CHAPTER 3: The Kennedys

"A Magic Moment in American History"

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Mr. and Mrs.President

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91 "Vive Zha-kleen!...": BosG, 1 June 1961, p. 1.

91 "De Gaulle and...": Thomas C. Reeves, A Question of Character (New York, 1991), p.298.

91 "secret weapons": BosTr, 12 June 1961, p. 16.

92 "He savaged..." Richard Reeves, President Kennedy (New York, 1993), p. 172.

92 "For the..." Ibid., p. 174.

92 "if I...": Alistair Horne, Harold Macmillan, 2 vols. (New York, 1989) 2:290.

93 "individuals with...": Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember (Garden City, New York, 1974), p. 79.

93 "a good-sized...": Ibid.

93 "the architect...": Ibid., p. 57.

93 "the perfect...": Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (New York, 1987), p. 419.

93 "America's best known...": New York World Telegram, 7 Dec. 1940, Box 1, JFK Per.

94 "rather spoils...": Nigel Hamilton, JFK: Reckless Youth (New York, 1992), p. 683.

94 "Once I...": Henry James quoting JFK in Ibid., p. 358.

94 "The thing...": John White in Thomas C. Reeves, A Question of Character, (New York, 1991), p. 58.

94 "It's certainly...": Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 618.

94 "politics and...": Herbert Parmet, Jack (New York, 1980), p.259.

94 "there are...": Benjamin C. Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy (New York, 1975), pp. 201-202.

94 "thoroughbred...": C. David Heymann, A Woman Named Jackie (New York, 1989), p. 26.

95 taste...: Richard L. Bushman, The Refinement of America (New York, 1992), p. 96.

95 "prissy..." Edith Beale in Heymann, Jackie, p. 63.

95 "Not to...": William Manchester, Portrait of a President, rev. ed (Boston, 1962, 1967), p. 87.

95 "a regal..": Heymann, Jackie, p. 69.

95 "hang around...": Ibid., pp. 90, 99.

95 "Which First...": Ibid., p. 97.

95 "I can feel...": Paul B. Fay, Jr., The Pleasure of His Company, (New York, 1966), p. 152.

96 "Daddy, do..." Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 753.

96 "Men who...": "News Release for Weekly Papers," n.d [1946] Box 98, JFK Pre.

96 "Women compose...": Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 765.

96 "matinee...": McCall's, Aug. 1957, p. 118.*** "Every woman...": NYP, 31 July 1956, p. 21.

97 "MASSACHUSETTS NEEDS...": "Massachusetts needs JFK as U.S. Senator", c. 1952, Box 135, JFK POF.

97 "What is...": SatEP, 13 June 1953, p. 27.

97 "The family...": Nwswk, 9 July 1956, p. 29.

97 "part of..": NYP, 31 July 1956, p. 4.

97 "Potentially America's...": ChiDN, 18 Mar. 1957, p. 14.

97 "The Senate's...": SatEP, 13 June 1953, p. 27.

97 "A politician...": Lem Billings quoting Joseph P. Kennedy, in Heymann, Jackie, p. 117.

98 "a very...": McCall's, Aug. 1957, p. 123.

98 "He's not...": Ibid.

98 "put the...": Kitty Kelley, Jackie Oh! (Secaucus, NJ, 1978), p. 29.

98 "Since Jack...": Heymann, Jackie, p. 125.

98 too scrawny...: Ralph G. Martin, A Hero For Our Time (New York, 1983), p. 79.

98 "I have...": Life, Aug. 1995, p. 35.

98 "most eligible...": Greenfield Record Gazette, 25 June 1953, p. 9.

98 "No man...": Heymann, Jackie, p. 127.

98 A Life...: Kenneth P. O'Donnell and David F. Powers, Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye (New York, 1972, 1973), p. 108.

98 "perfect couple": Clark Clifford with Richard Holbrooke, Counsel to the President (New York, 1991), p. 361.

