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Writer Jim Bishop had finished his interviews for the article he was writing entitled "A Day in the Life of President Kennedy." In his book JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President, author Thurston Clarke writes at pages 252-3:
On Thursday, Bishop announced that he had collected enough anecdotes and observations for a small book. He and [his wife] Kelly would fly to Aruba and while closeted in a hotel finish the article and book in a couple of weeks. He would send Kennedy a carbon copy so he could correct factual errors and he could identify any observations that he found "hurtful and unfair." If Bishop agreed, he would remove or change them.
"If it gets here before Jackie and I leave for Texas, I'll take it with me," Kennedy said. Bishop was perplexed by his urgency, writing later, "For a reason beyond my divination, he was eager for the little book." But Kennedy's motives were not hard to divine. Bishop had written a laudatory article about Eisenhower, and he wanted no less for himself. Anticipating correctly that the book would be flattering, he wanted it published as soon as possible as an antidote to [Victor] Lasky's venomous tome [JFK: The Man and the Myth]. Before Bishop left, he questioned him closely about his best-selling book The Day Lincoln Was Shot. "My feelings about assassination are identical with Mr. Lincoln's," he said. "Anyone who wants to exchange his life for mine can take it. They just can't protect me that much." Bishop thought he "seemed fascinated, in a melancholy way, with the succession of events that day which had led to the assassination."