1. Arthur Krock OH, JFKL; Burns, John Kennedy, 71.

2. Morrow, Best Years, 182; Billy Sutton interview, WGBH, May 1991; Blair and Blair, Search for JFK, 587; McNamara, Eunice, 100.

3. Quoted in Blair and Blair, Search for JFK, 588–89.

4. Sandford, Union Jack, 89; Martin, Hero for Our Time, 49. The continuing romance with Tierney was reported on the gossip page of the New York Daily News, August 18, 1947. Ironically, the Tierney film then in American theaters was The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, about an impossible love affair.

5. Florence Pritchett to JFK, June 5, 1946, box 4B, JFKPP.

6. C. McLaughlin interview, CBP.

7. Martin, Hero for Our Time, 49–50.

8. Quoted in Blair and Blair, Search for JFK, 594.

9. Goodwin, Fitzgeralds and Kennedys, 722; Stossel, Sarge, 96.

10. Blair and Blair, Search for JFK, 593, 597; McNamara, Eunice, 100.

11. McNamara, Eunice, 102; Stossel, Sarge, 99. Joe Kennedy’s real estate holdings included several large office buildings on Park Avenue in New York City as well as the gigantic Merchandise Mart in Chicago, which he bought in 1945 from the Marshall Field interests for an estimated $20 million and was second in size only to the Pentagon among the world’s largest buildings.

12. Quoted in Stossel, Sarge, 100.

13. McNamara, Eunice, 102; Eunice Kennedy Shriver interview, CBP.

14. Krock OH, JFKL; JFK interview by James MacGregor Burns, March 22, 1959, quoted in Dallek, Unfinished Life, 136.

15. Sutton interview, CBP; Blair and Blair, Search for JFK, 582–83.

16. Quoted in Shaw, JFK in the Senate, 19.

17. John F. Kennedy, John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Compilation of Statements and Speeches Made During His Service in the United States Senate and House of Representatives (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1964), 10–11.

18. Burns, John Kennedy, 79; O’Brien, John F. Kennedy, 218.

19. Commenting on the episode, aide Mark Dalton said, “Jack was fearless. He would listen to you, and if he decided you were right, he would go with you. Everybody wanted him to sign the Curley petition.” Dalton interview with Laurence Leamer, quoted in Leamer, Kennedy Men, 247.

20. Meyers, As We Remember Him, 50.

21. Quoted in Matthews, Jack Kennedy, 94. See also Frank, Ike and Dick, 200.

22. McKeesport Daily News, April 25, 1947. Fifteen years later, on October 13, 1962, President John F. Kennedy returned to McKeesport, mere days before the onset of the Cuban Missile Crisis. His remarks on that occasion began as follows: “The first time I came to this city was in 1947, when Mr. Richard Nixon and I engaged in our first debate. He won that one, and we went on to other things. We came here on that occasion to debate the Taft-Hartley law, which he was for and which I was against. Since 1947, which was the first year of the 80th Congress, I have had an opportunity to examine with some care and some interest the record of the Republican Party, and I can tell you, in case you don’t know it, that it is opposed, year in, year out, in the administration of Harry Truman in 1947, in the administration of Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930’s, in the administration—in my administration.” Remarks at City Hall, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, October 13, 1962, American Presidency Project, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ ws/ index.php?pid=8951.

23. Stokes, Capitol Limited.

24. Nixon, RN, 42–43; Thomas, Being Nixon, 40; Farrell, Richard Nixon, 84. A more detailed account is in Matthews, Kennedy and Nixon, chap. 2.

25. William O. Douglas OH, JFKL; O’Neill, Man of the House, 85.

26. Washington Star, July 29, 1947, as cited in Perrett, Jack, 145. At the start of the year, Jack had been named one of the “nation’s 10 outstanding young men of the year” by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce. Others making the list included historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., age thirty, who had won the Pulitzer Prize the previous year for his Age of Jackson; and Joe Louis, who, at age thirty-three, had been the heavyweight boxing champion for a decade. Boston Herald, January 20, 1947.

27. Craig and Logevall, America’s Cold War, 76–80.

28. Nasaw, Patriarch, 607–8.

29. Craig and Logevall, America’s Cold War, 82–83; BP, April 23, 1947, quoted in Perrett, Jack, 144.

30. On the Marshall Plan and its legacy, see Steil, Marshall Plan. That same June, Jack was elected a director at large of the Harvard Alumni Association. New York Herald Tribune, June 6, 1947.

