by Ted Sorensen
Louisiana, 479
Loveless, Herschel, 124, 148, 155, 159
Lovett, Robert, 235, 255, 271, 675
Lowe, Jacques, 117
loyalty oaths, 47
Luang Prabang, 641
Lubell survey, 505
Luce, Henry, 317
Lucey, Pat, 116, 134, 274
Lukens Steel Company, 452
Lumumba, Patrice, 292, 635, 636
lunar landing, 525–526
Luxembourg, 544
Lyautey, Marshal, 392
M
McAdoo, William, 155
MacArthur, Douglas, 294, 641
McCafferty, Edward, 190
McCarran Internal Security Act, 26
McCarthy, Eugene, 89, 158
McCarthy, Joseph, 12, 26, 34–35, 45–48, 49, 54, 78, 118, 135–136, 148, 156, 288, 335
McClellan, John, 51–52, 54
McCleod, 288
McCloskey, Matt, 279
McCloy, John, 255, 288, 469, 518, 556, 592, 706
McCone, John, 235, 469, 631, 670, 673, 674, 691, 693, 697, 702, 705, 711, 716, 734
McCormack, John, 72, 78, 79, 88, 123, 343, 355, 356, 362
McCulloch, William, 277, 499–500
McDonald, David J., 445, 446, 448
McDonough, Bob, 115, 139
McElroy, Neil H., 611
McGhee, George, 289
McGovern, George, 276, 531
McGroarty, John Steven, 57
McHugh, Godfrey, 607
McKinley, William, 183
McKinney, Frank, 82, 124
McLeod, Scott, 46
McMillan, Miles, 136
McMurphy, Joe, 237
McNamara, Robert, 252, 253, 254, 255n., 265, 269, 270, 272, 273, 275, 281, 283, 286, 296, 348, 380, 416–418, 452, 454, 456, 459, 525, 564–565, 590, 603 ff., 622, 626, 627, 632, 644, 656, 673, 674, 678, 679, 691, 696, 702, 710, 716, 722, 734, 738
McNamara, Mrs. Robert, 281
McNaughton, John, 734
MacNeil, Neil, 349
McNichols, Stephen L. R., 124
McShane, Jim, 485
Macaulay, Thomas B., 334
Macbeth, 392
Macdonald, Torbert, 36, 88, 117
Macmillan, Harold, 270, 550, 551, 558, 559, 560, 563, 564, 565–566, 569, 570, 571, 575, 576, 599, 620, 622–623, 642, 686, 705, 717, 719, 720, 728, 729, 734, 735, 736, 756
Macon County (Ala.), 479
Macy, John W., Jr., 277
Madison, James, 152
Madison Capital Times, 136
Magnuson, Warren Grant, 235
Maguire, Richard, 171
Malaya, 660–661
Malaysia, 631, 652
Malcolm X, 503
Mali, 228
Mallory, George, 528
Malraux, André, 384
Manatos, Mike N., 356–357
Manchester Guardian, 733
Mann, Thomas, 307
Manning, Robert, 323
Manpower Development and Assistance, 359, 404
Mansfield, Mike, 342, 355, 356, 399, 498, 738
Mao Tse-tung, 336, 546, 547, 632
March, Fredric, 385
Marín, Luis Muñoz, see Muñoz Marin Marlborough, 388
Marshall, Burke, 277, 476, 483, 484, 490–491, 499
Marshall, Humphrey, 67
Marshall, Thurgood, 473
Marshall Plan, 351
Martin, Edmund, 447, 453
Martin, Edwin M., 674, 691, 692, 706
Martin, John Bartlow, 176–177
Martin, Louis, 279, 476
Martin, William McChesney, Jr., 394, 395, 407, 421–422
Marx, Karl, 546
massive retaliation, 513, 602, 603, 625
Matsu, 662
Mayflower, 194
Meader, Vaughn, 383
Meany, George, 52–53, 439
Medal of Freedom Award, 384
Medicare, 342–344
medium-range ballistic missiles, see MRBMs
Meet the Press, 123, 155, 378
Mekong Valley, 640, 643, 647
Melbourne, Viscount, 334
Melbourne, 388
Memoirs (De Gaulle), 560
Memphis (Tenn.), 479
Menon, Krishna, 578, 663
Merchandise Mart, 85
Merchant, Livingston T., 279
Meredith, James, 483–488, 502
metric system, 754
Metropolitan Club, 477
Metropolitan Opera, 440
Mexico, 535
Meyer, Armin H., 279
Meyner, Robert B., 96, 124, 130, 148, 151, 155, 160
Miami Herald, 316
Midwest Democratic Conference, 76
MIG-21 fighter aircraft, 296, 663, 670, 684, 713, 722
Mikoyan, Anastas I., 677, 720, 725–726
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 381
Miller, Arthur, 335
Millikan, Max, 66, 118
Mills, Wilbur, 343, 351–352, 425–426, 430, 432–433, 457
Milwaukee Journal, 133, 137
Minh, Ho Chi, 650, 651–652
minimum wage bills, 342, 347, 352, 356
Minow, Newton, 85, 277
Minuteman missile, 564, 609
Mir? Cardona, José, 303
“missile gap,” 610–613, 614, 624
Missile Sites Labor Commission, 440
Mississippi, 102–103, 479, 483–488, 490
Mississippi, University of, 483–488, 493n.
