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INDEX
ABC News, 343, 404
Abrams, Creighton, 228, 235, 240–41
Abu Ghraib, 526
Acheson, Dean, 48, 67, 68, 69, 91, 97–98, 134, 178, 523–24
on Bay of Pigs invasion, 134
on Citizens Committee for Peace with Freedom in Viet Nam, 188
on Hoover commission, 48
McCarthy’s desire for resignation of, 67
Adams, John, 3, 90
Adams, John Quincy, 5
Adams, Sherman, 84
Afghanistan War, 13, 468, 487
Africa, 29, 356
African Americans, 497
Agnew, Spiro, 218, 233, 234, 293, 297, 298, 377
Air Force, U.S., 422
Air Force One, 339–51
al-Assad, Hafez, 400, 407–8
Albert, Carl, 299, 300
Alexander the Great, 524
Alfalfa Club, 516
Algeria, 120
Allen, George, 95
Allen, Marty, 456
Allen, Richard, 217, 238, 243
al Qaeda, 468, 469, 470
Alsop, Joseph, 60, 173
Ambrose, Stephen, 98
Americans for Democratic Action, 187, 189
Americans with Disabilities Act, 515
“America’s Role in the Emerging World” (conference), 391–92