31. Fredrik Logevall, “Bernath Lecture: A Critique of Containment,” Diplomatic History 28, no. 4 (September 2004): 473–99. An important work, depicting a flexible Stalin open to a political settlement, is Naimark, Stalin and the Fate.

32. JPK to T. J. White, October 9, 1947, printed in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, 634. To his daughter Kick, Joe was equally gloomy. Truman’s popularity had peaked and was sliding fast, he told her, and the U.S. economic outlook was poor. “We can produce so much more in this country than we can consume and there is no way that we can dispose of that surplus if all the world is going to be Communist dominated.” JPK to KK, June 10, 1947, box 3, JPKP.

33. Parmet, Jack, 177–78; U.S. Congress, House, Hearings, 80th Cong., 1st sess., Vol. 1, 3585.

34. Anthony Eden to KK, January 10, 1948, quoted in Goodwin, Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, 730; KK to JPK, September 4, 1947, box 21, JPKP; KK to JPK, September 18, 1947, box 21, JPKP. On Kick’s relationship with Eden, see Leaming, Kick, 233–35.

35. JFK to James MacGregor Burns, August 25, 1959, box 129, JFKPOF, JFKL; Tubridy, JFK in Ireland, 30–31.

36. Byrne, Kick, 273–74; McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, 219.

37. Blair and Blair, Search for JFK, 640–41.

38. Barbara Ward OH, JFKL; Perrett, Jack, 147.

39. BP, February 1, 1948.

40. Leaming, Jack Kennedy: Education, 192.

41. Bailey, Black Diamonds, 420–25.

42. Sutton interview, WGBH; BG, May 14, 1948; Goodwin, Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, 738–39. Sutton recalled the scene: “So they said, ‘Well, we have no confirmation right now, but we’ll call you back.’ So he continued to talk about Ella Logan, what a great voice. Then when the news came that the fatal accident happened, he, you know, his eyes filled up with tears. And, you know, when they say that the Kennedys never cry, don’t believe that. They do. I saw him.”

43. Leaming, Jack Kennedy: Education, 193; Alastair Forbes OH, JFKL.

44. KLB OH, JFKL; O’Brien, John F. Kennedy, 228; Burns, John Kennedy, 54. Among the letters of condolence that Jack received was a touching one from his future Senate opponent, Henry Cabot Lodge. See Lodge to JFK, May 14, 1948, reel 8, HCLP II.

45. Collier and Horowitz, Kennedys, 171–72.

46. Collier and Horowitz, Kennedys, 172; Leaming, Jack Kennedy: Education, 203.

47. Blair and Blair, Search for JFK, 624. Now and then, he’d also come up during the week. In 1947 he made a guest appearance in his former professor Arthur Holcombe’s graduate seminar on American politics, and enjoyed the experience so much that it became an annual thing—he would come back to Harvard every year until he entered the White House. On another occasion he debated socialist leader Norman Thomas at Harvard Law School, on the question “How Far Should Our Government Go in Regulating Our Economy?” Thomas was known far and wide as a skilled debater, but according to observers Kennedy held his own. THC, March 19, 1949; Dalton interview, WGBH.

48. Blair and Blair, Search for JFK, 625. In the Boston press, too, there occurred much speculation in the fall of 1947 about a possible gubernatorial run the following year. See, e.g., Boston American, October 19, 1947; and Boston Herald, November 23, 1947. In June 1948 the rumors began anew.

49. Manchester, Portrait of a President, 189–90; O’Brien, John F. Kennedy, 364.

50. Bryant, Bystander, 25–26.

51. Asch and Musgrove, Chocolate City, chap. 10; Levingston, Kennedy and King, 11.

52. Bryant, Bystander, 27–28.

53. Washington Daily News, March 6, 1949; Bryant, Bystander, 28–29.

54. JFK to Stuart Symington, August 13, 1948, box 8, JFKPP.

55. Leaming, Jack Kennedy: Education, 197–98; Churchill; Gathering Storm.

56. Sandford, Union Jack, 127.

57. Craig and Logevall, America’s Cold War, 91–95; Hitchcock, Struggle, 93–96.

58. Craig and Logevall, America’s Cold War, 98–99; Kamensky et al., People and a Nation, 705.

59. Burns, John Kennedy, 93.

60. Quoted in Burns, John Kennedy, 80.

61. Speech transcript, January 30, 1949, box 95, JFK Pre-Pres. The speech was inserted into the Congressional Record on February 21, 1949. See also JFK, Statements and Speeches, 971–72; Shaw, JFK in the Senate, 25.

62. Goodwin, Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, 745.