Nixon’s Taft-Hartley debate with, 95–97
nuclear disarmament and, 305, 311, 325, 342, 347–52, 375, 376, 378, 384, 386
O’Neill and, 81, 83, 116, 140, 143, 151–53, 158, 171, 202, 241–42, 274, 281–82, 394, 403
organized crime and, 234–37, 357
Peace Corps and, 304–5, 311, 312, 329–30, 375, 389, 405
“Peace speech” of, 376–79, 383
personality of, 15, 17, 26, 50, 73, 104, 166, 167, 215, 230, 324, 373
personnel issues and, 132–33, 151–56, 157
political discussion and, 50–51, 68
polling data and, 228, 248, 257–58, 262
poverty issue and, 264–65
preparation for 1960 race by, 217–39, 241–52
presidential campaign of 1960 and, 283–319
presidential candidacy announced by, 252
primary campaign of 1960 and, 240
Princeton and, 24, 26–27, 253
PT-109 sinking and, 40, 51–56, 66, 169, 170
Pulitzer Prize and, 225, 227
Quemoy and Matsu issue and, 300–303, 305–6
“Ratface” nickname of, 16
reading of, 15, 17, 38–39, 41, 50, 67–68, 73, 78, 108–9, 191, 400
religion and, 16, 45, 109, 221–22, 223, 238, 245, 254, 261–64, 272, 274–75, 285–90, 313, 315, 388–89
risk-taking and, 22–23, 26, 45, 82, 110
Roosevelt and, 74, 87, 112
sailing as passion of, 46
St. Lawrence Seaway and, 170–71
Saltonstall and, 89–90, 184–85, 202
Schlesinger and, 231–33, 253–54, 303, 322, 327, 336, 393, 403
“second son” status of, 13–23
self-improvement and, 144, 290–91, 382
Senate career of, 170–71, 178–82, 183, 188–89, 193, 214, 227–29, 233–37, 242, 252
Senate race of 1952 and, 8, 115–49, 156, 285
Senate Rackets Committee and, 214, 233–37, 242
Senate reelection of, 241
sense of humor of, 50, 104, 394–95
“Shafty” nickname of, 50
signatures gathered for Senate bid of, 138
Smathers and, 105, 107–8, 113, 118, 155–56, 165, 192, 202, 205, 230, 357, 396, 404
Sorensen and, see Sorensen, Theodore “Ted”
Soviet Union and, 87, 96, 100–101, 120, 252, 362–64, 376–79
speechwriting skills of, 104
sports and, 17, 24, 27, 29, 30, 46, 183
State of the Union address of (1963), 380
steel industry and, 353–55
Stevenson and, 141, 142, 276
strategist skill of, 23
tax cut and, 376
television studied by, 144
Texas trip of, 396–97
Thomas’s debate with, 103–4
toughness of, 137–38, 155, 193, 242, 248–49, 254–55
Truman and, 112, 141, 143, 173, 182, 287, 306, 334
UN founding and, 69–72
vice presidential nomination sought by, 197–211
Vienna summit and, 320, 339–44
Vietnam conflict and, 117, 119, 173, 381, 385–87, 390–94, 396–97
war letter to Inga Arvad by, 57–59
wedding of, 150, 164–67
womanizing of, 162–63, 166, 183, 312, 356–58
World War II and, 11, 40, 41–63, 65–66, 80, 90, 169, 170, 264, 265, 398
writings of, 11, 36–38, 49, 67
Yalta conference and, 70–71, 100–101, 112, 182, 206
Kennedy, John F., Jr., 374, 384, 389, 392, 394
Kennedy, Joseph P., 13, 16, 19, 398
ambition of, 122, 152–53
anti-Semitism of, 33, 143–44
appeasement issue and, 32–33, 36, 37, 100, 252, 304
Bobby Kennedy and, 127–28, 131, 133, 134
British ambassadorship of, 30–38, 41, 44, 218, 238, 304
Chamberlain and, 32, 35–38, 252, 280
Democratic convention of 1956 and, 205
election of 1946 and, 68, 80, 83
Furcolo Senate bid and, 186
JFK’s near expulsion and, 21–22, 26
JFK’s presidential run and, 243, 254, 261–62, 275, 282
JFK’s Pulitzer Prize and, 227
Joe Kennedy, Jr. and, 13–14, 22
lack of political sense of, 126–27, 205
McCarthy and, 178, 179, 188, 233, 238
Merchandise Mart and, 171
Nixon and, 113, 260, 279, 317–18
SEC and, 21
Senate race of 1952 and, 126–29, 131, 133, 134, 138, 140–41, 222
Kennedy, Joseph P., Jr., 13–14, 338, 388, 398
Choate school and, 14, 16, 18
death of, 26, 61–63, 66, 67, 75, 106, 109, 116, 388
