 30, May 1 and May 2, 1960, Box 968, PPP; O’Donnell and Powers, 161-62, 168-69.

p. 256: JFK discussion with LBJ: As recorded by Arthur Krock; quoted in Dallek,
Lone Star Rising,
566-67.

p. 256: “millionaire ‘money’ candidates”: “West Virginia Attacks,” Box 994, PPP; Sorensen, 159-60.

p. 256: “personal abuse”: Clipping, “Kennedy Asks Humphrey to End ‘Personal Abuse’” n.d., Box 27, Powers Papers.

p. 256: “Poor little Jack”: “West Virginia Attacks,” Box 994, PPP.

p. 256: “I would suggest”: Ibid.; also Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
201.

p. 256: “They believed me”: Humphrey, 475.

pp. 256-57: “Any discussion”:
New York Times,
May 7, 1960.

p. 257: “As I told you last time”: ? to Frank, April 12, 1960, Box 27, Powers Papers.

p. 257: “Politics in West Virginia”: White,
Making, 1960,
99.

p. 257: Slates: Ibid., 99-100.

p. 257: “We would pay it”: Told to me by Joe Galzer, who worked in Humphrey’s campaign.

p. 257: Expenditures: White,
Making, 1960,
110.

p. 257: O’Brien expenditures: O’Brien, 68.

p. 257: “Our highest possible contribution”: Humphrey, 216-17.

p. 257: “the earthy and realistic people”: O’Donnell and Powers, 169.

p. 257: The vote: “Results of Presidential Primaries in 1960,” and “Results of the 16 Presidential Primaries in 1960,” Box 26, Powers Papers.

pp. 257-58: Investigations and the
Gazette
quote: O’Donnell and Powers, 169; Sorensen, 165.

p. 258: “I have no complaints”: HHH to Editor, May 26, 1960, Box 542, PPP.

p. 258: Beat Wayne Morse: “Results of Presidential Primaries in 1960, May 20—Oregon,” Box 26, Powers Papers.

p. 258: “the devil”: Joseph Rauh OH.

p. 258: “She did not want”: Humphrey, 221.

p. 259: “it would be most helpful”: Undated memo attached to Schlesinger to AES, May 16, 1960, Box 33, POF.

p. 259: “which would nail down”: Ribicoff OH.

p. 259: For the JFK-AES conversation and the quotes, “I guess there’s nothing,” and “Guess who”: Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
25-26. See Blair OH, which quotes JFK: “God, why won’t he.” Also see Schlesinger to AES, May 16, 1960, Box 33, POF; AES to Schlesinger, May 21, 1960, Box P23, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Papers, JFKL.

p. 259: Anger toward AES: Lawrence Fuchs OH. Also see Collier and Horowitz, 289-90.

p. 259: JFK-Fritchey anecdote told to me by Marianne Means, who was recounting what Kay Graham had said at a memorial service for Fritchey.

pp. 259-60: LBJ on JFK, including conversations with Pearson, Krock, and Stevenson: Dallek,
Lone Star Rising,
567-68.

p. 260: “I am not prepared”: Ibid., 569.

p. 260: HST’s comment and JFK’s reply:
New York Times,
July 3 and 5, 1960.

p. 260: RFK vote count: RFK to Steve Smith, May 25, 1960, Box 535, PPP.

p. 260: “If we can get”: Quoted in Goodwin, 800.

p. 260: “Well, that’s it”: Quoted in Collier and Horowitz, 299.

p. 260: “those wanting”: Quoted in Dallek,
Lone Star Rising,
571.

p. 261: LBJ’s attack on JFK: Ibid., 569-73. Conversation with Dr. Gerald Labiner, October 31, 2002.

p. 261: Regarded Kennedy “as a mediocrity”: Earl Mazo OH, Columbia University.

p. 261: “I knew he”: Lisagor OH.

pp. 261-62: “You’ve got”: Baker, 118.

p. 262: “despicable”: Dallek,
Lone Star Rising,
572.

p. 262: Report on JFK’s health: Drs. Eugene J. Cohen and Janet Travell to JFK, June 11, 1960, Box 991, PPP.

p. 262: “the opportunity to carry out”: Dr. Seymour Reichlin to author, Nov. 23, 2002.

p. 262: William Walton on the medical support: Parmet,
JFK,
18.

p. 262: “There’s a medical bag”: Ribicoff OH.

p. 262: “far too fluid”: Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
33.

p. 263:
Meet the Press,
July 10, 1960, Box 920A, PPP.

p. 263: “We wanted to just try”: Robert Kennedy OH.

p. 263: For the problems with Minnesota, see Sorensen to JFK, May 31, 1960, Box 547, PPP; New Jersey, Frank Thompson OH; and Pennsylvania, Lawrence OH.

