An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (140 page)

p. 656: JFK speech, Dec. 29, 1962:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
911-13; O’Donnell and Powers, 276-77; Evan Thomas, 238.

p. 656: Soviet troops:
FRUS: Missile Crisis,
681-83, 715-18; Lawrence Freedman, 224.

p. 656: Subversion:
FRUS: Missile Crisis,
359, 433, 648, 662, 696-97, 726-27, 867-68, 888. JFK to McCone, Feb. 9, 1963; Marshall S. Carter to JFK, Feb. 13, 1963; JFK to Rusk, McNamara, McCone, Feb. 15, 1963; Bundy to McCone, Mar. 14, 1963, Box 72, POF. RFK to JFK, Mar. 14, 1963, Box 35, Sorensen Papers. JFK to Rusk, May 31, 1963, Box 68, POF.

p. 657: Replace failed Mongoose: Evan Thomas, 233-35.

p. 657: Ousting Castro:
FRUS: Missile Crisis,
670-75, 780-81, 804, 821-23, 828-38, 852-53; U.S. Policy Toward Cuba, Feb. 19, 1963, Box 49, Sorensen Papers; Cabinet Meeting, Mar. 1, 1963, Box 7, RFK Attorney General’s Papers, JFKL; “Backstage with Bobby,”
Miami News,
July 14, 1963; “U.S. Builds Up Underground’s Support in Cuba,”
Washington Post,
Aug. 13, 1963; John McCone to RFK, Mar. 22, 1962, Box 1, RFK Confidential File; Lawrence Freedman, 228, 232, 238-39. Also see Evan Thomas, 234.

p. 657: “Kennedy was maintaining”: Lawrence Freedman, 227.

p. 658: Cuban-Soviet tensions and Castro’s demands on the U.S.: Fursenko and Naftali, 290-91.

p. 658: NSC staffer urged:
FRUS: Missile Crisis,
699-700.

p. 658: Kennedy had told newsmen, and the shrimp boat incident:
PPP: JFK, 1963,
177-78, 202-4; “‘Soft’ Cuba Reply Expected by U.S. in Firing on Boat,”
New York Times,
Feb. 25, 1963.

p. 658: March NSC meeting and RFK pressure for more action:
FRUS: Missile Crisis,
715-18; RFK to JFK, Mar. 14, 1963, Box 35, Sorensen Papers; Evan Thomas, 233-39.

pp. 658-59: JFK’s unresponsiveness: Evan Thomas, 239.

p. 659: The exile raids:
FRUS: Missile Crisis,
728, 738-40, 745-46.

p. 659: JFK was willing to consider: Ibid., 739. Also see Robert A. Hurwitch to RFK, April 6, 1963, Box 30; “Miami to Sec. of State,” April 14, 1963, Box 11; CIA reports, May 15 and 22, 1963, Box 8, RFK Confidential File.

pp. 659-60: Donovan and Castro: JFK to RFK and Rusk, April 4, 1963, Box 34, RFK Confidential File; McCone to JFK, April 10, 1963, in
FRUS: Missile Crisis,
755-56 and n. 1; M. C. Miskovsky to McCone, April 13, 1963, Box 47, NSF; Gertrude Samuels, “James Donovan and Castro,”
The Nation,
April 13, 1963.

p. 660: On Castro’s Moscow visit: CIA Memo, May 18, 1963, Box 1, RFK Confidential File;
FRUS: Missile Crisis,
820-24, 838-44.

pp. 660-61: The raids, Soviet protests, and JFK’s response:
FRUS: Missile Crisis,
828-38, 866-68, 875-77.

pp. 661-63: Attwood’s initiative: Ibid., 868-70, 877-83, 888-89; Lawrence Freedman, 240-43; Audiotape /A55, Nov. 5, 1963, conversation between JFK and Bundy about Attwood and Cuba.

pp. 661-62: The Daniel-JFK meeting: Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
552-53.

p. 662: Castro surprised the Americans: Charles O. Porter to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Oct. 11, 1963, Box 36, RFK Confidential File.