Harvard and, 26, 27, 28, 46
personality of, 26
World War II and, 45–46, 61–63
Kennedy, Kathleen (RFK’s daughter), 178
Kennedy, Kathleen “Kick,” 21, 43, 62, 105, 106, 383, 398
death of, 109–10, 116
Kennedy, Patricia, 129, 190
Kennedy, Patrick, 385, 388
Kennedy, Robert F., 4, 15, 24, 110, 114, 199, 212, 323, 395, 398, 404
Bay of Pigs and, 364
civil rights issue and, 309–10, 360, 361, 380
Cohn and, 178, 179, 181
Cuban missile crisis and, 364, 367, 369, 371–72, 373, 376
Democratic convention of 1956 and, 202, 205, 208–9
Democratic convention of 1960 and, 278, 279–80, 282
DiSalle and, 255, 272, 371
election of 1946 and, 133–34
Jackie Kennedy’s failed first pregnancy and, 212
JFK-Nixon debates and, 294, 295, 300–301
JFK’s 1952 Senate campaign and, 121, 127–28, 131, 132, 133–34, 136, 137–38, 145–49
JFK’s Far East trip and, 116–17
JFK’s presidential run and, 254–55, 256, 257, 263, 269, 272–74, 278, 279–80, 282, 294, 295, 300–301, 309–10, 313, 314 –15
Justice Department and, 131, 322–23, 336, 360, 361, 364, 371–72, 380
McCarthy and, 178–79, 188, 189, 233
Operation Mongoose and, 364
organized crime and, 235–37
Senate Rackets Committee and, 214, 233–37, 242, 247
steel industry and, 354, 355
toughness of, 137–38, 242, 248, 254–55, 272–74
Vietnam and, 391
Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald, 13, 227, 251, 403
emotional distance of, 16, 400
Senate race of 1952 and, 129
“Kennedy’s Son Is Hero in Pacific as Destroyer Splits His PT Boat,” 56
Kennedy family, 12, 33–34, 162
Keresey, Dick, 56
Khrushchev, Nikita S., 283, 296, 307, 309
Berlin issue and, 326–27, 338, 339–45, 363–64, 366–67, 373
Cuban Missile Crisis and, 9, 364–73
JFK’s “Peace speech” and, 378
Nixon’s “kitchen table debate” with, 5
nuclear test ban treaty and, 384, 386
Vienna Summit and, 320, 339–44
King, Coretta Scott, 308–11
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 308–11, 381
March on Washington and, 374, 387
King, Martin Luther, Sr., 309
Kirksey, Andrew, 52
Klein, Herb, 316, 318
Knights of Columbus, 225
Koerner, Henry, 225
Korea, North, 112
Korea, South, 112
Korean War, 1, 112, 116, 249, 358, 359
Kristallnacht, 32, 33
Krock, Arthur, 227
labor movement, 91
Communists in, 97–99, 142
JFK and, 93–96, 97–99, 142, 233–37, 242, 249–50, 353, 354, 387
Senate Rackets Committee and, 233–37
Labour Party, British, 72–73, 106
La Follette, Robert, Sr., 227
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Laos, 341–42
La Salle College High School, 6
Last Hurrah, The (O’Connor), 201
Lawford, Patricia Kennedy, 129, 190
Lawford, Peter, 190
Lawrence, David, 220, 245, 246, 274–75
League of Nations, 124
Lebanon, 301
Légion d’Honneur, 125
LeMay, Curtis, 367–68, 369, 372
Lemnitzer, Lyman, 335, 346
Lenin, Vladimir I., 97
Libonati, Roland, 389–90
Life, 163, 225, 399, 400, 401
Lincoln, Abraham, 4, 296, 319, 405
Lincoln, Evelyn, 188, 323, 341
Lindbergh, Charles A., 79
Lions Club, 77
Little Rock, Ark., 359
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 5, 124
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 90, 115, 118, 185
background of, 124–25
Eisenhower 1952 campaign and, 126, 140, 141, 144
election of 1946 and, 125–26
JFK-Nixon debates and, 295, 299
McCarthy and, 141, 178
O’Neill and, 140
Senate race of 1952 and, 127, 129, 131, 135–36, 140–41, 143, 147–48, 156, 178, 222, 285
Vietnam and, 386, 391
World War II and, 125
London Observer, 228
London School of Economics, 26, 253
Look, 225, 287
Los Angeles, Calif., Democratic national convention of 1960 at, 4, 262–63, 272, 276–83
