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by Kai Bird


  McCloy’s relationship with, 129, 130, 178, 187, 191, 192, 421

  military strategy of, 145, 146, 177, 179, 181, 184, 194, 199, 227

  Marshall Plan, 71, 292–94, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 304, 306

  Martin, Edwin M., 534

  Masaoka, Mike, 158, 168

  May, Ernest, 660–61

  May, Stacy, 112

  “Meet the Press,” 512–13, 563, 652

  Meiklejohn, Alexander, 37–39, 40, 165, 166

  Merchant, Livingston, 608

  Merk, Kurt, 346

  Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 15, 396

  Metropolitan Opera, 72, 99, 483, 519

  Meyer, Cord, 483, 484, 485

  Meyer, Eugene, 124, 229, 282–83

  Middleton, Drew, 373

  Milbank, Albert G., 273

  Milbank, Jeremiah, 103, 111

  Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, 15, 16, 273–75, 282, 386, 499, 503, 517–18, 521, 540–41, 624, 625, 628, 630, 634, 639, 641, 653, 654, 659, 660

  Miles, Sherman, 113, 118, 119, 129, 137, 138, 141

  military-preparedness movement, 19, 40–46, 50, 80, 154, 501

  Miller, Bert, 160

  Miller, Francis P., 112

  Mills, C. Wright, 35, 483

  MIRVs (multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles), 615–17, 622

  “missile gap,” 487, 488, 509

  Mitchell, Charles E., 71

  Mitchell, John, 627

  Mitchell, William, 93

  Model, Leo, 551

  Moffat, Douglas M., 62

  Moffett, James A., 98

  Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, shah of Iran, 414, 605–6, 629, 630, 641–52

  Mollet, Guy, 460, 472

  Molotov, V. M., 235–36, 238, 250, 255

  Monat, Du, 357, 358, 413, 462

  Mondale, Walter, 648

  Monde, Le, 336

  Monnet, Jean, 17, 72, 97, 105, 180, 182, 183, 196, 197, 225, 234, 336, 337, 344, 377, 405, 589, 590

  Monnet, Sylvia, 97

  Monroe Doctrine, 109, 238, 239

  Moore, Elizabeth Luce, 73

  Moore, Hoyt A., 60, 62, 63, 405

  Moore, Maurice, 73, 75, 271, 272, 386

  Moran, Frederick A., 335

  Morgan, J. P., 62

  Morgan, Thomas Alfred, 422, 425

  J. P. Morgan & Co., 398–99, 400

  Morgenthau, Hans J., 584–85

  Morgenthau, Henry, Jr.:

  German occupation as viewed by, 230–33, 287, 586

  McCloy’s relationship with, 222–23, 230–33, 234

  as Secretary of the Treasury, 100, 102, 120, 123, 124, 197, 198, 203, 210, 214, 219

  Morgenthau Plan, 225–27, 228, 287, 586

  Morrow, Dwight, 42

  Moses, Robert, 454

  Mossadegh, Mohammed, 427

  Moulin, Jean, 346, 348

  Moyers, Bill, 619

  Muench, A. J., 333

  Munich agreement (1938), 109, 523, 575, 661

  Munich Beer Hall Putsch (1923), 88

  Munson, Curtis B., 155

  Murchison, Clint, 103, 430–32, 542

  Murphy, Robert, 175, 180, 183, 624

  Murrow, Edward R., 420

  Myer, Dillon S., 162–63, 166, 167

  Nadolny, Rudolf, 84

  Nagasaki bombing, 257, 259

  Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 442, 443, 445, 448–53, 541, 543, 567–68, 604, 607, 608, 614, 615, 624–25

