Kennedy (141 page)

Tactical Air Command, 697

Tactical Bombing Command, 694

Taft, Robert A., 31, 67, 74, 443

Taft-Hartley Act, 51, 440

“take care to be fair,” 188n.

Talleyrand
, 388

Tanganyika, 578

Tass, 624

Tawes, J. Millard, 124, 130

tax bill (1963), 427–433, 503

Taylor, A. J. P., 513

Taylor, Maxwell, 298, 301, 303–304, 308, 347, 374, 591, 607, 618, 626, 630,
631, 653, 654, 655, 656, 674, 682, 738, 739

television

debates with Nixon, 140–141, 196–203

exchange with Russia, 557–558

Teller, Edward, 615, 618, 739

Telstar satellite, 526

Tempelhof Airport, 586

test ban,
see
nuclear test ban

Test Ban Treaty,
see
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

TFX aircraft, 416–417, 606

Thailand, 641, 643, 644, 645, 646, 647, 648, 652

“Thanksgiving Massacre” (1961), 287

Thomas, Albert, 752

Thomas, George, 267

Thompson, Frank, 172

Thompson, Llewellyn, 541, 542, 555, 598, 642, 674, 679, 691, 692, 706, 734, 741

Thompson, Tyler, 279

Thorneycroft, Peter, 564

Thurmond, Strom, 52, 188, 222, 286, 669

Time
magazine, 314, 316, 317, 318, 421, 435

Title III, 51, 497

Tito, Marshal, 463, 540, 723

Tittle, Y. A., 378

To Turn the Tide
, 375

Tobin, James, 118, 237, 256

Tobriner, Walter N., 277

torpedo boats, 670

Touré, Sékou, 539

Trade Expansion Act (1962), 410–412, 574

Travell, Dr. Janet, 40, 41

Trinity College (Dublin), 582

Troika

on Kennedy staff, 272

as proposed for UN, 520, 521, 522, 549

Troutman, Robert, 154, 474

Trujillo, Rafael, 293, 536

Truman, Harry S., 25, 45, 82, 123, 145, 148, 151–153, 166, 167, 170, 173, 185, 193, 203, 208, 219n., 229, 249, 294, 319, 324, 334, 335, 370, 419,454, 462, 477, 524, 562, 701, 755

Truman, Mrs. Harry S., 203, 382

Truman, Margaret, 5

“Truth Squad,” 185

Tshombé, Moïse, 477, 635, 637, 638

Tuchman, Barbara, 513

Tunisia, 293

Turkey, 546–547, 568, 571, 628, 680, 681, 682, 685, 686, 687, 691, 696, 701, 712, 713

Tuscaloosa (Ala.), 493

TVA, 492

Twining, Nathan, 739

Tydings, Joe, 115

Tyler, John, 67

Tyler, William, 734

Tyson, Robert, 457

U-2 flights

over Cuba, 519, 672, 674, 680, 698–699, 713, 723

over Russia, 149, 216,- 517, 541, 544, 550, 611, 612

U Thant, 322, 522, 638, 709, 710, 712, 714, 720

Udall, Stewart, 158, 253, 261, 265, 276- 277, 556

Ulbricht, Walter, 586, 598, 599

“ultimate failure,” 625

unconventional warfare, 629–633

undeveloped countries, 530–531

unemployment,
see
employment

Union Leader
, 210

Union Minière, 637

United Auto Workers, 438

United Nations, 519–523, 529, 531, 548, 549, 562, 580, 620, 634, 635–636, 746, 754

Charter, 744

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

General Assembly, 519–523, 620, 636, 743, 755

United Negro College Fund, 471

University of Alabama, 488–493

University of Mississippi, 483–488, 493n.

Uruguay, 534

Urban Affairs, Department of, 330, 481

U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 460, 465

U.S. Employment Offices, 397

U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 517–518

U.S. Information Agency,
see
USIA

U.S. Intelligence Board, 678

U.S. News and World Report
, 316

U.S. Steel, 443, 448, 449, 452, 453, 455, 456, 457, 458, 459, 460, 467

U.S. Travel Service, 409

USIA, 322, 580–581, 697, 700, 704

U.S.S.R.,
see
Soviet Union

Vance, Cyrus R., 277

Vanderbilt University, 492

Van Zandt, James E., 455

Venezuela, 229, 535, 689

Venus flight, 526

Versailles Palace, 560, 581

Veterans’ Housing Bill, 18

Vienna Summit Conference, 543–550, 554, 584, 586, 587, 617, 618, 619, 646

Vietcong, 632, 656

see also
North Vietnam

Vietnam, 228, 289, 293, 503, 510–511, 531, 537, 553, 564, 625, 631–632, 633, 634, 639–640, 641, 645, 648–661, 748, 753

