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63“case of triumph and tragedy”: Bosman, Taylor, and Bogel-Burroughs, “The Kennedy Grandchildren.”
64 “back to the Kennedys”: Michael Levenson, “For Kennedy Grandchildren, Family Name Is a Burden and a Blessing,” Boston Globe, August 2, 2019.
65 “federal elective office”: Emilia Petrarca, “A Guide to the Very Large, Very Beautiful, and Very Connected Kennedy Family,” W Magazine, November 25, 2018.
66 “all eyes have been on Joe”: Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs, 539.
67 “not easy psychologically”: Darrell M. West, “The End of the Kennedy Dynasty?” Brookings, February 16, 2010.
68 “faint of heart”: Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs, 547.
PART EIGHT
The Prince: John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.
Chapter 53
1 “Jackie has been rushed”: W. H. Lawrence, “Kennedy Alters Schedule to Stay Close to New Son, New York Times, November 25, 1960.
2 “never there when she needs me”: Thurston Clarke, “A Death in the First Family,” Vanity Fair, July 1, 2013.
3 Captain Dick Cramer: Lawrence, “Kennedy Alters Schedule.”
4 “really something”: Merriman Smith, “President Elect Proud of Son to be Named John F. Kennedy Jr.,” United Press International, November 25, 1969.
5 “asked the name of his son”: Smith, “President Elect Proud of Son.”
6 “named him”: Evan Thomas, “Living with the Myth,” Newsweek, July 25, 1999.
7 “life more challenging”: Liz McNeil, “Revealing the Real (and Very Complicated) John F. Kennedy Jr. 20 Years After His Death: ‘He Was Two People,’” People, July 2, 2019.
8 “Isn’t he sweet, Jack?”: “Kennedy’s Son Baptized in Hospital Chapel,” special to the New York Times, December 9, 1960.
9 “Gift for Kennedy Baby”: “Gift for Kennedy Baby,” special to the New York Times, June 1, 1961.
10 “still has a cold”: “John Jr. to Miss Party; Kennedy’s Son Still Has Cold—Condition Not Serious,” New York Times, November 25, 1961.
11 “Fauntleroy” hairstyle: Martha Brant, “Coming of Age,” Newsweek, August 13, 1995.
12 “children tumbling”: “Jackie O’s Antiquated Views Horrified Grandkids,” Associated Press, September 14, 2011.
13 “It was John’s treat”: Mark Mooney, “Jacqueline Kennedy’s Audio Tapes: ‘John John’ Says ‘He’s Gone to Heaven,’” ABCNews.com, September 13, 2011.
14 “didn’t like to read books to them”: Jacqueline Kennedy, “In Her Voice, Jacqueline Kennedy, the White House Years,” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
15 “President and Caroline were sailing with Franklin Roosevelt”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (New York: Greenwich House; distributed by Crown, 1983), 668.
16 “oblique pun”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 311.
17 “part of the yacht”: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys.
18 “stories about other Presidents”: Jacqueline Kennedy, “In Her Voice, Jacqueline Kennedy, The White House Years.”
19 “Jackie wanted her kids”: Christopher Anderson, These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie (New York: Gallery Books, 2013), 147.
20 “nurses and Secret Service men”: Donald Spoto, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 146.
21 First airplane ride: Martha Sherrill, “He Speaks,” Washington Post, September 7, 1995.
22 “put on the pilot’s helmet”: Maud Shaw, White House Nannie: My Years with Caroline and John Kennedy, Jr. (New York: New American Library, 1966), 146.
23 “one wonderful memory” Shaw, White House Nannie.
24 “He adored airplanes”: Rita Dallas with Jeanira Ratcliffe, The Kennedy Case (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973), 230.
25 “bought them by the gross”: Dallas, The Kennedy Case, 230.
26 Photo of John Jr. dated January 21, 1963: “John F. Kennedy, Jr. (JFK, Jr.), in the President’s Secretary’s Office, Cecil Stoughton, White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
27 “usual pacified”: Dallas, The Kennedy Case, 230.
28 “when I grow up”: Dallas, 230.
29 “when he’s old enough”: Paul Bentley, “Nobody’s Going to Shoot Me: How JFK Tried to Get the Secret Service to Back off,” Daily Mail (UK), November 20, 2013.
30 “the poor Secret Service”: Bentley, “Nobody’s Going to Shoot.”
31 AP photo dated October 3, 1963: AP wire photo (f513000tf-HWG), 1963.
32 “racing across the lawn”: “Ted Kennedy Pays Tribute to His Nephew,” CNN.com, July 23, 1999.
33 “Good night, Daddy”: Barbara Leaming, “The Winter of Her Despair,” Vanity Fair, September 18, 2014.
Chapter 54
1 “yacht of a Greek oil millionaire”: “Jackie Kennedy: One of the World’s Most Expensive Women,” India Today, November 30, 1977.