An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (135 page)

p. 478: JFK’s relations with the media: Salinger, 34-35, 49-50, 121, 124-25, 127, 141-42.

p. 478: “You can’t go”: Quoted in Richard Reeves, 279.

p. 479: After Hoover made clear: “Judith E. Campbell, Associate of Hoodlums,” Mar. 20, 1962, JEH O&C, FBI microfilm. Richard Reeves, 288-90.

p. 479: Telephone calls: May and Zelikow, “Camelot Confidential,” 643, n. 2.

p. 479: Have JFK “by the balls”: Richard Reeves, 288-90.

p. 479: Some historians: May and Zelikow, “Camelot Confidential,” 652-53.

p. 479: Vietnam as a priority: Ibid., 652.

p. 480: “took less time”: Richard Reeves, 291.

p. 480: Heller and Martin: James Tobin Memo, Aug. 28, 1961, Box 6, Walter W. Heller Papers, JFKL.

p. 480: JFK instructions to Heller, Bell, and Dutton: Notes on conversations with JFK, Sept. 2, 1961, Box 6; Sept. 5, 1961, Box 5, Heller Papers. Evelyn Lincoln to Fred Dutton, Sept. 5, 1961, Box 62; Dave Bell to
Life
Editor, Sept. 8, 1961, Box 70, POF.

p. 480: Kennedy’s courting of business: Meeting with JFK, Oct. 17, 1961, Box 6, Heller Papers.

p. 481: Economic worries: JFK to Sen. Joseph Clark, Aug. 7, 1961; James Tobin to Sec. Fowler, Sept. 6, 1961, Box 73, POF; meetings with JFK, Oct. 17, 19, 1961, Box 6, Heller Papers.

p. 481: “upward price”: Bernstein, 134-36.

p. 481: “‘I know everyone’”: Sorensen, 457-58.

p. 481: For an excellent summary of the balance-of-payment problem, see Naftali,
Presidential Recordings,
vol. I, 385-88.

p. 481: “The pressures to grasp”: Heller to JFK, Nov. 28, 1961, Box 29, Theodore Sorensen Papers, JFKL.

p. 481: “cloud on the horizon”: James Tobin Memo, Aug. 28, 1961, Box 6, Heller Papers.

p. 482: JFK request for reports on gold losses: Lincoln Diary, Oct. 3, 1961, Box 3, Evelyn Lincoln Papers.

p. 482: Draconian reforms: Memo of meeting with JFK, Oct. 17, 1961, Box 6, Heller Papers.

p. 482: Stopgap measures and restricting Jacqueline’s travel: Sorensen, 458-60.

p. 482: Reduced gold losses: The Kennedy Record in Domestic Affairs, Dec. 29, 1961, Box 57, Sorensen Papers.

p. 482: Jokes about JPK’s travel: Gridiron speech, Mar. 11, 1961, Box 61, Sorensen Papers.

p. 482: Trade Expansion Act:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
13-15.

p. 482: Tax increase: Dillon to Sorensen, July 21, 1961; Mike Mansfield to JFK, July 24, 1961, Box 40, Sorensen Papers;
PPP: JFK, 1961,
537.

p. 482: The steel industry bulked: Heller to JFK, Aug. 2, 1961, Box 39, Sorensen Papers.

p. 482: Armed with statistics: “The Case Against a Steel Price Increase,” Aug. 2, 1961, Box 39, Sorensen Papers. Heller to JFK, Sept. 8, 1961; Kermit Gordon to JFK, Sept. 16, 20, 1961, Box 73, POF. JFK Letters:
PPP: JFK, 1961,
592-94, 604-5. Steel companies agreed:
Wall Street Journal,
Sept. 15, 1961.

pp. 482-83: Reactions from labor and business to pressure: Bernstein, 136-37.

p. 483: Negotiations: Ibid., 140-41. Arthur Goldberg to JFK, Mar. 6, April 3, 1962, Box 27, Arthur Goldberg Papers, LC.

p. 483: “After your speech”: Goldberg to JFK, Dec. 12, 1961, ibid.

p. 483: JFK’s reaction to the settlement:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
272, 284.

p. 484: The meeting with Blough and JFK’s reaction: Tape 56, Kenneth O’Donnell Tapes, JFKL. Bradlee,
Conversations,
75-77, 81; Bernstein, 142-43; Richard Reeves, 296-97.

pp. 484-85: JFK’s news conference:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
315-17.

p. 485: Public opinion: Gallup, 1767-68, 1771.

p. 485: “I can’t go make a speech”: Bradlee,
Conversations,
77.

p. 485: “bad for the country”: Guthman and Shulman, 333.

pp. 485-86: JFK’s directives and RFK’s actions pressuring the steel companies: Angie Novello to Evelyn Lincoln, April 12, 1962; RFK to JFK, May 31, 1962, May 31, 1962, with Lee Loevinger to RFK attached, Box 80, POF.

