The Kennedy Men

by Laurence Leamer

Connolly, John, 733

  Connor, Eugene “Bull, ” 704

  Convoy, Kikoo, 45

  Cooke, Alistair, 680

  Coolidge, Calvin, 440, 576

  Cooper, Gary, 225

  Corbin, Paul, 421, 578–79, 694–95

  Corcoran, Tommy, 73–74

  Cordova Orta, Juan, 489

  Cotter, John F., 231

  Coughlin, Charles, 109

  Coughlin, Robert, 282

  Cox, Archibald, 447

  Creagh, John T., 52

  Cronkite, Walter, 515, 719

  Crosby, John, 294

  Crowell, Chester T., 48

  Cuba, 437, 483–521, 529–31, 607–13, 672–79, 716, 728–30, 739–40

  Communist takeover of, 453, 483–84, 489

  JFK and, 381–82, 405, 408, 453–56, 483–516, 518–22, 529–30, 533, 537, 562–66, 609–13, 617, 621–63, 667, 672–77, 696, 702, 708, 726, 729–30, 734, 736

  Operation Mongoose and, 562–66, 609–13, 621–23, 628–30, 653, 677

  release of anti-Castro prisoners from, 673–75

  Soviet arms shipments to, 623–44, 646–49, 653–55, 657–63, 673–74

  U-2 shot down over, 656–57

  U.S.-backed covert missions against, 678–79, 728–29

  U.S.-backed invasion of (Bay ofPigs), 453–56, 484–89, 491–522, 529–30, 533, 537, 562–66, 611, 617, 623, 625, 629–31, 633, 635–36, 660, 667, 675, 677, 679, 736

  U.S. naval blockade of, 637–42, 644, 646–47, 650–53, 657, 660–62

  see also Castro, Fidel

  Cuban Missile Crisis, 631–63, 673–74, 678, 702, 708, 736

  Cubela Secades, Rolando, 729, 736

  Culver, John, 582–83

  Cunningham, Bill, 259

  Curley, James Michael, 52, 54, 223, 231

  pardon of, 247–48

  Cushing, Richard Cardinal, 241–42, 258–59, 280, 384–85, 393–95, 428–29, 697–98

  Daley, Richard, 434, 465, 468

  Dallas, Rita, 591, 738

  Dalton, Mark, 342

  JFK’s congressional career and, 246–47, 293–94

  JFK’s 1946 congressional campaignand, 231, 237

  JFK’s 1952 Senate campaign and, 293–96

  Daly, John, 198

  Damita, Lili, 224–25

  Danforth, William, 70

  Darcel, Denise, 382

  Darden, Colgate, 275

  Darr, Alicia, 422–23, 600

  David, Jules, 349

  Davies, Marion, 433

  Davis, Mary, 273–74, 311

  Davis, Monnett, 286

  Davis, Zel, 40–41

  D-Day, 209–10, 231, 455, 655

  de Gaulle, Charles, 535–36, 644, 672

  de Havilland, Olivia, 226

  DeLoach, Cartha, 39, 491, 529, 599–600, 693, 730–31

  Democratic National Convention:

  JFK’s 1956 vice-presidentialcampaign and, 353–59

  JFK’s 1960 presidential campaignand, 432, 437–38

  Democratic Party, U.S. see specificelections and individualsDepression, Great, 69–70, 85, 95, 131, 315

