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Joe Jr.’s death and, 570, 571
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation and, 613, 624, 696, 697–98, 760
JPK’s stroke and, 776, 778, 779, 784
Kathleen’s death and, 620–21
marriage of, 585, 647, 677
and outbreak of World War II, 410
Rosemary and, 152, 154, 425, 630
work life of, 585, 619, 647, 697
Shriver, Robert Sargent (son-in-law), 647, 662, 663, 665, 668, 678, 695, 697–98, 704, 720, 773
Eunice Kennedy’s marriage to, 585, 647, 677
Sidey, Hugh, 752, 757
Silverman, Sime, 96
Simon, John, 336, 345, 367, 371
Sinatra, Frank, 730–31, 762, 763
Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, 623, 628
Skinner, Otis, 73
Skouras, Spyros, 126
Slessor, John, 339
Smathers, George, 595–96, 652, 657, 684, 703, 757
Smith, Al, 134–35, 172, 173, 176, 246, 250–51, 491, 701, 744, 754
Smith, Ben (Wall Street trader), 163, 438
Smith, Benjamin A., II (senator), 766
Smith, Jean Kennedy (daughter), xxiii, 163, 243, 264, 423, 435, 457, 458, 463, 490, 534, 565, 615, 646, 668, 678, 681, 718, 762, 766–67
birth of, 116
childhood of, 126, 146, 178
doll collection of, 423–24
education of, 526, 547
in England during JPK’s ambassadorship, 286, 297, 298
Hartington’s death and, 573
jewelry theft and, 694
JFK’s congressional campaign and, 602, 603
Joe Jr.’s death and, 570, 571
JPK’s stroke and, 776, 778, 779
Kathleen’s death and, 621
marriage of, 585, 678, 718
and outbreak of World War II, 410
Rosemary and, 425, 629
work life of, 585–86
Smith, Joe, 705
Smith, Kate, 654
Smith, Steve (son-in-law), 718, 726, 728, 762, 786
Jean Kennedy’s marriage to, 585, 678, 718
socialism, 251, 484, 618
Depression and, 171
Social Security, 260
Somerset Importers, 192–94, 245, 528–29, 611, 720
Sorensen, Ted, 673, 685, 687, 690, 702–3, 709, 726, 745, 748, 752, 764, 769, 774
Southard, Louis K., 38
Soviet Union, 287, 394, 484, 577, 580, 581, 600–601, 604–5, 638, 643
appeasement of, xxii, 605–7
in Cold War, xxii, 604–5, 609, 625, 636, 659, 660–61, 682, 689
German alliance with, 399, 415–16
German invasion of, 531
Joe Kennedy, Jr.’s trip to, 199, 202, 203, 220
JPK’s views on, xxii, 600–601, 605–6, 617, 659, 682, 745, 746
Korea and, 632, 633, 636, 641
Poland invaded by, 416
Robert Kennedy’s views on, 689–90
U.S. negotiations with, 745–46
Spain, 374, 377, 496–97
Catholic refugees in, 309, 323–24
civil war in, 258, 287, 377, 381
Spalding, Chuck, 739
Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 252–53, 575, 580, 586, 626–28, 649, 677, 696, 698, 700, 730, 748, 755–56
JFK’s presidential campaign and, 723, 727–28, 744, 753–55
Spivak, Lawrence, 658–59
Stalin, Joseph, 254, 575, 600, 601, 605, 636, 638
Stanford University, 476, 501
Stanton, Frank, 747
State Street Trust, 45
Stearn, Jess, 767
Steele, Richard, 766
Stevenson, Adlai, 661, 668, 687, 701–8, 709, 736, 764
Stewart, Jimmy, 398, 421, 502
Stewart, Robert, 490
Stewart, William Rhinelander, 299
Steyne, Alan, 301
Stieglitz, Katherine “Kitty,” 536
Stimson, Henry, 459, 465
stock market:
and British sales of securities, 437–38
crash of 1929, xxi, 132, 154, 159–60, 218, 586–87
insider trading and, 67–68, 78, 131, 132, 161–62, 226, 227
