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12 “my father wants”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 85.

13 “completeness of perfection”: Thomas Maier, The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 445.

14 “grandest fellow”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), 486.

15 “spent half of each week”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 85.

16 “she knew the score”: Helen Lawrenson, “Jackie at 50,” Washington Post Weekend Magazine, July 28, 1979.

17 “if she married into that family”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 64–65.

18 “nothing if not the most exciting”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 64.

19 “crazy about Jackie”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 99.

20 “Jack-leen”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 60.

21 “put through her paces”: Taraborrelli, 63.

81 “a better wife”: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 301.

81 “no mention of a fiancée”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 101.

22 Jack’s last letter: Emily Saul, “Letters Reveal Steamy Affair JFK Began Weeks Before Marrying Jackie,” New York Post, November 23, 2015.

23 “Half my time”: Godfrey Hodgen, “Obituary: Evelyn Lincoln,” Independent (UK), May 20, 1995.

24 “a splendid wedding”: Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember, 301.

25 “picture perfect”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 66.

26 “like the coronation”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 104.

27 Hersh reports on Durie Malcolm: Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (New York: Little, Brown, 1997), 326–40.

28 “I wouldn’t have married Jack”: Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, 329.

29 Possibility that Jack was a bigamist: Hersh, 328.

30 “American people don’t care”: Barbara Leaming, excerpt of Mrs. Kennedy (CITY: Publisher, 2001), New York Times, November 24, 2001.

31 “Kennedy men are like that”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 48.

32 “You can’t let it get to you”: Sally Bedell Smith, “Private Camelot,” Vanity Fair, May 2004.

33 “how that nearly killed Mummy”: “Jackie Kennedy Letters Shine Light on Her Marriage and Mourning,” NBC News, May 13, 2014.

34 “You just had to live with it”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 48.

35 “didn’t fully understand each other”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 106.

36 “I was alone”: Spoto, 108.

37 Jack’s health: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 67.

38 “Jackie placing her hand”: Taraborrelli, 67.

39 “I love being married”: “Jackie Kennedy Letters Shine Light.”

40 “atypical husband”: Caroline Hallemann, “Jackie Kennedy’s Love Letter to JFK Offers a Rare Glimpse into Their Marriage,” Town & Country, October 29, 2018.

41 “sadness shared brings married people closer”: “Jackie Kennedy Letters Shine Light.”

42 “handsome, well-endowed”: Cabell Phillips, “How to Be a Presidential Candidate,” New York Times, July 13, 1958.

43 “not a natural-born campaigner”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 133.

44 “When Jackie was traveling with us”: Spoto, 131.

45 “lunching with my husband”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 134.

46 “Do you really think”: Ben Bradlee, “Jack Kennedy, My Friend, My President,” Newsweek, January 17, 2011.





Chapter 15




1 “very, very private”: Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (New York: Little, Brown, 1997), 136.

2 Giancana’s name in the “Black Book”: John M. Glianna, “Sam Giancana’s Daughter Aims to Cash in on Gangster’s Memorabilia,” Los Angeles Times, November 21, 2014.

3 “constitutional psychopath”: Glianna, “Sam Giancana’s Daughter.”

4 “I own Chicago”: Glianna, “Sam Giancana’s Daughter.”

5 RFK interrogation: Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, 134.

6 “no ballot stuffing”: Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, 136.

7 “most perfectly manicured”: Steve Chawkins, “George Jacobs Dies at 86; Frank Sinatra’s Longtime Valet,” Los Angeles Times, December 31, 2013.

8 “least talented member”: Bruce Fessier, “Brother-in-Lawford Was Sinatra’s Key to White House,” Desert Sun, October 20, 2015.

9 Affair between Pat Kennedy and Sinatra: Lee Server, “The Real Reason Frank Sinatra Was Banned from the Kennedy White House,” Town & Country, November 7, 2018.

10 “well-known movie actor”: Fessier, “Brother-in-Lawford was Sinatra’s Key to White House.”

11 “Kennedy wanted to be Sinatra”: Diana Pearl, “New Book Details John F. Kennedy’s Short-lived, Intense Friendship with Frank Sinatra,” People, November 28, 2016.

12 “Elizabeth Taylor category”: Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, 296.

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