Mississippi National Guard, 484, 486, 487
Mitchell, James, 215
MLF, 567–570, 572, 573
Mobutu, Joseph D., 635
Molotov, Vyacheslav M., 548
Monnet, Jean, 280
Monroe Doctrine, 536
Monroney, Michael, 344
moon race, 523–524, 525–526, 527–528
Morales Carrion, Arturo, 237, 700
Morrissey, Francis X., 72
Morse, Wayne, 44, 48, 50, 98, in, 124, 128, 130, 132, 135, 147, 235, 335
Morton, Thruston, 185, 211–212, 215
Moscoso, Teodoro, 534
Moscow, 557
Moscow conference, 551, 729, 732, 734- 740
MRBMs, 677, 679–680, 709, 711
multilateral force, see MLF
Mundt-Daniel Electoral College Amendment, 62n.
Muñoz Marin, Luis, 115, 209
Murphy, Charles S., 277
Murphy, Robert, 73
Murray, John Courtney, 190
Murrow, Edward R., 256, 277, 580, 581, 591, 619, 631, 675, 723
Muscle Shoals (Ala.), 492
N
NAACP, 50, 51, 473, 476, 490
Nam Tha, 647
Naples, 581, 733
Napoleon, 563
NASA, 525
Nassau agreement, 559, 565–566, 567–568, 607
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 539–540, 546, 663
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, see NASA
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, see NAACP
National Association of Manufacturers, 31, 430, 439
National Catholic Welfare Conference, 360
National Committee, Democratic, see Democratic
National Committee National Conference of Citizens for Religious Freedom, 188
National Convention of Manufacturers, 465
National Defense Education Act, see NDEA
National Education Association, 359
“national interest,” 440
National Liberation Front, 650
National Park Service, 385
National Press Club, 436
National Science Foundation, 480
National Security Council, 281, 590, 625, 644, 674, 679, 693, 698, 701, 723
Executive Committee (Ex Comm), 679, 701, 708, 709, 715, 720
National Space Council, 525
National Stockpiles, 317
National University of Ireland, 582
Nationalist China, 547, 665, 736
&n
bsp; NATO, 557, 558, 561, 562, 563, 566–567, 568, 571, 572, 573–574, 557, 588, 591, 596, 625, 627, 628, 681, 685, 686, 697, 705, 715
NATO-Warsaw Pact Treaty, 736
Naval Academy, 370
NDEA, 360–361, 480
Neal, Alfred, 13
Nebraska Law Review, 60
Negro population, 229
Negroes, see civil rights
Nehru, B. K., 663
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 331, 380, 546, 578, 642, 663–664
Nelson, Gaylord, 133, 136
Nestingen, Ivan, 116
Netherlands, 580
Neuberger campaign, 44
Neustadt, Richard, 229–230, 236, 254, 255, 259, 389, 569
New Bedford (Mass.), 74
New Deal, 15
New England Senators’ Conference, 57
New Frontier, 167, 465, 525
New Guinea, 580
“New Lands,” 741
“New Look,” 602, 627
New Orleans, teachers in, 479
New Republic, 316
New York Herald Tribune, 316, 317–318
New York News, 316
New York Times, 66, 169, 176, 203, 316, 318, 370, 404, 461
New Yorker, The, 316
New Zealand, 647
Newport (R.I.), 376
Newsweek, 316, 461
Nhu, Ngo Dinh, 657, 659, 660
Nhu, Madame, 336, 657, 659
Nigeria, 532
Nitze, Paul H., 118, 236, 256, 277, 674, 698
Nixon, Richard M., 49, 50, 54, 55, 66, 84, 87, 96, 103, 107, 133, 136, 138, 141, 143, 147n., 148, 149, 152, 166, 168, 169, 170, 171, 173, 174, 176, 177, 178, 180 ff., 193 ff., 211 ff., 222, 227, 231–232, 233, 235, 251,253, 288, 324, 339, 352, 393, 394, 406, 413, 434, 444, 457, 472, 476, 541, 544, 558, 612, 677, 721, 742, 749
Nixon, Mrs. Richard M. (Patricia), 208, 212
Nixon, Russ, 394, 433
“Nixopedia,” 176
Nkrumah, Kwame, 539, 546, 577, 636
Norris, George, 17, 48, 67, 74, 492
Norstad, Lauris, 595, 596
North Carolina, 493
North Korea, 513–514
North Vietnam, 640, 642, 645, 647, 648, 649, 650, 655
see also Vietcong
Norton, Clem, 15
“Nose McCone,” 316
