by David Nasaw
Gore, Albert, 707
Gort, John, 447
Gould, Edwin, 627
Gould, Jay, 627
Goulding, Eddie, 137, 141, 142–43, 554
Gowen, Franklin, 375, 441, 445, 525
Gower Street Company, 112, 131
Grace, Eugene, 52, 55, 56, 72
Graham, Billy, 743, 757–58
Graham, Cecil, 73
Graham’s of London, 73, 74
Grange, Red, 97
Gray, William, 94, 95
Great Britain:
bombing preparations in, 341, 343
in buildup to World War II, 289, 290, 292–94, 301, 302–3, 323, 329–31, 332, 334–35, 338–47, 368, 373, 399–407
declaration of war against Germany, 406–7, 408, 410, 411, 415, 416
economic difficulties of, 509–10
German attacks on, 458, 461, 462–63, 466, 468, 469, 473–75, 477, 478, 479, 480–81, 496, 516, 529–31, 568
gold sales and, 437–38
gold supplies of, 448–49
import restrictions of, 420–21
Italy and, 303–4
Jewish refugees and, 308–9, 324, 329, 349–52, 361–65
JPK as ambassador to, xxi, 80, 272–78, 283–311, 323–47, 249–70, 371–97, 399–407, 408–22, 427–43, 444–56, 457–72, 473–86, 491, 496, 512
JPK’s resignation as ambassador to, 496, 502–4, 526
Labour Party in, 484
lend-lease program and, 510, 511–13, 515, 516–20, 525
oil needs of, 475
Palestine and, 286–87, 307, 351–52, 358, 359, 361–62, 385–93
U.S. aid to, 441–43, 451–54, 458–59, 461, 466–72, 498, 503, 510, 517, 519, 605
U.S. loan to, 599, 617
U.S. trade agreements with, 352–53, 380–81
war debt payments of, 185, 411
in World War I, 40, 44, 49–50
in World War II, 408–20, 427–31, 433–34, 438–43, 448–55, 458, 460–63, 466, 468, 469, 473–75, 477–81, 483, 486, 496, 516, 529–31, 579, 581, 633, 745
Great Depression, see Depression, Great
Great Dictator, The, 501–2
Greater Houston Ministerial Association, 743
Greece, 497, 529, 530, 605
U.S. aid to, 605, 607, 608, 616, 617, 618, 636, 637
Green, Angela, 556
Green, William, 389
Gridiron Club dinner, 186–87, 190, 206, 716–17
Grober, Bert “Wingie,” 719, 736
Gruenther, Alfred, 679
Guild of Saint Apollonia, 62–63, 591
Gunther, John, 33
Gurnett, Daniel, 65
Hacker, Louis, 601–2
Halifax, E. F. L. Wood, Lord, 289, 291, 294, 300, 302, 303, 307, 336, 340–41, 345, 360, 376, 394–95, 416–17, 422, 433, 437, 439, 440, 448, 483, 507, 547, 575
appeasement policy of, 303, 382, 416
Catholic refugees and, 309
Czechoslovakia and, 330, 333–34
and German attacks on England, 458, 469
Jewish refugees and, 308, 329, 349, 350, 351, 352, 362, 363–64
Kathleen Kennedy and, 551, 573
Palestine and, 352, 385–86
Poland and, 400, 403–4, 405
Halifax, Lady, 300, 376
Hall, Frank, 66–67
Hallmark Pictures, 66–67
Hannegan, Bob, 573, 575–76
Harmonie Club, 639–40
Harris, Lou, 726, 749
Hartington, William Cavendish, Marquess of (Billy Hartington), 324
death of, 572–73, 577, 580, 589
Kathleen Kennedy’s marriage to, 564–67
Kathleen Kennedy’s relationship with, 324, 438, 531–32, 551, 552–53, 561–67, 620
military service of, 567, 568, 571, 572
Harvard Business School, JPK’s lecture series at, 100–102, 109
Harvard College, 78, 89
Boston Latin and, 17, 22
Edward Kennedy at, 647–48, 649, 650
JFK at, 240, 298, 317, 321, 424, 457
Joe Kennedy, Jr. at, 221–22, 239, 298, 310, 312, 317, 321
JPK at, xx, 21–26, 30–31, 55, 64–65, 259
JPK passed over for honorary doctorate from, 312
JPK’s degree from, 32, 33, 34, 100
JPK’s 1936 reunion speech at, 259–61, 269
reunions of, 47, 78–79, 259–61, 312
social life at, 25
Harvard Crimson, 424
Harvard Department of Fine Arts, 101, 102
Harvard Law School, 216, 244
