Kennedy
Page 111
and National Security Council, 674
and nuclear testing, 618, 622, 736
and Obote, 701
and political functions, 272
qualities of, 270, 272
as Secretary of State, 252, 253, 255n., 265, 270, 288, 323
and Soviet Union, 542, 555–556, 618, 691, 692, 734
and State Department team, 287
and Vietnam, 649
Russell, Bertrand, 706, 709
Russell, Richard B., 702, 737
Russia, see Soviet Union
Ryan, Mary Kennedy, 582
S
SAC, 574, 612, 628, 675, 704, 739
Saigon, 653, 656, 658, 659, 660
St. Lawrence Seaway, 58–59, 76, 136
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 316
Salamis, 745
Salinger, Pierre, 117, 120, 143, 154, 171, 186–187, 190, 221, 230, 260n., 261, 263, 264, 285, 290, 311, 318, 320, 321, 323, 324, 325–326, 327, 355, 370, 374, 377, 381, 555, 556, 557, 693, 697, 700
Salter, John, 120
Saltonstall, Leverett, 57–58, 73–74, 75
SAMs, 670, 672, 673, 676, 684, 708–709, 713, 714, 716, 723
Samson, 436n.
Samuelson, Paul, 118, 238, 253, 255, 395, 396, 398, 413, 424
San Jose Conference, 581, 723
Sandburg, Carl, 388
Sanford, Terry, 154, 160, 505
Saturday Evening Post, 35
Sayre, Francis B., Jr., 143–144, 335
Scales, Junius, 26
Scab, John, 712
Scammon, Richard M., 277
Scandinavia, 681
Schaetzel, Robert, 237
Schirra, Walter, 676
Schlei, Norbert, 499
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 5, 83, 84, 85, 118, 176, 234, 256, 261, 264, 307, 353, 462, 534, 622, 706
Schönbrunn Palace, 543, 581
Scott, Hugh, 149, 185
Scranton, William, 455
Seaborg, Glenn T., 277
SEATO, 644, 646, 647
Secret Service, 478, 749, 750
Seeger, Alan, 748
segregation, see desegregation and civil rights
Selective Service, 403
Seltzer, Louis, 131
Senate Armed Services Preparedness Subcommittee, 739
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 545
Senate Labor Committee, 52
Senate Rackets Committee, 555
Seven Days in May, 606
Shah of Iran, 546, 547, 628n.
Shakespeare, William, 256, 385, 392
Shannon airport, 582
Sharon, John, 236
shelters, bomb and fallout, 513, 614–616, 624, 707
Shepard, Alan, 526
Shepard, Tazewell, 607
Sherman, John 74
Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 453
Shoup, David, 607
Shriver, Sargent, 85, 117, 172, 230, 255, 269, 288, 532, 581
Shriver, Mrs. Sargent (Eunice Kennedy), 32, 36, 88, 173
Siberia, 741
Sidey, Hugh, 316
Simulmatics Corporation, 184
Sinatra, Frank, 151, 388
Sitrin, Gloria, 718
“Situation Room,” 710
skipjack submarines, 572
Skopje, 540
Skybolt missile, 564, 565, 566, 569, 581, 607
Small Business Administration, 397
Smathers, George, 36, 44, 88, 124, 130, 159, 343–344, 348, 355, 356, 391n.
Smith, Al, 91, 109, 164, 363
Smith, Ben, 36, 91, 235
Smith, Frank, 88, 102, 236
Smith, Howard W., 340, 361
Smith, Margaret Chase, 45, 739
Smith, Stephen, 116–117, 119, 171, 195
Smith, T. V., 63
Smithsonian Institution, 385
Social Security, 342
Solomon, 751
Solow, Robert, 424
Sorensen, Eric, 366
Sorensen, Thomas, 557, 730
South Carolina, 488
South Korea, 293, 625
South Vietnam, 228, 293, 634, 641, 645, 648 ff.