p. 486: “Their expense accounts”: Guthman and Shulman, 333; Bernstein, 143; Richard Reeves, 298-99.

p. 486: “Can’t you just see:” Manuscript, Paul Fay, “The Pleasure of His Company,” Box 12, Martin Land Papers, Boston University.

pp. 486-87: On the rollback: Bernstein, 143-45; Richard Reeves, 300-301.

p. 487: Private joking: Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
637; Bradlee,
Conversations,
111-12.

pp. 487-88: Press conference and speech:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
331-32, 348-52.

p. 488: Attacks on JFK: Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
637-40; Parmet,
JFK,
239; Richard Reeves, 302-304, 316; Bernstein, 145.

p. 488: News conferences:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
334-35, 376; Guthman and Shulman, 354-55.

p. 489: “an enormous asset”: Richard Neustadt to Douglas Cater, Dec. 14, 1961, Box 64, POF.

p. 490: State of the Union:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
5-8.

pp. 490-91: Civil rights, etc.: Ibid., 8-9.

p. 491: Polls: Gallup, 1749, 1751-52.

p. 491: Document stamped “Propaganda”: Box 57, Sorensen Papers.

p. 491: Journalists’ skepticism: Edward F. Woods article, “President Said to Think . . . ,”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Sept. 16, 1961.

p. 491: Briefing paper: “Notes for Congressional Session, Jan. 17-18, 1962,” Box 36, Sorensen Papers.

p. 491: Focus on international affairs:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
9-15.

p. 492: Civil rights surveys: Gallup, 1764, 1769.

p. 492: Plans for Progress:
New York Times,
July 12, Nov. 25, 1961;
PPP: JFK, 1962,
117-18, 505-7; Dallek,
Flawed Giant,
28-30; Bernstein, 58-61.

pp. 492-93: Substantive and symbolic initiatives: RFK to JFK, Dec. 29, 1961, Box 96; Adam Yarmolinsky to Fred Dutton, Oct. 25, 1961; Dutton to JFK, Nov. 3, 1961, Box 63, POF. Carl Rowan to RFK, Sept. 23, 1961, Box 9; Berl Bernhard Statement, Oct. 9, 1961; Clipping, “8 Owners Persuaded,” n.d., Box 13, Gen. Corresp., RFK Papers.
PPP: JFK, 1962,
23, 508.

p. 493: Executive Order on housing: Wofford to JFK, Oct. 10, 1961, Box 68, Gen. Corresp., RFK Papers; Roy Wilkins to JFK, n.d., Box 30, Sorensen Papers; James A. Wechsler, “As JFK Said . . . ,”
New York Post,
Dec. 27, 1961;
PPP: JFK, 1962,
21, 324; Evelyn Lincoln to Lee White, Aug. 30, 1962, with White to JFK, Aug. 28, 1962, attached, Box 96, POF.

pp. 493-95: Judicial appointments: Presidential Judicial Appointments, 1961; Lifetime Judges Appointed by President Kennedy, Jan. 15, 1964, Box 13, Personal Papers, RFK Papers; Roy Wilkins OH; Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
307-10, 376-78; Bernstein, 70-71; Guthman and Shulman, 108-9, 112.

p. 495: “gained anything”: Wilkins OH.

p. 495: “the passage of any”: Abraham Ribicoff to JFK, Oct. 6, 1961, Box 30, Sorensen Papers. Taking a bold stand:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
9, 110-17.

pp. 495-96: Medicare:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
8-9, 165-73, 213, 269, 416-20, 449-50, 560-61; Bernstein, 255-57;
Los Angeles Times,
July 22, 1962.

p. 496: Would tend “to inhibit”:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
576.

p. 496: Transportation problems:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
292-306.

p. 497: “I’m putting someone in”: Quoted in Clymer, 32.

p. 497: “He just felt”: Guthman and Shulman, 328.

p. 497: “I’ll hear whether”: Quoted in Clymer, 31-32.

p. 497: “He felt that”: Guthman and Shulman, 328-29.

p. 497: “Your brother”:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
63.

p. 498: “Well, in part”: Ibid., 226.

p. 498: “administration aid”: Ibid., 407.

p. 498: JFK and White House involvement in Ted’s campaign: Evelyn Lincoln to Staff, April 27, 1962, Box 62, POF.

p. 498: “number 99 on your list”: Told to me by James MacGregor Burns.

p. 498: Ted joked: Clymer, 35.

p. 498: “my brother pointed out”:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
514.

p. 498: “made it clear” and
Meet the Press:
Clymer, 35, 37.

p. 499: The cheating scandal: Ibid., 18-22, 36-37;
Boston Globe,
Mar. 30, 1962.

p. 499: “It won’t go over”: Bradlee,
Conversations,
67-68.

pp. 499-500: JFK’s defense of Ted:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
514.

