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The Patriarch

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by David Nasaw


  Joe Jr.’s death and, 570, 571

  Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation and, 613, 624, 696, 697–98, 760

  JPK’s stroke and, 776, 778, 779, 784

  Kathleen’s death and, 620–21

  marriage of, 585, 647, 677

  and outbreak of World War II, 410

  Rosemary and, 152, 154, 425, 630

  work life of, 585, 619, 647, 697

  Shriver, Robert Sargent (son-in-law), 647, 662, 663, 665, 668, 678, 695, 697–98, 704, 720, 773

  Eunice Kennedy’s marriage to, 585, 647, 677

  Sidey, Hugh, 752, 757

  Silverman, Sime, 96

  Simon, John, 336, 345, 367, 371

  Sinatra, Frank, 730–31, 762, 763

  Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, 623, 628

  Skinner, Otis, 73

  Skouras, Spyros, 126

  Slessor, John, 339

  Smathers, George, 595–96, 652, 657, 684, 703, 757

  Smith, Al, 134–35, 172, 173, 176, 246, 250–51, 491, 701, 744, 754

  Smith, Ben (Wall Street trader), 163, 438

  Smith, Benjamin A., II (senator), 766

  Smith, Jean Kennedy (daughter), xxiii, 163, 243, 264, 423, 435, 457, 458, 463, 490, 534, 565, 615, 646, 668, 678, 681, 718, 762, 766–67

  birth of, 116

  childhood of, 126, 146, 178

  doll collection of, 423–24

  education of, 526, 547

  in England during JPK’s ambassadorship, 286, 297, 298

  Hartington’s death and, 573

  jewelry theft and, 694

  JFK’s congressional campaign and, 602, 603

  Joe Jr.’s death and, 570, 571

  JPK’s stroke and, 776, 778, 779

  Kathleen’s death and, 621

  marriage of, 585, 678, 718

  and outbreak of World War II, 410

  Rosemary and, 425, 629

  work life of, 585–86

  Smith, Joe, 705

  Smith, Kate, 654

  Smith, Steve (son-in-law), 718, 726, 728, 762, 786

  Jean Kennedy’s marriage to, 585, 678, 718

  socialism, 251, 484, 618

  Depression and, 171

  Social Security, 260

  Somerset Importers, 192–94, 245, 528–29, 611, 720

  Sorensen, Ted, 673, 685, 687, 690, 702–3, 709, 726, 745, 748, 752, 764, 769, 774

  Southard, Louis K., 38

  Soviet Union, 287, 394, 484, 577, 580, 581, 600–601, 604–5, 638, 643

  appeasement of, xxii, 605–7

  in Cold War, xxii, 604–5, 609, 625, 636, 659, 660–61, 682, 689

  German alliance with, 399, 415–16

  German invasion of, 531

  Joe Kennedy, Jr.’s trip to, 199, 202, 203, 220

  JPK’s views on, xxii, 600–601, 605–6, 617, 659, 682, 745, 746

  Korea and, 632, 633, 636, 641

  Poland invaded by, 416

  Robert Kennedy’s views on, 689–90

  U.S. negotiations with, 745–46

  Spain, 374, 377, 496–97

  Catholic refugees in, 309, 323–24

  civil war in, 258, 287, 377, 381

  Spalding, Chuck, 739

  Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 252–53, 575, 580, 586, 626–28, 649, 677, 696, 698, 700, 730, 748, 755–56

  JFK’s presidential campaign and, 723, 727–28, 744, 753–55

  Spivak, Lawrence, 658–59

  Stalin, Joseph, 254, 575, 600, 601, 605, 636, 638

  Stanford University, 476, 501

  Stanton, Frank, 747

  State Street Trust, 45

  Stearn, Jess, 767

  Steele, Richard, 766

  Stevenson, Adlai, 661, 668, 687, 701–8, 709, 736, 764

  Stewart, Jimmy, 398, 421, 502

  Stewart, Robert, 490

  Stewart, William Rhinelander, 299

  Steyne, Alan, 301

  Stieglitz, Katherine “Kitty,” 536

  Stimson, Henry, 459, 465

  stock market:

  and British sales of securities, 437–38

  crash of 1929, xxi, 132, 154, 159–60, 218, 586–87

  insider trading and, 67–68, 78, 131, 132, 161–62, 226, 227

  investigation of fraud in, 188

  JPK’s trading in, xx–xxi, 44–45, 58–59, 67, 77–78, 131–32, 155, 161–62, 168, 170, 175, 188, 191–92, 205, 206, 209–10, 212–13, 226, 438, 529, 692, 693