p. 663: JFK’s Nov. 18 Miami speech:
PPP: JFK, 1963,
872-77.

p. 663: “expressions of willingness”: Richard Helms Memo, Nov. 21, 1963, Box 1, RFK Confidential File.

p. 663: Still intense pressure:
FRUS: Missile Crisis,
871-72, 874, 883-88.

pp. 663-64: JFK asked whether the sabotage program: Ibid., 884.

p. 664: The assassination plot: Lawrence Freedman,
Kennedy’s Wars,
232-33.

pp. 664-65: JFK and comments on Vietnam in 1962:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
17, 93, 136-37, 199, 228, 322, 360, 362, 453, 493, 500, 502, 537, 592-93, 651, 690, 703.

pp. 665-66: Debate about strategic hamlets, and reports to JFK:
FRUS: Vietnam, 1962,
727-29, 736-41, 763-65, 779-87, 797-98; Forrestal to RFK, Nov. 7, 1962, RFK Confidential File.

p. 666: December 1962 press conference:
PPP: JFK, 1962,
870.

p. 666: JFK’s reaction to Mansfield: David Kaiser, 180; O’Donnell and Powers, 15.

p. 666: Sylvester comment: Quoted in
The Nation,
April 22, 2002.

p. 667: JFK meeting with Wheeler:
FRUS: Vietnam, Jan.-Aug. 1963,
94-95, 97-98.

p. 667: Hilsman, Forrestal report and CIA: Ibid., 7, 22, 50, 52.

pp. 667-68: JFK public statements on Vietnam between January and March:
PPP: JFK, 1963,
11, 20, 34, 243-44, 294-96, 303.

p. 668: JFK call to Hilsman:
FRUS: Vietnam, Jan.-Aug., 1963,
63. CIA director John McCone said in 1988 that Kennedy saw the “folly” of escalation in Vietnam and was determined to withdraw U.S. advisers: “Conversation with John A. McCone,” Spring 1988, Institute of International Studies, Univ. of California, Berkeley.

p. 668: JFK-Mansfield conversation and JFK to O’Donnell: O’Donnell and Powers, 16; Newman, 321-25.

p. 669: On the civil strife in Vietnam and reports of it in the U.S, see the documents for May, June, and July in
FRUS: Vietnam, Jan.-Aug. 1963
. Also see JFK news conference:
PPP: JFK, 1963,
569.

p. 669: On July 17, a reporter asked:
FRUS: Vietnam, Jan.-Aug. 1963,
294-96; Lawrence Freedman, 363;
PPP: JFK, 1963,
421.

p. 669: 107 taped meetings: Logs of Presidential Recordings, JFKL.

p. 669: Warning to Diem and JFK embargo:
FRUS: Vietnam, Jan.-Aug. 1963,
381-83 n., 386-87; David Kaiser, 215-16.

pp. 669-70: Frankel:
New York Times,
July 3, 1963.

p. 670: Kattenburg:
FRUS: Vietnam, Aug.-Dec. 1963,
69-74; Lawrence Freedman, 372.

p. 670: Lodge’s appointment: Lawrence Freedman, 367-68;
FRUS: Vietnam, Jan.-Aug. 1963,
413-14.

pp. 670-71: July 4 meeting:
FRUS: Vietnam, Jan.-Aug. 1963,
451-53.

p. 671: July 8 meeting: Ibid., 486 n.

p. 671: Urging of State Dept. officials: 531-43, 559-60.

p. 671: Request of Aug. 15: Ibid., 589, n.

p. 671: Krulak’s response to Halberstam: Ibid., 584.

p. 671: Krulak’s meeting with JFK: Tape 106/A41, Aug. 21, 1963.

p. 672: Mansfield to JFK, Aug. 19, 1963:
FRUS: Vietnam, Jan.-Aug. 1963,
585-88.

p. 672: Taylor to McNamara, Aug. 20, 1963: Ibid., 590-91.

