New York Daily News, 10.1, 10.2, 21.1
New Yorker, 2.1, 2.2, 21.1, 25.1
New York Herald Tribune, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 8.1, 16.1, 17.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
New York Post, 2.1, 13.1, 13.2, 21.1
New York State, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1
New York Times, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 21.5, 21.6, 21.7, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 24.1, 25.1
Ngo Dinh Diem, 16.1, 24.1
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Nixon, Richard M., itr.1, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 6.1, 21.1, 21.2, 25.1, 26.1
Nokes, George
North American Aviation, 10.1, 10.2
North American Newspaper Alliance
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 8.1, 8.2, 16.1
North Carolina
North Dakota, 3.1, 8.1
Novak, Robert, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 17.1, 20.1, 21.1, 22.1, 23.1
NSAM, 9.1, 16.1, 21.1
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Obama, Barack, 21.1, 23.1
O’Brien, Elva
O’Brien, Lawrence F., 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 19.1
discharge petition and, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 23.1
in JFK-LBJ transition, 13.1, 16.1, 25.1
U.S.-Soviet wheat deal and, 16.1, 16.2
O’Donnell, Kenneth, itr.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1, 21.1, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1, 26.1
Hughes appointment and
in JFK-LBJ transition, 13.1, 16.1, 25.1
JFK’s assassination and, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 21.1
and JFK’s instructions on treatment of LBJ, 7.1, 7.2
JFK’s ranch visit and, 10.1, 10.2
and vice-presidency offer to LBJ, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 6.1
Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
Of Thee I Sing (Gershwin), 4.1
Ohio, 3.1, 5.1, 9.1
Oklahoma, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 9.1
Oltorf, Frank C. “Posh,” 9.1, 10.1, 11.1
Omnibus
O’Neill, Thomas P., Jr. “Tip,”
On the Waterfront (film), 8.1
Operation Mongoose, 8.1, 24.1, 24.2
Operations Plan 34–A-64 (OPLAN 34–A), 16.1, 21.1
Oregon, 3.1, 3.2
organized labor, 20.1, 20.2
1960 election and, 3.1, 3.2
presidential transition and
vice-presidency offer to LBJ opposed by, 4.1, 4.2
O’Sullivan, Ulrick
Oswald, Lee Harvey, itr.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2, 24.1, 24.2
murder of, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
Other America, The (Harrington), 21.1
Oval Office, 17.1, 19.1
Cuban Missile Crisis conference in
iconic aura of
LBJ in
origin of
size and shape of
Pace, Frank
Park Chung Hee
Parr, George Berham, 3.1, 5.1
Patman, Wright, 1.1, 4.1
Patterson, Eugene
Patterson, Floyd
Peace Corps, itr.1, 8.1, 12.1, 13.1, 16.1, 18.1, 21.1
Pearl Harbor attack, 8.1, 16.1, 17.1
Pearson, Drew, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1
Pearson, Lester
Peek, Scott
Pennsylvania, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1
Pentagon Papers
People’s Party, U.S.
Perry, Arthur
Petroleum Club
Philadelphia Inquirer
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Phinney, Carl L.
Pierpoint, Robert
Poland
poll tax
Porter, Paul
Post Office Department, U.S.
Potter, Phil, 21.1, 21.2
poverty, 21.1, 21.2
in LBJ’s childhood, 21.1, 21.2
in State of the Union address, 21.1, 21.2
see also War on Poverty
Powers, Dave, 2.1, 2.2, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2
Prendergast, Mike, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1
Prendergast, Tom
presidential transition of 1963
achievement of
anxiety and
assessment of
Cabinet meetings in, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1
civil rights leadership and
congressional address in
congressional leadership and, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 16.1
continuity theme of, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 24.1, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 26.1
economic team meeting in
foreign policy in, 13.1, 16.1
JFK’s funeral in
JFK’s martyrdom and
joint session of Congress in
Kennedy Administration’s legislation and, 13.1, 16.1
Kennedy staff in, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 16.1, 16.2
labor union leadership in
LBJ’s in-command demeanor in, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1, 16.2, 26.1
LBJ’s letter to JFK’s children and
LBJ’s sense of inferiority and insecurity in
lying in state period in
machinery of government in
media coverage of, 15.1, 15.2
memorial service in
national day of mourning in, 15.1, 16.1
in previous administrations, 4.1, 13.1, 13.2
state governors conference in
success of
television medium in
time constraint factor in
of Truman
viewing of JFK’s coffin in
world leaders and, 16.1, 16.2
President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime
Profiles in Courage (John F. Kennedy), 25.1
Profumo, John
Provence, Harry, 10.1, 16.1
Proxmire, William, 4.1, 6.1
Pryor, “Cactus,” 21.1, 21.2
PT-59, 2.1, 16.1
PT-109, 2.1, 2.2
Purdue University
Pursuit of Happiness, The (film), 2.1
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Mary
Quorum Club, 10.1, 10.2
Randolph, A. Philip, 20.1, 20.2
Rather, Mary
Rauh, Joseph L., Jr., 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 13.1, 23.1
Rayburn, Sam, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 7.1, 8.1, 12.1, 16.1, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2
decline and death of
Hughes appointment and
vice-presidency offer to LBJ opposed by, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9
Read, Benjamin H.
