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by Richard Nixon


  Powell, Dick, 77

  Powell, Lewis, 423–24

  Powell, Pam, 678

  Powers, Dave, 900

  Prado, Manuel, 186

  Pravda, 206, 212

  Presidential disability plan, 185

  Price, Raymond K., Jr., 279, 310, 845, 849, 1057, 1061, 1069

  Price Waterhouse, 101, 103

  Progressive AFL, 38

  Providence Journal, 997

  Proxmire, William, 855, 986

  Pueblo, 361, 383

  “Pumpkin papers,” 68–69

  Quakerism, 5, 8–9, 13, 14, 16, 25, 26, 27, 29, 57

  Quemoy and Matsu, 220

  Rabin, Yitzhak, 283, 480, 481, 482, 484, 485, 1015, 1016

  Race riots, 435

  Radford, Arthur, 150–55

  Radio Free Europe, 183, 213

  Railroad brotherhood, 38

  Railsback, Tom, 1002

  Rajagopalachari, 132–33

  Rand Corporation, 512

  Rangel, Charles, 990

  Rather, Dan, 404

  Rayburn, Sam, 432

  Reagan, Ronald, 263, 264, 278, 285–87, 302–306, 309–13, 591, 738, 740, 925, 926

  Real Majority, The (Scammon and Wattenberg), 490–91

  Reasoner, Harry, 855

  Rebozo, Charles G. “Bebe,” 247, 278, 292, 454, 466, 508, 625, 626, 635, 647, 673, 740, 827–28, 912, 952, 958, 964–67, 1003, 1020, 1040, 1041, 1058–59, 1060

  Red China. See China, Communist

  Red Detachment of Women, The, 569

  “Red herring,” 47, 54, 70

  Regulations and Purchasing Review Board, 516

  Rehnquist, William, 424

  Religion, as issue in 1960 campaign, 215, 226, 775

  Renter, Marc, 25–26

  Renter, Neva, 25–26

  Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, 35, 276

  Republican National Committee, 97, 99, 104, 105, 147, 160, 162, 195, 265, 272, 495, 542, 628

  Republican National Conventions

  1948, 71

  1952, 83–90

  1956, 173–76

  1960, 215–17

  1964, 259–60

  1968, 309–16

  1972, 677–79

  Republican Party, 88, 118–19, 139, 159, 160, 180–81, 214, 259, 264, 267–68, 342–43, 356–67, 764, 769 See also Elections and campaigns

  Reston, James, 65, 320, 509, 691, 738, 856

  Resurrection (Tolstoy), 15

  Revolutionary Force 9, 470

  Rhee, Syngman, 126–29

  Rhodes, James, 310, 311, 455, 456

  Rhodes, John, 822, 992–93, 996, 997, 1002, 1019, 1042, 1049, 1064, 1067, 1072, 1073, 1081

  Rhyne, Charles, 951

  Ribicoff, Abraham, 428, 673

  Richardson, Elliot, 512–13, 625, 848, 855, 909, 911, 912, 913, 915, 916–17, 920, 929–34, 944, 969, 1004

  Riland, Kenneth, 615

  Risner, Robinson, 861–62, 863–64

  Riza Pahlevi, 133

  Robb, Chuck, 508

  Robinson, Claude, 215

  Roche, John P., 458

  Rockefeller, Nelson, 200, 215, 216, 237, 238–39, 248, 250, 251, 258–64, 266, 278, 289, 297–303, 306, 309–12, 323, 333, 340, 341, 479, 480, 591, 681, 738, 925, 926

  Rockefeller, Winthrop, 277

  Rockman, Bert, 768

  Rodgers, Richard, 335, 540

  Rodino, Peter, 974, 989–91, 994, 1002, 1041, 1047, 1049

  Rogers, Adele (Mrs. William P.), 164

  Rogers, Ted, 103, 104, 219

  Rogers, William P., 94, 95, 103, 104, 112–13, 140, 141, 164, 165, 182, 185, 338, 339, 380–85, 400, 407, 419, 433, 447, 450, 457, 477–79, 482, 485, 487, 498, 550, 560, 585, 590, 603–604, 639, 672, 688, 786, 807, 809, 823, 828, 829, 840, 841, 846, 848, 907, 925

