The Kennedy Men: 1901-1963 (163 page)

JFK’s Senate campaigns and, 314, 389–90, 396

Profiles in Courage
and, 349–50

Soule, Augustus, Jr., 50

Souvanna Phouma, 492

“Soviet Brand of Colonialism, The” (R.F. Kennedy), 362

Soviet Union, 245, 274, 473, 482–84, 520, 556, 680, 689–90, 692, 702–3, 710

arms control and, 529, 703

Cuba and, 484–85, 492, 497, 504, 509–12, 529–31, 622–44, 646–63, 673–74, 676, 702, 729–30

JFK on, 329, 350, 440, 533, 539–40, 558

JFK’s Asian tour and, 288–89

JFK’s European tours and, 283–86

McCarthyism and, 300

RFK’s secret contacts with, 529–31

RFK’s visit to, 360–62

sexual blackmail used by, 548

U-2 incident and, 437, 483

U.S. communism and, 597

Vienna Summit and, 529–30, 533–34, 536–38

Spalding, Betty Coxe, 174, 698

Spalding, Chuck, 187, 225, 229, 344, 381, 406–7, 449, 666, 740

JFK’s 1960 presidential campaignand, 419, 437–38

Spanish Civil War, 125–28, 132, 139, 197, 204

Spellman, Francis J. Cardinal, 383, 398, 428

Spencer, Barbara Ellen, 221

Stalin, Joseph, 246, 283–84, 531

Stammers, Kay, 228

Stanford University, 159–61

Steinbeck, John, 135

Stephens, John Henry, 489

Stevenson, Adlai, 376, 403, 418, 426, 434, 477, 482, 702–3

Cuba and, 498–505, 629, 633, 644, 657–58, 702

1956 presidential campaign of, 354–55, 357, 363–64

Stewart, George D., 460

Stone, Galen, 35

Stravinsky, Igor, 573

Sullivan, John H., 28

Summers, Anthony, 551

Sunday, Billy, 241

Sundlun, Bruce, 254–55, 425

Sutton, Billy, 243, 296

Swanson, Gloria, 56–60, 176, 265, 337–38, 407

Sweatt, Bill, 145–46

Symington, Stuart, 328, 343, 403

Taylor, George, 94, 130

Taylor, Harold, 76, 91

Taylor, Maxwell:Cuba and, 516, 519, 612, 621, 633, 636–37, 641–44, 654, 656, 659

Vietnam and, 719, 727

Taylor, Megan, 124

Teamsters Union, 364–71, 373–75, 465–66

Teeter, John H., 491

Terrien, George, 262

They Were Expendable
(White), 182

Thirteen Days
(R. F. Kennedy), 635

Thorn, Leonard “Lenny, ” 187, 214

Thomas, George, 524

Thompson, Bill, 381

Thompson, Jim, 691

Thompson, Llewellyn, 534, 661

Thompson, William, 358, 548

Timilty, Joseph, 97, 163, 199, 213, 231–32, 256, 304, 434

Tito (Josip Broz), 283, 622

Tolson, Clyde, 309

Tolstoy, Leo, 626–27

Toomey, David J., 52–53

Topping, Seymour, 289–90

Torres, José, 567

Tracy, Spencer, 225

Trafficante, Santos, 454, 488–89, 500

Tran Van Don, 721–22

Travell, Janet, 345–47, 379–80, 440–41, 525–26, 528, 533, 536, 539, 544–45, 547

Tree, Marietta, 711

Tremblay, Gerald, 268, 586

Trohan, Walter, 116, 665, 670

Truman, Harry S, 228, 285, 300, 405, 637

Marshall Plan and, 244–46

Tubirdy, Dorothy, 681

Tuchman, Barbara W., 648

Tully, Grace, 154

Tung, Le Van, 722

Tunney, Varick John, 385, 400

Tuohy, William J., 465

Turnure, Pamela, 406, 550, 692–93

Turpin, Vic, 392

Udall, Stewart, 482, 626

Ugly American, The
(Lederer andBurdick), 562–63

United Nations, 244, 263, 285, 376, 455, 477, 482, 711, 734

Cuba and, 492, 496, 499, 502–4, 521, 629, 633, 702, 729

founding of, 226—27

Vagnozzi, Egidio, 428

Valenti, Jack, 734

