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3 “mother him or marry him”: Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 (New York: Little, Brown, 2003), 5.
4 “what did not interest him”: Nik DeCosta-Klipa, “Four Things You Might Not Know About John F. Kennedy’s Years at Harvard,” Boston.com, May 25, 2017.
5 Mildred Finley: Lorna Hughes, “Teachers’ Account of How She Was Shipwrecked and Met JFK in Glasgow Within a Few Fateful Days in September 1939,” Daily Record (UK), September 8, 2013.
6 “wisdom and sympathy”: DeCosta-Klipa, “Four Things.”
7 “Appeasement at Munich”: Joseph M. Siracusa, Encyclopedia of the Kennedys: The People and Events That Shaped America (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2012), 25.
Chapter 12
1 “Nordic beauty”: Scott Farris, Inga: Kennedy’s Great Love, Hitler’s Perfect Beauty, and J. Edgar Hoover’s Prime Suspect (Holland, OH: Dreamscape Media, LLC, 2016), 137.
2 “a boy with a future”: Barbara Leaming, Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2016), 101.
3 Arvad’s pieces on Goering and Hitler: Farris, Inga, 13.
4 Autographed photo from Hitler: Farris, 148.
5 “gooey eyes”: Leaming, Kick Kennedy, 100.
6 “He had the charm”: Leaming, 100.
7 “could be a spy?”: Farris, Inga, 106.
8 “in big trouble”: Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (New York: Little, Brown, 1997), 83.
9 “drag up the big guns”: Leaming, Kick Kennedy, 104.
10 “It took the FBI”: Frederick M. Winship, “New Book: Kennedy’s ‘Greatest Love’—but Was She a Spy?” United Press International, October 14, 1992.
11 “one thing I don’t want”: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, 85.
12 “The breakup with Inga”: Edward J. Renehan Jr., The Kennedys at War, 1937–1945 (New York: Doubleday, 2002), 220.
13 “Over the side, boy”: Thomas Bilodeau, recorded interview by James Murray, May 12, 1964, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program, 8.
14 “always had something to prove”: Renehan, The Kennedys at War, 220.
15 The postwar veterans’ vote: Joseph McBride, Searching for John Ford (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011), 403 (footnote).
16 “Without PT-109”: William Doyle, PT-109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy (New York: William Morrow, 2015), xi.
Chapter 13
1 “burnt so bad”: Dennis Georgatos, “PT-109 Survivor Saved in War by JFK Dead at 84,” AP, February 21, 1990.
2 “most exciting I’ve ever heard”: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 112.
3 Carving into coconut: “John F. Kennedy and PT 109,” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum website.
4 “letter for you”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), 657.
5 Inviting Pacific Islanders to inauguration: Kat Eschner, “Why JFK Kept a Coconut Shell in the Oval Office,” Smithsonian.com, August 2, 2017.
6 “still late for meals, still no money”: Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963, (New York: Little, Brown, 2003), 101.
7 “you have that feeling”: Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, 559–60.
8 “real heroes”: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, 98.
9 “Joe’s business”: Ronald Kessler, The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (New York: Warner Books, 1996), 288.
10 “burden falls to me”: Cari Beauchamp, “Two Sons, One Destiny,” Vanity Fair, December 2004.
11 “like being drafted”: Kessler, The Sins of the Father, 288.
12 “going to be the President”: Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, 262.
13 James A. Reed: Kessler, The Sins of the Father, 288.
Chapter 14
1 A small garden party: Sarah Polus, “A History Buff with an Affinity for the Kennedys Just Bought the Home Where JFK Met Jackie,” Washington Post, March 15, 2018.
2 “unfailing antenna”: Robert D. McFadden, “Death of a First Lady; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Dies of Cancer at 64,” New York Times, May 20, 1994.
3 “disturbing influence”: Donald Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis: A Life (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 75.
4 “leaned across the asparagus”: Time, “Women: Jackie,” Januaty 20, 1961.
5 “shameless in their match-making”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 83.
6 “a little lonesome”: Spoto, 85.
7 “Such heartbreak would be worth the pain”: Spoto, 86.
8 “a challenge”: Spoto, 91.
9 “such a wit”: McFadden, “Death of a First Lady.”
10 “didn’t like her mother”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 43.
11 “My mother was a nothing”: Ronald Kessler, The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (New York: Warner Books, 1996), 44.