98 "little peach": Earl E.T. Smith to JFK, 25 June 1953, Box 479a, JFK Pre.

98 "She has...": Rev. A.C. Zabriskie to JFK, 1 July 1953, Box 479a, JFK Pre.

98 "risky": Paul E. Morgan to JFK, 25 June, 1953, Box 479a, JFK Pre.

98 "Greatest blow...": Red Fay to JFK, 29 June 1953, Box 479a, JFK Pre.

99 "But watch...": Manchester, Portrait, p. 87.

99 "means the...": JFK to Red Fay, July 1953, in Fay, Pleasure, p. 160.

99 Magazine rights: John T. McCullough to JFK, 9 July 1953, Box 486; John T. McCullough to JFK, 29 July 1953, Box 479a, JFK Pre.

99 "vulgar": Laurence Leamer, The Kennedy Women (New York, 1994), p. 434.

99 "The Senator...": Evelyn Lincoln, My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy (New York, 1965), p. 41.

99 "think of...": Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 351.

99 "storybook...": Warner Path News, "People in the News" IFP: 16, JFK AV.

99 "the public..": Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 494.

99 "the Deb": Goodwin, Fitzgeralds and Kennedys, p. 890.

99 "the rah-rah...": TCReeves, Character, p. 113.

99 "when she...": Lem Billings in Goodwin, Fitzgeralds and Kennedys, p. 893.

100 "He would...": Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 352.

100 "a normal..." Heymann, Jackie, p. 166.

100 "send": Lincoln, Twelve Years, p. 48.

100 "Which requires...": CBS, "Person to Person," with Edward R. Murrow, 30 Oct. 1953, TNC: 183, JFK AV.

100 "If I...": Time, 2 Dec. 1957, p. 18.

100 "unusual qualification..." Theodore C. Sorenson to Ken hechler, pp. 1-2, 31 July 1956, Box 810, Senate Papers, JFK Pre.

100 "The American...": Betty Spalding in Martin, A Hero, p. 144.

100 "My wife...": Heymann, Jackie, p. 172.

101 "In some...": NYP, 30 July 1956, p. 21.

101 "the All...": Sargent Shriver to JPK, 18 July 1956, Box 810, JFK Pre.

101 "Kennedy is...": TNR, 30 July 1956, clipping, Box 810, JFK Pre.

101 "from 1/6...": Theodore Sorensen, "The Democratic Nominee...," Box 810, JFK Pre.

101 "Just whatever...": NBC, "Outlook" with Arthur Barrio, 16 Aug. 1956, TNN:10B, JFK AV.

101 "during the...": McCall's, Aug. 1957, p. 125.

101 "national celebrity...": BosH, 13 Aug. 1956, p. 19.

101 "His was...": BosH, 18 Aug. 1956, p. 1.

101 "SENATOR KENNEDY...": BosH, 25 Aug. 1956, p. 1.

101 "seemed...needed him": George Smathers OH, p. 188.

102 "nervous tension...": Heymann, Jackie, p. 191.

102 "What else...": Kelley, Jackie Oh!, p. 57.

102 "Ladies Day...": "Dem Ladies Mob `Elvis' Kennedy", clipping, c. 1956, Box 521, JFK Pre.

102 "too much status...": Martin, A Hero, p. 144.

102 "A vital...": Omaha World Herald, 21 July 1957, quoted in Victor Lasky, JFK (New York, 1963, 1966, 1977), p. 251.

102 "When Jackie...": O'Donnell and Powers, Johnny, pp. 162-63.

102 "lithe brunette...": Boston Evening American, 8 Oct. 1958, p. 4.

102 "the petite..." Trentonian, 10 Oct. 1958, Box 19, Theodore C. Sorensen MSS, JFK Lib.

102 furtive...: Parmet, Jack, p. 452.

103 "HIS GREATNESS...": "Why You Should Re-elect John F. Kennedy", Box 19, Sorensen MSS.

