election of 1952 and, 1, 141, 142, 201, 202, 205, 216–17, 244
election of 1956 and, 213, 292
Massachusetts primary of 1956 and, 197–99
Schlesinger and, 231
Sorensen and, 157
UN and, 322
Stewart, Jimmy, 94
Stork Club, 28
Strategic Air Command (SAC), U.S., 367
Strauss, Robert S., 289
Strider, Robert E. Lee, 264
strikes, 95, 98
Suddenly Last Summer, 268
Sudetenland, Czech, 31, 32, 34, 304
Suez Crisis (1956), 366–67
Supreme Court, U.S., 359
Sutton, Billy, 64, 79–80, 81, 84, 113, 291, 394, 403
JFK’s break with, 154, 155
JFK’s House career and, 90, 92, 93, 94, 101, 106
Swaziland, 405
Symington, Stuart, 222, 232, 249
Taft, Robert A., 8, 126, 140, 141, 227
Taft-Hartley Act (Labor-Management Relations Act) (1947), 95–97
Talmadge, Herman, 271
Tassigny, Jean de Lattre de, 117
Tawes, J. Millard, 272, 273
taxes, taxation, 376
Taylor, Maxwell, 365, 366, 391, 393
Teamsters, International Brotherhood of, 233–34
“teas”, JFK campaign, 128–29, 138, 139
television, 118–19, 126, 144, 225, 345, 351
Cuban missile crisis and, 369–70
Democratic convention of 1956 and, 203, 209, 211
Democratic convention of 1960 and, 280, 281, 284
Furcolo Senate bid and, 185–86
JFK-Humphrey debate and, 240
JFK-Nixon debates and, 284–85, 291–304, 307–8
JFK’s civil rights address and, 380–81
JFK’s religion speech and, 289
McCarthy and, 175, 177, 181
Nixon’s concession and, 315
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 67–68
Texas, 317, 394, 396–97
Third World, 352
Thirty-Nine Steps, The (Buchan), 38–39, 41
Thom, Lenny, 51, 53, 54, 55
Thomas, George, 106
Thomas, Norman, 103–4
Thompson, Llewellyn, 340
Thurmond, Strom, 256
Time, 99, 225, 274, 319, 343
Tojo, Hideki, 367
Touch of the Poet, A (O’Neill), 6
Travell, Janet, 279
Treasury Department, U.S., 322, 329
Truman, Harry S., 8, 69, 217, 307, 324
atomic bomb and, 349
Cold War and, 96, 97, 301, 306
election of 1960 and, 287, 301
JFK’s criticisms of, 112, 141, 143, 173, 182, 306, 334
Korean War and, 112, 249
McCarthy and, 176
Symington and, 249
Truman Doctrine (1947), 96, 97
Tulagi Island, 48–49
Tunisia, 228
Turkey:
Truman Doctrine and, 96
U.S. missiles in, 371–72
U-2 spy plane, 364
Udall, Morris, 278
Udall, Stewart, 363–64
“Ulysses” (Tennyson), 67–68
United Auto Workers (UAW), 236, 249–50, 387
United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, 97
United Nations, 307, 364
founding conference of, 69–72
Hiss and, 111
Korean War and, 112
Stevenson and, 322
United Press International (UPI), 98
United States Steel, 353, 354
United Steelworkers, 353
V-3 cannon, 61
Vandiver, Ernest, 310
Vassar College, 160
V-E Day, 71
Versailles, Treaty of (1919), 30, 31
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), 77
Vienna, Austria, U.S.-Soviet summit in, 320, 339–44
Viet Cong, 393
Viet Minh, 172, 393
Vietnam, South, 385, 386, 391, 396
Vietnam War, 117, 119, 172–73, 326, 381, 385–87, 390–94, 396–97
Virginia, Kennedys’ Glen Ora retreat in, 328
V-J Day, 91
Voorhis, Jerry, 92, 291, 295
voting rights, 380
Wagner, Robert F., 204, 208
Wallace, George C., 379
Wallingford, Conn., 14, 16
Walsh, David I., 46–47, 90, 125
Ward, Barbara, 73
Washington, D.C.:
Dumbarton Oaks in, 168, 183
King and civil rights march on, 374, 387
Lafayette Park in, 327, 328
Washington, George, 405
Washington Post, 8, 280
Washington Times-Herald, 43, 44, 161
Watergate scandal, 8
Webster, Charlie, 49
Webster, Daniel, 227
Welch, Joseph Nye, 177
West Virginia, 112, 174–75
Democratic primary of 1960 in, 4, 262–69, 271, 286
Wheeling, W.Va., McCarthy’s speech at, 112, 174–75
White, Theodore H., 13, 197, 284, 399–402
White, Thomas P., 346
White House, 325, 327–28, 356, 358
Billings’ room in, 19, 328
Garbo visit to, 394–95
Oval Office of, 374, 380, 384
Rose Garden renovated at, 330–31
White Sands, N.Mex., 348
Why England Slept (Kennedy), 11, 37–38, 49, 67
Wilson, Bill, 292–93, 300
Wilson, Mrs. Woodrow, 330
Wilson, Woodrow, 124
Winscote, Lt., 56
Wisconsin:
Democratic primary of 1960 in, 4, 248, 256–61, 271, 279
election of 1960 and, 315
Wofford, Harris, 305, 308, 309–11, 323
Worcester, Mass., 123, 246
JFK campaign “tea” in, 129–30
JFK’s 1952 win and vote in, 146–47
World Crisis 1911–1918, The (Churchill), 17
World War I, 13, 17, 30, 31, 34, 35, 42, 67, 124
World War II, 1, 2, 26, 69, 99, 175, 176, 201, 238, 285, 290, 359
atomic bomb and, 348, 349, 372
Bradlee and, 237
JFK and, 11, 40, 41–63, 65–66, 80, 90, 169, 170, 264, 265, 398
O’Donnell and, 123
Pearl Harbor attack and, 42, 367
Soviet casualties in, 377–78
Wright, Bishop John, 246
Wright, Jim, 397
Yalta Conference (1945), 70–71, 87, 92, 100–101, 112, 182, 206
yellow fever, 86
Young Melbourne (Cecil), 151, 161, 399
Zwicker, Ralph, 176
PHOTO CREDITS
Associated Press: 1, 14, 21, 24, 29, 30, 32, 34
JFK Presidential Library and Museum: 2, 7, 12, 23, 28, 31
John Morse/JFK Presidential Library and Museum: 3
Courtesy Choate Rosemary Hall Archives: 4
Princeton University Archives: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University: 5
The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation: 6, 10, 11
Author’s collection: 8, 9
Courtesy Sutton Family: 13
Dave Powers/JFK Presidential Library and Museum: 15
McKeesport Heritage Center: 16
Courtesy Richard Nixon Foundation: 17
Getty Images: 18
Tony Frissell, Library of Congress: 19
The Lowenherz Collection of Kennedy Photographs, Friedheim Library, Archives and Special Collections, Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Orlando Suero, photographer: 20
Courtesy Reardon Family: 22
Newsweek: 26
Courtesy Sorensen Family: 27
Associated Press/Bill Allen: 33
Peace Corps: 35
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