by David Nasaw
Model T and, 45–46
Robert’s assassination and, 787
Rosemary’s difficulties and, 90, 152, 265–66, 451, 532, 533, 534, 536–37
at school, 28, 106
Swanson compared with, 110
on Swope, 174
trusts and, 92, 194, 586
vacations of, 86–87, 194, 214, 222, 325–26, 336, 344–45, 369, 681
World War II outbreak and, 407
Kennedy, Rose Marie “Rosemary” (daughter), 56–57, 62, 126, 194, 222–24, 264–67, 333, 419, 424–26, 435, 447, 457, 463, 526–27, 532–37, 547, 584, 586, 610, 668, 712, 738, 765, 786
behavior change of, 532–33
birth of, 57
childhood of, 90, 151
at Craig House, 535–36, 547, 584, 628–29
in England during JPK’s ambassadorship, 297, 298
glandular treatments of, 223–24, 242, 264
at Helen Newton’s, 222–23, 242, 264
lobotomy of, xxiii, 535–37, 589, 630–31, 683, 691
mental and social difficulties of, xxiii, 90, 151–52, 153–54, 201, 222–23, 242, 266, 379, 422, 425, 534, 536, 696
Miss Gibbs as companion of, 410, 411, 419, 426, 435
and outbreak of World War II, 410
at St. Coletta, 628–31, 695
schooling of, 106, 149, 152–54, 162, 222, 264–66, 297, 379, 410–11, 451, 526, 532–33
separation from family, 425–26, 631
worries about, 266, 425, 533–34, 631
Kennedy Child Study Center, 755–56
Kennedy family:
cameras and, 665
during Depression years, 168–69, 170
French villa of, 679, 680–81, 689, 770
Hyannis Port home of, 92, 99, 126, 132–33, 190, 220, 247, 248, 263–64, 266, 678–79, 719, 766–67, 782, 786
Irish roots of, 4
last group photograph of, 750–51
move from Boston to New York, 105–6, 113
Palm Beach home of, 189; see also Palm Beach, Fla.
trusts for, 91–92, 131, 155, 170, 194, 528–29, 586, 587, 612
wealth of, 15
Kenny, Thomas, 38
Kent, Duke of, 294, 378
Kent, Frank, 236, 245, 317, 355
Kent, Sidney, 75
Kent, Tyler, 444–47, 468
Keogh, Eugene, 729
Kerrigan, John, 593
Khrushchev, Nikita, 745–46
Killian, James R., Jr., 699
Kintner, Robert, 431–32, 481, 500, 501, 505
Kirk, Alan, 528
Kirstein, Louis, 111, 301
Klemmer, Harvey, 269, 299, 474
Knebel, Fletcher, 721–22
Knickerbocker, H. R., 199
Knight, Maxwell, 444, 445
Knox, Frank, 459–60, 493
Knudsen, William, 511
Korea, 654
Korean War, 632–33, 634–35, 637
Edward Kennedy and, 648
JFK’s views on, 658
JPK’s views on, 636, 637, 660
Kravis, Henry, 692
Kravis, Raymond, 692–93
Kristallnacht, 359–60, 361
Krock, Arthur, 215, 238, 240, 256, 261, 268, 269, 273, 291, 314, 317, 319, 321, 355, 482, 492, 500, 525, 541, 566, 583, 599, 601, 615, 637, 659, 662, 687, 690, 705
background of, 211
Fortune article and, 262–63
I’m for Roosevelt and, 247, 256
JFK’s Harvard thesis and, 212, 435–36
JFK’s presidential campaign and, 727–28
JPK’s alliance with, 211, 316, 367
on JPK’s ambassadorship, 395–96
JPK’s interviews with, 211, 606
JPK’s presidential ambitions and, 316, 318, 327–28
JPK proposed as envoy to Ireland by, 506–7
JPK’s relationship with, 211–12, 236
New York Times editor-in-chief position and, 316
on Roosevelt, 197
on Roosevelt’s relationship with JPK, 229
Kuhn, Ferdinand, Jr., 284, 362
labor, 229, 232, 260, 504
maritime, 261–62, 267–69, 278–79, 284
1960 presidential election and, 753
racketeering and, 710–11
Labour Party, 484
Laemmle, Carl, 74, 94
La Follette, Philip, 382
Lait, Jack, 604
Lakewood, 248
Lamont, Thomas, 319–20, 507
Land, Emory Scott, 543–44
