Chapter 24
p. 56: "feeling very important": JFK to Billings, Mar. 1939, NHP.
p. 56: had had "a great time": JFK to Billings, Mar. 23, 1939, LBP.
p. 56: "graciously declined": Ibid.
p. 57: "living like a king": JFK to Billings, April 6, 1939, NHP.
p. 57: "Plenty of action": Postcard, April, n.d., 1939, NHP.
p. 57: "Things have been humming": JFK to Billings, April 28, 1939, NHP.
p. 57: "Jack sitting": Bullitt, 273. Offie remembers this as the summer of 1938, but other evidence suggests 1939.
p. 57: "The whole thing": JFK to Billings, May 1939, NHP. Also see JFK to Billings, April 28, July 17, and Aug. 20, 1939, and JFK to JPK, n.d., 1939, all in NHP; and Burns, 37-38.
p. 58: August travels: Meyers, 28; Kennan, 91-92.
p. 58: The Riviera: Dietrich, 182.
pp. 58-59: Visit to Parliament, JPK's reaction to the war, and the rescue mission: Hamilton, 279-86; Beschloss, Kennedy and Roosevelt, Kennedy and Roosevelt, 163-64. 163-64.
p. 59: Return to America: See undated 1939 letters from JFK to JPK, Boxes 1 and 4B, PP.
p. 59: "I saw the rock": CBS transcribed interview in the JFKL Audio-Visual Archive.
p. 59: "got this odd, hard look": Quoted in Collier and Horowitz, 102.
p. 59: Why the ma.s.ses obey: Payson S. Wild OH.
p. 59: JFK editorial, Harvard Crimson, Crimson, Oct. 9, 1939. Oct. 9, 1939.
p. 59: "everyone here is ready": JFK to JPK, n.d., 1939, Box 1, PP.
p. 60: On JPK's appeal to Was.h.i.+ngton to mediate, see Foreign Relations of the United States, 1939, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1939, I (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.), 421-24. I (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.), 421-24.
p. 60: "He seemed to blossom": Wild OH.
p. 60: The editorial board: Parmet, Jack, Jack, 66. 66.
p. 60: "I seem to be": Undated 1939 letters from JFK to JPK, Boxes 1 and 4B, PP.
p. 60: "The war clinched": Ed Plaut interview with JFK, n.d., in Ralph G. Martin Papers, Boston University.
p. 60: For JFK's courses, see JFK, Course List, Harvard University, Box 3, PP. Also see Wild OH and Hamilton, 297-302.
p. 61: On Lothian, see Hamilton, 306-7.
p. 61: "We used to": Ibid., 314-15.
pp. 61-62: On JFK's initial exchanges with Seymour, see JFK to Seymour, Jan. 11, 1940; Seymour to JFK, Jan. 11, 1940; JFK to Seymour, Jan. 30, Feb. 9, 1940; Seymour to Paul Murphy, Feb. 8, 1940; Seymour to JFK, Feb. 12, 1940; Murphy to Seymour, Feb. 27, 1940; all in Box 1, James Seymour Papers, JFKL.
p. 62: The unpublished thesis "Appeas.e.m.e.nt at Munich" is in the PP. The Yeomans and Friedrich Reports on Thesis for Distinction are in Box 2, PP.
p. 62: "a deep thinker": Wild OH.
p. 62: "imagination and diligence": Bruce C. Hopper, "Notes: Jack Kennedy as a Student at Harvard (Candidate for Honors)," July 1960, Box 2, PP.
p. 62: "again elated": Hopper to B. O'Riordan, Jan. 6, 1964, Box 2, PP.
p. 63: "a typical undergraduate": Burns, 40.
p. 63: JFK's argument is stated repeatedly throughout the thesis.
p. 63: "While Daddy Slept": Parmet, Jack, Jack, 70. 70.
p. 64: "to give up their personal interests": JFK, "Appeas.e.m.e.nt at Munich," 91.
p. 64: "In this calm acceptance": Ibid., 146.
p. 64: "While it is the book": Quoted in Freedman, 590.
p. 65: "it was amateurish": Krock OH. Also see JFK to JPK, n.d., 1940, in Meyers, 33-34. The details of arranging publication, including "sales possibilities" and "things moving," are in Hamilton, 329-30.
p. 65: "as soon as possible": JFK to JPK, n.d., 1940, Box 4A, PP. For the revisions, see JFK to JPK, n.d., but clearly spring 1940, Box 1, PP; JPK to JFK, May 20, 1940, Box 129, POF; and Parmet, Jack, Jack, 72-76. 72-76.
