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7 Hessman interview, pp. 1, 17; Goodman interview, December 10, 1987, pp. 1–4, 7, 15, 30. See also “Kennan Leaves Belgrade and Retires,” New York Times, July 29, 1963.

8 GFK to KWK, February 8, 1963, JEK Papers; Princeton University press release, November 13, 1963 (courtesy of Cyril E. Black); Ullman interview, p. 11; Goodman interview, pp. 29–32; GFK interview by Labalme, February 27, 1990, pp. 19–22; GFK to Richard Challener, handwritten response to letter of May 25, 1970, GFK Papers, 4:12.

9 GFK, On Dealing with the Communist World, pp. viii–ix, 15, 45, 51. See also Constance Moench to Cass Canfield, July 2, 1964, conveying GFK’s intentions regarding the book, GFK Papers, 57.

10 GFK lecture to the International House of Japan, June 19, 1964, published as “The Passing of the Cold War” in its Bulletin 14 (October 1964), 71–72.

11 GFK, “Fresh Look at Our China Policy,” New York Times Magazine, November 22, 1964, pp. 27, 140–47; Moskin, “Our Foreign Policy is Paralyzed,” p. 27.

12 GFK to David Mark, March 12, 1964, GFK Papers, 57.

13 Carlton Savage notes, GFK meeting with the Policy Planning Staff, February 8, 1961, in FRUS: 1961–63, V, 62–63. See also Chapters Thirteen and Sixteen, above.

14 GFK, “Japanese Security and American Policy,” Foreign Affairs 43 (October 1964), 14–28. For evidence that MacArthur did at one time think this, see Gaddis, Long Peace, pp. 79–80.

15 William P. Bundy interview, pp. 21–23; GFK to Chihiro Hosoya, December 15, 1964, GFK Papers, 21:3. Bundy’s address, delivered in Tokyo on September 29, 1964, is in Department of State Bulletin 51 (October 19, 1964), 534–42.

16 GFK interview, August 26, 1982, p. 10. Millay’s sonnet is “I Being Born a Woman and Distressed.”

17 GFK to Dobrynin, January 28, 1964, Dobrynin to GFK, March 3, 1964, GFK to David Klein, January 13, 1965, GFK Papers, 11:9.

18 GFK Desk Diary, July 6–7, 1964.

19 “Account of Trip from Bergen to Kristiansand,” July 1964, GFK Papers, 236:2.

20 Taplin interview, December 5, 1987, pp. 3, 15; Dilworth interview, p. 2; GFK Diary, July 4, 1976.

21 David Klein to GFK, January 7, 1965, GFK to Klein, January 13, 1965, GFK to Klein, February 1, 1965, GFK Papers, 11:9; GFK interviews, August 26, 1982, p. 10, and September 4, 1984, pp. 1–2.

22 GFK Desk Diary, June 21–29, 1965; GFK interview, September 4, 1984, p. 2; “Kennan, Once Barred in Soviet, Feted There,” New York Times, June 26, 1965; GFK, Memoirs, I, 281–83; GFK, Decision to Intervene, p. 469; GFK, “History as Literature,” pp. 13–14.

23 GFK Desk Diary, January 20, 1965; GFK interview, September 4, 1984, pp. 12–13.

24 Ibid., p. 12; GFK Desk Diary, May 19, 21, 1965; GFK to Mumford, June 5, 1965, GFK Papers, 149:5.

25 GFK Diary, June 14, 1965. See also Leroy F. Aarons, “Culture is King at Arts Festival; Lowell Controversy Mars Event,” Washington Post, June 15, 1965; President’s Daily Diary, June 14, 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson Library; and, for his own lengthy account, Goldman, Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, pp. 495–563.

26 GFK to Joze Smole, February 15, 1962, GFK Papers, 56; Moskin, “Our Foreign Policy is Paralyzed,” p. 27; GFK, “Passing of the Cold War,” pp. 62, 69–70; GFK to Woodward, March 4, 1965, GFK Papers, 58; GFK to ASK, May 9,1965, ibid., 24:5.

27 Bundy to Johnson, June 26, 1965, in FRUS: 1964–68, III, 52; GFK to Coffin, August 27, 1965, GFK Papers, 58.

28 GFK, “An Authority on Communism Says We’re Letting This One Area Disbalance Whole Policy,” Washington Post, December 12, 1965, pp. E1, E4.

29 GFK to KWK, December 19, 1965, JEK Papers; GFK Desk Diary, February 7–9, 1966.

30 GFK’s testimony is in U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Supplemental Foreign Assistance Fiscal Year 1966—Vietnam, quoted portions at pp. 333, 335–56, 380. See also “Scholarly Diplomat,” New York Times, February 11, 1966; Murrey Marder, “Kennan’s Testimony: A Profound Challenge,” Washington Post, February 11, 1966; Flora Lewis, “CBS News Executive Morale Upset By Issues That Made Friendly Quit,” ibid.; and for the origins of the Fulbright hearings, Woods, Fulbright, pp. 402–5.

31 Fischer to GFK, February 13, 1966, GFK Papers, 13:8; Johnson press conference, February 11, 1966, Public Papers of the Presidents: Johnson, 1966, Document 65; Johnson telephone conversation with U.Alexis Johnson, February 11, 1966, in FRUS: 1964–68, IV, 220–22; notes on White House meeting, February 26, 1966, ibid., p. 261; Reedy to Johnson, February 17, 1966, ibid., pp. 235–37.

32 GFK to Llewellyn Thompson, April 5, 1966, GFK Papers, 59; GFK interview, September 4, 1984, p. 10; Art Buchwald, “Audience Is Live, if TV Isn’t,” Washington Post, February 17, 1966; Woods, Fulbright, pp. 405, 409–10.

33 GFK sermon, “Why Do I Hope?” February 13, 1966, GFK Papers, 264:5.

34 GFK to ASK, May 5, 1965, GFK Papers, 24:5.

35 Mary Bundy interview, p. 35; GFK, “Why Do I Hope?” p. 3; GFK to JKH, January 3, 1931, GFK Papers, 23:10, further quoted in Chapter Three, above; JKH interview, pp. 18, 27; CKB interview, p. 10.

36 Dilworth interview, p. 3; William and Mary Bundy interview, pp. 34–35.