The Patriarch (117 page)

Roosevelt and, 231, 232, 235, 250–52

Truman Doctrine (aid to Greece and Turkey) and, 605, 607, 608, 616, 617, 618, 636, 637

Conant, James B., 721–22

Congressional Record,
500

Connally, Tom, 642

Conniff, Frank, 607

Conversations with Kennedy
(Bradlee), 782

Cooke, Robert, 760–61

Coolidge, Calvin, 61, 88

policemen’s strike and, 60–61, 67

Coolidge, Louis, 61

Cooper, Duff, 348, 476, 674

Cooper, Lady Diane, 674

Copeland, Charles, 23

Copeland, Royal, 278

Corcoran, Tommy, 208, 215, 250, 275, 295, 319, 327, 355, 614–15

Cosmopolitan,
377

Costello, Frank, 80

Coudert, Frederic, Jr., 639

Coughlin, Father Charles, 230, 231, 235, 250, 251, 599

JPK and, 235–36

Coughlin, Robert, 86, 103, 105, 777

Cowles, Gardner, 655

Craig, May, 658

Crete, 529

Crider, John H., 599

Cropley, Ralph, 600

Crum, Erskine, 73, 74

Cuba, 746–47, 756

Bay of Pigs and, 767–68

Cudahy, John, 439

Cummins, Peggy, 604

Cunard, Samuel, 5

Cunningham, Bill, 619

Curley, James Michael, 37, 38, 39, 59, 134, 135, 172, 215, 593, 594, 597, 602

Curran, Joseph, 268

Currie, Lauchlin, 490

Currier, Guy, 52, 58, 61, 91, 111–12, 131

Cushing, Barbara “Babe,” 241–42

Cushing, Richard Cardinal, 604, 623–27, 628, 662, 678, 696, 714, 722–24, 748, 754, 755, 764, 765–66, 786

Czechoslovakia, 372, 375–76, 383, 400, 413, 486

Sudetenland, 287, 290, 302, 323, 329–30, 332, 334–47, 360, 383

Dahlerus, Birger, 400

Daily Mail,
385

Daladier, Édouard, 346

Daley, Richard, 720, 729

Dallas, Rita, 778

Dalton, Mark, 597, 598, 602–3, 662, 663

Dane, E. B., 66, 71

Danzig, 376, 394, 399, 402

Davenport, Russell, 262–63, 317, 366

Davies, Joseph, 464

Davies, Marion, 137, 143, 173, 187, 501, 737, 738

Davis, Bette, 156

Davis, John W., 507

Davis, Owen, 248

Davis, Sammy, Jr., 762–63

Dean, Dudley, 81

Dearborn, Walter, 265, 266

De Gaulle, Charles, 575

De Lattre de Tassigny, Jean, 654

del Rio, Dolores, 299

DeMille, Cecil B., 100, 101, 110, 112, 116, 117, 119, 136

democracy, 171, 323, 484, 504, 514–15, 601, 606, 617, 618

JPK’s pessimism about future of, xxi, 323, 431, 497, 498, 503

Democratic National Committee, 493, 494

Democratic Party:

Boston Irish Catholics and, 9, 10–11, 14, 15

JPK’s allegiance to, 22–23, 27, 61, 134, 135, 517

Denmark, 437

Denomy, Father, 695

Depression, Great, xxi, 171–72, 181, 198, 271, 295, 315, 395

Hoover and, 167, 171, 172

Kennedy family during, 168–69, 170

public anger about, 171

Roosevelt and, 172, 247

Derby, Lord, 403, 479

Derr, E. B., 114, 115, 118, 126, 136, 137, 138–39

Des Rosiers, Janet, 679, 680

De Valera, Éamon, 507, 679

Dever, Paul, 604, 657, 662, 664, 669

Devereux, Helena, 152

Devereux School, 149, 152–54, 162

Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, Duke of, 532, 644

Devonshire, Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of (“Debo”), 532, 622–23, 644

