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2 “The fucking Kennedy machine rides again”: 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.
3 Ted and Joan move to McLean, VA: Adam Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography (New York: William Morrow, 1999), 93.
4 With Helga Wagner on night of the 1968 California Democratic presidential primary: Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy, 109.
5 “Days of partying”: Maxine Cheshire, “The Mysterious Helga Wagner,” Washington Post, March 13, 1980.
6 “get that plane, or your career is over”: Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy, 109.
7 “his brain was not working”: Interview with John Tunney (2007).
8 “one million dollars and a car”: Michael Cooper and John M. Broder, “FBI Opens Kennedy File,” New York Times, June 15, 2010.
9 “multiply as you watched”: Lorna Luft, Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir (New York: Pocket Books, 1998), 104.
10 “We need you so much”: Judy Garland 1964 Telegram to Ted Kennedy (Western Union), Lot #284, Nate D. Sanders Auctions, Autographs & Memorabilia.
11 “symbolic of all my dreams and wishes”: “Judy Garland, 47, Found Dead,” New York Times, June 23, 1969.
12 “sail all night long by himself”: James W. Graham, Victura: The Kennedys, a Sailboat, and the Sea (Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2014), 192.
13 “I pick up a fallen standard”: John M. Broder, “Edward M. Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Is Dead at 77,” New York Times, August 26, 2009.
14 “learn to fight your own battles”: Peter S. Canellos, ed., The Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), 25.
15 Assistant leader of the Senate: Broder, “Edward M. Kennedy.”
16 “maybe I’m just not attractive enough”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012), 78.
17 “how vulnerable I was”: Orla Healy, “The Tragic Life of a Kennedy Wife,” Independent (UK), April 24, 2005.
18 “as if I weren’t hurt or angry”: Healy, “The Tragic Life of a Kennedy Wife.”
19 “fill it with vodka”: Interview with Lester Hyman.
20 “his dark side appeared”: Dominick Dunne, “Damage,” Vanity Fair, October 1991.
21 “shoot my ass off the way they shot Bobby”: Michael Kelly, “Ted Kennedy on the Rocks,” GQ, April 15, 2016.
22 “And by God, it did”: Interview with Lester Hyman.
Chapter 40
1 “never been so tired in my life”: 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.
2 “take us sailing again”: “Ted Kennedy Car Accident in Chappaquiddick,” Newsweek, August 3, 1969.
3 Twenty-eight-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne: William C. Kashatus, “Remembering Mary Jo,” Citizens’ Voice (Wilkes-Barre, PA), July 26, 2015.
4 “always the first to leave”: Kashatus, “Remembering Mary Jo.”
5 “unconditional loyalty and discretion”: Kashatus.
6 “invaluable asset to the senator”: 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.
7 “Don’t ride around in new cars”: 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.
8 When Ted gets out of the water: Robert Sherill, “A Tragedy, an Enigma, a Political Achilles Heel,” New York Times, July 14, 1974.
9 “he was very badly advised”: Interview with John Tunney (2009).
10 “so sad that he didn’t have somebody”: Interview with John Tunney (2009).
11 “The car has gone off the bridge”: Peter S. Canellos, ed., The Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), 154.
12 “You take care of the girls; I’ll take care of the accident”: Canellos, The Last Lion, 155.
13 Ted makes a number of phone calls: Canellos, 155.
14 The innkeeper, Russell Peachey: George Lardner Jr., “Chappaquiddick 1989,” Washington Post, July 16, 1989.
15 “veritable female 007”: Shaun Considine, “Helga Wagner Sells ‘She Shells’ and Shushes Talk That She’s Teddy’s or Prince Charles’ Blond Bombshell,” People, September 8, 1980.
16 “all the Kennedys”: Maxine Cheshire, “The Mysterious Helga Wagner,” Washington Post, March 13, 1980.
17 “someone arriving in a hurry, or someone leaving in a hurry”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 371.
18 “Your best friend is in terrible trouble”: Interview with John Tunney (2009).
19 “It was a terrible thing”: Interview with John Tunney (2009).