  DeSapio, Carmine, 355

  Des Rosiers, Janet, 336–39, 395, 448

  Dever, Paul, 306

  Devlin, Lawrence, 454

  Dewey, Thomas E., 222, 294

  Dexter School, 50–51

  Diem, Ngo Dinh, 437, 672, 717–18, 720–26, 728

  Dillon, Douglas, 497, 641, 644, 657, 660, 679, 716

  DiMaggio, Joe, 607

  Di Pasquale, Mauro G., 528

  Dirksen, Herbert von, 114

  Doar, John, 613

  Dobbs, Farrell, 369

  Dobro, Max, 392

  Dobrynin, Anatoly, 649–50, 657–58, 662

  Dolan, Joe, 604

  Don, Tran Van, 720–21

  Donohue, Dick, 476

  Donovan, Dan, 392

  Donovan, James, 675–76

  Donovan, Joe, 20–21

  Donovan, Robert P., 356

  Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 281

  Douglas, John, 714

  Douglas, Paul, 375

  Douglas, William O., 73, 360–61, 365, 476, 607, 714, 728

  Douglas-Home, Robin, 645, 652

  Douglas-Home, William, 264, 269, 318, 645

  Dowdle, John, 272

  Dowling, Eddie, 71

  Draznin, Julius, 740

  Droney, John, 320

  Duffy, LaVern, 691

  Duffy, Robert, 197, 206

  Dulles, Allen, 454, 617

  Cuba and, 483–86, 493–94, 497, 505–6, 515–17, 521, 623

  Dun, Angus, 542

  Duong Van Minh “Big Minh, ” 725–26

  Durbrow, Elbridge, 718

  Early, Steve, 116–17

  Eastland, James, 671

  Ebbins, Milt, 607

  “Economic Problems of New England, The” (J. F. Kennedy), 313

  Edward Devotion Elementary School, 47, 49

  Edwards, India, 434, 441

  Edwards, Sheffield, 488, 607–8

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 228, 299, 314, 364, 375, 419, 437, 477, 524, 529, 571–72, 600, 630, 654

  Cuba and, 454–55, 483–84, 488, 491, 493

  JFK’s European tour and, 285–86

  at JFK’s inauguration, 471

  on military-industrial complex, 5341952 presidential campaign of, 294

  Nixon’s 1960 presidential campaignand, 439–40, 451, 453–54

  White House decor and, 481–82, 571

  White House social style of, 572

  in World War II, 285

  Elcock, Walter, 12

  election of 1946, 320, 487

  Dalton and, 231, 237, 293

  immigrants in, 230

  JFK’s shyness in, 230

  Joe Sr.’s role in, 231–32, 258

  election of 1960, 357–58, 391, 401, 416–68, 481, 492–93, 554, 559

  Cox in, 447

  debates in, 448–49, 450–56, 537

  Eisenhower and, 439–40, 451, 453–54

  FDR Jr.’s advice in, 425–27, 430

  Feldman and, 417–18, 426, 435–36, 440, 447–49, 453

  Giancana and, 464–66

  Henry Luce and, 438–39

  Hoffa and, 461, 465

  Humphrey’s campaign in, 403, 416–17, 421–22, 423, 424–25, 426–27, 429–30, 431, 434

  Jackie and, 405, 424, 431, 433, 437, 456–57, 468

  JFK’s campaign in, 357–58, 374, 378–79, 388, 394, 401–7, 413–14, 416–68, 475, 478, 481, 493, 526, 534, 540, 554, 578, 580, 599

  JFK’s liberalism in, 418

  JFK’s nomination in, 378–79, 388, 402–7

  JFK’s personality in, 397, 432–33

  JFK’s vice-presidential candidateselected in, 434–36

  Joe Sr. and, 357, 402–5, 417, 422–23, 425–29, 433–38, 446, 464–65, 468, 475, 599

  Johnson’s presidential campaign in, 403, 417, 422, 434, 436

  Johnson’s vice-presidential campaignin, 434–36, 441–42, 444, 462

  Kennedy Foundation in, 393–94

  King and, 457–61

  missile gap and, 540

  mob influence in, 413–14, 464–66

  New York Times endorsement in, 374

  Nixon’s campaign in, 428, 439, 40, 443, 445, 448–49, 450–58, 461, 463, 464, 465, 467, 468, 492–93, 537

  O’Brien and, 402–3, 448

  O’Donnell and, 402, 425–26, 436, 448, 466–67

  Peale and, 442–46

  Powers and, 448, 450

  religion as issue in, 427–30, 442–46

  RFK and, 374, 402–7, 419–21, 424–27, 431–32, 435–37, 441–44, 450–51, 460–65, 468, 475, 478, 578, 580, 599