Reardon, Ted
Redbook
Reedy, George, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 19.1, 21.1, 21.2, 25.1, 25.2, 26.1
Baker scandal and, 10.1, 10.2
on Johnson-Kennedy feud, 3.1, 8.1
on LBJ, 1.1, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
on 1957 civil rights bill, 1.1, 1.2
1960 campaign and, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 5.1
St. Augustine incident and
vice president’s role memo of
on wheat deal
Reich, Charles
Rembert, Clyde
Reporter, The, 8.1, 19.1, 21.1
Republican National Convention of 1964, 23.1, 23.2
Republican Party, U.S., 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 16.1, 20.1, 20.2
Reston, James, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 24.1, 25.1, 25.2
Reuther, Walter, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 9.1, 16.1
Reynolds, Don B., 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 1
1.2, 20.1, 26.1
Senate testimony of, 11.1, 11.2
Reynolds, John
Riata Club
Ribicoff, Abe, 4.1, 4.2, 19.1, 22.1
Richardson, Sid, 1.1, 3.1, 9.1
Richmond TimesDispatch
Riley, John J.
Roberts, Chalmers, 16.1, 19.1
Roberts, Charles, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2
Roberts, Emory, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
Roberts, Juanita, 9.1, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 17.1, 20.1, 22.1
Roberts, Owen
Robertson, A. Willis
Rockefeller, Nelson
Rogers, William P.
Rolvaag, Karl
Rometsch, Ellen, 10.1, 10.2
Romney, George
Roncalio, Teno, 3.1, 3.2
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1.1, 3.1
Roosevelt, Franklin D., itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1, 19.1, 21.1, 21.2
Byrd and
court-packing scheme of
death of
Harry Byrd and
Oval Office and, 17.1, 17.2
Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr., 3.1, 8.1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 4.1, 13.1
Rose, Alex, 4.1, 4.2, 16.1
Ross, E. P.
Ross, Kitty Clyde
Rotary Club
Rovere, Richard, 18.1, 25.1
Rowan, Carl
Rowe, Elizabeth
Rowe, James H., Jr., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 16.1
Armageddon memo of
LBJ’s relationship with
1960 election and, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
and vice-presidency offer LBJ, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
Rowe, James M.
Rowley, James J.
Royal Highland Regiment
Ruby, Jack, 15.1, 17.1
Runyon, John W.
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
Rusk, Dean, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6, 16.7, 19.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 21.5, 25.1
Russell, Jan Jarboe
Russell, Richard Brevard, itr.1, 4.1, 6.1, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 19.2, 23.1, 24.1
civil rights issues and, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 9.1, 9.2, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 20.1, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3
Cuban Missile Crisis and, 8.1, 8.2
LBJ and, 1.1, 13.1, 16.1
LBJ’s power grab and, 6.1, 6.2
Warren Commission appointment of
Russell, Robert E. Lee, Jr.
Sackett, Russell
St. Augustine dinner, 9.1, 16.1
St. John, George
St. Lawrence Seaway project, 2.1, 2.2
St. Louis Argus
Salinger, Pierre, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 8.1, 12.1, 12.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 17.1, 22.1, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1, 25.2, 26.1
LBJ’s treatment of, 21.1, 25.1
resignation of
Saltonstall, Leverett
Samuelson, Paul
Sanders, Governor
Sanford, Terry, 9.1, 10.1
Saturday Evening Post, 2.1, 2.2, 19.1
Saxon, James J., 21.1, 21.2
Sayre, Francis B.
Scammon, Richard, 10.1, 21.1
Schary, Dore
Schell, Jonathan
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 9.1, 9.2, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 25.1, 25.2
on “dump Johnson” plans, 10.1, 10.2
in JFK-LBJ transition, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2
on JFK-RFK relationship
on LBJ-RFK relationship, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1
resignation of
RFK’s friendship with
Schreiber, G. R.
Schroeder, Gerhard
Schulberg, Budd
Schwerner, Michael
Scott, Paul
Scranton, William, 16.1, 25.1
Seaborg, Glenn T.
Second Bomb Wing, U.S.