  Nation, 44, 364, 600

  National Banking System, 399, 402

  National City Bank, 65, 66, 67, 71, 398, 400, 402, 456

  National Committee for a Free Albania, 355

  National Committee for a Free Europe, 414

  National Industry Recovery Act (NIRA), 101

  National Liberation Front (NLF), 582, 595–96

  National Security Act (1947), 301

  National Security Council (NSC), 229, 302, 468, 476, 478, 507, 519, 523, 528

  National Student Association, 484

  Naumann, Erich, 373

  Nelidoff, Alexander, 83–84, 95

  Neustadt, Richard, 497, 500

  New Deal, 98–104, 108–12, 287, 307

  McCloy’s views on, 106, 387, 404–5, 418–19, 426, 430, 436

  New Republic, 42, 44, 162

  Newsom, David, 647–48, 652 Newsweek, 291, 313

  New York Central Railroad Company, 431–32

  New York City Bar Association, 15, 59, 99, 503

  New York Compass, 334

  New Yorker, 59, 62–63, 77

  New York Herald Tribune, 201, 519

  New York Post, 334

  New York State Chamber of Commerce, 404

  New York Stock Exchange, 289, 291, 437, 438, 440, 453

  New York Times, 41, 66, 79, 202, 211, 219, 221, 226, 289, 294, 300, 313, 315, 318, 328, 333–34, 356, 393, 395, 405, 407, 410, 422, 432, 447, 450, 482, 488, 507, 532, 543, 544, 566, 568, 620, 623

  Nicaragua, 298, 656

  Niemoller, Martin, 336, 343

  Nisi Prius club, 15, 107–8, 423

  Nitze, Paul, 340, 461, 465, 466, 468, 491, 500, 531, 616, 649

  Nixon, Richard M., 15–16, 413, 613–40

  arms control policies of, 615–18

  energy crisis and, 629, 631–32

  Establishment as viewed by, 613, 622–23, 637–39

  foreign policy of, 621–24

  Kissinger’s relationship with, 613, 614

  McCloy’s relationship with, 447–48, 490, 542, 613–15

  Middle East policy of, 614–15, 633–35

  re-election campaign of, 636, 639

  Vietnam policy of, 614, 617–18, 622

  in Watergate scandal, 634, 637–39

  Nizer, Louis, 549

  Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 585–86

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 310, 328, 342, 343, 344, 381, 385, 446, 463, 472, 478, 505, 511, 524, 526, 541, 576, 586–600, 621–24

  Nosenko, Yuri, 560–61, 565

  nuclear weapons, 461–64

  on-site inspection of, 505–6, 510, 515, 616–17

  proliferation of, 585–86

  see also arms control; atomic bomb

  Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (Kissinger), 461–64

  Nuremberg trials, 228, 258, 330–31, 333, 334, 335–36, 360–61, 363, 365, 366–67, 370, 371, 372, 374, 375

  Nuri Said, 445

  Occidental Oil Company, 625–26, 636

  O’Donnell, Kenneth, 496

  Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), 118

  Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 130, 198, 231, 244, 252, 279–80

  Ohlendorf, Otto, 367, 370, 371

  oil prices, 626, 627, 630, 632, 634–35, 650

  Old Philadelphia Rabbit Club, 24

  Olsen, Iver C., 216

  O’Mahoney, Joseph C., 439

  “Open Skies” proposal, 487

  Operation Bolero, 145, 177–78, 184

  Operation Brother Sam, 552–53

  Operation Husky, 184

  Operation Mongoose, 532–33

  Operation Overlord, 190, 194, 195, 196, 199, 200

  Operation Paperclip, 352n, 425

  Operation Rankin, 192

  Operation Roundup, 145, 184

  Operation Sledgehammer, 145, 178, 179

  Operation Super-Gymnast, 145, 178

  Operation Torch, 179

  Oppenheim, E. Phillips, 77

  Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 243, 277–78, 279, 281, 417, 422–26, 461, 501

  Organization of American States (OAS), 527

  Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 517–18, 541, 625, 627–35, 650