Vallee, Rudy, 96

Vandiver, Ernest, 459–60

Varona, Manuel Antonio de “Tony, ”500–501, 511

Vaught, Johnny, 617

Victoria, Queen of England, 326

Vidal, Gore, 483

Vienna Summit, 522, 525, 527, 529–31, 533–34, 536–40, 629, 635, 656

Vietnam, 437, 452, 485, 492, 516, 562

coup in, 720–27

France and, 288–93, 328, 375–76, 716

JFK on, 328–29, 375–76, 672, 716–28

JFK’s visit to, 289–91

RFK and, 290–91, 719–22

Virginia, University of:

RFK as student at, 269, 273–75, 385, 555

Ted as student at, 385, 583–84

Von Post, Anne Marie, 317–18

Von Post, Gunilla, 317–19, 324–26, 341, 345, 347–49, 359, 680

von Stroheim, Erich, 58

Wade, Preston, 526, 528, 547

Waldrop, Frank, 70, 174, 589

Walker, Edwin A, 617

Walker, Ruth “Pussy, ” 92–93

Wallace, George, 707–8

Wallace, Mike, 368

Wallace, Robert, 403

Walsh, David, 184

Walsh, John, 696

Walsh, Thomas J., 586–87

Warburg, James, 72

Washington, George, 573

Watkins, Arthur, 343

Watson, Edwin M., 180

Watts, James, 169–70

Weisl, Edwin, 109

Weisl, Edwin, Jr., 109

Welby, Gavin, 317

Welch, Joseph, 342

Welles, Sumner, 142–43, 150, 155

Wendell, Barrett, 17

Wenner-Gren, Axel, 174

West, Mae, 39, 56

West Virginia primary (1960), 422, 423, 427, 430–31

White, John, 174–76, 550

White, Theodore, 97, 430, 467, 577–78

Whitehead, T. North, 148

Whitelaw, Aubrey, 82–83

Whitten, Thomas, 385

Why England Slept
(J. F. Kennedy), 145, 158–59, 186, 229

Why I’m for Roosevelt
(J. P. Kennedy Sr. and Krock), 108, 304

Wiener, Mickey, 422

Wild, Payson S., 102

Wiley, Alexander, 342

Williams, Bonnie, 446–47

Williams, Byard, 347

Williams, Edward Bennett, 370–71

Williams, Harrison, 72

Williams, Harry, 739–40

Williams, Nancy, 100

Willkie, Wendell, 151–56

Willy, Wilford, 214–15

Wilson, Bill, 445, 450

Wilson, David, 60

Wilson, Patricia, 203, 207–8, 212

Wilson, Philip D., 340

Wilson, Robin Filmer, 203

Wilson, Woodrow, 451, 467

Winchell, Walter, 105, 176, 693

Winmill, Joan, 264–65, 268–70

Wisconsin primary (1960), 416–17, 419, 421

Wofford, Harris, 473, 483

civil rights and, 459–61, 554, 557–58

JFK’s 1960 presidential campaignand, 458–61, 463, 558

Wood, Holton, 49, 183–84

Wood, Leonard, 32

World War I, 31–36, 122, 143, 185, 225, 235, 367, 648

World War II, 136–57, 160–63, 204–15, 244, 281, 283, 285, 292, 300, 316, 324, 383, 426–27, 434, 455, 484, 531, 578, 629, 639, 646–47, 677

anti-Semitism in, 114–15, 122, 128, 136–38, 141, 150–52, 222, 527

Britain bombed in, 148–51, 192, 227–28

casualties in, 140–41, 143, 152, 186–89, 193–94, 205, 207, 210, 212, 215, 238, 264

D-Day in, 209–10, 231, 455, 655

draft in, 160

FDR and, 119–23, 130, 139–40, 142, 149–53, 155–56, 162, 180–81

Harvard University and, 238, 240

honoring veterans of, 685–87

isolationism in, 113, 119–20, 122, 125, 130, 142–43, 146–47, 150, 152–53, 157, 160–62, 175

JFK and, 134, 140–41, 143–45, 160–63, 167–68, 172, 175–77, 181–96, 198–203, 206–7, 212–14, 221, 223, 225, 227–29, 232–35, 252, 275, 294, 327, 350, 374, 385, 426–27, 429, 435, 439, 444, 479, 481, 627, 677, 686

