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by William I Hitchcock


  Greenglass, David, 122–23

  Greenstein, Fred, xv, 119

  Gruber, Helen, 12

  Gruber, William, 12

  Gruenther, Alfred, 49, 276, 287

  Guatemala:

  CIA-sponsored coup in, 148–49, 164–68, 340, 454, 488, 504, 511, 516

  democratic reforms in, 161–62

  land reforms in, 162–63, 164, 166

  1944 revolution in, 161–62

  Guevara, Ernesto “Che,” 447, 449, 450

  Hagerty, James, 75, 91, 133, 138, 140, 143, 146, 227, 228, 237, 291, 299, 347, 360, 366, 430, 453

  DDE peacemaking tour proposed by, 409

  and DDE’s decision to run for reelection, 286

  DDE’s first heart attack and, 281, 282, 283, 289

  Hall, Leonard, 132, 266, 283, 286, 287, 290, 291, 491, 492

  Halleck, Charles, 354

  Hammarskjöld, Dag, 481

  Haney, Albert, 166, 168

  Hanoi, 180, 203

  Harding, Warren, xvii, 293

  Harlan, John Marshall, II, 230

  Harlem, Castro’s visit to, 486

  Harper’s, 47

  Harriman, Averell, 30, 31, 73, 155, 286, 350, 404, 418

  Hastings, Max, 18

  Hawkins, Jack, 504

  Hays, Brooks, 365, 366

  Hazlett, Edward Everett, Jr. “Swede,” 7, 21, 24, 33, 49, 142, 199, 228–29, 230, 279, 286, 405

  Health, Education, and Welfare Department, U.S., xvii–xviii, 218, 257–58

  health insurance, national, DDE’s proposal for, xviii, 68, 259–60

  Heath, Donald, 188

  Heaton, Leonard, 294–95, 327, 515

  Helena, USS, 92, 103, 181

  Henderson, Loy, 156

  Henry V (Shakespeare), 423

  Herald Tribune, 42, 77

  Herter, Christian A., 417, 418–19, 461, 468, 499, 502

  Cuba and, 447, 448–49, 451–53

  U-2 downing and, 465

  Hickenlooper, Bourke, 135

  Hickok, Wild Bill, 5

  Hicks, James L., 487

  Hidden-Hand Presidency, The (Greenstein), xv

  Highway Trust Fund, xviii, 264

  Hirohito, emperor of Japan, 194

  Hiroshima, atomic bombing of, 94

  Hiss, Alger, 72, 79, 120, 121, 126

  Hitler, Adolf, 15, 20, 23–24, 194, 309, 312, 316

  Hmong people, 501

  Hobby, Oveta Culp, 258, 260

  Ho Chi Minh, 180

  Hodges, Courtney, 214

  Hoffman, Paul, 77

  homosexuality, hostility toward, 126–27

  Honduras, 163, 164–65, 166

  Hong Kong, 177

  Hoover, Herbert, xvii, 42, 50, 77, 116, 254, 258, 266, 293

  Hoover, Herbert, Jr., 327, 330, 335, 338

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 127, 129, 509

  black activists linked to communists by, 235, 236, 239

  Hotel Theresa, Harlem, 486–87

  House of Commons, British, 197, 320, 326, 337

  House of Representatives, U.S., 34

  Civil Rights Act of 1957 in, 357

  Committee on Un-American Activities of, 120

  Foreign Affairs Committee of, 344

  Judiciary Committee of, 241

  Public Works Committee of, 264

  see also Congress, U.S.

  Housing Act (1954), 261

  Housing and Home Finance Agency, 261

  Hughes, Charles Evans, 60

  Hughes, Emmet, 40, 92, 96, 299, 319, 321–22, 330, 391, 408

  Hull, John, 460

  Humanité, L’, 277

  Humphrey, George M., 92, 99–100, 154, 186, 206, 207, 255, 256, 284, 285, 290, 333, 335, 338, 346, 417

  named treasury secretary, 88–89

  Humphrey, Hubert, 350, 404, 412, 418

  Hungarian Revolution (1956), 313–17, 320–21, 323, 328–29, 331, 431, 454

  Hunt, Lester, 135

  hydrogen bomb, 94, 114, 146, 168, 197, 271

  Hyland, Lawrence A., 459

  Inchon, 48, 53

  India, 180, 184, 430

  Indochina, xvii, 178, 340

  in creation of French colonialism, 179–80

  Japanese conquest of, 180

  Indochina War, First, 176–77, 268, 340, 489, 516

  China’s possible military intervention in, 191, 195–96

  Chinese aid in, 176, 180, 184, 190, 194

  Chinese and Soviet desire for end to, 202

  DDE’s proposed Asia security coalition in, 189–94, 196–99, 201

  DDE’s refusal to commit U.S. troops to, 189

  DDE’s rejection of unilateral military intervention in, 185–86, 196, 199, 202, 209