“no-win” policy, 514
NSC, see National Security Council nuclear deterrent, 608–610
nuclear test ban, 293, 329, 332, 367, 369, 503, 515, 519, 520, 538, 548,549, 551, 552, 558, 565, 618, 728, 729, 733, 736, 742, 743
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 26, 551, 562, 573, 600, 617, 622, 733, 734–740,744, 745, 752, 756
nuclear testing, 617–624
nuclear war, 512–514, 516, 517, 616
Nyerere, Julius, 578
O
OAS, 537, 575, 580, 669–670, 672, 675–676, 682, 686, 687, 688, 695, 697,698, 699, 704, 706, 708, 721
Obote, Prime Minister Milton, 701
O’Brien, Lawrence, 80, 107, 117, 119, 121, 125, 131, 139, 171, 174–175, 230, 255, 263–264, 274, 284, 341, 344, 348, 355, 356–357, 361, 374, 385n., 425, 454, 484, 697
“O’Brien Manual,” 175
OCDM, 613, 614
Ockenga, Harold, 188
Oder-Neisse, 562, 571, 597
O’Donnell, Kenneth, 80, 107, 117, 119, 125, 139, 156, 171, 230, 263–264,355, 373, 374, 447, 448, 484, 674–675
Office of Civil Defense Mobilization, see OCDM
O’Leary, “Muggsy,” 25, 41
“Operation Farmgate,” 632
Oppenheimer, J, Robert, 26, 335
Organization of American States, see OAS
Ormsby-Gore, Sir David, 66, 378, 559, 565, 566n., 704–705, 706, 710
Ortega, Domingo, 336
Outer Mongolia, 661
“overkill,” 610
Oxford (Miss.), 483–488
Oxford Race Conflict, 329
Oxnam, Bishop Bromley, 144
P
Paar, Jack, 195
Pakistan, 372, 383, 538, 547, 628, 663, 664, 681, 717
Palace of Nations (Geneva), 647
Palm Beach, 38, 68, 120, 255, 278, 327- 328, 340, 352, 367–368, 369, 377, 378, 380, 429, 607, 623
Palmer, Arnold, 378
Panama Canal, 692, 735 “paper tigers,” 652, 677
Paris Summit Conference, 149, 216, 229, 583
Passman, Otto, 330, 351
Pastore, John, 50
Pathet Lao, 640, 641, 642, 643, 645, 646, 647, 648
patronage, 72–73, 349
Patterson, Floyd, 388
Patterson, John, 158
Paul VI, Pope, 365
Pauling, Linus, 26, 384
Paulskirche, 574
Peace Corps, 181, 184, 347, 531–532, 534, 539, 581, 756
Peale, Norman Vincent, 188–189
Pearson, Drew, 68, 70, 229
Pearson, Lester, 575, 576
Pentagon, 603–604, 605, 608, 621, 630, 644, 655, 678, 682–683, 697, 704,708
Persons, Wilton, 231, 232, 262
Pescadores Islands, 662
Peterson, Esther, 277
Peterson, Howard, 411
Philadelphia Inquirer, 316
Philippines, 631–632, 649n., 660–661
Phoumi Nosavan, 640, 641, 644, 648
Pilgrim’s Way, 14
Pitt, William, 331, 661
Plaine des Jarres, 640
“Plans for Progress,” 474
POAU, in, 137, 144, 186, 240, 363
“POL,” 689, 694, 708, 711, 715
Poland, 111, 513, 540, 547, 597
Polaris missile, 564, 565, 566, 567, 570, 571,574, 604, 606, 609, 696n., 707, 725
Poling, Rev. Daniel, 191–192
politics, 332–333, 471–472
poll taxes, 475, 480
Pollard, Ramsey, 194
Pope John XXIII, 194
Pope, Lincoln, 78
Pope Paul VI, 365
population explosion, 112
Porter, Sylvia, 433
Portugal, 292, 533, 538, 547, 578, 608
Powell, Adam Clayton, 156, 172, 183, 340
Powell, Wesley, 133
Power, Thomas, 739
Powers, David, 28, 77, 134–135, 162, 179, 190, 198, 264, 368, 369, 373, 383, 388, 582
Powers, Gary, 517
pre-emptive first strike, 513
Presidency, The, 271
Presidential Power, 389
President’s Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy, 437, 456
President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, 474
press conferences, 322–326, 341
press relations, 310–318
preventive war, 513
Price, Leontyne, 440
Price of Union, The, 62, 67
Prince Edward County (Va.), 480, 502
Printers Union, 441
Profiles in Courage, 4, 29, 40, 57, 68–70, 71, “3, 371, 375, 718,749
Progressive, 106
proliferation (nuclear), 567
Protestants and Other Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, see POAU
Proxmire, William, 133
PT-109, 710n.
