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INDEX
Acheson, Dean, 179, 266
Adams, President John Quincy, 11
Adult Children of Alcoholics (Woititz), 67
Agnew, Spiro, 169, 198
Albert, Eddie, 109, 120
Alexander the Great, 140, 195
Alford, Mimi, 138, 139
Alsop, Joseph, 174
Altschuler, Sid, 91–92
Ambrose, Stephen, 24
American Veterans Committee (AVC), 130
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 150–51
Anderson, John, 16, 181
Anderson, Martin, 231
Andrews, George, 301
Andropov, Yuri, 250, 251, 254, 255
Angela’s Ashes (McCourt), 36
Arlington National Cemetery, 235
Armstrong, Neil, 205, 209
Arquilla, John, 258
Arvad, Inga, 52
Auchincloss, Hugh, 144
Ayres, Lew, 122
Bacevich, Andrew J., 240
Baker, James, 27–28
Baker, Russell, 179
Baldwin, James, 321
Baldwin, Stanley, 102
ban on school prayer, 301–2
Bartlett, Bruce, 284
Bartlett, Charles, 144, 277
Batista, Juan, 264
Beatty, Warren, 2, 195
Belafonte, Harry, 196, 323
Benny, Jack, 43
Bentsen, Lloyd, 2
Berle, Adolf, 342
Berle, Milton, 43
Bernstein, Leonard, 196
Berry, Edwin C., 325
Bible and scriptural interpretations, 304–5
Biden, Joe, 1
Billings, LeMoyne “Lem,” 54, 57, 73–74, 84–85, 97
Birmingham, AL, 325
Blough, Roger, 229
Blumenthal, Sidney, 198
Bogart, Humphrey, 107
Boland Amendment, 270, 272
Borglum, Gutzon, 9–10
Bourguiba, Habib, 208
Bouvier, John Vernou, III, 144
Boyer, Charles, 122
Brady, Jim, 26, 29, 30
Braudy, Leo, 195
Broder, David, 30
Brooks, David, 221
Brown, Pat, 170, 328
Bryan, William Jennings, 295, 303
Bryant, Nick, 316, 327
Buchan, John, 101
Buchanan, President James, 11, 144
Buckley, William F., Jr, 167, 175, 271
Bugliosi, Vincent, 19
Burke, Arleigh, 117, 195
Burke’s Peerage, 37
Burns, James McGregor, 100
Bush, Jeb, 337
Bush, President George H. W., 5, 11, 12, 236, 257–58, 284
Bush, President George W., 5, 12–13, 110, 226
Byrd, Harry, 283
Cagney, James, 107, 122
Cahill, Thomas, 36
Campbell, Judith, 138, 139, 198
Campbell, Lady Jane, 21
Cannon, Lou, 29, 62, 132, 320, 329
Cape Canaveral and Cape Kennedy, 209, 234
Carter, Billy, 59
Carter, President Jimmy
campaign for presidency, 180–82, 306
failed to win a second term, 12
and the “malaise speech,” 180, 288
as president, 170, 180, 189
and the Soviet Union, 249
stalked by John Hinckley, 26
Casals, Pablo, 200
Casey, William, 253, 261, 269
Cassini, Oleg, 138
Castro, Raul, 268
Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles study, 131
Cavendish, William, 101
Cecil, Lord David, 101
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 233, 259, 261, 262–70, 275
Chamberlain, Neville, 98, 102
Cheney, Vice President Dick, 284
Childs, Marquis, 15
Christopher, George, 320
Churchill, Prime Minister Winston, 98–99, 100, 125, 161, 259
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 24, 173, 314–15, 320–21, 328, 331
Civil Works Administration, 80
Clarke, Thurston, 161, 235
Cleaver, Pastor Ben, 76, 79
Clifford, Clark, 68, 93, 158, 273
Clinton, President Bill, 3, 12, 64, 226
Clymer, Adam, 289
Cogley, John, 299
Coit, Margaret, 139
Conference of Studio Unions (CSU), 130, 131
Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), 222
Connor, Theophilus, Eugene “Bull,” 325
Coolidge, Pre
sident Calvin, 228
Cooper, Gary, 186
Coors, Joseph, 270
Copeland Charles, 49
Coulter, Ann, 6
Coward, Noel, 45
Cruz, Ted, 1
Cukor, George, 142
Cuomo, Mario, 304
Curley, James Michael “The Rascal King,” 50, 125–26
Cushing, Cardinal Richard, 302
Dallek, Robert, 65, 73, 115, 249
