decline, 220
fuel efficiency, 219–20, 227, 236, 248, 252–53, 263
See also specific name of individual company, e.g., General Motors Corporation
axioms, 18
Ballistics Research Laboratory (BRL; Aberdeen, MD), 26, 49
Bankers Trust, 192
Barnard College, 96
Barra, Mary, 278
Becker, Gary, 96–97, 100
Belda, Alain, 203
Berlin, 40
See also University of Berlin
Berlin Wall, 106
Bernstein, Carl, 157, 170
Bethesda, MD, 1
Bieber, Owen, 236
Big Three, 5, 219, 231, 234, 253
Bikini, 45
Birkhoff, Garrett, 70
Bok, Derek, 206
Book of Common Prayer, 80
Bork, Robert, 168
Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne, 84
Boston, MA, 32, 207
immigrants, 34–35
See also Coconut Grove
Bowen, Bill, 209, 210–11, 212–13
Brandeis University, 244
Bretton Woods Agreement, 120, 121, 139, 140, 289n9
Brewster, William, 65
Brezhnev, Leonid, 137
British Embassy, 142
Brooke, Edward, 135
Brookhaven National Laboratory, 42, 43, 46, 185
Browning Ferris Industries (BFI), 198, 204
Budapest, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 23, 77, 167, 168–69, 281
See also Lutheran Gymnasium
Budapest University, 8, 9, 10, 13
Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac Group, 263
Bunting, Polly, 94
Burma. See Myanmar
Burnham, Don, 185
Burns, Arthur, 98, 142
Bush, George H. W., 226
Bush, George W., 203–4
Butterfield, Alexander, 160
CAFE. See Corporate Average Fuel Economy
calculus, 55, 70
Caldwell, Philip, 233
Calvin, John, 84
Cambodia, 117
Camp Chewonki, 2, 86
Camp David, 124, 146
Camp Hoover, 146, 147
Camp Kilmer, NJ, 89
Camp Upton, 42
Canada, 212, 244, 253
Caroline Church, 85
Carter, Jimmy, 68, 176–77, 220, 226–27, 290n23
Castel Felice, 85
CBS, 185, 204
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 215–16
Center for Advanced Technologies at Focus: Hope, 270
Chapin, Dwight, 157
Chase Manhattan Bank, 183, 186, 227
Chemical Bank
merger with Chase Manhattan, 183
(see also JPMorgan Chase)
merger with Manufacturers Hanover Bank, 183
Chevrolet, 216
Chevron, 201, 202
China
communism, 116
Nixon's trip, 137–38, 157, 163
Chinese National Overseas Oil Corporation (CNOOC), 202–3
Chinitz, Benjamin, 104, 105
Chitester, Bob, 172
Christ, Carl, 170
Chrysler, 229, 232, 234, 237
Churchill, Winston, 58, 59
Cincinnati, OH, 192
Civil War, 91, 113, 114
Clinton, Bill, 227
Clinton, Hillary, 278
Coconut Grove, 35
Cold War, 68, 120
development of hydrogen bomb, 4
Einstein involvement, 60
escalation, 106
US military superiority, 228
US nuclear superiority in, 1
von Neumann involvement, 4, 20
College Board, 90, 94
Columbia University, 35, 41, 95, 99, 101, 142, 172
Business School, 96–97
Initiatory University Group (IUG), 41, 42
See also Brookhaven National Laboratory
communism, 25, 68, 77, 116
China, 116, 137
Hungary, 4, 11, 89
Soviet Union, 58, 79, 137, 153, 169, 273
United States, 78, 115
computers, 4, 26, 39, 49–51, 77, 91–92, 128, 223, 278, 281
Congregational Church, 86
Connally, John, 124, 125, 126, 127, 139
Consumer Price Index, 156
Consumer Product Safety Commission, 116
Cornell University, 180
Willard Straight Hall, 111
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE), 252–53, 255
Cost of Living Council, 126
Council of Economic Advisers, 5, 114–54, 158, 160–63, 165, 166–67, 173, 177, 178, 179, 187, 203, 216, 217, 221, 222, 226
Economic Report of the President, 122, 144–45, 149, 164, 170–72
Council on Foreign Relations, 186, 226
Council on International Economic Policy, 123, 187
Count Palmyra's Book of Verses, 83
Courant, Paul, 118
Cox, Archibald, 158, 168, 198
cummings, e.e., 69
Dam, Ken, 203
Dan, Klara, 23
Davignon, Etienne, 141
Dean, John, 157, 158, 159
Deloitte and Touche, 197
Der Rosenkavalier, 72
Detroit, MI, 110, 216, 221, 223, 230, 235, 241, 242, 243–45, 249, 251, 256, 272
youth, 270
Detroit Athletic Club, 269
Detroit News, 133
Dingell, John, 151, 237
Dodd, Harold, 88, 94
Dodge, William de Leftwich, 73
Dole, Bob, 116
Downie, David, 277, 278
children, 278, 280 (see also Downie, Lindsey; Downie, William)
Duke University, 170
marriage to Laura Whitman, 170, 275
parent (see Downie, Leonard)
wedding, 275–76
Downie, Laura Whitman. See Whitman, Laura
Downie, Leonard, 170
Downie, Lindsey, 278
Downie, William, 278
Duke University, 170
Duquesne Club, 112, 186–87
Duquesne University Law School, 187
Dyson, Freeman, 49
Eads, George, 249
Earhart Foundation, 97
Eckart, Carl, 107
“Economic Growth in Modern Industrial Societies: USSR and USA,” 272
Economic Planning Agency (EPA), 151
Economic Stabilization Program, 144, 149
The Economist, 166
Educational Testing Service (ETS), 90, 93–94
Ehrlichman, John, 156–59
Eidgennoissische Technische Hochschule (ETH), 8
Einstein, Albert, 16, 18–19, 60, 95, 131
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 78, 115
elections, 68
presented von Neumann with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 91
Eisenhower Executive Office Building, 114
Electronic Data Systems (EDS), 229, 239–40
Energy Conversion Devices, 270
English Channel, 38
Enlai, Zhou, 137
Enron, 179, 184, 196
Environmental Defense Fund, 268
Environmental Protection Agency, 116
Ephlin, Don, 232
Episcopal Church, 80, 85, 275
Equal Employment Opportunity Act, 116
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 68
Esch, Horst-Dieter, 238–39
Executive Office of the President, 114–15, 137, 160
Family Assistance Program, 116
FBI, 29, 57, 78, 156, 265
Federal Reserve Board, 98, 142, 175, 177
Fellner, William, 166–67
Fisher, Jody, 67
Fitzpatrick, Jim, 264, 269–70
Flanigan, Peter, 187
Flexner, Abraham, 17
Flint, MI, 250, 256
Forbes, 250
Forbes, Malcolm, 250
&nbs
p; Forbes College, 211
Ford, Gerald, 176
economy, 174–75, 177
inauguration, 169
pardon of Richard Nixon, 169
Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976, 290n23
transition from Nixon, 168
Ford, Henry, II, 233
Ford, Vince, 1
Ford Foundation, 186
Ford Motor Company, 216, 232, 278
earnings, 257
fuel efficiency, 248, 252
UAW, 233, 235
Fortune, 25, 221
France, 19, 74, 82
See also Vichy France
Frick Museum, 41
Friedan, Betty
The Feminine Mystique, 110
Friedman, Milton, 173–74
Friedrich, Carl, 68
Frosch, Bob, 229
Fry, Varian, 99
game theory
McDonald, 24
von Neumann, 4, 12, 23, 24–25, 26, 38, 223
Gamow, George, 43–44
One, Two, Three, Infinity, 43
Ganz, Bob, 64, 86
gender bias, 67, 135–36, 142, 145, 180
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 141
General Motors Corporation (GM), 192, 205, 215–21
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) testimony, 252–53, 255
Corporate Community Transition Team (CCTT), 255–56
Corporate Strategic Planning Group, 231
decline, 220, 252, 270
European Advisory Council, 231, 262
fuel efficiency, 227, 236, 248, 252–53, 263
Group of 18, 259, 260, 263
monopoly Senate hearings, 230
Public Policy Committee, 253, 254
purchasing of EDS, 229, 239–40
purchasing of Hughes Aircraft Company, 229, 240
Technical Center, 258
trade policy, 233–36
Whitman as senior executive, 5, 94, 198, 215–16, 221–69
Geneva Convention, 38
Georgetown, Washington, DC, 141
German Mathematical Society, 26
German Weimar Republic, 11
Gilbert, Helen, 207
Gödel, Kurt, 17, 18, 60
Goheen, Bob, 95
Good Housekeeping, 145
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 273
Graham, Katharine, 142
Grayson, Jack, 126, 129, 135
Great Depression, 17, 65, 120, 257
Greenbrier, 258–59, 261, 263
Griffiths, Martha, 164
Group of 18, 259, 260, 263
Group of 20, 166
Groves, General, 41
Haldeman, H. R., 131–32, 158, 159
Hanrahan, Peter, 187
Harper, Daisy, 95
Hartz, Louis, 69
Harvard Crimson, 67
Harvard Faculty Club, 207
Harvard Houses, 66, 205, 206
Harvard Square, 36
Harvard University, 55, 56, 64, 65, 66–68, 71–72, 95, 119, 277
alumni, 207, 208
Alumni Association, 208
Board of Overseers, 111, 205, 206–9
Business School, 67, 73, 229
Corporation, 207–8
Kennedy School of Government, 209
Lamont Library, 67
South African investments, 204–5
Widener Library, 76, 111
Hauge, Gabriel, 178–80
Heiskell, Andrew, 208
Heller, Walter, 139, 173–74
Higinbotham, William, 284n1
Hiroshima, Japan, 40
Hirschman, Albert, 99, 101–2
Hitler, Adolf, 4, 11, 17, 20, 21, 58
Holland, Jerome (Brud), 180
Holland, Laura, 180
Holmes Hall, 64, 66
Honda, 219, 246
Hoover, Ed, 104, 105, 106
Hoover, J. Edgar, 29
Horthy, Miklos, 10, 13
Hotel Huntington Corporation, 76
Houthakker, Hendrik, 118–19, 122, 123, 138
Hughes Aircraft Company, 229, 240
Humphrey, Hubert, 113
Hungary, 3–4, 9–11, 16, 23, 26, 31, 167, 281
communism, 4, 11, 89
Jews, 11, 13
revolution, 89
See also Austro-Hungarian border; Austro-Hungarian Empire; Austro-Hungarian Navy; Budapest
Huntington, NY, 75
hydrogen bombs
testing, 45
IBM, 67, 128
Illinois, 126, 190
See also Joliet
Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), 16–17, 19, 26, 50–51, 77, 79
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), 1, 26
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 161
International Monetary Fund, 121, 148
International Trade Commission, 233
Iron Curtain, 9, 168
Ivy League universities, 14, 282
Jager, Dirk, 192–94, 195
Japan, 5, 37, 40, 45, 141
automobile industry, 219–20, 224, 225, 230, 231, 234–36, 238, 246, 248, 251, 252, 253
Economic Planning Agency (EPA), 151
economy, 123
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