See Acknowledgments for the location of manuscript collections and also for explanations of certain abbreviations. When two or more oral history interviews were held the same day, they are designated by a roman numeral following the date.
Prologue: 1968
1. Frank Church of Idaho, Congressional Record, July 30, 1968, S9713.
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2. The UPI estimate; the Editors of United Press International and Cowles, Assasination: Robert F. Kennedy—1915–1968, ed. Francine Klagsbrun and D. C. Whitney (New York, 1968), 201. See also New York Times, June 9, 1968.
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1. The Family
1. James Joyce, Ulysses (New York, 1961), 34.
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2. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy’s memoir, Times to Remember (Garden City, N.Y., 1974), is illuminating and indispensable; the verse from a Boston paper is on 10. For the Kennedy family, and Joseph P. Kennedy in particular, there are two serious and instructive, if hostile, biographies: R. J. Whalen, The Founding Father: The Story of Joseph P. Kennedy (New York, 1964); and D. E. Koskoff, Joseph P. Kennedy: A Life and Times (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1974).
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3. Gail Cameron, Rose (New York: Dell reprint, 1972), 52.
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4. As told by James A. Fayne, an old Kennedy associate, to R. J. Whalen, in Whalen, Founding Father, 44.
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5. E. K. Lindley, “Will Kennedy Run for President?” Liberty, May 21, 1938; Whalen, Founding Father, 49.
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6. Whalen, Founding Father, 104.
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7. Joe McCarthy, The Remarkable Kennedys (New York, 1960), 53.
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8. Michael Mooney to RFK, August to, 1966, RFK Papers.
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9. RFK to Mooney, August 18, 1966, RFK Papers.
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10. Whalen, Founding Father, 74, 61.
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11. Edward M. Kennedy, ed., The Fruitful Bough: A Tribute to Joseph P. Kennedy (privately printed, 1965), 112.
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12. Ibid., 12.
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13. McCarthy, Remarkable Kennedys, 66.
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14. E. M. Kennedy, Fruitful Bough, 32.
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15. Joseph P. Kennedy, I’m for Roosevelt (New York, 1936), 3.
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16. Rose Kennedy, Times to Remember, 195.
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17. McCarthy, Remarkable Kennedys, 58.
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18. JPK to Felix Frankfurter, December 5, 1933, JPK Papers.
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19. Raymond Moley, The First New Deal (New York, 1966), 381.
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20. JPK to JPK, Jr., May 4, 1934, JPK Papers.
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21. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Coming of the New Deal (Boston, 1958), 467–468.
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22. Raymond Moley, After Seven Years (New York, 1939), 288.
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23. Harold L. Ickes, The Secret Diary . . .: The First Thousand Days, 1933–1936 (New York, 1953), 173.
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24. From a memorandum written by Rose Kennedy, evidently in 1940, JPK Papers.
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25. Churchill to JPK, October 12, 1935, JPK Papers.
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26. JPK to Churchill, October 19, 1935, JPK Papers.
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27. Press conference no. 309, July 29, 1936, in Franklin D. Roosevelt, Complete Presidential Press Conferences (New York, 1972), vol. 8, 34–35.
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28. Arthur Krock, Memoirs: Sixty Years on the Firing Line (New York, 1968), 332.
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29. JPK, I’m for Roosevelt, 3, 7, 14, 93, 102–107.
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30. JPK, address before the Democratic Businessmen’s League of Massachusetts, October 24, 1936, Roosevelt Papers.
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31. J. P. Kennedy, “The New Deal and Business,” radio speech, October 21, 1936, JPK Papers. Kennedy wrote Roosevelt, October 24, 1936, that the speech had been partly written by a Fre...