Landis, James, 216, 217, 247, 543, 614–15, 635, 653, 659, 662, 663, 666, 671, 687, 742, 769
death of, 770
tax problems of, 769–70
Landon, Alfred M., 250, 531
Lansky, Meyer, 80
Laos, 756
Laski, Harold, 198, 200, 202, 203, 224, 128, 390, 484
Lasky, Jesse, 94, 100, 101, 107, 110, 139–40
Lawford, Christopher, 678
Lawford, Patricia Kennedy (daughter), 90, 113, 126, 243, 264, 266–67, 325, 423, 457, 463, 490, 560, 602, 646, 654, 667, 695, 719, 762
birth of, 90
education of, 526, 527, 547
in England during JPK’s ambassadorship, 286, 297, 298
Hartington’s death and, 573
JPK’s stroke and, 776, 778, 779
Kathleen’s death and, 621
marriage of, 585, 678
work life of, 585
World War II and, 410
Lawford, Peter, 695, 730, 762, 778
Patricia Kennedy’s marriage to, 585, 678
Lawler, Anna, 160–61
Lawrence, Charles, 223–24
Lawrence, David, 729
League of Nations, 176, 199, 258, 290, 361
Leaming, Barbara, 622
LeBaron, Bill, 116
Lee, Raymond E., 460, 467, 473, 501
Leffingwell, Russell, 67
LeFrak, Sam, 778
LeHand, Missy, 191, 244–45, 247, 366, 416, 480, 490, 492, 493, 542–43
Lehár, Franz, 155
lend-lease program, 510, 511–13, 515, 516–20, 525
Lenglen, Suzanne, 97
Leonard, Dutch, 56
Lerner, Max, 356
Lewin, Charles J., 666
Lewis, Duffy, 728
Lewis, John L., 260, 319
Libbey-Owens-Ford Company, 192, 210, 262–63
Liberty, 314
Liberty Loans, 54
Lieut. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Home, 627–28
Life, 313, 432, 519, 561, 615, 637, 739, 752, 774
JPK’s article in, 599–602, 604–5
Lincoln, Evelyn, 771
Lincoln Center, 773
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 300, 338–39, 377
Lindbergh, Charles A., 102, 266, 300, 306, 338–40, 357, 360, 369, 418, 427, 503, 514
Lindley, Ernest, 658
Lindsay, Ronald, 338, 363, 364, 372
Lippmann, Walter, 198, 211, 317, 356–57, 367, 394, 434, 637
Lipstadt, Deborah, 360
liquor:
JPK bootlegging stories, 71, 79–81
JPK’s Somerset Importers business, 192–94, 245, 528–29, 611, 720
Prohibition and, 79, 191, 192, 193
Literary Digest, 236
Lloyd, Harold, 110
Lloyd George, David, 433
lobotomy, 534–35
of Rosemary Kennedy, xxiii, 535–37, 589, 630–31, 683, 691
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 11
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 545, 604, 607, 639, 641, 656
JFK’s Senate campaign against, 652, 656, 657–58, 661, 662–70, 741–42
Loew, Marcus, 94, 100, 101, 103
Logevall, Fredrik, 600
London Evening Standard, 377
London Monetary and Economic Conference, 191
London School of Economics, 198–99, 239
Long, Breckinridge, 199, 410, 446, 447, 482, 496, 497, 508, 509
Long, Huey, 230, 231, 235
Lonsdale, Frederick, 376, 554
Look, 655, 721–22, 724
Looker, Earle, 262–63
Los Angeles Examiner, 96
Los Angeles Times, 116, 120, 122–23, 125, 128, 130, 136, 364, 369, 506, 513, 737
Lothian, Philip Kerr, Lord, 411–12, 416–17, 427–28, 465, 466, 483, 506, 507, 509
Lowell, Abbott, 61
Lowell, Ralph, 24
Luce, Clare Boothe, 299, 379–80, 432, 433, 435, 436, 463, 464, 469, 489, 494, 544–45, 554, 555, 568, 615, 703
Luce, Henry, 299, 300, 379, 380, 519, 580, 637, 739–40
Lusitania, 44–45
Lyons, Louis, 497–500, 503, 514
MacArthur, Douglas, 635, 658
MacDonald, Malcolm, 358, 361, 362, 365, 371, 390
MacDonald, Torbert, 379, 595, 677–78, 708
Mack, Roy, 693
Mackay, Ellin, 249
Mailer, Norman, 762
Maine and New Hampshire Theatre Company, 91, 94, 120
