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Kennedy and Reagan

Page 48

by Scott Farris

Freedom Riders, 222, 323–24

  Harvard and Yale, 3, 40, 77, 83, 84, 86, 98, 99

  health issues, 55, 62, 64, 65, 72–74, 97, 124, 148–49, 157

  his association with Hollywood through his father, 186

  his book Profiles in Courage, 102–3, 137, 157–59, 161

  his book Why England Slept, 99–101, 102, 103, 155, 157–58, 161, 187, 223

  his concern over high unemployment numbers and inflation, 277–78

  his inaugural address, 221

  his view of the senior military personnel, 105, 112–13, 115–17

  impact of his assassination, 14–15, 20

  the inaugural gala, 197

  and Inga Arvad, 111, 262

  journalism and the Hearst papers, 124–25, 160–61

  as a liberal, 148, 336

  on liberalism and conservatism, 335–36

  March on Washington, 313, 316, 326–27

  marriage to Jacqueline Bouvier, 134, 144–45

  New Frontier programs, 163, 173, 202, 216, 217

  and Nikita Khrushchev, 208, 210, 225, 240, 241–48

  the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 23, 209, 249

  Office of Naval Intelligence, 111, 262

  Operation Mongoose, 267–68

  Peace Corps, 202, 214–17, 222

  possibility of military coup in the US in the early 1960s, 116

  preparing for a 1964 re-election, 16

  presidential campaign in 1960, 169, 177–79, 182

  problems in his marriage, 143–46

  Project Apollo space program and sending a man on the moon, 202, 204–11

  and the right of blacks to vote, 314, 316, 325, 326

  as a Senator, 144, 148, 149–50, 172, 205

  understanding the daily struggles faced by African Americans, 321

  United Steelworkers union and big steel companies, 229–32, 280

  and Vietnam, 259, 274

  womanizing and philandering, 39, 84–85, 135, 137–39, 143–44, 194, 339

  Kennedy, Robert F.

  assassination, 14–15, 24, 169, 274–75

  and the CIA, 259, 275

  civil rights, 315, 321, 322, 325

  Cuban Missile Crisis, 245, 247

  and Fidel Castro, 267

  his book Thirteen Days, 245

  as JFK’s campaign manager, 151

  and JFK’s death, 274–75

  Kennedy, Rose, 51–55, 56, 65, 299

  Kennedy, Rosemary, 54, 66

  Kennedy and Reagan - comparisons

  athletics, 19, 48, 57–58, 71, 76–77, 84, 85, 88–89

  avid readers, 64–65, 66–68, 165

  believers in American exceptionalism, 202–17

  benefit of governing as war presidents in a time of peace, 334

  both shot, 13, 14–15, 17, 30

  on the brink of nuclear war, 237–258

  civil rights legislation, 15–16, 17, 24, 313–33, 337–38

  Cold War, 209, 237, 238, 256, 257–58, 260, 269, 333–35, 338

  college days, 78–89

  and Communism, 119–20, 124–25, 127–33, 155–56, 223–24, 237–39, 249–50, 254, 260, 274, 333

  covert operations, 259–75

  crises, charismatic leaderships, collective excitement, and sense of anticipation, 218–31

  defense budgets, 239–40

  domineering and favored older brothers, 47, 55–56, 57–58

  family dynamics, 47

  the Great Depression, 81–83, 91

  Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 239, 277

  had rakish fathers and pious mothers, 47

  Hollywood, movie people, and entertainers, 184–201

  Irish heritage, 32–42

  masters of communication and popular public speakers, 103, 147–48, 159–60, 161–64

