Part 29 (2/2)

p. 190: ”I don't think”: Kenneth Birkhead OH.

p. 190: ”is of such importance”: Speech Prepared for Delivery on the Senate Floor, July 31, 1954, Box 12, Theodore Sorensen Papers, JFKL.

p. 190: McCarthy repudiated: Gallup, 1289.

p. 190: Schlesinger view: Martin and Plaut, 203.

p. 190: ”certainly futile”: Quoted in Parmet, Jack, Jack, 302. 302.

p. 190: ”Joe McCarthy is the only man”: O'Donnell and Powers, 96.

p. 190: ”What was I supposed to do”: Martin and Plaut, 204. Also see Speech Prepared for Delivery, July 31, 1954, Box 12, Sorensen Papers.

p. 191: ”I never said”: JFK Interview, Martin Papers.

p. 191: ”He liked McCarthy”: Ibid.

p. 191: ”I had never known”: Quoted in Martin and Plaut, 204.

p. 191: For JFK's legalistic defense, see JFK appearance on Martin Agronsky's Look Here, Look Here, NBC, Nov. 23, 1957, Box 12, Sorensen Papers; and Burns, 151-52. NBC, Nov. 23, 1957, Box 12, Sorensen Papers; and Burns, 151-52.

p. 191: ”I went into the hospital”: JFK Interview, Martin Papers.

p. 192: Paul Healy, ”The Senate's Gay Young Bachelor,” Sat.u.r.day Evening Post, Sat.u.r.day Evening Post, June 1953. June 1953.

p. 192: ”Senate's Confirmed Bachelor”: Parmet, Jack, Jack, 258. 258.

p. 192: One close Kennedy friend: Burns, 127.

p. 193: ”He saw her as a kindred”: Quoted in Collier and Horowitz, 233.

p. 193: ”They were so much alike”: Quoted in ibid., 241.

p. 193: ”Jack appreciated her”: Quoted in ibid., 241-42.

p. 193: ”I am a bit concerned”: Smith, 662.

p. 193: ”spasmodic courts.h.i.+p”: Quoted in Burns, 127.

p. 194: ”she wasn't s.e.xually attracted”: Collier and Horowitz, 236-37.

p. 194: For the wedding, see Burns, 128, and Parmet, Jack, Jack, 261-62. 261-62.

p. 194: ”At last I know”: Smith, 663.

p. 194: ”as well be in Alaska”: Quoted in Burns, 131.

p. 194: ”I was alone”: Quoted in Doris Goodwin, 772.

p. 194: Jackie's spending and ”like a transient”: Collier and Horowitz, 240-41.

p. 194: Jack ”insists”: Rose Kennedy to Pat, June 2, 1954, JPK Papers, JFKL.

p. 194: ”prepared for the humiliation”: Quoted in Doris Goodwin, 774.

pp. 194-95: ”I don't think” and ”after the first year”: Quoted in Collier and Horowitz, 242.

p. 195: ”a baccha.n.a.l”: Quoted in ibid., 258.

p. 195: ”that being married”: Clymer, 24.

p. 195: For JFK's health problems, see Dr. Walter B. Hoover to JFK, July 5, 1951, and JFK to Francis Morrissey, Sept. 27, 1951, both in Box 6, PP; and Dr. Sara M. Jordan, RX, n.d., Box 73, PPP. Interviews with Dr. Elmer C. Bartels and Dr. Timothy Lamphier, NHP.

p. 195: ”Senator Kennedy has been”: Dr. Vernon S. d.i.c.k to Dr. William P. Herbst Jr., Mar. 20, 1953, Box 6, PP.

pp. 195-96: JFK's back problems: See X rays for Jan. 9, Jan. 22, Oct. 13, 1954, Dr. Janet Travell medical records, JFKL; Lincoln, 53-54; Parmet, Jack, Jack, 307-9; Goodwin, 774. 307-9; Goodwin, 774.

p. 196: ”Jack was determined”: Quoted in Goodwin, 774. The surgery is described in James A. Nichols, M.D., et al., ”Management of Adrenocortical Insufficiency During Surgery,” Archives of Surgery, Archives of Surgery, Nov. 1955, 737-40. Nov. 1955, 737-40.

p. 196: Postoperative problems: Nichols, ”Management of Adrenocortical Insufficiency”; Parmet, Jack, Jack, 309-15. Arthur Krock OH. 309-15. Arthur Krock OH.

p. 196: ”His entire body shook”: Quoted in Doris Goodwin, 775.

p. 197: Removal of the plate: X rays, Nov. 12, Dec. 16, 1954, Jan. 5, April 27, 1955, Travell medical records.

p. 197: ”You know, when I get downstairs”: Charles Spalding OH. Also see JFK's response to questions about McCarthy in JFK Interview, Martin Papers.

p. 198: ”defying const.i.tuent pressures”: Sorensen, 74.

p. 198: JFK, ”What My Illness Taught Me,” The American Weekly, The American Weekly, April 29, 1956. April 29, 1956.

p. 199: ”Jack Kennedy's involvement”: Parmet, Jack, Jack, 323-33. For the tapes, Dictabelt Recordings 25A, 25B, 26, 27, JFKL. For Sorensen's part in the book, see Profiles in Courage Folders in Box 7, Sorensen Papers. For Jules David's involvement, see Professor William Gillette, a David student, to author, April 21, 2002. Also see Evan Thomas Sr. OH, Columbia University. 323-33. For the tapes, Dictabelt Recordings 25A, 25B, 26, 27, JFKL. For Sorensen's part in the book, see Profiles in Courage Folders in Box 7, Sorensen Papers. For Jules David's involvement, see Professor William Gillette, a David student, to author, April 21, 2002. Also see Evan Thomas Sr. OH, Columbia University.

p. 199: The radio journalist and New York Times New York Times editor: Parmet, editor: Parmet, Jack, Jack, 330-31; Tifft and Jones, 388; John B. Oakes OH, Columbia University. 330-31; Tifft and Jones, 388; John B. Oakes OH, Columbia University.

p. 199: For the Pearson controversy, see the Sorensen Profiles in Courage Folders, Box 7, Sorensen Papers. Abell, 420.

p. 199: ”one of the most far-reaching”: JFK, ”Election of President and Vice President: Electoral College Reform,” Mar. 20, 1956, Compilation of Speeches, JFKL.

p. 200: On the fight with Furcolo, see Burns, 147-48; O'Donnell and Powers, 85-86; Parmet, Jack, Jack, 291-95. 291-95.

p. 201: ”Leave it alone”: Quoted in O'Donnell and Powers, 105.

p. 201: Speculation on JFK as Stevenson's VP: Fletcher Knebel, Feb. 23, 1956, Box 8, Sorensen Papers.

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