Ball, George, 391
Barnett, Ross, 360, 361
Barry, John, 145
Bartlett, Charlie, 8, 64, 107, 167, 191, 206, 207, 218, 223, 252, 323, 324–25, 327–28, 357, 370
Jackie and, 162–63, 183, 212
JFK presidential run and, 242, 250–51, 258, 267, 282
JFK’s death and legacy and, 404
JFK’s political aspirations and, 76–77
JFK’s wedding and, 165, 166
newspaper career of, 159–60
Senate campaign of 1952 and, 131, 134
Bartlett, Martha, 251, 323, 327
Battle, William, 49, 264
Bay of Pigs invasion (1961), 331–38, 343, 347, 360, 362, 373
Beck, Dave, 233–34
Berlin, Germany, 111, 303, 326–27, 337, 338, 339–45, 362–64, 366–67, 368, 373, 374, 381
Berlin Wall in, 345, 405
JFK’s visit to, 382–83
Billings, Fred, 18
Billings, Kirk LeMoyne “Lem,” 68
Choate school and, 18–23
election of 1946 and, 75, 86
Garbo White House visit and, 394–95
Jackie and, 165–66, 167, 356
JFK presidency and, 323, 328, 344, 345
JFK’s European trip with, 29–30
JFK’s House term and, 110
JFK’s presidential run and, 260, 262, 263
JFK’s wedding and, 164, 165, 166
Kathleen Kennedy and, 21, 110
Princeton and, 24, 26–28
World War II and, 42, 47, 48, 60
Birmingham, Ala., 379–80, 381, 384
Bissell, Richard, 332, 334, 335
Blackett Strait, Solomon Islands, 51
Blough, Roger, 353
Bohlen, Charles “Chip,” 69, 70
Boston Globe, 82, 145
Boston, Mass., 27
Chelsea Naval Hospital in, 60–61
Curley as mayor of, 8
election of 1952 and, 139
Fitzgerald as mayor of, 13
JFK office in, 180 1956
Democratic committee meeting in, 200–201
St. Lawrence Seaway and, 170–71
Somerset Club in, 230
Boston Post, 140–41
Bouvier, Caroline Lee, 161
Bouvier, Janet (Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss), 161, 164
Bouvier, John Vernou “Black Jack”, III, 160, 161
Bradlee, Ben, 8, 10, 214, 237–38, 249, 251, 259, 262, 267–68, 277, 322, 323, 350, 354, 356, 357, 376, 379, 388, 394, 402, 404
Bradlee, Dino, 237
Bradlee, Tony, 237, 269, 277–78, 323, 357, 379, 394
Braun, Wernher von, 238–39
Brief (Choate yearbook), 18, 23
Briggs, Le Baron Russell, 23
Brinkley, David, 300
Britain, Battle of (1940), 44, 175
Brown, Pat, 220, 222, 245, 246, 273–74
Buchan, John, 38–39, 41, 161
Buchanan, Frank, 94
Buddhists, Buddhism, 386
Bulge, Battle of the (1944–1945), 123, 176
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 226
Bundy, McGeorge, 332, 364, 365, 367, 369
Bunker Hill Day (1946), 64, 86
Burke, Arleigh, 346
Burke, William “Onions,” 198–201, 218, 248
Cabell, Earle, 394
Calhoun, John C., 227
California, 220, 222, 245, 246, 273–74, 312
Camelot, 400–401
Campbell, Judith E., 357
Camp David, Md., 357
Canada, Kennedys’ trip to, 338–39
Capehart, Homer, 365
Capone, Al, 235
“Case of Martin Luther King, The,” 310
Castro, Fidel, 239, 306, 307, 333, 335, 336, 396
Castro, Raúl, 306
Catholics, see Roman Catholics
CBS, 144, 175, 292
Cecil, David, 151, 161, 399
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 70, 307, 321–22
Bay of Pigs invasion and, 331–36
Cuban missile crisis and, 365
Chacharis, George, 242
Chamberlain, Neville, 35–38, 252, 280
Chapel of the Chaplains, 290
Charleston, S.C., 45
Charleston, W.Va., JFK campaign in, 240
Charlestown, Mass., 86
Chattanooga Times, 160
Chelsea Naval Hospital, 60–61
Chiang Kai-shek, 111, 173, 300
Chicago, Ill., 220
Democratic convention of 1956 in, 2–3, 196, 202–11, 216, 217, 225, 229, 241
Chicago Herald-American, 69, 71
China, Nationalist, 111, 300–303
China, People’s Republic of, 120, 141, 206, 300–303, 339
China, Republic of, Communist takeover of, 111–12, 173, 176, 300, 306, 334
