# Killing Kennedy ![rw-book-cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51VqdrqsfwL._SL200_.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard]] - Full Title: Killing Kennedy - Category: #books ## Highlights - he is still learning, as Abraham Lincoln also learned, that the decision to use force should not be determined by men whose careers depend upon its use. ([Location 716](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0079886DY&location=716)) - “There’s an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. ([Location 762](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0079886DY&location=762)) - he behaves like the president of the United States, a man who long ago stopped defining himself by party affiliation. ([Location 1496](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0079886DY&location=1496)) - The president is lobbying for an international nuclear test ban and characterizes himself as “President of generations unborn—and not just American generations. ([Location 1499](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0079886DY&location=1499)) - “The 1930s taught us a clear lesson: Aggressive conduct, if allowed to grow unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war. This nation is opposed to war. We are also true to our word. Our unswerving objective, therefore, must be to prevent the use of these missiles against this or any other country and to secure their withdrawal or elimination from the Western Hemisphere. ([Location 1630](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0079886DY&location=1630)) - The president and vice president will spend less than two hours alone in the year 1963. ([Location 2113](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0079886DY&location=2113)) - The Kennedy brothers have deliberately kept him out of their escalating battle for racial equality. They know that as a southern politician, he could use the issue to gain power. Johnson understands this as well. And he does everything he can to be at the forefront of JFK’s civil rights campaign. For Johnson, civil rights has nothing to do with right or wrong. Taking this stand just makes good political sense. ([Location 2121](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0079886DY&location=2121)) - The purpose of this Rose Garden gathering is to make Winston Churchill an American citizen—the only foreign leader since Lafayette to be so honored. ([Location 2166](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0079886DY&location=2166)) - To give his crusade credibility in the eyes of the American government, Diem insists that Buddhism and communism are the same—a suggestion akin to J. Edgar Hoover’s quiet belief that civil rights and communism are synonymous. ([Location 2386](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0079886DY&location=2386)) - Reversing his previous weight loss, LBJ will grow very fat over the course of the summer as a result of this despondence. His face will become mottled, leading some to think he has begun drinking heavily. The Kennedy brothers have broken the man who once considered himself Washington, D.C.’s ultimate power broker. ([Location 2604](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0079886DY&location=2604)) - He has been thinking quite a bit about martyrs lately and has become fond of quoting a verse by Irish poet Thomas Davis: We thought you would not die—we were sure you would not go; And leave us in our utmost need to Cromwell’s cruel blow— Sheep without a shepherd when the snow shuts out the sky— Oh, why did you leave us, Eoghan? Why did you die? ([Location 2635](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0079886DY&location=2635)) - Arlington was once home to the family of Robert E. Lee and was turned into a cemetery during the Civil War by Union troops so that the Confederate general might never again be tempted to live in the family mansion that still dominates the grounds. ([Location 3309](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0079886DY&location=3309)) - It is a little-known fact that it is not a federal crime to kill the president of the United States. ([Location 4001](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0079886DY&location=4001)) - Hoover wants jurisdiction over the case. But at this point, he is not getting it. Jurisdiction falls to the state of Texas and the municipality of Dallas. ([Location 4003](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0079886DY&location=4003))