Joe Jr. and, 82–83, 129–30, 140, 143, 152–53, 162–63, 167–68, 171–72, 181, 187, 195–207, 209–15, 219–21, 233–34, 258, 275, 385, 397, 429, 685–87

Joe Sr. and, 83, 112–15, 119–23, 130, 136, 139–54, 156–57, 160–63, 167–68, 176–77, 180–82, 186–87, 194–96, 203, 207, 219, 221, 233–34, 258, 639

Pearl Harbor bombing in, 175, 180, 642, 646

Spanish Civil War and, 125–28, 132, 139, 197, 204

Wrightsman, Charles, 539

Wynne, Bud, 99

Yale University, 73, 372, 383, 554

Harvard’s rivalry with, 19, 24–27, 110–11, 239–40, 302, 332, 334–36, 369

Yarborough, Ralph, 733

Yarmolinsky, Adam, 480, 542

Young Melbourne,
The (Cecil), 134–35, 146

Acknowledgments

T
he manuscript of
The Kennedy Men
ran 1, 100 pages, and it was a major imposition to ask busy people to read it looking for errors. No one read with a more knowing eye than did Myer “Mike” Feldman, President Kennedy’s deputy counsel. Sheldon Stern, the longtime historian at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, carefully read these many pages. Fellow Kennedy authors Burton Hersh, Nigel Hamilton, Gus Russo, and Dan Moldea read the book, each with his own unique expertise. Kerry McCarthy, who is Joseph and Rose Kennedy’s grand-niece and a historian of the family, gave the manuscript a judicious reading. Sam Halpern, a former high-ranking CIA official, read the Cuban material. Professor Barton Bernstein of Stanford University read the White House chapters. So did former Senator Harris Wofford, who served in the Kennedy administration. Dr. Mauro Di Pasquale read the material on President Kennedy’s health, as did Dr. David V. Becker, professor of radiology and medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York Presbyterian Hospital. Others who read all or part of the manuscript included Vesna Leamer, Lee Tomic, Count Alexandre De Bouthri Báthory, Joy Harris, Herb Gray, Jim Morrissey, Howard Reed, Raleigh Robinson, Patrick Flynn, and Diane Leslie. In an act of great generosity, Kristina Rebelo Anderson, the prominent investigative journalist, took weeks away from her important book on mercury poisoning to copyedit and fact-check the entire manuscript before I submitted it to my publisher. Of course, none of these people are responsible for any errors that may remain in the book or interpretations that are mine alone.

The Kennedy Men
has a great deal of new material in it largely because many people put great trust in its author. For the eleven years that Evelyn Lincoln served as John F. Kennedy’s secretary, she kept a secret archive,
including many documents that were to have been destroyed. She willed these papers to Robert White. Interspersed through much of this book, they are by far the most important private trove of Kennedy documents in the world. White, a prominent collector, has generously given me first-time use of all these documents.

Patricia Coughlan has given me the material that Robert Coughlan, her husband, accumulated while he was writing Rose Kennedy’s autobiography,
Times to Remember.
These materials include many hours of taped interviews with Kennedy family members that are among the most intimate, candid interviews they have ever given. I would like to thank the late Jim Connor and his widow, Pat, for their friendship and support. Mary Lou and Kerry McCarthy gave me the first-time use of many unique photos from the Loretta Kennedy Connelly Collection.

I must also especially thank Gunilla Von Post for allowing me the first-time use of the letters that John F. Kennedy wrote her during their love affair. I had these letters verified by an expert, but it is common knowledge among those close to the Kennedys that Von Post’s story is true. Janet Fontaine, who was Joseph P. Kennedy’s mistress for a decade, also cooperated with me. Her only request was that I treat her story with dignity, a promise that I hope I have kept. During the West Virginia primaries, when candidate Kennedy was losing his voice, Fontaine was the stewardess on his plane. Kennedy communicated by writing messages on sheets of paper, many of which Fontaine saved. I thank Mrs. Fontaine and the
Forbes
Magazine Collection, the current owner of the documents, for permission to use the notes. Profesor James MacGregor Burns has graciously given me permission to quote from his revealing 1959 interview with the then Senator John F. Kennedy.