Souvanna Phouma, 640, 642, 647, 648
Soviet Alliance, 627
Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, 730
Soviet Union, 1–2, 228, 482, 516, 518–519, 520, 522, 523, 524, 538, 541 ff., 560, 571, 580, 583, 585–586, 596, 600, 609, 611, 612, 617 ff., 634, 635, 639, 640, 642, 645, 648, 662, 670–671, 676, 677, 680, 682–683, 685, 686, 689, 690, 696, 700, 702, 706, 709, 710–711, 714, 719–720, 725–726, 728–729, 731, 733, 736, 738, 740–741, 742, 743, 745, 746, 753, 754, 755
see also Khrushchev
Spaak, Paul-Henri, 637, 725
space capsules, 228
space projects
budget for, 526
capsules for, 228
Eisenhower and, 524
facilities for, 526
and foreign policy, 528–529
Glenn and, 526, 528–529
Johnson and, 524, 525
Kennedy and, 524–529
McNamara and, 525
for moon landing, 523–524, 525–526, 527–528
and satellites, 524
Shepard and, 526
suborbital nights as, 526
and Telstar, 526
Truman and, 524
to Venus, 526
Webb and, 525
Wiesner and, 524
space satellites, 519, 524
Spain, 547
Spalding, Charles F., 36, 135
Sparkman, John, 343, 475, 481
Special Forces, 632–633
Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 208, 360
Spingarn, Jerry, 237
Spocke, Dr. Benjamin, 380
Sports Illustrated, 316
Springer, Harvey, 194
Stalin, Joseph, 515–516, 558, 734
“Standing Group” (NSC), 723
State of the Union messages, 331, 341, 345, 406–407, 410, 430, 524, 525, 529, 534, 604, 613, 626–627
steel, see Big Steel
steel, price dispute, 443 ff.
Steelworkers Union, 438
Stennis, John, 103, 483, 739
Stephansky, Ben S., 279
Stern, Isaac, 385
Stevens, Rise, 440
Stevenson, Adlai, 2, 85, 114, 115, 130, 133, 135, 136, 141, 149, 151, 157, 158, 166, 169, 171, 202, 217, 218, 219, 253, 256, 271
and Arvey, 53
as Cabinet member, 252, 284
in campaign (1956), 99–100, 118, 222
and Catholic vote (1956), 81–82, 84, 123
and Cuban crisis, 300, 322, 710, 714
in Dallas, 749
divorce of, 81 and foreign policy, 236
on Kennedy team, 170, 173, 176, 236, 240, 279, 287, 300, 322, 534, 714,737n.
and Massachusetts, 78, 79, 80
and National Security Council, 675
and New Hampshire, 81
and nomination (1960), 83, 86–87, 96, 124, 125, 126, 128, 129, 147–148,155–156, 159, 160
and nuclear test ban, 617
for Secretary of State, 168, 251
as UN Ambassador, 252, 254, 287–288, 300, 522, 581, 706–707, 719
and Zorin,706–707
Stimson, Henry, 177
stock market, 421–424, 428, 429, 707
Strategic Air Command, see SAC Strategy of Peace, The, 113, 118, 205, 375
Strauss, Lewis, 739
Stravinsky, Igor, 385
strike, railroad, 441–442
Strike Command, 606
Suez invasion (1956), 681, 696
Sukarno, Achmed, 540, 546
surface-to-air missiles, see SAMs
“surgical” strike, 684, 687
Surrey, Stanley, 235, 237, 277, 427
“survival insurance,” 614
Swedish Glee Club, 91
Sweeney, Walter, Jr., 697
Swidler, Joseph C, 277
Sylvester, Arthur, 260, 261, 321
Symington, Stuart, 52, 54, 96, 98
, 121, 123–124, 125, 126, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 135, 138, 141, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 156, 158, 159, 160, 165, 166, 229, 236, 238, 252, 253, 346
T
Tactical Air Command, 697
Tactical Bombing Command, 694
Taft, Robert A., 31, 67, 74, 443
Taft-Hartley Act, 51, 440
“take care to be fair,” 188n.