  Orwell, George, 357

  Oswald, Lee Harvey, 547, 554, 556–62, 565–66

  Otis, Harold, 107

  “Our Relations with Darlan” (Lippmann), 180–81

  Oxford Book of Verse, 312

  Page, Arthur W., 243n

  Page, Ralph W., 42

  Palestine, 207, 208–9, 44–6, 609

  Palmer, A. Mitc
hell, 53

  Panuch, John Anthony, 271, 280

  Papen, Franz Joseph von, 80, 82, 86, 87, 88, 89, 95

  Parker, Chauncey, 99

  Parker, Dorothy, 121

  Patterson, Robert P., 127, 141, 418

  Patton, George S., 193, 195, 233, 234

  Pauley, Edwin, 252

  Pax Americana, 19, 108, 266, 592, 661

  Peabody, Endicott, 31, 599

  Pearl Harbor attack, 138, 140–43, 147, 152, 154, 156, 158, 252, 303, 466, 548, 659

  Pearson, Drew, 125, 177, 193, 208, 226, 408, 410, 412, 418, 420–21, 435, 447, 448, 467, 468, 491, 562

  Pearson, Leon, 126

  Pearson, Lester, 459

  Peaslee, Amos, 79, 81, 82, 84, 94

  Peck, David W., 335

  Peck Panel, 335–36, 360–62, 363, 365, 368, 369, 370, 371

  Pecora, Frederick, 105

  Peddie Institute, 31–36, 48

  Pegler, Westbrook, 412

  Pehle, John, 203, 205, 209, 210, 211, 212–13, 214, 215–17, 220–21, 222, 223, 224

  Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, 25–26, 27, 28

  Penrose, Boies, 57

  Pentagon Papers, 620

  Pepper, Charlotte, 28, 30

  Pepper, George Wharton, 26, 28, 30, 35, 41, 42, 44, 46, 54, 57–58, 661

  Perkins, James, 491

  Pershing, John J., 52

  Pétain, Henri, 180, 196

  Peters, Gerhard, 356

  Petersberg Agreement, 326–27

  Petersen, Howard C., 97, 110, 281

  Petersen Bureau, 346

  Peterson, Peter G., 16

  Pfeffer, Hauptmann von, 89, 90, 91

  Pferdmenges, Robert, 329

  Philadelphia, Pa.:

  “Chinese Wall” of, 23, 25, 26, 29, 36, 57, 58, 662

  McCloy’s childhood in, 23–36, 190

  upper class in, 23–24, 57–58

  Philby, Kim, 355

  Phleger, Herman, 527

  Plant, John D., 33

  Plattsburg camp, 40–46, 50, 78, 110

  Pleven Plan, 344, 378

  Plimpton, Francis T., 62, 76, 585

  Plimpton, Pauline, 76, 77

  Plympton, Noah, 27

  PM, 113, 119

  Pogue, Joseph, 442

  Pohl, Oswald, 331, 370, 372–73

  Point Four program, 299–300

  Poland:

  death camps in, 201–2, 204, 205–6, 219–20, 228

  Lublin government of, 236–37, 258

  Nazi invasion of, 108–9

  postwar reconstruction in, 294–96, 306

  Soviet control of, 242, 446

  Polk, Frank L., 107, 108, 112

  Poncet, François, 322, 325, 377

  Porter, Sylvia, 292

  Potsdam Conference, 242, 249–59, 290, 323, 343

  Potsdam Proclamation, 253, 257–59, 260, 263, 310, 512

  Pound, Roscoe, 48, 53 Power Elite, The (Mills), 483

  Powers, Gary, 489

  Precht, Henry, 643

  President’s Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament, 18, 517, 615–17