103 "The John F. Kennedy...": "The John F. Kennedy Story," Box 19, Sorensen MSS.

103 "Whenever the...": "Memorandum -- Radio and TV" Box 20, Sorensen MSS.

103 In April 1957...: NBC, "Jackie Kennedy, Home Show," 19 Apr. 1957, TNN 11, JFK AV.

103 "I'll take..." "The U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy Story," 1958, PPP 64, JFK AV.

103 "At Home...": "At Home with the Kennedys," 28 Oct. 1958, IFP: 130 JFK AV.

103 "She is...": The Trentonian, 10 Oct. 1958.

103 "Kennedy's strength...": Charles L. Bartlett, ed. "News Focus", 16 Aug. 1959, Box 27, JFK POF.

103 "the early...": Leslie Carpenter OH, p. 16.

104 "a good...": Louis Harris and Associates, "A survey of Issues and Images in Wisconsin," June 1958, p. 10, Box 819, JFK Pre.

104 Catholic couple: Larry J. Sabato, Feeding Frenzy (New York, 1991), p. 37; Heymann, Jackie, pp. 226-27.

104 "felt that...": Theodore H. White, The Making of the President 1960 (New York, 1960), p. 380.

104 "always...": Louis Harris and Associates, "A Study of Voter Attitude in West Virginia of Presidential Preferences," Jan. 1960, p. 25, Box 818, JFK Pre.

104 "personality element...": Louis Harris and Associates, "A Study of the Presidential Election in South Carolina, June 1960, p. 17, Box 818, JFK Pre.

104 "youth and...": Louis Harris and Associates, "A Survey of the Race for President in 1960 in the state of California," Mar. 1958, p. 7, Box 815, JFK Pre.

104 "how to...": "Campaign Reflections," unsigned memorandum, c. Sept. 1960, Box 535, Senate Files, General Files, General Files, JFK Pre.

104 "junior executives...": NYP, 8 Aug. 1960, p. 39.

105 "When you...": CBS, "Presidential Countdown. Mr. Kennedy: A Profile," 19 Sept. 1960, p. 4, Box 1027, JFK Pre.

105 "Lovely aspirants...": Life, 10 Oct. 1960, p. 150.

105 "Stunning egghead...": Nwswk, 22 Feb. 1960, p. 29.

105" by no...": Nwswk, 17 Oct. 1960, p. 34.

105 "pace setter": USNWR, 8 Aug. 1960, pp. 67-68.

105 "self-discipline[d]": Nwswk, 22 Feb. 1960, p. 28.

105 "a suburban...": Look, 27 July, 1954, p. 23.

105 "large and...": Time, 29 Feb. 1960, p. 27.

105 "the super-duper...": Nwswk, 22 Feb. 1960, pp. 28-29.

105 "I think...": USNWR, 8 Aug. 1960, p. 66.

105 "We both...": Nwswk, 22 Feb. 1960, p. 29.

105 "Pat's only...": Life, 10 Oct. 1960, p. 150.

105 "the best-known...": Time, 29 Feb. 1960, p. 25.

106 "Whatever you...": Nwswk, 17 Oct. 1960, p. 31.

106 "pull some...": Bradlee, Conversations, p. 28.

106 "turn to...": Roger Tubb Memo, "Presidential Countdown" 26 Sept. 1960, Box 37, RFK Pre.

106 "It's the...": Life, 10 Oct. 1960, p. 150.

106 "She breathes...": Life, 24 Aug. 1959, p. 80.

106 "Acapulco": Ibid.

106 "keeps seeing...": JBK, "Campaign Wife", 27 Oct. 1960, Box 1034, JFK Pre.

106 "shocking pink": USNWR, 21 Nov. 1960, p. 78.

106 "I couldn't...": Life, 26 Sept. 1960, p. 18.

106 "in general...": Louis Harris, "Nixon Before Labor Day," 25 Aug. 1960, pp. 16-17, Box 48, RFK Pre. Ibid., p. 15.

