Foreign Affairs 341
foreign policy, 177–78, 197, 264–65, 374–75
Foreign Service, 251
“Forgetting Reinhold Niebuhr” (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 379–80
Forrest, Edwin, 103
Fortuin, Nicholas, 172
Fortune 109–13
Fosdick, Raymond, 192
Foundations of Economic Analysis (Samuelson), 15
Founding Fathers, 320, 354, 376
Fox, Fannie, 324
Frady, Marshall, 362
Frankfurt, Germany, 96
Frankfurter, Felix, 17, 37, 40, 110–11, 113, 135, 168, 210
Franklin, John Hope, 386
“Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Coming of the War” lectures, 195–98
French, in Vietnam, 270, 282, 283
French Communist Party, 131
French Indo-China, 30
Friendly, Al, 130
“frontier thesis,” 13, 62
Frost, Robert, 309–10, 317, 325
Fuchs, Klaus, 120
Fulbright, William, 239
Fursenko, Aleksandr, 236
“Future of socialism, The” (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 120
Gaitskell, Hugh, 197
Galarza, Ernesto, 81
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 310, 377
as advisor to AMS Jr., 268, 269
after Eisenhower’s election in 1952, 163–64
after JFK’s assassination, 311–12
as ambassador to India, 264, 276
in Americans for Democratic Action, 122
on AMS Jr.’s writing ability, 33
correspondence of AMS Jr. and, 363, 371
in Finletter Group, 165–67
at Harvard, 126
as JFK’s speechwriter, 286
and Johnson administration, 315
in Kennedy administration, 217, 218
on politics of JFK, 318
in presidential campaign of 1960, 210, 211
on RFK, 277
as Stevenson’s speechwriter, 157, 158, 160, 292
and Vietnam policy, 271–72, 283, 284, 344
Garbo, Greta, 195
Garner, John Nance “Cactus Jack,” 186
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 376
General and the President, The (Rovere and Schlesinger), 150–51, 222
Geneva summit, 261
Georgetown dining circle, of Joe Alsop, 206
“Georgetown set,” 114–16
Germany, 31–32, 51, 56–57, 96–97; See also Berlin crisis
Gibbon, Edward, 385
GI Bill, 126
“Gift Outright, The” (Frost), 325
Gilbert, Cass, 21
Gilbert, Felix, 79
Gilpatric, Chadbourne, 95–96
Gingrich, Newt, 104, 140
Glass, Carter, 186
Gleason, S. Everett, 83
Glen Ora, Virginia, 282–83
Go-Getter, The (Berkeley), 44
Gold, Harry, 120
Goldman, Eric, 388
Goldwater, Barry, 214, 296
Golman, Eric, 312
Goodman, Benny, 44
Goodpaster, Andrew, 259
Goodwin, Richard “Dick,” 2, 205, 224, 233–34, 239, 248, 284, 311, 344, 345
Gore, Al, Jr., 371–73
Gore, Albert, Sr., 240
government, thoughts on structure and workings of, 245–46
government-business relations, 269, 286–87
Graham, Katharine, 1, 115, 310, 377
Graham, Philip, 115, 128, 147, 149, 176, 217, 307
“Grand Hotel” (film), 39
Granta magazine, 52–54
Gray Gardens East, 19, 21, 37, 43, 69
Great Depression, 185
“Greatest Thing, The” (Mailer), 39
Great Society, 165
Great Wall of China, 30, 31
Great White Fleet, 354–55
Green, Adolph, 377
Greenbaum, Wolff and Ernst (attorneys), 302
Greenberg, David, 383
Greene, Graham, 197
Greengrass, David, 120
Greenough, Horatio, 103
Grenada invasion, 238
Guggenheim foundation, 109
Gunther, John, 195
hagiography, 190–91
Haidt, Jonathan, 181
Haiti, 275
Halberstam, David, 224, 251
Hall, Len, 172
Halperin, Maurice, 80–83, 92, 117, 120, 146
Hamilton, Bray, 101
Hanford, A. C., 56
Harkness, Edward, 23
Harkness method, 26
Harper & Row, 314, 330
Harper’s 1
Harriman, Averell
as ambassador to Moscow, 116
as assistant secretary of state, 284
in Cuban missile crisis, 293–94
in Finletter Group, 163–65
and Hôtel de Talleyrand, 128–29