  President’s Panel of Foreign Policy Consultants, 568

  Preston, Guy H., 51–53, 658

  Price, Don, 426, 427–29

  “Problem of War Organization, Post-War Readjustment, The” (McCloy), 131–32

  Project Alpha, 644–47, 652

  Project 63, 352n

  Project Solarium, 413–14, 434

  Proskauer, Joseph, 408

  Psychological Strategy Board, 384, 411

  Publications Development Corporation (PDC), 484

  PURPLE machine, 118, 137–38

  Qaddafi, Muammar, 624–27, 634

  Quakers, 24, 30

  Quebec Conference, 225–26, 231, 258

  Quemoy and Matsu islands, 473–75

  Rabi, Isidor I., 277, 423, 426, 467

  Rankin, J. Lee, 556

  Rapacki, Adam, 478n

  Raskin, Marcus, 580–81, 620

  Rats, Lice and History (Zinsser), 74

  Rauh, Joseph L., 120, 125

  Rayburn, Sam, 133

  Raymond, John M., 360–61, 368

  Reagan, Ronald, 16, 655–58, 659

  Reams, R. Borden, 202

  Reber, Sam, 351, 364, 406, 407

  receiverships, railroad, 64–67, 96, 104–6

  Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), 123

  Reed, John, 88

  Reed, Joseph V., 644, 651, 652

  Reed, Lansing P., 107

  Renger, Annemarie, 322–23

  Repplier, Agnes, 28

  Republican Party, 102–3, 110–11, 112

  liberal wing of, 18–19, 430, 464

  McCloy as member of, 54, 103, 111, 133, 312, 430, 436, 447–48, 490–91, 502, 542, 562–64, 568, 613, 655

  “Taft” wing of, 386–88

  Reston, James, 125, 308, 313, 318, 416, 422, 435, 482, 489, 563

  Retinger, Joseph, 471–72

  Reuter, Ernst, 358

  Richardson, Elliot, 624, 637, 639

  Richardson, Sid, 103, 409, 410, 429, 430–32, 518, 662

  Riddleberger, James D., 317, 348, 349, 350

  Riegner, Gerhardt, 211

  Ringle, Kenneth D., 136, 155–56, 157

  Rintelen, Franz von, 94–95

  Rittenhouse Club, 24, 26

  Robb, J. D., 62

  Robb, Roger, 424

  Roberts, George, 107, 113

  Roberts, Henry L., 446

  Roberts, Owen, 86, 93, 548

  Robertson, Brian, 314

  Robertson, Willis, 133, 513

  Robinson, Homans, 48

  Robinson, William, 429, 430

  Roche, John, 597

  Rockefeller, Abby, 55, 274

  Rockefeller, David, 275, 461, 472, 474, 488, 497, 541, 581, 605, 614, 619–20, 638

  McCloy’s relationship with, 16–17, 55, 395, 397–98, 454–57, 658

  shah of Iran supported by, 642, 644, 645, 652, 653

  Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 54, 55, 106, 274–75, 388, 395, 401, 436, 437, 662

  Rockefeller, John D., Sr., 55

  Rockefeller, John D., III, 55

  Rockefeller, Laurance, 55

  Rockefeller, Nelson, 55, 272–73, 289, 464–65, 485, 542, 614, 638, 642, 643

  Rockefeller, Percy, 65

  Rockefeller, William, 65

  Rockefeller, Winthrop, 55

  Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 464–65

  Rockefeller family, 91, 98

  McCloy’s association with, 19–20, 54–55, 272–75, 387–88, 395, 483

  Rockefeller Foundation, 15, 109, 387, 388, 416, 428, 458, 462

  Rogers, William P., 411, 626, 629

  Rommel, Erwin, 177, 179, 183

  Roosevelt, Archie, 42, 43

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 187, 365, 366

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 16, 18, 88, 117–235

  “brain trust” of, 101

  budget of, 98–99, 101, 102, 110

  at Cairo Conference, 19

  as chief executive, 112–13, 122, 124

  Churchill and, 143, 178, 182, 184–85, 193–94, 225, 235, 236, 258

  death of, 234, 235, 239, 249

  de Gaulle and, 180, 183, 196–99, 234

  economic policies of, 99–100

  foreign policy of, 112–13, 490, 496

  German occupation as viewed by, 224, 225–26, 230, 231, 232

  Hitler vs., 89, 171

  Holocaust and policies of, 203, 206, 210, 218

  intelligence activities and, 119

  isolationism opposed by, 108, 111

  Japanese-American internment as viewed by, 152, 154, 171

  McCloy’s relationship with, 98, 106, 111, 113, 130–31, 171, 182, 196–97, 234, 305, 318, 638, 639

