JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President (66 page)

and test ban treaty, 160

and women, 229

Storm, Tempest, 82–83

Stoughton, Cecil, 71, 91–92, 151, 269, 286–87, 346

Styron, Rose, 286

Styron, William, 125–27, 134, 286

Sullivan, William, 207

Supreme Court, U.S., 326–27

Brown v. Board of Education,
8

Swanson, Gloria, 82

Sylvester, Arthur, 41

Symington, Stuart, 84

Tampa, campaigning in, 311–15

Tate, James, 274

tax-cut bill, 162, 174, 177–80, 184, 195, 223, 243, 301, 354, 356, 362

Taylor, George, 110, 275

Taylor, Maxwell:

and Cuba, 6

and Joint Chiefs, 57, 96, 143

and Laos, 57

and nuclear threat, 165–66

and Vietnam, 60–61, 105–6, 143, 176–77, 187, 188, 206–9, 212–13, 270, 271, 279, 282, 360

Teague, Olin, 341

Teller, Edwin, 22, 29, 77, 99, 101

test ban treaty,
see
cold war

Texas:

Dallas,
see
Dallas

and elections, 330, 335

Fort Worth, 336, 337–39

and JFK’s assassination, 348

JFK’s planned trip to, 247, 248, 292, 304, 316, 317, 321, 324, 325, 327, 328

JFK’s tour of, 329–36, 337–46

Texas School Book Depository, 344, 346

Thomas, Albert, 330, 336

Thomas, George, 150, 247, 337

Thomas, Helen, 244

Thompson, Llewellyn “Tommy,” 94, 101, 105, 224

Thurmond, Strom, 22

Time,
301

Timmes, Charles J., 311

Tito, Josip Broz, 236–37, 252, 254, 268, 328

Topping, Seymour, 55

Touré, Sékou, 252, 328

Travell, Janet, 4, 12, 34, 36–38

Tree, Marietta, 228

Tretick, Stanley, 220, 222–23, 230–31, 361

Truman, Harry S., 44, 158, 236

and armed forces integration, 181, 190

and FDR, 295

and greatness, 133

and JFK’s death, 348

speeches by, 8, 242

Turbidy, Dorothy, 236

Turner, Nat, 134, 286

Turnure, Pamela, 83, 148, 202, 325

Tynan, Kenneth, 163

Udall, Stewart, 197, 258

Ulbricht, Walter, 80

United Nations, 76, 90, 217, 253

and Cuba, 59, 283, 321

JFK’s speech at, 160, 174, 175, 182–83

and Lodge, 51, 66

membership in, 319–20

United States:

and cold war,
see
cold war

as melting pot, 157

military coup possible in, 94–99, 165

poverty in, 242–43, 259, 269, 293–94, 296, 311, 323, 354, 356

University of Maine, 239

USSR,
see
Soviet Union

Valenti, Jack, 336

Vallejo, Rene, 191–92, 283, 291, 321–22

Vanocur, Sander, 194, 196, 200

Veterans Day (1963), 288

Viet Minh guerrillas, 54, 55, 56

Vietnam, 54–67

Buddhist monks in, 63–64, 65, 66, 76, 78, 90, 106, 136–37, 161, 162

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

and Diem,
see
Diem, Ngo Dinh; South Vietnam

division of, 56

and domino theory, 55, 56, 58, 60, 158

fact-finding missions to, 54–58, 143, 161–62, 176–77, 184, 187–88, 206–9, 212–13, 299, 360

and Geneva Accords, 56

Hue massacre in, 63–64

Kennedy speeches about, 59

Mansfield’s memo on, 75–76, 79

see also
South Vietnam; Vietnam War

Vietnam War:

combat troops in, 56, 57, 60, 63, 159, 176, 311, 358, 360

costs of, 75–76

escalation of, 356, 358–60

as hopeless mess, 50–51, 66

nuclear threat in, 57

peace negotiations in, 56–57

as public relations problem, 66, 208

as unwinnable, 118, 136, 208, 241, 322–23, 359

U.S. withdrawal sought, 64, 76, 99, 143, 176–77, 207–9, 213, 217, 241, 271, 311, 323, 331, 354, 358–59

VISTA, 112–13

Voice of America, 105

Voltaire, 73

von Braun, Wernher, 305–6, 310

Wadsworth, James, 22

Walker, Edwin, 283

Wallace, George, 161, 174, 180

Wallace, Henry A., 295

Walsh, John, 4, 12

Walton, William, ix, xi, 88–89, 91, 287

Warren, Earl, 327

Washington, D.C.:

Pennsylvania Avenue, 145

segregation in, 109–10

Washington, George, 132

Wear, Priscilla, 83

Webb, James, 103, 104, 175, 307, 308

Weiner, Micky, 298

Weinstein, Lewis, 323

West, J. B., 170, 206, 244–45, 263–65, 361

Wharton, Edith, 53

While England Slept
(Churchill), 130

White, Lee, 108

White, Theodore, 128

White House:

break-ins, 39

bugs in, 23–25, 65–67, 70, 101, 131–32, 210, 224, 271, 276

“Daddies Day” at, 288–89

Lincoln bedroom, 361

renovations to, 41–42, 43, 214

Rose Garden, 146, 170

Whitman, Ann, 247

Why England Slept
(JFK), 130, 281

Wicker, Tom, 159, 343

Wiesner, Jerome, 7, 307

Wilkins, Roy, 107, 109, 111, 114

Williams, John, 218–19

Wilson, Richard, 87, 356

Wilson, Woodrow, 132, 133, 259, 315

Winters, Francis, 64n

World Crisis, The
(Churchill), 131

World War II, 158, 216–17, 339, 353

Yarborough, Ralph, 316, 321, 330, 333, 334–35, 337–38, 341–42, 344, 345

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 349

Young, Brigham, 200

Yugoslavia:

Kennan in, 268

U.S. aid to, 236–37

Zaher, king of Afghanistan, 115, 142, 143, 146–47

Zakharov, Marshal, 100

Zbaril, Agent, 313

Zuckert, Eugene, 99

*
In 1973, Cohen noticed the similarities between his burglary and a break-in at the office of a psychiatrist treating Daniel Ellsberg, who had leaked the Pentagon Papers to the
New York Times,
and wondered if Richard Nixon had ordered both.

