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3 “Don’t look at him”: Interview with John Tunney by Stephen F. Knott and James Sterling Young, The Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in partnership with the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, May 3, 2007.

4 “killing all the Kennedys”: Associated Press, “Pierre Salinger Dies at 79,” NBC News, October 17, 2004.

5 “same kind of disaster”: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 475.

6 “death of the president”: Peter S. Canellos, ed., Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2010), 137.

7 Rumors of Joe Sr.’s death: David Margolick, “Robert F. Kennedy’s Final Flight: The Storied Journey of the Ride from California to New York,” Washington Post, June 3, 2018.

8 “Air Force jets bear the bodies”: Margolick, “Robert F. Kennedy’s Final Flight.”

9 “three widows”: Margolick.

10 Bobby’s funeral: “Robert Kennedy Shot, Killed in Los Angeles,” Newsweek, June 16, 1968.

11 “started kicking the box”: Richard Harwood, “With Bobby Kennedy on That Last Campaign,” Washington Post, June 5, 1988.

12 Bobby’s funeral train: Thurston Clarke, The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America (New York: Henry Holt, 2008), 6.

13 “He’s got it!”: Joe Keohane, “But the Dream Should Die,” Boston, November 30, 2009.

14 “traumatized by Dr. King’s assassination”: Kathy Lohr, “Poor People’s Campaign: A Dream Unfulfilled,” Morning Edition, Special Series: Echoes of 1968, National Public Radio, June 19, 2008.

15 “a great white moon”: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, fortieth anniversary edition (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018), 916.

16 “the Kennedys draw the lightning”: Larry Tye, Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon (New York: Random House, 2016), 442.





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1 “crippled kids running around”: Eileen McNamara, “Eunice Kennedy Shriver: The Hidden Kennedy Powerhouse,” Saturday Evening Post, February 19, 2019.

2 “full judgment of the Kennedy legacy”: Carla Baranauckas, “Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Influential Founder of Social Olympics, Dies at 88,” New York Times, August 11, 2009.

3 “I like Teddy”: Peter S. Canellos, ed., Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2010), 127.

4 “I wouldn’t support your brother”: Transcript of Interview with Robert Healy by Stephen F. Knott, “Robert Healy Oral History, Journalist, the Boston Globe,” Presidential Oral Histories—Edward M. Kennedy Histories, Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, August 10, 2005.

5 “your own unique quality”: Jean Kennedy Smith, The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy (New York: HarperCollins, 2016), 109.

6 “My little pet”: Larry Tye, Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon (New York: Random House, 2016), 13.

7 “It is so very difficult”: Barbara Perry, Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch (New York: W.W. Norton, 2013), 299.

8 “Had Bobby lived”: Tye, Bobby Kennedy, 442.

9 “what I had gone through five years earlier”: Ted Sorensen, “RFK Assassination: Aide Recalls Tragedy Repeated,” Morning Edition, National Public Radio, June 5, 2008.

10 “much better man for knowing him”: Tye, Bobby Kennedy, 443.

11 “If he hadn’t stopped to shake your hand”: Laurel Wamsley and Emily Sullivan, “Juan Romero, Busboy Who Cradled Dying RFK, Dies at 68,” National Public Radio, October 4, 2018.

12 “able to go through this awful experience with such dignity”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, fortieth anniversary edition (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018), 915.

13 “I’m telling you here and now”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 357.

14 “if anything happens to this baby”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 376.

15 “this new Kennedy can’t miss”: Taraborrelli, 377.

16 Bringing Rory to Bobby’s grave: Taraborrelli, 378.



PART SIX

The Senator: Edward Moore Kennedy





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1 “you’re all we’ve got”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 364.

2 Lowenstein suggesting Ted for 1968: Justin N. Feldman, recorded interview by Roberta W. Greene, February 4, 1970, Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Program of the John F. Kennedy Library.

3 “do it to that family a third time”: David Oshinsky, “One Person Made a Difference,” New York Times, November 7, 1993.

4 “no record in public life strong enough”: Adam Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography (New York: William Morrow, 1999), 121.

5 “My babies were rocked to political lullabies”: John M. Broder, “Edward M. Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Is Dead at 77,” New York Times, August 26, 2009.

6 “work out plans to make people happy”: Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy, 12.