Reuss, Lloyd, 248, 262–63, 267–68, 270
Reves, Emery, 58, 59
Rice, Condoleezza, 278
Richardson, Elliot, 158, 168
Riverside Hotel, 21
Rockefeller, David, 226, 227
Rockefeller, Nelson, 115, 169
Commission, 185
Rogers, William, 131
Romer, Christina, 278
Rothschild, Emma
Paradise Lost: The Decline of the Auto-Industrial Age, 219–20
Ruby, Jack, 107
Ruckelshaus, William, 168, 198
Rudenstine, Neil, 212, 213
Rumsfeld, Donald, 125–26, 141, 157
Rumsfeld, Joyce, 141
Santa Barbara, CA, 45
Sarkady, Mark, 260
Saturday Night Massacre, 168, 198
Saturn Corporation, 236–38, 260
Schriever, Bernard, 1–2
Seevers, Gary, 161
Senate. See US Senate
Shady Hill School, 34, 35
Shapiro, Bernard, 212
Shapiro, Harold T., 212–13
Shaw, George Bernard, 117, 131, 147
Shepherd, Anne, 55–56
Shultz, George, 124, 129, 138, 160, 161
Sidwell Friends School, 131
Silone, Ignazio
Bread and Wine, 58
Simmons, Adele, 207
Simmons, Jim, 130
Smale, John, 267
Smith, Alan, 244, 245, 247, 259, 260, 263–64, 267, 268, 269
Smith, Roger, 216–17, 219, 223–41
Smithsonian, 51
Agreement, 139, 150
Solomon, Ezra, 138, 154, 161
The Song of Bernadette, 36
South Africa, 204–5
Soviet Hungarian Republic, 10
Soviet Union
communism, 58, 79, 137, 153, 159, 273
Sparkman, John, 165, 167
Sperry Gyroscope Company, 40
St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 275
Stanford University, 154, 161, 215, 216
business school, 138, 216
medical facility, 218
Stateville Penitentiary, 126
Stein, Ben, 187, 188
Stein, Herbert, 118, 129, 133, 138, 150, 151, 160, 187
Stempel, Bob, 260, 261–63, 267–69, 270
Stevens, Ann, 278
Stevenson, Adlai, 68
Stewart, John, 260, 265
St. John, 146–47
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT1), 116, 137
Strauss, Lewis, 77–79, 80, 91, 93, 159
Strauss, Richard, 72
Sullivan, Leon, 205
Sullivan Principles, 205
Summit Conference on Inflation, 174–76
Szilard, Leo, 4
Tavoulareas, William, 188–89
Taylor, Katharine, 35
Teller, Edward, 4, 10, 57, 77, 78–79, 169, 185
Temple, Shirley, 31
Tennessee, 236
Texas, 198
Tilghman, Shirley, 212
Tokyo, Japan, 151
Tokyo Round, 165
Toyoda, Eiji, 236
Toyota, 219, 236–37, 238, 259
production system, 246
Transpo ’72, 220, 260, 261
Traverse City, MI, 259, 260, 261, 263
Trilateral Commission, 226, 233
Truman, Harry, 40, 214
Trunk Bay, 146–47
Tufts University, 207
Tyson, Laura, 278
Uchitelle, Louis, 274
Ulam, Françoise, 46
Ulam, Stan, 22, 46
Union of Radical Political Economists (URPE), 112
Union Oil Company, 198
Unitarian Church, 85, 86
United Auto Workers (UAW), 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 262
United Nations, 227
United Steelworkers Union, 173
United Way, 255
University of Berlin, 4, 12, 15
University of Budapest, 8, 9
University of California, Berkeley, 79
University of Maryland, 249
University of Michigan, 118, 119, 129, 200, 212, 233, 243, 257
Business School, 216, 273
Rackham Building, 275
School of Public Policy, 273
University of Pennsylvania
Moore School of Electrical Engineering, 49
University of Pittsburgh, 95, 102, 104, 105, 109
University Theater, 36
Unocal, 198, 199–203, 204–5
Uruguay Round, 152, 165
US Air Force, 24
US Army Air Corps, 40, 278
US Congress, 31–32, 116, 117, 122, 129, 158, 175, 176, 194, 217, 219, 234, 237, 273
Democrats, 149
Republicans, 156
US Department of Commerce, 247
US Department of Energy, 79
US Department of Justice, 188
US Food and Drug Administration, 191
US Senate
Banking Committee, 135
confirmation of CEA positions, 115
confirmation of von Neumann to AEC, 79–80
confirmation of Whitman to CEA, 133–36
hearings on whether GM was a monopoly, 230
Nixon's threat of impeachment, 168
Watergate Committee, 158, 167
US State Department, 17
U.S. Steel, 105
US Trade Representative, 253
Valentine, John, 94
Vassar College, 55, 61
Veblen, Elizabeth Mary Dixon Richardson, 19
Veblen, Oswald, 19
Veblen, Thorstein, 19
Vichy France, 17, 99
Vienna, Austria, 7, 9, 168, 177
Vietnam War, 55, 109, 111, 180
demonstrations, 117
Johnson reviled for escalation, 113
Nixon's ending of, 163
Nixon's escalation of, 143
See also North Vietnam
Villa Francesca, 73, 86
Volcker, Paul, 121, 123, 166, 177, 226
Volcker Group, 121, 139, 140, 156, 166
Voluntary Export Restraints, 234
von Karman, Theodore, 4
von Neumann, John
anticommunism, 11, 24, 169
atomic bomb development, 24, 57
atomic energy adviser to Eisenhower, 78
atomic energy and children, 42
Atomic Energy Commission
member of, 91
nominated for a seat, 79, 84
burial
Princeton cemetery, 281