*
Cohen closed his letter by saying, “I was taken in by this psychopathic, dishonest, incompetent doctor. I am responsible for her being where she is. . . . Fortunately, you were there to take over completely. No one can ever realize the strain it is to have this venomous creature always there as a potential threat to the well being of anyone she contacts. As mentioned in the beginning of this letter, it would require a book to record just what Doctor Travell did and just what she is. I feel like a shower now. Cordially . . .”

*
Mansfield confirmed O’Donnell’s
recollection of this conversation in a letter to the author Francis Winters, in which he put the meeting in March and wrote, “I can tell you with great confidence that in March 1963 the President told me he was going to leave Vietnam after he was reelected, but not before, and that he would withdraw some troops in advance.”

*
She had read the book earlier that summer, and he thought it sounded so interesting that he had leafed through it. Now he had his own copy.

*
After the fall of the Berlin Wall
, an author conducting research for a book about the Stasi, the East German secret police, learned from former West and East German intelligence operatives that there were “strong indications” that Rometsch had been an agent for the Stasi’s foreign espionage bureau, only marrying her husband after he was posted to Washington. She had been turned over to the KGB by the Stasi because the Soviets had jurisdiction over espionage activities in North America. When asked about her, a former KGB intelligence officer who had served at the Washington embassy said enigmatically, “Yes, I know of such a woman.” (Rometsch lives in Germany and routinely refuses to be interviewed.)

*
Stevenson sent a graceful note that concluded, “
I
know
there is much joy
and peace and fulfillment for
you
—for, as Fra Giovanni said, there is radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see. And you, dear Jackie,
can
see.”

*
In a 1983 article in
Esquire,
Styron wrote that he cruised with Kennedy in late August 1963. Thirteen years later in
Vanity Fair,
he put the cruise the year before, in August 1962. If the cruise occurred in 1963, it would have happened on September 1, when the Secret Service records show Kennedy motoring to Martha’s Vineyard. It is also possible that Styron cruised with Kennedy in both 1962 and 1963, explaining his confusion. In any case, Kennedy’s obsession with Kazin’s article and the verdict of history would have been the same in either year.

*
The aide concluded that
Time
had put the two administrations “in very different lights,” and that while Eisenhower “was given every benefit of the doubt . . . [and] dealt with in only glowing terms and heroic prose,” the Kennedy administration “was nary given a chance and criticism was never spared.”

*
Jackie also assumed that Schlesinger would write something. She forwarded a document to McGeorge Bundy accompanied by a memorandum saying, “
I thought you might find this
a valuable addition to your state papers—if you don’t—I am sure Arthur Schlesinger can use it in the trilogy I dread to think he will write about the present administration.”

*
He had been guilty of this after dictating many of his most important contributions to his inaugural address to Evelyn Lincoln ten days before the inauguration. To establish his authorship of these passages, and to persuade future historians that he had written them, he copied them down from memory on a yellow legal pad a week later, and invited the reporter Hugh Sidey into his private compartment on the
Caroline
to witness the performance.

*
After their conversation Schlesinger wrote in his diary, “It is clear that his [Kennedy’s] measure is concrete achievement, and people who educate the nation without necessarily achieving their goals, like Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt, rate below those, like Truman and Polk, who do things without bringing the nation along with them.”

*
Charlie Bartlett had also sensed his unease about Bobby succeeding him. While swimming at Camp David that spring, he had suddenly asked Bartlett whether he thought the nominee would be Bobby or Lyndon, adding that he considered Johnson unfit for the presidency. Bartlett said later, “
I didn’t have the feeling from this conversation
and some others that John Kennedy was particularly thrilled by the fact that Bobby had decided that he would try to succeed him.” He expressed the same reservations to Chuck Spalding, telling him that he thought Bobby was overly ambitious and “hard-nosing it.”

*
Typical were his dogged efforts
to secure permanent resident status for the Chinese immigrant Toy Lin Chen. He won several temporary extensions of Chen’s visa, submitted and resubmitted private bills, and continued championing the case even when Chen moved to another state. After he had lobbied on Chen’s behalf more than five years, the Senate finally passed a private bill permitting Chen to remain in the country. A grateful Chen sent him a set of sterling silver dessert spoons.

*
At another dinner party, Harriman complained that Kennedy was “
still trying too hard to get a national consensus
before he moved on anything.” Turning to Schlesinger, he said, “I told one of you White House fellows the other day that, whatever you do, whatever compromises you make, you are never going to get the support of the [far-right] John Birch Society. Those fellows [at the White House] think too much about passing legislation and too little about mobilizing the country. Tell them that. Tell them I said that.”

*
A December 14, 1962, letter to Kennedy from the president of Frost’s publisher, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, informed him that “
Robert had a serious operation
on Monday, at Peter Brigham Hospital, where he will be recuperating for several weeks.”

*
Burns admitted in 1965 that he might have underestimated him. In fact, he had written a remarkably accurate portrait of him in 1959, and his second thoughts indicated how much Kennedy had changed.