Blaik, Earl, 227
Blaik-Royall mission, 181–82, 187, 190, 227
Blaine, Gerald, 311–14
Boggs, Hale, 288, 325, 330
Bohlen, Charles “Chip,” 30, 54, 129, 353
Bolton, Frances, 50
Booker, Simeon, 181
Boring, Floyd, 311–14
Bouck, Robert, 23, 24
Boutwell, Albert, 181, 189, 227
Bradford, William, 307–8
Bradlee, Ben, 4, 129
and Baker scandal, 246, 249, 276, 284
conversations with, 98, 127, 172, 246–47
Conversations with Kennedy, 172
and friendship, 127, 146, 171
and JFK interviews, 34, 127, 132, 139
and Johnson, 139, 295, 356
socializing with, 169, 170, 246, 249, 271, 284, 286, 298, 361
Bradlee, Tony, 169, 171, 194, 246, 284, 286, 361
Brandon, Henry, 338, 362
Brinkley, David, 158, 270, 359
Broder, David, 155, 335
Brown v. Board of Education, 8
Bruce, Preston, 108
Bruno, Jerry, 193, 195, 198, 200, 201, 344
Bryant, Traphes, 295
Buchan, John, Pilgrim’s Way, 18
Buchwald, Art, 348
Bundy, McGeorge, 129n, 227, 292, 330
and coup, 118, 119, 213, 254, 271, 272, 273, 279
and Cuba, 283, 291, 321, 357
and JFK’s death, 350
and Johnson, 355, 359, 360
and Laos, 57
as National Security Adviser, 27, 57, 90, 359
and Vietnam, 60, 90, 118, 119, 121, 166, 206, 207, 208, 213, 217, 254, 279, 359–60
Bundy, William, 206, 208
Burke, Arleigh, 58
Burkley, George, 32, 35–36, 38, 39, 121, 296
Burns, James MacGregor, 10, 352–53
Busby, Horace, 334
Calhoun, John C., 84
Campbell, Judith, 83
Camp David, 230, 233, 263
Cannon, Jim, 34, 132, 139
Cape Canaveral Space Center, 305–9
Carter, Jimmy, 350
Cassini, Oleg, 16, 83, 254, 297, 301
Castro, Fidel, 96, 134, 332
and Bay of Pigs, 6, 210
and CIA, 192, 283–84, 290–91, 322
and Johnson administration, 357–58
and media interviews, 67, 191
and missile crisis, 251–52
and secret negotiations, 183–84, 191–92, 195, 250, 251–52, 283–84, 290–91, 315–16, 319, 322, 327, 354
and Soviet Union, 183, 191, 192, 251, 252, 283, 316
Castro, Raoul, 191
Celebrezze, Anthony, 155, 311
Celler, Emmanuel, 180
Chaffee, John, 169–70
Chase, Gordon, 191–92, 283, 321–22, 357–58
Chen, Toy Lin, 156n
Chessman, Caryl, ix
China:
and atomic bomb, 159
recognition of (Communist), 167
trade with, 328, 354
and UN, 319–20
and Vietnam, 55, 57
Christina (yacht), 89, 120
Chuong, Tran Van, 65, 66
Churchill, Randolph, 222–23
Churchill, Winston, 89, 128, 129, 130–31, 134, 146
CIA:
and Bay of Pigs, 6, 58
and cold war, 165
and Cuba, 184, 192, 283–84, 290–91, 322, 348
and Vietnam coup, 106, 117–18, 143, 248, 271
White House bugged by, 23
Citizens Committee for a Nuclear Test Ban, 22
civil rights, 107–16, 286
in Birmingham, 111–12, 114, 115, 161, 172–73, 174, 180–81, 184, 188–89, 227, 233, 246
FEPC, 114, 115, 234, 269
Freedom Riders, 111
and the Golden Rule, 315
“I have a dream . . . ,” 108–9
JFK’s speeches on, 8–9, 10–11, 77, 107
leaders in the movement, 24
legislation, 24, 29, 107–8, 109, 111–14, 115–16, 155, 178, 180–82, 190, 195, 210, 223, 233, 234, 249, 255, 268–70, 274–75, 301, 311, 320, 354, 355, 356, 361, 362
March on Washington, 107–9, 114
military integrated, 110, 181, 190
Northern liberals vs., 113, 155, 270, 274–75
and race riots, 181
and reelection, 320–21
school desegregation, 8, 111, 190, 301
Southern Democrats vs., 112–13
Southern Strategy (GOP) vs., 270