on independent voices in government, 251
at Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, 149
and limited test ban treaty, 296, 298–99, 306
and Marshall Plan, 83, 127
presidential bid of 1952, 150, 152–56, 176
presidential bid of 1956, 173–74
and Soviet containment, 119, 132
speaking style of, 130
as special assistant to president, 141
on Vietnam policy, 271, 272
Harriman, Pamela, 377
Harris, Seymour, 179, 315
Harrison, Gilbert, 234
Hart, Moss, 39
Harvard Advocate 39
Harvard Club of Cambridge, 56
Harvard Corporation, 148
Harvard Crimson 36, 41
Harvard Gazette 108
Harvard Lampoon 36
“Harvard problem,” 125
“Harvard Tells Indiana How to Vote” (Chicago Tribune editorial), 158
Harvard University
affiliation of AMS Jr. with, 287
anti-Semitism at, 14–16
application and acceptance of AMS Jr. to, 27–29
and AMS Jr.’s departure from Johnson administration, 315
and AMS Jr.’s marriage to Marian, 368
associate professorship of AMS Jr. at, 108–9, 124–27
atmosphere of, in 1930s, 35–36
criticism from AMS Jr.’s colleagues at, 334
departure of AMS Jr. from, 160, 272–74, 307, 335–36
emotional turmoil at, 339
graduates of, in JFK administration, 5
John F. Kennedy at, 205
Robert Kennedy at, 359
Samuel Eliot Morison at, 12
in postwar period, 109
return to, 337
Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. at, 13–18, 195, 196
undergraduate studies of AMS Jr., 36–50
Harvard Yard, 36–38, 135, 256
Haslam, Jonathan, 120
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 103
Hayek, F. A., 133
Hayes, Carlton, 18
Healey, Denis, 243
Hearst, William Randolph, 193
Hemingway, Ernest, 134
Henkell Trocken, 96
Henry Fellowship, 49, 52, 56, 95
Herbert Hoover Library (West Branch, Iowa), 9
Hickory Hill, 302, 345
Hicks, John D., 188
Hildreth, Richard, 58–61, 65
Hill & Barlow (law firm), 366
hindmyopia, 378
Hiss, Alger, 110, 120, 147–48, 157–58, 215
historian-participants, 384–89
Historians in Defense of the Constitution, 190
history
judgments of, 294–95
objectivity in, 189–90
History (Bancroft), 108
History of the United States of America (Bancroft), 59–60
Hitchens, Christopher, 190, 319–20, 383
Hitler, Adolf, 31–32, 51, 58, 69, 142, 155, 297, 379
Hobe Sound, 163, 315
Hobsbawm, Eric, 52, 53, 116
Ho Chi Minh, 269, 270
Hofstadter, Richard, 3, 101, 157, 158, 201, 385, 387
Holborn, Fred, 219
Holborn, Hajo, 79
Holiday, Billie, 85
Hollywood, 147
Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions (HICCASP), 118
Hollywood Ten, 121, 122, 350
Hook, Sidney, 141, 142, 149
Hoover, Herbert, 21, 103, 166, 184–87, 200, 202, 324
Hoover, J. Edgar, 128, 285, 360
Hornblower, Byrne, Miller and Potter (law firm), 17
Horton, Philip, 89, 92
Hôtel de Talleyrand (Paris), 128–29
Hottel, Guy, 120
Houghton Mifflin, 195, 336, 341, 377
Hour, The: A Cocktail Manifesto (DeVoto), 43
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 121–22, 146–47
Howe, Daniel, 104
“Huckleberry Finn” (film), 39
Hughes, Emmet, 228
Hull, Cordell, 81
humor, in speeches, 287
Humphrey, Hubert, 209, 329, 330, 345
Hungarian Uprising, 177
Huston, John, 131
“Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, 306
Ickes, Harold, 245
Imperial Presidency, The (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 353–57, 363, 373, 384
India, 31, 274, 276, 283, 284
Infernal Machine, The (Cocteau), 54
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), 339, 340
Iowa Child Welfare Research Station, 10
Iowa City, Iowa, 13–14
