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pp. 345-46: ”The plan that he inherited”: White House Staff OH.

p. 346: ”a truly monstrous”: Walt W. Rostow OH.

p. 346: Lemnitzer presentation and JFK's tension: White House Staff OH.

p. 346: ”And we call ourselves”: Quoted in Richard Reeves, 229-30.

p. 346: ”not so happy”: JFK-Adenauer conversation, April 13, 1961, Noon, Box 79, NSF.

p. 346: ”the threshold for”: April 12, 1961, Box 79, NSF.

p. 346: ”stop Soviet forces”: Dean Acheson to JFK and Rusk, April 20, 1961, Box 70, NSF.

p. 346: ”these plans might lessen”: April 12, 1961, Box 79, NSF.

pp. 346-47: ”have left the United States”: Nitze OH. Also see Robert Komer to Dean Acheson, Feb. 20, 1961, and Komer to JFK, Mar. 6, 1961, Box 4339, NSF.

p. 347: ”'repeat to the point'”: Kaplan, 285.

p. 347: ”That son of a b.i.t.c.h”: White House Staff OH.

p. 347: On a nuclear first strike: Fred Kaplan, ”JFK's First Strike Plan,” The Atlantic, The Atlantic, Oct. 2001, though Kaplan makes clear that JFK was highly skeptical of any first-strike plan. Oct. 2001, though Kaplan makes clear that JFK was highly skeptical of any first-strike plan.

p. 347: ”I never met a man”: Quoted in Hersh, 253.

p. 347: Kennedy announced increases: PPP: JFK, 1961, PPP: JFK, 1961, 229-40, 658-59. 229-40, 658-59.

p. 348: ”charges that”: Ibid., 658-59.

p. 348: ”They don't get it”: Quoted in Richard Reeves, 245.

p. 348: ”would have been profoundly”: Parmet, JFK, JFK, 132. JFK's view of Khrushchev's speech: Schlesinger, 132. JFK's view of Khrushchev's speech: Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, A Thousand Days, 302; Kalb and Abel, 110. 302; Kalb and Abel, 110.

p. 348: ”brutally torn”: PPP: JFK, 1961, PPP: JFK, 1961, 23. 23.

p. 349: ”I find it difficult”: Ibid., 91.

p. 349: ”ma.s.sive unilateral intervention”: Ibid., 99.

p. 349: ”the U.N. could not”: Quoted in Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, A Thousand Days, 575. 575.

p. 349: ”used to oppress”: FRUS: Congo Crisis, FRUS: Congo Crisis, 99-101. 99-101.

pp. 349-50: For LBJ's African trip and ”Cadillac diplomacy,” see Dallek, Flawed Giant, Flawed Giant, 12-16. 12-16.

p. 350: ”counter-guerrilla forces”: National Security Action Memorandum No. 2, Feb. 3, 1961; JFK to Mac Bundy, Feb. 6, 1961; Robert McNamara to Bundy, Feb. 23, 1961, Box 328, NSF. Robert Komer to Walt W. Rostow, Feb. 28, 1961, Box 414, NSF. Also see Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, A Thousand Days, 320, 340-42. 320, 340-42.

p. 351: ”It is, I think”: PPP: JFK, 1961, PPP: JFK, 1961, 213. Also see 16, 23, 34, 71, 74-75, 122, 149, 154, 185, and 1-120 of 213. Also see 16, 23, 34, 71, 74-75, 122, 149, 154, 185, and 1-120 of FRUS: Laos Crisis FRUS: Laos Crisis.

p. 351: ”I don't think there are probably”: Kenneth P. O'Donnell taped interview with Sander Vanocur, MR 91-27:49, JFKL.

p. 351: ”any satisfactory solution”: FRUS: Laos Crisis, FRUS: Laos Crisis, 45. 45.

p. 351: ”Laos was hopeless”: Winthrop G. Brown OH.

p. 351: ”These jungle regimes”: Galbraith, Letters, Letters, 70. 70.

p. 351: ”We must never”: Brown OH.

pp. 351-52: ”Laos is far away”: PPP: JFK, 1961, PPP: JFK, 1961, 214. 214.

p. 352: He ”said that”: Memo of conversation, April 7, 1961, Chalmers Roberts Papers, JFKL. New York Times, New York Times, Mar. 21, 1961; Richard Reeves, 75; O'Donnell Tapes, MR 91-27:49. Mar. 21, 1961; Richard Reeves, 75; O'Donnell Tapes, MR 91-27:49.

p. 352: ”But I need not tell you”: Harold Macmillan to DDE, April 9, 1961, Box 29A, POF.

p. 352: ”That boy doesn't know”: Earl Mazo OH, Columbia University.

p. 352: Amba.s.sador Brown: FRUS: Laos Crisis, FRUS: Laos Crisis, 139-41. 139-41.

p. 353: NSC meeting, April 27, 1961, Box 313, NSF.

p. 353: ”You start using”: Guthman and Shulman, 248.

p. 353: ”if we are given”: Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, A Thousand Days, 338. 338.

p. 353: ”general agreement among” and congressional leaders: FRUS: Laos Crisis, FRUS: Laos Crisis, 142-43, 146-47. JFK and congressional leaders, April 27, 1961, Box 345, NSF. 142-43, 146-47. JFK and congressional leaders, April 27, 1961, Box 345, NSF.

p. 353: ”It would be a mistake”: Lincoln Diary, April 28, 1961, Box 9, Evelyn Lincoln Papers, JFKL.

p. 353: Neutrality agreement: Gibbons, 112.

p. 353: ”dribbled to a conclusion”: O'Donnell Tapes, MR 91-27:49.

pp. 353-54: ”critical condition” and ”for the first time”: FRUS: Vietnam, 1961, FRUS: Vietnam, 1961, 12-19. 12-19.

p. 354: ”the worst one”: Rostow OH.

p. 354: ”the entire western”: Quoted in David Kaiser, 73.

p. 354: LBJ trip and troop commitment: PPP: JFK, 1961, PPP: JFK, 1961, 354, 356. 354, 356.

pp. 354-55: LBJ's visit to Saigon: Dallek, Flawed Giant, Flawed Giant, 13-14. 13-14.

p. 355: ”a series of joint”: FRUS: Vietnam, 1961, FRUS: Vietnam, 1961, 128. 128.

p. 355: ”We have not become”: Quoted in David Kaiser, 73.

p. 355: ”I cannot stress too strongly”: Quoted in Dallek, Flawed Giant, Flawed Giant, 17-18. 17-18.

p. 355: ”our billions”: John K. Galbraith to JFK, Mar. 2, 1961, Box 29, POF.