  Rose and, 417, 425, 434, 468

  Shriver and, 402, 432, 459–61

  Sinatra and, 462, 464–66

  Sorensen and, 402–6, 417–18, 435, 437, 444, 447–49, 453, 468

  Spalding and, 419, 437–38

  Ted and, 401, 420–21, 434, 461–62, 468, 478, 580

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bsp; unions in, 365

  West Virginia primary in, 422, 423, 427, 430–31

  Wisconsin primary in, 416–17, 419, 421

  Wofford and, 458–61, 463, 558

  elections and campaigns:

  of 1860, 467

  of 1906, 466

  of 1912, 467

  of 1916, 305

  of 1928, 355

  of 1932, 69–72, 417, 467

  of 1936, 108, 298, 304

  of 1940, 116, 123, 149–57, 248

  of 1944, 222

  of 1946, see election of 1946

  Of l950, 280, 281, 389

  of 1952, 280–84, 291, 293–306, 314, 393, 645

  of 1956, 353–59, 363–64

  of 1958, 344, 388–97

  of 1960, see election of 1960

  of 1962, 581–85, 664–71

  of 1964, 699, 708, 714–16, 718, 729–32

  Eliot, Charles, 11, 24

  Elizabeth II, Queen of England, 118–19, 147, 157, 168, 279, 316

  Ellwood, Richard, 411

  Emspak, Julius, 246

  Enemy Within, The (R. F. Kennedy), 374

  Engelberg, Hyman, 605–6

  Esterline, Jake, 500, 502

  Evans, Courtney, 609, 691, 710–11

  Evans, Rowland, 569–70

  Exner, Judith Campbell, 464

  FBI investigation of, 603–4

  JFK’s affair with, 409–14, 433, 523, 550–52, 603–5, 690, 693

  Farland, Joseph P., 665

  Farley, James, 71, 152–53, 180

  Fasel, Angelo, 412

  Faulkner, William, 416

  Fay, Anita, 321–22

  Fay, Paul, Jr. “Red, ” 223–24, 229, 233–34, 253, 359, 391, 532, 588, 601, 605, 716

  JFK’s wedding and, 316–17, 319–22

  FBI Story, The (Hoover), 362

  FBO, 51

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 39, 360, 362, 366, 382–83, 465–66, 476, 478–79, 546, 596–603, 690–93, 710, 730–31, 734