Iran-Contra scandal, 357
Iraq war, 378
“Irish mafia,” 205, 267, 277
Irony of American History, The (Niebuhr), 135, 380
Irving, Washington, 103
Italy, 248–50, 299
Ivy League schools, 28
Jackson, Andrew, 47, 64, 181, 317, 320, 326, 327, 337, 364; See also Age of Jackson, The
Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil (Earle), 104
Jacksonian democracy, 62, 106–7
James, Edward T., 37–38
James, William, 326
Japan, 98
Jefferson, Thomas, 183, 323
Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner (1952), 149–50
Jenner, William E., 134
Jessup, Walter A., 9
Jewish Daily Forward 16
John F. Kennedy (Lasky), 215–16
John Harvard scholarship, 42
John Quincy Adams and the Union (Bemis), 206
Johnson, Gerald W., 139, 202
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, and administration, 165
AMS Jr. as political advisor to, 179–80
AMS Jr. in, 312–14
and Bay of Pigs, 239–40
compared to Sir Robert Peel, 206
courting of AMS Jr. by, 209
election of, 327
and the “Harvards,” 5
in Imperial Presidency 356
on JFK and Khrushchev, 245
loyalty to RFK vs., 344
personal life of, 323
qualitative liberalism of, 166
and questioning of JFK’s physical fitness, 321
and RFK’s presidential bid, 347
RFK’s relationship with, 360–61
Sorensen in, 312, 314
on Thousand Days 329
vice-presidential nomination of, 204
and Vietnam War, 342
Jones, Jesse H., 245–46
Jordan, W. K., 307
Josselson, Michael, 144
Journal of Economic History 101
Journals, 1952-2000 (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr), 383
judicial activism, 112–13
Jung, Carl, 193
Kaplan, Justin, 340
Kaysen, Carl, 291
Kazin, Alfred, 357
Keating, Kenneth, 288, 336
Kefauver, Estes, 153, 155, 174–76, 211
Keller, Morton, 201
Kelsey, R. W., 12
Kempton, Murray, 155
Kennan, George, 119, 129–30, 132, 341, 342, 353, 375
Kennedy (Sorensen), 330–31
Kennedy, Caroline, 217, 295, 377
Kennedy, Edward “Ted,” 277, 278, 281, 345, 346, 351, 372
Kennedy, Ethel, 275, 277–78, 302, 317, 352
Kennedy, Jacqueline “Jackie”
and assassination of JFK, 1
as contact between JFK and AMS Jr., 213, 216, 223
and death of son Patrick, 307–8
dining with, 267
Halloween celebration, 295
India visit, 275
on JFK, 206, 240
and JFK’s archive, 311–12
marriage of JFK and, 322–24
and RFK’s biography, 352
and Schlesinger fund, 377
and Thousand Days 313, 316, 317, 323–24, 328, 331–32
White House Library project, 306–7
Kennedy, John F., and administration; See also Thousand Days, A
academics in, 271–72
Age of Roosevelt as defense of, 327
at Alsop’s dinners, 116
AMS Jr.’s access to, 282–83
AMS Jr.’s legacy as member of, 387
AMS Jr.’s published assessment of, 214–15
AMS Jr.’s relationship with, 208–9, 267–68, 273, 280–82, 302–3
assassination of, 1–2, 335, 338, 348–49
and Bay of Pigs, 232, 235, 240, 241, 244–45
and Berlin Crisis, 253–55
bureaucracy and effectiveness of, 246
and CIA, 247–48
Cuban action planned by, 229–36
in Cuban missile crisis, 288–94
and death of son Patrick, 307–8
at Democratic convention of 1956, 175–76, 178
election of, 210–13
and Finletter Group, 165
“hagiography” of, 190
history as interest of, 206, 294–95
in Imperial Presidency 355–56
independent voices in, 251
legacy of, 311–32
liberalism of, 264–67, 320–21
loyalty in, 205
marriage of Jackie and, 322–24
modernity of, 326
and New Left, 350
physical fitness of, 321–22
policies on written accounts of, 226–27
as president-elect, 216–21
presidential nomination of, 204
presidential papers of, 225–26
as progressive, 318–20
protecting reputation of, 236–37
qualitative liberalism of, 166
in RFK’s biography, 363–64
RFK vs., 347, 359, 360, 361
speechwriting for, 212–13, 284–88, 296–310, 371, 372
State of the Union address (1962), 268, 285, 297
State of the Union address (1963), 297
and Adlai Stevenson, 264–66, 300–301
and test ban talks, 259–60, 260–61
vetting of AMS Jr. for, 75
on Vienna summit, 244–45
Vietnam policy of, 269–72, 282–84, 342
Why England Slept published by, 48–49
writing of Profiles in Courage 206–8
Kennedy, Joseph, Jr., 205
Kennedy, Joseph, Sr., 48–49, 281, 286, 358
Kennedy, Patrick, 308
Kennedy, Paul, 114
Kennedy, Robert F. “Bobby,” 369; See also Robert Kennedy and His Times
and assassination of JFK, 2
in Bay of Pigs, 234, 240–41
in Birmingham civil rights campaign, 303
on Chester Bowles, 265
in Cuban missile crisis, 289, 290, 291
death of, 348–49, 351, 361
European trip with AMS Jr., 275, 277–79, 281
fascist label for, 215
and JFK’s archive, 311
JFK’s relationship with, 267, 274
in Kennedy administration, 218, 224
on nuttiness of AMS Jr., 301
presidential bid of, 344–48, 361
Senate campaign of, 317–18, 336, 343–44, 371
on Sorensen and AMS Jr., 316, 317
support for Thousand Days from, 313
on wives, 211
Kennedy, Rose, 281
Kennedy Library (JFK Library), 312, 317, 319, 372, 377
Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference? (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 213–16
Kent, Sherman, 79
Kenyon College, 35
Kermode, Frank, 376
Kerr, Barbara, 147
Kerr, Chester, 75
Kerry, John, 378
keyhole history, 329
Keynes, John Maynard, 200
Khrushchev, Nikita, 244–45, 252, 259, 261–63, 290, 292, 294, 363
Kinderman, Katharine “Kathy” (née Schlesinger), 341, 367, 378–79
King, John, 36
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 305, 323, 348, 349, 360, 363, 385
Kirkland, Edward C., 17
Kirschner, Don, 80
Kissinger, Henry, 126, 218, 254, 256–58, 269, 377–78
Klaus, Samuel, 120
Kmiec, Keenan D., 112–13
Knowles, John, 359
Koestler, Arthur, 133–34, 141, 142
Komer, Robert, 249
Kopechne, Mary Jo, 351
Korean War, 141–42, 150
Kosambi, D. D., 23
Krock, Arthur, 193
Ku Klux Klan, 376
LaFeber, Walter, 5, 341, 357, 369
Landon, Alf, 200
Langer, William, 80, 82–85, 92–95, 98, 117
Laos, 271
Lasch, Christopher, 387
Lasky, Victor, 215–16
Last Campaign, The (Clarke), 348
Last Year in Marienbad (film), 280
Laughlin, James, IV “J.,” 35, 39, 40
League of Nations, 32
Leavis, F. R., 54
LeBaron Russell Briggs prize, 41
LeDuc, Thomas, 188
Left, the, 38–39, 68, 82, 98; See also non-Communist Left
Lelyveld, Joseph, 383
LeMay, Curtis, 259
Lemnitzer, Lyman, 239–40
Lerner, Max, 131
Leuchtenburg, William E., 187–90, 201
Lewis, Anthony, 361
Lewis, Sinclair, 168
liberalism and liberals
in The Age of Roosevelt 191, 202
AMS Jr.’s assessment of JFK as, 215
of Finletter Group, 165–67
of JFK, 320–21
and JFK’s Vietnam policy, 282–84
in JFK’s White House, 264–68, 274
lack of, in early Kennedy administration appointees, 217, 218
resistance of JFK to, 224–25
response to JFK by, 212, 318–19
Liberty League, 168
Library of Congress, 1, 306–7
Life in the 20th Century, A (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 71–72, 377–78
Life magazine, 117–18, 144, 147, 313, 323–24, 327–30, 334
Life of Anthony (Athanasius), 191
Life of Martin (Severus), 191
limited test ban treaty, 258–63, 296–97, 306
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