JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President (65 page)

and civil rights, 109, 111

and greatness, 128, 130, 132

speeches of, 8, 17

and White House, 361

Lincoln, Evelyn, 24, 246, 281

and election campaign, 144, 158, 291, 295–96, 313, 317, 318

and family matters, 4, 5, 13–14, 17, 206, 209, 220, 269, 296–97

and JFK’s privacy, xii, 296, 354–55

notes and doodles saved by, 17, 115, 202, 261, 266, 269

and Texas tour, 324, 329

and White House visitors, 112, 162

Lisager, Peter, 196, 200

Little Big Horn, 199

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.:

as ambassador to South Vietnam, 49–51, 64, 65–67, 76, 78, 137, 162, 176–77, 188, 322, 328, 358

and Cable 243, 90–91, 92, 106, 118, 121, 270, 271

and coup, 92, 106, 117–19, 121, 176–77, 213, 248, 254, 270–73, 279–81

and family rivalry, 51–54, 55, 353

parallels to JFK’s life, 53–54

and UN, 51, 66

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Sr., 51–52, 53

Louchheim, Katie, 179–80, 228

Lowe, Jacques, 71

Luce, Clare Boothe, 82, 85, 229

Luce, Henry, 301

Lyautey, Hubert, 302

MacArthur, Douglas, 59–60, 181, 241

McCarran-Walter Immigration and Nationality Act (1952), 156

McCarthy, Joe (reporter), 51

McCarthy, Joseph (senator), 15, 64

McCloskey, Matthew, 42, 169

McCone, John, 90, 159, 192, 271, 280, 282, 290

McCulloch, William, 234, 255

Macdonald, Torbert, 248–49, 280, 302, 310

McHugh, Godfrey, 41, 342

McKinley, William, 149

McKissick, Floyd, 115

McMahon, Margaret “Miggie,” 14

Macmillan, Harold, 80, 82, 222, 223, 254

McMillan, Priscilla, 83

McNamara, Robert S., 24, 27, 90, 91

and cold war, 159, 165, 166

and Cuba, 95, 98

and defense spending, 310–11

and Johnson, 355

and space, 103, 175

and Vietnam, 57, 60, 63, 105–6, 143, 162, 176–77, 187, 188, 206–9, 212–13, 270–71, 280, 282, 331, 359, 360

McPherson, Harry C., Jr., 139

McSorley, Father Richard, 235, 244, 361

Maguire, Richard, 291

Mahoney, Florence, 297

Mahoney, William, 319–21

Mailer, Norman, xii, xiii, 69

Malaya, British forces in, 61

Malraux, André, 255

Manhattan Project, 307

Mansfield, Joe, 198

Mansfield, Mike, 195–96, 201, 356

and Baker scandal, 218, 266–68, 275

JFK’s visit to father of, 198, 267

and test ban treaty, 23, 196, 214

and Vietnam, 61–62, 64, 75–76, 79, 137, 138, 158, 358

Mansfield, Patrick, 198

Marshall, Burke, 173, 188–89

Marshall Plan, 285

Martin, Joan Carol, 326

Martin, John Bartlow, 113

Mauldin, Bill, 348

media:

and Castro, 67, 191

interviews with Jacqueline, 248, 249, 326

and JFK, 34, 68–69, 87, 119, 126–27, 132, 139, 158, 301, 314–15, 320

JFK’s press conferences, 76–77, 166–68, 221, 295, 299

and Nixon, 127, 136

television news, 135–37

Medicare, 311, 355

Melbourne, Lord, 228

Mendenhall, Joseph, 143, 161–62, 270

Meredith, James, 111

Merrill’s Marauders, 63

Meyer, Mary, 83, 194, 280

Micronesia, polio in, 282

Mikoyan, Anastas, 349, 357

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 238

Miller, Chester, 24

Mills, Wilbur, 210, 332

Milteer, Joseph, 312

Minh, Duong Van “Big Minh,” 280, 281

Mollenhoff, Clark, 261, 262

Monnet, Jean, 128, 349–50

Morrison, Kay, 260

Morrissey, Francis, 19, 27

Morse, Wayne, 323, 359

Moses, Robert, 300

Mudd, Roger, 136

Mueller, George, 305–6

Mumford, Lewis, 257

Munich agreement (1938), 99

Murphy, Charles, 311

NAACP, 107, 234, 320, 332

Nagasaki, Japan, 77

Nagler, Willibrand, 120–21

Napoléon Bonaparte, 129

NASA, 103, 104, 175, 305–9

National Library Week, 184

National Origins Act (NOA) (1924), 155–56

National Poultry and Egg Board, 318

National Security Council (NSC), 161

National Turkey Foundation, 318–19

Nation of Immigrants, A
(JFK), 156–57

NATO, 225

Net Evaluation Subcommittee (NES), 164–66

New Deal, 194

New Frontier, 28, 103, 193

Newman, Larry, 11–12, 72, 149, 241, 275

Newport, Rhode Island, 169–73

Newton, Frank, 189–90

Nhu, Madame, 62, 65, 67, 178, 229, 248, 280

Nhu, Ngo Dinh, 62, 65, 137, 142

and Buddhists, 78, 137

and Cable 243, 90–91, 92

and coup, 66, 92, 118, 143, 162, 188, 206, 249, 272, 279–81

death of, 280–81, 282

Nixon, Richard M., 35n, 56, 221

and elections, 133, 145, 178, 233, 361

and family, 230

Ford’s pardon of, 26

and Lodge, 52, 54

and media, 127, 136

TV debates with, 76, 108, 265

and White House tapes, 24

Nkrumah, Kwame, 319

Nolting, Frederick, Jr., 60, 61–62, 76

Nolting, Richard, 118

North Vietnam,
see
Vietnam War

Oberdorfer, Dan, 266, 267

O’Brien, Lawrence, 45, 240, 291, 337

O’Connor, Frank, 333

O’Donnell, Ken, 24, 37, 45, 50, 52, 97, 142, 148, 180, 240

and Baker scandal, 261, 267

and Johnson, 138, 302, 355

and reelection, 291

and test ban treaty, 215

and Texas tour, 327, 329, 341–42

and Vietnam, 62, 64, 137

O’Leary, James B., 14, 15

O’Leary, Muggsy, 44–45, 209

Olivier, Sir Laurence, 349

Onassis, Aristotle, 89–90, 120, 148, 175, 201, 202, 247, 250, 328

Operation Aphrodite, 20

Operation Northwoods, 95–97, 100

Ormsby-Gore, David, 7, 15, 254, 255, 284–85, 350, 353

Orwell, George, 351

Palmer, Arnold, 91

Panama Canal, 307

Pavlick, Richard, 148–49

Peace Corps, 159, 351

Pearson, Drew, 34, 89

Pell, Claiborne, 170, 172

Pellegriti, Thomas, 240

Pentagon:

and Bay of Pigs, 6

and cold war, 166

and Vietnam, 61, 64, 106, 166, 177, 188

Pentagon Papers, 35n, 360

Pereira, Father Albert, 287

Peterson, Esther, 229–30

Petrie, Richard, 12

Pham Ngoc Thao, 248

Philadelphia, campaigning in, 273–74

Pinchot, Gifford, Jr., 194

Pinchot, Ruth, 194

Polk, James K., 133

Powers, Dave, 201, 213

and campaigns, 196, 302, 330

and crowds, 149, 196, 316, 334

as JFK’s buddy, 5–6, 15, 24, 44, 45, 150, 180, 215, 240, 310, 326, 342

and Johnson, 138, 302, 355

presidency:

and assassination, 130, 148–51, 253, 312–13, 332, 346, 347

avoiding war, 100–101, 134, 209

crucial qualities of, 132–33

executive powers of, 296

history’s ranking of, 127–28, 130, 132–33, 178, 354

and press conferences, 166–67

trappings of, 145–47

unpleasantness of, 6

Presidential Medal of Freedom, 256

President’s Commission on the Status of Women, 227–29

President’s Council on Youth Fitness, 37

Profiles in Courage
(JFK), 9, 10, 16, 27, 126, 127, 131, 281, 289

Profumo, John, 79–81, 87, 261, 284

PT 95,
216

PT 109,
3–4, 14, 18, 21, 33, 151, 216, 325, 353, 355

Purcell, Heather, 165

Quayle, Oliver, 113

Quorum Club, 79, 219, 303

Radziwill, Lee, 11, 83, 89, 120, 174–75, 201–2, 297, 328

Radziwill, Stanislaus, 201–2, 348

Randolph, A. Philip, 107, 114, 116

Raskin, Marcus, 217

Reconstruction, 180

Reed, Jim, 258, 259, 260–61, 265

Reedy, George, 139, 140

Remon, Roberto, 251

Reston, James, 137

Reuther, Walter, 114–15

Ribicoff, Abraham, xii

Rickover, Hyman, 98

Ridder, Marie, 83, 287, 320, 359

Roberts, Emory, 311–12

Rockefeller, Nelson A., 87, 167, 293

Rometsch, Ellen:

and Baker scandal, 99, 219, 265, 266–68, 284, 355

FBI file on, 79–80, 261–62, 267, 284

as JFK’s sexual partner, 79, 80, 81, 83, 264

return to Germany, 79, 81, 87

and Senate investigation, 219, 275, 355

Romney, George, 293

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 15, 197

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 129, 153, 249

and art, 257

death of, 149

and election campaigns, 157, 158, 197, 276, 295

and Great Depression, 7, 112, 197

and greatness, 128, 132, 197

and Joe Kennedy, 53

personal traits of, xi, 7

speeches of, 8, 242

and World War II, 7, 158

Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr., 120, 230, 250, 255, 296

Roosevelt, Susan, 120

Roosevelt, Theodore, 53, 133n, 323

Rosen, Alex, 262

Rosenbloom, Carroll, 145

Rostow, Walt, 60, 177, 196, 225, 349, 359, 360

Royal Highland Black Watch, 296

Royall, Kenneth, 181, 187, 190, 227

Rusk, Dean, 23, 24, 164, 214, 320, 355

and cold war, 160, 165

and Cuba, 59, 290, 358

and Gromyko, 224, 225, 250

and JFK’s death, 348

and Lodge, 49–50

and Vietnam, 57, 90–91, 143, 162, 271, 322, 327, 360

Russia,
see
Soviet Union

Ryan, Mary, 42, 169

Salinger, Pierre, 15, 24, 98, 134, 220, 284

and JFK’s public image, 76, 311

and media relations, 76, 135, 185

and public statements, 38, 144, 174, 202, 233, 286, 300

resignation of, 355

and Texas tour, 323–24, 327

Samuelson, Paul, 7

Sandburg, Carl, 130

Sanford, Terry, 318

Satterfield, James, 113

Saxe, Maurice de, 72–74

Scammon, Richard, 291, 294, 323

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 45, 70, 98, 153, 187, 230

books by, 129, 354, 355

and civil rights, 112, 113

and Eisenhower, 44, 133, 258

on greatness, 132–33

and JFK’s health, 33

and JFK’s speeches, 160, 202, 256, 258

and Johnson, 139

and media stories, 126, 129–30

and presidential library, 202

and Profumo scandal, 80–81, 261

and reelection, 247

resignation of, 355

and Stevenson, 88, 253, 348

and Vietnam, 50, 176, 279, 360

and White House tapes, 24, 131

Schlesinger, Arthur, Sr., 132

Schweitzer, Albert, 88, 353

Seaborg, Glenn, 30, 177

Seamans, Robert, 306, 308

Secret Service, 14–15

and assassination threats, 149, 150, 312–14

and civil rights, 182

and crowds, 211, 300, 312–13, 332, 333

and JFK’s public appearances, 241, 300, 302, 311–14

and JFK’s womanizing, 83

and Texas tour, 336, 341, 344–45

White House bugged by, 23–25

Selassie, Haile, 13, 205–6

Senter, Raymond, 99

Seven Days in May
(Knebel and Bailey), 95–99

Shaw, Nanny, 296–97, 329

Shepard, Alan, 305–6

Sherwood, Robert, xi

Shriver, Sargent, 110, 151

Sidey, Hugh, 17, 35, 129, 132n, 167, 215, 217, 301, 306–7, 343

Sihanouk, Prince (Cambodia), 326

Sinatra, Frank, 70, 83

Skelton, Byron, 282–83, 327

Smathers, George, 11, 82, 139, 302, 303, 315, 316

Smiley, Nixon, 305

Smith, Jean Kennedy, 151, 300

Smith, Merriman, 168, 185, 200

Smith, Stephen, 71, 144, 291, 300

Social Security, 311

Solda, Gino, 120

Sorensen, Ted, 4, 6, 16, 17, 24, 150

and JFK’s death, 353

and JFK’s health, 33, 34, 223

and JFK’s personal traits, xi, 15

and JFK’s speeches, 130, 177, 256

and Lodge, 50

memoir of, 318, 354, 355

and reelection, 291, 292

resignation of, 355

and space program, 307

and test ban treaty, 9, 13, 30, 214

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 107

South Vietnam:

and Cable 243, 90–91, 92, 105–6, 117–18, 121, 270, 271, 282

coup in, 66, 92, 105–6, 117–19, 121, 143, 162, 176–77, 188, 206, 213, 248–49, 254, 264, 270–73, 279–82

Johnson’s visit to, 59

Lodge as ambassador to,
see
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.

and media, 158

military advisers in, 60–62, 64, 76, 99, 143, 158, 176–77, 206–9, 213, 271, 354, 358, 360

U.S. combat engineers in, 60

U.S. interests limited in, 75–76, 106, 176

see also
Vietnam War

Soviet Union:

and cold war,
see
cold war

détente with, 30, 93–95, 101–2, 104–5, 160, 165, 183, 215, 221, 226–27, 239, 253, 303, 321, 349, 354

hotline between U.S. and, 93, 225

Jews oppressed in, 323

and JFK’s death, 349

joint space program with, 102, 103, 104–5, 160, 175, 182–83, 223, 225, 308–9

missiles in Cuba, 6, 7, 10, 18, 38, 59, 88, 91, 93, 95, 97–98, 121, 133, 134, 150, 151, 159, 197, 225, 251–52, 360

U.S. wheat sale to, 195, 221, 225, 226, 292, 328

space race, 93, 102–5, 184, 338, 341

JFK’s Canaveral visit, 305–9

joint U.S./USSR program, 102, 103, 104–5, 160, 175, 182–83, 223, 225, 308–9

manned flight, 102–3, 305–6, 307

man on the moon, 103, 104, 150, 159, 175, 223, 305–7, 310, 333

Spalding, Betty, 71, 83

Spalding, Chuck, 71, 154n, 185, 216–17

Spellman, Cardinal Francis, 19, 280

Squaw Island, 88–92

Stalin, Joseph, 129

Stanton, Frank, 135

Stennis, John, 22, 23

Stevens, Thaddeus, 112

Stevenson, Adlai E., 88–89, 297

and Cuba, 183, 184

Dallas trip of, 253, 254, 255, 283, 301, 325, 347

and JFK’s death, 347, 348