German people, 150, 156–57
Gromyko/Nixon look-alike, 139
Khrushchev, 156
outsitting other politicians, 144
patience, 151
being right at the right time, 133–34
Soviets, 162–63
roses and Mrs. Nixon, 158–59
and Soviets, 94, 134–35, 151–52, 162–63
and today’s world, 165–66, 258
and Vietnam War, 75, 162
Washington visits: 1953, 146–147
between 1953 and 1961, 151
and wine, 143–44
cf. Yoshida, 111, 122
Adenauer, Libet, 154
Adenauer, Max, 141
Adenauer, Paul, 154, 163
Afghanistan, 165–66, 204
Africa, 37, 72, 170–71, 264–65
and Nkrumah, 261–62
Aftermath, The (Churchill), 12
Age and leadership, 36
Albania, 232
Alexander the Great, 3, 45
Algeria, 49–50, 57, 75, 324
Allende, Salvador, 301–302
Allied Occupation of Germany, 143–46, 149, 254
Allied Occupation of Japan, 81–82, 108–11, 114–17, 122–23, 131–32, 254
Allison, John, 115
American Dental Association, 194
American Legion, 194
American National Exhibition, Moscow (1959), 173, 175, 176–77, 181–82
Anglo-American relations, 9–10, 30–31, 35
Angola, 204, 296
Anne, Queen of England, 215
Anne de Gaulle Foundation, 71
Antiballistic Missile Treaty (1972), 210
Antonov-Ovseyenko, Anton, 172
ANZUS pact, 318
Arab countries, 65–66, 165–66, 189. See also Egypt; Middle East; Saudi Arabia.
Ben-Gurion and, 281–82
Brezhnev/Nixon discussions during Yom Kippur War (1973), 207–209
Golda Meir and, 287
and Nasser, 290–91, 295, 307
terrorists, 281, 287
Arden-Clarke, Charles, 260–61
Arms reduction, 210–11. See also Détente; Nuclear weapons.
Army of the Future, The (de Gaulle), 46–47
Asakai, Koichiro, 126
Asia:
Churchill and Communist aggression in, 9–10
economic assistance to, 264
MacArthur and, 93, 96, 99–103, 131
Magsaysay and, 276
Menzies and Lee and, 317–19
Nixon trip (1953), 9, 100
Aso, Kazuko, 113, 117, 125
Astor, Lady, 13
Aswan High Dam, 291, 293
Atlantic alliance. See Western alliance.
Atomic bomb. See Nuclear weapons.
Attlee, Clement, 34
Churchill on, 13
Australia, 251
under Menzies, 308–310, 310–18
Authoritarian government, 340
Ayatollah. See Khomeini.
Bakayaro, 104–105
Baldwin, Stanley, 26–27
Baltimore Sun, 159
Barres, Philippe, 46
Bataan, 86–87, 96, 102, 104, 278
Bay of Pigs, 92–93
Begin, Menachem, 296
Ben-Gurion, David, 251, 279–84
on de Gaulle, 282
Eisenhower on, 280
on God and Bible, 280
on Israel’s territorial enlargement, 281–82
on reclaiming the desert, 280–81
Bennis, Warren G., 4
Bergson, Henri, 337
Beria, Lavrenti, 183–84
Berlin, Isaiah, 39
Berlin airlift (1959), 39, 100, 177
Berlin Wall (1961), 133, 150, 160–61, 164, 170
Bernstein, Leonard, 284
Bevan, Aneurin, 13–14
Blake, Lord, 130
“Blenheim rat,” 22
Bobst, Elmer, 338
Bohlen, Charles, 55, 61–62
and de Gaulle, 42, 54, 66
on “peaceful coexistence,” 198
Bourguiba, Habib, 268, 306
Boxer Rebellion, 94
Bradley, General Omar, 130
Brandt, Willy, 150, 163–64
Brezhnev, Leonid, 201–10
on Chinese, 210
de Gaulle on, 77
diplomacy, 187, 204–205
emotions and sentimentality, 34, 205–206, 284
Khrushchev ouster, 200, 215
cf. Khrushchev, 202, 207
life-style of “new class,” 203–204
Nixon personal relationship with, 210–11
Nixon and summits:
1972: 201–202, 205–206
1973: 203, 206–207
1974: 209
philosophical depth, 337
Western outlook, 199
and women, 8, 203
Yom Kippur War and joint force in Middle East, 208–209
British people, 21–22, 30, 150. See also Great Britain.