107 "to appoint...": JFK, New York, 5 Nov. 1960, Box 1035, JFK Pre.

107 "New Frontier...": NYT, 12 Aug. 1960, p. ?

107 "so totally...": Liz Carpenter OH, 1:31.

107 "Four major...": "DNC Press Release," 11 Oct. 1960, Box 1035, JFK Pre.

107 "To express...": See "cool," Dictionary of American Slang (New York, 1975), p. 121.

107 "Professor McLuhan...": Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (New York, 1964), pp. 42, 261, 269.

107 "an occasion...": John Kenneth Galbraith to JBK, 16 Sept. 1960; JBK to Galbraith, 24 Sept. 1960, Box 74, John Kenneth Galbraith MSS, JFK Lib.

108 "Oh, Bunny...": White, Making, 1960, p. 30.

108 "Okay, girls...": Bradlee, Conversations, p. 32.

108 "struggle against...": TCReeves, Character, p. 233.

108 "This Administration...": Heymann, Jackie, p. 279.

108 "poise...": Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 399; Pierre Salinger, With Kennedy (Garden City, New York, 1966), pp. 73, 139-144; T.C. Reeves, Character, p. 250.

108 "Have you...": RReeves, President Kennedy, p. 35.

109 "Jacqueline Bouvier...": USNWR, 21 Nov. 1960, p. 78.

109 "I'm never...": O'Donnell and Powers, Johnny, p. 268.

109 "Running our...": BosG, 15 Jan. 1961, p. 5.

109 "an old...": NBC, "The World of Jackie Kennedy," 1962, TNN 1, JFK AV.

109 "AMERICA'S 2 QUEENS...": Photoplay, June 1962, cover.

109 The movie colony...: See Ronald Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter (New York, 1990), pp. 144-145, 155.

109 the best-selling...: ChiDN, 3 Oct. 1963, p. 14.

109 "Inaugural Day...": Mrs. L.J. Morand to JBK, 24 Jan. 1961, p. 3, Box 701, JFK WHSoc.

109 "Jackie Kennedy Look...": BosTr, 10 Jan. 1961, p. 40.

110 "Women everywhere...": Mrs. Lorraine G. Trester to JBK, 31 Jan. 1961, Box 701, JFK WHSoc. See also Joseph B. Lieves to JBK, 6 July 1962, Box 701, JFK WHSoc.

110 "the best...": Boston Record American, 29 Dec. 1961, p. 4; Newsday, 8 Jan. 1962, clipping in A. Babcock to JBK, Box 36, JFK WHSoc.

110 "There are...": JBK to James V. Spadea, 17 Sept. 1960, Box 701, JFK WHSoc.

110 "discreetly": Letitia Baldridge to Janet A. Des Rosiers, 19 Sept. 1961; Letitia Baldridge to Madame Jackie Givinchy, 3 Aug. 1960, Box 701, JFK WHSoc.

110 "Just make...": JBK to Oleg Cassini, 13 Dec. 1960 in Oleg Cassini, In My Own Fashion (New York, 1987), p. 310.

110 "American Gothic...": Boston Evening American, 20 Jan. 1961, p. 3.

110 "my motivating...": BosG, 15 Jan. 1961, p. 5.

110 "If you...": NBC, "World of JBK."

110 "the Happy...": Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York, 1963), pp. 28, 30.

110 "It is...": NYT, 20 Jan. 1962, p. 14.

110 "The President...": David Butler in Manchester, Portrait, p. 234.

110 "is a real...": Minneapolis Star, 19 July 1961, clipping, Mrs. Howard Cameron to JBK, 19 July 1961, Box 97, JFK WHSoc.

111 "a candid...": CBS, "A Day in the Life of President Kennedy," 17 Feb. 1961, TNC 194, JFK AV; NBC, "JFK Report #2," with Edwin Neumann, 11 Apr. 1961, TNN 260, JFK AV.

