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Abel, Elie, 6

Acheson, Dean, 55

Adams, John Quincy, 154

Adams, Sherman, 25–26, 29, 30, 49, 120, 218

Addison’s disease, 33–35, 39, 82, 137, 151

AFL-CIO, 301

Agnelli, Gianni, 231

Air Force Association (AFA), 99

Air Force One, 43, 145, 210

Alabama National Guard, 161

Albert, Carl, 356

Alexander the Great, 83

Alphand, Hervé, 254–55, 337

Alsop, Joe, 43, 82, 295, 350

Alsop, Stewart, 113, 292

American Fact-Finding Committee, 339

American Legion, 201, 354

Anderson, George, 98

Anderson, Jack, 34

Archimedes, 183

Arms Control Agency, 159

Arvad, Ingrid, 216

Asquith, Herbert, 18

Asquith, Raymond, 18

atomic bombs, 77, 95

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 22, 30, 177

Attwood, William, 183–84, 190–92, 202, 250, 283, 285, 291, 321–22, 353, 357

Auchincloss, Hugh, 169, 170

Auchincloss, Janet, 12, 13, 19, 45, 170–71, 172

Bailey, Charles V., II, 95

Bailey, John, 285, 291

Baker, Bobby, 29, 298, 327

and JFK’s womanizing, 82

and Johnson, 218–19, 303, 318, 335

and Quorum Club, 79, 219, 303

and Senate investigation, 218–19, 223, 246, 248, 261, 266–68, 284, 317, 335

and women, 79, 249, 261, 266, 268, 275, 276, 355

Baker, Horace and Sara, 274

Baldrige, Letitia, 303–4

Baldwin, James, 286

Ball, George, 15, 33, 81, 220, 328

and Cable 243, 90–91, 105–6

and Vietnam, 78–79, 87, 188, 282

Bao Dai, 56

Barghoorn, Frederick, 299

Bartlett, Charlie, xii, 64, 83, 152, 154, 171, 198, 262, 288, 295

Bartlett, Martha, 152, 153, 154

Baruch, Bernard, 84, 85, 86

Batista, Fulgencia, 251, 327

Battelle, Kenneth, 205

“Battle Hymn of the Republic,” 200

Baughman, U. E., 44

Bay of Pigs (1961), 24, 210

and Cuban exiles, 18–19, 191, 290

and Eisenhower administration, 6, 106

“JFK’s next,” 97, 99, 117, 119, 264, 279

and Joint Chiefs, 58, 97

lessons learned from, 91, 121, 225, 327

stigma of, 129, 221

Beale, Betty, 52

Beardsley, Mimi, 31, 82, 215, 280

Bell, David, 307

Benson, Ezra Taft, 199

Bergquist, Laura, xi, xiii, 18, 27, 67, 97, 220, 222–23, 230, 343

Berlin, Isaiah, 81, 129

Berlin Wall, 58, 358

Betancourt, Romulo, 322

Biddle, George, 257

Bigart, Homer, 242, 293

Billings, Lem, 6, 11, 16, 20, 32, 82, 128, 152, 265

as constant houseguest, 263–64

and Garbo, 297–98

travel with, 43, 264

Birmingham:

church bombed in, 172–73, 174, 180, 189

civil rights battles in, 111–12, 114, 115, 161, 174, 181, 184, 187, 188–89, 227, 233, 246

Bishop, Jim:

“A Day in the Life of President Eisenhower,” 244, 247, 253

A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, 243–44, 247–48, 249, 252–53, 311, 325–26

The Day Lincoln Was Shot, 253

Bishop, Kelly, 243, 244, 252

Blaik, Earl, 227

Blaik-Royall mission, 181–82, 187, 190, 227

Blaine, Gerald, 311–14

Boggs, Hale, 288, 325, 330

Bohlen, Charles “Chip,” 30, 54, 129, 353

Bolton, Frances, 50

Booker, Simeon, 181

Boring, Floyd, 311–14

Bouck, Robert, 23, 24

Boutwell, Albert, 181, 189, 227

Bradford, William, 307–8

Bradlee, Ben, 4, 129

and Baker scandal, 246, 249, 276, 284

conversations with, 98, 127, 172, 246–47

Conversations with Kennedy, 172

and friendship, 127, 146, 171

and JFK interviews, 34, 127, 132, 139

and Johnson, 139, 295, 356

socializing with, 169, 170, 246, 249, 271, 284, 286, 298, 361

Bradlee, Tony, 169, 171, 194, 246, 284, 286, 361

Brandon, Henry, 338, 362

Brinkley, David, 158, 270, 359

Broder, David, 155, 335

Brown v. Board of Education, 8

Bruce, Preston, 108

Bruno, Jerry, 193, 195, 198, 200, 201, 344

Bryant, Traphes, 295

Buchan, John, Pilgrim’s Way, 18

Buchwald, Art, 348

Bundy, McGeorge, 129n, 227, 292, 330

and coup, 118, 119, 213, 254, 271, 272, 273, 279

and Cuba, 283, 291, 321, 357

and JFK’s death, 350

and Johnson, 355, 359, 360

and Laos, 57

as National Security Adviser, 27, 57, 90, 359

and Vietnam, 60, 90, 118, 119, 121, 166, 206, 207, 208, 213, 217, 254, 279, 359–60

Bundy, William, 206, 208

Burke, Arleigh, 58

Burkley, George, 32, 35–36, 38, 39, 121, 296

Burns, James MacGregor, 10, 352–53

Busby, Horace, 334

Calhoun, John C., 84

Campbell, Judith, 83

Camp David, 230, 233, 263

Cannon, Jim, 34, 132, 139

Cape Canaveral Space Center, 305–9

Carter, Jimmy, 350

Cassini, Oleg, 16, 83, 254, 297, 301

Castro, Fidel, 96, 134, 332

and Bay of Pigs, 6, 210

and CIA, 192, 283–84, 290–91, 322

and Johnson administration, 357–58

and media interviews, 67, 191

and missile crisis, 251–52

and secret negotiations, 183–84, 191–92, 195, 250, 251–52, 283–84, 290–91, 315–16, 319, 322, 327, 354

and Soviet Union, 183, 191, 192, 251, 252, 283, 316

Castro, Raoul, 191

Celebrezze, Anthony, 155, 311

Celler, Emmanuel, 180

Chaffee, John, 169–70

Chase, Gordon, 191–92, 283, 321–22, 357–58

Chen, Toy Lin, 156n

Chessman, Caryl, ix

China:

and atomic bomb, 159

recognition of (Communist), 167

trade with, 328, 354

and UN, 319–20

and Vietnam, 55, 57

Christina (yacht), 89, 120

Chuong, Tran Van, 65, 66

Churchill, Randolph, 222–23

Churchill, Winston, 89, 128, 129, 130–31, 134, 146

CIA:

and Bay of Pigs, 6, 58

and cold war, 165

and Cuba, 184, 192, 283–84, 290–91, 322, 348

and Vietnam coup, 106, 117–18, 143, 248, 271

White House bugged by, 23

Citizens Committee for a Nuclear Test Ban, 22

civil rights, 107–16, 286

in Birmingham, 111–12, 114, 115, 161, 172–73, 174, 180–81, 184, 188–89, 227, 233, 246

