Part 30 (1/2)
p. 201: Consequently, they urged Jack: Ibid., 103-5.
p. 201: ”There is a great 'ha.s.sle'”: Philip Philbin to JFK, Mar. 3, 1955, Box 503, PPP. JFK to O'Brien and O'Donnell, Mar. 8, 1955, Box 504, PPP.
p. 201: Jack persuaded and ”So we can't let”: O'Donnell and Powers, 106.
p. 202: For JFK's role in the primary, see Adlai Stevenson to Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Mar. 26, 1956, Box P-23, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Papers, JFKL.
p. 202: For the fight, see ”Burke Opposed: Kennedy Fight Gains Support,” Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, May 9, 1956. May 9, 1956.
p. 202: ”I do not relish”: Frank Morrissey to JFK, May 9, 1956, Box 31, POF. Also see Parmet, Jack, Jack, 346-54. 346-54.
p. 202: For JFK's campaign, see the correspondence between May 2 and May 17, 1956, in Boxes 498, 523, 546, and 549, PPP.
p. 202: For the choice of Lynch, see O'Donnell and Powers, 110-16.
p. 203: ”caught in a mud-slinging”: Ibid., 110.
p. 203: The ”nation's first great politicians”: JFK, Vogue, Vogue, April 1, 1956; and JFK, Harvard Commencement Address, June 14, 1956, Box 895, PPP. April 1, 1956; and JFK, Harvard Commencement Address, June 14, 1956, Box 895, PPP.
p. 203: ”The men who create power”: PPP: JFK, 1963, PPP: JFK, 1963, 815-18, Oct. 26, 1963. 815-18, Oct. 26, 1963.
pp. 203-4: On LBJ, see Dallek, Lone Star Rising, Lone Star Rising, 489-90. 489-90.
p. 204: ”unforgivably discourteous”: ”The Boston-Texas Axis,” a chap. in Thomas G. Corcoran ms. memoir, Corcoran Papers, LC. Also see Dallek, Lone Star Rising, Lone Star Rising, 490-91, and n. 61, 683. 490-91, and n. 61, 683.
p. 204: Start such a campaign: Senator Andrew P. Quigley to JFK, Jan. 25, 1956; JFK to Quigley, Jan. 31, 1956, Box 507, PPP.
p. 204: Keeping a low profile: See Irv Slomowitz to Ted Reardon, Jan. 26, 1956; Reardon to Slomowitz, Feb. 6, 1956, Box 509, PPP. John W. King to JFK, Feb. 18, 1956; JFK to King, Feb. 21, 1956, Box 549, PPP.
p. 204: Fletcher Knebel, column, Feb. 23, 1956, Box 8, Sorensen Papers. Sorensen to Knebel, April 6, 1956, Box 810, PPP. Knebel, ”Can a Catholic Become Vice President?” Look, Look, June 12, 1956. June 12, 1956.
p. 205: For Sorensen's comparison: ”The Democratic Nominee for Vice President in 1956,” n.d.; ”Memorandum on Kennedy and the Vice-Presidency”; and Sorensen to Ken Hechler, Aug. 1, 1956, Box 810, PPP.
p. 205: For the endors.e.m.e.nts and the Farley and Rayburn quotes, see Parmet, Jack, Jack, 354, 361-62. 354, 361-62.
p. 205: JPK's reluctance: JPK to JFK, May 25, 1956, Box 9, Sorensen Papers.
p. 205: A straw poll: Gallup, 1431.
p. 205: ”while I think”: JFK to JPK, June 29, 1956, Box 9, Sorensen Papers.
p. 205: ”100% behind”: Shriver to JPK, July 18, 1956, Box 810, PPP.
p. 206: ”better known”: Eunice Kennedy to JPK, Aug. 1, 1956, JPK Papers.
p. 206: Stevenson's decision: Parmet, Jack, Jack, 372-75. 372-75.
p. 206: ”looked like a thin year”: Krock OH.
p. 206: ”movie star,” and set up a headquarters: New York Times, New York Times, Aug. 12, 13, and 14, 1956. Aug. 12, 13, and 14, 1956.