Devonshire, Edward Cavendish, Duke of, 324, 551

Devotion School, 85

Dewey, John, 265

Dewey, Thomas E., 573–74, 576, 595, 655

De Wolfe, Elsie, 325

Dexter School, 89–90

Dickinson, Angie, 763

Dies, Martin, 508

Dietrich, Marlene, 325, 397–98

Dillingham, Charles, 77

Dillon, Clarence, 376

DiMaggio, Joe, 299

Dinneen, Joe, 499, 582, 621

Diplomatic Memoir
(JPK), 341, 343, 346, 356, 370, 444, 449, 450, 454–55, 615–16

Dirksen, Herbert von, 310–11, 741–42

Disney, Walt, 317

Dodge, Horace, 433

Domaine de Beaumont, 324–25

Domaine de Ranguin, 397

Donovan, Joe, 16, 30, 41

Donovan, Ned, 18–19

Donovan, William “Wild Bill,” 459–61, 463, 464, 466, 493

Dougherty, Dennis Cardinal, 633–34

Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 731

Douglas, Lewis, 271

Douglas, Paul, 726

Douglas, William O., 216–17, 226, 492, 607, 645, 655

Robert Kennedy and, 688, 689, 710

Dowd, John, 595, 718

Dowling, Eddie, 180

Downey, Morton, 573, 645, 661–62, 679, 680, 681–82, 685, 704, 708, 749, 786

Doyle, David, 4

Droney, John, 602, 663–64, 690

Dufty, William, 109

Dulles, Allen, 699–700, 711, 718, 769

Dunkirk, 447, 449, 461, 615

Dunn, Edward, 688–89

Dunn, Elizabeth, 296–97

Dunphy, Chris, 68, 72

DuPont-Pathé Film Manufacturing Corporation, 159

Early, Stephen, 250, 317, 318, 538–39

East Boston, Mass., 5–7, 13, 593

Kennedy house in, 13

see also
Boston, Mass.

Eastern Steamship Lines, 67–68, 78, 92

Economic Club of New York, 271–72

Economist,
655

economy, U.S., 608–9, 756

JPK’s views on, 530, 544, 586, 601, 606

peacekeeping and, 295–96, 315

Roosevelt’s policies and, 202–3, 229–30, 246–49, 271–72, 295–96, 315

World War II and, 529

Eden, Anthony, 433, 439, 679

Edmonson, Charles, 498

Edwin Gould Foundation, 627

Eisenhower, Dwight David, 638, 564, 658, 663, 666, 669, 670, 672, 677, 688, 711, 745, 754

Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities, 699–701, 705

illness of, 704

JPK’s meeting with, 642–43, 644

Khrushchev and, 745–46

reelection of, 704, 707, 710

Eliot, Day, 248

Emmons, Major General, 476–77

Ethiopia, 258, 287, 303–4

Évian Conference, 307, 308, 321, 324, 329

Exhibitors Herald,
95, 104

Èze, 681

Fairbanks, Douglas, 110

Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 501, 502

Fairbanks Company, 59

Falacci, Frank, 736

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, 75, 76, 94

Fanfani, Amintore, 700, 718

Farley, James, 180–81, 182, 332, 367, 414, 457, 491

Farr, Tommy, 314

fascism, 315, 373, 375, 497

Fay, Paul “Red,” 595, 763

Fayne, James, 216, 613, 659, 662, 663

FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 80, 508, 509, 675–76, 769

Arvad and, 526, 540, 541, 559, 675

JPK and, 559

FBO (Film Booking Offices of America), 74, 91–99, 102, 103, 106–7, 109, 119, 121, 122, 125, 128, 130, 131, 135–37, 158, 192