pp. 672-73: Attack on pagodas and U.S. response: Ibid., 560-66, 597-99, 625-31, 634-35.

p. 673: JFK’s second thoughts: Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
991.

p. 673: Aug. 26 meeting:
FRUS: Vietnam, Jan.-Aug. 1963,
638-41.

p. 673: Aug. 27 meeting: Ibid., 659-65.

pp. 673-74: CIA analysis: Ibid., 671.

p. 674: Aug. 28 meeting:
FRUS: Vietnam, Aug.-Dec. 1963,
1-9.

p. 674: The acrimony between advocates and opponents of a coup: Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
713-14; Gibbons, 155-56.

pp. 674-75: Exchanges with Lodge:
FRUS: Vietnam, Aug.-Dec., 1963,
20-21, 26-31, 35-36.

p. 675: The aborted coup: Ibid., 55, 63, 64, 66, 70-74, 76.

p. 675: Kattenburg’s views: Gibbons, 160-61.

pp. 675-76: JFK interviews:
FRUS: Vietnam, Aug.-Dec., 1963,
81-82, 93-94;
PPP: JFK, 1963,
658-59.

p. 676: JFK told Manning:
FRUS: Vietnam, Aug.-Dec. 1963,
103-4; also see 111-12.

p. 676: “We should wait”: Ibid., 103.

p. 676: Sept. 6 meeting: Ibid.,117-21.

pp. 676-77: Reports on and response to the Nhus: Ibid., 135.

p. 677: JFK facetiously suggested: Briefing Session with JFK, Sept. 12, 1963, Box 6, Heller Papers.

p. 677: CIA also reported: CIA reports, Sept. 5 and 12, 1963, Box 199A, NSF.

p. 677: Conflicting assessments:
FRUS: Vietnam, Aug.-Dec. 1963,
137-40, 146, 161-62.

pp. 677-78: JFK’s frustration: Ibid., 162-67.

p. 678: Continuing divisions among JFK’s advisers: Ibid., 190-93, 209, 235.

p. 678: New coup plans: CIA reports, Sept. 16, 20, 21, 28, Oct. 3, 1963, Boxes 199A and 200, NSF;
FRUS: Vietnam, Aug.-Dec. 1963,
291-92.

p. 678: McNamara-Taylor mission and stage managing it:
FRUS: Vietnam, Aug.-Dec. 1963,
255-57, 278-81.

pp. 678-79: McNamara-Taylor report: Ibid., 336-46.

p. 679: JFK Oct. 9 statement:
PPP: JFK, 1963,
770.

pp. 679-80: Response to the report and follow-up announcements and actions:
FRUS: Vietnam, Aug.-Dec. 1963,
350-54, 368-71, 395-96, 407-9, 467; McNamara, 77-81; Tapes 114/A49 and A50.

p. 679: JFK and Halberstam:
FRUS: Vietnam, Aug.-Dec., 1963,
277-78, 281; Tifft and Jones, 388-89.

p. 680: Salinger publicly announced: Salinger news conference and statement, Oct. 2, 1963, 6:52
P.M.
, following JFK meeting, Box 14, Powers Papers.

p. 680: Taylor said, “Well, goddammit”: Quoted in Gibbons, 186.

p. 680: Oct. 31 news conference:
PPP: JFK, 1963,
828.

p. 681: Minh told Taylor, and discussions about a coup:
FRUS: Vietnam, Aug.-Dec. 1963,
326-27, 365-67, 379, 393.

p. 681: “We certainly would not”: Quoted in Gibbons, 190.

p. 681: Bundy to Lodge, Oct. 25, 1963:
FRUS: Vietnam, Aug.-Dec. 1963,
437.

p. 681: Lodge’s response: Ibid., 454-55.

p. 682: If the coup failed: Ibid., 468-75; Audiotape 118/A54, and transcripts of these meetings given to me by George Eliades.

p. 682: The coup and the JFK-Lodge-Rusk responses: Conference with JFK, Nov. 1, 1963, Box 317, NSF; Audiotape 118/A54, and Eliades transcript;
FRUS: Vietnam, Aug.-Dec. 1963,
502, 505, 513, 519-20, 525-26.