  JPK’s work as broker, 58, 60, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68

  Libbey-Owens-Ford stock pool and, 192, 210, 262–63

  registration of foreign stocks and bonds on NYSE, 238–39

  regulation of, 204–5, 219; see also Securities and Exchange Commission

  Roosevelt and, 217, 246, 248, 271

  short selling and, 88, 168, 170, 438, 692

  upward climb of, 77, 111, 167

  Stone, Fred, 65, 76, 77

  Stone, Galen, 58, 64, 67, 69, 74, 87

  Straus, Jesse, 177

  Strong, George, 481

  Stuart, Harry, 257

  Stuart, Robert, Jr., 506, 511

  Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, 287, 290, 302, 323, 329–30, 332, 334–47, 360, 383

  Suez Canal, 475, 497, 530, 655, 660

  Sullivan, Mark, 210–11

  Sulzberger, Arthur, 300, 316

  Sumner, William, 5, 6

  Sunday Pictorial, 611

  Sunset Boulevard, 156

  Supreme Court, 228, 232

  Roosevelt’s plan to change composition of, 270–71

  Surrender of King Leopold, The (Kennedy and Landis), 615

  Sutton, Billy, 595

  Swanson, Gloria, 86, 107–10, 113, 114–15, 116–19, 121, 122, 153, 155–59, 173, 611

  bungalow built for, 137, 157

  financial problems of, 157–58

  Gloria Productions, 115, 155, 156, 158, 169–70

  JPK’s affair with, xx, 115, 117, 118, 137, 143–48, 154, 156, 158

  JPK’s meeting of, 107–8, 110

  Moore and, 60

  Queen Kelly, 118–19, 121, 136–42, 155–56, 157, 158, 159

  Rose Kennedy and, 143–47

  Rose Kennedy compared with, 110

  singing of, 143, 154–56

  Sunset Boulevard, 157

  The Trespasser, 142–44, 154–55, 156, 157

  Swope, Gerard, 331

  Swope, Herbert Bayard, 174–75, 188, 202, 209, 210, 211, 218, 219, 234, 239, 331

  Symington, Stuart, 673, 720

  Tablet, 744

  Taft, Robert A., 604–5, 638–39, 660, 666

  Talbot, Father Ted, 563

  taxes, 229, 231–32, 237, 606, 608, 625, 660

  JPK and, 157, 194, 588, 611, 612, 625

  Taylor, Henry, 66

  Taylor, Myron, 308, 322, 329, 365, 393, 632, 633

  Teamsters, 710

  Thayer, Eugene, 38, 39, 49, 59, 71–72, 73–74, 78

  Thompson, Dorothy, 357, 519

  Thomson, Fred, 96–98, 100, 102, 106, 107, 116

  Tilden, Bill, 325

  Time, 122, 174, 236, 244, 256, 268, 278, 279, 409, 433, 519, 592, 703, 713, 720, 738, 739

  Times (London), 565

  Timilty, Joe (“the Commish”), 595, 610, 618, 621, 645, 680, 736

  Tinkham, George, 500

  Tito, Josip Broz, 636, 639

  Tobin, Maurice, 591, 592, 593, 598, 604

  Todd, Mike, 572

  Todd Shipbuilding, 69, 78, 168, 256

  Tolson, Clyde, 559

  Toscan
ini, Arturo, 300

  Townsend, Francis, 230, 231

  Townsend, Kathleen Kennedy (granddaughter), 654, 780

  Transamerica, 159, 168

  transatlantic communications, 422–23

  transcontinental rail travel, 140

  Travell, Janet, 773

  Treaty of Versailles, 258, 368, 376

  Treman, Robert, 66

  Trespasser, The, 142–44, 154–55, 156, 157

  Trohan, Walter, 318, 518

  Truitt, Max, 409, 490, 542

  Truman, Harry, 573, 575–76, 580, 583–84, 594, 599, 601, 606, 615, 616, 637, 638, 640, 643, 649, 656, 658, 659, 663, 666, 711, 736, 746

  Herbert Hoover and, 584

  JPK’s meeting with, 632, 633–34, 644

  Korean War and, 633, 635

  and sending U.S. troops to Europe, 638–42

  Truman Doctrine (aid to Greece and Turkey), 605, 607, 608, 616, 617, 618, 636, 637