  and the media, 340–41

  mutual hatred of bureaucracy, 262

  nomadic childhood and the impact on their personalities, 47–48, 61–63

  nuclear war, 30

  paths to the presidency, 167–83

  personalities and traits, 48, 74–75

  personas created by Kennedy and Reagan, 188–90

  polls on job approval ratings and presidential rankings, 7–8, 17, 30

  popularity increasing with the passage of time, 7–9

  public images were unabashedly macho, 340

  religion and the culture wars, 295–312

  same political convictions, 127

  tax cuts and deficits, 29, 30, 276–94, 333

  their appeal to women, 134–47

  unusually candid, 33

  West Germany, East Germany and Berlin, 224, 225, 240–43

  wit and humor, 28, 32–33, 39, 40, 41–46

  and World War II, 104–18

  as writers, 68, 99–100, 102, 147, 160–61, 164–66

  Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 234

  Kerry, John Forbes, 4, 311

  Kersten, Charles, 129

  Keynes, John Maynard, 276–77

  Keyserling, Leon, 284

  KGB, 15, 250, 251

  Khomeini, Ayatollah, 263

  King, Coretta Scott, 322

  King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  assassination, 14–15, 24

  and the fight for civil rights, 316, 322, 323, 324–25, 327

  his birthday becomes a national holiday, 331

  Kirkpatrick, Jeanne, 254

  Kissinger, Henry, 268, 338

  Knights of Columbus, 297

  Korean War, 149

  Krock, Arthur, 49, 100, 161, 299, 313

  Ku Klux Klan, 296

  Lansdale, Edward Geary, 261, 262, 274

  Laski, Marxist Harold, 97

  Lawford, Patricia Kennedy, 186

  Lawford, Peter, 186, 194

  Leach, Archibald, 186

  League of Nations, 102

  Lebanon, 224

  LeMay, Curtis, 116, 195, 246

  Lenczowski, John, 254

  Lerner, Alan, 22

  Lewis, Drew, 231–32

  Liberal Tradition in Americam, The (Hartz), 335

  Lichtman, Allan J., 296

  Lilly, Doris, 141

  Lincoln, President Abraham, 14, 15, 20, 24, 32, 42

  Lindsey, Lawrence, 285

  Lippmann, Walter, 15–16

  Lodge, Henry Cabot, 144, 178

  Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 149, 150, 152

  Logsdon, John M., 206

  Luce, Henry, 240

  Luckett, Edie, 142

  Lukacs, John, 110

  MacArthur, Douglas, 105, 112–13, 273

  MacArthur, Peter, 92–93

  Macleish, Archibald, 20, 25

  Macmillan, Prime Minister Harold, 22, 138

  Madrick, Jeff, 285, 293–94

  Mailer, Norman, 30, 137, 196

  Making of the President, 1960 (White), 22

  Manchester, William, 22

  Mansfield, Harvey, 8

  Mansfield, Jayne, 138

  Marshall, George C., 117

  Marshall Plan, 127, 213, 215

  Martin, Dean, 197

  Martin, James, 222

  Masuda, Kazuo, 319

  Matthews, Chris, 228

  Matusow, Allen J., 279

  McCain, John, 6

  McCarran Act, 156

  McCarthy, Joseph, 119, 129, 150, 151, 155–57

  McCarthy, Tim, 26, 30

  McCone, John, 275

  McDonald, Larry P., 252

  McDougall, Walter, 210

  McFarlane, Robert, 271

  McGovern, George, 2, 304

  McGrory, Mary, 21, 199

  McKinle
y, President William, 14

  McMahon, Patrick, 113, 114

  McNamara, Robert, 116, 268

  Meader, Vaughn, 191

  Meese, Edwin, 28, 308

  Meredith, James, 222, 324

  Meyer, Mary Pinchot, 138

  Mikoyan, Anastas, 244

  Miller, Dorie, 319–20

  Mitterrand, President François, 253

  Mondale, Walter, 2, 44

  Monroe, Marilyn, 138, 139

  Montt, Jose Efrain, 269

  Moore, Edward, 137

  Moral Majority, 305–6

  Moretti, Bob, 171–72

  Morris, Charles R., 35

  Morris, Edmund, 25, 32, 43, 44, 71, 141, 164, 306

  Mosadegh, Prime Minister Mohammad, 263

  Mount Kennedy, 235

  Mount Rushmore, 9

  Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 21, 36

  Murphy, Audie, 130

  My Left Foot (film), 36

  NAACP, 322, 326

  Nash, Diane, 324

  National Defense Education Act, 240

  National Defense Transportation Act, 240

  National Draft Goldwater Committee, 18–19

  National Election Studies (NEC) survey, 315

  National Security Council, 42, 254, 267, 270

  National Urban League, 325

  Nazimova, Alla, 142

  Neal, Patricia, 141

  Nehru, Prime Minister Jawaharlal, 215–16

  Neustadt, Richard, 12, 222, 232, 247, 260, 273, 338

  Nicaragua, 223, 268, 269–70

  Nixon, President Richard

  and the 1960 presidential election, 167, 177–79, 182

  and Alger Hiss, 129

  and Communism, 119

  on JFK and religion, 298

  on JFK’s death, 18

  on JFK’s inaugural address, 241

  and the polls, 8

  presidential contender in 1968, 89, 148, 169, 171

  the space program and NASA, 210

  Watergate, 12

  Nofziger, Lyn, 27–28, 171

  Noonan, Peggy, 5, 29, 67, 147, 160, 305

  North, Oliver, 261, 270, 272

  North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), 212, 238

  Novak, Robert, 5, 17

  Nye, Russel B., 202

  Obama, President Barack, 1, 4, 6, 8, 13, 32, 226, 337

  O’Connor, Justice Sandra Day, 308–10

  Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 261

  O’Malley, George, 109

  O’Neill, Thomas P. “Tip,” 29, 30, 37, 228, 289, 290, 292

  O’Neill, William, 176

  O’Regan, Michael, 37

  Orman, John, 188

  Ormsby-Gore, David, 101

  Oswald, Lee Harvey, 17–19

  Oswald, Marguerite, 17

  Oswald, Marina, 18

  Otis, Reverend George, 307

  Packwood, Bob, 320

  Palin, Sarah, 6

  Parmet, Herbert, 158–59, 160

  Parr, Jerry, 17, 27

  Parsons, Louella, 107

  Paul, Rand, 1

  Paul VI (pope), 301

  Peale, Norman Vincent, 298

  Pearson, Drew, 158

  Perret, Geoffrey, 138

  Peterson, Merrill, 342

  Phillips, Howard, 336

  Phillips, Vel, 160

  Pierce, President Franklin, 11

  Polish immigrants, 35

  politics today, 339–41

  Powell, Colin, 191

  Powers, Dave, 138

  Powers, Richard Gid, 128

  Powers, Thomas, 259

  Preminger, Otto, 194

  presidential contenders imitating Kennedy and Reagan, 1–7

  Pride, Charley, 197

  Proposition 13 in California, 171, 286–87

  PT-109 (film), 40–41

  public opinion polls, surveys, and rankings, 7–8, 10–11, 17, 23

  Quayle, Dan, 2

  Quiet American, The (Greene), 261, 262

  Randolph, A. Philip, 316

  Rather, Dan, 24

  Raub, Joseph, 337

  Reagan, Christine, 121–22

  Reagan, John Edward “Jack”

  athleticism, 48

  background information, 48

  business acumen and a love of work, 48–49, 50–51, 80, 81

  education, 48

  nomadic lifestyle, 48

  orphaned at the age of six, 37

  problem with alcohol, 60–61, 62, 66, 67, 68–69

  wit and humor, 43, 45

  Reagan, John Michael, 37

  Reagan, John Neil “Moon,” 57–59, 78, 79, 80, 88, 318

  Reagan, Maureen, 107

  Reagan, Michael, 5, 107

  Reagan, Nancy Davis, 27, 134, 140, 142–43, 165

  Reagan, Nelle, 57, 59–60, 61, 66–67, 181

  Reagan, Patricia, 142

  Reagan, President Ronald “Dutch.” See also Kennedy and Reagan—comparisons

  on abortion, 171, 306, 308

  adopted son, Michael, 107

  agreed that blacks had legitimate grievances, 329

  as an FBI informant, 131, 132, 261

  the arms reduction agreements with the Soviet Union, 213

  attempted assassination and near-fatal wound outside the Washington Hilton, 13, 14, 15, 16, 25–31

  believed that the civil right movement became a demand for racial preference, 313