Second Infantry Division, U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Seigenthaler, John, 3.1, 8.1, 8.2, 24.1
Senate, U.S., itr.1, itr.2, 2.1, 6.1, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 17.1, 18.1, 19.1, 26.1
Agriculture Committee of
Appropriations Committee of, 9.1, 18.1, 19.1
Armed Services Committee of, 8.1, 18.1, 19.1
Baker scandal reaction in
Banking Committee of
civil rights bill in, 23.1, 23.2
cloture vote in
in Constitution
court-packing proposal and
Democratic Campaign Committee of, 3.1, 16.1
Democratic Steering Committee of, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 10.1, 19.1
filibuster rule of, 3.1, 4.1, 9.1, 18.1, 18.2
Finance Committee of, 10.1, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3
Foreign Relations Committee of, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 10.1, 13.1, 16.1
Government Operations Committee of
Judiciary Committee of, 3.1, 10.1, 17.1, 19.1, 23.1
Labor Committee of
LBJ as Majority Leader of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 18.1
LBJ’s power grab in
Naval Affairs Committee of
1958 election and
quorum call tactic of
Rackets Committee of, 3.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Reynolds’s testimony to, 11.1, 11.2
Rules Committee of, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 26.1
tax bill passed by
U.S.-Soviet wheat deal in, 16.1, 16.2, 20.1, 23.1
vice president’s constitutional powers and
see also Congress, U.S.; House of Representatives, U.S.
Serv-U Corporation, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
Sevareid, Eric
Seventh Heavy Bomb Wing, U.S.
Seward, William H., 6.1, 7.1, 12.1
Shakespeare, William, 8.1, 8.2, 13.1
Shannon, William V., 2.1, 13.1, 16.1, 18.1, 21.1
Shesol, Jeff, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2
Shoup, David M.
Shreveport Journal
Shreveport Times
Shriver, Sargent, 8.1, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1
Sidey, Hugh, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 26.1
Siegel, Gerry
Sihanouk, Prince
Sinclair, Ivan
Smathers, George, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 22.1
Smith, Alfred E., 1.1, 3.1
Smith, E. Babe
Smith, Howard J., 9.1, 13.1, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6, 20.7, 23.1, 23.2, 25.1
Smith, Jean Kennedy, 3.1, 15.1, 24.1
Smith, Merriman, 12.1, 13.1
Smith, Stephen, 9.1, 10.1
Social Science Research Council
Social Security, 18.1, 21.1
So Relle, Ella
Sorensen, Stephen
Sorensen, Theodore, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 20.1, 21.1, 23.1, 25.1
Cuban Missile Crisis and, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Edwards episode and
on JFK-LBJ relationship
in JFK-LBJ transition, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
LBJ’s joint session speech and
1964 State of the Union address and, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4
resignation of
in War on Poverty, 21.1, 21.2
South Carolina
South Dakota
Southern Caucus, itr.1, 1.1, 17.1, 18.1, 23.1
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
Soviet Union, itr.1, itr.2, 8.1, 8.2, 13.1, 13.2, 17.1, 17.2, 26.1
Sputnik launched by, 3.1, 7.1
U-2 incident and
Spalding, Charles, 8.1, 8.2, 14.1, 24.1
Spivack, Robert G.
Springer, Elizabeth B., 19.1, 22.1
Sputnik, 3.1, 6.1, 8.1
Staats, Elmer
Standard-Times
State Department, U.S., 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 17.1, 19.1, 21.1, 24.1
appropriations bill and
U.S.-Soviet wheat deal and
State of the Union address of 1964, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 26.1
budget in, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
civil rights in
community action concept in
foreign policy in
LBJ’s childhood poverty and, 21.1, 21.2
media reaction to
poverty theme of, 21.1, 21.2
precedents of
Republican reaction to
RFK and
Vietnam conflict in
Steakly, Zollie
Steele, John L., 1.1, 3.1, 7.1, 16.1
LBJ described by
Stegall, Mildred, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1
Stehling, Arthur
Steven, William P.
Stevenson, Adlai E., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Stevenson, Coke
stock market crash of 1929
Stokes, Thomas L.
Stone, Harlan
Stoughton, Cecil, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Strategic Air Command, 8.1, 17.1, 21.1
Students Speak for Civil Rights
Sukarno, Achmed
Supreme Court, U.S., 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 17.1, 17.2
Roosevelt’s court-packing scheme and, 4.1, 18.1
Sutton, Billy
Swindal, Jim, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 15.1
Symington, Stuart, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Taft, Robert A., 1.1, 18.1
Taft, William Howard
Taft-Hartley Act
Talmadge, Herman, 16.1, 23.1, 23.2
tax cut bill, 16.1, 16.2, 18.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 23.1, 25.1
amendments to, 19.1, 22.1
Byrd and, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 18.1, 18.2, 20.1, 20.2, 22.1, 22.2
Majority Report on
Senate passage of
stalemate on, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
Taylor, Antonio
Taylor, Hobart, 3.1, 9.1
Taylor, Maxwell, 8.1, 16.1
Taylor, Zachary, 1.1, 4.1
television, 2.1, 15.1
JFK assassination on, itr.1, 13.1
JFK’s funeral on
LBJ’s joint session address on
Oswald’s death covered by
Tennessee
Territo, Dorothy
Texas, 4.1, 8.1, 16.1, 17.1
Democratic Party of
discharge petition votes of
Kennedy staff’s hatred of
in LBJ’s southern campaign tour
LBJ’s waning influence in
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