voting rights, 111
“We Shall Overcome,” 108
White House meeting with leaders, 109, 113–16
Clark, Blair, 108
Clifford, Clark, 27, 30, 275–76, 358–59
Clifton, Chester, 49, 70, 121, 138, 147, 287
Cohen, Eugene, 34, 35, 36–38, 39
Coit, Margaret, 84–86, 354
Colby, William, 271
cold war:
and arms race, 8, 13, 103, 158, 164–68, 301
and Berlin, 58, 89, 165, 217, 250, 284, 290, 358, 360
containment in, 268
and Cuba, see Cuba
and détente, 30, 93–95, 101–2, 104–5, 160, 165, 183, 215, 221, 226–27, 239, 253, 303, 321, 349, 354
and disarmament, 103
domino theory in, 55, 56, 58, 60, 158
four safeguards in, 23
nuclear threat in, 7–8, 9, 10, 18, 57, 58, 93, 158, 164–66, 197, 198, 215, 217, 239, 251, 293
prevention, 100–101
and space race, see space race
test ban treaty, 9, 13, 21–23, 28–29, 30–31, 49, 77, 80, 81, 88, 93, 99–101, 104, 158–60, 165, 194, 196, 197, 198–200, 211, 214–16, 225–27, 238, 239, 284–85, 354, 362
U.S. first strike in, 165–66
and Vietnam, 55–57
Committee Against the Treaty of Moscow, 99
Conein (CIA officer), 281
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 8
Connally, John, 95, 359
and JFK’s Texas tour, 211–12, 321, 330, 344
and Johnson, 330, 334–35
and motorcade, 332, 344–45
and Yarborough, 321, 330, 333, 334–35, 341–42
Coolidge, Calvin, 149, 194
Cooper, Chester, 208
Cooper, Gordon, 305, 334
Cormier, Frank, 185–86
Cousins, Norman, 9–10, 22, 93–94
Cowan, Jill, 83
Crespi, Countess Vivian Stokes, 185
Cronkite, Walter, 135–37, 143, 158, 270–71, 347, 359
Crosby, Bing, 201
Cuba:
Bay of Pigs, see Bay of Pigs
exiles from, 18–19, 191–92, 285, 290–91, 312
Guantánamo Bay, 96
and JFK’s death, 348–49, 357–58
Khrushchev’s visit to, 102
secret U.S. negotiations with, 183–84, 190–92, 251, 283–84, 315–16, 321–22, 327–28, 354
Soviet missiles in, 6, 7, 10, 18, 38, 59, 88, 91, 93, 95, 97–98, 121, 133, 134, 150, 151, 159, 197, 225, 251–52, 360
as Soviet problem, 251, 290
U.S. naval blockade of, 59, 97, 184, 215, 290–91, 327
and U.S. terrorist plans, 94–98
Curry, Jesse, 344
Cushing, Cardinal Richard, 19, 287
Custer, George Armstrong, 199
Daar, Aden, 206
Daley, Richard, 269, 347
Dallas:
anniversary of, 356
as dangerous pla
ce, 210, 212, 253, 255, 283, 325, 330, 339
JFK’s planned trip to, 212, 247, 255, 283, 316, 324, 325
JFK urged to skip, 210, 211, 253, 255, 283, 301, 324, 327, 347
Kennedys’ visit to, 342–46
memories of, 128
Stevenson’s visit to, 253, 254, 255, 283, 301, 325, 347
Dallas, Rita, 152
Dalton, Mark, 16, 131
Daniel, Jean, 250–52, 255, 291, 315, 321, 327, 357
Daniel, Price, 330
Darlington, Charles, 329
Daw Mya Sein, 228
Dealey, Ted, 339
Decker, Bill, 344
Decker, George, 58
de Gaulle, Charles, 101, 128, 237, 241, 250–51, 255, 349
de Kooning, Elaine, JFK portraits by, ix–xi, xiii, 326, 327, 350, 362
de Kooning, Willem, ix
DeLoach, Cartha, 262
Democratic National Committee (DNC), 291
De Niro, Robert, Sr., ix
Desta, Ruth, 205–6
Dickerson, Nancy, 65, 67, 228–29
Diem, Ngo Dinh, 136–37
and Buddhists, 76, 78, 136, 137
and Cable 243, 90–91, 92, 105–6, 117, 270, 271
and coup, 66, 92, 105–6, 118, 143, 162, 176–77, 206, 213, 248–49, 270–73, 279–81
death of, 280–81, 282
and Nhu, 62, 65, 142, 143