FEPC, 114, 115, 234, 269

Freedom Riders, 111

and the Golden Rule, 315

“I have a dream . . . ,” 108–9

JFK’s speeches on, 8–9, 10–11, 77, 107

leaders in the movement, 24

legislation, 24, 29, 107–8, 109, 111–14, 115–16, 155, 178, 180–82, 190, 195, 210, 223, 233, 234, 249, 255, 268–70, 274–75, 301, 311, 320, 354, 355, 356, 361, 362

March on Washington, 107–9, 114

military integrated, 110, 181, 190

Northern liberals vs., 113, 155, 270, 274–75

and race riots, 181

and reelection, 320–21

school desegregation, 8, 111, 190, 301

Southern Democrats vs., 112–13

Southern Strategy (GOP) vs., 270

voting rights, 111

“We Shall Overcome,” 108

White House meeting with leaders, 109, 113–16

Clark, Blair, 108

Clifford, Clark, 27, 30, 275–76, 358–59

Clifton, Chester, 49, 70, 121, 138, 147, 287

Cohen, Eugene, 34, 35, 36–38, 39

Coit, Margaret, 84–86, 354

Colby, William, 271

cold war:

and arms race, 8, 13, 103, 158, 164–68, 301

and Berlin, 58, 89, 165, 217, 250, 284, 290, 358, 360

containment in, 268

and Cuba, see Cuba

and détente, 30, 93–95, 101–2, 104–5, 160, 165, 183, 215, 221, 226–27, 239, 253, 303, 321, 349, 354

and disarmament, 103

domino theory in, 55, 56, 58, 60, 158

four safeguards in, 23

nuclear threat in, 7–8, 9, 10, 18, 57, 58, 93, 158, 164–66, 197, 198, 215, 217, 239, 251, 293

prevention, 100–101

and space race, see space race

test ban treaty, 9, 13, 21–23, 28–29, 30–31, 49, 77, 80, 81, 88, 93, 99–101, 104, 158–60, 165, 194, 196, 197, 198–200, 211, 214–16, 225–27, 238, 239, 284–85, 354, 362

U.S. first strike in, 165–66

and Vietnam, 55–57

Committee Against the Treaty of Moscow, 99

Conein (CIA officer), 281

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 8

Connally, John, 95, 359

and JFK’s Texas tour, 211–12, 321, 330, 344

and Johnson, 330, 334–35

and motorcade, 332, 344–45

and Yarborough, 321, 330, 333, 334–35, 341–42

Coolidge, Calvin, 149, 194

Cooper, Chester, 208

Cooper, Gordon, 305, 334

Cormier, Frank, 185–86

Cousins, Norman, 9–10, 22, 93–94

Cowan, Jill, 83

Crespi, Countess Vivian Stokes, 185

Cronkite, Walter, 135–37, 143, 158, 270–71, 347, 359

Crosby, Bing, 201

Cuba:

Bay of Pigs, see Bay of Pigs

exiles from, 18–19, 191–92, 285, 290–91, 312

Guantánamo Bay, 96

and JFK’s death, 348–49, 357–58

Khrushchev’s visit to, 102

secret U.S. negotiations with, 183–84, 190–92, 251, 283–84, 315–16, 321–22, 327–28, 354

Soviet missiles in, 6, 7, 10, 18, 38, 59, 88, 91, 93, 95, 97–98, 121, 133, 134, 150, 151, 159, 197, 225, 251–52, 360

as Soviet problem, 251, 290

U.S. naval blockade of, 59, 97, 184, 215, 290–91, 327

and U.S. terrorist plans, 94–98

Curry, Jesse, 344

Cushing, Cardinal Richard, 19, 287

Custer, George Armstrong, 199

Daar, Aden, 206

Daley, Richard, 269, 347

Dallas:

anniversary of, 356

as dangerous place, 210, 212, 253, 255, 283, 325, 330, 339

JFK’s planned trip to, 212, 247, 255, 283, 316, 324, 325

JFK urged to skip, 210, 211, 253, 255, 283, 301, 324, 327, 347

Kennedys’ visit to, 342–46

memories of, 128

Stevenson’s visit to, 253, 254, 255, 283, 301, 325, 347

Dallas, Rita, 152

Dalton, Mark, 16, 131

Daniel, Jean, 250–52, 255, 291, 315, 321, 327, 357

Daniel, Price, 330

Darlington, Charles, 329

Daw Mya Sein, 228

Dealey, Ted, 339

Decker, Bill, 344

Decker, George, 58

de Gaulle, Charles, 101, 128, 237, 241, 250–51, 255, 349

de Kooning, Elaine, JFK portraits by, ix–xi, xiii, 326, 327, 350, 362

de Kooning, Willem, ix

DeLoach, Cartha, 262

Democratic National Committee (DNC), 291

De Niro, Robert, Sr., ix

Desta, Ruth, 205–6

Dickerson, Nancy, 65, 67, 228–29

Diem, Ngo Dinh, 136–37

and Buddhists, 76, 78, 136, 137

and Cable 243, 90–91, 92, 105–6, 117, 270, 271

and coup, 66, 92, 105–6, 118, 143, 162, 176–77, 206, 213, 248–49, 270–73, 279–81

death of, 280–81, 282

and Nhu, 62, 65, 142, 143

U.S. support of, 56, 59, 61, 143, 187, 292

and Vietnam War, 54, 63, 137, 143, 161, 177, 188

Dietrich, Marlene, 162–63, 280

Dillon, Douglas, 27, 110, 159, 179, 327

Dirksen, Everett, 201

and Adams case, 25–26, 120

and Baker scandal, 218, 266–68, 275

and civil rights bill, 28, 29, 356

and test ban treaty, 23, 28, 29, 30–31, 158–59, 214

Dixon, George, 119

Dobrynin, Anatoly, 101–2

and JFK’s death, 357

and joint lunar venture, 104, 160, 175

and Khrushchev, 93, 94–95, 100, 303, 357

and secret contacts, 93, 98, 100, 102, 105, 224

Don, General (Vietnam), 271, 272

Donald, David Herbert, 130

Donovan, James, 191–92

Douglas, Kirk, 98, 349

Douglas, William O., 326

Douglas-Home, Sir Alec, 215, 349

Douglas-Home, Robin, 303

Drummond, Roscoe, 164, 167

Dryden, Hugh, 307

Duffy, La Verne, 79, 81, 355

Dugger, Ronnie, 343

Duke, Angier Biddle, 138, 254

Dulles, Allen, 165

Dulles, John Foster, 55

Eastland, James, 113

Eban, Abba, 353

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 44, 108, 242, 258

and Adams, 25–26, 28, 29, 30, 49

and cold war, 8, 28–29, 57

and Cuba, 6, 106, 358

and election, 354

and foreign aid, 236, 285

and Goldwater, 221

and health, 36, 37

historical ranking of, 132, 133

media stories about, 127, 244, 247, 253

and test ban treaty, 30–31

Eisenhower administration, 51, 178, 349

and civil rights, 112

and Vietnam, 55, 56, 60, 358

Elfand, Sam, 44

Eliot, T. S., 285

Elizabeth II, queen of England, 236

Ellison, Ralph, 286

Ellsberg, Daniel, 35n, 360

Emancipation Proclamation, 28

Estes, Thomas, 329

Europe:

colonial empire of, 285

and Marshall Plan, 285

U.S. troops in, 225, 250

Evans, Courtney, 79

Evers, Medgar, 112, 114, 174, 347

Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC), 114, 115, 234, 269

“Family of Man” citation, 285

Farmer, James, 8

Fay, Anita, 5, 185

Fay, Paul “Red,” 5, 14, 43, 52, 58, 97, 98, 99, 139, 149, 154, 185, 276, 280

FBI:

and break-ins, 39

and civil rights, 174

and Hoover, 355

and JFK’s womanizing, 79, 80, 260–62

White House bugged by, 23, 24–25

Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 135

Fitzgerald, Desmond, 290

Fitzgerald, John “Honey Fitz,” 27, 51, 139

Fitzgerald, Thomas, 27

Fleming, Ian, James Bond books by, 184–85, 250

Ford, Gerald R., 26

Forrestal, James V., 63

Forrestal, Michael V.:

and Cable 243, 90–91, 105–6, 117

and coup, 105, 106, 279, 282

and Vietnam travel, 62–63, 188, 322

Fra Giovanni, 89n

France:

and JFK’s death, 349–50

and Vietnam, 54–56, 59, 62, 360

Frankenheimer, John, 98

Fritchey, Clayton, 229

From Russia with Love (movie), 250

Frost, Robert, 10, 256–60

Fulbright, William, 35, 179

and test ban treaty, 22, 23, 49, 77, 214

warning about Dallas, 210, 211, 347

Furcolo, Foster, 27

Gagarin, Yuri, 102, 307

Galbraith, James K., 165

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 43, 59

Galitzine, Princess Irene, 231, 244–45, 255, 263, 265, 297

Gallagher, Mary, 69, 171, 224, 335, 336

Garbo, Greta, 297–98

Garfield, James, 149

Gary, Romain, 257

Germany:

Berlin in cold war, 58, 89, 165, 217, 250, 284, 290, 358, 360

Ich bin ein Berliner speech in, 4

Stasi (East Berlin), 80n

Getty, J. Paul, 247

Giancana, Sam, 83

Gilpatric, Roswell, 64, 91, 209, 244, 284, 350, 359

Glenn, John, 139

Goldberg, Arthur, 179

Golden Rule, 315

Goldfine, Bernard, 25

Gold Star Mothers, 196

Goldwater, Barry M., 199, 237

as cold war hawk, 22, 101

and 1964 campaign, 77, 144–45, 167, 197, 210–11, 221–22, 292–93, 320, 322, 331, 335, 356–57

and test ban treaty, 101, 196, 197

Gonzales, Henry, 331, 332, 333

Goodwin, Richard, 110, 197

Gordon, Kermit, 177, 247

Great Contemporaries (Churchill), 130–31

Green, William, 274

Greer, Bill, 313, 344, 345

Grissom, Gus, 305–6

Gromyko, Andrei, 102, 175, 183, 223, 224–27, 250

Gronouski, John, 145, 155, 167–68

Gross, H. R., 268

Guevara, Che, 67, 191

Guild of Apollonia, 14

Gullion, Edmund, xi, 50, 54, 63

Guthman, Edwin, 261, 262

Halberstam, David, 53, 65, 78, 117

Hall, Gus, 339

Halle, Kay, 43, 131, 222

Halleck, Charles, 249, 270, 356

Halsey, William “Bull,” 216

Hamilton, William, 189, 190

Harding, Warren G., 149

Harkins, Paul, 61, 117, 118, 143

Harriman, W. Averell, 184, 187–88, 348

and Cable 243, 90, 105, 106, 118

and Laos, 57

and test ban treaty, 160, 214, 354

and Vietnam, 63, 64, 90, 137, 158, 188, 282

Harris, Louis, 144

Harvard University:

JFK’s visit to, 239–41

presidential library at, 202, 288, 355, 362

Hassan, king of Morocco, 232, 238, 249

Hecksher, August, 257

Heller, Walter, 164, 177–78, 179–80, 221, 242–43, 311, 323, 356

Helms, Richard, 191, 283, 322

Henderson, Deirdre, 44

Hennessey, Luella, 40–41

Hersey, John, 3

Hill, Clint, 45, 90, 255

Hilsman, Roger, 276, 319, 326

and Cable 243, 90, 105, 106, 282

and Diem’s death, 280–81, 282

and Vietnam, 63, 137, 143, 158, 188

Hiroshima, Japan, 77

Hirsh, Jacqueline, 288–89

Hiss, Alger, 125

Hitler, Adolf, 96

Ho Chi Minh, 54, 56

Hodges, Luther, 9, 282

Honey Fitz (boat), 4, 91, 125, 154, 171, 185

Hoover, Herbert, 133

Hoover, J. Edgar, 23, 29, 38, 79, 261–62, 266–68, 275–76, 284, 355

Hopper, Edward, Nighthawks, 71

Howard, Lisa, 190–91, 192, 283, 291, 321–22

Humphrey, Hubert H., 347

Huntley, Chet, 158, 270, 359

Hyannis Port, Kennedy family houses in, 21, 42, 91–92

immigration:

anti-Irish prejudice, 51–52, 110

Jews and education, 115

JFK’s book on, 156–57

legislation, 155–57, 354, 355

and multiculturalism, 157

quota system of, 156, 157

Ireland, JFK’s trip to, 4–5, 42, 150, 169, 235, 312

Israel, 225

Jackson, Andrew, 129

Jackson, Henry M. “Scoop,” 22, 23, 158–60

Jacobson, Max, 35–36

Jefferson, Thomas, 132

Jefferson Memorial, 147

John Birch Society, 188n, 199

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 256

Johnson, Alexis, 326

Johnson, Lady Bird, 212, 219, 333, 335, 336

Johnson, Leon, 166

Johnson, Lyndon B., 31, 214, 221

and Baker, 218–19, 303, 318, 335

and Cuba, 358

and Dallas, 212, 316

and election campaigns, 34, 211, 212, 250, 291–92, 295, 302–3, 318, 330, 341

and goodwill trips, 140, 172

Great Society of, 355–56

and presidency, 127, 150, 154n, 287, 292, 318, 353, 355–57, 360

ranch of, 255, 319, 330, 335

and second term, 360

and Texas tour, 330, 333, 334–36, 337–38, 341

as vice president, 138–41, 210, 246, 292, 295, 330

and Vietnam, 292, 356, 358–60

and Yarborough, 316, 321, 330, 334–35, 337

Joint Chiefs of Staff:

and cold war, 165, 292

and Cuba, 58, 95–98

JFK’s distrust of, 216

and Operation Northwoods, 95–97, 100

and test ban treaty, 23, 100, 160

and Vietnam, 57–58, 59, 61, 63, 105–6, 143

Katzenbach, Nicholas, 29–30, 311, 355

Kaysen, Carl, 251

Kazin, Alfred, xii–xiii, 125–27

Keeler, Christine, 80, 81

Kellerman, Roy, 341, 344, 346

Kelly, Gene, 236

Kennan, George, 268

Kennedy, Arabella, 11, 73

Kennedy, Caroline, 5, 108, 222

birth of, 11, 40

and her father, 21, 88, 150, 171, 195, 209, 230, 269, 296–97, 303, 329, 360

and her mother, 237–38, 361

in photographs, 71–72, 92, 286, 287, 361

schooling of, 288–89

Kennedy, Edward M. “Ted,” 5, 18, 21, 42, 51, 52, 136, 153

Kennedy, Ethel, 69, 327

Kennedy, Eunice, 152, 168, 264

Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier:

and Arabella, 11, 73

arts and cultural interests of, 72, 254, 256, 289

and Caroline, see Kennedy, Caroline

and Dallas, 128, 342–46

death of, 362

and family gatherings, 152, 215

fashion taste of, 43–44, 212, 328, 336, 342

and Greek cruise, 89–90, 120, 148, 174–75, 201–2, 209, 220, 223, 230, 231–32, 247

and health issues, 34, 36, 39

and JFK’s death, 150, 346–49, 353, 360–62

on JFK’s personality, xii, 16, 28, 69

JFK’s relationship with, 4, 19, 45, 71, 83, 169, 231–32, 244, 287, 296, 299, 304, 331, 342, 361, 362

and John Jr., see Kennedy, John F., Jr.

and Johnson, 139, 255, 316, 357

and media interviews, 248, 249, 326

in Morocco, 232, 236

in Newport, 172

and Patrick, 4, 11–13, 17, 19, 40–41, 89, 235, 244, 255, 303, 304, 327

personal traits of, 69–71

photographs of, 21, 71–72, 286

and politics, 279, 295, 318, 357

and pregnancies, 5, 11, 22, 89

and reelection, 250, 292, 304, 318, 321

and Selassie’s visit, 205–6

and Texas tour, 128, 247, 255, 304, 316, 321, 325, 328, 329, 331–32, 334–36, 338–46

and Virginia house (Wexford), 43, 262–65, 286–87, 303

and wedding anniversary, 163, 170–71

Kennedy, Joan, 153

Kennedy, John F.:

achievements of, 353–54, 362

ambition of, 129–30, 132, 354

on art and civilization, 256–61

assassination in thoughts of, 148–51, 253, 312, 316, 340

assassination of, 346, 347–53, 361

books read by, 72–74, 184–85

childhood illness of, 14

doodles and notes of, 17, 65–66, 114–15, 142, 325, 335

election campaign (1960), 135–36, 199, 200, 332

election of, 21, 110, 111, 130, 151

and emotions, 17–19, 21, 31, 32, 70, 71

and ethical standards, 26–30, 271, 285

and fatherhood, 4, 5, 11, 171, 209–10, 215, 222, 230–31, 296–97, 303

funeral of, 349–50, 357

great men admired by, 83–84, 128–30, 178, 256, 285, 354

health of, 32–39, 70, 82, 120, 129, 131, 137, 145, 151, 224, 235, 296, 353

inauguration of, 18, 29, 57, 108, 130, 131, 256

interest in history, 125–34, 136, 181, 225, 268, 281, 285, 355, 362

international reactions to death of, 348–50

media stories about, 34, 68–69, 87, 119, 126–27, 132, 139, 158, 301, 314–15, 320

memoirs planned by, 24, 129, 258, 281–82, 355

memorials to, 350–53

and money matters, 43–44, 68

nation mourning for, 347–53

in the Navy, 44, 216, 217

and Patrick’s death, 17–18, 31, 240, 244, 280, 303

personal traits of, xii–xiii, 3, 6, 14–15, 68–71, 126, 224, 228–29, 267, 297, 343, 354

portraits and photographs of, ix–xi, xiii, 21, 71–72, 91–92, 269, 286–87, 326, 327, 350, 362

post–White House plans of, 154

press conferences of, 76–77, 166–68, 221, 295, 299

public image of, 7, 181, 224, 228, 293

and Pulitzer Prize, 354, 355

and reelection, 64, 144–45, 155, 178, 179, 183, 193, 196, 197, 200, 210–11, 221–22, 233–34, 260, 273–74, 291–94, 295, 317–18, 320–21, 330

and religion, 16–17, 135, 199, 292, 354

rituals and ceremonies, 146, 187, 214, 288, 290

speeches by, 4, 7, 8–11, 28, 29, 56, 59, 77, 102, 107, 108, 130, 131, 160, 174, 175, 177, 178, 179, 182–83, 194–95, 196–200, 223, 239, 242, 256–61, 281, 285, 301–2, 307, 312, 315–16, 333, 354