Vinson, Carl, 347, 348

Voice of America, 6, 533, 534, 733

Volta Dam, 268, 533, 537, 538

voting rights, 49–51, 478–479, 480, 494

Wagner, Robert F., 81, 88, 89

Walker, Edwin, 286

Wall Street Journal
, 146, 316, 459

Wallace, George, 336, 491, 492–493, 502

Wallace, Henry, 252, 335

Wallace, Mike, 68–69

Wallace, Robert, 12, 117, 119

Walton, Bill, 36, 135, 386

“war games,” 648

War on Poverty, 753

Ward, Champion, 237

Warren, Earl, 244, 442

“wars of liberation,” 634, 646

Warsaw Pact, 627

Washington, D.C., 21

Washington, George, 152

Washington
News
, 316

Washington
Post
, 165, 316

Washington Redskins, 478

Washington
Star
, 316

Washington
Times Herald
, 311

Watkins, Arthur, 48–49

Watson, Thomas J., Jr., 460

Weaver, Robert, 256, 274, 473, 480, 481, 482

Webb, James, 277, 525

Webster, Daniel, 67, 74, 180

West Berlin, 228, 293, 331–332, 523, 558, 559, 581, 583 ff., 625, 667, 668–669, 670, 676, 677, 680, 681, 689, 690, 699, 705, 745

West Germany, 549, 562, 567, 569, 572, 575, 581, 584, 590, 591, 592, 594, 596, 597, 599, 734, 735, 741

West New Guinea, 523

West Point, 55

wheat sales to Russia, 741, 742, 753

Wheeling Steel Company, 467

“Where the Democrats Should Go from Here,” 106

White, Byron, 116, 159, 171–172, 273

White, Lee, 56, 253, 264, 476, 701

White, Lincoln, 712

White, Theodore, 81, 342

White House, 249, 258–265, 281, 328, 348, 366 ff., 381, 383, 384–386, 477, 478, 501, 505

White House Curator, 385

White House Economic Conference, 468

White House Historical Association, 385

“Whiz Kids,” 606

Why England Slept
, 14, 375, 707

Wiesner, Jerome, 118, 235, 237, 255, 261, 264, 265, 524, 525, 604, 621–622, 728

Wilde, Oscar, 313

Wilkins, Roy, 51, 476–477, 578

Williams, G. Mennen, 96, 98, 124, 148–149, 160, 256, 273, 287, 533, 538–539

Williams, Ted, 28, 55

Wilson, Don, 171, 675

Wilson, Harold, 725

Wilson, Henry, 348, 356

Wilson, Woodrow, 143, 152, 252, 435, 539, 693

Wine, James, 175–176, 190, 279

Winship, Tom, 87

Wirtz, Willard, 86, 261, 265, 273, 285, 432, 440, 442

Wisconsin, 133–138

Wofford, Harris, 33, 66, 172, 255, 472

Woodcock, Leonard, 148

World War I, 693

World War II, 547, 553, 556, 583, 584, 626, 632, 693

Worthington, Leslie B., 457

Wright, Bishop John, 175, 191, 194

Yarmolinsky, Adam, 255

Yarnell, Admiral, 204

Yemen, 523

YMCA, 112

York, Herb, 253

Young Americans for Freedom, 624

“Young Men in Politics,” 106

Yugoslavia, in, 540, 547

Zapata Swamp, 303, 307

Zhukov, Georgi K., 555

Zorin, Valerian, 704, 706–707, 712, 714

T
ED
S
ORENSEN
was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and after law school, moved to Washington, D.C., where he would ultimately work for John F. Kennedy. He left the White House soon after JFK’s death, and in 1966 joined a New York City law firm, where, as a prominent international lawyer, he advised governments, multinational organizations, and major corporations around the world. His most recent book is
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History.
Sorensen remains active in political and international issues, and he lives in New York City with his wife, Gillian.

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Why I Am a Democrat
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“Let the World Go Forth”
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A
Widening Atlantic? Domestic Change
and Foreign Policy
(coauthor; 1986)

A
Different Kind of Presidency:
A Proposal for Breaking the Political Deadlock
(1984)

Watchmen in the Night:
Presidential Accountability After Watergate
(1975)

The Kennedy Legacy
(1969)

Kennedy
(1965)

Decision-Making in the White House
(1963)

Photograph made from a live television transmission by Telefis Eircann, Dublin, Ireland, during the Presidential visit in June, 1963

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