Choate school:
Archbold Infirmary at, 15
Billings and, 18–23
Brief yearbook of, 18, 23
JFK and, 14–23, 26, 27, 29, 162, 326
JFK’s near expulsion from, 21–22, 26
Joe Kennedy, Jr. and, 14, 16, 18
Muckers group at, 19–23, 164, 181, 326
Christoffel, Harold, 98, 111, 142
Churchill, Winston S., 17, 39, 41, 59, 65, 108–9, 235, 239, 252, 277, 285, 325, 347
anti-Nazi warnings of, 33, 34–35
postwar dismissal of, 72–73
civil rights movement, 97, 206, 229–31, 256, 287, 308–11, 323, 359–62, 374, 375, 379–81, 383, 384, 387, 389–90, 394, 396
Clay, Henry, 227
Clay, Lucius, 111
Cleveland, Ohio, 220
Clifford, Clark, 324
coal industry, 264–65
Coca-Cola, 85
Cohn, Roy, 168, 178, 179, 181
Coldstream Guards, British, 62
Cold War, 5, 9, 87, 96, 98–101, 104, 105–6, 111–13, 121, 135, 149, 156, 206, 228–29, 238–39, 283–84, 285, 296–97, 300–303, 305–8, 323, 325, 333, 334, 336–37, 339–45, 347–52, 362–73, 406
Berlin and, 111, 303, 326–27, 337, 338, 339–45, 362–64, 366–67, 368, 373, 374, 381, 382–83, 405
civil rights issue and, 380–81
Indochina and, 172–73, 301, 303
JFK’s “Peace speech” and, 376–79, 383
nuclear arms testing and, 347–52, 376, 378, 384, 386
Rosenberg case and, 112
Colliers, 197
Columbia, 225
Commons, House of, 36
see also Parliament, British
Communism, 91, 92, 96, 97–99, 105–6, 111–13, 142, 296–97, 326–27, 377, 382, 405–6
McCarthy’s campaign against, 112, 173–82
Congress, U.S.:
Truman’s address to joint session of, 96, 97
see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.
Connally, John, 278–79, 394, 397
Connecticut, 314
Connor, Eugene “Bull,” 379
Conservative Party, British, 72–73
Conway, Jack, 236
Corbin, Paul, 259
Council of Economic Advisers, 353
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, 380
Croix de Guerre, 125
Cronkite, Walter, 261
Cuba, 239, 306–7, 396
Batista overthrow in, 239
Bay of Pigs invasion in, 331–38, 343, 347, 360, 362, 373
U.S. naval blockade of, 368, 369, 370
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), 9, 364–73, 376
Cuban Revolutionary Council, 338
Curley, James Michael, 8, 68, 122
O’Neill’s assessment of, 103
pardon petition for, 101–3, 124, 170
Curley, Mary, 101, 102
Czechoslovakia, Nazi seizure of, 31, 32, 34, 304
Daley, Richard J., 255, 323, 369, 389–90
Dallas, Tex., Stevenson assailed in, 394, 397
Dallas Mornin
g News, 397
Dallas Times Herald, 394
Dallek, Robert, 182
Dalton, Mark, 81, 113, 154, 155, 388, 394
Curley petition and, 102
election of 1946 and, 126
Hyannis visit of, 108–9
JFK’s first House speech and, 93
JFK-Thomas debate and, 103–4
Senate race of 1952 and, 126, 127, 132–33, 148
Dante O’Shaughnessy, 83
Davis, Mary, 100, 101, 104, 105, 106, 107, 151–55
“Davy Crockett,” 259
Decker, G. H., 346
Defense Department, U.S., 322
Democratic National Convention:
of 1948, 256
of 1952, 141, 244
of 1956, 2–3, 196, 202–11, 216, 217, 225, 229, 241
of 1960, 4, 262–63, 272, 277–84
Democratic Party:
Catholic vote and, 201–2, 206, 209, 211
civil rights movement and, 256
Dixiecrats and, 256
Eleanor Roosevelt and, 206–7
“Kennedy Party” as distinct from, 83–84, 136–37, 139–40, 147, 152–53, 195, 216, 218, 255, 278
liberal wing of, 206–7, 213, 216, 223, 226–33, 245, 250–51, 253–54, 257, 260, 273–74, 313, 322, 389
DeSapio, Carmine, 207–8, 255, 313
Dever, Paul, 115, 116, 128, 134–35, 138, 145, 146, 147
Dewey, Thomas E., 8
Dickens, Charles, 130
Diefenbaker, John, 338–39
Dien Bien Phu, Battle of (1954), 172
Dillon, C. Douglas, 322, 369