RCA and, 111, 124

Feldman, Justin, 742, 769–70

Feldman, Myer, 761

Fenway Building Trust, 59

Field, Marshall, 588

Film Daily,
110, 123, 124, 125–26, 126, 129, 130

film industry,
see
motion picture industry

Finley, John Huston, 316

First National Pictures, 122–27, 128–29, 135, 158

Fish, Hamilton, 512

Fisher, Carl, 93

Fisher, Robert, 23, 25, 29, 78, 81, 259, 312, 366, 422, 450

Fitzgerald, Agnes, 28, 41, 242

Fitzgerald, Cornelius, 491, 657, 672

Fitzgerald, John F. “Honey Fitz,” 11, 16, 20, 21, 71, 73, 91, 131, 134, 135, 160, 172, 296, 299, 529, 551, 578, 593, 594–95, 713

death of, 635

JFK’s congressional campaign and, 594–95, 596, 598

and JPK’s marriage to Rose, 41–42

and JPK’s romance with Rose, 20, 29–30, 36, 40

marital infidelities of, 48, 147

mayoral campaigns of, 18–19, 26, 27–28, 36–38, 41, 311

P. J. Kennedy and, 18–19, 20, 26–27, 29, 38

retirement of, 37–38, 41

Selective Service System and, 51

Senate campaign of, 545–46

Smith and, 135

Fitzgerald, Mary Josephine “Josie,” 28, 91

Fitzgerald, Zelda, 536

Fitzgibbon, Steve, 88, 131

Fitzwilliam, Peter, 619–20

death of, 621

Flanders, Ralph, 673

Fleeson, Dorothy, 356

Flynn, Edward, 177, 182, 187

Fogg Museum, 101, 102

Forbes, Allan, 39

Ford, Johnnie, 120, 419, 420, 421, 662

JPK’s employment of, 613, 614

Rosemary Kennedy and, 628–30

Fore River Lunch Company, 53, 72, 88

Fore River Shipbuilding Company, 51–57, 58, 59, 64, 65, 67, 91, 120, 543

baseball team of, 55–56

Forrestal, James, 572, 579, 580, 616

JFK and, 594

Fortas, Abe, 216

Fortune,
262–63, 317, 366, 612, 693, 713

Foster, H. G., 675, 676

Fox, John, 669

Fox, William, 94, 101

Fox Film Corporation, 66, 94

France, 410, 617

Algeria and, 711, 712

Dunkirk, 447, 449, 461, 615

Germany’s conquest of, 440, 441, 447–56, 458

Indo-China and, 636, 640, 655, 656, 658–59, 660, 689

U.S. aid to, 451–54, 605

in World War I, 40, 49

in World War II, 289, 290, 302, 323, 329, 334, 338, 339, 341, 368, 373, 376, 405, 413, 414, 443, 447–56, 633

Franco, Francisco, 287, 381, 394, 679

Frank, Jerome, 490

Frankfurter, Felix, 198, 202–3, 205, 208, 216, 221, 251, 321, 351, 358, 389, 491–92, 507–8, 539, 574, 582, 583

Freeman, Milton, 216, 217

Freeman, Walter, 534, 535, 536

Friedländer, Saul, 287, 306, 360

Frost, Robert, 762, 764

Fulbright, William, 649

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 762, 764

Galeazzi, Enrico, 252–53, 264, 374, 562, 634, 642, 643, 645, 662, 679, 686, 699, 705, 710, 713, 716, 718, 723, 724–25, 727–28, 730, 753–55, 756, 771

Gannett, Frank, 357–58

Gargan, Ann, 533–34, 749, 763, 775–78, 783–86

Gargan, Joey, 557, 749

Gargan, Mary Jo, 668

Garner, John Nance, 174, 332

as Roosevelt’s running mate, 176–77

salary of, 244

George, Prince, Duke of Kent, 294, 378

George, Walter, 641

George VI, King, 294, 343–44

Germany, 636, 756

Lusitania
and, 44–45

in World War I, 40, 44

see also
Nazi Germany

Getty, J. Paul, 693

Ghormley, Robert Lee, 467, 471–72

Giannini, A. P., 70, 179

Gibbs, Miss (Rosemary’s companion), 410, 411, 419, 426, 435

Glass, Carter, 271

Gloria Productions, 115, 155, 156, 158, 169–70

Goddard, Henry, 152

Godsol, Joe, 74

Goering, Hermann, 400

Goldman, Solomon, 391, 392–93

Goldsmith, Arthur, 25, 34–35, 38, 336, 337, 368, 387, 421–22, 490, 582

gold standard, 228

Goldwyn Pictures, 73, 74

Good, Frederick, 113, 163, 223

Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 50, 533, 596, 683, 686, 730

