Part 25 (1/2)

p. 80: ”take my first liver injection”: JFK to Dad & Mother, Nov. 1939, Box 4B, PP. Hamilton, 395.

p. 80: ”For a man”: JPK to JFK, Sept. 10, 1940, Box 4A, PP.

p. 81: ”an occasional pain”: JFK, Medical Record, Dec. 15, 1944, Box 11A, PP. Also see X rays for Nov. 8, 1944, in Dr. Janet Travell medical records, JFKL. Dr. Jeffrey Kelman suggested the possible connection between the adrenal extracts and JFK's back problem. David Schurman, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon at Stanford University, confirmed Kelman's a.n.a.lysis. The widely used text The Principles of Internal Medicine, The Principles of Internal Medicine, edited by T. R. Harrison, relying on a 1943 article on ”Ulcerative Colitis,” in edited by T. R. Harrison, relying on a 1943 article on ”Ulcerative Colitis,” in Gastroenterology, Gastroenterology, edited by H. L. Bockus (Philadelphia, 1943), p. 549, discussed the effects of ”cortisone and ACTH on the course of the disease,” saying things were ”still in the experimental stages.” In the late thirties the adrenal drug of choice was desoxycorticosterone acetate, known as DOCA. The 1939 and 1940 editions of the edited by H. L. Bockus (Philadelphia, 1943), p. 549, discussed the effects of ”cortisone and ACTH on the course of the disease,” saying things were ”still in the experimental stages.” In the late thirties the adrenal drug of choice was desoxycorticosterone acetate, known as DOCA. The 1939 and 1940 editions of the Quarterly c.u.mulative Index Medicus Quarterly c.u.mulative Index Medicus list numerous articles about the uses of DOCA. list numerous articles about the uses of DOCA.

p. 81: On Jack's draft status, see unidentified newspaper clipping with an AP photo of JFK, n.d., Box 4A, PP.

p. 81: ”The only humorous thing”: Torbert Macdonald to JFK, n.d., Box 4B, PP.

p. 81: ”This draft”: JFK to Billings, Nov. 14, 1940, NHP. Hamilton, 360-62.

p. 82: ”I am having Jack”: Quoted in Blair, 111-13. Also see Hamilton, 405-6.

p. 82: ”usual childhood diseases”: Report of Physical Exam, Aug. 5, 1941, Box 11A, PP.

p. 82: ”exceptionally brilliant”: Investigation Report, USNIS, Sept. 10, 1941, Box 11A, PP.

p. 83: ”writing, condensing”: Quoted in Hamilton, 424-25.

p. 83: ”Isn't this a dull”: JFK to Billings, Dec. 12, 1941, NHP.

p. 83: On JFK in Was.h.i.+ngton and Inga, see Doris Goodwin, 630; Hamilton, 420-23, 431.

p. 84: ”He had the charm”: Quoted in Hamilton, 422.

p. 84: The affair: Doris Goodwin, 627-35; Hamilton, 426-39. The FBI files on Inga are in the J. Edgar Hoover Official and Confidential File, Microfilm, JFKL.

p. 84: JFK's transfer: Chief of the Bureau of Navigation to JFK, Jan. 14, 1942, Box 11A, PP.

p. 84: ”They s.h.a.gged”: Robert J. Donovan OH.

p. 84: ”Jack finds”: Rose Kennedy to Children, Feb. 16, 1942, Box 4A, PP.

p. 84: ”just seemed”: Billings quoted in Hamilton, 450. See Inga Arvad to JFK, Jan. 19, 20, 26, 27, 1942, Box 4A, PP.

p. 85: FBI wiretaps: D. M. Ladd to J. Edgar Hoover, Feb. 6, 1942; and J. R. Ruggles to Hoover, Feb. 23, 1942, O&C File, FBI Microfilm.

p. 85: ”We are so well matched”: Inga Arvad to JFK, Jan. 26, 1942, Box 4A, PP.

p. 85: On Joe's role in breakup, also see Doris Goodwin, 634-35.

p. 85: ”There is one thing”: Mar. 11, 1942; also KK to JFK, Mar., n.d., 1942, all in Box 4A, PP.

pp. 85-86: Back problems: See JFK to Billings, Mar. 11, April 9, 1942, NHP; Rose Kennedy to Children, Mar. 27, 1942, Box 4A, PP; typed medical history and record, beginning April 13, 1942; and handwritten clinical record, May 21 to June 10, 1942; Chief of Bureau of Navigation to JFK, May 8, 1942, Box 11A, PP.

p. 86: ”I have a feeling”: Quoted in Doris Goodwin, 635; she also cites evidence of JFK's thoughts of renouncing Catholicism.

p. 87: ”This G.o.dd.a.m.n place”: JFK to Billings, Summer 1942, NHP.

p. 87: On the PTs, see Hamilton, 497-503.

p. 88: On Jack's entrance into the PT service and his medical concerns, including JPK's letter to Joe Jr., see Admiral John Harllee OH and Hamilton, 507.

p. 88: ”He was in pain”: Quoted in Hamilton, 517-18.

p. 88: ”This job”: JFK to Billings, Jan. 30, 1943, NHP.

p. 88: ”his whole att.i.tude”: Rose Kennedy to Children, Oct. 9, 1942, Box 4A, PP; Doris Goodwin, 646-47.

p. 88: ”causing his mother”: Quoted in Goodwin, 647.

p. 89: ”conscientious”: JFK, Report on Fitness, Feb. 11, 1943, Box 11, PP.

p. 89: ”Kennedy was extremely”: Harllee OH.

p. 89: Meeting with Walsh and rea.s.signment: Sen. David Walsh to John F. Fitzgerald, Dec. 21, 1942, Box 585, PPP. Harllee, in his OH, says he saw Walsh's letter to the Navy Dept. Commander, MTB Squadron Four, to JFK, Jan. 8, 1943, Box 11, PP.

p. 89: ”way to war”: Quoted in Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, 51. 51.

p. 89: ”gastro-enteritis”: JFK Navy Medical Record, Dec. 15, 1944, entries for Jan. 12-13, 1943, Box 11A, PP.

pp. 89-90: ”Re my gut” and ”be stuck in Panama”: JFK to Billings, May 6, 1943, NHP.

p. 90: On JFK's transfers, see Orders for Feb. 11, 19, 20, Box 11, PP. Also, Hamilton, 521-22.

p. 90: ”Your friend Jock”: JFK to Billings, Jan. 30, 1943, NHP.

p. 90: ”I'm extremely glad”: Quoted in Hamilton, 537-38.

p. 91: ”That slowed me”: JFK to Billings, May 6, 1943, NHP.

p. 91: ”to watch out”: Macdonald quoted in Meyers, 38.

p. 91: ”among the gloomier”: Quoted in Hamilton, 535.

p. 91: ”all the nuns”: Quoted in Doris Goodwin, 651.

p. 91: ”picture that I had”: Quoted in ibid., 533; JFK to Dad & Mother, May 14, 1943, Box 5, PP; JFK to Billings, May 6, 1943, NHP.

p. 92: ”It's not bad”: JFK to Billings, May 6, 1943, NHP.

p. 92: ”It's one of the”: Quoted in Hamilton, 533.

p. 92: ”I always like”: JFK to Mother & Dad, Sept. 12, 1943, Box 5, PP.

p. 92: ”He never said”: Ibid.

p. 92: ”If they do that”: JFK to Dad & Mother, May 14, 1943, Box 5, PP.

p. 93: ”Have been ferrying” and ”Just had an inspection”: Quoted in Hamilton, 539-41.