Talleyrand, 388
Tanganyika, 578
Tass, 624
Tawes, J. Millard, 124, 130
tax bill (1963), 427–433, 503
Taylor, A. J. P., 513
Taylor, Maxwell, 298, 301, 303–304, 308, 347, 374, 591, 607, 618, 626, 630, 631, 653, 654, 655, 656, 674, 682, 738, 739
television
debates with Nixon, 140–141, 196–203
exchange with Russia, 557–558
Teller, Edward, 615, 618, 739
Telstar satellite, 526
Tempelhof Airport, 586
test ban, see nuclear test ban
Test Ban Treaty, see Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
TFX aircraft, 416–417, 606
Thailand, 641, 643, 644, 645, 646, 647, 648, 652
“Thanksgiving Massacre” (1961), 287
Thomas, Albert, 752
Thomas, George, 267
Thompson, Frank, 172
Thompson, Llewellyn, 541, 542, 555, 598, 642, 674, 679, 691, 692, 706, 734, 741
Thompson, Tyler, 279
Thorneycroft, Peter, 564
Thurmond, Strom, 52, 188, 222, 286, 669
Time magazine, 314, 316, 317, 318, 421, 435
Title III, 51, 497
Tito, Marshal, 463, 540, 723
Tittle, Y. A., 378
To Turn the Tide, 375
Tobin, James, 118, 237, 256
Tobriner, Walter N., 277
torpedo boats, 670
Touré, Sékou, 539
Trade Expansion Act (1962), 410–412, 574
Travell, Dr. Janet, 40, 41
Trinity College (Dublin), 582
Troika
on Kennedy staff, 272
as proposed for UN, 520, 521, 522, 549
Troutman, Robert, 154, 474
Trujillo, Rafael, 293, 536
Truman, Harry S., 25, 45, 82, 123, 145, 148, 151–153, 166, 167, 170, 173, 185, 193, 203, 208, 219n., 229, 249, 294, 319, 324, 334, 335, 370, 419,454, 462, 477, 524, 562, 701, 755
Truman, Mrs. Harry S., 203, 382
Truman, Margaret, 5
“Truth Squad,” 185
Tshombé, Moïse, 477, 635, 637, 638
Tuchman, Barbara, 513
Tunisia, 293
Turkey, 546–547, 568, 571, 628, 680, 681, 682, 685, 686, 687, 691, 696, 701, 712, 713
Tuscaloosa (Ala.), 493
TVA, 492
Twining, Nathan, 739
Tydings, Joe, 115
Tyler, John, 67
Tyler, William, 734
Tyson, Robert, 457
U
U-2 flights
over Cuba, 519, 672, 674, 680, 698–699, 713, 723
over Russia, 149, 216,- 517, 541, 544, 550, 611, 612
U Thant, 322, 522, 638, 709, 710, 712, 714, 720
Udall, Stewart, 158, 253, 261, 265, 276- 277, 556
Ulbricht, Walter, 586, 598, 599
“ultimate failure,” 625
unconventional warfare, 629–633
undeveloped countries, 530–531
unemployment, see employment
Union Leader, 210
Union Minière, 637
United Auto Workers, 438
United Nations, 519–523, 529, 531, 548, 549, 562, 580, 620, 634, 635–636, 746, 754
Charter, 744
and Cuban crisis, 667, 677, 678, 682, 684, 686, 688, 695, 696, 698, 704, 705, 706, 708, 714–715, 717, 719, 720, 721, 730, 732
General Assembly, 519–523, 620, 636, 743, 755
United Negro College Fund, 471
University of Alabama, 488–493
University of Mississippi, 483–488, 493n.