  “Rogers Plan,” 478–79

  Romania

  RN’s 1967 trip to, 281–82

  RN’s 1969 trip to, 394, 395–96

  Romney, George, 251, 259, 262, 264, 278, 279, 289, 297–300, 310–14, 340

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 44

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 7, 25, 33, 38, 45, 53, 99, 156, 501, 610, 761, 872, 873, 1034

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 84–85, 109, 367, 806, 1076, 1086, 1088–89

  Rose, Chappie, 839

  Rosenberg, Julius, 140

  Rostow, Walt, 307, 336

  Rousselot, John, 241, 243

  Rovere, Richard, 199

  Rowan, Carl, 838, 935

  Royster, Vermont, 807

  Rubottom, Roy, Jr., 186, 192

  Ruckelshaus, William, 624, 844, 934

  Rumsfeld, Don, 1042

  Rush, Kenneth, 524

  Rusk, Dean, 307, 308, 316, 324, 336, 431, 509

  Russell, Richard, 351, 382, 441

  Russia. See Soviet Union

  Sadat, Anwar, 936, 937, 938, 940, 982, 986, 988, 1005, 1010–18, 1033–34

  Safire, Bill, 519, 520

  St. Clair, James D., 973, 990–92, 994, 999, 1001, 1002, 1043, 1047, 1048, 1052, 1053, 1055, 1057, 1059

  St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 271

  St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 108, 219, 510, 606

  Sainteny, Jean, 349, 393–94, 396, 398

  Sales Executives Club of New York RN’s speech to, 270

  Salinger, Pierre, 657, 672, 688–89

  Salmon, Richard, 951–52

  SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks), 346, 389, 497, 511, 514, 523–24, 592, 594, 611, 612, 615, 622, 689, 875, 879, 880, 886, 907, 977, 1024, 1026, 1031, 1032, 1035, 1038, 1039

  Saltonstall, Leverett, 143

  San Francisco Chronicle, 73, 77

  San Jose, California, rally, 492–93

  San Marcos University, Lima, Peru, 186–88

  Sanchez, Fina (Mrs. Manolo), 290–91, 294, 335, 740, 1054

  Sanchez, Manolo, 290–91, 294, 335, 459, 460, 461, 536, 607, 693, 740, 742, 845, 884, 1015, 1054, 1060, 1077, 1085, 1086

