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xx "tall thin young congressman": Carl Sferrazza Anthony, As We Remember Her (HarperCollins, 1997), p. 37.

xx "across this great crowd": Charles Bartlett oral history, John F. Kennedy Library.

xx "a spasmodic courtship": Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life (Little, Brown, 2003), p. 193.

xx "start to cry again": JBK to Lyndon Johnson, January 9, 1964, transcription of recording of telephone call, in Michael Beschloss, Reaching for Glory (Simon and Schuster, 2001), p. 22.

xxi "his acid wit": New York Times, March 1, 2007.

xxi "I return your letters": JBK to Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., December 3, 1963. JBK letters cited here and below appear in her still-closed papers at the Kennedy Library and, in most cases, in the archives of the recipients.

xxi "much on my mind": American Archivist, Fall 1980.

xxii "a matter of urgency": Ibid.

xxii "thousands" of people: New York Times, April 6, 1964.

xxiv "an historian of the twenty-first": American Archivist, Fall 1980.

xxiv "From time to time": Ibid.

xxv "flighty on politics": Journal of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., July 19, 1959, Schlesinger Papers, New York Public Library.

xxvi "nobody wonders": John F. Kennedy at Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast, November 22, 1963.

xxvii "pass a law": David Finley, memorandum of conversation, February 19, 1962, Finley Papers, National Gallery of Art Archives.

xxvii "ripped down": JBK to Bernard Boutin, March 6, 1962.

xxvii "practically nothing": White House History, #13, 2004.

xxvii "Hold your breath": JBK to David Finley, April 18, 1962.

xxvii "may be the only monument": Time, November 20, 1964.

xxviii "would walk halfway": JBK to Edward Kennedy, September 17, 1970.

xxviii "early Statler": Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer, Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years (Little, Brown, 1971), p. 93.

xxviii "my predatory instincts": JBK to Adlai Stevenson, July 24, 1961.

xxviii "ran a curio shop": JBK to Lady Bird Johnson, December 1, 1963.

xxviii "the setting in which": A Tour of the White House, CBS-TV, February 14, 1962.

xxviii "a New England sitting room": New York Times, January 29, 1961.

xxix "She was a worker": Lady Bird Johnson oral history, Kennedy Library.

xxix "What has been sad": Ms. magazine, March 1979.

xxix "It is the major temple": JBK to John F. Kennedy, handwritten, undated, 1962.

xxix "Egyptian rocks": Richard Goodwin, Kennedy Library Forum, November 4, 2007.

xxx "remind people that feelings": JBK to JFK, memorandum entitled "Abu Simbel," handwritten, undated.

xxx "excruciating": Look, November 17, 1964.

xxx "a new life": JBK to David Finley, August 22, 1964.

xxxi "So now he is a legend": Look, November 17, 1964.

xxxi "things I think are too personal": JBK to Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., handwritten, undated, 1965.

xxxi "if I could steel myself": JBK to Lyndon Johnson, March 28, 1965.

xxxi "Close your eyes": U.S. News & World Report, July 26, 1999.

9 "I had publicly endorsed": Ted Sorensen, Kennedy (Harper and Row, 1965), p. 80.

10 "a stormy meeting": Ibid.

15 "My sweet little house": Gordon Langley Hall and Ann Pinchot, Jacqueline Kennedy (Frederick Fell, 1964), p. 141.

18 "I'm going to get in": William Manchester, The Death of a President (Harper and Row, 1967), p. 186.

25 "as if Jack were President of FRANCE": Oleg Cassini, A Thousand Days of Magic (Rizzoli, 1995), p. 29.

27 "a Stevenson with balls": Dallek, p. 259.

32 "You remember in my oral history": JBK to Schlesinger, May 28, 1965. Her first draft was sold at auction in 2009.

42 "treasured friends": Ted Sorensen, Counselor (Harper, 2008), p. 399.

46 "a lot of money": New York Times, December 12, 1996.

47 "I am no Whig!": James MacGregor Burns, John Kennedy: A Political Profile (Harcourt Brace, 1960), p. 268.

48 "He was the only President": JBK to Edward Kennedy, September 17, 1970.

52 "I think you underestimate": JBK to James MacGregor Burns, handwritten, undated, 1959.