temper of, 41–42, 58

in Texas, see Dallas; Texas

and Vietnam, see Vietnam; Vietnam War

and Western U.S. trip, 144–45, 193–201, 239

womanizing of, 11, 15, 31, 35, 38, 70, 79–87, 129, 261–62, 275, 284

Kennedy, John F., Jr., 222–23, 237

birth of, 4, 11, 12, 18, 40, 89

and his father, 4, 5, 171, 209–10, 269, 282, 296, 303, 329, 330, 360–61

in photographs, 71–72, 220, 222, 230–31, 286, 287, 317, 361

and salute, 287, 288, 361

Kennedy, Joseph P., 14

birthday party for, 151–54

and family, 17, 19, 40, 42, 151–54, 269

influence on JFK, 20, 27, 153, 241, 275, 284, 310

and prejudice, 42, 51–52, 53

stroke and incapacity of, 152, 153, 241

and wealth, 42

and women, 82, 163

Kennedy, Joseph P., Jr., 18, 20–21, 150, 152, 217, 306, 325

Kennedy, Kathleen, 21, 150, 152

Kennedy, Patricia, 40

Kennedy, Patrick:

birth of, 3, 4, 11–12, 40

death of, 17–18, 19, 21, 31, 45, 71, 88–89, 90, 148, 163, 171, 194, 201, 235, 240, 244, 280, 296, 303, 304, 327

respiratory distress syndrome of, 12–14, 15–16

Kennedy, Robert F.:

and Adams, 25–26

as attorney general, 26, 27, 29, 152

and Baker, 219, 266–67

and civil rights, 9, 113, 173, 181, 188, 234

and Cuba, 184, 192, 322, 358

and family matters, 11, 15

and health issues, 40

and his brother, xii, 4, 18, 144, 152, 215, 354–55, 362

and his brother’s womanizing, 79–80, 81, 261–62

and Johnson, 140, 302–3

and Lodge, 50, 52

and the presidency, 154

and reelection, 291, 302–3

resignation of, 355

and Soviet Union, 94–95, 98, 285, 303

and Texas tour, 283, 327, 334

and Vietnam, 54, 55, 143, 206, 271, 282, 360

and White House bugs, 23, 24

and women, 229

Kennedy, Rose, 40, 42–43, 73

Kennedy, Rosemary, 20

Kennedy family:

photographs of, 71–72, 91–92, 151–52, 286–87

as “royal family,” 254

wealth of, 42–44, 194

Kennedy Library, 202, 288, 355, 362

Keynesian economics, 177

Khiem, General, 117–18

Khrushchev, Nikita, 72, 93–95, 200

and arms race, 8, 94, 225

and Berlin, 58, 89

and Cuba, 59, 94–95, 102, 191, 192

and détente, 93, 183, 225–27, 303, 321

and Frost, 257

and hotline, 93, 225

and JFK’s death, 349, 354, 357

secret contacts with, 9, 22, 59, 93, 105

and space, 103, 223, 225

and test ban treaty, 22, 93, 100–101, 160, 165, 225, 227

and Vienna summit (1961), 16, 103, 357

Khrushchev, Sergei, 100

Kiernan, Thomas, 18, 52, 235

King, Coretta Scott, 110

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 8, 24

and Birmingham, 180, 184, 189, 227

“I have a dream,” 108–9

imprisonment of, 110

and March on Washington, 107–9

at White House meetings, 109–12, 181–82

Klejman, John, 163–64, 170, 182

Knebel, Fletcher, 27, 68–69

and Seven Days in May, 95–99

Knudsen, Robert, 185

Kohler, Foy, 175

Kraft, Joseph, 7

Kraus, Hans, 37–39, 120–21, 138, 145, 235

Krulak, Victor, 105, 106, 143, 161–62, 188, 206, 270

Ku Klux Klan, 172, 227, 313

Landis, James, 29–30, 119

Lanigan, James, 113

Laos, 57–58, 63, 75, 102, 159, 217, 360

Lasky, Victor, JFK: The Man and the Myth, 159, 164, 167

Lattre de Tassigny, Bernard de, 55

Lawrence, David, 275

Lawrence, William, 150

Lawton, Agent, 313

Lazarus, Emma, 157

League of Nations, 22

Lechuga, Carlos, 183–84, 190–92, 202, 283, 321, 357

Lecouvreur, Adrienne, 73

Lemass, Seán, 235–36

LeMay, Curtis, 59, 95, 97–98, 99, 165

Lemnitzer, Lyman, 57, 96, 165

Lenin, V. I., 81, 129

Lewis, Anthony, 234, 270

Lewis and Clark, 103, 308

Libonati, Roland, 269

Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 30, 194, 214–16

Lincoln, Abraham:

assassination of, 130, 149, 348

and cabinet, 61

and civil rights, 109, 111

and greatness, 128, 130, 132

speeches of, 8, 17

and White House, 361

Lincoln, Evelyn, 24, 246, 281

and election campaign, 144, 158, 291, 295–96, 313, 317, 318

and family matters, 4, 5, 13–14, 17, 206, 209, 220, 269, 296–97

and JFK’s privacy, xii, 296, 354–55

notes and doodles saved by, 17, 115, 202, 261, 266, 269

and Texas tour, 324, 329

and White House visitors, 112, 162

Lisager, Peter, 196, 200

Little Big Horn, 199

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.:

as ambassador to South Vietnam, 49–51, 64, 65–67, 76, 78, 137, 162, 176–77, 188, 322, 328, 358

and Cable 243, 90–91, 92, 106, 118, 121, 270, 271

and coup, 92, 106, 117–19, 121, 176–77, 213, 248, 254, 270–73, 279–81

and family rivalry, 51–54, 55, 353

parallels to JFK’s life, 53–54

and UN, 51, 66

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Sr., 51–52, 53

Louchheim, Katie, 179–80, 228

Lowe, Jacques, 71

Luce, Clare Boothe, 82, 85, 229

Luce, Henry, 301

Lyautey, Hubert, 302

MacArthur, Douglas, 59–60, 181, 241

McCarran-Walter Immigration and Nationality Act (1952), 156

McCarthy, Joe (reporter), 51

McCarthy, Joseph (senator), 15, 64

McCloskey, Matthew, 42, 169

McCone, John, 90, 159, 192, 271, 280, 282, 290

McCulloch, William, 234, 255

Macdonald, Torbert, 248–49, 280, 302, 310

McHugh, Godfrey, 41, 342

McKinley, William, 149

McKissick, Floyd, 115

McMahon, Margaret “Miggie,” 14

Macmillan, Harold, 80, 82, 222, 223, 254

McMillan, Priscilla, 83

McNamara, Robert S., 24, 27, 90, 91

and cold war, 159, 165, 166

and Cuba, 95, 98

and defense spending, 310–11

and Johnson, 355

and space, 103, 175

and Vietnam, 57, 60, 63, 105–6, 143, 162, 176–77, 187, 188, 206–9, 212–13, 270–71, 280, 282, 331, 359, 360