p. 263: “never”: Sorensen, 175.

p. 263: JPK’s bet: Doris Goodwin, 800-801.

p. 263: “found thousands of supporters”: Wofford, 50.

p. 263: “This was more”: White,
Making, 1960,
163.

pp. 263-64: “We’ve got to have”: Robert Kennedy OH. Cohen and Taylor, 257-59.

p. 264: Fact sheet: “The Foreign Policy Experience of Senators Johnson and Kennedy,” Box 740, PPP.

p. 264: “moods, questions”: Sorensen, 174.

p. 264: “‘I don’t want’” and “Look, nobody asked you”: Quoted in Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
205-6.

p. 264: JFK’s every move: Democratic National Convention (From Saturday July 9-Friday July 15, 1960), Box 27, Powers Papers.

p. 264: “precise, taut, disciplined”: White,
Making, 1960,
157.

p. 265: For JFK’s activities on July 10-12, see ibid.

p. 265: California, Kansas, and Iowa: Ibid., 163.

p. 265: “I wasn’t any Chamberlain”: Quoted in Dallek,
Lone Star Rising,
573-74.

pp. 265-66: Stevenson demonstration: White,
Making, 1960,
165-66.

p. 266: “Don’t worry, Dad”: Quoted in O’Donnell and Powers, 186-87.

p. 266: “Your man must be”: Blair OH.

p. 266: “We can’t miss a trick”: Quoted in Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
206.

p. 266: JFK and RFK together: Hugh Sidey OH.

p. 266: “Not you nor anybody else”: Quoted in Cohen and Taylor, 260.

Chapter 8: Election

pp. 267-68: VP candidates: Sorensen to JFK and RFK, June 29, 1960, Box 21, Theodore Sorensen Papers, JFKL. Sorensen, 184.

p. 268: Past problems with liberals: O’Donnell and Powers, 189.

p. 268: “No, absolutely not”: Edward Morgan OH.

p. 268: “There was no respect”: Quoted in Collier and Horowitz, 304.

p. 268: Civil rights plank: Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
34.

p. 268: King and NAACP: G. Mennen Williams to JFK, June 25, 1960, Box 536; JFK speech to NAACP, July 10, 1960, Box 1027, PPP.

p. 269: Symington: Clark Clifford OH; John Seigenthaler OH; Sorensen, 186; Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
206-7; Cohen and Taylor, 260. Sorensen to JFK and RFK, June 29, 1960, Box 21, Sorensen Papers.

p. 269: RFK and LBJ: Dallek,
Lone Star Rising,
490, 559.

p. 269: “the Democratic party owes”: Quoted in ibid., 540-41.

p. 270: “immediately agreed”: Quoted in White,
Making, 1964,
407-9.

p. 270: “he supposed the same”: Quoted in Dallek,
Lone Star Rising,
574.

p. 270: “I wouldn’t want to trade” and “Stop kidding”: Quoted in ibid., 574-75.

p. 271: LBJ’s interest in becoming VP: ibid., 574-78.

p. 271: “LBJ now means”: Quoted in Wofford, 54.

pp. 271-72: “If you are sure,” “This is the worst mistake,” and “so upset”: Quoted in O’Donnell and Powers, 190-92.

p. 272: “was very distressed”: Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
208-9.

pp. 272-74: Jack and Bobby and other details of Johnson’s nomination: Dallek,
Lone Star Rising,
579-82.

p. 274: “I turned on television”: Earl Mazo OH, Columbia University.

p. 274: “bland, vapid”: Quoted in Leuchtenburg,
A Troubled Feast,
111.

p. 274: The Podhoretz and Macdonald quotes are in Alan Ehrenhalt, “Are We as Happy as We Think?”
New York Times,
May 7, 2000.

p. 274: “With the supermarket”: Quoted in Leuchtenburg,
A Troubled Feast,
113.

pp. 274-76: JFK Acceptance Speech, July 15, 1960, Box 1027, PPP. And see Sorensen, 187-89.

p. 276: Initial polls: Political Analysis Assocs., Princeton, N.J., July 16-17, 1960, Box 27, POF.

pp. 276-77: “shining summer Saturday”: Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
62.

p. 277: “Had never seen”: Ibid., 63.

p. 277: Meetings: Sorensen, 192-93.

p. 277: “run and fight”: Quoted in Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
211-13.

p. 277: “Gentlemen,” “absolutely strong,” “Little Brother”: Ibid.

p. 277: “Black Prince”: Quoted in Parmet,
JFK,
34.

p. 277: “Little Boy Blue” and “that little shit”: Mazo OH.

p. 277: “I’m not running”: Quoted in Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
213.