p. 65: For the reviews and sales, see Parmet, Jack, Jack, 74, 77; Parmet says sales amounted to 80,000 copies, but Nigel Hamilton says
pp. 65-66: "I read Jack's book" and "The book will do you": Quoted in Rose Kennedy, 271, 261-62.
p. 66: "Jack was downstairs": Charles Spalding OH.
p. 66: On health problems and JFK's plans to attend Yale, see Blair, 91.
pp. 66-67: "I don't think": Quoted in ibid., 90.
p. 67: For JFK's term at Stanford, see ibid., 91-104.
p. 67: "He was fascinated": Quoted in Hamilton, 350.
p. 67: JFK conversation with Stanford student body president and "remote westerners": Harry Muheim, "Rich, Young, and Happy," Esquire, Esquire, Aug. 1966. Aug. 1966.
p. 67: For JFK's counsel to his father, see JFK to JPK, Dec. 5, 1940, Box 4A, PP.
p. 67: On Lend-Lease: "a supplemental note," n.d., but Dec. 1940, Box 4A, PP; Hamilton, 393-97.
p. 68: For JFK's visit to Latin America, see Muheim, Esquire, Esquire, 109-110; Hamilton, 403-5, and the notes for these pages on p. 841. 109-110; Hamilton, 403-5, and the notes for these pages on p. 841.
p. 68: On family requirements of a serious life purpose, see Doris Goodwin, 457.
Chapter 3: The Terrors of Life
p. 69: "was surprised": Collier and Horowitz, 212.
p. 69: "Gee, you're": Rose Kennedy, 93.
p. 69: Billings's recollections: Doris Goodwin, 353.
p. 69: Rose's insistence: Davis, 53.
p. 70: She "organized and supervised": h.e.l.lmann, 10.
p. 70: Billings quoted in Doris Goodwin, 353.
p. 70: Jack quoted in Burns, 21.
p. 70: Rose never told him: Hersh, 17.
p. 70: Spalding quoted in Hamilton, 690-91.
p. 70: "history made him": Interview with Jacqueline Kennedy, "The Camelot Papers, 1963-1964," Theodore H. White Papers, JFKL.
p. 70: Staged minor rebellions: Rose Kennedy, 93-94. Also see h.e.l.lmann, 10-11.
p. 70: "I enjoy your": Quoted in Doris Goodwin, 631.
p. 71: "I looked on": Rose Kennedy, 81. Some 200 of the 500 pages of Rose's book are devoted to a discussion of child rearing.
p. 71: Rose as mother: Also see Sheldon M. Stern's persuasive letter to Nigel Hamilton, June 10, 1994, describing Rose's behavior as a mother; Stern gave me a copy of his letter.
p. 71: The most thoughtful and sensitive discussion of Rosemary Kennedy is in Doris Goodwin, 356-63.
p. 72: "a marvelous capacity": William Walton interview in NHP.
p. 72: On Rosemary's lobotomy, Doris Goodwin, 639-44.
p. 73: "'On your feet'": Parmet, Jack, Jack, 16. On JFK's stoicism, see JPK to Paul B. Fay, Mar. 26, 1945, Paul B. Fay Papers, JFKL. 16. On JFK's stoicism, see JPK to Paul B. Fay, Mar. 26, 1945, Paul B. Fay Papers, JFKL.
p. 73: "The G.o.dd.a.m.nest hole": JFK to Billings, June 19, 1934, NHP.
p. 73: "We used to joke": LeMoyne Billings OH.
p. 73: The medical records with a diagnosis of colitis are from his naval service, in Box 11A, PP.
pp. 73-74: The initial diet and hopes to be at Mayo only a few days: JFK to JPK, n.d., but on Rochester hotel stationery, Box 4B, PP.
p. 74: "I am suffering": JFK to Billings, June 19, 1934, NHP.
p. 74: "G.o.d what a beating": JFK to Billings, June 21, 1934, LBP.
p. 74: "s.h.i.+t!! I've got something wrong": JFK to Billings, June 27, 1934, NHP.
p. 75: "still in this": JFK to Billings, June 30, 1934, NHP.
p. 75: "diffuse duodenitis": Dr. Sara Jordan to Capt. Frederick L. Conklin, July 14, 1944, Box 11A, PP; and JFK Navy Department Medical Record, Dec. 15, 1944, Box 11A, PP.
p. 75: Emotional stress: Choate report on JFK to Harvard University, Apr. 30, 1935, Box 2, PP.