Darman, Richard, 292
David, Jules, 158
Davis, Loyal, 142, 175
Davis, Mary, 161
Davis, Patti, 143
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 196
Day, Doris, 141, 142
Day-Lewis, Daniel, 36
De Gaulle, President Charles, 273
Deaver, Mike, 28
Del Valle, P.A., 116
Delahanty, Thomas, 26, 30
Dempsey, Jack, 28
Deukmejian, George, 171
Dever, Paul, 156–57
Dickinson, Angie, 138
Diem, President Ngo Dinh, 274
Dietrich, Marlene, 138
Dirksen, Everett, 327
Disney, Walt, 192–93
Dobrynin, Anatoly, 247
Dolan, Jay, 33
Dole, Bob, 5, 32
Donald, David Herbert, 11
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 81, 148
Douglas, Kirk, 195
Doyle, Roddy, 36
Draper, Theodore, 266
Dukakis, Michael, 2
Dulles, Allen, 265, 275
Dylan, Bob, 3
Eisenhower, President Dwight
and the American Veterans Committee, 130
and the CIA, 263
and Fidel Castro, 264
as a former military senior commander, 263–64
his farewell address, 220
and the New Deal, 176–77
polls for nation’s greatest presidents, 7, 176
and the President’s Commission on National Goals, 177
re-elected to presidency, 163
the space program, 205
as Supreme Allied Commander in the Army, 232
and television, 152
and Vietnam, 274
El Salvadore, 17, 216, 223, 269, 270
Engle v. Vitale legal case, 301
Evans, M. Stanton, 173, 292
Evans, Rowland, 5, 17
Evers, Medgar, 326
Falwell, Reverend Jerry, 305–6, 308–9
Farmer, James, 222
Fast, Howard, 120
Fay, Paul, 231
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), 80, 81
Federalist Society, 11
Fitzgerald, John Francis “Honey Fitz,” 35, 39, 53, 83
Flynn, Errol, 107, 141
Ford, President Gerald, 12, 77, 169–70, 257, 286, 306
Fort Des Moines, 104
Foy, Bryan, 195
Frankenheimer, John, 117, 195
Friedman, Milton, 172, 283, 285
Fulbright, J. William, 116, 246
Fuller, Craig, 336
Funk, Wilfred, 100
Gable, Clark, 107, 142, 191
Gaddis, John Lewis, 255, 257, 258
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 84, 224, 284
Garfield, President James, 14
German immigrants, 35
Ghorbanifar, Manucher, 271–72
Giancana, Sam, 138, 198
Glenn, John, 209
Goldberg, Arthur, 229
Goldwater, Barry
and the 1964 presidential campaign, 23, 163, 165, 173–74, 303, 328
and Jerry Falwell, 308–9
and populism, 287
rift with Ronald Reagan, 175–76
and William Casey, 261, 270
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 55, 65, 123–24
Gore, Al, 3–4, 304
Gorman, Leo, 79
Graham, Reverend Billy, 302
Grant, Cary, 122
Greenspan, Alan, 292
Greider, William, 214
Grenada, invasion of, 223–24, 268
Guzman, President Jacobo Arbenz, 262
Haig, Alexander, 2
Halberstam, David, 232
Halle, Kay, 52
Hampton, Lionel, 201, 330
Harak, G. Simon, 212
Harding, President Warren, 11
Harris, John, 3
Harris, Seymour, 279
Hart, Gary, 1, 2, 304
Hart, Michael, 204
Hart, Sir Basil Liddell, 245, 246
Hayworth, Rita, 107
Heckscher, August, 199, 200
Heller, Walter, 278, 279, 280, 281–83, 284
Hemingway, Ernest, 29, 137, 188
Hersey, John, 115
Hesburgh, Theodore, 323
Hinckley, John W., 25–27, 29
Hiss, Alger, 129, 156
historians and the ranking of presidents, 10, 12
Hitler, 97, 98, 102, 111, 214, 268
Hodges, Joy, 141
Holden, William, 143
Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions (HICCASP), 130, 131
Holt, L. Emmett, 54, 65
Hoover, J. Edgar, 18, 111, 139, 198
Hoover, President Herbert, 11, 296
Hope, Bob, 43, 197
Hopkins, Harry, 80
Hopper, Hedda, 122
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 131–32
How the Irish Saved Civilization (Cahill), 36
Hudson, Rock, 331