investigation of fraud in, 188
JPK’s trading in, xx–xxi, 44–45, 58–59, 67, 77–78, 131–32, 155, 161–62, 168, 170, 175, 188, 191–92, 205, 206, 209–10, 212–13, 226, 438, 529, 692, 693
JPK’s work as broker, 58, 60, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68
Libbey-Owens-Ford stock pool and, 192, 210, 262–63
registration of foreign stocks and bonds on NYSE, 238–39
regulation of, 204–5, 219; see also Securities and Exchange Commission
Roosevelt and, 217, 246, 248, 271
short selling and, 88, 168, 170, 438, 692
upward climb of, 77, 111, 167
Stone, Fred, 65, 76, 77
Stone, Galen, 58, 64, 67, 69, 74, 87
Straus, Jesse, 177
Strong, George, 481
Stuart, Harry, 257
Stuart, Robert, Jr., 506, 511
Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, 287, 290, 302, 323, 329–30, 332, 334–47, 360, 383
Suez Canal, 475, 497, 530, 655, 660
Sullivan, Mark, 210–11
Sulzberger, Arthur, 300, 316
Sumner, William, 5, 6
Sunday Pictorial, 611
Sunset Boulevard, 156
Supreme Court, 228, 232
Roosevelt’s plan to change composition of, 270–71
Surrender of King Leopold, The (Kennedy and Landis), 615
Sutton, Billy, 595
Swanson, Gloria, 86, 107–10, 113, 114–15, 116–19, 121, 122, 153, 155–59, 173, 611
bungalow built for, 137, 157
financial problems of, 157–58
Gloria Productions, 115, 155, 156, 158, 169–70
JPK’s affair with, xx, 115, 117, 118, 137, 143–48, 154, 156, 158
JPK’s meeting of, 107–8, 110
Moore and, 60
Queen Kelly, 118–19, 121, 136–42, 155–56, 157, 158, 159
Rose Kennedy and, 143–47
Rose Kennedy compared with, 110
singing of, 143, 154–56
Sunset Boulevard, 157
The Trespasser, 142–44, 154–55, 156, 157
Swope, Gerard, 331
Swope, Herbert Bayard, 174–75, 188, 202, 209, 210, 211, 218, 219, 234, 239, 331
Symington, Stuart, 673, 720
Tablet, 744
Taft, Robert A., 604–5, 638–39, 660, 666
Talbot, Father Ted, 563
taxes, 229, 231–32, 237, 606, 608, 625, 660
JPK and, 157, 194, 588, 611, 612, 625
Taylor, Henry, 66
Taylor, Myron, 308, 322, 329, 365, 393, 632, 633
Teamsters, 710
Thayer, Eugene, 38, 39, 49, 59, 71–72, 73–74, 78
Thompson, Dorothy, 357, 519
Thomson, Fred, 96–98, 100, 102, 106, 107, 116
Tilden, Bill, 325
Time, 122, 174, 236, 244, 256, 268, 278, 279, 409, 433, 519, 592, 703, 713, 720, 738, 739
Times (London), 565
Timilty, Joe (“the Commish”), 595, 610, 618, 621, 645, 680, 736
Tinkham, George, 500
Tito, Josip Broz, 636, 639
Tobin, Maurice, 591, 592, 593, 598, 604
Todd, Mike, 572
Todd Shipbuilding, 69, 78, 168, 256
Tolson, Clyde, 559
Toscan
ini, Arturo, 300
Townsend, Francis, 230, 231
Townsend, Kathleen Kennedy (granddaughter), 654, 780
Transamerica, 159, 168
transatlantic communications, 422–23
transcontinental rail travel, 140
Travell, Janet, 773
Treaty of Versailles, 258, 368, 376
Treman, Robert, 66
Trespasser, The, 142–44, 154–55, 156, 157
Trohan, Walter, 318, 518
Truitt, Max, 409, 490, 542
Truman, Harry, 573, 575–76, 580, 583–84, 594, 599, 601, 606, 615, 616, 637, 638, 640, 643, 649, 656, 658, 659, 663, 666, 711, 736, 746
Herbert Hoover and, 584
JPK’s meeting with, 632, 633–34, 644
Korean War and, 633, 635
and sending U.S. troops to Europe, 638–42
Truman Doctrine (aid to Greece and Turkey), 605, 607, 608, 616, 617, 618, 636, 637