public opinion, 106–108, 184
public relations, 327 ff.
public service, 4
Public Welfare Bill, 343, 344
public works, 398
Public Works program, 404
Puerto Rico, 700
Pulitzer Prize, 4, 68, 69, 315, 758
Punta del Este (Uruguay), 669
“purple telephone,” 727
Pusey, Nathan M., 78, 234
Q
Quadros, President (Brazil), 293
Quai d’Orsay Palace, 497, 581
quarantine of Cuba, 694, 705–711, 715, 745
Quemoy, 662 “quickie” tax bill, 424, 425, 426
R
race relations, 325, 329
racketeers, 53–54
Rackets Committee, 52, 117, 135
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br /> Radford, Arthur, 739
radiation, 621
Railroad Retirement Act, 12
Railway Labor Act, 443
railway labor dispute, 441–443, 503
Raines, Albert, 481
Rambouillet, 570, 571n.
Randolph, A. Philip, 505
Randolph, Jennings, 344
Raskin, Hy, 117, 120
Rayburn, Sam, 82, 90, 92, 152, 156, 163, 164, 165, 170, 193, 340–341, 355–356, 362, 364, 380
RB-47 incident, 517
RB-47 planes, 286, 517
Reader’s Digest, The, 419
Reardon, Ted, 29, 55, 57, 167, 264, 283n., 285, 747
recession, 217, 229, 393 ff.
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, 410, 411
Red China, 228, 289, 482, 522, 523, 537, 547, 548, 558, 564, 573, 624, 631–632, 640 ff., 661–666, 677, 681, 685, 720, 724, 726, 735, 736, 741, 745, 755
Red Star, 619
Reinsch, Leonard, 196
Reischauer, Edwin O., 279
Reston, James, 136, 201, 322–323
Reuter, Richard, 531
Reuther, Walter, 53, 335, 504
Reynolds, Jim, 277, 442
Reynolds, John, 115, 116
Ribicoff, Abraham A., 81, 83, 85, 86, 88, 115, 117, 126, 159, 253, 254, 265, 273–274, 359, 360, 361, 482
Rio Escondido (ship), 299
Rio Treaty (1947), 708
Robbins, Jerome, 388
Roberts, Dennis, 81, 85, 86, 117, 120
Robinson, Joe, 164
Rockefeller, David, 468
Rockefeller Foundation, 271
Rockefeller, Nelson, 96–97, 147n., 168, 184, 207, 253, 424–425, 614, 617, 754
Rogers, Will, 63
Romney, George, 754
Roncalio, Teno, 115
Rooney, John, 278
Roosa, Bob, 235, 253, 277, 408, 456
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 15, 17, 139, 145- 146, 147, 152, 155, 164, 168, 169, 199, 223, 231, 239, 242, 252, 256, 283, 319, 235n., 329, 400, 410, 435, 466, 492, 533, 558, 560, 562, 693, 734, 754, 755
Roosevelt, Mrs. Franklin D. (Eleanor), 86, 118, 119, 123, 155, 170, 256, 334, 382
Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr., 139, 141–142, 145, 235, 249, 277
Roosevelt, Theodore, 257, 336, 385, 515, 754
Roper, Elmo, 137
Rosebery, Lord, 331
Ross, Edmund G., 67
Rostow, Walt, 66, 118, 261, 289, 595, 653
Rovere, Richard, 470
Rowley, Jim, 749
Royal Air Force, 566
Royall, Kenneth, 503
RS-70, 347, 348
Rules Committee, see House Rules Committee
Rusk, Dean, 235, 243, 391, 510, 521, 565, 726
and Berlin crisis, 590, 598, 599
and Bowles, 289–290
and conventional forces, 626
and Cuban crisis, 296, 322, 673, 681–682, 702, 706, 712
and Laos, 647
and meetings, 285