Gore, Albert, 707

Gort, John, 447

Gould, Edwin, 627

Gould, Jay, 627

Goulding, Eddie, 137, 141, 142–43, 554

Gowen, Franklin, 375, 441, 445, 525

Gower Street Company, 112, 131

Grace, Eugene, 52, 55, 56, 72

Graham, Billy, 743, 757–58

Graham, Cecil, 73

Graham’s of London, 73, 74

Grange, Red, 97

Gray, William, 94, 95

Great Britain:

bombing preparations in, 341, 343

in buildup to World War II, 289, 290, 292–94, 301, 302–3, 323, 329–31, 332, 334–35, 338–47, 368, 373, 399–407

declaration of war against Germany, 406–7, 408, 410, 411, 415, 416

economic difficulties of, 509–10

German attacks on, 458, 461, 462–63, 466, 468, 469, 473–75, 477, 478, 479, 480–81, 496, 516, 529–31, 568

gold sales and, 437–38

gold supplies of, 448–49

import restrictions of, 420–21

Italy and, 303–4

Jewish refugees and, 308–9, 324, 329, 349–52, 361–65

JPK as ambassador to, xxi, 80, 272–78, 283–311, 323–47, 249–70, 371–97, 399–407, 408–22, 427–43, 444–56, 457–72, 473–86, 491, 496, 512

JPK’s resignation as ambassador to, 496, 502–4, 526

Labour Party in, 484

lend-lease program and, 510, 511–13, 515, 516–20, 525

oil needs of, 475

Palestine and, 286–87, 307, 351–52, 358, 359, 361–62, 385–93

U.S. aid to, 441–43, 451–54, 458–59, 461, 466–72, 498, 503, 510, 517, 519, 605

U.S. loan to, 599, 617

U.S. trade agreements with, 352–53, 380–81

war debt payments of, 185, 411

in World War I, 40, 44, 49–50

in World War II, 408–20, 427–31, 433–34, 438–43, 448–55, 458, 460–63, 466, 468, 469, 473–75, 477–81, 483, 486, 496, 516, 529–31, 579, 581, 633, 745

Great Depression,
see
Depression, Great

Great Dictator, The,
501–2

Greater Houston Ministerial Association, 743

Greece, 497, 529, 530, 605

U.S. aid to, 605, 607, 608, 616, 617, 618, 636, 637

Green, Angela, 556

Green, William, 389

Gridiron Club dinner, 186–87, 190, 206, 716–17

Grober, Bert “Wingie,” 719, 736

Gruenther, Alfred, 679

Guild of Saint Apollonia, 62–63, 591

Gunther, John, 33

Gurnett, Daniel, 65

Hacker, Louis, 601–2

Halifax, E. F. L. Wood, Lord, 289, 291, 294, 300, 302, 303, 307, 336, 340–41, 345, 360, 376, 394–95, 416–17, 422, 433, 437, 439, 440, 448, 483, 507, 547, 575

appeasement policy of, 303, 382, 416

Catholic refugees and, 309

Czechoslovakia and, 330, 333–34

and German attacks on England, 458, 469

Jewish refugees and, 308, 329, 349, 350, 351, 352, 362, 363–64

Kathleen Kennedy and, 551, 573

Palestine and, 352, 385–86

Poland and, 400, 403–4, 405

Halifax, Lady, 300, 376

Hall, Frank, 66–67

Hallmark Pictures, 66–67

Hannegan, Bob, 573, 575–76

Harmonie Club, 639–40

Harris, Lou, 726, 749

Hartington, William Cavendish, Marquess of (Billy Hartington), 324