pp. 500-501: Estes scandal:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
400-401, 404, 407. Guthman and Shulman, 354-55; Bradlee,
Conversations,
79-80, 105-6; Salinger, 129; Dallek,
Flawed Giant,
39. Also see Jayne Lahey to Evelyn Lincoln, June 11, 1962, with JEH to RFK, June 4, 1962: Billy Sol Estes, Box 80, POF. On LBJ and Estes, see Dallek,
Flawed Giant,
39-40, and 651 nn. 78, 79, 80.

pp. 501-2: The orbital flights:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
139-40, 150, 439, 450. Richard Reeves, 285-87.

p. 502: JFK-NSK exchanges on cooperative space exploration:
FRUS: Kennedy-Khrushchev,
96, 116-18, 127-31.

p. 502: “awarding these contracts”: Guthman and Shulman, 153.

p. 502: “the distribution of contracts”:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
229-32. Also see James Webb to JFK, May 7 and June 1, 1962, Box 84, POF.

p. 503: LBJ and NASA: Dallek, “Johnson and Project Apollo,” in Lanius and McCurdy, 73-74.

p. 503: Rumors about LBJ:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
380.

p. 503: “after seeing”:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
276.

Chapter 15: Frustrations and “Botches”

p. 504: “There is always”:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
259-60.

p. 505: Approval ratings: Gallup, 1771-72, 1780, 1786.

p. 505: JFK response to Tuchman book: Sorensen, 577-78.

pp. 505-6: Installation of the tape recorders and reliability of the tapes: Naftali,
Presidential Recordings,
vol. I, xi, xvii-xxiv.

pp. 506-7: Economic problems: Memo, May 5, 1962, Box 5, Walter W. Heller Papers, JFKL.

p. 507: Responses to the market tumble: JFK-Douglas Dillon telephone conversations, May 28, 1962, Box 38, Douglas Dillon Papers, JFKL. Walter Heller to JFK, May 28, 1962, Box 63A; J. K. Galbraith to JFK, May 29, 1962; McGeorge Bundy to JFK, May 29, 1962, Box 107, POF.

p. 507: Tax cut proposal: CEA to JFK, May 29, 1962, Box 107, POF; see “The Current Economic Situation,” June 6, 1962, Box 33, Dillon Papers; Paul Samuelson to JFK, June 6, 1962, Box 5, Heller Papers;
PPP: JFK, 1962,
456-58, 462-63; Gallup, 1777.

p. 507: “a very large part”: John K. Galbraith to JFK, July 10, Aug. 20, 1962, Box 62A, POF.

p. 508: Address at Yale: Notes on JFK’s Yale speech, Box 4, Heller Papers. Commencement address:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
470-75.

p. 508: “storm signals”: Heller to JFK, June 27, 1962.

p. 508: “millions of stockholders”: Heller to JFK, July 4, 1962, Box 5, Heller Papers.

p. 508: Economy remained sluggish:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
575, 593.

p. 508: Congressional opposition: See David Bell’s comments: Naftali,
Presidential Recordings,
vol. I, 61-62.

p. 508: “rigged data”: Heller meeting with JFK, Aug. 15, 1962, Box 6, Heller Papers.

p. 508: “It is clear”: Sorensen Memo, Aug. 9, 1962, Box 40, Theodore Sorensen Papers, JFKL. Also see
PPP: JFK, 1962,
637.

p. 508: August unemployment: Heller to JFK, Sept. 4, 1962, Box 38, Kermit Gordon Papers, JFKL.

p. 508: Political resistance: Seymour Harris to JFK, Sept. 27, 1962, Box 90, POF.

pp. 508-9: See conversations with Mills and a Cabinet Room meeting on the economy: Naftali,
Presidential Recordings,
vol. I, 233-59, 361-84.

p. 509: “running out of gas”: Heller to JFK, Oct. 8, 1962; Gordon to JFK, Oct. 10, 1962, Box 38, Gordon Papers. AFL-CIO: Heller to JFK, Oct. 17, 1962, Box 36, Gordon Papers.

p. 509: Series of meetings: Heller to JFK, July 12, 14, 1962, Box 5, Heller Papers. Heller to Sorensen, July 19, 1962; Ted Reardon to Cabinet, July 29, 1962, Box 29, Sorensen Papers. “The Administration and Business,” July 26, 1962, Box 92, POF. Naftali,
Presidential Recordings,
vol. I, 335-61.
PPP: JFK, 1962,
709-16.

p. 509: Doing some good: Heller meeting with JFK, Aug. 15, 1962, Box 6, Heller Papers.

p. 509: “fully aware”: Thomas Lamont to JFK, July 30, 1962, Box 62A, POF.

p. 509: “Whenever I say”: Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
639-40.

p. 509: Gallup poll:
Washington Post,
Aug. 19, 1962.

pp. 509-10: Balance of payments: Heller to JFK, May 5, 1962, Box 29, Sorensen Papers; Seymour Harris to Dillon, June 7, 1962, Box 89, POF; Gardner Ackley Memo, July 26, 1962, Box 6, Heller Papers.

p. 510: Trade Expansion Bill:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
14-15, 17, 510, 614, 632, 636-37.