111 "We couldn't...": TCReeves, Character, p. 250.

111 "most extraordinary...": BosG, 12 Apr. 1961, p. 8.

111 "We interviewed...": Helen Thomas, Dateline: White House (New York, 1975), p. 8; Salinger, With Kennedy, p. 315.

111 "My two...": Mrs. R.A. Cameron to JBK, 29 Jan. 1961, Box 97, JFK WHSoc.

111 "the enormous...": Louis Harris, "Reaction to Kennedy during the First 60 Days of his Administration," Mar. 1961, pp. 22-24, Box 105, JFK POF.

111 "found it...": Salinger, With Kennedy, p. 119.

111 "that things...": JFK to Stan Carey, 20 Feb. 1963, Box 68O, PL JFK WHCF.

112 "Negroes are...": RReeves, President Kennedy, p. 357.

112 "There is...": NBC, "Interview with Mrs. John F. Kennedy," 24 Mar. 1961, Transcript pp. 4-5, Box 463, JFK WHSoc.

112 "the hothouse...": USNWR, 7 Oct. 1963, p. 72.

112 "Is President...": BosG, 15 Apr. 1961, p. 1.

112 "Just as...": McCall's, Feb. 1962, p. 26.

112 "official...": USNWR, 5 Feb. 1962, p. 19.

112 "a saddle..": James N. Giglio, Presidency of JFK (Lawrence, KS, 1991), p. 271.

112 "President's wife...": JBK to Bonnie Angelo, 16 Apr. 1962, Box 753, JFK WHSoc.

112 "People must...": WasP, 21 Jan. 1963, B4.

113 "minimum information..": Giglio, Presidency, p. 271.

113 "His 'coolness'...": AMS, A Thousand Days (Boston, 1965), p. 115.

113 "What do...": David Halberstam, The Powers that Be (New York, 1979), p. 506.

113 "harpies": Thomas, Dateline, p. 7.

113 "Poor Jack...": Heymann, Jackie, p. 273.

113 "The boss...": Thomas, Dateline, p. 10.

113 "Say hello...": Giglio, Presidency, p. 271.

113 "low man on...": Helen Thomas, Dateline, p. 5.

113 "women were treated...": Ben Bradlee, A Good Life (New York, 1995), p. 298.

113 "was news...": Thomas, Dateline, pp. 12, 8.

113 "to avoid...": "White House Gag is On," clipping, with letter, Kitty Cole to Letitia Baldridge, c. 8 June 1962, Box 753, JFK WHSoc.

113 "the rudest...": Heymann, Jackie, p. 379.

113 One guest...: USNWR, 9 Apr. 1962, pp. 57-58.

113 "The Private...": GH, Feb. 1963, pp. 74, 165-166. See also Robert G. Deindorfer to Pierre Salinger, 16 Aug. 1962, JFK WHCF.

114 "the practice...": JFK News Conference, 21 Feb. 1963, Joseph P. Berry, Jr., JFK and the Media (Lanham, MD, 1987), p. 1.

114 "an air...": JFK to Henry Luce, 8 Aug. 1961, Box 31, JFK POF.

114 "Ted Sorensen...": Stanley Tretick to JFK, 19 July 1962, Box 705, PP5/Kennedy, Caroline, JFK WHCF.

114 "We'd better...": RReeves, President Kennedy, p. 475.

114 "Mrs. Jacqueline...": New York Journal American, 23 Dec.1961, p. 1.

114 "a guided...": Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice (New York, 1968), p. 181.

114 "COMMUNISTS CAN...": Raymond J. Conner to JFK, 24 Dec. 1961, Box 706, PP5/JBK, JKF WHCF.

114 Kennedy's people...": Pierre Salinger to JFK, 23 Dec. 1961, Benjamin McKelway to Salinger, 25 Dec. 1961, France Leary Telegram, n.d., all in Box 10, Pierre Salinger MSS, JFK Lib.

