The House of Kennedy(96)
17 Hitler’s missile men: “Joseph Kennedy Jr.’s Death Recalled,” New York Times, March 20, 1970.
Chapter 9
1 “missing in action”: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 257.
2 “let’s go sailing”: James W. Graham, Victura: The Kennedys, a Sailboat, and the Sea (Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2015), 84.
3 Final letter from Joe Jr.: Daniel F. Harrington, “The Last Flight of Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Heir Apparent,” Providence Journal, September 2, 2014.
4 “Joe’s courage and devotion”: “Joseph Kennedy Jr.’s Death Recalled,” New York Times, March 20, 1970.
5 “Luckily, I am a Kennedy”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), 697.
6 “the Big One”: Barbara Leaming, Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2016), 30.
7 “they can not have what they want most”: Thomas Maier, The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 149.
8 “two Joes”: Leaming, 18.
9 “Kick’s soul”: Edward Klein, The Kennedy Curse: Why America’s First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003), 145.
10 “Thursday—Engaged”: Paula Byrne, “‘Kick’ Kennedy: JFK’s Forgotten Sister,” Telegraph (UK), May 20, 2016.
11 “MARRIED LIFE AGREES WITH ME”: Leaming, Kick Kennedy, 157.
12 “nothing but goodbyes”: Leaming, 158.
13 Patricia Wilson: Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, 670.
14 “I had better get a gal”: Kearns Goodwin, 685.
15 Personal Effects Distribution: Rick Long/ Cape Cod Curmudgeon, “August 12, 1944, Operation Aphrodite,” Today in History (website), August 12, 2017.
16 Peter Fitzwilliam resembling Rhett Butler: Leaming, Kick Kennedy, 235-6.
17 Rose opposes marriage to divorced man: Leaming, Kick Kennedy, 241.
18 “Darling Daddy”: Leaming, Kick Kennedy, 241.
19 “I’d like to get Dad’s consent”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 169.
20 boozy lunch: Edward Klein, The Kennedy Curse: Why America’s First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003), 159.
21 Discovery of bodies: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, 169-70.
22 “he will be forgotten”: Jennifer Newton, “Calls Grow for Memorial to JFK’s Older Brother Joe to Be Built in English Village Where WW2 Bomber Exploded—Paving the Way for Younger Sibling to Go on and Become President,” Daily Mail (UK), December 6, 2014.
23 “dinner during an air raid”: Edward J. Renehan Jr., The Kennedys at War, 1937–1945 (New York: Doubleday, 2002), 314.
PART FOUR
The President: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Chapter 10
1 “your blue underwear”: Thomas Bilodeau, recorded interview by James Murray, May 12, 1964, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program, 3.
2 “godawful suits”: Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 (New York: Little, Brown, 2003), 2.
3 “best sense of humor”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), 464.
4 “never thought Jack would do anything”: Ronald Kessler, The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (New York: Warner Books, 1996), 286.
5 “shadowboxing”: Edward J. Renehan Jr., The Kennedys at War, 1937–1945 (New York: Doubleday, 2002), 314.
6 Rose’s belief that Jack had a lower IQ: Barbara A. Perry, Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013), 51.
7 “never wanted us to talk about this”: Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (New York: Little, Brown, 1997), 15.
8 “sick so much”: Donald Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis: A Life (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 87.
9 “a very definite flair”: Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, 481.
10 “good motion”: Ian Young, “The Man Who Loved JFK,” review of Jack and Lem: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship, by David Pitts, Gay & Lesbian Review, September 1, 2007.
11 “Jack’s winning smile”: Alexis Coe, “Portrait of a Troublemaker: A Rare Glimpse of John F. Kennedy’s Life at Boarding School,” Town and Country, May 2017.
12 Jackie’s gifts as a mimic: Spoto, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 47.
13 “two boys from the same family”: Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, 487.
14 “a nearly impossible task to restore it”: Kearns Goodwin, 489.
15 “Most Likely to Succeed”: Kearns Goodwin, 489.
Chapter 11
1 Ralph Horton: Cari Beauchamp, “Two Sons, One Destiny,” Vanity Fair, December 2004.
2 “frightened to death they’d get VD”: Thomas Maier, The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 85.