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in some places it’d be the Sullivans on the first floor and the Murphys on the second floor and the Dohertys on the top floor. And the next house would be almost the same and after a while he’d say, ‘I feel like I was here before,’ because they all treated him the same way and they all looked alike.” Powers extended OH, box 9, DFPP.

20. Pitts, Jack and Lem, 98; Press release on John F. Kennedy’s war record, June 1, 1946, box 28, DFPP; O’Donnell and Powers, “Johnny,” 50; Blair and Blair, Search for JFK, 540.

21. The two Russos apparently had faced off before, in a campaign in which there was also a third Joseph Russo. The City Council Russo had taken to telling voters, “Vote for the one in the middle.” O’Donnell and Powers, “Johnny,” 62. And there were numerous instances in Boston politics of namesakes capitalizing on a famous name. In the 1950s, John F. Kennedy, a shop foreman in the Gillette razor factory in South Boston, twice won election as state treasurer simply by putting his name on the ballot, with no party support or campaigning. O’Donnell and Powers, “Johnny,” 62.

22. Mark Dalton OH, JFKL; Whalen, Founding Father, 399. The actual financial records from the campaign do not seem to survive.

23. Dalton OH, JFKL.

24. In the words of reporter and family friend Samuel Bornstein, “His father was in on every campaign and he planned a lot of things, but as far as I could determine, when you come right down to something specific, Jack Kennedy made the final decision.” Samuel Bornstein OH, JFKL.

25. See O’Donnell and Powers, “Johnny,” chap. 2.

26. Dalton OH; McNamara, Eunice, 84.

27. Whalen, Founding Father, 401; Goodwin, Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, 719.

28. Burns, John Kennedy, 68.

29. Boston Herald, June 19, 1946.

30. Quoted in Leamer, Kennedy Men, 237.

31. Boston Traveler, June 23, 1946; Hamilton, JFK: Reckless Youth, 770–71.

32. KK to JFK, July 13, 1946, box 4A, JFKPP.

33. Manchester, Glory and the Dream, 289.

34. William E. Leuchtenburg, “New Faces of 1946,” Smithsonian Magazine, November 2006. A penetrating account of America in the year 1946 is Weisbrode, Year of Indecision.

35. Leuchtenburg, “New Faces”; Lichtenstein, State of the Union, chap. 3.

36. Patterson, Grand Expectations, 14.

37. Campaign speech, n.d., box 96, JFKPP.

38. According to Ted Kennedy (relying on sister Patricia’s diary), Churchill stayed with the Kennedys in the Palm Beach house during his Florida visit. Kennedy, True Compass, 27–28. On the “long telegram,” see Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, 18–22; and Craig and Logevall, America’s Cold War, 69–73.

39. Harry S. Truman to Bess Truman, September 20, 1946, Family, Business, and Personal Affairs Papers, Family Correspondence File, Harry S. Truman Library.

40. Radio Speech on Russia, box 94, JFK Pre-Pres.

41. Independence Day Oration, July 4, 1946, box 94, JFK Pre-Pres.

42. Young Democrats of Pennsylvania speech, August 21, 1946, box 94, JFK Pre-Pres; Choate speech, September 27, 1946, box 94, JFK Pre-Pres; Seymour St. John, “September 28, 1946,” CSA.

43. Tierney, Self Portrait, 141–42; Vogel, Gene Tierney, 101–10.

44. Tierney, Self Portrait, 143.

45. Tierney, Self Portrait, 152.

46. Blair and Blair, Search for JFK, 550; Hamilton, JFK: Reckless Youth, 778.

47. Blair and Blair, Search for JFK, 549; Tierney, Self Portrait, 147.

48. Blair and Blair, Search for JFK, 550–51.

49. Hamilton, JFK: Reckless Youth, 779–80.

50. Swope to JFK, November 6, 1946, box 5, JFKPP.

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