  Sandman, Charles, 1071

  Saragat, Giuseppe, 281

  Sarasin, Pote, 257

  Sato, Eisaku, 258, 282, 858

  Saturday Review, 412

  Saudi Arabia, 931, 984, 1003, 1006

  RN’s 1974 trip to, 1012–13, 1018

  Saxbe, William, 738, 822, 944, 1066

  Scali, John, 741, 937

  Scammon, Richard, 443, 490–91

  Scheel, Walter, 899

  Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 900, 958

  Schlesinger, James, 924, 927, 939, 1024

  Schmitz, John, 554

  School desegregation and busing, 439–45

  Schorr, Daniel, 855

  Schweiker, Richard, 997

  Science, 951

  Scott, Hugh, 404, 438, 604, 772, 926, 968, 996, 1067, 1072, 1073, 1081

  Scowcroft, Brent, 924, 939, 1000, 1005

  Scranton, William, 251, 259, 262, 286

  Seale, Bobby, 469

  Sears, John P., 272

  SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization), 509

  Seaton, Fred, 94, 95, 216

  Secret Service, increased protection by, 954–55, 956, 957, 961

  Seeds of Treason (de Toledano and Lasky), 81

  Segretti, Donald, 708–14, 773–76, 780–85, 787–89, 874, 892

  Selassie, Haile, 574

  Senate Armed Services Committee, 869–70

  Senate Banking and Currency Committee, 680

  Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1006, 1010, 1019

  Senate Judiciary Committee, 780, 813, 943, 961, 992

  Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, 894

  Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct, 929

  Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Practices, 710

  Senate Watergate Committee, 781, 797, 995, 1003

  Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees, 99, 170

  Sevilla-Sacasa, Guillermo, 964

  Shafer, Ray, 311

  Shanahan, Eileen, 764

  Shanghai Communiqué, 576, 577, 580

  Shannon, Wi
lliam V., 872

  Shapiro, David, 816

  Shell, Joe, 239, 241

  Sherwood, Jack, 187–91, 206, 223

  Shriver, Sargent, 338, 673, 682, 688, 707

  Shultz, George, 340, 415, 427, 437, 518–19, 521, 608, 626, 672, 681, 767, 786, 908–909

  Sidey, Hugh, 401, 854, 1042

  Sihanouk, Norodom, 125, 382, 446–47

  “Silent Majority” speech, 401–14

  Sills, Beverly, 539

  Simon, Bill, 986

  Sinatra, Frank, 539

  Singleton, Jerry, 862

  Sirica, John J., 798, 802, 803, 809, 869, 909, 932, 937, 945, 949, 950, 988, 990, 991, 1018, 1057, 1058

  Sisco, Joseph, 477, 482, 1047

  Six Crises (Nixon), 241, 564, 573, 779

  Skelton, Red, 539

  Sloan, Hugh, 711

  Smith, C. Arnholt, 953

  Smith, Dana, 92, 93, 108

  Smith, Gerard, 523

  Smith, Helen, 1023

  Smith, Howard K., 246, 836, 945

  Smith, Margaret Chase, 417

  Smith, Paul, 15, 16

  Smith, Walter Bedell, 153, 198, 565

  Snow, Edgar, 547, 550

  Snyder, Howard, 222

  Sobeloff, Simon, 421

  “Social Issue,” 490–93, 495

  Somoza, Anastasio, 551

  Sorensen, Theodore, 958

  Souvanna Phouma, 122–23

  Soviet Union

  and Berlin, 445

  and Cambodia, 467

  and China, 118, 281–82, 372–73, 406, 522, 563, 568, 577

  and Cuba, 233, 244, 431, 485–89

  and Czechoslovakia, 395

  disarmament talks, 387, 415–18, 479

  and Egypt, 249

  expansion, 136

  and Greece, 74

  and Hungary, 179, 181–82, 395

  and India, 133, 497, 525–30

  and Japan, 130, 567

  Jewish emigration, 835, 875, 876, 1024, 1031, 1034, 1036

  and Korea, 431

  and Mideast crisis, 477–85, 574, 787, 921, 922, 924, 926, 927, 930–33, 936–43, 1007–15, 1061

  post-World War II intentions, 38

  RN on, 284

  RN’s 1959 trip to, 203–14

  RN’s 1967 trip to, 280

  RN’s 1972 trip to, 609–21

  RN’s 1974 trip to, 1023–39

  and Romania, 395

  and SALT, 523–24, 689–91, 907, 977

  subversion in U.S., 71

  Summit I, 524–25, 609–21

  Summit II, 875–87

  Summit III, 1023–39

  and Turkey, 74

  and U-2 incident, 220

  U.S. relations and détente, 201, 341, 343–48, 370–76, 391, 399, 405–407, 428, 478, 481, 497, 522, 586–92, 593–94, 600, 689–91, 1025, 1026

  and Vietnam war, 153, 173, 258, 269, 281, 300, 308, 345, 406, 413, 430, 431, 586–92, 601–607, 697–700, 703, 706, 730, 733, 742, 743

  Spain

  RN’s 1963 trip to, 248, 250

  Sparkman, John, 112

  Special Investigations Unit, 871

  Special Prosecutor’s office, 823, 873, 894, 901, 903, 909, 910, 911, 912, 918, 928–35, 943, 944, 952, 966–67, 975, 991–93, 999, 1080