Tucker, Sophie, 93
Tugwell, Rexford, 249, 251
Tully, Grace, 542–43
Tunney, Gene, 100
Turkey, 600, 605
U.S. aid to, 605, 607, 608, 616, 617, 618, 636, 637
Turner, Ethel, 71
20th Century Limited, 141
Tyler, Tom, 97
unemployment, 229–30
work relief program, 229–31, 232, 237
unions, see labor
United Artists, 96, 108, 110, 114, 115, 137, 141, 143, 156, 157
United Nations, 593, 601
Universal Films, 66, 94, 119, 122
University of Virginia, 635–36, 658, 675–76
U.S. News & World Report, 689, 703, 741
U.S. Steel, 168, 319–20, 393
utilities industry, 274
Public Utility Holding Company Act, 232–35, 236, 237
Valentino, Rudolph, 110
Vallee, Rudy, 221
Vandenberg, Arthur, 601, 607, 616
Vansittart, Robert, 431
Variety, 96, 116, 122, 143
Vatican, 252–53, 264, 381, 619, 632, 633, 634, 642, 679, 699–701, 712, 715, 724, 755, 771
JFK’s presidential campaign and, 734–35
Vickery, Howard, 543–44
Voice of America, 771
Von Stroheim, Erich, 118–19, 121, 136–39, 155
Voorhis, Jerry, 595–96
Wagner, Robert, 389
Wagner Act, 232, 237
Wakeman, Samuel, 52, 55
Waldorf Towers, 503, 547
Waldrop, Frank, 531, 541
Walker, Elisha, 112, 115, 117, 119–20, 123, 124, 129, 130, 159, 175, 192, 257
Walker, Frank, 180–81, 188
Walker, James, 178–79
Wallace, Bob, 726
Wallace, Henry, 504, 605
Wallace, Mike, 714
Wall Street, see stock market
Wall Street bombing of 1920, 69–70
Wall Street Journal, 236, 637
Walsh, David I., 215, 551, 604, 657
Walsh, Elizabeth, 615, 663
Walsh, Margaret, 160–61
Walsh, Tom, 769
Walter, Eugene, 138
Wanamaker, Rodman, 190
Warburg, James, 191, 246
Warner, Harry, 94, 101, 181
Warner, Jack, 181
Warner Brothers, 94, 129
JPK’s remarks at luncheon at, 501–2
Warren, Earl, 764
Washington News, 208
Washington Post, 364, 507, 620, 763
Washington Star, 284
Washington Times-Herald, 531, 540, 541
Watson, Edwin “Pa,” 489–90
Watts, James, 534, 535
Week, The, 393
Weinberg, Sidney, 550
Weizmann, Chaim, 286, 351, 358, 359, 388, 390, 392, 393
Welles, Sumner, 273, 294, 309, 354, 367, 372, 374, 389, 400, 412, 440, 460, 465, 481–83, 489–90, 493, 496, 507, 512, 615
and bombing of England, 478–79
British-Italian negotiations and, 303–4
Chamberlain’s speech and, 342, 344
on fact-finding tour of Europe, 433–34
on Frankfurter, 508
international conference proposed by, 288
Jewish refugees and, 350–52. 364
and JPK’s meeting with German officials, 384–85
and JPK’s offer as liaison to the pope, 381
Wellington, Alfred, 33, 38
West Point cheating scandal, 649–50
Wheeler, Burton, 176, 234, 317, 514, 517
Wherry, Kenneth, 639, 640, 641
White, Thomas J., 254, 317, 356
White, Theodore, 744
White, William Allen, 507
Whitehead, T. North, 430
Whitney, Richard, 204, 205, 217
Why England Slept (JFK), 212, 424, 435–36, 457, 494, 514, 745
Williams, G. Mennen “Soapy,” 720
Williams, Harrison, 191
Willicombe, Joe, 183, 186
Willkie, Wendell, 462, 482, 489, 491
Wilson, Horace, 342, 343, 400, 404
Wilson, Woodrow, 67, 181, 284, 335, 736
Britain and, 44
Prohibition and, 79
Selective Service System and, 50
World War I and, 40, 49, 54
Winchell, Walter, 369, 540, 600, 675
Windsor, Duchess of, 325
Windsor, Duke of, 325, 344, 526
