62 Memorandum, Kennedy-Popović conversation, May 29, 1962, in FRUS: 1961–63, XVI, 266–70.
63 GFK interview by Fischer, pp. 46–50; GFK to Kennedy and Rusk, May 31, 1962, NSF Country Files: Yugoslavia, Box 210, Kennedy Library.
64 GFK to Bundy, May 15, 1962, and Bundy to GFK, May 16, 1962, NSF Country Files: Yugoslavia, Box 210, Kennedy Library; GFK to ASK, May 31, 1962, GFK Papers, 24:5; GFK Desk Calendar, June 1, 1962.
65 “Senate Bans Aid to Red Nations; Rebuffs Kennedy,” New York Times, June 7, 1962; “Aid Bill Voted by Senate: Red-Bloc Ban is Modified,” ibid., June 8, 1962; James Reston, “Greatest Deliberative Body in the World,” ibid., June 8, 1962; GFK to State Department, June 11, 1962, NSF Country Files: Yugoslavia, Box 210, Kennedy Library.
66 Max Frankel, “U.S. Envoys Warn on Cuts in Red Aid,” New York Times, June 15, 1962; GFK to State Department, June 11, 1962, NSF Country Files: Yugoslavia, Box 210; “Kennan Leaves Belgrade,” New York Times, June 24, 1962. See also GFK, Memoirs, II, 300.
67 GFK to ASK, July 3, 5, 8 and 10, 1962, GFK Papers, 24:5. See also GFK Desk Diary, July 2–10, 1962; also GFK, “U.S. Shouldn’t Slam Door on Yugoslavia,” Washington Post, July 8, 1962.
68 GFK interview by Fischer, pp. 71–72, 76–77.
69 “Conferees Grant Kennedy Leeway to Aid Red Lands,” New York Times, July 19, 1962; GFK interview by Fischer, pp. 86–89; GFK, Memoirs, II, 303–5; GFK Desk Diary, September 27, 1962.
70 GFK to Kennedy and Rusk, October 5, 1962, Bundy to GFK, October 5, 1962, Kennedy to GFK, October 9, 1962, all in NSF Country Files: Yugoslavia, Box 210, Kennedy Library; GFK interview by Fischer, pp. 92–93.
71 “Trade Act Signed, Also Postal Bill,” New York Times, October 12, 1962; Bundy to GFK, October 11, 1962, NSF Country Files: Yugoslavia, Box 210, Kennedy Library; GFK Desk Diary, October 14, 1962.
72 GFK to State Department and American Embassy, Moscow, September 13, 1962, NSF Country Files: Cuba, Box 39, Kennedy Library; GFK and ASK to JEK, October 23, 1962, JEK Papers.
73 GFK interview by Fischer, pp. 110, 124.
74 GFK to State Department, November 28, 1962, in FRUS: 1961–63, XVI, 292–309.
75 Bundy to Kennedy, December 13, 1962, ibid., pp. 309–10; GFK to State Department, December 13, 1962, and January 3, 1963, ibid., pp. 310–13, 315–19.
76 Klein to Bundy, January 4, 1963, NSF Country Files: Yugoslavia, Box 210A, Kennedy Library.
77 GFK to ASK, January 10, 1963, GFK Papers, 24:5; GFK memorandum, conversation with Kennedy, January 16, 1963, in FRUS: 1961–63, XVI, 326–27; Kennedy press conference, January 24, 1963, Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1963, Document 35.
78 GFK to State Department, January 30, 1963, in FRUS: 1961–61, XVI, 332–34.
79 GFK Desk Diary, February 5–11, 1963; GFK to Lippmann, February 8, 1963, ibid., 56; GFK to Davies, February 19, 1963, ibid., 10:12.
80 White House press release, May 17, 1963, ibid., 57; Schlesinger interview, p. 5; GFK interview by Fischer, pp. 83–84, 94–95, 111–16.
81 Ibid., pp. 67–70; GFK, Memoirs, II, 278–80.
82 Jones Diary, undated but pp. 62–63, Owen T. Jones Papers, Box 6, “August 18—December 31, 1962” folder (courtesy of Sam Rushay).
83 GFK Diary, May 31, 1963.
84 GFK Desk Diary, June 2, 6, 1963.
85 GFK Diary, June 1, 8, 1963.
86 GFK Desk Diary, June 9–22, 1963.
87 GFK, Memoirs, II, 311–12.
88 Ibid., pp. 313–14; GFK notes on Tito visit, October 16, 1963, GFK Papers, 235:4.
89 “Tito’s Whirlwind White House Visit Marked by Meetings and Protests,” New York Times, October 18, 1963; memorandum, Kennedy-Tito conversation, October 17, 1963, in FRUS: 1961–63, XVI, 355–59.
90 GFK, Memoirs, II, 314–15; GFK to Kennedy, October 22, 1963, GFK Papers, 57. The New York Times covered the anti-Tito protests in a series of stories on October 21, 22, and 23, 1963.
91 GFK to Kennedy, handwritten, October 22, 1963, PDF Special Correspondence, “Kennan” folder, Kennedy Library; Kennedy to GFK, October 28, 1963, GFK Papers, 26:5; GFK interview by Fischer, p. 106.
TWENTY-TWO ● COUNTER-CULTURAL CRITIC: 1963–1968
1 J. Robert Moskin, “Our Foreign Policy Is Paralyzed,” Look 27 (November 19, 1963), 25–27.
2 GFK, Memoirs, II, 21; GFK untitled, undated typescript, published as “Sein Tod ist nicht allein Amerikas Tragödie,” in the Zürich Tages Anzeiger, November 30, 1963.
3 GFK interview by Fischer, pp. 115–16. I am indebted to my research assistant Andrew Scott for compiling the number of meetings, based on Kennedy Library records.
4 GFK to Oppenheimer, November 16, 1962, GFK Papers, 56.
5 Oppenheimer to GFK, December 4, 1962, Oppenheimer Papers, Box 43.
6 GFK to KWK, February 8, 1963, JEK Papers; GFK interview by Labalme, August 30, 1989, p. 14; White House Press Release, May 17, 1963, GFK Papers, 57.
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.