  Tucker, Sophie, 93

  Tugwell, Rexford, 249, 251

  Tully, Grace, 542–43

  Tunney, Gene, 100

  Turkey, 600, 605

  U.S. aid to, 605, 607, 608, 616, 617, 618, 636, 637

  Turner, Ethel, 71

  20th Century Limited, 141

  Tyler, Tom, 97

  unemployment, 229–30

  work relief program, 229–31, 232, 237

  unions, see labor

  United Artists, 96, 108, 110, 114, 115, 137, 141, 143, 156, 157

  United Nations, 593, 601

  Universal Films, 66, 94, 119, 122

  University of Virginia, 635–36, 658, 675–76

  U.S. News & World Report, 689, 703, 741

  U.S. Steel, 168, 319–20, 393

  utilities industry, 274

  Public Utility Holding Company Act, 232–35, 236, 237

  Valentino, Rudolph, 110

  Vallee, Rudy, 221

  Vandenberg, Arthur, 601, 607, 616

  Vansittart, Robert, 431

  Variety, 96, 116, 122, 143

  Vatican, 252–53, 264, 381, 619, 632, 633, 634, 642, 679, 699–701, 712, 715, 724, 755, 771

  JFK’s presidential campaign and, 734–35

  Vickery, Howard, 543–44

  Voice of America, 771

  Von Stroheim, Erich, 118–19, 121, 136–39, 155

  Voorhis, Jerry, 595–96

  Wagner, Robert, 389

  Wagner Act, 232, 237

  Wakeman, Samuel, 52, 55

  Waldorf Towers, 503, 547

  Waldrop, Frank, 531, 541

  Walker, Elisha, 112, 115, 117, 119–20, 123, 124, 129, 130, 159, 175, 192, 257

  Walker, Frank, 180–81, 188

  Walker, James, 178–79

  Wallace, Bob, 726

  Wallace, Henry, 504, 605

  Wallace, Mike, 714

  Wall Street, see stock market

  Wall Street bombing of 1920, 69–70

  Wall Street Journal, 236, 637

  Walsh, David I., 215, 551, 604, 657

  Walsh, Elizabeth, 615, 663

  Walsh, Margaret, 160–61

  Walsh, Tom, 769

  Walter, Eugene, 138

  Wanamaker, Rodman, 190

  Warburg, James, 191, 246

  Warner, Harry, 94, 101, 181

  Warner, Jack, 181

  Warner Brothers, 94, 129

  JPK’s remarks at luncheon at, 501–2

  Warren, Earl, 764

  Washington News, 208

  Washington Post, 364, 507, 620, 763

  Washington Star, 284

  Washington Times-Herald, 531, 540, 541

  Watson, Edwin “Pa,” 489–90

  Watts, James, 534, 535

  Week, The, 393

  Weinberg, Sidney, 550

  Weizmann, Chaim, 286, 351, 358, 359, 388, 390, 392, 393

  Welles, Sumner, 273, 294, 309, 354, 367, 372, 374, 389, 400, 412, 440, 460, 465, 481–83, 489–90, 493, 496, 507, 512, 615