U.S. support of, 56, 59, 61, 143, 187, 292
and Vietnam War, 54, 63, 137, 143, 161, 177, 188
Dietrich, Marlene, 162–63, 280
Dillon, Douglas, 27, 110, 159, 179, 327
Dirksen, Everett, 201
and Adams case, 25–26, 120
and Baker scandal, 218, 266–68, 275
and civil rights bill, 28, 29, 356
and test ban treaty, 23, 28, 29, 30–31, 158–59, 214
Dixon, George, 119
Dobrynin, Anatoly, 101–2
and JFK’s death, 357
and joint lunar venture, 104, 160, 175
and Khrushchev, 93, 94–95, 100, 303, 357
and secret contacts, 93, 98, 100, 102, 105, 224
Don, General (Vietnam), 271, 272
Donald, David Herbert, 130
Donovan, James, 191–92
Douglas, Kirk, 98, 349
Douglas, William O., 326
Douglas-Home, Sir Alec, 215, 349
Douglas-Home, Robin, 303
Drummond, Roscoe, 164, 167
Dryden, Hugh, 307
Duffy, La Verne, 79, 81, 355
Dugger, Ronnie, 343
Duke, Angier Biddle, 138, 254
Dulles, Allen, 165
Dulles, John Foster, 55
Eastland, James, 113
Eban, Abba, 353
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 44, 108, 242, 258
and Adams, 25–26, 28, 29, 30, 49
and cold war, 8, 28–29, 57
and Cuba, 6, 106, 358
and election, 354
and foreign aid, 236, 285
and Goldwater, 221
and health, 36, 37
historical ranking of, 132, 133
media stories about, 127, 244, 247, 253
and test ban treaty, 30–31
Eisenhower administration, 51, 178, 349
and civil rights, 112
and Vietnam, 55, 56, 60, 358
Elfand, Sam, 44
Eliot, T. S., 285
Elizabeth II, queen of England, 236
Ellison, Ralph, 286
Ellsberg, Daniel, 35n, 360
Emancipation Proclamation, 28
Estes, Thomas, 329
Europe:
colonial empire of, 285
and Marshall Plan, 285
U.S. troops in, 225, 250
Evans, Courtney, 79
Evers, Medgar, 112, 114, 174, 347
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC), 114, 115, 234, 269
“Family of Man” citation, 285
Farmer, James, 8
Fay, Anita, 5, 185
Fay, Paul “Red,” 5, 14, 43, 52, 58, 97, 98, 99, 139, 149, 154, 185, 276, 280
FBI:
and break-ins, 39
and civil rights, 174
and Hoover, 355
and JFK’s womanizing, 79, 80, 260–62
White House bugged by, 23, 24–25
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 135
Fitzgerald, Desmond, 290
Fitzgerald, John “Honey Fitz,” 27, 51, 139
Fitzgerald, Thomas, 27
Fleming, Ian, James Bond books by, 184–85, 250
Ford, Gerald R., 26
Forrestal, James V., 63
Forrestal, Michael V.:
and Cable 243, 90–91, 105–6, 117
and coup, 105, 106, 279, 282
and Vietnam travel, 62–63, 188, 322
Fra Giovanni, 89n
France:
and JFK’s death, 349–50
and Vietnam, 54–56, 59, 62, 360
Frankenheimer, John, 98
Fritchey, Clayton, 229
From Russia with Love (movie), 250
Frost, Robert, 10, 256–60
Fulbright, William, 35, 179
and test ban treaty, 22, 23, 49, 77, 214
warning about Dallas, 210, 211, 347
Furcolo, Foster, 27
Gagarin, Yuri, 102, 307
Galbraith, James K., 165
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 43, 59
Galitzine, Princess Irene, 231, 244–45, 255, 263, 265, 297
Gallagher, Mary, 69, 171, 224, 335, 336
Garbo, Greta, 297–98
Garfield, James, 149
Gary, Romain, 257
Germany:
Berlin in cold war, 58, 89, 165, 217, 250, 284, 290, 358, 360
Ich bin ein Berliner speech in, 4
Stasi (East Berlin), 80n
Getty, J. Paul, 247
Giancana, Sam, 83
Gilpatric, Roswell, 64, 91, 209, 244, 284, 350, 359
