Kennedy (137 page)

Congressional Record
, 67

Connally, John, 39, 156, 164

Connor, T. Eugene, 489, 490, 492

Coolidge, Calvin, 183, 465

Cooper, John Sherman, 44, 140

Cooper, R. Conrad, 445, 446

Corbin, Paul, 136

Cornwell, Elmer, 325n.

Corwin, Thomas, 67

Costa Rica, 535

Council of Economic Advisers, 323, 419, 423, 437, 444, 446, 449

“counterforce,” 610

counterinsurgency training, 632

Cousins, Norman, 728, 729, 730

Cox, Archibald, 53–54, 66, 118, 176, 179, 277, 466

Craig, May, 326

Crimea, 548

Criswell, W. A., 363

Crockett, Davy, 190

Cromwell, Oliver, 6, 166n.

Cromwell, Richard, 166n.

Cuban crisis, 232, 319, 325, 329, 331, 354, 390, 429, 467, 515, 552, 563, 564, 575, 626, 638, 664, 717, 748, 752, 754, 756

Acheson and, 719

Adenauer and, 715

air strike for, 682, 683, 684, 685, 687, 693–694, 695, 696, 697, 711, 712, 713, 714, 715, 716, 721

Barnett and, 707

Bartlett—Stewart Alsop article on, 315

and Berlin crisis, 667, 668–669, 672, 677, 680, 681, 683, 686, 687, 689, 690, 694, 699, 724, 725

and blockade, 682, 683, 687–689, 694, 697, 698, 704, 711, 721

Bundy and 673, 674

Carter and, 675

CIA and, 670, 673, 674, 678

civil defense and, 708

and communications, 279

and Congress, 285

and De Gaulle, 569, 697, 705, 715

and diplomatic pressures, 682–683, 687, 694–695

and “Disable, don’t sink” order, 708

and Dobrynin, 667–668, 701

Executive Committee and, 679, 701, 708, 709, 715, 720

Fulbright and, 702

Gromyko and, 690, 691

and Guantánamo, 676, 681, 684, 697, 704, 705

Halleck and, 702

and hijacked plane, 510

and “hot line,” 727

and invasion, 682, 711–712, 714, 715, 716

Joint Chiefs of Staff and, 674, 678, 684, 692, 697, 701, 705, 738

Jupiter missile bases and, 691, 695–696, 712, 713

Keating and, 670, 672, 707

Kennedy, Edward, and, 701

Kennedy, Robert, and, 679, 709, 714, 715

Khrushchev and, 514–515, 529, 552–555, 600, 666–668, 691, 694, 709, 710, 712, 713, 714, 716, 717–718, 719, 720, 721, 724–725

and Laos, 724

and Latin America, 669, 671, 676, 677, 681, 682, 683, 687–688, 689, 692, 697, 700, 701–702

Macmillan and, 705, 717, 719

and Martin, 706

McCloy and, 706

McCone and, 716

McNamara and, 673, 674, 678, 679, 696, 702, 710, 716, 722, 734, 738

National Security Council and, 693, 701, 723

NATO and, 705, 715

Nixon and, 677

OAS and, 669–670, 672, 675, 682, 686, 687, 688, 695, 697, 698–699, 704,706, 708, 721

and Ormsby-Gore, 706, 710

and quarantine, 705 ff.

and Red China, 573

Republican Party and, 205, 206, 216

Rusk and, 681–682

Russell, Bertrand, and, 706, 709, 710

Russell, Senator, and, 702

and SAC, 628, 675, 704, 739

Schlesinger and, 706

security measures for, 321–322

and Skybolt, 565

and Soviet equipment and personnel, 667 ff.

and Soviet missiles, 2, 3, 482, 523, 629, 662, 667 ff.

speeches on, 366, 703–704

Stevenson and, 706–707, 714

“surgical strike” for, 684, 687

and Thompson, 706

and U-2 flights, 519, 672, 674, 680, 698–699, 713, 723

and UN, 667, 677, 678, 682, 684, 686, 688, 695, 696, 698, 704, 705, 706, 708, 714–715, 717, 719, 720, 721, 730, 732

Cuban Families Committee, 303n.

Cunningham, Bill, 77

Curley, James Michael, 21, 72

Curtis, Carl, 74

Cushing, Richard Cardinal, 109, 113, 192, 244, 363, 367

Custer, Gen. George A., 744

Cyprus, 564

Daley, George P., 356–357

Daley, Richard J., 87–88, 115, 124, 159, 207

Dallas, 479, 749–751

Dallas
News
, 335

“Danny Boy,” 387

Danville (Va.), 494

Davids, Jules, 67

Dawson, William, 252n., 471

Day, J. Edward, 253, 254, 265, 275, 469

Dean, Arthur, 288, 617, 618, 728

“Decade of Development,” 531, 754

decision-making, 281–285

Decision-Making in the White House
, 392

Defense Intelligence Agency, 418

deficit, 229

deficit spending, 405

De Gaulle, Charles, 230–231, 270, 279, 323, 375, 408, 409, 412, 436, 554, 559–562, 563, 569, 570–573, 578, 579, 581, 584, 593, 597, 599, 681, 686, 697, 705, 715, 720, 736

Delaney, Jim, 361, 362

“Democrat Looks at Foreign Policy, A,” 106

Democratic National Committee, 172, 174, 475

Denver
Post
, 220

DeSapio, Carmine, 88, 124, 147, 150

DeSautels, 356–357

desegregation, 26, 102, 477–478, 479–480, 483 ff.