Wise, Rabbi Stephen, 327, 386, 389
Wohlthat, Helmuth, 383, 384–85
Wolkoff, Anna, 444–45
Wood, Henry, 468
Wood, Robert E., 506
Wood, Kingsley, 448–49
Woodin, William, 183
Woodring, Harry, 393
Woolf, S. J., 212–13
Worcester Telegram, 766
World War I, 48–57, 172, 219
Britain in, 40, 44, 49–50
financial panic caused by, 40–41
France in, 40, 49
JPK’s opposition to American involvement in, 49–50
JPK’s Selective Service registration during, 50–51, 54
JPK’s shipyard management position during, 51–57
neutrality and, 40, 44
outbreak of, 40
Selective Service System created during, 50
U.S. entry into, 49, 54
Wilson and, 40, 49, 54
World War II, 576–77
Allied invasion of Europe, 567
America First Committee and, 506, 510–11, 517, 519, 525, 531
appeasement and, see appeasement of Nazi Germany
Athenia sinking and, 408–10
atomic bombs in, 580
Britain in, 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, 568, 579, 581, 633, 745
Britain in buildup to, 289, 290, 292–94, 301, 302–3, 323, 329–31, 332, 334–35, 338–47, 368, 373, 399–407
Britain’s declaration of war against Germany, 406–7, 408, 410, 411, 415, 416
destroyers-for-bases negotiations in, 466–67, 469–72, 493
embassy codes and, 430, 444–46
end of, xxii, 579–81
espionage in, 444–47
events leading up to, xxi–xxii, 258, 287–91, 301, 323, 372, 394–95, 398, 399–407
fall of France in, 440, 441, 447–56, 458
France in, 289, 290, 302, 323, 329, 334, 338, 33
9, 341, 368, 373, 376, 405, 413, 414, 443, 447–56, 633
Germany in, see Nazi Germany
and illusion of Anglo-American alliance, 334–35, 342
isolationism and, 289, 292, 295, 431, 433, 434, 486, 498–500, 503, 504, 517, 607–8
Italy in, 451, 479–80, 497, 529, 581
Japan in, 479–80, 538, 577, 580, 581
JFK’s service in, 527–28, 531, 540, 542, 543, 549, 551, 555–59, 560, 734
Joe Kennedy, Jr.’s service in, 527, 528, 540, 542, 543, 546, 549, 555, 562, 570–71
JPK’s pessimism about outcome of, xxii, 373, 416–19, 427–28, 429, 431–32, 461, 479–80, 482, 483–84, 495, 496–97, 498, 501, 503, 509, 515, 517, 544
Kathleen Kennedy’s Red Cross service during, 551, 552, 555
lend-lease program and, 510, 511–13, 515, 516–20, 525
Munich Agreement and, 346–47, 348–49, 359–60, 400, 402, 435–36, 485, 633, 745
neutrality laws and, 288, 415, 418, 443, 445, 459, 510
Pearl Harbor, xxii, 509, 538, 567
Roosevelt’s appeals for negotiations, 341, 342, 343, 344
Selective Service System and, 476
transatlantic communications and, 422–23
Tripartite Pact in, 479–80
U.S. aid to Allies in, 441–43, 451–54, 458–59, 461, 466–72, 498, 503, 510, 517, 519, 605
U.S. entry into, 538–39
U.S. involvement with Allies in, 428, 429, 441–43, 454, 467, 477–80, 485, 486, 491, 504, 513–17
U.S. military strength and, 494–95, 498
World Zionist Organization, 358
Wright, Bishop John, 625, 714
Wyzanski, Charles, 702
Yellow Cab Company, 88–89, 92
Young Men’s Nonpartisan League of Boston, 38
Yugoslavia, 529, 636
Zanuck, Darryl, 299, 502
Zanuck, Virginia Fox, 299
Ziegfeld, Florenz, 97–98
Zionism, 286–87, 351–52, 358, 359, 385, 386, 388–93, 712
Zionist Organization of America, 391
Zukor, Adolph, 75, 94, 100, 101, 109
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