McPherson, Harry C., Jr., 139

McSorley, Father Richard, 235, 244, 361

Maguire, Richard, 291

Mahoney, Florence, 297

Mahoney, William, 319–21

Mailer, Norman, xii, xiii, 69

Malaya, British forces in, 61

Malraux, André, 255

Manhattan Project, 307

Mansfield, Joe, 198

Mansfield, Mike, 195–96, 201, 356

and Baker scandal, 218, 266–68, 275

JFK’s visit to father of, 198, 267

and test ban treaty, 23, 196, 214

and Vietnam, 61–62, 64, 75–76, 79, 137, 138, 158, 358

Mansfield, Patrick, 198

Marshall, Burke, 173, 188–89

Marshall Plan, 285

Martin, Joan Carol, 326

Martin, John Bartlow, 113

Mauldin, Bill, 348

media:

and Castro, 67, 191

interviews with Jacqueline, 248, 249, 326

and JFK, 34, 68–69, 87, 119, 126–27, 132, 139, 158, 301, 314–15, 320

JFK’s press conferences, 76–77, 166–68, 221, 295, 299

and Nixon, 127, 136

television news, 135–37

Medicare, 311, 355

Melbourne, Lord, 228

Mendenhall, Joseph, 143, 161–62, 270

Meredith, James, 111

Merrill’s Marauders, 63

Meyer, Mary, 83, 194, 280

Micronesia, polio in, 282

Mikoyan, Anastas, 349, 357

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 238

Miller, Chester, 24

Mills, Wilbur, 210, 332

Milteer, Joseph, 312

Minh, Duong Van “Big Minh,” 280, 281

Mollenhoff, Clark, 261, 262

Monnet, Jean, 128, 349–50

Morrison, Kay, 260

Morrissey, Francis, 19, 27

Morse, Wayne, 323, 359

Moses, Robert, 300

Mudd, Roger, 136

Mueller, George, 305–6

Mumford, Lewis, 257

Munich agreement (1938), 99

Murphy, Charles, 311

NAACP, 107, 234, 320, 332

Nagasaki, Japan, 77

Nagler, Willibrand, 120–21

Napoléon Bonaparte, 129

NASA, 103, 104, 175, 305–9

National Library Week, 184

National Origins Act (NOA) (1924), 155–56

National Poultry and Egg Board, 318

National Security Council (NSC), 161

National Turkey Foundation, 318–19

Nation of Immigrants, A (JFK), 156–57

NATO, 225

Net Evaluation Subcommittee (NES), 164–66

New Deal, 194

New Frontier, 28, 103, 193

Newman, Larry, 11–12, 72, 149, 241, 275

Newport, Rhode Island, 169–73

Newton, Frank, 189–90

Nhu, Madame, 62, 65, 67, 178, 229, 248, 280

Nhu, Ngo Dinh, 62, 65, 137, 142

and Buddhists, 78, 137

and Cable 243, 90–91, 92

and coup, 66, 92, 118, 143, 162, 188, 206, 249, 272, 279–81

death of, 280–81, 282

Nixon, Richard M., 35n, 56, 221

and elections, 133, 145, 178, 233, 361

and family, 230

Ford’s pardon of, 26

and Lodge, 52, 54

and media, 127, 136

TV debates with, 76, 108, 265

and White House tapes, 24

Nkrumah, Kwame, 319

Nolting, Frederick, Jr., 60, 61–62, 76

Nolting, Richard, 118

North Vietnam, see Vietnam War

Oberdorfer, Dan, 266, 267

O’Brien, Lawrence, 45, 240, 291, 337

O’Connor, Frank, 333

O’Donnell, Ken, 24, 37, 45, 50, 52, 97, 142, 148, 180, 240

and Baker scandal, 261, 267

and Johnson, 138, 302, 355

and reelection, 291

and test ban treaty, 215

and Texas tour, 327, 329, 341–42

and Vietnam, 62, 64, 137

O’Leary, James B., 14, 15

O’Leary, Muggsy, 44–45, 209

Olivier, Sir Laurence, 349

Onassis, Aristotle, 89–90, 120, 148, 175, 201, 202, 247, 250, 328

Operation Aphrodite, 20

Operation Northwoods, 95–97, 100

Ormsby-Gore, David, 7, 15, 254, 255, 284–85, 350, 353

Orwell, George, 351

Palmer, Arnold, 91

Panama Canal, 307

Pavlick, Richard, 148–49

Peace Corps, 159, 351

Pearson, Drew, 34, 89

Pell, Claiborne, 170, 172

Pellegriti, Thomas, 240

Pentagon:

and Bay of Pigs, 6

and cold war, 166

and Vietnam, 61, 64, 106, 166, 177, 188

Pentagon Papers, 35n, 360

Pereira, Father Albert, 287

Peterson, Esther, 229–30

Petrie, Richard, 12

Pham Ngoc Thao, 248

Philadelphia, campaigning in, 273–74

Pinchot, Gifford, Jr., 194

Pinchot, Ruth, 194

Polk, James K., 133

Powers, Dave, 201, 213

and campaigns, 196, 302, 330

and crowds, 149, 196, 316, 334

as JFK’s buddy, 5–6, 15, 24, 44, 45, 150, 180, 215, 240, 310, 326, 342

and Johnson, 138, 302, 355

presidency:

and assassination, 130, 148–51, 253, 312–13, 332, 346, 347

avoiding war, 100–101, 134, 209

crucial qualities of, 132–33

executive powers of, 296

history’s ranking of, 127–28, 130, 132–33, 178, 354

and press conferences, 166–67

trappings of, 145–47

unpleasantness of, 6

Presidential Medal of Freedom, 256

President’s Commission on the Status of Women, 227–29

President’s Council on Youth Fitness, 37

Profiles in Courage (JFK), 9, 10, 16, 27, 126, 127, 131, 281, 289

Profumo, John, 79–81, 87, 261, 284

PT 95, 216

PT 109, 3–4, 14, 18, 21, 33, 151, 216, 325, 353, 355

Purcell, Heather, 165

Quayle, Oliver, 113

Quorum Club, 79, 219, 303

Radziwill, Lee, 11, 83, 89, 120, 174–75, 201–2, 297, 328

Radziwill, Stanislaus, 201–2, 348

Randolph, A. Philip, 107, 114, 116

Raskin, Marcus, 217

Reconstruction, 180

Reed, Jim, 258, 259, 260–61, 265

Reedy, George, 139, 140

Remon, Roberto, 251

Reston, James, 137

Reuther, Walter, 114–15

Ribicoff, Abraham, xii

Rickover, Hyman, 98

Ridder, Marie, 83, 287, 320, 359

Roberts, Emory, 311–12

Rockefeller, Nelson A., 87, 167, 293

Rometsch, Ellen:

and Baker scandal, 99, 219, 265, 266–68, 284, 355

FBI file on, 79–80, 261–62, 267, 284

as JFK’s sexual partner, 79, 80, 81, 83, 264

return to Germany, 79, 81, 87

and Senate investigation, 219, 275, 355

Romney, George, 293

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 15, 197

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 129, 153, 249

and art, 257

death of, 149

and election campaigns, 157, 158, 197, 276, 295

and Great Depression, 7, 112, 197

and greatness, 128, 132, 197

and Joe Kennedy, 53

personal traits of, xi, 7

speeches of, 8, 242

and World War II, 7, 158

Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr., 120, 230, 250, 255, 296

Roosevelt, Susan, 120

Roosevelt, Theodore, 53, 133n, 323

Rosen, Alex, 262

Rosenbloom, Carroll, 145

Rostow, Walt, 60, 177, 196, 225, 349, 359, 360

Royal Highland Black Watch, 296

Royall, Kenneth, 181, 187, 190, 227

Rusk, Dean, 23, 24, 164, 214, 320, 355

and cold war, 160, 165

and Cuba, 59, 290, 358

and Gromyko, 224, 225, 250

and JFK’s death, 348

and Lodge, 49–50

and Vietnam, 57, 90–91, 143, 162, 271, 322, 327, 360

Russia, see Soviet Union

Ryan, Mary, 42, 169

Salinger, Pierre, 15, 24, 98, 134, 220, 284

and JFK’s public image, 76, 311

and media relations, 76, 135, 185

and public statements, 38, 144, 174, 202, 233, 286, 300

resignation of, 355

and Texas tour, 323–24, 327

Samuelson, Paul, 7

Sandburg, Carl, 130

Sanford, Terry, 318

Satterfield, James, 113

Saxe, Maurice de, 72–74

Scammon, Richard, 291, 294, 323

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 45, 70, 98, 153, 187, 230

books by, 129, 354, 355

and civil rights, 112, 113

and Eisenhower, 44, 133, 258

on greatness, 132–33

and JFK’s health, 33

and JFK’s speeches, 160, 202, 256, 258

and Johnson, 139

and media stories, 126, 129–30

and presidential library, 202

and Profumo scandal, 80–81, 261

and reelection, 247

resignation of, 355

and Stevenson, 88, 253, 348

and Vietnam, 50, 176, 279, 360

and White House tapes, 24, 131

Schlesinger, Arthur, Sr., 132

Schweitzer, Albert, 88, 353

Seaborg, Glenn, 30, 177

Seamans, Robert, 306, 308

Secret Service, 14–15

and assassination threats, 149, 150, 312–14

and civil rights, 182

and crowds, 211, 300, 312–13, 332, 333

and JFK’s public appearances, 241, 300, 302, 311–14

and JFK’s womanizing, 83

and Texas tour, 336, 341, 344–45

White House bugged by, 23–25

Selassie, Haile, 13, 205–6

Senter, Raymond, 99

Seven Days in May (Knebel and Bailey), 95–99

Shaw, Nanny, 296–97, 329

Shepard, Alan, 305–6

Sherwood, Robert, xi

Shriver, Sargent, 110, 151

Sidey, Hugh, 17, 35, 129, 132n, 167, 215, 217, 301, 306–7, 343

Sihanouk, Prince (Cambodia), 326

Sinatra, Frank, 70, 83

Skelton, Byron, 282–83, 327

Smathers, George, 11, 82, 139, 302, 303, 315, 316

Smiley, Nixon, 305

Smith, Jean Kennedy, 151, 300

Smith, Merriman, 168, 185, 200

Smith, Stephen, 71, 144, 291, 300

Social Security, 311

Solda, Gino, 120

Sorensen, Ted, 4, 6, 16, 17, 24, 150

and JFK’s death, 353

and JFK’s health, 33, 34, 223

and JFK’s personal traits, xi, 15

and JFK’s speeches, 130, 177, 256

and Lodge, 50

memoir of, 318, 354, 355

and reelection, 291, 292

resignation of, 355

and space program, 307

and test ban treaty, 9, 13, 30, 214

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 107

South Vietnam:

and Cable 243, 90–91, 92, 105–6, 117–18, 121, 270, 271, 282

coup in, 66, 92, 105–6, 117–19, 121, 143, 162, 176–77, 188, 206, 213, 248–49, 254, 264, 270–73, 279–82

Johnson’s visit to, 59

Lodge as ambassador to, see Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.

and media, 158

military advisers in, 60–62, 64, 76, 99, 143, 158, 176–77, 206–9, 213, 271, 354, 358, 360

U.S. combat engineers in, 60

U.S. interests limited in, 75–76, 106, 176

see also Vietnam War

Soviet Union:

and cold war, see cold war

détente with, 30, 93–95, 101–2, 104–5, 160, 165, 183, 215, 221, 226–27, 239, 253, 303, 321, 349, 354

hotline between U.S. and, 93, 225

Jews oppressed in, 323

and JFK’s death, 349

joint space program with, 102, 103, 104–5, 160, 175, 182–83, 223, 225, 308–9

missiles in Cuba, 6, 7, 10, 18, 38, 59, 88, 91, 93, 95, 97–98, 121, 133, 134, 150, 151, 159, 197, 225, 251–52, 360