p. 75: Colitis therapy: "Chronic Ulcerative Colitis: Progress in Its Management," Proceedings of the Staff Meetings of the Mayo Clinic, Proceedings of the Staff Meetings of the Mayo Clinic, vol. 9 (Jan. 3, 1934), 1-5; "Illeosigmoidostomy for Chronic Ulcerative Colitis," vol. 9 (Jan. 3, 1934), 1-5; "Illeosigmoidostomy for Chronic Ulcerative Colitis," Proceedings, Proceedings, vol. 11 (Dec. 9, 1936), 798; "Further Studies in Calcium and Parathyroid Therapy in Chronic Ulcerative Colitis," vol. 11 (Dec. 9, 1936), 798; "Further Studies in Calcium and Parathyroid Therapy in Chronic Ulcerative Colitis," American Journal of the Medical Sciences, American Journal of the Medical Sciences, vol. 190 (Nov. 1935), 676-83. Mayo's pioneering work on adrenal-hormone extracts is discussed in Dr. Timothy Lamphier interview with Nigel Hamilton, May 1, 1991, NHP. vol. 190 (Nov. 1935), 676-83. Mayo's pioneering work on adrenal-hormone extracts is discussed in Dr. Timothy Lamphier interview with Nigel Hamilton, May 1, 1991, NHP.
p. 75: "We always had": Dr. George Thorn interview with Nigel Hamilton, June 4, 1991, NHP.
p. 76: "Ordering stuff": JFK to JPK, "Early 1937," Box 1, PP. A parathyroid extract was available by 1935 and DOCA was available by 1937. See "Absorption of Desoxycorticosterone from Tablets Implanted Subcutaneously," Lancet, Lancet, vol. 1 (Mar. 2, 1940), 406-7; and chap. 72, especially p. 1609, of vol. 1 (Mar. 2, 1940), 406-7; and chap. 72, especially p. 1609, of The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. There are listings of articles on DOCA in the 1939 Index Medicus Index Medicus.
p. 76: "a little knife": Paul B. Fay OH.
p. 76: It is also possible that the DOCA: Dr. Seymour Reichlin to author, Nov. 23, 2002.
pp. 76-77: Nevertheless by 1942: Goodman and Gilman, 1608.
p. 77: No one can say: Conversations with Dr. Jeffrey Kelman and Dr. Lawrence Altman.
p. 77: Celiac sprue: Dr. Peter Green to author, Nov. 21, 2002, and "What is Celiac Sprue?" Celiac Sprue Research Foundation, Palo Alto, Calif. Also, Richard J. Farrell and Ciaran P. Kelly, "Current Concepts: Celiac Sprue," New England Journal of Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, Jan. 17, 2002, 180-88. Dr. Jeffrey Kelman described to me why a diagnosis of celiac sprue could not be conclusive. Jan. 17, 2002, 180-88. Dr. Jeffrey Kelman described to me why a diagnosis of celiac sprue could not be conclusive.
p. 77: Jack's blood count: See the numerous communications between October 1934 and June 1935 about monitoring JFK's blood count in Outline of Choate JFK Letters, Box 1, PP.
p. 77: Agranulocytosis: Dr. William Murphy to JPK, Box 4B, PP.
p. 77: Illness while in London: JFK to Billings, Oct. 1935, and Princeton records in NHP.
p. 78: "the most harrowing": JFK to Billings, Jan. 1936, LBP.
p. 78: "At 1500": JFK to Billings, Jan. 18, 1936, NHP.
p. 78: "Took a peak": JFK to Billings, Jan. 27, 1936, NHP.
p. 78: Letters to Billings: Jan. 1936, LBP; Jan. 18, Jan. 27, and Feb. 13, 1936, NHP.
p. 79: Enjoyed improved health: See JPK to Dean Delmar Leighton, Aug. 28, 1936, Box 2, PP.
p. 79: "Plunked myself down": JFK to Billings, May 15, 1936, NHP.
p. 79: "Jack broke out": Quoted in Hamilton, 196. See JFK Diary, Aug. 28, 29, 1937, Box 1, PP.
p. 80: The Mayo treatment: See "Chronic Ulcerative Colitis with Marked Deficiency State," Proceedings of the Mayo Clinic, Proceedings of the Mayo Clinic, vol. 14 (Oct. 25, 1939), 687. Also see JFK to Billings, Jan. 21, Feb. 14, Mar. 15, June 1, June 15, Oct. 1938, Feb. 5, 1939, NHP. JFK to Mother, n.d. (but probably Feb. 1938), Box 4B, PP. vol. 14 (Oct. 25, 1939), 687. Also see JFK to Billings, Jan. 21, Feb. 14, Mar. 15, June 1, June 15, Oct. 1938, Feb. 5, 1939, NHP. JFK to Mother, n.d. (but probably Feb. 1938), Box 4B, PP.