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11 Ted steadily gains weight: Canellos, Last Lion, 63.

12 “terrible with candy and ice cream”: Interview with Lester Hyman, 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, 2016.

13 “delivered Wyoming”: 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.

14 Jack makes Ted a dare: Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy, 28.

15 “carry the Western States in 1964”: Canellos, Last Lion, 66.

16 “his father wanted him to run”: Canellos, 67.

17 A room in memory of Joe Jr.: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 287.

18 “he couldn’t talk but he still called them”: Transcript of Interview with Robert Healy by Stephen F. Knott.

19 “milling around, stark naked”: Rita Dallas with Jeanira Ratcliffe, The Kennedy Case (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973), 69.

20 “Teddy got caught cheating”: Transcript of Interview with Robert Healy by Stephen F. Knott.

21 “Harvard Examination Incident”: Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy, 36.

22 “more fucking trouble with this than I did with the Bay of Pigs”: Transcript of Interview with Robert Healy by Stephen F. Knott.

23 The “Teddy-Eddie” debate: Interview with Lester Hyman.

24 “Brother of the President”: Interview with Lester Hyman.

25 “Nobody’s laughing”: Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy, 40.

24 “Kennedys can do no wrong”: Interview with Lester Hyman.





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1 “stiff as a billy goat at ten in the morning”: Interview with Edward M. Kennedy (01/06/2007), 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, 2016.

2 “The pressure of all the others”: Adam Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography (New York: William Morrow, 1999), 15.

3 “an extraordinary family man”: Interview with John Tunney (2007), 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, 2016.

4 “the one who most came to see the father”: Interview with Lester Hyman, 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, 2016.

5 Ted breaks news of Jack’s death to Joe: Peter S. Canellos, ed., Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2010), 96.

6 “segregation was morally wrong”: Ted Kennedy, “Standing Up for Equality and Staring Down Discrimination,” floor of the United States Senate, April 8, 1964.

7 “What do you want me to do, crack up an airplane?”: Canellos, Last Lion, 100.

8 “The fog is really rolling in”: Canellos, 100.

9 “It was just like a toboggan ride”: Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy, 58.

10 “as though a kitchen knife sliced through it”: Clymer, 58.

11 “like a sack of corn under my arm”: J. Taylor Rushing, “Bayh Remembers 1964 Plane Crash,” The Hill, August 28, 2009.

12 “You don’t think it’s Kennedy?” Interview with Edward Martin, 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, 2016.

13 “going to be fine”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012), 284.

14 “Nobody knows more about backs than you do”: Interview with Ann Gargan, 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, 2016.

15 “Dad doesn’t think that’s a very good idea”: Interview with Ann Gargan.

16 “educating himself as he was lying there”: Interview with John Tunney (2007).

17 “the biggest, nicest strawberries”: “Senator Bayh on Ted Kennedy,” Newsweek, August 25, 2009.

18 “Joan became the candidate herself”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 288.

19 “his wife won the campaign for him”: Neil Swidey, “Turbulence and Tragedies Eclipse Early Triumphs,” Boston Globe, February 16, 2009.

20 “Is it ever going to end for you people?” Swidey, “Turbulence and Tragedies Eclipse Early Triumphs.”

21 “Can we just chalk it up to coincidence?”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 285.





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1 “I think that Bobby was Teddy’s best friend”: Interview with John Tunney (2007), 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, 2016.

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