  anti-Communist campaign of, 597–98, 691

  Arvadand, 173–76, 178–79

  civil rights and, 555–56

  Cuba and, 490–91, 564

  Hoffa arrested by, 370

  JFK investigated by, 382, 408, 411, 423, 548, 600, 603–4, 691–93

  Joe Sr.’s collaboration with, 180–81

  King investigated by, 710–13

  organized crime investigated by, 465, 598–603, 608–9

  RFK investigated by, 529, 597, 606

  Ted allegedly investigated by, 309–10

  Feeney, Leonard, 241—42

  Fejos, Paul, 172–74, 176

  Feldman, Myer “Mike, ” 414, 476–77, 479, 481, 601, 693, 695, 698

  Cuba and, 483, 504, 634

  JFK’s 1958 Senate campaign and, 390–91

  JFK’s 1960 presidential campaignand, 417–18, 426, 435–36, 440, 447–49, 453

  Ferry, Ronald M., 97

  Fessenden, 202

  Fine, Phil David, 303

  Finneran, Tom, 49

  Fisher, Robert, 19–22, 25, 32–33, 41–42, 96

  Fitzgerald, Agnes, 14

  Fitzgerald, Benedict, 39–41, 163

  FitzGerald, Desmond, 729–30

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 279

  Fitzgerald, John “Honey Fitz, ” 53, 403, 561, 668–69

  congressional campaigns of, 389, 466

  daughter’s courtship and, 13–14, 20–21, 23, 26–29, 36

  as grandfather, 31, 37, 59, 95, 97–98, 167, 255–56

  JFK’s 1946 congressional campaignand, 229, 2321906 mayoral campaign of, 466

  Fitzgerald, Zelda, 279

  Fitzwilliam, Earl Peter, 260–61

  Flanders, Ralph, 342

  Fleeson, Doris, 672

  Flower, Shirley, 242

  Flynn, Errol, 224–25

  Flynn, Leo, 240

  Flynn, Wally, 239–43, 273, 276

  Forbes, Alastair, 261

  Ford, Charles (Rocky Fiscalini), 610–11

  Ford, Eddie, 423

  Ford, Gerald R., 715

  Formosa, Johnny, 602

  Forrestal, James, 220, 228

  For Whom the Bell Tolls (film), 225

  For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), 125, 135

  Fowler, Harry, 67

  Fox, John, 304–5

  France:

  Algeria and, 375–76

  Vietnam and, 288–93, 328, 375–76, 716

  Franco, Francisco, 113, 125–27, 132, 537, 573

  Frankfurter, Felix, 152, 222

  Freedom Riders, 557–61, 614, 705, 708

  Freeman, Walter, 169–70

  Fuerbringer, Otto, 438–39

  Fulbright, J. William, 343, 496–97, 646

  Fulton, Josephine, 97–98

  Furcolo, Foster, 379, 392

  Fursenko, Aleksandr, 629

  Galbraith, John Kenneth, 97, 105, 481, 548, 577

  Gallagher, Patty McGinty, 39, 41

  Gallucio, Anthony, 306, 311

  Galvin, John, 295

  Gandhi, Mohandas K., 288, 458–59, 554, 670

  Garbo, Greta, 56

  Gargan, Ann, 590–94, 620, 738

  Gargan, Joseph “Joey, ” 166–67, 219, 255, 591

  Gargan, Mary Agnes, 166

  Garner, John Nance, 70

  Garrigues y Díaz Canabate, Antonioand Helen Anne, 126—27

  Gathings, Wilson, 287

  Gavin, James, 448

  Geoghegan, William A., 443

  George VI, King of England, 118, 147, 168, 279

  Georgetown University, RFK’s speechat, 362

  Georgia, University of, RFK’s speech at, 554–56

  Giancana, Sam, 371–72, 548, 740

  Cuba and, 488, 490–91, 608–9, 713

  Exner affair and, 412–14, 464, 551–52, 603

  FBI investigation of, 599, 601–3, 608–9

  JFK’s 1960 presidential campaignand, 464–66

  Glenn, John H., Jr., 576

  Glynn, Chuck, 241–42

  Godfrey, Arthur, 576

  Goldberg, Arthur, 482

  Goldsmith, Arthur, 23

  Goldwater, Barry, 520, 715

  Gone With the Wind, 226, 315

  Good, Frederick, 31, 55

  Goodwin, Richard, 453–54

  Gorky, Maxim, 626–27

  Gould, Milton, 606

  Grace, Mike, 221

  Grady, Ronan, 11

  Graham, Billy, 442–43

  Graham, Phil, 435, 632

  Grant, Cary, 249, 395

  Graziani, Benno and Nicole, 650

  Great Britain, 133, 244, 292–93, 350, 520

  bombing of, 148–51, 192, 227–28

  JFK’s writings on, 143–45, 147, 161, 186

  Joe Sr. as viewed in, 146–48, 150, 157

  Joe Sr.’s ambassadorship to, 112–23, 126–30, 136–43, 146–50, 153–57, 161, 180, 195, 222, 259, 438, 472, 538