  Dien Bien Phu battle in, 187–88, 193, 195, 198, 199, 200, 209

  growing French public opposition to, 182, 186, 188

  Navarre and, 182–83, 184–85, 198

  U.S. aid in, 176, 180–81, 182–84

  U.S. technicians in, 186

  Indonesia, 178, 184, 443

  CIA-backed coup attempted in, 435–38, 516

  inflation, 50

  infrastructure, 517

  Insurrection Act (1807), 369

  intelligence agencies, U.S.:

  DDE’s expansion of, xvii, 109

  Truman and buildup of, 150, 151

  see also specific agencies

  intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), 170, 171, 174, 378, 380, 384, 385, 386–87, 388, 398, 460

  intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs), 380, 387, 390

  Internal Revenue Act (1954), 256

  Internal Security Act (1950), 137

  International Monetary Fund (IMF), 131, 333, 336

  “interposition” thesis, 296–97

  Interstate Highway Act (1956), 264

  interstate highway system, xviii, 261–62

  Iran, 307, 430

  CIA-sponsored coup in, 148–49, 157–61, 164, 167–68, 340, 516

  nationalization of oil industry in, 155

  oil reserves of, 154–56, 157

  supposed communist threat in, 153–54, 155, 156

  Iraq, 307

  isolationism, 50–51, 55–56

  Israel:

  in cease-fire agreement with Egypt, 332

  Nasser viewed as threat by, 309

  Sinai invasion of, 317–18, 327

  U.S. suspension of military aid to, 324

  Italy, 22, 25

  Allied invasion of, 20–21

  Iwo Jima, 91

  Jackson, Andrew, 371

  Jackson, C. D., 92, 96–97, 134

  Jackson, Henry, 377

  Jackson, Miss., 371

  Jackson, Robert, 223

  Japan, 17, 31, 54, 178, 180, 204

  Jenner, William, 75–76, 82, 83, 135, 138

  Jet, 212

  Jim Crow, see segregation

  Jodl, Alfred, 24

  Johnson, Andrew, xiii

  Johnson, Jim, 362

  Johnson, Louis, 48

  Johnson, Lyndon B., xiv, 200, 377–78, 379, 397, 513

  Civil Rights Act of 1957 and, 350–51, 352, 355, 356, 357–58, 359, 383

  “missile gap” hearings of, 382–83, 385–86

  in 1960 election, 476, 493–94

  Johnson, Robert H., 482

  Joint Chiefs of Staff, 91, 92, 104, 106, 181, 183, 331, 383, 401–2, 511

  Jones, Bobby, 43, 44

  Jones, Fanni, 274

  Jones, Howard P., 437, 438

  Jones, Joseph W., 44

  Jones, W. Alton, 43

  July 26 Movement, 443

  Jupiter-C missile, 386, 387, 388, 390, 392

  Justice Department, U.S., 222, 284

  Civil Rights Division of, 239, 349, 360

  Kashani, Abul-Qasim, 156

  Kaufman, Irving, 123

  Keating, Kenneth, 241

  Kefauver, Estes, 62, 63, 64, 73, 286

  Kempton, Murray, xiv

  Kennan, George, 509

  Kennedy, Jacqueline, 115r />
  Kennedy, John F., xii, xiii–xix, xx, 4, 257, 323, 350, 370, 381, 404, 420, 439, 455

  assassination of, 514

  briefed on anti-Castro plots, 504

  DDE’s policies attacked by, 397–98, 461, 471–72, 480, 488–89, 498

  DDE’s policies cribbed by, 472

  DDE’s pre-inauguraal briefings for, 497–98, 502

  F. Dulles’s meetings with, 490

  inauguration of, 509–10

  King arrest and, 490–91

  in 1960 election, 469–70, 471, 473, 476, 484, 488–94

  Kennedy, Robert F., 490–91, 499–500

  assassination of, 514

  named attorney general, 509

  Kennedy presidency:

  Bay of Pigs invasion and, 511–13

  civil rights and, 510

  cold war and, 510, 513

  continuity of Eisenhower administration and, 509–10, 514

  Laos and, 501, 502–3

  1961 State of the Union address of, 506–7

  South Vietnam and, 513

  Kennon, Robert, 224

  Key West, Fla., 285, 286

  Khrushchev, Nikita, xvii, 98, 379

  Berlin ultimatum of, 411–16, 422, 423–24, 429, 430

  Big Four summit and, 429

  Castro’s Harlem meeting with, 487

  Eastern European protests and, 314–15

  at Geneva summit, 275, 276, 277

  Humphrey’s meeting with, 412

  Hungarian Revolution and, 328

  in “kitchen debate” with Nixon, 419–20

  as leader of communist world, 411–12

  Macmillan’s meetings with, 414–15

  at 1960 UN meeting, 486–87

  peace gestures of, 269

  personality of, 411, 412–13, 414, 420

  and proposed foreign ministers’ meeting, 414

  as Soviet leader, 268–69

  Stalinism attacked by, 314

  U-2 downing and, 462, 463–64

  UN disarmament speech of, 427

  U.S. visit of, 418–19, 421–22, 424–26, 456, 459, 516

  Khrushchev, Sergei, 419, 424, 463, 464

  Killian, James R., 169–73, 278, 381, 392–93, 394

  Killian Report, 170–71, 386

  Kilpatrick, James J., 296–97

  Kim Il-sung, 105

  King, Coretta Scott, 489

  King, J. C., 451

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 236, 237, 242, 373–74

  assassination of, 514

  Atlanta arrest of, 490

  on Civil Rights Act, 360

  DDE’s ignoring of pleas from, 345–46

  DDE’s Little Rock intervention praised by, 371

  Montgomery arrest of, 374

  Nixon’s meeting with, 345

  Kirkuk, Iraq, 326, 346

  Kistiakowsky, George, 474

  Knowland, William, 71, 78, 135, 139, 144, 192, 200, 203, 285, 349, 352, 358

  Kohler, Walter J., 80, 81

  Korea, xvii, 178, 187

  DDE’s trip to, 90–92

  Korean War, xi, xv, 47–49, 50, 53–55, 63, 68, 82, 96, 99, 101, 121, 152, 157, 180, 255, 268, 516

  armistice in, 105–7, 182

  China in, 48, 53–54, 68, 104, 195

  DDE and, 90–93, 102–7

  nuclear option in, 92, 103–4, 105, 106

  Soviet Union and, 104

  Kozlov, Frol, 419

  Krock, Arthur, 34, 41, 266, 378, 392

  Ku Klux Klan, 242

  La Guardia, Fiorello, 27

  Lake, I. Beverly, 231

  Land, Edwin, 171, 172–73, 393, 394

  Langer, William, 135, 190

  Langlie, Arthur, 70

  Laniel, Joseph, 110, 183, 195

  Lansdale, Edward, 439–40, 504, 505

  Lansing, Robert, 149

  Lansky, Meyer, 443

  Laos, 179, 185, 187, 203, 204, 436, 500–503, 516

  JFK and, 510

  Phoumi coup in, 501

  U.S. aid to, 501

  Larmon, Sigurd, 59

  Larson, Arthur, 300, 304, 370, 381

  Latin America, Nixon’s 1958 tour of, 418

  Lausche, Frank, 290

  League of Nations, 150, 274

  Lebanon, U.S. troops sent to, 399, 401

  Lee, George W., 213, 234

  Lee, Thomas, 432

  LeMay, Curtis, 379

  Lemnitzer, Lyman, 511

  Lennox-Boyd, Alan, 309

  Leviero, Anthony, 140

  Lewis, Anthony, 242, 361

  Life, 59, 103, 301, 302–3, 305, 376, 444, 445, 446, 450

  Lincoln, Abraham, 371, 477, 516

  Link, Arthur, 516

  Lippmann, Walter, 63–64, 139, 322, 378, 381, 420

  Little, Lou, 37

  Little Rock, Ark., school desegregation battle in, xviii, 348, 360–61, 376, 404

  Arkansas National Guard in, 362–63, 365, 366–67

  Brownell and, 365, 366, 367, 368, 372–73

  DDE’s equivocation on, 361, 364–65

  Faubus and, 361–63, 364–68, 369, 371, 373

  federalizing of National Guard in, 369–70, 372

  media and, 363, 367, 368

  mob attack on black reporters in, 368

  101st Airborne in, 369–70, 371, 372

  Little Rock Nine, 370, 372, 374

  Lloyd, Selwyn, 313, 332, 337

  Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 56–58, 70, 71, 72, 142, 316, 319, 328, 427–28, 478