115 "grabbing their...": Garry Wills, Kennedy Imprisonment (New York, 1981, 1982), p. 35.

115 "keep our...": RReeves, President Kennedy, p. 102.

115 "Is there...": Berry, Media, p. 2.

115 "resplendent": AMS, Thousand Days, p. 277.

115 "No...I...": RReeves, President Kennedy, p. 93.

115 "political...": USNWR, 17 Sept. 1962, p. 42.

115 "Despite himself...": AMS, Thousand Days, p. 259.

115 "image...": Dean Acheson to HST, 18 July 1961, in David McCullough, Truman (New York, 1992), p. 980.

115 "My God...": AMS, Thousand Days, p. 295.

115 "There's an...": Ibid., p. 289.

115 "one of...": O'Donnell and Powers, Johnny, p. 311.

116 "Jesus, it's...": RReeves, President Kennedy, p. 106.

116 "It is...": AMS, Thousand Days, p. 840.

116 "wants to...": Hugh Sidey, JFK, President (New York, 1964), p. 47.

116 "whatever the...": "Interview with Mrs. JFK," p. 6.

116 "to make...": Clifford, Counsel, p. 364.

116 "dentist office...": JBK to H.F. du Pont, 21 Nov. 1962, Box 947, JFK WHSoc.

116 "a woman's...": BosG, 27 May, 1962, p. 18.

117 "Do you...": J.B. West, Upstairs at the White House (New York, 1973), pp. 191-192.

117 "brilliant...the renovation...": JBK to du Pont, 21 Nov. 1962.

117 "horrible wrinkles...": JBK to Clifford, 3 Nov. 1963 in Clifford, Counsel, p. 367.

117 "I think...": Evelyn Lincoln to Larry O'Brien [JBK dictated], 23 Jan. 1963, Box 62, JFK POF.

117 "I want...": Sidey, JFK, p. 283.

117 "Jack and...": Clifford, Counsel, p. 365.

117 "Oh, Dr. King...": Harris Wofford, Of Kennedys and Kings (Pittsburgh, 1980, 1992), p. 128.

118 "Just forget...": Letitia Baldridge OH, pp. 48, 52.

118 "Quarreling over...": Salinger, With Kennedy, p. 88.

118 "relationship between...": CBS "A Tour of the White House," 14 Feb. 1962, TNC 164, JFK AV. Transcript of Interview, Box 701, JFK WHSoc.

118 "Jacqueline Kennedy...": "News Nielsen," Henry Rahmel to Pierre Salinger, 12 Mar. 1962, Box 706, PP5/JBK, JFK WHCF.

118 "the most sucessful...": Pierre Salinger OH, p. 117.

118 "a charming...": BosG, 16 Feb. 1962, p. 22.

118 "fragile loveliness...": BosG, 15 Feb. 1962, p. 18.

118 "I approve...": Sidey, JFK, p. 280.

118 Bradlees sensed: Bradlee, Conversations, pp. 57-58.

119 "I think...": "World of JBK."

119 "middle class...": Ben J. Wattenberg, The Real America, rev. ed., (New York, 1974, 1976), pp. 51, 52, 85.

119 "the average...": NYT, 20 Jan. 1962, p. 14.

119 "an empty...": "World of JBK."

119 "Nothing quite...": USNWR, 3 Apr. 1961, pp. 66.

119 "It was...": LHJ, Mar. 1964, p. 59.

119 "It's bound...": Charles Bartlett to JFK, undated, Box 28, JFK POF. See also BosTr, 21 Feb. 1962, p. 26.

119 "a part...": RReeves, President Kennedy, p. 476.

120 "general ferment...": BD [Biddle Duke?] to August Heckscher, 21 Nov. 1962, Box 40, August Heckscher MSS, JFK Lib.

120 "In case...": Letitia Baldridge to Evelyn Lincoln, 17 Feb. 1961, Box 62, JFK POF.