pp. 277-78: “This was a politician”: Memo, June 13, 1960, Box 17, Henry Brandon Papers, LC.

p. 278: Meeting with Stevenson: Parmet,
JFK,
34-35; Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
64.

p. 278: Meeting with HST: O’Donnell and Powers, 202. Also see JFK to Clark Clifford, July 29, 1960, Box 29, POF.

p. 278: “I never liked”: Abraham Ribicoff OH, Columbia University.

p. 278: JFK and Eleanor Roosevelt (ER): ER to JFK, Aug. 16, 1960, “the distinct feeling”: ER to Mary Lasker, Aug. 15, 1960, Box 32, POF.

p. 279: “interest and concentration”: Quoted in Parmet,
JFK,
35.

p. 279: “Organization has an important”: Arthur Schlesinger to JFK, Aug. 26, 1960, Box 32, POF.

p. 279: “who hardly qualifies”: AS to JFK, Aug. 30, 1960, ibid.

p. 279: “I don’t mind”: JFK to Schlesinger, Sept. 2, 1960, ibid.

p. 279: Speech to the Liberal party: JFK, Sept. 14, 1960, Box 911, PPP.

pp. 279-80: On the Republican convention, see White,
Making, 1960,
chap. 7. The polls: Gallup, 1680-82.

p. 280: Nixon’s advantage and “‘What are you doing?’”: White,
Making, 1960,
249-51.

p. 280: “Counterattack Sourcebook:” Milton Gwertzman to Mike Feldman and Sorensen, Aug. 10, 1960, Box 991, PPP.

p. 280: “Senator Kennedy is”: “Counterattack Sourcebook.”

p. 281: “religion in the rural corn belt”: John K. Galbraith to JFK, Aug. 25, 1960, Box 993, PPP.

p. 281: “the Catholic position”: “Counterattack Sourcebook.”

p. 281: FBI memos: DeLoach to Tolson, June 1, 1959; SAC, New Orleans, to Director, Mar. 23, 1960; and Memorandum, May 27, 1960, MF, Folder 13, Reel 1, O&C File, J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Papers.

p. 281: “to sit down with”: Adlai Stevenson to Henry Van Dusen, Sept. 13, 1960, Box P 23, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Papers, JFKL.

p. 282: “a pioneer of”: Harold Evans, “Press Baron’s Progress,” review of
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
by David Nasaw (Boston, 2000) in
New York Times Book Review,
July 2, 2000.

p. 282: Nixon’s womanizing: Richard Bolling OH, Columbia University. Larry O’Brien unconvincingly claims that JFK had no womanizing problem; he says he was “totally unaware” of any “personal indiscretions” on JFK’s part: Lawrence O’Brien OH, Columbia University.

p. 282: National Conference of Citizens for Religious Freedom:
New York Times,
Sept. 8, 1960. Also see Sorensen, 212-14.

p. 283: Community Relations division: James Wine OH; and Box 1015, PPP. Also see Sorensen, 198-99; Parmet,
JFK,
40-41.

p. 283: Opposition to speaking and the quotes “They’re mostly” and “I’m getting tired”: O’Donnell and Powers, 205-8.

p. 283: Cogley: John Cogley OH.

p. 283: Kennedy went before the audience: Sept. 12, 1960; Box 1061, PPP.

p. 284: The response to him and “By God”: O’Donnell and Powers, 209-10.

p. 284: Agreement to debate: Ambrose,
Nixon,
558-59.

p. 285: JFK’s preparation: White,
Making, 1960,
283-85.

p. 285: Transcript of the first debate: Box 912, PPP.

p. 285: “That son of a bitch”: Quoted in Matthews, 155.

p. 285: “calm and nerveless”: White,
Making, 1960,
288-90.

p. 286: “My God!”: quoted in Summers, 208.

p. 286: Bored or amused: O’Donnell and Powers, 212-13.

p. 286: “put a stern expression”: Ibid., 213.

p. 286: Polls: Gallup, 1685-87.

p. 286: Enthusiasm for JFK: Sorensen, 227-28; O’Donnell and Powers, 213-14.

p. 286 n.: Attempts to steal records: Dr. Janet Travell OH; Parmet,
JFK,
120-21, which expands on the information in Travell’s OH. According to Safire: William Safire, “Kennedy Agonistes,”
New York Times,
Nov. 18, 2002. Refutations of the allegation: John Gizzi, “Historian Dallek Maligned Nixon’s 1960 Campaign,”
Human Events,
Jan. 6, 2003; John Taylor, “Dallek: Historian or Gumshoe?” Jan. 7, 2003, History News Network. “Dirty tricks”: Ehrlichman, 30.