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89. Dallek, Flawed Giant, 506. In a review of Douglas Brinkley's Cronkite (New York: HarperCollins, 2012), Louis Menand questions whether LBJ ever uttered these words or even saw Cronkite's broadcast. See Louis Menand, "Seeing It Now: Walter Cronkite and the Legend of CBS News," New Yorker, July 9 and 16, 2012, 8894.

90. Lyndon B. Johnson, "The President's Address to the Nation Announcing Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam and Reporting His Decision Not to Seek Reelection," March 31, 1968, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project,

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91. Shesol, Mutual Contempt, 422.

92. "Memorandum of conference with Senator Robert Kennedy and Theodore C. Sorensen," March 14, 1968, Clark Clifford Papers, Box 30, Folder 22, Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division, Washington, DC.

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95. Mark K. Updegrove, Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency (New York: Crown Publishers, 2012), 272.

96. RFK was shot at 12:15 A.M. on June 5; he died at 1:44 A.M. on June 6.

97. George Reedy to LBJ, June 5, 1968, White House Famous Names Collection-RFK, Box 8, LBJA Famous Names: Kennedy, Robert F. Assassination of, LBJ Library Austin, Texas.

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100. Vincent Bzdek, The Kennedy Legacy: Jack, Bobby and Ted and a Family Dream Fulfilled (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 141, 14546.

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103. "Excerpts from the Firearms Statement by the National Commission on Violence," New York Times, July 29, 1969; "Excerpts from National Panel's Statement on Violence in TV Entertainment," New York Times, September 25, 1969; "Excerpts from the Statement on Civil Disobedience by National Panel on Violence," New York Times, December 9, 1969.

104. RFK's murder has evoked some of the same questions and conspiracy theories as JFK's. See for instance, Lisa Pease, "The Other Kennedy Conspiracy," Salon, November 21, 2011,

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107. See William F. Pepper, Orders to Kill (New York: Warner Books, 1995), Philip H. Melanson, The Martin Luther King Assassination: New Revelations on the Conspiracy and Cover-up, 196891 (New York: Shapolsky, 1991), and Mark Lane and Dick Gregory, Murder in Memphis (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1993).

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