Part 24 (1/2)
p. 56: ”feeling very important”: JFK to Billings, Mar. 1939, NHP.
p. 56: had had ”a great time”: JFK to Billings, Mar. 23, 1939, LBP.
p. 56: ”graciously declined”: Ibid.
p. 57: ”living like a king”: JFK to Billings, April 6, 1939, NHP.
p. 57: ”Plenty of action”: Postcard, April, n.d., 1939, NHP.
p. 57: ”Things have been humming”: JFK to Billings, April 28, 1939, NHP.
p. 57: ”Jack sitting”: Bullitt, 273. Offie remembers this as the summer of 1938, but other evidence suggests 1939.
p. 57: ”The whole thing”: JFK to Billings, May 1939, NHP. Also see JFK to Billings, April 28, July 17, and Aug. 20, 1939, and JFK to JPK, n.d., 1939, all in NHP; and Burns, 37-38.
p. 58: August travels: Meyers, 28; Kennan, 91-92.
p. 58: The Riviera: Dietrich, 182.
pp. 58-59: Visit to Parliament, JPK's reaction to the war, and the rescue mission: Hamilton, 279-86; Beschloss, Kennedy and Roosevelt, Kennedy and Roosevelt, 163-64. 163-64.
p. 59: Return to America: See undated 1939 letters from JFK to JPK, Boxes 1 and 4B, PP.
p. 59: ”I saw the rock”: CBS transcribed interview in the JFKL Audio-Visual Archive.
p. 59: ”got this odd, hard look”: Quoted in Collier and Horowitz, 102.
p. 59: Why the ma.s.ses obey: Payson S. Wild OH.
p. 59: JFK editorial, Harvard Crimson, Crimson, Oct. 9, 1939. Oct. 9, 1939.
p. 59: ”everyone here is ready”: JFK to JPK, n.d., 1939, Box 1, PP.
p. 60: On JPK's appeal to Was.h.i.+ngton to mediate, see Foreign Relations of the United States, 1939, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1939, I (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.), 421-24. I (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.), 421-24.
p. 60: ”He seemed to blossom”: Wild OH.
p. 60: The editorial board: Parmet, Jack, Jack, 66. 66.
p. 60: ”I seem to be”: Undated 1939 letters from JFK to JPK, Boxes 1 and 4B, PP.
p. 60: ”The war clinched”: Ed Plaut interview with JFK, n.d., in Ralph G. Martin Papers, Boston University.
p. 60: For JFK's courses, see JFK, Course List, Harvard University, Box 3, PP. Also see Wild OH and Hamilton, 297-302.
p. 61: On Lothian, see Hamilton, 306-7.
p. 61: ”We used to”: Ibid., 314-15.
pp. 61-62: On JFK's initial exchanges with Seymour, see JFK to Seymour, Jan. 11, 1940; Seymour to JFK, Jan. 11, 1940; JFK to Seymour, Jan. 30, Feb. 9, 1940; Seymour to Paul Murphy, Feb. 8, 1940; Seymour to JFK, Feb. 12, 1940; Murphy to Seymour, Feb. 27, 1940; all in Box 1, James Seymour Papers, JFKL.
p. 62: The unpublished thesis ”Appeas.e.m.e.nt at Munich” is in the PP. The Yeomans and Friedrich Reports on Thesis for Distinction are in Box 2, PP.
p. 62: ”a deep thinker”: Wild OH.
p. 62: ”imagination and diligence”: Bruce C. Hopper, ”Notes: Jack Kennedy as a Student at Harvard (Candidate for Honors),” July 1960, Box 2, PP.
p. 62: ”again elated”: Hopper to B. O'Riordan, Jan. 6, 1964, Box 2, PP.
p. 63: ”a typical undergraduate”: Burns, 40.
p. 63: JFK's argument is stated repeatedly throughout the thesis.
p. 63: ”While Daddy Slept”: Parmet, Jack, Jack, 70. 70.
p. 64: ”to give up their personal interests”: JFK, ”Appeas.e.m.e.nt at Munich,” 91.
p. 64: ”In this calm acceptance”: Ibid., 146.
p. 64: ”While it is the book”: Quoted in Freedman, 590.
p. 65: ”it was amateurish”: Krock OH. Also see JFK to JPK, n.d., 1940, in Meyers, 33-34. The details of arranging publication, including ”sales possibilities” and ”things moving,” are in Hamilton, 329-30.
p. 65: ”as soon as possible”: JFK to JPK, n.d., 1940, Box 4A, PP. For the revisions, see JFK to JPK, n.d., but clearly spring 1940, Box 1, PP; JPK to JFK, May 20, 1940, Box 129, POF; and Parmet, Jack, Jack, 72-76. 72-76.
p. 65: For the reviews and sales, see Parmet, Jack, Jack, 74, 77; Parmet says sales amounted to 80,000 copies, but Nigel Hamilton says the figure was well below that (p. 380). 74, 77; Parmet says sales amounted to 80,000 copies, but Nigel Hamilton says the figure was well below that (p. 380).
pp. 65-66: ”I read Jack's book” and ”The book will do you”: Quoted in Rose Kennedy, 271, 261-62.
p. 66: ”Jack was downstairs”: Charles Spalding OH.
p. 66: On health problems and JFK's plans to attend Yale, see Blair, 91.
pp. 66-67: ”I don't think”: Quoted in ibid., 90.
p. 67: For JFK's term at Stanford, see ibid., 91-104.
p. 67: ”He was fascinated”: Quoted in Hamilton, 350.
p. 67: JFK conversation with Stanford student body president and ”remote westerners”: Harry Muheim, ”Rich, Young, and Happy,” Esquire, Esquire, Aug. 1966. Aug. 1966.
p. 67: For JFK's counsel to his father, see JFK to JPK, Dec. 5, 1940, Box 4A, PP.
p. 67: On Lend-Lease: ”a supplemental note,” n.d., but Dec. 1940, Box 4A, PP; Hamilton, 393-97.
p. 68: For JFK's visit to Latin America, see Muheim, Esquire, Esquire, 109-110; Hamilton, 403-5, and the notes for these pages on p. 841. 109-110; Hamilton, 403-5, and the notes for these pages on p. 841.
p. 68: On family requirements of a serious life purpose, see Doris Goodwin, 457.