Maisky, Ivan, 484
Maltz, Albert, 730–31
Manhattan, S.S., 284
Manhattanville College, 695
Mao Zedong, 636
Marion, Frances, 96, 102
Maritime Commission, 315, 343, 409, 543–44
congressional report of, 269–70
establishment of, 259
JPK as chairman of, xxi, 80, 255–56, 258–59, 261–62, 264, 267–70, 272, 276, 277, 278–79, 296, 544
maritime industry, 258–59
labor practices and disputes in, 261–62, 267–69, 278–79, 284
Mark Twain Journal, 731
Marsh, Ollie, 121
Marshall, George, 616, 674
Marshall, Tully, 138
Marshall Plan, 616–17, 618, 636
Martin, Joe, 616
Martin, Mary Jane, 213
Martin, Samuel Klump, III, 213
Marwood mansion, 213–15, 228–29, 245, 273
Marx, Groucho, 251
Marx, Harpo, 252
Massachusetts Electric, 59
Matsu, 745, 746
Matthews, Chris, 753
Matthews, J. B., 672–73
Maverick Congregational Church, 7
Maxwell, Elsa, 299, 325
Mayer, Louis B., 121, 135
McAllister, Father Nilus, 220
McCarthy, Jean Kerr, 685
McCarthy, Joe (reporter), 171
McCarthy, Joseph (senator), 595–96, 667–68, 671, 672–74, 677, 682, 685, 728, 741
Army hearings, 673, 675
death of, 685
JFK and, 666–67, 685, 701
JPK and, 667, 672, 674, 685
Robert Kennedy and, 671, 672, 685
McClellan, John, 673, 688, 711
McCormack, John W., 539, 588, 703, 729
McCormick, Colonel Robert, 243–44, 318, 497, 517, 644
McCraw, Thomas, 226
McDonald, George, 527–28
McInerny, Tim, 555, 557–58, 653–54, 681, 682
McNamara, Robert, 760
Meet the Press, 658–59, 785
mental retardation, 698–99, 760
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation and, 696–99
presidential panel on, 760–61
Merchandise Mart, 588–89, 592, 611–12, 625, 647, 693, 694, 782
Merchants Bank of Boston, 38, 39, 45, 49, 59
Merrill, Joe, 35–36
Messersmith, George, 328
Meyer, Eugene, 507, 508
Meyner, Robert, 720
MGM, 94, 119, 259
Middle East, 351, 497, 530, 658–59
JFK’s tour of, 654
Middlesex Club, 61
Milbank, Jeremiah, 112, 119
Miller, Merle, 576
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 421
Mitford, Unity, 404
Mizner, Addison, 190
Moffat, Jay Pierrepont, 292, 293–94, 332, 354, 355, 362, 365, 370, 429–30
Moley, Raymond, 175, 179, 180, 181, 186, 187, 191, 202, 205, 208, 209–10, 218
Moniz, Egas, 534
Mooney, James, 383, 384, 385
Moore, Edward “Eddie,” 63, 67, 77, 87, 89, 93, 98, 105, 114, 117, 137, 151, 175, 180, 207, 213, 214, 215, 221, 255, 284, 375, 387, 408, 419, 436, 447, 450, 463, 464, 491, 495
in England during JPK’s ambassadorship, 297, 299, 300
JFK’s congressional campaign and, 595, 598
JPK’s first business transaction with, 59
JPK’s relationship with, 59–60, 180
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation and, 613
motion picture industry and, 94, 95, 112, 115–16, 118, 138–39
Rosemary Kennedy and, 411, 533
Moore, Mary, 59–60, 63, 113, 255, 297, 375, 419, 436, 447, 450
Rosemary Kennedy and, 152, 411, 425, 426, 533, 628
Moore, Owen, 86
Moore, Father Thomas, 527, 535
Morgan, Edward P., 746
Morgan, Forbes, 188
Morgan, J. P. “Jack,” 285, 403, 419
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 215, 230, 231, 246, 272, 274, 276–77, 325, 326, 330, 331, 333, 338, 367, 395, 412, 437–38, 583
Morgenthau, Henry, III, 326–27
Morris, Sylvia Jukes, 380
Morrissey, Francis X. “Frank,” 716, 719, 729, 730, 766
judgeship and, 768–69, 786
Morrissey, Michael, 732