  military strategy of, 113, 143–45, 146, 178, 179, 181, 245

  New Deal policies of, 98–99, 100–101, 102, 104, 106, 110, 175, 436

  Pearl Harbor attack and, 140–43, 548

  Pentagon project and, 176–7
7

  re-election campaign of (1944), 171, 430

  Stalin and, 194–95, 338

  at Teheran Conference, 193–94, 196

  U.S.-Soviet relations as viewed by, 228, 235–36

  Wall Street and, 99–106, 109–13

  wiretapping as viewed by, 127, 128, 129

  at Yalta Conference, 255

  Roosevelt, Kermit, 414, 427

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 18, 41, 43–45, 62, 80, 102

  Root, Elihu, 27, 41, 46, 47, 88, 107, 264–65, 302

  Rosenheim, Jacob, 211, 213

  Rostow, Eugene, 548

  Rostow, Walt W., 460, 585, 594, 600, 601–2, 607

  Rovensky, Joseph C., 91

  Rovere, Richard, 563–64

  Rowe, James H., Jr., 148, 149, 153, 154, 155, 164, 165, 301–2, 597, 598

  Ruby, Jack, 547–48, 555, 565, 566

  Ruhr Valley industries, 224, 225, 231, 234–35, 309, 318, 326, 337, 338, 360, 368, 369

  Rumsfeld, Donald, 624

  Runyon, Damon, 147

  Rusk, Dean, 139, 338, 423, 428, 460, 472, 548, 553, 587, 590, 591, 597, 599, 607, 609, 646

  as Kennedy’s Secretary of State, 497, 498, 499–500, 505, 517, 523, 526, 533, 536, 537, 538, 540, 541, 543

  Vietnam policy of, 570, 575, 576, 578, 579, 580, 585, 596, 601–2

  Russell, Bertrand, 357

  Russell, Donald, 279–80, 281

  Russell, Richard B., 548, 564–65, 566

  Russell Plan, 279–80

  Ryan, Allan A., Jr., 347, 352

  Sadat, Anwar, 624, 633, 634, 643

  SALT Treaty, 615–17, 622

  SALT II Treaty, 649, 650

  Santayana, George, 121

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, 357, 408

  Satow, Masao, 158

  Saud, Abdul-Aziz Ibn, King of Saudi Arabia, 441–45, 541

  Saudi Arabia, 441–45, 541, 606–7, 633–35

  Scandrett, Jay J., 42

  Schacht, Hjalmar, 91

  Schelabrendorff, Fabian von, 332

  Schiff, Jacob, 29, 60, 62, 63

  Schiff, Mortimer L., 60

  Schine, G. David, 405–6, 419–20, 422

  Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 461, 462, 489, 502, 504, 507, 515, 530, 566, 596–97

  Schmidt, Helmut, 16, 649, 656, 658

  Scholl, Inge, 332

  Schram, Emil, 291

  Schröder, Gerhard, 590

  Schubert, Heinz Hermann, 371

  Schuler, Henry, 626

  Schumacher, Kurt, 305, 322–23, 326, 327, 328, 335, 336, 341, 343, 344, 362, 378, 379, 383

  Schuman, Robert, 378, 383

  Schuman Plan, 337, 379

  Schwartz, Thomas, 366

  Scott, Austin, 48, 55

  Scott, Ernest, 57

  Scott, J. Allison, 25–26, 57

  Scranton, William, 562–63

  Searls, Fred, Jr., 279

  Sebold, William G., 128

  Secret Service, 557, 560

  Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 72, 274–75, 289, 436, 439, 636–37, 640

  Seebohm, Hans Christoph, 329

  “See It Now,” 420

  Selective Service, 133, 168

 

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