Glenn, John, 139
Goldberg, Arthur, 179
Golden Rule, 315
Goldfine, Bernard, 25
Gold Star Mothers, 196
Goldwater, Barry M., 199, 237
as cold war hawk, 22, 101
and 1964 campaign, 77, 144–45, 167, 197, 210–11, 221–22, 292–93, 320, 322, 331, 335, 356–57
and test ban treaty, 101, 196, 197
Gonzales, Henry, 331, 332, 333
Goodwin, Richard, 110, 197
Gordon, Kermit, 177, 247
Great Contemporaries (Churchill), 130–31
Green, William, 274
Greer, Bill, 313, 344, 345
Grissom, Gus, 305–6
Gromyko, Andrei, 102, 175, 183, 223, 224–27, 250
Gronouski, John, 145, 155, 167–68
Gross, H. R., 268
Guevara, Che, 67, 191
Guild of Apollonia, 14
Gullion, Edmund, xi, 50, 54, 63
Guthman, Edwin, 261, 262
Halberstam, David, 53, 65, 78, 117
Hall, Gus, 339
Halle, Kay, 43, 131, 222
Halleck, Charles, 249, 270, 356
Halsey, William “Bull,” 216
Hamilton, William, 189, 190
Harding, Warren G., 149
Harkins, Paul, 61, 117, 118, 143
Harriman, W. Averell, 184, 187–88, 348
and Cable 243, 90, 105, 106, 118
and Laos, 57
and test ban treaty, 160, 214, 354
and Vietnam, 63, 64, 90, 137, 1
58, 188, 282
Harris, Louis, 144
Harvard University:
JFK’s visit to, 239–41
presidential library at, 202, 288, 355, 362
Hassan, king of Morocco, 232, 238, 249
Hecksher, August, 257
Heller, Walter, 164, 177–78, 179–80, 221, 242–43, 311, 323, 356
Helms, Richard, 191, 283, 322
Henderson, Deirdre, 44
Hennessey, Luella, 40–41
Hersey, John, 3
Hill, Clint, 45, 90, 255
Hilsman, Roger, 276, 319, 326
and Cable 243, 90, 105, 106, 282
and Diem’s death, 280–81, 282
and Vietnam, 63, 137, 143, 158, 188
Hiroshima, Japan, 77
Hirsh, Jacqueline, 288–89
Hiss, Alger, 125
Hitler, Adolf, 96
Ho Chi Minh, 54, 56
Hodges, Luther, 9, 282
Honey Fitz (boat), 4, 91, 125, 154, 171, 185
Hoover, Herbert, 133
Hoover, J. Edgar, 23, 29, 38, 79, 261–62, 266–68, 275–76, 284, 355
Hopper, Edward, Nighthawks, 71
Howard, Lisa, 190–91, 192, 283, 291, 321–22
Humphrey, Hubert H., 347
Huntley, Chet, 158, 270, 359
Hyannis Port, Kennedy family houses in, 21, 42, 91–92
immigration:
anti-Irish prejudice, 51–52, 110
Jews and education, 115
JFK’s book on, 156–57
legislation, 155–57, 354, 355
and multiculturalism, 157
quota system of, 156, 157
Ireland, JFK’s trip to, 4–5, 42, 150, 169, 235, 312
Israel, 225
Jackson, Andrew, 129
Jackson, Henry M. “Scoop,” 22, 23, 158–60
Jacobson, Max, 35–36
Jefferson, Thomas, 132
Jefferson Memorial, 147
John Birch Society, 188n, 199
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 256
Johnson, Alexis, 326
Johnson, Lady Bird, 212, 219, 333, 335, 336
Johnson, Leon, 166
Johnson, Lyndon B., 31, 214, 221
and Baker, 218–19, 303, 318, 335
and Cuba, 358
and Dallas, 212, 316
and election campaigns, 34, 211, 212, 250, 291–92, 295, 302–3, 318, 330, 341
and goodwill trips, 140, 172
Great Society of, 355–56
and presidency, 127, 150, 154n, 287, 292, 318, 353, 355–57, 360
ranch of, 255, 319, 330, 335
and second term, 360
and Texas tour, 330, 333, 334–36, 337–38, 341
as vice president, 138–41, 210, 246, 292, 295, 330
and Vietnam, 292, 356, 358–60
and Yarborough, 316, 321, 330, 334–35, 337
Joint Chiefs of Staff:
and cold war, 165, 292
and Cuba, 58, 95–98
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