Joe Kennedy, Jr. at, 423, 424, 457, 476, 526, 527
Harvard University, 696–97, 702
Harvey, Oliver, 419
Haussermann, Oscar, 79
Hawaii, 442
Pearl Harbor, xxii, 509, 538, 567
Hayden, Charles, 58, 64, 66
Hayden, Stone & Co., 58, 59, 60, 63, 64, 66, 67, 69, 70, 77–78, 87, 88, 91, 256, 613
Hayes, Carlton, 549
Hays, Will, 75–76, 100, 101, 104, 421
Headley Park, 479
Hearst, Millicent, 28, 176
Hearst, William Randolph, 28, 74, 96, 137, 143, 146, 173–74, 175, 187, 209, 245, 249, 250, 313, 317, 501, 505, 545
death of, 644
Garner and, 173–74, 176–77
JPK’s work on restructuring business of, 254–55, 257–58, 264
Roosevelt and, 176–77, 179, 181, 182, 183, 185, 186, 187, 254
tax measures and, 231–32, 237
Heddal, Mathilda, 589
Henlein, Konrad, 336
Henderson, Nevile, 336, 399–400, 401, 403, 404
Hennessey, Luella, 267, 297, 406, 410, 777, 778
Henri, Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, 110, 114, 115, 116–17, 118, 137, 140, 141, 143–44, 147, 156
Hersey, John, 561, 598
Hertz, John, 88, 89
Hesburgh, Father Theodore, 680, 715, 723
Hialeah, 559, 580, 581, 610, 693, 720
Hillman, Sidney, 327
Hillman, William, 418–19, 441
Hinton, Harold, 291
Hirohito, 580
Hitler, Adolf, 272, 287–90, 293, 341–46, 356, 372, 376, 385, 394, 399–407, 413, 416, 418, 432, 437, 438, 447, 479, 486, 494, 511, 530, 567, 579, 581, 605, 633
appeasement of, see appeasement of Nazi Germany
Arvad and, 540–41
assumption of power and first actions of, 199–200, 258
Chamberlain’s meetings with, 336–38, 340
death of, 579
declaration of war against U.S., 538
Dirksen and, 741–42
Dunkirk and, 449
Hollywood and, 501–2
Jewish emigration and, 322, 358–59
Jewish persecution initiated by, 199–200
Joe Kennedy, Jr. on, 200, 201–2
JPK and, 741–42, 748; see also appeasement of Nazi Germany, JPK and
Munich Agreement with, 346–47, 348–49, 359–60, 400, 402, 435–36, 485, 633, 745
Roosevelt and, 341, 344, 346, 381–82, 385, 413–14
speeches of, 335–36, 342
sterilization law and, 201
see also Nazi Germany
Hoare, Samuel, 336, 346, 371, 413, 414
Hodkinson, W. W., 74, 85
Holland, 439–40
Hollywood, see motion picture industry
Holmes, J. H., 161
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 198
Hoov
er, Herbert, 135, 171, 183, 246, 248, 362, 503, 531, 579, 580, 616, 637–38, 675, 676, 752–53, 760–61, 783
British war debt payments and, 185
Depression and, 167, 171, 172
JPK’s leaking of information to, 676–77
Truman and, 584
Hoover, J. Edgar, 446, 508, 541, 559, 675, 769
Hoover Commission, see Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government
Hopkins, Harry, 230, 231, 251, 278, 332, 492
Horizon House, 778
Horton, Rip, 369
Hot Springs, Va., 162
Houghton, Arthur, 65, 77, 78, 162, 241, 299, 369, 375, 398, 403, 554, 572, 578, 604, 610, 645, 649, 668–69, 679–81, 749
death of son, 577–78
Hourigan, Mollie, 264, 265–66
House, Edward M., 181
House Committee on Foreign Affairs, 511–12, 518–20, 525
House Committee on Un-American Activities, 508
Houston, David, 67
Howard, Roy, 208, 317, 376, 503, 505
Howard, Sidney, 157
Howe, Louis, 179, 182, 183, 188, 206, 207, 233, 275
Howey, Walter, 88, 571, 646
Hufty, Page, 511
Hull, Cordell, 191, 206, 296, 301–3, 326, 330–32, 334, 340, 342, 343, 346, 347, 364, 368–70, 382, 384–85, 394, 403, 405, 411, 414, 434, 439, 441, 443, 446, 448–49, 452, 458–61, 465, 496, 507–8, 512
Catholic refugees and, 309
Jewish refugees and, 307
