JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President

by Thurston Clarke

  JFK’s distrust of, 216

  and Operation Northwoods, 95–97, 100

  and test ban treaty, 23, 100, 160

  and Vietnam, 57–58, 59, 61, 63, 105–6, 143

  Katzenbach, Nicholas, 29–30, 311, 355

  Kaysen, Carl, 251

  Kazin, Alfred, xii–xiii, 125–27

  Keeler, Christine, 80, 81

  Kellerman, Roy, 341, 344, 346

  Kelly, Gene, 236

  Kennan, George, 268

  Kennedy, Arabella, 11, 73

  Kennedy, Caroline, 5, 108, 222

  birth of, 11, 40

  and her father, 21, 88, 150, 171, 195, 209, 230, 269, 296–97, 303, 329, 360

  and her mother, 237–38, 361

  in photographs, 71–72, 92, 286, 287, 361

  schooling of, 288–89

  Kennedy, Edward M. “Ted,” 5, 18, 21, 42, 51, 52, 136, 153

  Kennedy, Ethel, 69, 327

  Kennedy, Eunice, 152, 168, 264

  Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier:

  and Arabella, 11, 73

  arts and cultural interests of, 72, 254, 256, 289

  and Caroline, see Kennedy, Caroline

  and Dallas, 128, 342–46

  death of, 362

  and family gatherings, 152, 215

  fashion taste of, 43–44, 212, 328, 336, 342

  and Greek cruise, 89–90, 120, 148, 174–75, 201–2, 209, 220, 223, 230, 231–32, 247

  and health issues, 34, 36, 39

  and JFK’s death, 150, 346–49, 353, 360–62

  on JFK’s personality, xii, 16, 28, 69

  JFK’s relationship with, 4, 19, 45, 71, 83, 169, 231–32, 244, 287, 296, 299, 304, 331, 342, 361, 362

  and John Jr., see Kennedy, John F., Jr.

  and Johnson, 139, 255, 316, 357

  and media interviews, 248, 249, 326

  in Morocco, 232, 236

  in Newport, 172

  and Patrick, 4, 11–13, 17, 19, 40–41, 89, 235, 244, 255, 303, 304, 327

  personal traits of, 69–71

  photographs of, 21, 71–72, 286

  and politics, 279, 295, 318, 357

  and pregnancies, 5, 11, 22, 89

  and reelection, 250, 292, 304, 318, 321

  and Selassie’s visit, 205–6

  and Texas tour, 128, 247, 255, 304, 316, 321, 325, 328, 329, 331–32, 334–36, 338–46

  and Virginia house (Wexford), 43, 262–65, 286–87, 303

  and wedding anniversary, 163, 170–71

  Kennedy, Joan, 153

  Kennedy, John F.:

  achievements of, 353–54, 362

  ambition of, 129–30, 132, 354

  on art and civilization, 256–61

  assassination in thoughts of, 148–51, 253, 312, 316, 340

  assassination of, 346, 347–53, 361

  books read by, 72–74, 184–85

  childhood illness of, 14

  doodles and notes of, 17, 65–66, 114–15, 142, 325, 335

  election campaign (1960), 135–36, 199, 200, 332

  election of, 21, 110, 111, 130, 151

  and emotions, 17–19, 21, 31, 32, 70, 71

  and ethical standards, 26–30, 271, 285

  and fatherhood, 4, 5, 11, 171, 209–10, 215, 222, 230–31, 296–97, 303

  funeral of, 349–50, 357

  great men admired by, 83–84, 128–30, 178, 256, 285, 354

  health of, 32–39, 70, 82, 120, 129, 131, 137, 145, 151, 224, 235, 296, 353

  inauguration of, 18, 29, 57, 108, 130, 131, 256

  interest in history, 125–34, 136, 181, 225, 268, 281, 285, 355, 362

  international reactions to death of, 348–50

  media stories about, 34, 68–69, 87, 119, 126–27, 132, 139, 158, 301, 314–15, 320

  memoirs planned by, 24, 129, 258, 281–82, 355

  memorials to, 350–53

  and money matters, 43–44, 68

  nation mourning for, 347–53

  in the Navy, 44, 216, 217

  and Patrick’s death, 17–18, 31, 240, 244, 280, 303

  personal traits of, xii–xiii, 3, 6, 14–15, 68–71, 126, 224, 228–29, 267, 297, 343, 354

  portraits and photographs of, ix–xi, xiii, 21, 71–72, 91–92, 269, 286–87, 326, 327, 350, 362