Dirksen, Herbert von, 143
DiSalle, Mike, 241, 249, 255, 272, 371
Disney, Walt, 239
Dixiecrats, 256
Dobrynin, Anatoly, 371–72
Dorchester, U.S.S., 290
Dougherty, Dennis Cardinal, 290
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 113, 251, 291, 295
Douglas, William O., 393
Dowd, Martin, 193
Drew, Robert, 380
Du Bois, W. E. B., 359
Dulles, Allen, 321, 332, 335, 336
Dulles, John Foster, 332
Dumbarton Oaks, 168, 183
Dutton, Fred, 246, 273–74
Ebenezer Baptist Church, 310–11
Eden, Anthony, 69
Egypt, 366
Ehrlichman, John, 281
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1–2, 6, 9, 238, 239, 274, 284–85, 308, 323, 328, 340
Cuba and, 307, 332, 336–37
election of 1952 and, 126, 139, 140, 141, 142, 144–45, 148, 156, 201, 202, 217
election of 1960 and, 311–12, 318, 376
heart attack of, 197, 204
Indochina and, 173, 228
JFK’s contempt for, 233
JFK’s criticism of foreign policy of, 227–29
JFK transition and, 324
Lodge and, 126, 140, 141, 144
NATO and, 126
election of 1960, 3–7, 254, 262, 284–319, 397
African American voters and, 310–11
Eisenhower and, 311–12, 318, 376
JFK-Nixon debates and, 284–85, 291–304, 307–8
Johnson and, 314
Nixon and, 5, 6, 254, 262, 284–86, 291–304, 305–6, 307–8, 310, 311–12, 315–19, 376, 397
popular vote in, 319
Roman Catholics and, 4, 5–7, 286–90
Truman and, 287, 301
U.S. unemployment rate and, 308, 376
elections, U.S.:
of 1860, 296
of 1928, 220
of 1946, 7, 63, 67, 68–69, 75–87, 88, 91, 125–26, 133–34, 185, 216
of 1948, 89
of 1950, 112–13, 291
of 1952, 1, 8, 115–49, 156, 178, 201, 202, 205, 210, 216–17, 222, 244, 285
of 1954, 184–87
of 1956, 2–3, 213, 233, 292
of 1958, 3, 234, 241
of 1960, see election of 1960
of 1964, 395–96
governors and selection of nominees in, 244–46, 271–72
primaries as force in, 216–17, 221, 244–45, 252–53
Enemy Within, The (Kennedy), 247
espionage, 112
evolution, 263
ExComm (Executive Committee), 365–66
Farley, James A., 206
Faubus, Orville, 360
Fay, Paul “Red,” 8, 40, 48–49, 50–51, 54, 159, 163, 259, 311
election of 1946 and, 82, 85
JFK presidency and, 323, 328–29, 337–38, 351, 354, 370, 385
JFK’s convalescence and, 189–90
JFK’s honeymoon and, 166–67
JFK’s political aspirations and, 75–76
JFK’s wedding and, 164–65
UN founding and, 69–70
Fay, Sally, 404
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 321–22, 355
Arvad and, 44, 45, 356
organized crime and, 235
Feldman, Mike, 292
Ferber, Paul, 45–46
Finian’s Rainbow, 110
Finnegan, Jim, 202
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 167
Fitzgerald, John F. “Honey Fitz,” 13, 20, 80, 124
Fitzwilliam, Peter, 109
Flanders, Ralph, 177, 179
Flying Tigers, 80
Forbes, Alistair, 73, 162, 230
Ford Motor Company, 322
Formosa (Taiwan), 111, 300–303
Forrestal, Michael V., 391, 397
Fort Sumter House Hotel, 45
Fort Worth, Tex., 396–97
France:
Algeria and, 228, 229
Berlin issue and, 326, 327, 367
Czech crisis and, 32
Indochina and, 117, 119, 172–73, 228, 229, 303
Jackie’s love of, 160
JFK and Jackie’s trip to, 339–40
Kennedy family vacation in, 33–34
nuclear weapons and, 349
Rhineland remilitarization and, 30
Suez crisis and, 366–67
Fraser, Hugh, 73, 138, 191
Freedom Riders, 359
Friendship 7, 352
Fulbright, J. William, 345
Furcolo, Foster, 121–22
Senate bid of, 184–87, 202
Gagarin, Yuri, 331, 352
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 28
Gallup poll, 273, 299, 348
Galvin, John, 144, 164, 183, 394
Garbo, Greta, 394–95
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