1. Harvey Rachlin, The
Kennedys, A Chronological History (New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1986),
page 110 (hereafter cited as Rachlin, The Kennedys). 2. Ibid., pages 52-53; and
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember (Garden City, NY: Doubleday
& Company, Inc., 1974), page 141 (hereafter cited as Kennedy, Times to
Remember). 3. Doris Kearns Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, An American Saga (New York, NY: Simon
and Schuster, 1987), page 349 (hereafter cited as Goodwin, Fitzgeralds).
4. Rachlin, The Kennedys,
pages 327-328. 5. Ibid., page 328. Robert
F. Kennedy was eligible for burial at Arlington because of his service in the
Navy, his cabinet rank as attorney general, and his status as a U.S. senator.
6. Ibid., page 328.