  Special Revenue-Sharing programs, 767–68

  Sperling, Godfrey, 623, 1041–42

  Sputnik, 111, 428

  Srinivas, M. N., 455–56

  Stalin, Joseph, 25, 45, 53, 210, 610, 1034

  Stans, Maurice, 242, 246, 267, 272, 278, 340, 438, 675, 681, 895, 912, 993

  Stanton, Frank, 412

  Stassen, Harold, 64, 71, 80, 153–54, 167, 173–76

  Stein, Herbert, 518–19, 681, 1088

  Stennis, John, 351, 382, 555, 604, 844, 866, 929–34, 937, 944, 947, 1064, 1073

  Stephens, Tom, 145

  Stern, Carl, 854

  Stern, Isaac, 539

  Stevens, Robert, 140–44, 149

  Stevenson, Adlai, 78, 93, 99–100, 104, 108, 110, 111, 112, 144, 145, 146, 159, 161, 165, 167–81, 194, 233, 486, 628

  Stevenson, Adlai, III, 491

  Stewart, Jimmy, 678

  Stewart, Potter, 419

  Stockdale, James, 900

  Stoessel, Walter, 545, 1026

  Strachan, Gordon, 708, 709, 781–85, 792, 799, 808, 809, 817, 818, 830, 892, 988

  Strategic Hamlet Program, 258

  Strauss, Lewis, 227

  Strauss, Robert, 657, 912, 1047

  Stripling, Robert, 52, 55, 59–61, 67, 68

  Students for a Democratic Society, 470

  Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations. See “Blue Book”

  Subversive Activities Control Board, 46

  Suez Canal. See Egypt

  Sukarno, 121, 135, 249

  Sukhodrev, Viktor, 610, 613, 878

  Sullivan, William, 596, 597, 872, 894

  Sulzberger, Arthur, 510

  Sulzberger, C. L., 487

  Summerfield, Arthur, 105, 107, 160

  Summit I, 593, 609–21

  Summit II, 875–87

  Summit III, 1023–39

  Supreme Court, 390, 400, 415, 418–24, 439–45, 511, 897, 899, 904, 929, 937, 1001, 1004, 1005, 1018–21, 1041, 1042, 1048, 1051, 1052, 1059

  Sweeney, Joe, 18

  Syria, 194–95, 343, 477–85, 920–22, 924, 927–28, 930, 931, 936–43, 982, 988, 1005, 1006, 1012

  RN’s 1974 trip to, 1013–14, 1018

  Taft, Martha (Mrs. Robert A.), 82

  Taft, Robert, 42, 71, 79–91, 95–96, 119, 159, 259, 738

  Taft-Hartley Act, 42–43, 82

  Taiwan, 546, 547, 549, 550, 555, 556, 557, 570, 571, 576, 577

  RN’s 1964 trip to, 256, 258

  RN’s 1967 trip to, 282

  See also Formosa; Chiang Kai-shek Talbott, Harold, 84

  Talmadge, Herman, 895

  Tanaka, Kakuei, 906

  Tapes, White House, 500–502

  TASS, 489, 607

  Taylor, Henry J., 988

  Taylor, Maxwell, 509

  Teamsters’ union, 658–59

  Templer, Gerald, 122

  Thailand, 154, 274, 888

  RN’s 1964 trip to, 256, 257

  RN’s 1969 trip to, 394

  Thieu, Nguyen Van, 122, 273, 274, 328, 348–49, 389–93, 396, 451, 468, 583, 584, 689–707, 717–37, 743–44, 749–51, 812, 889

  Tho, Le Duc, 393, 401, 445–46, 584, 594, 600, 601, 691–92, 695, 704, 717–33, 741, 746–47, 887

  Thomas, J. Parnell, 52, 63

  Thompson, Fred, 966

  Thompson, Llewellyn “Tommy,” 182, 206, 212, 326, 431

  Thompson, Robert, 404–405, 406, 413, 499, 511, 649

  Thomson, Dick, 18

  Thornton, Dan, 85

  Thornton, Ray, 974–75, 1049

  Throne of Saturn, The (Drury), 1086

  Thurmond, Strom, 304–305, 309, 442

  Thuy, Xuan, 394, 396–97, 445–46, 584, 693, 694

  Time, 41, 401, 546, 623, 629, 748, 854, 855, 945, 1042

  Timmons, Bill, 708, 899, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1041, 1047, 1050, 1058, 1066–67, 1082

  Tkach, Walter, 375, 465, 898, 899

  Tolstoy, Leo, 15

  Tower, John, 309, 312, 326, 442, 811

  TR (Busch), 1086

  Trieste

  RN’s 1947 trip to, 50

  Triggs, Dean, 17

  Triumph and Tragedy (Churchill), 625, 626

  Trud, 206

  Truman, Bess (Mrs. Harry S.), 740

  Truman Doctrine, 75

  Truman, Harry S., 37, 43, 44, 47, 48, 54–72, 78–80, 85, 91, 110, 111, 112, 119, 137, 150, 156, 177, 378, 379, 501, 510, 652, 740, 742, 779–80, 783, 814–15, 826, 897, 989

  Tuck, Dick, 706, 710, 775

  Tunney, John, 492, 582

  Turkey, 70, 74, 75, 486

  Unions. See Labor unions

  United Nations (UN), 45, 53, 528, 546, 548, 556, 921, 930, 936, 938, 939, 940

  United Press, 67
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br />   U.S. Information Agency, 203

  U.S. News & World Report, 420

  United States v. Nixon, 1051

  UPI (United Press International), 688, 896, 953, 965, 1002

  Upton, Albert, 15, 16, 17

  Urban Affairs Council, 342, 414

  Uruguay, 490

  RN’s 1958 trip to, 186

  USSR. See Soviet Union

  Vance, Cyrus, 316

  Vann, John Paul, 625

  Venezuela

  RN’s 1958 trip to, 189–93

  Vesco case, 993

  Victory at Sea (Rodgers), 335, 715

  Vietcong, 257, 258, 270, 271, 274, 325, 348, 499, 500, 576, 588, 692–94

  Vietminh, 122, 123–24, 126, 150–51, 154, 257

  Vietnam Situation Report, 369

  Vietnam war, 257–58, 268–71, 273–76, 344, 345, 347–51, 374, 375, 380–82, 387, 388, 389, 390–94, 395, 396–99, 445–55, 466–69, 498–500, 594–95, 599–605, 687–707, 746–51, 751–57, 786, 882–83, 977, 997

  Chronology

  1953: RN’s trip to Vietnam, 122–26

  1954: April 16—RN’s speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, 152–53

  May 7—surrender of Dien Bien Phu, 150–55

  1964: RN’s trip to Vietnam, 256–58

  1965: RN’s trip to Vietnam, 271

  1966: Manila Communiqué, 273–75, 280

  1967: RN’s trip to Vietnam, 282–83

  1968: Vietnam war as a campaign issue, 289, 298, 300, 318

  bombing halt, 307–308, 318, 322–29

  Paris peace talks, 322–29, 336–37, 345, 349–50

  1969: administration efforts to negotiate settlement, 380–82

  March—Cambodia bombing, 381–82

  May 14—RN’s speech and new peace proposal, 384, 391–92

  Vietnamization and withdrawal considered, 392

  June—meeting of RN and Thieu at Midway, 392–93

  RN’s trip to Vietnam, 394

  July—Nixon Doctrine, 394, 397

  August—Kissinger’s first secret peace talks, 394

  October 15—Moratorium, 400–13

  November 3—RN’s speech (“Silent Majority”), 401–14

  November 15—New Mobe, 412–13

  1970: March-April—Cambodia, 445–59, 467–68

  April-May—Kent State, 456–59

  November—Sontay raid, 859–60

  1971: February—Lam Son, 498–99

  March—Calley case, 499–500

  June—Pentagon Papers, 508–15

  1972: January 25—RN’s speech, 585–86

  Vietnam war as a campaign issue, 543–44, 591, 687–89, 690–91, 693–94, 700, 707

  March-April—North Vietnam invades South Vietnam, 583–94

  May 8—bombing and mining of Hanoi and Haiphong, 605–608, 689

  August—North Vietnam opens new peace negotiations, 687–91

  October 8—draft peace agreement, 691–704

  October 26—“Peace is at hand,” 704–707

  November-December—negotiations, 717–44

 

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