Brosio, Manlio, 4, 257
Bugovsky, Vladimir, 186
Bulganin, Nikolai, 156, 162
Bullitt, William, 17, 42, 113
Bureaucracy, 19, 51, 201–202, 273
and butcher’s function, 335
Caesar, Julius, 3, 45
Cambodia, 204
Campaigns and elections, 333–34
Adenauer on, 142–43
Camp David summit (1973), 203, 206–207, 210
Camp David Treaty, 298
Canada, 161
Captive Nations Resolution, 173–74, 191
Caracas incident, 190, 211
Caribbean area, 204
Carlson, Frank, 128
Carter, Jimmy, 175, 212, 296–99
Castro, Fidel, 170
Casualties (World War II), 275
Catholic Church (Italian), 255–57. See also Adenauer, Konrad; de Gaulle, Charles.
Catton, Bruce, 323
Central America, 204
Chamberlain, Neville, 15, 26, 29–30
Chambers, Whittaker, 102–103, 242
Charisma, 51
Charlemagne, 149, 161, 167
Cheka (Bolshevik police) joke, 181
Chiang Kai-shek, 217, 224, 240–46
and Korea, 98
Mao on, 241–42
Nixon friendship, 218
and Taiwan, 115, 224, 244–45
Yoshida on, 125–26
and Zhou, 220, 236
Chiang Kai-shek, Madame, 69, 113, 218
cf. Jiang Qing, 242–43
marriage, 243
Ch’in, Emperor of China, 217
China, 32, 79. See also Chinese-American rapprochement; Communist China; Republic of China (Taiwan); Sino-Soviet split.
civil war, 220, 243, 245–46
and Japan, 104
Shah on, 271
and Singapore, 310–11
sense of superiority, 224–25, 305
U.S. policy toward Asia, 99–100
Zhou’s background, 218–20, 226–28
Chinese-American rapprochement (1972)
Adenauer on, 160
de Gaulle on, 74
Nixon meetings with Mao, 237–38, 241–42
Nixon meetings with Zhou, 218, 220–21, 232–36
Chin Shih-huang, Emperor of China, 240
Christian Democratic Union (CDU), 134, 137, 143–44, 150, 161, 238
and Erhard, 157
Christian Democratic party (Italy), 254–55, 258
Churchill, Lady Randolph (Jennie Jerome), 16–17
Churchill, Lord Randolph, 16
Churchill, Randolph (son of Winston), 21
Churchill, Winston, 6–39, 104, 123, 253, 309
cf. Adenauer, 2
and Anglo-American unity, 9–10, 30–31
Isaiah Berlin on, 39
and Boer War, 20
and champagne, 11, 14
and Chancellor of Exchequer, 26–27
childhood and schooling,
16–17
defeat, after war, 34–35, 59–60
cf. de Gaulle, 43, 60
and English language, 17–18
and Gallipoli, 322
and history, 3, 323
Hitler and German rearmament, 15–16, 27–28, 250
humor and invective, 13, 15, 181
inactivity and depression, 24–26
Iron Curtain speech, 31
last years, 36–37, 239
leadership, 27, 166, 321, 328–29, 337, 341–42
life-style and comforts, 14–15
and Lincoln Bedroom, 16
marriage, 25
newspaper war reports and articles, 18–19, 26
Nixon first meeting (1954), 7–15
Nixon last meeting (1958), 9, 36–37
and painting, 14, 161
party politics and Parliament, before
war, 19–28
Prime Minister (1940), 28–29
Prime Minister (1951), 35
and public speaking, 14, 20–21, 56, 314
and Franklin Roosevelt, 32–33, 260–61
and Stalin, 32
preparation of successor, 78, 157
use of tears, 34
temper and temperament, 24
and United Nations, 74
and West Germany and NATO, 149
world events today and, 37–38, 258
writings, 12, 20, 27, 153, 314
quotes and comments:
Adenauer, 134
Lady Astor, 13
Attlee, 13
Bevan, 13–14
Château Lafite Rothschild, 15
Cuba, 18
de Gaulle, 41, 63
difficulty of democracy, 261
Dulles, 13
elections and campaigns, 333
his father, 16
first speech as Prime Minister, 29
Ghana’s annexation of Guinea, 37