cancer, 1, 2, 25, 83, 179 (see also Walter Reed Army Hospital)
career
Institute for Advanced Study (IAS; Princeton University), 16–17, 19, 26, 50–51, 77, 79
Manhattan Project, 37–38
Princeton University, 4, 12, 15
University of Berlin, 4, 12, 15
childhood, 7–10
Cold War involvement, 4, 20
computers, 4, 26, 39, 49–51, 77, 91–92, 128, 223, 278, 281
death, 25, 40, 51, 92–94
divorce from Mariette, 27
education
Eidgennossische Technische Hochschule (ETH), 8
Lutheran Gymnasium, 8
University of Budapest, 8
engagement to Klari, 38–39
engagement to Mariette, 12
Enrico Fermi Presidential Award, 91
first published paper, 8
game theory, 4, 12, 23, 24–25, 26, 38, 223
life in Princeton with Klari, 23–24, 36, 38–40, 44
life in Princeton with Mariette, 15–18, 21
marriage to Klari, 22, 23, 48–49, 53–54, 107
marriage to Mariette, 13–21
“Martians,” 4
meeting Mariette Kövesi, 7
parental advice on Whitman's engagement, 4, 80–82
parents (see von Neumann, Margaret; von Neumann, Max)
P
residential Medal of Freedom, 91
quantum mechanics, 12, 60, 70–71, 80
religious beliefs
conversion to Catholicism, 13, 92–93
Jew, 10, 84
US citizenship, 16, 19, 26
Walter Reed Army Hospital, 1, 85, 91, 92
funeral mass, 93
wedding, 12
works
“Can We Survive Technology?,” 25
The Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, 12
Theory of Games and Economy Behavior, 12, 24, 58, 76
von Neumann, Klari, 24, 25, 38, 39, 57, 58, 59, 61, 82, 83, 91, 92, 283
engagement to John, 38–39
“A Grasshopper in Very Tall Grass,” 39
insecurity, 53
life in Princeton, 23–24, 48–49
marriage to John, 22, 23, 48–54, 107
suicide, 107
von Neumann, Margaret (Granny Gitta), 54–55
cancer, 86
von Neumann, Max, 7, 54
von Neumann, Michael, 9
von Neumann, Nicholas, 9
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 110
wage-price controls program, 125, 142, 150, 161, 175
Waldorf Astoria, 251
Wall Street Journal, 133, 192, 257
Walter Reed Army Hospital, 1, 85, 91, 92
funeral mass, 93
Warren, MI, 258
Washington, DC, 16, 28, 30, 118
Washington Post, 142, 155, 157, 158, 170, 233, 234
Washington press corps, 133, 145
Watergate, 137, 162, 164, 167
audiotapes, 131, 168
break-ins, 155–59, 169
cover-up, 5, 159, 169, 170
firing of Cox, 198
hearings, 155, 160
logs from surveillance, 131
Weil, André, 17
Wells, Jerry, 106, 112
Wells, Nancy, 112
Westinghouse Electric, 185, 186–87, 188, 204, 217
White, Harry, 289n9
White House, 78, 113, 116, 118, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 136, 137, 145, 154, 155, 157–59, 161, 164, 175
Whitman, Laura, 107–8, 117, 129, 135, 145, 147, 148, 149–50, 217–19
children, 278, 280 (see also Downie, Lindsey; Downie, William)
education
Duke University, 170, 211–12
Ellis School, 218
Gunn Senior High School, 218
Phillips Andover, 218
funeral of grandmother, 277
marriage to David Downie, 170, 275
physician, 277–78
wedding, 275–76
Whitman, Malcolm, 117, 146, 147, 148–49
assassination of Kennedy, 107
biologist, 277
birth, 100, 101
chicken pox, 108
childhood depression, 149
education, 129, 131, 210–11
college, 2
funeral of grandmother, 277
German measles, 108
scarlet fever, 108
Whitman, Marina von Neumann
birth, 19
breast cancer, 279, 281
career
Alcoa, board of directors, 203, 204
Browning Ferris Industries (BFI), board of directors, 198, 204
Council of Economic Advisers, appointment by Nixon, 5, 114–79, 187, 203, 216, 217, 221, 222, 226
gender bias, 135–36, 142, 145
resignation, 160, 162–63
Economically Speaking (Public Broadcasting Service television program), 172–74
Educational Testing Service (ETS), administrative assistant, 90, 93–94
General Motors, senior executive, 5, 94, 98, 215–16, 221–72, 274
move to Ann Arbor, 243
retirement, 269
Harvard University, overseer, 205, 206–9, 212
Institute for Advanced Study, trustee, 281
Long Islander, reporter, 75–76, 94
Manufacturers Hanover Bank, board of directors, 178–86, 195, 217
Marcor, board of directors, 188–89, 204
Princeton University, trustee, 209–12
Procter and Gamble, board of directors, 189–94, 195, 196–97, 204, 217, 267
University of Michigan, professor, 200, 273–74
University of Pittsburgh, professor, 95, 105, 109, 111–12, 129–30, 162, 167, 222, 273
Unocal, board of directors, 198, 199–203, 204–5
Westinghouse Electric, board of directors, 185, 186–87, 188, 204, 217
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 215–16
childhood, 27–47
Cambridge, 32–40
New York, 40–46
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