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Citizens Committee for a Nuclear Test Ban, 739
Citizens for Educational Freedom, 361
civil defense, 613–617, 708
civil defense shelters,
see
shelters, bomb and fallout
civil rights, 2, 17, 47, 48, 49–51, 150, 168, 172, 187, 470ff., 577, 578, 731, 753
Civil Rights Act, 51, 330–331, 333, 342, 496
Civil Rights Commission, 472, 474, 475n., 480, 488, 494
Civil Rights Message, 472, 494, 495
Civil Service Commission, 473
Civil War Centennial Commission, 477
Clark, Champ (James Beauchamp), 155
Clark, Joe, 236
Clay, Henry, 74, 163, 356
Clay, Lucius, 347, 351, 594–595
Clement, Frank, 81, 86
Clemson University, 488
Cleveland, Grover, 436
Cleveland Press, 131
Clifford, Clark, 69, 70, 229–230, 231, 254, 255, 457, 458
Clifton, Chester, 607
Coal Valley News
, 142
Coast Guard, 473
coexistence, 514–516
Cogley, John, 190
Cohen, Wilbur, 118, 237, 274
Cohn, Roy, 35
Cold War, 228, 514, 521–522, 553, 643, 744, 757
Cole, Charles W., 279
Coleman, J. P., 103
collective bargaining, 441, 459
Collins, LeRoy, 96, 124, 321–322
Colmer, William, 340, 361
Cologne Cathedral, 581
Colombia, 535, 536–537
Colorado Fuel and Iron, 456
Columbus, Christopher, 152
Committee on Equal Opportunity, 497
Common Market (EEC), 410–412, 561, 562, 566, 567, 570–571, 572
Commonweal
, 190, 363
Communications Satellite Board, 439
Communications Workers, 438
Communism and Communists, 26, 210, 245, 351, 530, 532, 538, 539, 563, 573, 626, 634, 685, 727, 741
and Berlin, 331–332, 515, 521, 561, 593, 601
in Burma, 631–632
and censorship, 286
in civil rights groups, 503
coexistence with, 514–516
and collective farms, 402
in Congo, 636
in Cuba, 515, 536, 631–632, 670, 671, 684, 688, 689, 693, 698, 703, 719, 722, 726;
see also
Cuban crisis and De Gaulle, 562
in Greece, 631–632
and guerrilla warfare, 548, 631–632
and Indonesia, 580
in Katanga, 638
kinds of, 510, 540
and Khrushchev, 514, 515, 516, 625
in Laos, 510, 631–632, 639, 641 ff.
in Latin America, 510–511, 689
in Malaysia, 631–632
in the Philippines, 631–632
in Red China, 516, 547, 631–632, 661
and religion (JFK), 194
and Soviet Union, 515, 516, 518, 529, 545–546, 625
and space, 529
trade policies toward, 540
U Thant and, 709, 710, 712, 714, 720
and UN, 523
and USIA, 697, 704
in Vietnam, 510, 631–632, 648 ff.
and Western Europe, 570, 573, 627
Zorin and, 706–707
see also
Bay of Pigs
and
Castro
Community Relations Service, 497
Conant, James B., 46, 335
Confident Living
, 188
Congo, 228, 520, 522, 523, 531, 533, 549, 564, 565, 577, 617, 625, 634, 635–639
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

D

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

E

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

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