  Middle East and, 262

  and partition of Ireland, 682

  trade between China and, 308

  U.S. lend-lease to, 149, 152, 161–62

  Great Depression, 69–70, 85, 95, 131, 315

  Greene, Graham, 562–63

  Greenson, Ralph, 605

  Greer, Bill, 735

  Grihangne, Jean, 374–75

  Gromyko, Andrei, 634–35, 637

  Grumbles, W. E., 204–5

  Guevara, Che, 563

  Guillion, Edmund, 290

  Guns of August, The (Tuchman), 648

  Guthman, Edwin O., 421, 606, 692–93

  Guthrie, Ted, 185–86

  Gwirtzman, Milton, 667–68, 670

  Hackett, David, 200–201, 233, 333, 713

  Hackett, Frank S., 64

  Haig, Alexander, 740

  Halifax, E. F. L. Wood, Lord, 120, 148, 153

  Hall, G. Stanley, 10, 12

  Hall, Winfield Scott, 29–30

  Halle, Kay, 478, 700

  Halle and Stieglitz, 69

  Halley, Rudolph, 365

 
Hallowell, N. P., 25

  Halpern, Sam, 610–12, 728–29

  Hamill, Hunt, 103

  Hamilton, Edith, 567

  Handleman, Howard, 492

  Hannah, Mark, 351

  Hanon, Bishop Philip, 742

  Hansberry, Lorraine, 706

  Harkins, Paul, 717

  Harlow, Dick, 110–11, 239

  Harriman, Averell, 720–71

  Harris, Louis, 403

  Harrington, Billy, 208–9, 221, 251, 264, 645

  Hartington, Kathleen Kennedy “Kick, ”37, 117–18, 163, 202–3, 221–23, 233, 264–65, 318, 645

  anti-Semitism of, 222

  Arvad and, 172, 174

  childhood of, 43–44, 47–49, 58, 60

  death of, 260–62, 265, 269, 337

  heritage of, 251–52

  honors of, 386

  illnesses of, 78

  Joe Sr.’s womanizing and, 58, 118

  newspaper job of, 168, 172

  religious beliefs of, 208–9

  romances of, 208—9

  World War II and, 203, 208

  Hartsfield, William, 459

  Harvard University, 11, 32–34, 38, 50, 73, 81, 101–8, 167, 211, 229, 231, 284, 301–2, 324, 357, 362, 396, 447, 477–78, 481–82, 498, 528, 564, 586, 697, 716, 726

  anti-Semitism at, 115

  JFK as student at, 102–7, 130–33, 139, 141, 143–47, 159, 223–24, 238, 242–43, 246, 251, 275–77, 334, 341, 409, 707

  JFK’s application to, 101

  JFK’s congressional career and, 298, 312–13

  JFK’s 1960 presidential campaignand, 418

  Joe Jr. as student at, 94–98, 102–3, 105–8, 110–11, 122–25, 133, 143, 152, 162–63, 200, 239, 242–43, 275–77, 334–35

  Joe Sr. as student at, 15–27, 33, 35, 41, 52, 64, 66, 70, 94, 96–97, 103–4, 110, 133, 241, 267, 332, 335–36

  Joe Sr.’s lecture at, 107–8

  Joe Sr.’s tenth reunion party at, 41–42

  RFK as student at, 233–34, 238–43, 266, 269, 271, 273, 276–77, 302, 333, 425, 457, 478, 555

  Ted as student at, 275–77, 279, 332–36, 384, 584, 666–67Ted’s expulsion from, 277–78, 333, 335, 384, 584, 666–67

  World War I enlistees from, 32–33

  World War II and, 238, 240

  Yale’s rivalry with, 19, 24–27, 110–11, 239–40, 302, 332, 334–36, 369

  Harvey, William, 490, 612

  Haussermann, Oscar, 35

  Hawkins, Jack, 484–85, 495, 497–98, 500, 502, 518–19

  Hayden, Stone and Company, 35–36

  Hays, Will, 58

  Healy, Bob, 467, 578, 666–67

  Hearst, William Randolph, 70–71, 417, 433, 601

  Hearst, William Randolph, Jr., 203

  Hellman, Dorothea E., 526

  Helms, Richard M., 565

  Hemingway, Ernest, 125, 135, 211, 610, 627

  Hemingway, Mary, 610

  Hennessey, Luella, 118, 169, 587, 591

  Henry II, King of England, 490

  Henry V (Shakespeare), 479

  Hepburn, Katharine, 97

  Hersey, John, 206, 232, 294

  Hersh, Burton, 434, 581–82