  and bombing of England, 478–79

  British-Italian negotiations and, 303–4

  Chamberlain’s speech and, 342, 344

  on fact-finding tour of Europe, 433–34

  on Frankfurter, 508

  international conference proposed by, 288

  Jewish refugees and, 350–52. 364

  and JPK’s meeting with German officials, 384–85

  and JPK’s offer as liaison to the pope, 381

  Wellington, Alfred, 33, 38

  West Point cheating scandal, 649–50

  Wheeler, Burton, 176, 234, 317, 514, 517

  Wherry, Kenneth, 639, 640, 641

  White, Thomas J., 254, 317, 356

  White, Theodore, 744

  White, William Allen, 507

  Whitehead, T. North, 430

  Whitney, Richard, 204, 205, 217

  Why England Slept (JFK), 212, 424, 435–36, 457, 494, 514, 745

  Williams, G. Mennen “Soapy,” 720

  Williams, Harrison, 191

  Willicombe, Joe, 183, 186

  Willkie, Wendell, 462, 482, 489, 491

  Wilson, Horace, 342, 343, 400, 404

  Wilson, Woodrow, 67, 181, 284, 335, 736

  Britain and, 44

  Prohibition and, 79

  Selective Service System and, 50

  World War I and, 40, 49, 54

  Winchell, Walter, 369, 540, 600, 675

  Windsor, Duchess of, 325

  Windsor, Duke of, 325, 344, 526

  Wise, Rabbi Stephen, 327, 386, 389

  Wohlthat, Helmuth, 383, 384–85

  Wolkoff, Anna, 444–45

  Wood, Henry, 468

  Wood, Robert E., 506

  Wood, Kingsley, 448–49

  Woodin, William, 183

  Woodring, Harry, 393

  Woolf, S. J., 212–13

  Worcester Telegram, 766

  World War I, 48–57, 172, 219

  Britain in, 40, 44, 49–50

  financial panic caused by, 40–41

  France in, 40, 49

  JPK’s opposition to American involvement in, 49–50

  JPK’s Selective Service registration during, 50–51, 54

  JPK’s shipyard management position during, 51–57

  neutrality and, 40, 44

  outbreak of, 40

  Selective Service System created during, 50

  U.S. entry into, 49, 54

  Wilson and, 40, 49, 54

  World War II, 576–77

  Allied invasion of Europe, 567

  America First Committee and, 506, 510–11, 517, 519, 525, 531

  appeasement and, see appeasement of Nazi Germany

  Athenia sinking and, 408–10

  atomic bombs in, 580

  Britain in, 408–20, 427–31, 433–34, 438–43, 448–55, 458, 460–63, 466, 468, 469, 473–75, 477–81, 483, 486, 496, 516, 529–31, 568, 579, 581, 633, 745

  Britain in buildup to, 289, 290, 292–94, 301, 302–3, 323, 329–31, 332, 334–35, 338–47, 368, 373, 399–407

  Britain’s declaration of war against Germany, 406–7, 408, 410, 411, 415, 416

  destroyers-for-bases negotiations in, 466–67, 469–72, 493

  embassy codes and, 430, 444–46

  end of, xxii, 579–81

  espionage in, 444–47

  events leading up to, xxi–xxii, 258, 287–91, 301, 323, 372, 394–95, 398, 399–407

  fall of France in, 440, 441, 447–56, 458

  France in, 289, 290, 302, 323, 329, 334, 338, 33
9, 341, 368, 373, 376, 405, 413, 414, 443, 447–56, 633

  Germany in, see Nazi Germany

  and illusion of Anglo-American alliance, 334–35, 342

  isolationism and, 289, 292, 295, 431, 433, 434, 486, 498–500, 503, 504, 517, 607–8

  Italy in, 451, 479–80, 497, 529, 581

  Japan in, 479–80, 538, 577, 580, 581

  JFK’s service in, 527–28, 531, 540, 542, 543, 549, 551, 555–59, 560, 734

  Joe Kennedy, Jr.’s service in, 527, 528, 540, 542, 543, 546, 549, 555, 562, 570–71

  JPK’s pessimism about outcome of, xxii, 373, 416–19, 427–28, 429, 431–32, 461, 479–80, 482, 483–84, 495, 496–97, 498, 501, 503, 509, 515, 517, 544

  Kathleen Kennedy’s Red Cross service during, 551, 552, 555

  lend-lease program and, 510, 511–13, 515, 516–20, 525

  Munich Agreement and, 346–47, 348–49, 359–60, 400, 402, 435–36, 485, 633, 745

  neutrality laws and, 288, 415, 418, 443, 445, 459, 510

  Pearl Harbor, xxii, 509, 538, 567

  Roosevelt’s appeals for negotiations, 341, 342, 343, 344

  Selective Service System and, 476

  transatlantic communications and, 422–23

  Tripartite Pact in, 479–80

  U.S. aid to Allies in, 441–43, 451–54, 458–59, 461, 466–72, 498, 503, 510, 517, 519, 605

  U.S. entry into, 538–39

  U.S. involvement with Allies in, 428, 429, 441–43, 454, 467, 477–80, 485, 486, 491, 504, 513–17

  U.S. military strength and, 494–95, 498

  World Zionist Organization, 358

  Wright, Bishop John, 625, 714

  Wyzanski, Charles, 702

  Yellow Cab Company, 88–89, 92

  Young Men’s Nonpartisan League of Boston, 38

  Yugoslavia, 529, 636

  Zanuck, Darryl, 299, 502

  Zanuck, Virginia Fox, 299

  Ziegfeld, Florenz, 97–98

  Zionism, 286–87, 351–52, 358, 359, 385, 386, 388–93, 712

  Zionist Organization of America, 391

  Zukor, Adolph, 75, 94, 100, 101, 109

  PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS

  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18: From the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

  1, 2: Photographs The Boston Daily Globe, from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7: © John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  1: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-37942

  1: Central Press / Getty Images/ Hulton Archive

  1: Popperfoto / Getty Images

  1: Look Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division

  1: New Bedford Standard-Times

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