  Logevall, Fredrik, 179

  London, 22, 26–27

  DDE’s 1959 trip to, 422–23

  Long, Russell, 297

  Los Alamos, 122–23

  Los Angeles, Calif., Khrushchev’s visit to, 427–28

  Los Angeles Times, 79–80, 182, 322, 388, 392, 400

  Louisiana, 233

  Lovett, Robert A., 90, 91, 94

  Lowry Air Force Base, 279

  Luce, Clare Boothe, 39–40, 328–29

  Luce, Henry R., 40, 59, 439, 444

  Luciano, Lucky, 443

  Lucy, Autherine, 237, 297

  Lumumba, Patrice, 480, 481

  overthrow and murder of, 483–84

  Lunik II moonshot, 424, 425

  Lusitania, 9

  M16, 156

  MacArthur, Douglas, 13–16, 17, 23, 26, 32, 34, 48, 53–54, 71, 92, 181, 213

  address to Congress of, 54–55

  Bonus Army attacked by, 14

  relieved of command, 54

  MacArthur, Douglas, II, 193

  McCarran, Pat, 121, 126, 127

  McCarran Act, 121

  McCarthy, Joseph, 34, 54, 68, 119, 129, 227, 268

  army dossier on, 140–41, 144, 145

  army investigated by, 120, 137–38

  Bohlen attacked by, 125–28

  DDE and, 76, 80–83

  F. Dulles’s denunciation of, 134

  Flanders’s denunciation of, 144

  Marshall attacked by, 75–76, 80

  Nixon’s condemnation of, 140

  Senate allies of, 135–36

  Senate’s censure of, 144–45

  State Department attacked by, 121–22, 125, 126–27

  McCarthyism, 430, 431

  DDE’s response to, 119–20, 125–47

  McCormack, John, 192, 193

  McCrary, John “Tex,” 60

  McElroy, Neil, 388, 394, 397, 403, 458, 459, 461

  McGrory, Mary, 74

  McLaurin, George, 221

  Macmillan, Harold, 274, 275, 276, 309, 311, 332, 333, 336, 400, 402, 418, 422–23

  Berlin issue and, 413–16

  Big Four summit and, 423, 467

  McNamara, Robert, 509

  McPherson, Harry, 135

  Mafia, in Castro assassination plot, 485

  Mahon, George H., 100

  Mailer, Norman, xiii

  “Main Trends in Soviet Capabilities and Politics, 1957–1962” (National Intelligence Estimate), 380

  Malaya, 178, 180, 436

  Malcolm X,
486

  Malenkov, Georgy, 96, 98

  Manchester Union Leader, 36, 63

  Mann, Woodrow Wilson, 368

  Mansfield, Mike, 404, 439, 470

  Mansfield, Tex., 300–301

  Mao Zedong, 180, 205, 207, 379, 400–401

  Marshall, George C., 12, 16–18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 29, 31, 34, 48, 122, 125, 213

  as DDE’s mentor, 83

  McCarthy’s attacks on, 75–76, 80

  Marshall, Thurgood, 217, 221, 226, 231, 232, 234, 367

  Marshall Plan, 50, 55

  Martin, Joseph W., Jr., 54, 192

  Matsu, 205, 206, 207, 208, 403

  Matthews, Herbert L., 444

  Mattingly, Thomas, 281

  media:

  Castro as viewed by, 444, 445, 446, 447, 448, 450

  civil rights movement and, 346

  DDE’s Indochina inaction criticized by, 200, 201

  DDE’s treatment by, xii–xiii, xiv, 21, 68, 382, 396–97, 404, 406, 421

  Little Rock desegregation battle and, 363, 367, 368

  Mediterranean, U-2 overflights of, 317

  “Meeting the Threat of a Surprise Attack” (Killian Report), 170–71

  Meet the Press (news program), 298

  Mendès-France, Pierre, 182, 183, 203

  Merchant, Livingston, 503, 505

  Meredith, James, 510

  Michigan, University of, 7

  middle class, 1950s prosperity of, 252–54

  Middle East:

  Britain and, 307, 311–12

  Nasser’s influence in, 399

  oil reserve of, 154, 157, 160, 307, 309, 339

  Soviet influence in, 310, 336–40, 377, 473

  Suez Crisis as contest between U.S. and Europe for influence in, 338

  U.S. policy on, 338–40, 399

  Middleton, Drew, 278

  Middle Way, 265–67

  MiG fighters, 331

  Milam, J. W., 212–13

  military, U.S.:

  appropriations for, xvii, 48, 49–50, 99–102

  desegregation of, 213–14, 215, 216, 217–18, 224, 234

  interservice rivalry in, 32, 383, 384, 387, 391, 394, 395

  Military Academy, U.S. (West Point), 8

  military-industrial complex:

  DDE’s farewell address warning about, 507–8, 512

  Eisenhower presidency in creation of, 109–10, 149, 173, 394, 508

  Miller, William “Fishbait,” 391

  Miller, William Lee, 245

  Millikin, Eugene, 192

  Mills, C. Wright, 89

  Minton, Sherman, 223

  Minuteman missile, 388

  “missile gap,” 378, 379–81, 396, 397, 406, 458, 460, 461

  Senate hearings on, 382–83, 385–86, 404

  missile program, Soviet, 431

  A. Dulles’s congressional testimony on, 461

  ICBMs in, 378, 380, 398–99, 460

  intermediate-range missiles in, 380, 399

  Khrushchev’s claims in, 459–60

  Lunik II moonshot in, 424, 425

  Sputnik launched by, 373, 376–79, 381–82, 383, 384, 389, 390–91, 392, 394, 397, 398, 404, 406, 411, 516

  U-2 intelligence on, 384

 

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