p. 206: For JFK's belief that the invitation to nominate AES was a compensatory gesture, see JFK Interview, Martin Papers.
pp. 206-7: For the clash with JPK, see O'Donnell and Powers, 122, and Rose Kennedy, 328.
p. 207: ”a sudden warmth”: Quoted in Doris Goodwin, 783.
p. 207: a ”realistic sense of futility”: Parmet, Jack, Jack, 376-80. 376-80.
pp. 207-8: ”we lost because”: RFK Interview and JFK Interview, Martin Papers. Also see John J. Mitch.e.l.l to JFK, Aug. 22, 1956, Box 534, PPP; Mitch.e.l.l shared RFK's view.
p. 208: On Eleanor Roosevelt's response to JFK, see Roosevelt, 164.
p. 208: ”probably rates as”: Boston Herald, Boston Herald, Aug. 18, 1956. Aug. 18, 1956.
p. 208: ”out of the convention”: Quoted in Doris Goodwin, 785.
p. 208: ”you clearly emerged”: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. to JFK, Aug. 21, 1956, Box 534, PPP. Also see Rep. Burr P. Harrison to JFK, Aug. 22, 1956, Box 534, PPP: ”Your prestige has been enormously enhanced.”
p. 208: Campaigned for Stevenson: Parmet, Jack, Jack, 384-86. 384-86.
p. 209: ”the most disastrous” and RFK's a.s.sessment: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, 133-36. 133-36.
p. 209: For JFK's itinerary, see Compilation of Speeches, JFKL, for September- November, 1956. Also see JFK to Frank L. Dennis, July 9, 1958, Box 3, Sorensen Papers, and ”Out of State Appearances of Sen. Kennedy, 1956 Campaign,” Box 25, David Powers Papers, JFKL.
p. 209: ”be prepared”: JFK, Speech, Nov. 8, 1956, Box 896, PPP.
p. 210: ”And, like me”: Rose Kennedy, 329.
p. 210: The best account of how JFK won the Pulitzer, including Macdonald's telegram, is in Parmet, Jack, Jack, 394-97. 394-97.
p. 210: Thomas's anecdote is in his OH, Columbia University.
p. 210: The FBI report: L. B. Nichols to Tolson, May 14, 1957, J. Edgar Hoover Official and Confidential File, FBI Microfilm, Folder 13, Reel 1.
p. 211: ”this country is not” and ”Well, Dad”: Quoted in Goodwin, 787-88.
p. 211: ”I'm forty-three”: O'Donnell and Powers, 193.
pp. 211-12: JFK's hospitalizations were May 26-June 2, 1955, July 3, 1955, July 14-20, 1955, Jan. 11-13, 1956; Jan. 31-Feb. 1, 1957; July 18-19, 1957; Sept. 3-4, 1957; Sept. 13-Oct. 1, 1957; Oct. 28, 1957. The records of these admissions, with diagnoses and treatments, are in the Dr. Janet Travell medical records, JFKL. Also see Travell OH.
p. 213: The side effects of testosterone: Conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Kelman, April 22, 2002. Dr. Kelman read the records at the JFKL with me and helped me understand them.
p. 213: ”I've learned that”: Quoted in O'Donnell and Powers, 125-26. Immediately after the convention, JFK obtained a complete list of delegates with their home addresses as a prelude to courting them for 1960: See Sargent Shriver to Evelyn Lincoln, Sept. 5, 1956, Box 504, PPP.
p. 215: ”all the credit for”: Quoted in Dallek, Lone Star Rising, Lone Star Rising, 517-18. 517-18.
p. 215: ”shaped primarily by”: Quoted in Parmet, Jack, Jack, 409. For JFK and civil rights, also see JFK to Rep. Michael J. Kirwan, Nov. 1, 1956; JFK to Rep. Lenore K. Sullivan, Nov. 1, 1956; JFK to Gov. J. P. Coleman, Nov. 1, 1956, Box 781, PPP. 409. For JFK and civil rights, also see JFK to Rep. Michael J. Kirwan, Nov. 1, 1956; JFK to Rep. Lenore K. Sullivan, Nov. 1, 1956; JFK to Gov. J. P. Coleman, Nov. 1, 1956, Box 781, PPP.