120 "Now, Jackie...": Kelley, Jackie Oh!, pp. 188-189.

120 "My family...": Jim Bishop, A Day in the Life of President Kennedy (New York, 1964), p. 53.

120 "about family...": Ibid., p. 56.

120 "Jack has...": Lasky, JFK, p. 693.

120 "She did...": Bishop, A Day in the Life, p. 23.

121 "had one...": Letitia Baldridge to Mrs. John E. Davis, 18 July 1962, Box 906, JFK WHSoc.

121 Jack once scribbled...: Christopher Andersen, Jack and Jackie (New York, 1996), p. 189.

121 comic book: Caroline Kennedy (Derby, CN, 1961), Box 705, PP5/Caroline Kennedy, JFK WHCF.

121 "You'll find...": Fred Blumenthal, "A Working Weekend with the President," clipping, Autumn 1963, Box W-9, AMS MSS, JFK Lib.

121 "That's your...": Martin, A Hero, p. 317.

121 "Come on...": William Miller, Fishbait (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977), p. 298.

122 Lincoln's Birthday: R. Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 464.

122 "the responsibility...": Ibid., p. 154.

122 "What are...": Martin, A Hero, p. 132.

122 "The president...": Andersen, Jack and Jackie, p. 330.

122 "Tell her...": RReeves, President Kennedy, pp. 154-155.

122 "civil war...": Baldridge in Carl Sferrazza Anthony, First Ladies, 2 vols. (New York, 1991), 2:50.

122 "with the women": R. Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 82.

122 "Good night...": Sidey, JFK, p. 95.

123 "the art...": "Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Tour," Mar. 1962, USG 1-16 JFK AV.

123 nearly four hundred thousand...: Government of India, Overseas Communication Service, New Delhi, 24 Mar. 1962, Box 705, PP5/JBK, JFK WHCF.

123 "You are...": CBS "Jackie's Journey to India" with Walter Cronkite, 16 Mar. 1962, TNC 205, JFK AV.

123 "It feels...": BosTr, 30 Mar. 1962, p. 14.

123 Anticommunists...: See David Lawrence Column, BosTr, 16 Mar. 1962, p. 18.

123 Moralists...: See Mrs. James Haller to JBK, 19 Mar. 1962, Box 6, JFK WHSoc.

123 "Has it...": Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Ober to Pierre Salinger, 11 Mar. 1962, Box 706, JFK WHCF.

123 "is mostly...": NYT, 25 Mar. 1962, p. 3.

123 "Jesus Christ...": Kelley, Jackie OH!, p. 187.

123 "The closer..": Elizabeth S. Cowles to JBK, 6 Apr. 1962, Box 257, JFK WHSoc.

123 "I was...": Perry to JBK, 30 Mar. 1962.

124 "Of course...": Vivian Kopritz to JBK, 26 Mar. 1962, Box 257, JFK WHSoc.

124 "Our First...": Mrs. O. P. Bowen to JBK, 26 Apr. 1962, Box 257, JFK WHSoc.

124 "Are you...": A. Babcock to JBK, 5 May 1962, Box 36, JFK WHSoc.

124 excesses undermined: LAT, 17 July 1961, p. 3.

124 "the peacock..": ChiT, 13 Apr. 1962, p. 26.

124 "DOES THIS...": Concerned Citizens of America Committee to JBK, Aug. 1962, Box 706, JFK WHSoc.

124 "Has something...": Mrs. H. E. Bellomy to JFK, 27 Aug. 1962, Box 906, JFK WHSoc.

124 "It appears...": NYDN, 26 Aug. 1962, p. 4.

124 "I'm just...": Mrs. F. D. Carter to JBK, 16 Oct. 1962, Box 906, JFK WHSoc.

125 "A Harvard...": Lasky, JFK, p. 725.

125 "A LITTLE...": Heymann, Jackie, p. 356.

