22 Ted in jersey number 88: Loren Amor, “Football ’09: Kennedy: Fighter from the Start,” Harvard Crimson, September 18. 2009.
23 “a possible Pro Prospect”: John Chandler, “Ted Kennedy a Success in More Than One Contact Sport,” NESN, August 26, 2009.
24 “never been so frightened in his life”: Canellos, Last Lion, 42.
25 “another contact sport”: Chandler, “Ted Kennedy a Success in More Than One Contact Sport.”
Chapter 36
1 Ted and John Tunney at UVA: Interview with John Tunney (2009), The Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in partnership with the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, 2016.
2 “life of the party”: Ted Strong, “Kennedy’s UVA law roots remembered,” Daily Progress, August 27, 2009.
3 “what side of the court”: Adam Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography (New York: William Morrow, 1999), 21.
4 “tried to outrun me”: William Safire, “Prelude to the Bridge,” New York Times, October 29, 1979.
5 “blink their lights”: Peter S. Canellos, ed., Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2010), 54.
6 Ted earns pilot license: Interview with John Tunney (2009).
7 “I was afraid to fly with him”: Interview with John Tunney (2009).
8 “clearly wasn’t running it”: Interview with Lester Hyman, The Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in partnership with the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, 2016.
9 “The Kennedys go into politics and then they grow up”: John M. Broder, “Edward M. Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Is Dead at 77,” New York Times, August 26, 2009.
10 “the most natural politician in the family”: Interview with John Tunney (2007).
11 “the perfect amalgam”: Interview with Lester Hyman.
12 “Ted’s all heart”: Transcript of Interview with Robert Healy by Stephen F. Knott, “Robert Healy Oral History, Journalist, the Boston Globe,” Presidential Oral Histories—Edward M. Kennedy Histories, Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, August 10, 2005.
13 “run for the Senate”: Interview with John Tunney (2007).
14 “Here’s to 1960, Mr. President”: Canellos, Last Lion, 59.
Chapter 37
1 “He was tall and he was gorgeous”: Peter S. Canellos, ed., Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2010), 55.
2 modeled for Revlon and Coca-Cola: Orla Healy, “The Tragic Life of a Kennedy Wife,” Independent (UK), April 24, 2005.
3 “kind of girl anyone would want to date”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012), 77.
4 “What do you think about our getting married?”: Canellos, Last Lion, 57.
5 Joe purchases the ring: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 88.
6 “From the beginning, she was in trouble”: Taraborrelli, 88.
7 “Being married doesn’t really mean”: Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy, 24.
8 “A couple of such attractiveness”: Healy, “The Tragic Life of a Kennedy Wife.”
10 “He was thinking of going west”: Interview with John Tunney (2007), The Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in partnership with the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, 2016.
11 Ted steadily gains weight: Canellos, Last Lion, 63.
12 “terrible with candy and ice cream”: Interview with Lester Hyman, The Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in partnership with the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, 2016.
13 “delivered Wyoming”: Transcript of Interview with Robert Healy by Stephen F. Knott, “Robert Healy Oral History, Journalist, the Boston Globe,” Presidential Oral Histories—Edward M. Kennedy Histories, Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, August 10, 2005.
14 Jack makes Ted a dare: Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy, 28.
15 “carry the Western States in 1964”: Canellos, Last Lion, 66.
16 “his father wanted him to run”: Canellos, 67.
17 A room in memory of Joe Jr.: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 287.
18 “he couldn’t talk but he still called them”: Transcript of Interview with Robert Healy by Stephen F. Knott.
19 “milling around, stark naked”: Rita Dallas with Jeanira Ratcliffe, The Kennedy Case (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973), 69.
20 “Teddy got caught cheating”: Transcript of Interview with Robert Healy by Stephen F. Knott.
21 “Harvard Examination Incident”: Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy, 36.
22 “more fucking trouble with this than I did with the Bay of Pigs”: Transcript of Interview with Robert Healy by Stephen F. Knott.