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Kennedy and Reagan

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by Scott Farris


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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

 

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