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CHAPTER 5 ENDNOTES
1. Senator 3. William Fulbright, The Arrogance of Power (New York:
Vintage Books, 1966), p. 57.
2. Honorable Jacob K. Javits, Who Makes War: The President Versus Congress
(New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1973), pp. 259-260.
3. Tom Wicker, JFK and LBJ (New York: William Mcrrow & Company, Inc.,
1968), p. 88.
4. David Halberstam, The Best and The Brightest (New York: Random House,
1969), p. 65. The first major struggle of the new administration was
a battle to expand the House Rules Committee. In this test of strength
Kennedy was triumphant, but in the process of winning that victory he
exposed the essential weakness of his legislative position, and the
divisions in his party. Thus, Kennedy's enemies had reason to be
enicouraged in their opposition to his more liberal legislative initiatives.
5. Jim Heath, Decade of Disillusionment (Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1975), p. 10-11.
6. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days (Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Houghton-Mifflin Co., 1965), p. 1027.
7. Ibid., p. 213.
8. Halberstam, p. 123.
S. Heath, pp. 63-64.
10. Ibid., pp. 112-114.
11. Hughi Sidey, A Vr. Personal Presidency (New York: Atheneum, 1968),
pp. 149-150.
12. Halberstam, p. 68. Kennedy was criticized by the right for not having
exercised sufficient strength in the Bay of Pigs crisis.
13. Halberstam, pp. 76-77. Also see p. 262. reflecting Kennedy's concern
about the reaction of the US political right.
14. Tom Wicker, p. 162.
15. Godfvey, Hodgson, America in Our Time (New York: Vintage Books,
1976), p. 254. From 1958 to 1964 the average weekly earniihgs, after
tax, of the average production worker with a family of four, measured
in uninflated dollars rose from sixty-eight dollars to seventy-eight
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