De Valera, Eamon, 582

devaluation, 407–408

Dever, Paul, 86

Dewey, Thomas E., 183, 207, 251

Dickinson, Emily, 381

Diefenbaker, John, 370, 575–576

Diem, Ngo Dinh, 650, 651–653, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659–660

Dienbienphu, 642

Dillon, Douglas, 3, 252, 253–254, 265, 269, 271–272, 275, 280, 281, 282, 283, 391, 395, 399, 401, 407–409, 421, 422, 424, 425, 427, 428, 432, 454, 456, 459, 462, 464, 469, 473, 534, 674, 716

Dillon, Mrs. Douglas, 281

Dilworth, Richardson, 98, 151

Dirksen, Everett, 149, 331, 350, 351–352, 498, 499, 736–737, 738, 739, 742

“Disable, don’t sink,” 708

DiSalle, Michael V., 88, 121, 124, 130, 131, 151, 161, 172

disarmament, 517–519, 549, 562, 567, 623

discrimination, racial, 470 ff.

Disraeli, Benjamin, 560

diversity, 539

Dixon, Paul Rand, 454, 462

Dobrynin, Anatoly F., 555, 598, 667–669, 690, 701

Docking, George, 124, 148, 155

Dodd, Tom, 115, 729

Dolan, Joe, 116, 159

domestic affairs, 509–510

Dominican Republic, 293, 536

Don
Juan
, 467n.

Donahue, Richard, 171, 255, 356–357

Donovan, James, 308n.

Dorchester
(S.S.), 192

Douglas, Paul, 12, 86, 221, 237

Douglas, Stephen A., 198

Douglas, William O., 31, 425

Douglass, Frederick, 473

Dulles, Allen, 291, 630

Dulles, John Foster, 65, 230, 270, 284, 288, 295–296, 538, 545, 548, 559, 596, 639

Dungan, Ralph, 53–54, 56, 255, 264

Dunn, Finley Peter, 63

Durkin, Martin P., 252

Dutton, Fred, 283n., 289

East Berlin, 293, 583, 593, 594, 595

East Carrol Parish (La.), 479 East Germany, 293, 562, 583, 584, 587, 588–589, 590, 593, 594, 596, 599, 600, 601, 736

Eastland, James O., 103

Ebert, Mayor, 576

Economic Club (NYC), 430, 468

economic growth, 393 ff.

Economic Message (1961), 397

Ecuador, 689

Edmondson, Howard, 114, 161

education, 357 ff., 390, 403, 472, 479–480, 497–498

Edwards, India, 39, 156, 164

EEC,
see
Common Market Egypt, 228, 539

Einstein, Albert, 20

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 75, 103, 163, 208, 212, 227, 232, 235, 238, 244, 252, 253, 304, 336, 468, 676, 701, 755

and Adams, 281

AID and, 350

Allen, George, and, 204

and Army strength, 66

and balance of payments, 407

Benson and, 171

and budget, 414, 419–420

Cabinet of, 254, 257

and Catholic vote, 217–219

and CIA, 295

and Congo, 635–636

and Congress, 340, 345, 346, 347

contributions for, 173–174

and Cuban crisis, 295, 391

and defense, 602, 627

and deficit, 425, 429

De Gaulle and, 561–562

and Democrats, 168, 170, 217

Dillon and, 3

and equal time, 196

and “falling domino” theory, 644

and farmers, 333

and foreign policy, 176, 281, 413

and Germany, 585

and golf, 378

and Great Britain, 566

health of, 83, 462

Hughes, Emmet, and, 5

and incoming personnel, 233

Kennedy attitude toward, 114, 183–184, 228, 314, 476, 499

Khrushchev and, 231

and Laos, 640

and Massachusetts, 12, 74, 78

and massive retaliation, 625

and military-industrial complex, 416

and missile gap, 610–611

and national stockpiles, 317

and NATO, 567

Nixon and, 168, 169, 200, 207, 216–217, 558

popularity of, 169, 214, 334, 335

and Protestant vote, 218–219

and Recession, 217

Saltonstall and, 58

and schools, 360

and Soviet Union, 107, 549, 555

and space program, 524

and teamwork, 282

and test-ban treaty, 738n.

and
Time
magazine, 317

and U-2 flight, 544

and USIA, 322

and Vietnam, 651–652

and vote by religions, 217–219, 221–222

Eisenhower, Mrs. Dwight D., 114

Electoral College, 62n., 66

Ellis, Frank, 613, 614

Emancipation Proclamation, 497

employment, 185

Engels, Friedrich, 546

England, 579, 755

see also
Great Britain

equal rights, 26, 470 ff.