Love at First Flight (Spalding and Carney), 70
Lucey, Pat, 257
Lucky Strike, 85
Luftwaffe, 36
Lynch, Pat, 201, 282
MacArthur, Douglas, 358–59
McCall’s, 225
McCarthy, Eugene, 281
McCarthy, Joseph R., 112, 141–43, 158, 168, 173–82, 199, 200, 207, 232–33, 238
death of, 189
Lodge and, 141, 178
Senate censure of, 177–82, 184, 188–89, 206
McCarthyism, 174, 179
McClellan, John, 233–34
McClosky, David, 290
McCone, John, 369, 391
McCormack, Edward J. “Knocko,” 200
McCormack, John, 90–91, 92, 143–44, 198, 201
Macdonald, Torbert, 24, 27, 29, 30, 36, 43, 46, 60, 75, 93, 145, 164, 165, 202, 212, 267, 323, 357, 396
McGee, Frank, 303
McKeesport (Pa.) Daily News, 88
McMahon, Pappy, 51, 53, 54, 58
Macmillan, Harold, 350, 372
McNamara, Robert S., 322, 332, 348, 354, 370, 387, 391
McWhorter, Charles, 266
Mafia, 234–37
Maguire, Jim, 53
Making of the President, 1960, The (White), 284
malaria, 60, 61, 67, 74, 81, 86, 233, 278
Malone, Vivian, 379
Man in Space, 239
Manx, Kate, 268
Mao Tse-tung, 111
Marney, Harold, 52
Marshall, George C., 99, 176
Marshall Islands, 349
Marshall Plan (European Recovery Plan), 99, 105
Martin, Louis, 308, 310
Maryland, 261, 267, 272–73
Massachusetts:
Adams and, 171–72
Democratic primary of 1956 in, 197–99
Furcolo Senate bid and Democratic split in, 186–87, 202
Jefferson’s British embargo and, 172
JFK’s takeover of Democratic party in, 198–201, 241, 283
McCarthy censure and, 180
politics as morass in, 199, 201
St. Lawrence Seaway and, 170–71
Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1, 2, 4
Matthew, Book of, 375
Matthews, Bert, 1
Matthews, Chris:
election of 1960 and, 5
JFK as fascination of, 7–10
Moynihan and, 405
O’Neill and, 7–8
political awakening of, 1
Republican vs. Catholic conflict of, 6–7
Matthews, Mary Teresa Shields, 5–6
Meet the Press, 118–19, 126, 305
Mellon, Paul, 330
Mellon, Rachel “Bunny,” 330–31, 358
Melville, R.I., Motor Torpedo Boat training center in, 46, 47
Merchandise Mart, 171
Meredith, James, 346, 359–62
Meyer, Cord, 70, 357
Meyer, Mary, 70, 357, 391
MGM, 203
Michigan, University of, JFK’s Peace Corps speech at, 304–5
missile gap, 285, 308
Mississippi, University of, 346, 359–62
Molotov, Vyacheslov, 70
Morocco, 228
Morrissey, Frank, 186, 187
Mount Rushmore, 405
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 276, 405
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 94
Muckers, 19–23, 164, 181, 326
Mullen, Tommy, 241–42
Munich Conference (1938), 32, 34, 99, 100, 173, 304
Murphy, Robert, 185
Murrow, Edward R., 175, 189
Muskie, Edmund, 103, 203, 236
Nabokov, Nicolas, 232
Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 71
Nashua, N.H., JFK campaign in, 240
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 352, 402
National Archives, 105
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 230, 359
National Guard, 331, 360, 361, 380
nationalism, 117, 119, 120, 173, 229, 334, 393
National Parent-Teacher, 226
National Press Club, 92
National Security Council (NSC), U.S., 349, 366
Nauru Island, Solomon Islands, 55–56
Navy, U.S.:
Cuban blockade by, 368, 369, 370
JFK’s service in, 42–63, 66
Office of Naval Intelligence of, 43
Navy and Marine Corps Medal, 61, 80
Navy Department, U.S., 329, 370
Navy Log, 225
NBC, 300, 303
Nebraska, 315
Neustadt, Richard, 323
Neville, Mike, 78, 81, 86, 87, 134
New Bedford (Mass.) Standard-Times, 140
New Deal, 206
New England, St. Lawrence Seaway and economy of, 170–71
New Frontier, 7, 283
New Hampshire, Democratic primary of 1960 in, 4, 253, 256
Newport, R.I.:
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