Reeves, A Question of Character, p. 332; Jim Bellows, The Last Editor (Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel, 2002), p. 88.
293
Benjamin A. Javits to JFK, June 11, 1962, JFKL; Roy Harrod to Seymour Harris, May 9, 1962, Council of Economic Advisers, JFKL; Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy, p. 77; Reeves, President Kennedy, pp. 296–302.
294
«Why the Market Fell,» May 29, 1962, Council of Economic Advisers, JFKL.
295
New York Times, May 29, 1962; «The Present Decline in Perspective,» «Why the Market Fell,» «Possible Government Action,» May 29, 1962, Council of Economic Advisers, JFKL; Walter Heller to JFK, May 31, 1962, Council of Economic Advisers, JFKL.
296
«Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, January 14, 1963,» PPP — JFK, 1963, pp. 11–13.
297
Economist, May 19, 1962; Walter Heller to JFK, December 16, 1962, Council of Economic Advisers, JFKL; Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, pp. 630–31.
298
Dallek, An Unfinished Life, pp. 375–76, 475–80.
299
William Chafe, Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005), pp. 122–23.
300
Ibid.
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Reeves, President Kennedy, pp. 288–89; Athan Theoharis, From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover (New York: I. R. Dee, 1991), pp. 40–41; Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (Boston: Little, Brown, 1997), pp. 298–325.
302
O’Brien, John F. Kennedy, p. 763; David Reynolds, Summits: Six Meetings that Shaped the Twentieth Century (New York: Basic Books, 2007), pp. 201–2.
303
Alistair Horne, Harold Macmillan, 1959–1986, vol. 2 (New York: Viking, 1989), p. 512; Reeves, President Kennedy, pp. 242–43.
304
Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 43.
305
Dallek, An Unfinished Life, p. 705.
306
«First Debate, September 26, 1960,» in Kraus, The Great Debates, pp. 349–50.
307
«Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961,» PPP — JFK, 1961, p. 1.
308
«Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union,» January 30, 1961, PPP — JFK, 1961, p. 22.
309
Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 169.
310
Franklin H. Williams, «The Shifting Negro Vote,» Frontier, January 1961, pp. 4, 13–14.
311
Hyman H. Bookbinder, «Appointment of Qualified Negro to Business Advisory Council,» April 14, 1961, JFKL; Carl Brauer, John F. Kennedy and the Second Reconstruction (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), pp. 75–76.
312
Harris Wofford notes, «MLK,» n. d., JFKL. See also Reeves, President Kennedy, pp. 100–101.
313
Frank J. Munger and Richard F. Fenno, National Politics and Federal Aid to Education (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1962) p. 132.
314
Harris Wofford to Kenneth O’Donnell, October 4, October 9, 1961, JFKL; Robert A. Wallace to Harris Wofford, November 22, 1961, JFKL.
315
Executive Order 10590, January 19, 1955, 20 Federal Record, 409; Executive Order 10925, March 6, 1961, 26 Federal Record 1977.
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John L. Moore to Heads of Federal Agencies, «Nondiscrimination in Employment,» March 29, 1961, JFKL; JFK to A. Philip Randolph, February 17, 1961, JFKL; Carlisle P. Runge, Assistant Secretary of Defense, to Frederick G. Dutton, April 10, 1961, JFKL; Robert A. Wallace, Assistant Secretary to the Secretary of the Treasury, to Fred Dutton, April 7, 1961, JFKL; L. D. Battle to Frederick G. Dutton, April 11, 1961, JFKL.
317
Helen Fuller, Year of Trial: Kennedy’s Crucial Decisions (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1962), p. 29.
318
«Report of the Attorney General to the President on the Department of Justice’s Activities in the Field of Civil Rights,» December 29, 1961, JFKL. See also Franklin D. Reeves to Clarence T. R. Nelson, March 20, 1961, JFKL; «Summary Memorandum of Executive Action on Civil Rights,» n. d., 1961, JFKL; U. S. Commission on Civil Rights press release, September 9, 1961, JFKL.
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«Summary Memorandum of Executive Action on Civil Rights,» n. d., 1962; «Executive Order: Equal Opportunity in Housing,» November 20, 1962, 27 Federal Record, 11527; JFK to Roy Wilkins, November 27, 1962, JFKL; JFK to Robert Weaver, November 27, 1962, JFKL; JFK to Whitney Young, November 27, 1962, JFKL; Jack Conway, «Draft Reply to Correspondence from Mayor C. Ben Holleman, West Palm Beach, Florida,» JFKL; Brauer, John F. Kennedy and the Second Reconstruction, pp. 131–35.
320
Progressive, vol. 2, no. 49, p. 16.
321
«Summary of Civil Rights Progress, January 20 through October 1961,» n. d., 1961, JFKL; Lee C. White, «Civil Rights Achievements Since January 1962,» December 13, 1962, JFKL; Brauer, John F. Kennedy and the Second Reconstruction, pp. 63, 127.
322
Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–1963 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988), pp. 143–205, 271–73; William Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981), pp. 111–18.
323
Time, June 2, 1961; Raymond Arsenault, Freedom Rides 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 11–54, 90–182.
324
New York Times, May 15, 1961; Time, May 26, 1961.
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