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Jack Kennedy is a desiccated liberal playboy with the moral convictions of a crotch-sniffing hound dog.
Kemper caught the gist: Hoover’s jealous. He always said the Mob didn’t exist—because he knew he couldn’t prosecute it successfully. Now Bobby Kennedy begs to differ.…
“You watch out for that prissy little fussbudget, do you hear me, Kemper? I think he has carnal designs on you.” She didn’t know that Mr. Hoover only fucked power.
“I was too much woman for De Ridder, Louisiana, and that is a fact!”
Mitch!
Mr. Hoover hates left-wingers because their philosophy is based on human frailty, while his own is based on an excruciating rectitude that denies such things.”
“That sounds pretty far-fetched.” “Facts can be bent to conform to any thesis.”
Jacob Rubenstein, born 1911. AKA “Jack Ruby.” This man operates a striptease club in Dallas, Texas, and is known to dabble in small-time loansharking.
Kemper called it the Bobby/Jack dichotomy: if you liked one man, you disliked the other.
Lawford prophesied the Kennedy cabinet. Frank Sinatra was considered a shoo-in for Prime Minister of Pussy.
“Les gens que l’on comprend—ce sont eux que l’on domine.” En français, Pierre, souviens-toi: Those we understand are those we control.
Laura called Sinatra a small penis with a big voice.
“He killed a man named Lumumba in the Congo last month.”
He found Jack at a White House reception. He called him “Mr. President” for the first time. Jack’s first presidential decree: “Find me some girls for later tonight.” Kemper rustled up two Georgetown coeds. President Jack told him to stash the girls away for late quickies.
You’ve been hungry all your life, and you’ve finally reconciled your desires with your conscience.”
“I’m saying it’s so big and audacious that we’ll most likely never be suspected. I’m saying that even if we are, the powers that be will realize that it can never be conclusively proven. I’m saying that a consensus of denial will build off of it. I’m saying that people will want to remember the man as something he wasn’t. I’m saying that we’ll present them with an explanation, and the powers that be will prefer it to the truth, even though they know better.”