pp. 682-83: The assassinations and JFK response: Ibid., 527; Audiotape / A55, and Eliades transcript; Gibbons, 200-202; Taylor, 301; Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
997-98.

p. 683: Diem had a million: Described in a cable from Lodge to Rusk, May 1964, in the Gerald Ford Library, cited by Douglas Brinkley, who suggests the CIA involvement: “Of Ladders and Letters,”
Time,
April 24, 2000, 40-41.

pp. 683-84: JFK taped statement, Nov. 4, 1963, Cassette M (Side 2).

p. 684: JFK’s official and public statements:
FRUS: Vietnam, Aug.-Dec. 1963,
579-80;
PPP: JFK, 1963,
846.

p. 685: Honolulu conference:
FRUS: Vietnam, Aug.-Dec. 1963,
593-94, 625.

p. 685: Newspaper editorials and administration opposition to neutralization: Ibid., 581, 592, 594-95, 599-600. Only 37 percent of the public was paying attention to Vietnam as late as April of 1964: Gallup, 1882.

p. 685: For the unsigned memo, see David Kaiser, 258.

pp. 685-86: JFK request to Forrestal: Rust, 3-5.

p. 686: JFK’s popularity: Gallup, 1796, 1800, 1807, 1810-11, 1815, 1818, 1820, 1827, 1829, 1835-36, 1840-42, 1844-45, 1847, 1850.

p. 686: North Dakota: Joseph F. Kraft Analysis, April 1963, Box 104, POF.

pp. 686-87: Pennsylvania: Public Opinion Surveys, April 1963, Box 105, POF.

p. 687: Journalists echoed: Charles Bartlett, “The Waiting Game,” April 7, 1963; Fred Travis to Bartlett, May 20, 1963, Box 28, POF. David Beetle, “Kennedy Holding Fast to ’60 Voters,”
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,
Sept. 12, 1963, Box 31, Sorensen Papers.

p. 687: JFK’s view of 1964: Comment to George Brown, Oct. 24, 1963, Audiotape 117/A53; “JFK—on Re-election,” Jan. 1963, Box 27, Powers Papers.

p. 687: Westchester chairman: William Luddy to Ken O’Donnell, Nov. 7, 1963, Box 1, Kenneth O’Donnell Papers, JFKL.

p. 688: Doubts about winning the southern black vote: Guthman and Shulman, 106.

p. 688: Start of the campaign: O’Donnell and Powers, 379; “Notes on JFK Meetings,” Nov. 20, 1963, Box 6, Heller Papers.

p. 688: New Jersey: Walter Pozen to O’Donnell, Nov. 6, 1963, Box 1, O’Donnell Papers.

pp. 688-89: The South: JFK TV Interview, Sept. 2, 1963, Box 14, Powers Papers; Louis Harris to JFK, Sept. 3, 1963, Box 30, POF; “Farley Predicts JFK Victory,”
Atlanta Journal,
Oct. 21, 1963.

p. 689: The hard right: Meyer Feldman to JFK, Aug. 15, 1963, Box 63, POF.

pp. 689-90: JFK on Goldwater: O’Donnell and Powers, 13;
PPP: JFK, 1963,
828.

p. 690: Rockefeller and JFK: Roswell L. Gilpatric OH; Bradlee,
Conversations,
121; Gallup, 1810, 1820, 1826, 1830-36.

pp. 690-91: The Nov. 13 meeting: O’Donnell and Powers, 386-87; Guthman and Shulman, 343, 388, 390-93; Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
603-4; Richard Reeves, 655-57.

p. 691: The trip to Florida:
PPP: JFK, 1963,
860-77.

pp. 691-92: Origins of the Texas trip and JFK’s affinity for campaigning: Ibid., 443-44; O’Donnell and Powers, 3-5, 11-13, 386-87; Guthman and Shulman, 344; Dallek,
Flawed Giant,
46.