great men and impressions, 314
independence to former colonies, 9, 260–61
Indochina and U.S. policy, 9
invasion of Europe, 10–11
Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, 12
lion’s heart and lion’s roar, 16
losing of elections, 19–20, 25, 35
MacArthur, 109
McCarthy and communism, 13
MacDonald, 13
making history by writing it, 12
ministers and popularity, 110
nuclear war threat, 38
his painting, 14
Lord Plowden, 14
power and youth, 36
becoming Prime Minister in 1940, 28–29
retirement, 36
Franklin Roosevelt’s last month in office, 10
meeting Franklin Roosevelt, 32
George Bernard Shaw, 13
Soviets as allies, 32
Soviets and negotiations, 38
socialism vs. liberalism, 23
“stooping” to conquer, 330
travel and seasickness, 12
World War II most famous speech, 34
worms and glowworm, 7
writing habits and dictation, 14
Civil War (U.S.), 12, 212
Clay, General Lucius, 136–37
Clemenceau, Georges, 19
Cold War, 33, 49, 150, 164
Cologne, Germany, 139–40, 142
Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, France, 41, 59, 72
Colonies:
and democracy, 261, 263
and demagoguery, 269
independence, 9, 30, 250, 259–61, 263, 265
Commentators and reporters, 325, 342–43. See also Press; Television.
Communism and Communists. See also Communist China; Marxism-Leninism; Soviet Union.
and Adenauer, 139–40, 144
Bohlen on “sincerity,” 198
and Chiang’s land reform, 115
Churchill on, 13
drabness and colorlessness of, 187
expansion in Asia, 99–103
in Indonesia and Sukarno, 265–66
Nixon on, 181
U.S. policy toward, 211–16
in postwar Italy, 251–56, 275
in postwar Japan, 103, 115, 117
in Philippines, 275–76
in Singapore, 310–12
Soviet “new class,” 203–204
and Zionism linkage, 303–304
Communist China. See also Chinese-American rapprochement; Mao Zedong; Sino-Soviet split; Zhou Enlai.
Adenauer on, 163
agriculture and economy, 244
American attitudes (1954), 224
Brezhnev on aggressiveness of, 199, 210
brutality of regime, 5, 172, 228–29, 240
Churchill on, 10
Cultural Revolution, 230, 237
de Gaulle on, 73–74
educational system, 17
effects of Communist rule, 211, 228–29, 244
and Japan, 119, 121, 126–27, 233
and Korea, 93, 98, 126, 131
Lee on, 318
and MacArthur, 99–103
Nehru on, 273
Nixon visit (1971), 126–27
revolution, 116, 220, 236, 243–46, 248
and Soviet “new class,” 203–204
Soviet obsession with, 73, 210
Yoshida on, 125–26
Zhou and, 218–19, 229–33, 236–37, 246–48
Communist Vietminh, 10
Congo, 171
Congress, 10, 84, 173–74, 211. See also House of Representatives; Senate (U.S.).
Congressional Medal of Honor, 2, 87
Connally, John, 312
Conservative party (Great Britain), 22, 34–35
Conservative leaders, 335–36
Conversational excellence, 314
Corregidor, 86–87, 96, 102, 278
Crozier, Brian, 50
Cuba, 18, 93, 296
Cuban Missile Crisis, 170–71, 208, 258
Cultural Revolution, 230, 237
Czechoslovakia, 74, 77, 211
Dardanelles expedition, 24–25
Das Kapital (Marx), 178
de Gasperi, Alcide, 69, 251–58, 329
character and personality, 252–54, 256
and European unity, 257–58
leadership style, 253–54, 275, 337
postwar Italy and politics, 253–56
work habits, 256, 304
de Gaulle, Anne, 70–72
de Gaulle, General Charles, 24, 34, 40–80, 238, 250. See also France; Franco-German rapprochement.
and Adenauer, 161–62, 166
Algerian crisis, 49–50
analysis of American politics, 61–62
dislike of Americans, 80
and daughter, Anne, 71–72
cf. Caesar, 54
character and personality, 41–43, 52–53, 59, 67–68
recognition of China, 126
cf. Churchill, 43, 59–60
Churchill on “Cross of Lorraine,” 41
conservatism, 129
and Cuban Missile Crisis, 258
death and funeral, 40–41, 79–80
East/West tension and Europe, 73–74
cf. Eisenhower, 43, 60
eloquence and conversation, 314
cf. Faisal, 304
family life, 67–71
Fifth Republic constitution, 50–51
personification and spirit of France, 41, 44, 63–66, 79–80
and French language, 56–57, 90
and French people, 64, 80, 297
French reverence for, 123
and German reconciliation, 151, 164
direct line to God, 328
and Golda, 287
and history, 323
and Israel, 282
Joan of Arc image, 63
Kissinger on, 218
leadership style, 51–52, 166, 320–21, 324, 327–29, 336–37, 341
cf. MacArthur, 43, 54–55
memoirs, 61
military strategy, 323
and 19
60 U.S. presidential election, 54, 60
Nixon evaluation of in 1964, 125
Nixon friendship with, 44, 60
Nixon meeting with (1960), 42–43, 61–62
Nixon meeting with (1969), 58, 73–76
Nixon’s last letter from, 78–79
and nuclear war, 73–74
against parliamentary system, 47–48
physical appearance, 43, 79, 253
as politician, 59–61
prescience, 46–47
public persona, “General de Gaulle” image, 41, 54–55, 57
public performance, 55, 59, 62–63, 327–28
resignation in 1946, 48, 50, 339
resignation in 1969, 78
retirement period in Colombey, 59–60
and RPF, 48–49
Sophocles and, 345
Soviet threat to Poland and, 258
and successor, 78, 157
and war, 43, 47, 55, 58–59
and world events in 1960s, 64–66
writings, 43, 45–46, 61, 153, 314
cf. Yoshida, 111, 154
quotes and comments:
Anne, 71, 72
Arab/Israeli extremism, 66
character and leadership, 56–57
Chinese-American relations, 74
death as the only winner, 74
Europe’s loss of war, 74
family, 69
failure of leaders, 63
Fourth Republic, 49
France, and Frenchmen, 63, 64
France loss of battle, not of war, 47
making future policy, 46
grandeur and leadership, 62
great men and will, 320
leadership qualities, 45–46, 51–52, 54, 57–58
MacArthur’s dismissal, 99
modern warfare, 46
Nixon as “exile in his own country,” 44
fall of Paris and French resistance, 47
parliamentary government, 47
public personality, 54
public speaking, 56
resignation over minor issue, 78
solitude, 59
Soviet leaders (1969), 77
television delivery and performance, 57
on United Nations, 74–75
Vietnam War, 76
de Gaulle, Elizabeth, 70
de Gaulle, Philippe, 70
de Gaulle, Yvonne, 68–72
Demagoguery, 269, 292
Démaret, Pierre, 54
Democracy, 269, 324–25, 340
Churchill on difficulty of, 251
and former colonies, 261, 263
elections and campaigns, 333
postwar Japan and MacArthur, 82–84, 116–18, 131–32
Japan and Meiji reformers, 104
Nixon on, for Saudi and Tunisia, 306
Saudi Arabia and, 306–307
Deng Xiaoping, 228
Deng Yingchao, 235, 243, 246
Depression (U.S. economic), 96, 101
Détente, 73, 161, 212, 215
Developing countries. See Third World.
Dewey, Thomas E., 42, 312, 331–32
Diefenbaker, John, 3
Disraeli, Benjamin, 30, 130, 251, 338
di Vittorio, Giuseppe, 252–53
Dobrynin, Anatoly, 206, 210
“Dugout Doug,” 86, 129
Dulles, John Foster, 8, 11, 36, 139, 146
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