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1 GFK Diary, June 21, 1958; GFK to KWK, July 19, 1958, JEK Papers.

2 GFK Diary, June 27–July 3, 1958.

3 Dulles to Andrew Goodpaster, August 3, 1958, Eisenhower Papers, Whitman DDE Diary, Box 22, “August 1958—Staff Notes (3)” folder. The memorandum is in FRUS: 1958–60, X, 129–33.

4 GFK Diary, July 25–August 2, 1958.

5 Ibid., August 5–September 10, 1958. The interview appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot-News on September 7, 1958.

6 “Minority Diplomat,” New York Times, November 18, 1957; “Newsman Fiance of Grace Kennan,” ibid., January 5, 1958; ASK to JKH, January 13, 1958, JEK Papers; GFK Diary, May 27, 1958; ASK to Frieda Por, November 27, 1958, JEK Papers.

7 “Krisha” to JEK, undated, JEK Papers. Joan’s engagement announcement appeared in The New York Times, September 7, 1958.

8 “George F. Kennan Assays Quemoy: Sees ‘Excessive Commitment’ to Chiang’s ‘Fortunes,’ ” New York Herald Tribune, September 21, 1958; GFK “Points for New Leader Meeting,” September 25, 1958, GFK Papers, 301:23; GFK Diary, December 25, 1958, and March 29, 1959. GFK’s reading notes on Kissinger and Niebuhr are appended to his 1958 Diary.

9 Ibid., May 17, 1959.

10 Chalmers M. Roberts, “German Policy Change Denied,” Washington Post, January 23, 1959; GFK Diary, February 6, April 13, and July [misdated June] 17, 1959.

11 John F. Kennedy to GFK, January 21, 1959, copy in GFK Oral History, John F. Kennedy Library; Schlesinger interview, p. 3; GFK to ASK, July 4, 1959, JEK Papers. See also GFK, “Disengagement Revisited,” Foreign Affairs 37 (January 1959), 187–210.

12 GFK Diary, July [misdated June] 17–18, 1959.

13 GFK to Berlin, March 5, 1959, GFK Papers, 5:5.

14 GFK Diary, March 29, 1959.

15 Ibid., April 17, 1959. Who was she? I don’t know.

16 GFK Diary, June 30, 1958.

17 Ibid., September 10, 1959.

18 GFK to ASK, September 22 and 26, 1959, GFK Papers, 24:5.

19 GFK interview by Fischer, March 23, 1965, Oral History Collection, John F. Kennedy Library; Kennedy to GFK, undated, GFK to Kennedy, January 4, 1960, copies ibid. GFK misdates this last exchange, in his Memoirs, II, 268, as having taken place in 1961.

20 GFK Diary, December 13, 1959; GFK Desk Calendar, January 10 and February 25–26, 1960.

21 Ullman interview, p. 5; Pipes, Vixi, p. 102; Yale Daily News, February 15, 1960; GFK to KWK, May 17 and December 30, 1960, JEK Papers. See also GFK, Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin.

22 GFK Diary, July 6–8, 1960; GFK to O’ Shaughnessy, July 30, 1960, ibid. GFK described these summer travels at length in Sketches from a Life, pp. 190–202. His memorandum on his talk with Tito is in FRUS: 1958–60, X, 432–36.

23 GFK to Kennedy, August 17, 1960, copy in GFK Oral History Collection, Kennedy Library.

24 Sorensen to GFK, August 30, 1960, Pre-Presidential Correspondence, Box 469, ibid.; Sulzberger Diary, October 11, 1960, in Sulzberger, Last of the Giants, p. 698; GFK to New York Times, October 12, 1960, and to James Reston, October 19, 1960, GFK Papers, 55.

25 GFK Diary, August 10, 1960, and two undated diary fragments.

26 GFK Desk Calendar, October 27, 1960; Kennedy to GFK, October 30, 1960, copy in GFK Oral History Collection, Kennedy Library; GFK interview by Fischer, p. 135; Alsop, “I’ve Seen the Best of It,” pp. 432–33; ASK to Por, December 26, 1960, JEK Papers; GFK to KWK, December 30, 1960, ibid.

27 GFK Diary, January 2, 1961. GFK expressed himself similarly in a letter to Walter Lippmann, December 28, 1960, Lippmann Papers, Box 81, Folder 1202 (courtesy of Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C.).

28 GFK Diary, January 10, 1961; GFK interview by Fischer, pp. 34–35; GFK Desk Calendar, January 10, 1961.

29 Ibid., January 23, 1961; GFK, Memoirs, II, 267; GFK to KWK, February 2, 1961, JEK Papers.

30 GFK interview by Fischer, pp. 55–56; Carlton Savage notes, GFK meeting with the Policy Planning Staff, February 8, 1961, in FRUS: 1961–63, V, 62–63. See also, on the “captive nations” resolution, GFK to McGhee, April 20, 1961, ibid., 56. For the Yugoslavs’ enthusiasm over Kennan’s appointment, see “Yugoslavs Delighted,” New York Times, January 26, 1961, and Foy Kohler to GFK, February 7, 1961, GFK Papers, 26:15.

31 McGeorge Bundy notes, White House discussion, February 11, 1961, in FRUS: 1961– 63, V, 63–67; GFK interview by Fischer, p. 42.

32 “Kennan is Backed as Envoy to Tito,” New York Times, March 7, 1961; Rusk to GFK, March 7, 1961, DSR-DF 1960–63, Box 321, “123 Kennan” folder; GFK memorandum, conversation with Kennedy, March 22, 1961, NSF Country Files: Yugoslavia, Box 209A, Kennedy Library.

33 McGeorge Bundy interview, December 17, 1986, p. 3; GFK Desk Calendar, March 22, 1961.