Paul Nitze
Paul Nitze was an investment banker named by JFK in 1961 to be the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. He was later…
The Life of John F. Kennedy
Paul Nitze was an investment banker named by JFK in 1961 to be the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. He was later…
Archibold Cox was named as Solicitor General by JFK. JFK had first come into contact with Cox in 1953 when he was looking to develop…
Fowler Hamilton was a New York attorney who was named by Kennedy to head the Foreign Aid Agency. [152, p. 101]
George Woods was a New York City investment banker who as appointed as head of the World Bank by Kennedy. [152, p. 101]
David Bell was White House Budget Director. One of many staff members with Harvard connections, he did little socializing at the White House after his…
JFK met every Tuesday morning for breakfast with legislative leaders in the old family dining room on the first floor of the mansion. Regular attendees…
Seminole Club housed the golf course frequented by JFK and his family in Juno Beach, Florida. Founded in 1929, the Donald Ross-designed course was known…
Howard Baird was often the captain of the Caroline, the private plane of JFK. He was at the controls for the last flight of Kennedy…
JFK, who throughout much of his early life considered a career in journalism, won a place his senior year on the Harvard Crimson business board….
James Seymour was Jack’s chief factotum as he raced to write his manuscript for his senior thesis in the spring of 1940. While JFK was…
Donald Thurber was a Harvard chum of Jack’s. He relayed his impressions of Kennedy to another biographer, He was a person who would ask questions…
Jim Reed met JFK on the troop transport to the Pacific war theatre. Birthed in the cabin next to Jack’s, they became fast friends. “We…
Johnny Burns was a Kennedy family friend and a judge in Massachusetts. He was asked by the Kennedy’s to provide a reference for Jack for…
Bart Brickley wrote a letter of reference for JFK for his commission into the United States naval reserve. The prominent Boston attorney wrote that he…
Jack Daly was a Kennedy neighbor in Hyannis Port. Daly was Chairman of the board of Republic Aviation and sent insider stock trading tips to…
Phil Potter was the skipper of PT 169. His boat had become detached from the second group of PTs who went on on patrol with…
Barbara Gamarekian was a press aide who began employment from the first day of the JFK administration. [15, p. 80]
George Wheeler was a friend of Jack’s from Choate and he and his wife Jane hosted a dinner for his old school chum after the…
JFK, along with his close friend Jim Reed, was a part owner of the Narragansett Times, in Rhode Island. [15, p. 66]
David Levy was skipper of the PT 48 and served alongside Jack Kennedy in the Solomons. Levy was the comrade who get JFK into trouble…