Ervin, Samuel J., Jr., 501

espionage, 549, 617

see also
U-2 flights

Estes, Billie Sol, 276, 317

European Economic Community,
see
Common Market

Evers, Medgar, 496

Ex Comm,
see under
National Security Council

“falling domino” theory, 644

fallout, 621, 623

fallout shelters,
see
shelters, bomb and fallout

Farley, James A., 115, 155

farm problems, 402–403

Faubus, Orville, 159

Fay, Paul B., Jr., 36, 249, 378

Fayette County (Tenn.), 479

FBI, 453–454, 460, 502–503, 750

“featherbedding,” 441

Federal Aid to Education Bill, 361

Federal Bureau of Investigation,
see
FBI

Federal Home Loan Banks, 397

Federal Reserve Board, 217, 407, 423, 435

Federal Trade Commission, 453

Feldman, Myer, 176, 179, 189, 203, 248, 253, 264, 323, 701

FEPC, 497, 498

Ferguson, Homer, 66

Fermi, Enrico, 26

Fifth Amendment, 54

filibusters, 342

Finletter, Thomas K., 237, 279

Finnegan, James, 81, 82

“fireside chats,” 329

“first-strike,” 609–610, 611, 621

Fischer, John, 291 Fisher, Adrian, 734

Fitzgerald, John F., 15, 36

FKBW, 253

Flanagan, Francis, 34

Flanders, Ralph, 47, 48

Fleming, Ian, 388 “floating depots,” 627

Fomin, Aleksander, 712, 714

Food-for-Peace, 280, 531, 534, 759

Food Stamp program, 397

“For Kennedy Before Wisconsin,” 253

Ford, George L., 195

Ford, Henry, 17

foreign affairs, 509 ff.

foreign aid, in, 350–351, 529–532, 759

Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, 630

Foreign Office, 555

foreign policy, 528, 533–540, 605

Foreign Relations Committee, 43, 96, 164

Foreign Service, 473

Forge of Democracy
, 349

Formosa, 289, 548, 625, 661, 662, 681, 707

Formosa Resolution, 49

Forrest County (Miss.), 479

Fort Bragg (N.C.), 632

Fortune
magazine, 316

Foster, William, 518, 734, 737

Fourteenth Amendment, 499

Fowler, Henry, 237, 252–253, 277, 454, 456

Fox, Charles James, 718

Fox, John, 78, 79

France, 566 ff., 570, 571, 573, 590, 597, 617, 650, 735, 736, 740, 741, 755

see also
De Gaulle

Franck, Isaac, 240

Frankfurt, 581

Franklin, Benjamin, 100

Freedman, Max, 591

“Freedom Riders,” 478

“freedom walk,” 493

Freeman, Orville, 84, 154, 158, 165, 253, 257, 265, 273, 276, 277, 283, 333, 402–403, 740

Freeman, Mrs. Orville (Jane), 277

French-German Treaty of Friendship, 573

French-Indochinese War, 654

Freund, Paul, 50, 66, 273

FROGs, 715

Frost, Robert, 14, 64, 240, 244, 384, 398, 458–459, 669, 752

Fulbright, J. William, 307, 501, 702

fund-raising, 173–174

Furcolo, Foster, 73, 76, 77, 263

Gagarin, Yuri, 524, 525, 544

Gaitskell, Hugh, 576, 623

Galbraith, Kenneth, 14, 118, 174, 176, 235, 240, 243, 249, 256, 261, 279, 290, 370, 372, 386, 388, 395, 406, 430, 433, 578, 664

Gallo, Joey, 170

Gallup, George, 107

Gallup Polls, 193n, 209, 333, 352, 358, 463, 618, 745

Garcia, Argemil Plazas, 537

Garner, John Nance, 164

Gaughan, Vince, 172

Gavin, James, 118, 184, 279, 560

General Assembly
see under
United Nations

General Services Administration, 452

Geneva Accords, 639, 647–648, 649, 650, 651, 652

Geneva Conferences, 518, 618, 619, 623, 642, 646–648, 729

German Democratic Republic,
see
East Germany

Germany, 549, 554, 560, 562, 567, 571, 573, 579, 584, 667, 733

Gettysburg Address, 240

Ghana, 228, 268, 533, 537, 539, 636, 638

“GI bill of rights,” 488

Gilpatric, Roswell L., 277, 456, 604, 674, 694

Gizenga, Antoine, 636, 637

Glenn, John, 526, 528–529

Goa, 537, 578–579

gold reserves, 229, 405–407

Goldberg, Arthur, 253, 265, 273, 275, 277, 283, 395, 398, 439, 440, 442,443, 444, 445–446, 447, 448, 449–450, 454, 456, 457, 458, 462

Goldwater, Barry, 54, 55, 58, 168, 170, 207, 272, 324, 439, 505, 669, 739, 754

“Good Neighbor Policy,” 533