55 "forgot Goschen": Winston Churchill, Lord Randolph Churchill (Macmillan, 1908), p. 647.

61 "that I had privately boasted": Sorensen, Counselor, p. 150.

63 "Can I be godfather": Edward Kennedy, True Compass (Twelve, 2009), p. 24.

64 "could see around corners": Anthony, As We Remember Her, p. 60.

69 "Go to Germany": Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years (HarperCollins, 1991), p. 608.

81 "a good Democrat": Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 201.

85 "resting up": Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, p. 103.

85 "renege on an offer": Clark Clifford, Counsel to the President (Random House, 1992), p. 318.

85 "such fun if it had been": James Olson, Stuart Symington (University of Missouri, 2003), p. 362.

86 "How's my little girl": Lyndon Johnson to JBK, December 23, 1963, transcription of recording of telephone call, in Beschloss, Reaching for Glory, p. 18.

87 "Johnson had grabbed'": Robert Kennedy oral history, Kennedy Library.

89 "That doesn't surprise": John Connally, In History's Shadow (Hyperion, 1994), p. 10.

90 "For Christ's sake": Manchester, The Death of a President, p. 116.

113 "the brightest boy": David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (Random House, 1973), p. 44.

124 "nut country": Manchester, The Death of a President, p. 121.

127 "My life here which I dreaded": JBK to William Walton, June 8, 1962.

131 "if Jack makes it": Letitia Baldrige oral history, Kennedy Library.

138 "The President told me": JBK to David Finley, March 22, 1963.

138 "I must be quite honest": David Finley to JBK, March 27, 1963.

138 "I never dreamed": JBK to David Finley, March 22, 1963.

142 "but there were about a hundred": Sorensen, Kennedy, p. 383.

143 "I've learned more": James Abbott and Elaine Rice, Designing Camelot (Wiley, 1997), p. 86.

143 "Boudin's masterpiece": Ibid., p. 101.

167 "the most private place": JBK to Eve Fout, July 1962, in Sally Bedell Smith, Grace and Power (Random House, 2004), p. 113.

170 "twenty times a day": The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, April 23-26, 1996 (Sotheby's, 1996).

170 "minimum information": Mary van Rensselaer Thayer, Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 31.

173 "as excited as a hunting": Ibid., p. 318.

173 "Why are some people": JBK to Henry du Pont, September 28, 1962.

184 "Hell, Mr. President": Beschloss, The Crisis Years, p. 122.

189 JFK to Raskin: Interview with Raskin, and Raskin unpublished memoir, both cited in Beschloss, The Crisis Years.

201 "A wall is a hell": Ibid., p. 278.

203 "It is all going to be involved": JBK to William Walton, June 8, 1962.

210 "Obviously she was quick": Sergei Khrushchev, editor, Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Statesman, 1953-1964 (Pennsylvania State University, 2007), p. 304.

211 "You're offering to trade": Beschloss, The Crisis Years, p. 325.

226 "Nous pensons a vous": Manchester, The Death of a President, p. 446.

237 "the worst head-of-state": Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days (Houghton Mifflin, 1965), p. 526.

239 "every weekend since": J. B. West, Upstairs at the White House (Coward, McCann, 1973), p. 235.

242 "Can't you control": Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, p. 28.

247 JBK-Macmillan correspondence: Harold Macmillan Papers, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

256 "interview them all": Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times (Houghton Mifflin, 1978), p. 404.

266 "There's always some": Richard Reeves, President Kennedy (Simon and Schuster, 1993), p. 416.

273 "several glowing references": Sorensen, Counselor (Harper, 2008), pp. 408-409.

277 "the steam really went": Benjamin Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy (Norton, 1975), p. 226.

291 "under American domination": Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, p. 842.

295 "this France, England, America": Manchester, The Death of a President, p. 710.

306 "one sentence": Ralph Martin, A Hero for Our Time (Macmillan, 1983), p. 431.

307 "kicked in the head": Life, May 11, 1959.

332 "leading strings": Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, p. 50.

346 "mentally unsound": Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy, p. 32.

346 "You reduced him": Recording of John F. Kennedy telephone conversation with Governor Edmund Brown, November 7, 1962, Kennedy Library.