Humphrey, Hubert, 169, 198, 214, 298, 300
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), 130–31
Irish American Historical Society, 37
Irish immigrants and the Roman Catholic Church in the US, 33–36, 37, 126, 128
Irish potato famine of the 1840s and 1850s, 33
Iron Dome developed by Israel, 213
Iron John: A Book About Men (Bly), 188
Israel and the bombing of an Iraqi nuclear site, 248
Italian immigrants, 35
Jackson, President Andrew, 32, 288
Jackson, Reverend Jesse, 304
James, William, 310
Jarvis, Howard, 286–87
Jay, Peter, 220
Jefferson, President Thomas, 9, 11, 40, 295
Joffrey, Robert, 199
John Birch Society, 17, 18, 117, 163, 252
John F. Kennedy Airport, 234
John F. Kennedy School of Government, 235
John Paul II (pope), 15, 225, 257
John XXIII (pope), 301
Johnson, President Andrew, 11
Johnson, President Lyndon Baines
the 1964 presidential campaign, 303
civil rights legislation, 23, 236, 282–83, 314, 315, 325–26, 327
his first public address before Congress, 23–24
and Joseph McCarthy, 156
as Kennedy’s vice-president, 2, 178
and Robert F. Kennedy, 274
the space program, 205
and tax cuts, 24, 236, 276, 282
Vietnam War, 12, 24, 248
Johnson, U. Alexis, 210
Justice Scalia, Antonin, 309
Keating, Mary Pitcairn, 52, 53–54
Kefauver, Estes, 162, 297
Kelly, Grace, 135
Kemp, Jack, 5
Kempton, Murray, 39, 299
Kennedy, Bridget Murphy, 34
Kennedy, Caroline, 4–5, 21
Kennedy, Edward “Ted,” 2, 180–81
Kennedy, Eunice, 52
Kennedy, Jackie
and the arts, 199–200
birth and death of Arabella, 145
considered divorce, 145
and her courage and grace, 14, 20, 24–25
and her husband’s legacy, 22
and John F. Kennedy’s assassination and funeral, 19–21
marriage to and life with John F. Kennedy, 134, 144–46
and Rose Kennedy, 55, 145
worked as a photographer, 144
Kennedy, Joe (father of JFK)
as Ambassador to Great Britain, 85, 97
athleticism, 48
background information, 35, 48
business acumen and love of work, 48, 49–50, 51
and the Columbia Trust Company, 50
education, 48, 49
at Harvard, 49
his Irish heritage, 38
his ties to Hollywood, 97, 186
the movie business, 48, 49–50, 51, 84
womanizing and philandering, 48, 51–53, 137, 139
Kennedy, John, Jr., 21
Kennedy, Joseph P., Jr. (brother of JFK), 53, 55–57, 104, 117–18, 123
Kennedy, Justice Anthony, 309
Kennedy, Kathleen, 55, 101
Kennedy, Patrick (great grandfather of JFK), 34
Kennedy, Patrick Joseph “PJ” (grandfather of JFK), 34–35
Kennedy, President John F. See also Kennedy and Reagan—comparisons
the 1956 Democratic National Convention, 161–63
American labor unions, 119, 129–30
as America’s Royal Family, 339
and anti-Catholicism, 296–98
assassination in Texas, funeral, and grave site, 9, 13, 14, 15, 17–24, 235
attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro, 263–68
the Bay of Pigs, 116, 205, 207, 241, 259, 265–68, 273
and Berlin, 119, 224, 225, 229, 240–43
birth and death of daughter Arabella, 145–46
born in Brookline, MA on May 29, 1917, 62
as a Catholic, 299, 300–301
cautious approach to civil rights, 313, 323, 337
the civil defense program, 224–25
commander of PT-109 and lauded as a war hero and movie of the experience, 112–15, 195
as a congressman, 125–27, 148, 149, 172
Cuban Missile Crisis, Fidel Castro, and American missiles in Turkey, 22, 205, 209, 243–48, 253, 259, 263–64
diagnosed with Addison’s disease, 148–49
education, 40, 41, 56, 62, 75, 83–84, 98, 99
failure to win the vice-presidential nomination in 1956, 219
first trip to Ireland, 148