Kennedy (140 page)

Oppenheimer, J, Robert, 26, 335

Organization of American States,
see
OAS

Ormsby-Gore, Sir David, 66, 378, 559, 565, 566n., 704–705, 706, 710

Ortega, Domingo, 336

Outer Mongolia, 661

“overkill,” 610

Oxford (Miss.), 483–488

Oxford Race Conflict, 329

Oxnam, Bishop Bromley, 144

Paar, Jack, 195

Pakistan, 372, 383, 538, 547, 628, 663, 664, 681, 717

Palace of Nations (Geneva), 647

Palm Beach, 38, 68, 120, 255, 278, 327- 328, 340, 352, 367–368, 369, 377, 378, 380, 429, 607, 623

Palmer, Arnold, 378

Panama Canal, 692, 735 “paper tigers,” 652, 677

Paris Summit Conference, 149, 216, 229, 583

Passman, Otto, 330, 351

Pastore, John, 50

Pathet Lao, 640, 641, 642, 643, 645, 646, 647, 648

patronage, 72–73, 349

Patterson, Floyd, 388

Patterson, John, 158

Paul VI, Pope, 365

Pauling, Linus, 26, 384

Paulskirche, 574

Peace Corps, 181, 184, 347, 531–532, 534, 539, 581, 756

Peale, Norman Vincent, 188–189

Pearson, Drew, 68, 70, 229

Pearson, Lester, 575, 576

Pentagon, 603–604, 605, 608, 621, 630, 644, 655, 678, 682–683, 697, 704,708

Persons, Wilton, 231, 232, 262

Pescadores Islands, 662

Peterson, Esther, 277

Peterson, Howard, 411

Philadelphia
Inquirer
, 316

Philippines, 631–632, 649n., 660–661

Phoumi Nosavan, 640, 641, 644, 648

Pilgrim’s Way
, 14

Pitt, William, 331, 661

Plaine des Jarres, 640

“Plans for Progress,” 474

POAU, in, 137, 144, 186, 240, 363

“POL,” 689, 694, 708, 711, 715

Poland, 111, 513, 540, 547, 597

Polaris missile, 564, 565, 566, 567, 570, 571,574, 604, 606, 609, 696n., 707, 725

Poling, Rev. Daniel, 191–192

politics, 332–333, 471–472

poll taxes, 475, 480

Pollard, Ramsey, 194

Pope John XXIII, 194

Pope, Lincoln, 78

Pope Paul VI, 365

population explosion, 112

Porter, Sylvia, 433

Portugal, 292, 533, 538, 547, 578, 608

Powell, Adam Clayton, 156, 172, 183, 340

Powell, Wesley, 133

Power, Thomas, 739

Powers, David, 28, 77, 134–135, 162, 179, 190, 198, 264, 368, 369, 373, 383, 388, 582

Powers, Gary, 517

pre-emptive first strike, 513

Presidency, The
, 271

Presidential Power
, 389

President’s Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy, 437, 456

President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, 474

press conferences, 322–326, 341

press relations, 310–318

preventive war, 513

Price, Leontyne, 440

Price
of Union, The
, 62, 67

Prince Edward County (Va.), 480, 502

Printers Union, 441

Profiles in Courage
, 4, 29, 40, 57, 68–70, 71, “3, 371, 375, 718,749

Progressive
, 106

proliferation (nuclear), 567

Protestants and Other Americans United for the Separation of Church and State,
see
POAU

Proxmire, William, 133

PT-109, 710n.

public opinion, 106–108, 184

public relations, 327 ff.

public service, 4

Public Welfare Bill, 343, 344

public works, 398

Public Works program, 404

Puerto Rico, 700

Pulitzer Prize, 4, 68, 69, 315, 758

Punta del Este (Uruguay), 669

“purple telephone,” 727

Pusey, Nathan M., 78, 234

Quadros, President (Brazil), 293

Quai d’Orsay Palace, 497, 581

quarantine of Cuba, 694, 705–711, 715, 745

Quemoy, 662 “quickie” tax bill, 424, 425, 426

race relations, 325, 329

racketeers, 53–54

Rackets Committee, 52, 117, 135

Radford, Arthur, 739

radiation, 621

Railroad Retirement Act, 12

Railway Labor Act, 443

railway labor dispute, 441–443, 503

Raines, Albert, 481

Rambouillet, 570, 571n.

Randolph, A. Philip, 505

Randolph, Jennings, 344

Raskin, Hy, 117, 120

Rayburn, Sam, 82, 90, 92, 152, 156, 163, 164, 165, 170, 193, 340–341, 355–356, 362, 364, 380

RB-47 incident, 517

RB-47 planes, 286, 517

Reader’s Digest, The
, 419

Reardon, Ted, 29, 55, 57, 167, 264, 283n., 285, 747

recession, 217, 229, 393 ff.

Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, 410, 411

Red China, 228, 289, 482, 522, 523, 537, 547, 548, 558, 564, 573, 624, 631–632, 640 ff., 661–666, 677, 681, 685, 720, 724, 726, 735, 736, 741, 745, 755

Red
Star
, 619

Reinsch, Leonard, 196

Reischauer, Edwin O., 279

Reston, James, 136, 201, 322–323

Reuter, Richard, 531

Reuther, Walter, 53, 335, 504

Reynolds, Jim, 277, 442

Reynolds, John, 115, 116

Ribicoff, Abraham A., 81, 83, 85, 86, 88, 115, 117, 126, 159, 253, 254, 265, 273–274, 359, 360, 361, 482

Rio
Escondido
(ship), 299

Rio Treaty (1947), 708

Robbins, Jerome, 388

Roberts, Dennis, 81, 85, 86, 117, 120

Robinson, Joe, 164

Rockefeller, David, 468

Rockefeller Foundation, 271

Rockefeller, Nelson, 96–97, 147n., 168, 184, 207, 253, 424–425, 614, 617, 754

Rogers, Will, 63

Romney, George, 754

Roncalio, Teno, 115

Rooney, John, 278

Roosa, Bob, 235, 253, 277, 408, 456

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 15, 17, 139, 145- 146, 147, 152, 155, 164, 168, 169, 199, 223, 231, 239, 242, 252, 256, 283, 319, 235n., 329, 400, 410, 435, 466, 492, 533, 558, 560, 562, 693, 734, 754, 755

Roosevelt, Mrs. Franklin D. (Eleanor), 86, 118, 119, 123, 155, 170, 256, 334, 382

Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr., 139, 141–142, 145, 235, 249, 277

Roosevelt, Theodore, 257, 336, 385, 515, 754

Roper, Elmo, 137

Rosebery, Lord, 331

Ross, Edmund G., 67

Rostow, Walt, 66, 118, 261, 289, 595, 653

Rovere, Richard, 470

Rowley, Jim, 749

Royal Air Force, 566

Royall, Kenneth, 503

RS-70, 347, 348

Rules Committee,
see
House Rules Committee

Rusk, Dean, 235, 243, 391, 510, 521, 565, 726

and Berlin crisis, 590, 598, 599

and Bowles, 289–290

and conventional forces, 626

and Cuban crisis, 296, 322, 673, 681–682, 702, 706, 712

and Laos, 647

and meetings, 285

and National Security Council, 674

and nuclear testing, 618, 622, 736

and Obote, 701

and political functions, 272

qualities of, 270, 272

as Secretary of State, 252, 253, 255n., 265, 270, 288, 323

and Soviet Union, 542, 555–556, 618, 691, 692, 734

and State Department team, 287

and Vietnam, 649

Russell, Bertrand, 706, 709

Russell, Richard B., 702, 737

Russia,
see
Soviet Union

Ryan, Mary Kennedy, 582

SAC, 574, 612, 628, 675, 704, 739

Saigon, 653, 656, 658, 659, 660

St. Lawrence Seaway, 58–59, 76, 136

St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
, 316

Salamis, 745

Salinger, Pierre, 117, 120, 143, 154, 171, 186–187, 190, 221, 230, 260n., 261, 263, 264, 285, 290, 311, 318, 320, 321, 323, 324, 325–326, 327, 355, 370, 374, 377, 381, 555, 556, 557, 693, 697, 700

Salter, John, 120

Saltonstall, Leverett, 57–58, 73–74, 75

SAMs, 670, 672, 673, 676, 684, 708–709, 713, 714, 716, 723

Samson, 436n.

Samuelson, Paul, 118, 238, 253, 255, 395, 396, 398, 413, 424

San Jose Conference, 581, 723

Sandburg, Carl, 388

Sanford, Terry, 154, 160, 505

Saturday Evening Post
, 35

Sayre, Francis B., Jr., 143–144, 335

Scales, Junius, 26

Scab, John, 712

Scammon, Richard M., 277

Scandinavia, 681

Schaetzel, Robert, 237

Schirra, Walter, 676

Schlei, Norbert, 499

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 5, 83, 84, 85, 118, 176, 234, 256, 261, 264, 307, 353, 462, 534, 622, 706

Schönbrunn Palace, 543, 581

Scott, Hugh, 149, 185

Scranton, William, 455

Seaborg, Glenn T., 277

SEATO, 644, 646, 647

Secret Service, 478, 749, 750

Seeger, Alan, 748

segregation,
see
desegregation
and
civil rights

Selective Service, 403

Seltzer, Louis, 131

Senate Armed Services Preparedness Subcommittee, 739

Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 545

Senate Labor Committee, 52

Senate Rackets Committee, 555

Seven Days in May
, 606

Shah of Iran, 546, 547, 628n.

