“Teddy-Eddie” debate: Interview with Lester Hyman.
24 “Brother of the President”: Interview with Lester Hyman.
25 “Nobody’s laughing”: Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy, 40.
24 “Kennedys can do no wrong”: Interview with Lester Hyman.
Chapter 38
1 “stiff as a billy goat at ten in the morning”: Interview with Edward M. Kennedy (01/06/2007), 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.
2 “The pressure of all the others”: Adam Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography (New York: William Morrow, 1999), 15.
3 “an extraordinary family man”: 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.
4 “the one who most came to see the father”: 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.
5 Ted breaks news of Jack’s death to Joe: Peter S. Canellos, ed., Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2010), 96.
6 “segregation was morally wrong”: Ted Kennedy, “Standing Up for Equality and Staring Down Discrimination,” floor of the United States Senate, April 8, 1964.
7 “What do you want me to do, crack up an airplane?”: Canellos, Last Lion, 100.
8 “The fog is really rolling in”: Canellos, 100.
9 “It was just like a toboggan ride”: Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy, 58.
10 “as though a kitchen knife sliced through it”: Clymer, 58.
11 “like a sack of corn under my arm”: J. Taylor Rushing, “Bayh Remembers 1964 Plane Crash,” The Hill, August 28, 2009.
12 “You don’t think it’s Kennedy?” Interview with Edward Martin, 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 “going to be fine”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012), 284.
14 “Nobody knows more about backs than you do”: Interview with Ann Gargan, 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.
15 “Dad doesn’t think that’s a very good idea”: Interview with Ann Gargan.
16 “educating himself as he was lying there”: Interview with John Tunney (2007).
17 “the biggest, nicest strawberries”: “Senator Bayh on Ted Kennedy,” Newsweek, August 25, 2009.
18 “Joan became the candidate herself”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 288.
19 “his wife won the campaign for him”: Neil Swidey, “Turbulence and Tragedies Eclipse Early Triumphs,” Boston Globe, February 16, 2009.
20 “Is it ever going to end for you people?” Swidey, “Turbulence and Tragedies Eclipse Early Triumphs.”
21 “Can we just chalk it up to coincidence?”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 285.
Chapter 39
1 “I think that Bobby was Teddy’s best friend”: 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.
2 “The fucking Kennedy machine rides again”: 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.
3 Ted and Joan move to McLean, VA: Adam Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography (New York: William Morrow, 1999), 93.
4 With Helga Wagner on night of the 1968 California Democratic presidential primary: Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy, 109.
5 “Days of partying”: Maxine Cheshire, “The Mysterious Helga Wagner,” Washington Post, March 13, 1980.
6 “get that plane, or your career is over”: Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy, 109.
7 “his brain was not working”: Interview with John Tunney (2007).
8 “one million dollars and a car”: Michael Cooper and John M. Broder, “FBI Opens Kennedy File,” New York Times, June 15, 2010.
9 “multiply as you watched”: Lorna Luft, Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir (New York: Pocket Books, 1998), 104.
10 “We need you so much”: Judy Garland 1964 Telegram to Ted Kennedy (Western Union), Lot #284, Nate D. Sanders Auctions, Autographs & Memorabilia.
11 “symbolic of all my dreams and wishes”: “Judy Garland, 47, Found Dead,” New York Times, June 23, 1969.
12 “sail all night long by himself”: James W. Graham, Victura: