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marriage of, 117
Shriver, Sargent, 117, 191, 192
Smathers, George, 103, 141
Smith, Al, 19–20, 28, 30, 95, 111, 140, 168
Smith, Jean Kennedy, 22–23, 49, 55, 56, 58, 59, 61, 62, 84, 101, 138, 147
Smith, Jerome, 242–43, 245
Social Security, 30
Sorensen, Theodore “Ted,” 109, 128, 132–33, 137–38, 143, 163, 164, 201, 231, 244, 245, 249, 250, 263, 302, 306, 314–15, 318
South Africa, 285–87, 289
South America, 276–77
Soviet Union, 71–72, 74, 190–91, 247
Berlin and, 72, 226, 228, 229
Catholic Church and, 111–12
Cold War, 72, 74, 75, 78, 82, 122, 189, 232, 248
Cuba and, 189, 206, 225–33
Korea and, 79
National Security Council report on, 78
Powers and, 232
and racial discrimination in U.S., 207
Roosevelt and, 71, 74, 76, 101
nuclear weapons of, 75, 79–80
Spalding, Chuck, 5–7, 44, 203, 251
Spock, Benjamin, 303
Stalin, Joseph, 71–72, 74, 83, 111–12
State Department, 113, 115, 230, 233, 276, 291
Staubach, Roger, 131
Steel, Ronald, 334
steel industry, 216–18
Stevens, Robert, 118, 121, 123, 126
Stevenson, Adlai, 104, 132–35, 139, 141–43, 179–80, 201, 204, 262, 267, 301, 306, 336
McCarthy and, 179, 305
Stevenson, James, 272
Sukarno, 255
Supreme Court, 82, 221
Boynton v. Virginia, 206
Brown v. Board of Education, 241
Symington, Stuart, 180
Tammany Hall, 19–20, 101, 267
Tawes, J. Millard, 172
tax records, 212
Teamsters, 145–47, 149–51, 152–56, 168, 188
Tet Offensive, 311–12
Thirteen Days (Kennedy and Schlesinger), 233
Thousand Days, A, 264
Tokyo, 255
Tonight Show, The, 312
Townsend, Kathleen Kennedy, 11, 97, 101, 120, 145, 152, 260
Transport Workers, 240
Trudeau, Pierre Elliott, 339
Truman, Harry, 57, 58, 72–76, 78, 80, 86, 89, 101, 189, 283
Turkey, 231, 232
United Auto Workers, 240, 284
United Farm Workers of America, 283
United Nations (U.N.), 57, 59, 76, 79, 114
United Steelworkers, 216–17, 240
University of Alabama, 244–45, 322
University of Cape Town, 285
University of Kansas, 321
University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), 210, 220–23, 240
University of North Carolina (UNC), 3, 299–301, 313
University of Oklahoma, 294
University of San Francisco, 334
University of Virginia School of Law, 74, 75, 79–83, 212
Student Legal Forum, 80–81
Unruh, Jesse, 302
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 190
USSR, see Soviet Union
U.S. Steel, 216–18
vanden Heuvel, Bill, 302, 306, 318, 331–32
Vandiver, Ernest, 194
Venezuela, 277
Versailles Treaty, 32
Victoria, Queen, 16
Vietnam, 88
Communists in, 248, 249
Vietnam Summer, 300
Vietnam War, 3, 9, 289–95, 310–13, 340
activism against, 9, 294–95, 300–304
casualties in, 9, 289, 295
civil rights and, 242, 245, 246, 322
de Gaulle on, 290
draft and, 293–94, 323
JFK and, 248–50, 292, 304–5
Johnson and, 1, 3, 9, 281–83, 289, 291–94, 300–301, 304–5, 310–15, 340
McCarthy and, 1–4, 304, 332
peaceful settlement for, 291, 292, 311, 313, 315
RFK and, 2–4, 88, 249, 282, 289–96, 301, 304–5, 307, 310–11, 313–15, 318, 321–23
Senate hearings on, 281–82
Tet Offensive in, 311–12
Village Voice, 307
Voice of America, 115, 209
Wagner, Robert, 137, 139
Walinsky, Adam, 272
Wallace, George, 243–45, 322
Wall Street Journal, 218
Walsh, David I., 86
Warren, Earl, 252
Warren Commission, 259–60
Waseda University, 255
Washington, George, 41
Washington Evening Star, 311
Washington Mall, 303
Washington Post, 178, 322, 336
Watts riots, 279–80, 334
Welch, Joseph, 124
welfare, 280
Westmoreland, William, 301, 312
West Virginia primary, 169, 172, 177
White, Theodore, 23, 301, 334
Whittaker, James, 273, 332–33, 335
Why England Slept (Kennedy), 41, 44
Williams, Edward Bennett, 152–54
Williams, G. Mennen “Soapy,” 137
Willkie, Wendell, 41, 43
Wilson, Bill, 187–89
Wisconsin primary, 165–69, 323
Wofford, Harris, 190–94, 207, 254
Wolfe, Thomas, 299
Wordsworth, William, 15
World War I, 20, 32
World War II, 4, 5, 9, 20, 34, 35, 39–43, 46, 71, 76, 83, 188, 214, 232, 300
appeasement of Hitler and, 34, 35, 39, 41, 80, 179, 229, 283
end of, 71, 75, 273
Humphrey and, 170–71
Kennedy brothers in, 51–59
Lodge in, 86
O’Donnell in, 66, 89
U.S. entry into, 40, 43, 45
veterans of, 80, 89–90, 92
Wyszynski, Stefan, 260
Yalta Conference, 71–72, 75, 82–83, 101
Yeats, W. B., 340
Zablocki, Clem, 186
Zale, Tony, 328
Zwicker, Ralph, 120
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