Shakespeare, William, 256, 385, 392

Shannon airport, 582

Sharon, John, 236

shelters, bomb and fallout, 513, 614–616, 624, 707

Shepard, Alan, 526

Shepard, Tazewell, 607

Sherman, John 74

Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 453

Shoup, David, 607

Shriver, Sargent, 85, 117, 172, 230, 255, 269, 288, 532, 581

Shriver, Mrs. Sargent (Eunice Kennedy), 32, 36, 88, 173

Siberia, 741

Sidey, Hugh, 316

Simulmatics Corporation, 184

Sinatra, Frank, 151, 388

Sitrin, Gloria, 718

“Situation Room,” 710

skipjack submarines, 572

Skopje, 540

Skybolt missile, 564, 565, 566, 569, 581, 607

Small Business Administration, 397

Smathers, George, 36, 44, 88, 124, 130, 159, 343–344, 348, 355, 356, 391n.

Smith, Al, 91, 109, 164, 363

Smith, Ben, 36, 91, 235

Smith, Frank, 88, 102, 236

Smith, Howard W., 340, 361

Smith, Margaret Chase, 45, 739

Smith, Stephen, 116–117, 119, 171, 195

Smith, T. V., 63

Smithsonian Institution, 385

Social Security, 342

Solomon, 751

Solow, Robert, 424

Sorensen, Eric, 366

Sorensen, Thomas, 557, 730

South Carolina, 488

South Korea, 293, 625

South Vietnam, 228, 293, 634, 641, 645, 648 ff.

Souvanna Phouma, 640, 642, 647, 648

Soviet Alliance, 627

Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, 730

Soviet Union, 1–2, 228, 482, 516, 518–519, 520, 522, 523, 524, 538, 541 ff., 560, 571, 580, 583, 585–586, 596, 600, 609, 611, 612, 617 ff., 634, 635, 639, 640, 642, 645, 648, 662, 670–671, 676, 677, 680, 682–683, 685, 686, 689, 690, 696, 700, 702, 706, 709, 710–711, 714, 719–720, 725–726, 728–729, 731, 733, 736, 738, 740–741, 742, 743, 745, 746, 753, 754, 755

see also
Khrushchev

Spaak, Paul-Henri, 637, 725

space capsules, 228

space projects

budget for, 526

capsules for, 228

Eisenhower and, 524

facilities for, 526

and foreign policy, 528–529

Glenn and, 526, 528–529

Johnson and, 524, 525

Kennedy and, 524–529

McNamara and, 525

for moon landing, 523–524, 525–526, 527–528

and satellites, 524

Shepard and, 526

suborbital nights as, 526

and Telstar, 526

Truman and, 524

to Venus, 526

Webb and, 525

Wiesner and, 524

space satellites, 519, 524

Spain, 547

Spalding, Charles F., 36, 135

Sparkman, John, 343, 475, 481

Special Forces, 632–633

Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 208, 360

Spingarn, Jerry, 237

Spocke, Dr. Benjamin, 380

Sports Illustrated
, 316

Springer, Harvey, 194

Stalin, Joseph, 515–516, 558, 734

“Standing Group” (NSC), 723

State of the Union messages, 331, 341, 345, 406–407, 410, 430, 524, 525, 529, 534, 604, 613, 626–627

steel,
see
Big Steel

steel, price dispute, 443 ff.

Steelworkers Union, 438

Stennis, John, 103, 483, 739

Stephansky, Ben S., 279

Stern, Isaac, 385

Stevens, Rise, 440

Stevenson, Adlai, 2, 85, 114, 115, 130, 133, 135, 136, 141, 149, 151, 157, 158, 166, 169, 171, 202, 217, 218, 219, 253, 256, 271

and Arvey, 53

as Cabinet member, 252, 284

in campaign (1956), 99–100, 118, 222

and Catholic vote (1956), 81–82, 84, 123

and Cuban crisis, 300, 322, 710, 714

in Dallas, 749

divorce of, 81 and foreign policy, 236

on Kennedy team, 170, 173, 176, 236, 240, 279, 287, 300, 322, 534, 714,737n.

and Massachusetts, 78, 79, 80

and National Security Council, 675

and New Hampshire, 81

and nomination (1960), 83, 86–87, 96, 124, 125, 126, 128, 129, 147–148,155–156, 159, 160

and nuclear test ban, 617

for Secretary of State, 168, 251

as UN Ambassador, 252, 254, 287–288, 300, 522, 581, 706–707, 719

and Zorin,706–707

Stimson, Henry, 177

stock market, 421–424, 428, 429, 707

Strategic Air Command,
see
SAC
Strategy of Peace, The
, 113, 118, 205, 375

Strauss, Lewis, 739

Stravinsky, Igor, 385

strike, railroad, 441–442

Strike Command, 606

Suez invasion (1956), 681, 696

Sukarno, Achmed, 540, 546

surface-to-air missiles,
see
SAMs

“surgical” strike, 684, 687

Surrey, Stanley, 235, 237, 277, 427

“survival insurance,” 614

Swedish Glee Club, 91

Sweeney, Walter, Jr., 697

Swidler, Joseph C, 277

Sylvester, Arthur, 260, 261, 321

Symington, Stuart, 52, 54, 96, 98, 121, 123–124, 125, 126, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 135, 138, 141, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 156, 158, 159, 160, 165, 166, 229, 236, 238, 252, 253, 346