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13 “a genuine mutual admiration society”: Kitty Kelley, “The Dark Side of Camelot,” People, February 29, 1988.
14 Sinatra introduction of Judith Exner to Kennedys: Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, 294.
15 “Do a ‘Youth for Kennedy’”: Fessier, “Brother-in-Lawford Was Sinatra’s Key to White House.”
16 “That little rascal”: Kelley, “The Dark Side of Camelot.”
17 “anxious to get together”: Lindsay Kimble, “The Truth Behind JFK’s Mobbed Up Mistress—and What She Might Have Known About the Assassination,” People, September 19, 2017.
18 “world’s greatest listener”: Sara Stewart, “All The President’s Women,” New York Post, November 10, 2013.
19 “Thinking of you”: Kelley, “The Dark Side of Camelot.”
20 “set up to be the courier”: Kimble, “The Truth Behind JFK’s Mobbed Up Mistress.”
21 “help me with the campaign”: Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, 303.
22 Mink coat: Hersh, 303–4.
23 “plans had all been made without me”: Hersh, 304.
24 West Virginia campaign law: Marc J. Selverstone, “John F. Kennedy: Campaigns and Elections,” Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
25 “Don’t buy a single vote more”: Elaine Kamarck, “The 1960 West Virginia Primary: Can It Happen Again?” Brookings, May 10, 2016.
26 “hopes and threats”: Selverstone, “John F. Kennedy: Campaigns and Elections.”
27 “way to the White House”: Pearl, “New Book Details John F. Kennedy’s Short-Lived, Intense Friendship with Frank Sinatra.”
28 “constant, unremitting labor”: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 320.
29 “Your boyfriend wouldn’t be president”: R. C. Longworth, “Woman Says She Was JFK’s Mob Liaison,” Chicago Tribune, October 7, 1991.
Chapter 16
1 “Rather vain”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 56.
2 JFK as “Superman”: Robert McCrum, “Eunice Kennedy and the Death of the Great American Dream,” Guardian (UK), August 15, 2009.
3 George E. Thomas: Barbara A. Perry and Alfred Reaves IV, “Inside the Unsung Life of the Man Who Was John F. Kennedy’s Most Personal Assistant,” Time, November 20, 2018.
4 “Dr. Feelgood”: Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 (New York: Little, Brown, 2003), 398.
5 “more promiscuous with physicians”: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, 399.
6 “Urgent National Needs”: Douglas Brinkley, “How JFK Sent the U.S. to the Moon,” Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2019.
7 “this was a disastrous idea”: Mark White, “Bay of Pigs Invasion: Kennedy’s Cuban catastrophe,” BBC History Magazine, May 2011.
8 “Two full days of hell”: White, “Bay of Pigs Invasion,” BBC History Magazine.
9 “a pretty bad fix”: Rick Klein, “JFK Tapes: New Insight Into White House Tensions During Cuban Missile Crisis,” ABC News, September 24, 2012.
10 "stay right here with you": Associated Press, "Jackie O's Antiquated Views 'Horrified' Grandkids," NBC News, September 14, 2011.
11 “I can’t see that it’s wrong”: “New Administration: All He Asked…” Time Magazine, February 3, 1961.
12 “stir things up”: “Operation Mongoose,” American Experience, PBS.org.
13 “Get rid of the Castro regime”: “Operation Mongoose.”
14 “I thought I was in love with Jack”: Kitty Kelley, “The Dark Side of Camelot,” People, February 29, 1988.
15 “message they’ll never forget”: Sam Giancana and Chuck Giancana, Double Cross: The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America (New York: Warner Books, 1992), 430.
16 “I’ve gone to great lengths”: Kelley, “The Dark Side of Camelot.”
17 “Frank Sinatra is the main problem”: Jeff Leen, “AKA Frank Sinatra,” Washington Post Magazine, March 7, 1999.
Chapter 17
1 “Extra! Extra!”: Boston Globe, November 22, 1963, final evening edition.
2 “He’s the one who made all of this possible”: Thomas Maier, The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 445.
3 “We have told him but we don’t think he understands it”: Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 (New York: Little, Brown, 2003), 697.
4 “In 1960, Lyndon was a help”: Timothy Noah, “The Day Before JFK Was Assassinated,” MSNBC.com, November 21, 2013.
5 “My back feels better than it’s felt in years”: Noah, “The Day Before JFK Was Assassinated.”
6 Providencia Parendes: Jennifer Schuessler, “Jacqueline Kennedy’s Notes for Dallas Are Found, Starting a Quiet Tug of War,” New York Times, July 2, 2018.
7 “show these Texans”: Cathy Horyn, “Jacqueline Kennedy’s Smart Pink Suit, Preserved in Memory and Kept Out of View,” New York Times, November 14, 2013.