and JPK as proposed envoy to Ireland, 506–7
JPK’s speeches and, 292–95, 354
Lindbergh report and, 339
Palestine and, 352, 385–86, 387, 392, 393
and safety of British ships, 409
U.S.-British trade agreement and, 381
Humphrey, Hubert, 703, 720, 730, 732, 733, 734, 735
Hurd, James, 74, 229
Hutchins, Maynard, 531
Hyannis Port, Mass., 92, 99, 126, 132–33, 190, 220, 247, 248, 263–64, 266, 678–79, 719, 766–67, 782, 786
Hyannisport Club, 178
Ickes, Harold, 207, 230, 231, 272, 299–300, 308, 315–16, 319, 332, 344, 367, 393, 429, 505, 516
JPK and, 231, 274–75, 299
I’m for Roosevelt (JPK), 212, 246, 247, 249–50, 256, 271
Indo-China, 636, 640, 655, 656, 658–59, 660, 689
influenza epidemic, 56–57
Inside U.S.A. (Gunther), 33
Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, 329, 350, 393
Iran, 655, 656, 658–59
Iraq, 392
Ireland, 410
emigration from, 4, 9
Irish Poor Law Extension Act and, 3–4
JFK’s visit to, 617
JPK proposed as envoy to, 506–7
Kennedy family in, 4
potato blight in, 3, 4–5, 9
Irish Catholics, 582
JPK’s identity as one of, xix, xx, 22–23, 33, 49, 58, 61, 80, 104, 251, 272, 277, 291, 374
Roosevelt and, 539, 549
Irish Catholics, in Boston, 9, 12
Democratic Party and, 9, 10–11, 14, 15
political success of, 10
prejudice against, 10–11, 105
isolationism:
communism and, 604–5, 607–8
JPK and, xxii, 289, 292, 295, 366, 431, 433, 434, 486, 498–500, 503, 504, 517, 607–8, 637–38, 639, 641
World War II and, 289, 292, 295, 431, 433, 434, 486, 498–500, 503, 504, 517, 607–8
Italy, 301, 368, 373, 377, 381, 414, 416, 433, 440, 475, 575, 617, 636, 679, 753
Christian Democrats vs. Communists in, 618–19, 634, 679, 699, 700
Ethiopia invaded by, 258, 287, 303–4
Great Britain and, 303–4
Star of Solidarity award of, 662
in Tripartite Pact, 479–80
Vatican, see Vatican
in World War II, 451, 479–80, 497, 529, 581
Jabotinsky, Ze’ev, 359
Jackson, Henry, 673
Jackson, “Pat,” 667
Jackson, Shoeless Joe, 55–56
Jacobs, Rose Gell, 359
Japan, 258, 272, 287, 368, 373, 394, 395, 414, 497, 636
atomic bombs dropped on, 580
Pearl Harbor attack, xxii, 509, 538, 567
in Tripartite Pact, 479–80
U.S. trade with, 538
in World War II, 479–80, 538, 577, 580, 581
Jewish Agency for Palestine, 359, 385
Jews, 22, 202, 316, 356–58, 393, 540, 576, 634, 672–73
in Hollywood, 75, 97, 103, 104, 501–2, 503, 559
JFK and, 742, 743, 748
JPK and, 356–57, 358, 359, 367, 434, 501–2, 507–9, 539, 559, 582–83, 667, 742
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation and, 695
Lady Astor’s statements about, 305, 357
media influence of, 357, 365, 393
Palestine and, see Palestine
political influence of, 365–66, 507–9, 574, 582–83, 723
refugees, 306–9, 322, 324, 329, 349–52, 361–65, 387, 390, 507, 508–9
Roosevelt and, 349–52, 362, 390, 508, 509, 583
Zionism and, 286–87, 351–52, 358, 359, 385, 386, 388–93, 712
see also anti-Semitism
John XXIII, Pope, 755, 771
Johns Hopkins University, 698, 760
Johnson, Herschel, 417, 444, 445, 446, 453, 474
Johnson, Hugh, 317, 357
Johnson, Lyndon B., 684–85, 687, 711–12, 716, 718, 720, 736, 754, 786
Committee on Foreign Relations and, 684–85, 711
JPK and, 771–72, 785
as presidential candidate, 737, 738, 746
as vice-presidential candidate, 738–39
Johnston, Alva, 320
Jordan, Father Max, 695
Jordan, Sara, 431, 464, 476, 567
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, 604, 611, 612–14, 625, 694–96, 755–56, 773, 778
directors and infrastructure of, 613–14
Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s work at, 613, 624, 696, 697–98, 760
first gift of, 613
mission statement of, 612–13
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Laboratories for Research on Mental Retardation, 698
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Memorial, 623–26
Jowett, Garth, 97
J. Russell Young School of Expression, 284–85
Kahn, Otto, 70
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, 35
Kane, Joe, 572, 583, 584, 595, 596, 599–600
Kane, Robert, 107
K-A-O (Keith-Albee-Orpheum), 112, 119–20, 121, 122, 128–29, 130–31, 135, 137
Karmel, Joseph, 307
Katzenbach, Nicholas, 770
Keaton, Buster, 110
Kefauver, Estes, 707–8, 711
Keith, Benjamin Franklin, 65
Keller, Father James, 586
Kelly, Arthur, 24, 25, 54
Kennan, George F., 378, 605
Kennedy, Bridget Murphy (grandmother), 6
Kennedy, Caroline (granddaughter), 163, 750, 767, 775
Kennedy, Edward Moore “Ted” (son), xxiii, 132, 336, 343, 435, 457, 475–76, 490, 526, 557, 559, 611, 646, 668, 718, 749, 751–52, 765–66, 767, 775, 785, 786
birth of, 60, 145, 163–64
childhood of, 133, 134, 243, 253, 375, 423, 555
in Counter Intelligence Corps, 648, 674–75
education of, 424, 527, 547–48
in England dur
ing JPK’s ambassadorship, 297, 298
at Harvard, 647–48, 649, 650, 690–91
JFK’s assassination and, 784–85
JFK’s congressional campaign and, 602
JFK’s inauguration and, 762, 763–64
JFK’s presidential campaign and, 736, 738, 740
Joe Jr.’s death and, 570, 571, 578
JPK’s correspondence with, 12, 35–36, 680, 704
JPK’s lecture to, 585
JPK’s stroke and, 776, 779, 783
Kathleen’s death and, 621
military service of, 648–49
in plane crash, 691
Rosemary and, 425
Senate campaign of, 649, 766, 779
as senator, 712, 784
shoulder injury of, 690–91
at University of Virginia, 675–76
World War II and, 410
Kennedy, Ethel Skakel (daughter-in-law), 647, 654, 678, 688, 689, 695, 778, 780
Robert Kennedy’s marriage to, 646–47
Kennedy, Eunice Mary (daughter), see Shriver, Eunice Kennedy
Kennedy, Francis B. (brother), 10
Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier “Jackie” (daughter-in-law), 677, 678, 683, 713, 750–51, 758, 763
JPK’s stroke and, 776, 779, 783
Kennedy, Jean Ann (daughter), see Smith, Jean Kennedy
Kennedy, Joan Bennett (daughter-in-law), 762, 763
Kennedy, John Bright (journalist), 377
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, Jr. (grandson), 758
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald “Jack” (son), 241, 243, 255, 284, 325, 326, 331, 408, 423, 463, 475, 525–26, 541, 543, 548, 552, 554, 574, 645, 646, 678, 681, 709, 767
Addison’s disease of, 527, 617, 654, 682, 683, 704–5, 737
Algerian issue and, 711, 712
appeasement issue and, 357
appendicitis of, 163
Arvad and, 525–26, 540–42, 559, 604, 675
assassination of, xxiii, 80, 720, 784–85
back surgeries of, 568, 570, 682–84, 685, 686–87, 691
bank internship of, 528
Bay of Pigs and, 767–68
birth of, 49
cabinet of, 760
Catholicism of, 701–3, 707, 712–16, 721–25, 727–29, 731–35, 743–44, 747–48, 752, 753–55, 757–58
childhood of, 61–63, 85, 90, 99, 113, 126, 134, 142, 151, 169, 178
at Choate, 150–51, 162, 163, 169, 177, 182, 189, 195–97, 221, 224–26
civil rights and, 711–12
communism and, 641, 656, 668
congressional campaign of, 594–98, 599, 602–4, 611, 635
as congressman, 607, 617, 635, 639–42, 652–59, 663
during Depression years, 169