U.S. wheat sale to, 195, 221, 225, 226, 292, 328

space race, 93, 102–5, 184, 338, 341

JFK’s Canaveral visit, 305–9

joint U.S./USSR program, 102, 103, 104–5, 160, 175, 182–83, 223, 225, 308–9

manned flight, 102–3, 305–6, 307

man on the moon, 103, 104, 150, 159, 175, 223, 305–7, 310, 333

Spalding, Betty, 71, 83

Spalding, Chuck, 71, 154n, 185, 216–17

Spellman, Cardinal Francis, 19, 280

Squaw Island, 88–92

Stalin, Joseph, 129

Stanton, Frank, 135

Stennis, John, 22, 23

Stevens, Thaddeus, 112

Stevenson, Adlai E., 88–89, 297

and Cuba, 183, 184

Dallas trip of, 253, 254, 255, 283, 301, 325, 347

and JFK’s death, 347, 348

and test ban treaty, 160

and women, 229

Storm, Tempest, 82–83

Stoughton, Cecil, 71, 91–92, 151, 269, 286–87, 346

Styron, Rose, 286

Styron, William, 125–27, 134, 286

Sullivan, William, 207

Supreme Court, U.S., 326–27

Brown v. Board of Education, 8

Swanson, Gloria, 82

Sylvester, Arthur, 41

Symington, Stuart, 84

Tampa, campaigning in, 311–15

Tate, James, 274

tax-cut bill, 162, 174, 177–80, 184, 195, 223, 243, 301, 354, 356, 362

Taylor, George, 110, 275

Taylor, Maxwell:

and Cuba, 6

and Joint Chiefs, 57, 96, 143

and Laos, 57

and nuclear threat, 165–66

and Vietnam, 60–61, 105–6, 143, 176–77, 187, 188, 206–9, 212–13, 270, 271, 279, 282, 360

Teague, Olin, 341

Teller, Edwin, 22, 29, 77, 99, 101

test ban treaty, see cold war

Texas:

Dallas, see Dallas

and elections, 330, 335

Fort Worth, 336, 337–39

and JFK’s assassination, 348

JFK’s planned trip to, 247, 248, 292, 304, 316, 317, 321, 324, 325, 327, 328

JFK’s tour of, 329–36, 337–46

Texas School Book Depository, 344, 346

Thomas, Albert, 330, 336

Thomas, George, 150, 247, 337

Thomas, Helen, 244

Thompson, Llewellyn “Tommy,” 94, 101, 105, 224

Thurmond, Strom, 22

Time, 301

Timmes, Charles J., 311

Tito, Josip Broz, 236–37, 252, 254, 268, 328

Topping, Seymour, 55

Touré, Sékou, 252, 328

Travell, Janet, 4, 12, 34, 36–38

Tree, Marietta, 228

Tretick, Stanley, 220, 222–23, 230–31, 361

Truman, Harry S., 44, 158, 236

and armed forces integration, 181, 190

and FDR, 295

and greatness, 133

and JFK’s death, 348

speeches by, 8, 242

Turbidy, Dorothy, 236

Turner, Nat, 134, 286

Turnure, Pamela, 83, 148, 202, 325

Tynan, Kenneth, 163

Udall, Stewart, 197, 258

Ulbricht, Walter, 80

United Nations, 76, 90, 217, 253

and Cuba, 59, 283, 321

JFK’s speech at, 160, 174, 175, 182–83

and Lodge, 51, 66

membership in, 319–20

United States:

and cold war, see cold war

as melting pot, 157

military coup possible in, 94–99, 165

poverty in, 242–43, 259, 269, 293–94, 296, 311, 323, 354, 356

University of Maine, 239

USSR, see Soviet Union

Valenti, Jack, 336

Vallejo, Rene, 191–92, 283, 291, 321–22

Vanocur, Sander, 194, 196, 200

Veterans Day (1963), 288

Viet Minh guerrillas, 54, 55, 56

Vietnam, 54–67

Buddhist monks in, 63–64, 65, 66, 76, 78, 90, 106, 136–37, 161, 162

and Cable 243, 90–91, 92, 105–6, 117–18, 121, 270, 271, 282

and Diem, see Diem, Ngo Dinh; South Vietnam

division of, 56

and domino theory, 55, 56, 58, 60, 158

fact-finding missions to, 54–58, 143, 161–62, 176–77, 184, 187–88, 206–9, 212–13, 299, 360

and Geneva Accords, 56

Hue massacre in, 63–64

Kennedy speeches about, 59

Mansfield’s memo on, 75–76, 79

see also South Vietnam; Vietnam War

Vietnam War:

combat troops in, 56, 57, 60, 63, 159, 176, 311, 358, 360

costs of, 75–76

escalation of, 356, 358–60

as hopeless mess, 50–51, 66

nuclear threat in, 57

peace negotiations in, 56–57

as public relations problem, 66, 208

as unwinnable, 118, 136, 208, 241, 322–23, 359

U.S. withdrawal sought, 64, 76, 99, 143, 176–77, 207–9, 213, 217, 241, 271, 311, 323, 331, 354, 358–59

VISTA, 112–13

Voice of America, 105

Voltaire, 73

von Braun, Wernher, 305–6, 310

Wadsworth, James, 22

Walker, Edwin, 283

Wallace, George, 161, 174, 180

Wallace, Henry A., 295

Walsh, John, 4, 12

Walton, William, ix, xi, 88–89, 91, 287

Warren, Earl, 327

Washington, D.C.:

Pennsylvania Avenue, 145

segregation in, 109–10

Washington, George, 132

Wear, Priscilla, 83

Webb, James, 103, 104, 175, 307, 308

Weiner, Micky, 298

Weinstein, Lewis, 323

West, J. B., 170, 206, 244–45, 263–65, 361

Wharton, Edith, 53

While England Slept (Churchill), 130

White, Lee, 108

White, Theodore, 128

White House:

break-ins, 39

bugs in, 23–25, 65–67, 70, 101, 131–32, 210, 224, 271, 276

“Daddies Day” at, 288–89

Lincoln bedroom, 361

renovations to, 41–42, 43, 214

Rose Garden, 146, 170

Whitman, Ann, 247

Why England Slept (JFK), 130, 281

Wicker, Tom, 159, 343

Wiesner, Jerome, 7, 307

Wilkins, Roy, 107, 109, 111, 114

Williams, John, 218–19

Wilson, Richard, 87, 356

Wilson, Woodrow, 132, 133, 259, 315

Winters, Francis, 64n

World Crisis, The (Churchill), 131

World War II, 158, 216–17, 339, 353

Yarborough, Ralph, 316, 321, 330, 333, 334–35, 337–38, 341–42, 344, 345

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 349

Young, Brigham, 200

Yugoslavia:

Kennan in, 268

U.S. aid to, 236–37

Zaher, king of Afghanistan, 115, 142, 143, 146–47

Zakharov, Marshal, 100

Zbaril, Agent, 313

Zuckert, Eugene, 99