  post–White House plans of, 154

  press conferences of, 76–77, 166–68, 221, 295, 299

  public image of, 7, 181, 224, 228, 293

  and Pulitzer Prize, 354, 355

  and reelection, 64, 144–45, 155, 178, 179, 183, 193, 196, 197, 200, 210–11, 221–22, 233–34, 260, 273–74, 291–94, 295, 317–18, 320–21, 330

  and religion, 16–17, 135, 199, 292, 354

  rituals and ceremonies, 146, 187, 214, 288, 290

  speeches by, 4, 7, 8–11, 28, 29, 56, 59, 77, 102, 107, 108, 130, 131, 160, 174, 175, 177, 178, 179, 182–83, 194–95, 196–200, 223, 239, 242, 256–61, 281, 285, 301–2, 307, 312, 315–16, 333, 354

  temper of, 41–42, 58

  in Texas, see Dallas; Texas

  and Vietnam, see Vietnam; Vietnam War

  and Western U.S. trip, 144–45, 193–201, 239

  womanizing of, 11, 15, 31, 35, 38, 70, 79–87, 129, 261–62, 275, 284

  Kennedy, John F., Jr., 222–23, 237

  birth of, 4, 11, 12, 18, 40, 89

  and his father, 4, 5, 171, 209–10, 269, 282, 296, 303, 329, 330, 360–61

  in photographs, 71–72, 220, 222, 230–31, 286, 287, 317, 361

  and salute, 287, 288, 361

  Kennedy, Joseph P., 14

  birthday party for, 151–54

  and family, 17, 19, 40, 42, 151–54, 269

  influence on JFK, 20, 27, 153, 241, 275, 284, 310

  and prejudice, 42, 51–52, 53

  stroke and incapacity of, 152, 153, 241

  and wealth, 42

  and women, 82, 163

  Kennedy, Joseph P., Jr., 18, 20–21, 150, 152, 217, 306, 325

  Kennedy, Kathleen, 21, 150, 152

  Kennedy, Patricia, 40

  Kennedy, Patrick:

  birth of, 3, 4, 11–12, 40

  death of, 17–18, 19, 21, 31, 45, 71, 88–89, 90, 148, 163, 171, 194, 201, 235, 240, 244, 280, 296, 303, 304, 327

  respiratory distress syndrome of, 12–14, 15–16

  Kennedy, Robert F.:

  and Adams, 25–26

  as attorney general, 26, 27, 29, 152

  and Baker, 219, 266–67

  and civil rights, 9, 113, 173, 181, 188, 234

  and Cuba, 184, 192, 322, 358

  and family matters, 11, 15

  and health issues, 40

  and his brother, xii, 4, 18, 144, 152, 215, 354–55, 362

  and his brother’s womanizing, 79–80, 81, 261–62

  and Johnson, 140, 302–3

  and Lodge, 50, 52

  and the presidency, 154

  and reelection, 291, 302–3

  resignation of, 355

  and Soviet Union, 94–95, 98, 285, 303

  and Texas tour, 283, 327, 334

  and Vietnam, 54, 55, 143, 206, 271, 282, 360

  and White House bugs, 23, 24

  and women, 229

  Kennedy, Rose, 40, 42–43, 73

  Kennedy, Rosemary, 20

  Kennedy family:

  photographs of, 71–72, 91–92, 151–52, 286–87

  as “royal family,” 254

  wealth of, 42–44, 194

  Kennedy Library, 202, 288, 355, 362

  Keynesian economics, 177

  Khiem, General, 117–18

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 72, 93–95, 200

  and arms race, 8, 94, 225

/>   and Berlin, 58, 89

  and Cuba, 59, 94–95, 102, 191, 192

  and détente, 93, 183, 225–27, 303, 321

  and Frost, 257

  and hotline, 93, 225

  and JFK’s death, 349, 354, 357

  secret contacts with, 9, 22, 59, 93, 105

  and space, 103, 223, 225

  and test ban treaty, 22, 93, 100–101, 160, 165, 225, 227

  and Vienna summit (1961), 16, 103, 357

  Khrushchev, Sergei, 100

  Kiernan, Thomas, 18, 52, 235

  King, Coretta Scott, 110

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 8, 24

  and Birmingham, 180, 184, 189, 227

  “I have a dream,” 108–9

  imprisonment of, 110

  and March on Washington, 107–9

  at White House meetings, 109–12, 181–82

  Klejman, John, 163–64, 170, 182

  Knebel, Fletcher, 27, 68–69

  and Seven Days in May, 95–99

  Knudsen, Robert, 185

  Kohler, Foy, 175

  Kraft, Joseph, 7

  Kraus, Hans, 37–39, 120–21, 138, 145, 235

  Krulak, Victor, 105, 106, 143, 161–62, 188, 206, 270

  Ku Klux Klan, 172, 227, 313

  Landis, James, 29–30, 119

  Lanigan, James, 113

  Laos, 57–58, 63, 75, 102, 159, 217, 360

  Lasky, Victor, JFK: The Man and the Myth, 159, 164, 167

  Lattre de Tassigny, Bernard de, 55

  Lawrence, David, 275

  Lawrence, William, 150

  Lawton, Agent, 313

  Lazarus, Emma, 157

  League of Nations, 22

  Lechuga, Carlos, 183–84, 190–92, 202, 283, 321, 357

  Lecouvreur, Adrienne, 73

  Lemass, Seán, 235–36

  LeMay, Curtis, 59, 95, 97–98, 99, 165

  Lemnitzer, Lyman, 57, 96, 165

  Lenin, V. I., 81, 129

  Lewis, Anthony, 234, 270

  Lewis and Clark, 103, 308

  Libonati, Roland, 269

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 30, 194, 214–16

  Lincoln, Abraham:

  assassination of, 130, 149, 348

  and cabinet, 61

  and civil rights, 109, 111

  and greatness, 128, 130, 132

  speeches of, 8, 17

  and White House, 361

  Lincoln, Evelyn, 24, 246, 281

  and election campaign, 144, 158, 291, 295–96, 313, 317, 318

  and family matters, 4, 5, 13–14, 17, 206, 209, 220, 269, 296–97

  and JFK’s privacy, xii, 296, 354–55

  notes and doodles saved by, 17, 115, 202, 261, 266, 269

  and Texas tour, 324, 329

  and White House visitors, 112, 162

  Lisager, Peter, 196, 200

  Little Big Horn, 199

  Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.:

  as ambassador to South Vietnam, 49–51, 64, 65–67, 76, 78, 137, 162, 176–77, 188, 322, 328, 358

  and Cable 243, 90–91, 92, 106, 118, 121, 270, 271

  and coup, 92, 106, 117–19, 121, 176–77, 213, 248, 254, 270–73, 279–81

  and family rivalry, 51–54, 55, 353

  parallels to JFK’s life, 53–54

  and UN, 51, 66

  Lodge, Henry Cabot, Sr., 51–52, 53

  Louchheim, Katie, 179–80, 228

  Lowe, Jacques, 71

  Luce, Clare Boothe, 82, 85, 229

  Luce, Henry, 301

  Lyautey, Hubert, 302

  MacArthur, Douglas, 59–60, 181, 241

  McCarran-Walter Immigration and Nationality Act (1952), 156

  McCarthy, Joe (reporter), 51

  McCarthy, Joseph (senator), 15, 64

  McCloskey, Matthew, 42, 169

  McCone, John, 90, 159, 192, 271, 280, 282, 290

  McCulloch, William, 234, 255

  Macdonald, Torbert, 248–49, 280, 302, 310

  McHugh, Godfrey, 41, 342

  McKinley, William, 149

  McKissick, Floyd, 115

  McMahon, Margaret “Miggie,” 14

  Macmillan, Harold, 80, 82, 222, 223, 254

  McMillan, Priscilla, 83

  McNamara, Robert S., 24, 27, 90, 91

  and cold war, 159, 165, 166

  and Cuba, 95, 98

  and defense spending, 310–11

  and Johnson, 355

  and space, 103, 175

  and Vietnam, 57, 60, 63, 105–6, 143, 162, 176–77, 187, 188, 206–9, 212–13, 270–71, 280, 282, 331, 359, 360

  McPherson, Harry C., Jr., 139

  McSorley, Father Richard, 235, 244, 361

  Maguire, Richard, 291

  Mahoney, Florence, 297

  Mahoney, William, 319–21

  Mailer, Norman, xii, xiii, 69

  Malaya, British forces in, 61

  Malraux, André, 255

  Manhattan Project, 307

  Mansfield, Joe, 198

  Mansfield, Mike, 195–96, 201, 356

  and Baker scandal, 218, 266–68, 275

  JFK’s visit to father of, 198, 267

  and test ban treaty, 23, 196, 214

  and Vietnam, 61–62, 64, 75–76, 79, 137, 138, 158, 358

  Mansfield, Patrick, 198

  Marshall, Burke, 173, 188–89

  Marshall Plan, 285

  Martin, Joan Carol, 326

  Martin, John Bartlow, 113

  Mauldin, Bill, 348

  media:

  and Castro, 67, 191

  interviews with Jacqueline, 248, 249, 326

  and JFK, 34, 68–69, 87, 119, 126–27, 132, 139, 158, 301, 314–15, 320

  JFK’s press conferences, 76–77, 166–68, 221, 295, 299

  and Nixon, 127, 136

  television news, 135–37

  Medicare, 311, 355

  Melbourne, Lord, 228

  Mendenhall, Joseph, 143, 161–62, 270

  Meredith, James, 111

  Merrill’s Marauders, 63

  Meyer, Mary, 83, 194, 280

  Micronesia, polio in, 282

  Mikoyan, Anastas, 349, 357

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 238

  Miller, Chester, 24

  Mills, Wilbur, 210, 332

  Milteer, Joseph, 312

  Minh, Duong Van “Big Minh,” 280, 281

  Mollenhoff, Clark, 261, 262

  Monnet, Jean, 128, 349–50

  Morrison, Kay, 260

  Morrissey, Francis, 19, 27

  Morse, Wayne, 323, 359

  Moses, Robert, 300

  Mudd, Roger, 136

  Mueller, George, 305–6

  Mumford, Lewis, 257

  Munich agreement (1938), 99

  Murphy, Charles, 311

  NAACP, 107, 234, 320, 332

  Nagasaki, Japan, 77

  Nagler, Willibrand, 120–21

  Napoléon Bonaparte, 129

  NASA, 103, 104, 175, 305–9

  National Library Week, 184

  National Origins Act (NOA) (1924), 155–56

  National Poultry and Egg Board, 318

  National Security Council (NSC), 161

  National Turkey Foundation, 318–19

  Nation of Immigrants, A (JFK), 156–57

  NATO, 225

  Net Evaluation Subcommittee (NES), 164–66

  New Deal, 194

  New Frontier, 28, 103, 193

  Newman, Larry, 11–12, 72, 149, 241, 275

  Newport, Rhode Island, 169–73

  Newton, Frank, 189–90

  Nhu, Madame, 62, 65, 67, 178, 2
29, 248, 280

  Nhu, Ngo Dinh, 62, 65, 137, 142

  and Buddhists, 78, 137

  and Cable 243, 90–91, 92

  and coup, 66, 92, 118, 143, 162, 188, 206, 249, 272, 279–81

  death of, 280–81, 282

  Nixon, Richard M., 35n, 56, 221

  and elections, 133, 145, 178, 233, 361

  and family, 230

  Ford’s pardon of, 26

  and Lodge, 52, 54

  and media, 127, 136

  TV debates with, 76, 108, 265

  and White House tapes, 24

  Nkrumah, Kwame, 319

  Nolting, Frederick, Jr., 60, 61–62, 76

  Nolting, Richard, 118

  North Vietnam, see Vietnam War

  Oberdorfer, Dan, 266, 267

  O’Brien, Lawrence, 45, 240, 291, 337

  O’Connor, Frank, 333

  O’Donnell, Ken, 24, 37, 45, 50, 52, 97, 142, 148, 180, 240

  and Baker scandal, 261, 267

  and Johnson, 138, 302, 355

  and reelection, 291

  and test ban treaty, 215

  and Texas tour, 327, 329, 341–42

  and Vietnam, 62, 64, 137

  O’Leary, James B., 14, 15

  O’Leary, Muggsy, 44–45, 209

  Olivier, Sir Laurence, 349

  Onassis, Aristotle, 89–90, 120, 148, 175, 201, 202, 247, 250, 328

  Operation Aphrodite, 20

  Operation Northwoods, 95–97, 100

  Ormsby-Gore, David, 7, 15, 254, 255, 284–85, 350, 353

  Orwell, George, 351

  Palmer, Arnold, 91

  Panama Canal, 307

  Pavlick, Richard, 148–49

  Peace Corps, 159, 351

  Pearson, Drew, 34, 89

  Pell, Claiborne, 170, 172

  Pellegriti, Thomas, 240

  Pentagon:

  and Bay of Pigs, 6

  and cold war, 166

  and Vietnam, 61, 64, 106, 166, 177, 188

  Pentagon Papers, 35n, 360

  Pereira, Father Albert, 287

  Peterson, Esther, 229–30

  Petrie, Richard, 12

  Pham Ngoc Thao, 248

  Philadelphia, campaigning in, 273–74

  Pinchot, Gifford, Jr., 194

  Pinchot, Ruth, 194

  Polk, James K., 133

  Powers, Dave, 201, 213

  and campaigns, 196, 302, 330

  and crowds, 149, 196, 316, 334

  as JFK’s buddy, 5–6, 15, 24, 44, 45, 150, 180, 215, 240, 310, 326, 342

  and Johnson, 138, 302, 355

  presidency:

  and assassination, 130, 148–51, 253, 312–13, 332, 346, 347

  avoiding war, 100–101, 134, 209

  crucial qualities of, 132–33

  executive powers of, 296

  history’s ranking of, 127–28, 130, 132–33, 178, 354

  and press conferences, 166–67