Morrison, Herbert, 484
Morse, Wayne, 735
Mortal Storm, The, 502
Morton, Thurston, 752
Moscicki, Ignacy, 401
motion picture industry, xx
British import restrictions and, 420–21
censorship and, xx, 75–76, 97, 107
FBO and, see FBO
First National and, 122–27, 128–29, 135, 158
Jews in, 75, 97, 103, 104, 501–2, 503, 559
JPK in, xx, 65–71, 73–76, 91–104, 105–27, 128–32, 135–46, 154–62, 168, 169–70, 518
JPK’s Harvard lecture series on, 100–102, 109
K-A-O and, 112, 119–20, 121, 122, 128–29, 130–31, 135, 137
Pathé and, see Pathé
RKO and, see RKO
Robertson-Cole Distributing Corporation and, 71, 73–75
sound systems and, 111, 124
Moving Picture World, 95, 100
Mowrer, Edgar, 459–60
Mulkern, Patsy, 595
Mundelein, George Cardinal, 252
Munich Agreement, 346–47, 348–49, 359–60, 400, 402, 435–36, 485, 633, 745
Muñoz Marin, Luis, 748
Murdock, J. J., 112–13, 115, 137, 159
Murphy, Frank, 482, 492, 493, 496, 507, 509, 539, 581
Murphy, Paul, 193, 221, 301, 377
JPK’s employment of, 613, 614
Murphy, William, Jr., 318
Murray, Vera, 77
Mushyn, Thomas, 679
Mussolini, Benito, 199,
272, 287, 289, 304, 346, 356, 375, 381, 448, 451
Roosevelt’s April, 1939 letter to, 381–82, 385
Muste, A. J., 607
Nantasket, Mass., 81
Nashville Tennessean, 737
Nation, 257
National Conference of Christians and Jews, 672
National Conference of Citizens for Religious Freedom, 743
National Distillers, 192
National Maritime Union (NMU), 268
National Recovery Act, 232
National Shawmut Bank, 33, 45, 59, 71, 88
National Socialism, 484, 498, 503
National Union for Social Justice, 230
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), 636, 638, 679
Navy, U.S., 504
JFK’s service in, 527–28, 531, 540, 542, 543, 549, 551, 555–59, 560
Joe Kennedy, Jr.’s service in, 527, 528, 540, 542, 543, 546, 549, 555, 561, 567, 568–69, 567, 568–69, 570–71
Robert Kennedy’s service in, 584–85
Navy League, Trafalgar Day dinner of, 353–54
Nazi Germany, 199, 200, 287, 288, 302, 315, 334–47, 356, 372–73, 377–78, 385, 394, 399–407, 418, 427, 432, 433, 438, 459, 475, 483, 486, 496–97, 516, 531, 577, 581, 605, 606, 638, 745
anti-Nazi films and, 501–2
appeasement of, see appeasement of Nazi Germany
Athenia and, 409
Austria annexed by (Anschluss), 287–90, 292, 293, 294, 306–7, 308–9, 322, 329, 351, 360, 361, 383, 413, 486
Belgium and, 439–40, 449, 450
Britain attacked by, 458, 461, 462–63, 466, 468, 469, 473–75, 477, 478, 479, 480–81, 496, 516, 529–31, 568
Britain’s declaration of war against, 406–7, 408, 410, 411, 415, 416
Czechoslovakia and, 287, 290, 302, 323, 329–30, 332, 334–47, 360, 375–76, 383, 400, 413, 486
Denmark and, 437
Dirksen and, 310–11, 741–42
economy of, 372, 382–84, 416
France invaded by, 440, 441, 447–56, 458
Holland and, 439–40
Joe Kennedy, Jr. in, 199, 200–202
JPK’s conversations with diplomats in, 310–11, 321
JPK’s fears about, xxii, 323
King Leopold and, 615
Kristallnacht in, 359–60, 361
Norway and, 428, 429, 437, 438, 439
Nuremberg Laws in, 287, 306
persecution of Jews in, 199–200, 287, 306–9, 310–11, 322, 329, 349–52, 359, 363, 364–65, 508, 581–82
Poland and, 376, 399–405, 413, 420, 486, 579, 633
Roosevelt and, 307, 309, 310, 321–22, 334, 338, 341, 344, 349
Soviet alliance with, 399, 415–16
Soviet Union invaded by, 531
surrender of, 579–80
in Tripartite Pact, 479–80