125 "headlong national...": Barry Goldwater, Goldwater (New York, 1988), pp. 130, 139.

125 "We're having...": Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys (New York, 1984), p. 359.

125 "People told...": T.C. Reeves, Character, p. 237.

125 "good looks...": George Gallup, "Gallup Poll on Mrs. Kennedy," 8 Oct. 1962, clipping, Box W-9, AMS MSS.

126 "He was completely...": John White in Parmet, Jack, p. 94.

126 "if I...": T.C. Reeves, Character, p. 202.

126 "We're a...": R. Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 291.

126 "he was heartily...": Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 359.

126 "will help...": Wills, Kennedy Imprisonment, p. 26.

126 "Happy Birthday...": Manchester, Portrait, p. 89.

126 Nostalgis for...: On underlying causes see, for example, Ethel Klein, Gender Politics (Cambridge, MA, 1984), pp. 5-6; William Henry Chafe, The American Woman (New York, 1972), p. 247.

127 "housekeepers...": Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers (Cambridge, MA, 1992), p. 51.

127 "Certainly there...": Margaret Price, "Women -- Role in Government," 8 Dec, 1960, Box 1072, JFK Pre.

127 "everything to...": Clayton Fritchey to JFK, 22 July 1963, Box 374, JFK WHCF.

127 "Kennedy never...": Heymann, Jackie, p. 370.

127 "assume the...": Mary C. Rest, 18 Jan. 1962, Box 27, JFK WHSoc.

127 "how you...": Mrs. Erma Shapiro to JBK, 6 May 1962, Box 27n.

127 "As the Mothers...": Parents' Magazine, Nov. 1963, p. 57. The other magazines were McCall's, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Family Circle, and Woman's Day, Nov. 1963. JFK to Robert Stein, 6 Aug. 1963, "HU3 Equality for Women," Box 374, JFK WHCF. See also Stein to Pierre Salinger, 13 May 1963, Box 106, JFK POF.

128 "My dear...": Look, 17 Nov. 1964, p. 95.

128 "She hung...": TCReeves, Character, p. 400.

128 "the one...": Heymann, Jackie, p. 386.

128 "Jackie, do...": Ibid., p. 389.

128 "impropriety of...": Oliver P. Bolton, 88th Cong. 1st sess., 16 Oct. 1963, CR, 109:19627.

128 "Does this...": Heymann, Jackie, p. 393.

128 "Jackie's guilt...": Bradlee, Conversations, p. 219.

128 "with Sinatra...": Nwswk, 28 Oct. 1963, p. 20.

129 "I will...": JBK to Pamela Turnure, 11 Nov. 1963 in Salinger, With Kennedy, p. 304.

129 "to hear him...": LBJ, The Vantage Point (New York, 1971), p. 1.

129 "It's my...": Theodore White, In Search of History (New York, 1978), p. 542.

129 "The manner...": LHJ, Mar. 1964, pp. 58-59.

129 "let them...": White, Search, p. 544.

129 "Mrs. Kennedy...": LaBJ, A White House Diary (New York, 1970), p. 10.

130 "If it...": Heymann, Jackie, p. 409.

130 "And her message...": White, Search, pp. 538, 543-545.

130 "The knowledge...": "JBK Speaks to the Nation thanking them for Condolences," 14 Jan. 1964, IFP: 6 JFK AV.

130 "Now no...": JBK to AMS, 23 Nov. 1965, Box W-7, AMS MSS.

130 "a touch...": CBS [WTOP] "JFK One Thousand Days and Ten Years," 11 Nov. 1973, WHCA VTR 6657 Arch AV.

131 sex, power, and...: See Wills, Kennedy Imprisonment, p. 33; Michael Kimmel, Manhood in America (New York, 1996), pp. 268-269.

131 the ideals so grand...: See James T. Patterson, Grand Expectations (New York, 1996); Robert J. Samuelson, The Good Life and its Discontents (New York 1995).


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