  Berlin and the Berlin Wall, 256

  bombing by Islamic militants of the American Marine barracks in Lebanon, 271

  born in Tampico, IL on February 6,1911, 64

  budget cuts made during his administration, 331

  called to active duty in World War II and absence from the war zone, 108–9

  campaign for presidency in 1980, 180–82

  and Communism in Latin America, 223–24, 268–70

  as a conservative, 336

  controlling inflation, 293

  criticized the Warren Commission for its investigation of Kennedy’s murder, 19

  diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, 9, 77

  economy sinks into a deep recession, 291, 293

  education, 58, 75–76, 78

  employment before politics, 58, 68, 71–72, 78–80

  Eureka College, 78–79, 86–87, 88

  on gays and the AIDS epidemic, 331

  governor of California, 154, 168, 170–72, 286–87, 329

  his inaugural address, 233

  his optimism, 310

  home in Dixon turned into a small museum to honor him, 62

  host of Death Valley Days, 163, 164, 167

  host of General Electric Theater on television, 143, 154–55, 163, 164

  impacts of his tax policies as president, 332

  inaugural gala, 197–99

  Iran-Contra scandal, 259–60, 271–73

  joined the Army Reserves, 105–6

  as a liberal and then a conservative, 148

  as a lifeguard, 71–72, 78, 80

  and Margaret Cleaver, 76, 78, 79, 87, 136, 140

  marriage and life with Nancy Davis, 134, 140, 142, 143

  and MCA, 153–55, 164

  and Mikhail Gorbachev, 43, 190, 191, 213, 255–57, 334

  movie and television actor, 96–97, 104, 106–7, 120–21, 185

  National Association of Evangelicals, 251, 307–8

  National Commission on Social Security Reform, 292

  president of the Screen Actor’s Guild, 104

  and presidential salutes, 110

  Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), 227–28, 23
1–32

  proposed shifting many federal programs to the states, 286

  as a radio broadcaster and sportswriter, 58, 68, 80, 91–96

  reduction and then elimination of nuclear arms in Europe, 108–9, 256

  reelected for another presidential term of office in 1984, 293

  release of American hostages in Lebanon, 270–72

  religion and the Disciples of Christ, 70, 76, 306–11

  reverse discrimination and affirmative action, 329–30

  Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the unions, 122, 131–32, 152–54, 185

  Social Security and Medicare, 286, 289, 292–93

  Strategic Defense Initiative (missile defense program), 211–13, 238, 251, 256

  switches to the Republican party, 133

  Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, 292

  vision problems - myopia, 64, 88, 104, 108

  and Warner Brothers, 96, 106, 108, 120–21

  Reagan, Ron, 6, 60–61, 69, 70, 71, 79, 309, 318

  Reagan Legacy Project, 235

  Reclaiming History (Bugliosi), 19

  Reeves, Richard, 199, 220, 222, 257, 339

  Reeves, Thomas C., 145, 302

  Rehnquist, Justice William, 309

  Republican National Committee, 5, 42

  Reston, James, 22–23, 241

  Revere, Anne, 132

  Ridder, Marie, 140

  Robbins, Kenneth, 142

  Robertson, Cliff, 195

  Robertson, Pat, 306

  Rockefeller, Nelson, 178, 303

  Roe v. Wade legal case, 305, 309

  Rollins, Ed, 10

  Roman Catholics in the American culture, 35–36, 295–98

  Rometsch, Ellen, 139

  Romney, Mitt, 1, 6, 295, 311

  Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 235

  Ronald W. Reagan National Airport, 235

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 157, 162, 303

  Roosevelt, James, 130

  Roosevelt, President Franklin D.

  and the New Deal, 80–81, 119, 176–77, 293

  and ranking of the greatest presidents, 7, 10, 11

  upon his death, 342

  wit and humor, 32

  and World War II, 98, 220

  Roosevelt, President Theodore, 7, 9–10, 11, 25, 164, 187

  Rorabaugh, W. J., 300

  Rousselot, John, 163

  Rubin, Jennifer, 5, 6, 8

  Rubio, Marco, 1

  Runyan, Damon, 96

  Ryan, Paul, 1, 6

  Safire, William, 320

  Salinger, Pierre, 267

  Salvatori, Henry, 167

  Samuelson, Paul, 279

  Sayre, Wallace, 338

  Schary, Dore, 161

  Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 10, 40, 101, 150–51, 173, 221, 234, 335

  Schlesinger, Arthur, Sr., 10, 295–96

 

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