Part 27 (1/2)

pp. 127-28: Seeing Jack's amateur status: Martin and Plaut, 131, 136-37; O'Donnell and Powers, 58-60.

p. 128: He began going into: Martin and Plaut, 136.

p. 128: ”I would have given odds”: McCarthy, 20.

p. 128: ”I seem to be”: O'Donnell and Powers, 59.

p. 128: ”I think I know”: Ibid., 54-55.

p. 128: ”hit the barbershops”: Ibid., 63-64.

p. 129: Ride the trolleys: Parmet, Jack, Jack, 154. 154.

p. 129: On the house parties, see Press Release, Bill McMorrow, May 2, 1946, Box 74, PPP; Burns, 66-67; O'Donnell and Powers, 64-65; Doris Goodwin, 716-17.

p. 129: Paid a heavy price: See Parmet, Jack, Jack, 154. 154.

p. 129: ”The New Generation”: Quoted in Collier and Horowitz, 181.

p. 129: On the war record, see Martin and Plaut, 134-35; O'Donnell and Powers, 65-68; Doris Goodwin, 720; Hamilton, 755-56.

p. 130: For JFK's domestic agenda, see Martin and Plaut, 135-36; Parmet, Jack, Jack, 157-58. 157-58.

p. 130: ”You can never be too careful”: Quoted in Evan Thomas, 48.

p. 130: ”staggering sum” and ”It was the equivalent”: Quoted in Martin and Plaut, 133. Also see Paul E. Murphy to JFK, Feb. 18, 1946, Box 74, PPP, giving one instance of the money available for JFK to hire a campaign secretary.

p. 130: ”With what I'm spending”: Collier and Horowitz, 183.

p. 130: O'Neill's spending: O'Neill, 73-79.

p. 131: ”Kennedy for Congress” and ”There's our man”: Parmet, Jack, Jack, 160. (Also see p. 133) and Doris Goodwin, 713-14. 160. (Also see p. 133) and Doris Goodwin, 713-14.

p. 131: ”Only way”: Martin and Plaut, 140.

p. 131: On the tea, see Martin and Plaut, 144-45; Blair, 472-73; Doris Goodwin, 718-19.

p. 131: For the vote, see Blair, 478-79.

p. 132: ”it was very, very quiet”: Dalton OH.

p. 132: ”In Brookline”: JFK Speech, Choate School, Sept. 27, 1946, Box 94, PPP.

p. 132: ”Why I Am a Democrat”: Oct. 23, 1946, Ibid.

p. 132: VFW speech: ”1946 National Encampment,” Sept. 2, 1946, Ibid.

pp. 132-33: JFK Speech, ”The Time Has Come,” Oct. 1946, Ibid.

p. 133: For the vote, see Blair, 495.

Chapter 5: The Congressman

pp. 134-35: For current affairs and Truman's standing, see McCullough, 398, 520-24, 550-51.

p. 135: ”always running for the next job”: Quoted in Blair, 547. running for the next job”: Quoted in Blair, 547.

p. 135: ”I think from the time”: Arthur Krock OH.

p. 135: ”The life of the House”: Burns, 99.

p. 136: ”industrious, important”: Donovan, 257-61.

p. 136: ”Suppose you were”: Quoted in Jay, 372.

p. 136: ”the job as a congressman”: Charles Spalding OH.

p. 136: ”Well, I guess”: Quoted in Collier and Horowitz, 209.

p. 136: ”I never felt”: JFK interview with James Burns, Mar. 22, 1959, JFKL.

p. 136: Swinging a golf club: Parmet, Jack, Jack, 166-67. 166-67.

p. 136: ”We were just worms”: Quoted in Lasky, 117; also in JFK interview with Burns, Mar. 22, 1959, where he also said, ”Congressmen get built up... .”

pp. 136-37: ”found most of his”: Quoted in Doris Goodwin, 725-26.

p. 137: On JFK's genuine idealism and view of public service, see the several letters between Jack and Choate faculty from October 1946 to December 1951, especially the Alumni Note, n.d., 1951, Outline of Kennedy Letters, and The Choate Alumni Bulletin, Jan. 1947, Box 1, PP.

p. 137: ”I wasn't equipped”: Ed Plaut interview with JFK in Ralph G. Martin Papers, Boston University.

p. 138: ”freshman row” and ”about as far”: Blair, 509.

p. 138: ”had a brain”: Quoted in ibid., 512-13; also see p. 539.

p. 138: ”It was good”: Quoted in ibid., 513.

p. 138: Jack once encouraged him: William Sutton OH.

p. 138: ”speechless indignation”: Martin and Plaut, 149-50.

p. 138: ”I can't do it”: Grace Burke OH.

p. 138: ”Mary Davis was unbelievable”: Quoted in Blair, 510.

pp. 138-39: ”never did involve himself”: Quoted in ibid., 511.

p. 139: ”No matter how many good things”: Joseph Rosetti OH; Blair, 548-49.