Uruguay, 534
Urban Affairs, Department of, 330, 481
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 460, 465
U.S. Employment Offices, 397
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 517–518
U.S. Information Agency, see USIA
U.S. Intelligence Board, 678
U.S. News and World Report, 316
U.S. Steel, 443, 448, 449, 452, 453, 455, 456, 457, 458, 459, 460, 467
U.S. Travel Service, 409
USIA, 322, 580–581, 697, 700, 704
U.S.S.R., see Soviet Union
V
Vance, Cyrus R., 277
Vanderbilt University, 492
Van Zandt, James E., 455
Venezuela, 229, 535, 689
Venus flight, 526
Versailles Palace, 560, 581
Veterans’ Housing Bill, 18
Vienna Summit Conference, 543–550, 554, 584, 586, 587, 617, 618, 619, 646
Vietcong, 632, 656
see also North Vietnam
Vietnam, 228, 289, 293, 503, 510–511, 531, 537, 553, 564, 625, 631–632, 633, 634, 639–640, 641, 645, 648–661, 748, 753
Vinson, Carl, 347, 348
Voice of America, 6, 533, 534, 733
Volta Dam, 268, 533, 537, 538
voting rights, 49–51, 478–479, 480, 494
W
Wagner, Robert F., 81, 88, 89
Walker, Edwin, 286
Wall Street Journal, 146, 316, 459
Wallace, George, 336, 491, 492–493, 502
Wallace, Henry, 252, 335
Wallace, Mike, 68–69
Wallace, Robert, 12, 117, 119
Walton, Bill, 36, 135, 386
“war games,” 648
War on Poverty, 753
Ward, Champion, 237
Warren, Earl, 244, 442
“wars of liberation,” 634, 646
Warsaw Pact, 627
Washington, D.C., 21
Washington, George, 152
Washington News, 316
Washington Post, 165, 316
Washington Redskins, 478
Washington Star, 316
Washington Times Herald, 311
Watkins, Arthur, 48–49
Watson, Thomas J., Jr., 460
Weaver, Robert, 256, 274, 473, 480, 481, 482
Webb, James, 277, 525
Webster, Daniel, 67, 74, 180
West Berlin, 228, 293, 331–332, 523, 558, 559, 581, 583 ff., 625, 667, 668–669, 670, 676, 677, 680, 681, 689, 690, 699, 705, 745
West Germany, 549, 562, 567, 569, 572, 575, 581, 584, 590, 591, 592, 594, 596, 597, 599, 734, 735, 741
West New Guinea, 523
West Point, 55
wheat sales to Russia, 741, 742, 753
Wheeling Steel Company, 467
“Where the Democrats Should Go from Here,” 106
White, Byron, 116, 159, 171–172, 273
White, Lee, 56, 253, 264, 476, 701
White, Lincoln, 712
White, Theodore, 81, 342
White House, 249, 258–265, 281, 328, 348, 366 ff., 381, 383, 384–386, 477, 478, 501, 505
White House Curator, 385
White House Economic Conference, 468
White House Historical Association, 385
“Whiz Kids,” 606
Why England Slept, 14, 375, 707
Wiesner, Jerome, 118, 235, 237, 255, 261, 264, 265, 524, 525, 604, 621–622, 728
Wilde, Oscar, 313
Wilkins, Roy, 51, 476–477, 578
Williams, G. Mennen, 96, 98, 124, 148–149, 160, 256, 273, 287, 533, 538–539
Williams, Ted, 28, 55
Wilson, Don, 171, 675
Wilson, Harold, 725
Wilson, Henry, 348, 356
Wilson, Woodrow, 143, 152, 252, 435, 539, 693
Wine, James, 175–176, 190, 279
Winship, Tom, 87
Wirtz, Willard, 86, 261, 265, 273, 285, 432, 440, 442
Wisconsin, 133–138
Wofford, Harris, 33, 66, 172, 255, 472
Woodcock, Leonard, 148
World War I, 693
World War II, 547, 553, 556, 583, 584, 626, 632, 693
Worthington, Leslie B., 457
Wright, Bishop John, 175, 191, 194
Y
Yarmolinsky, Adam, 255
Yarnell, Admiral, 204
Yemen, 523
YMCA, 112
York, Herb, 253
Young Americans for Freedom, 624
“Young Men in Politics,” 106
Yugoslavia, in, 540, 547
Z
Zapata Swamp, 303, 307
Zhukov, Georgi K., 555
Zorin, Valerian, 704, 706–707, 712, 714
About the Author
TED SORENSEN was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and after law school, moved to Washington, D.C., where he would ultimately work for John F. Kennedy. He left the White House soon after JFK’s death, and in 1966 joined a New York City law firm, where, as a prominent international lawyer, he advised governments, multinational organizations, and major corporations around the world. His most recent book is Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History. Sorensen remains active in political and international issues, and he lives in New York City with his wife, Gillian.
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BOOKS BY THEODORE C. SORENSEN
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History (2008)
Why I Am a Democrat (1996)
“Let the World Go Forth” (editor; 1988)
A Widening Atlantic? Domestic Change
and Foreign Policy (coauthor; 1986)
A Different Kind of Presidency:
A Proposal for Breaking the Political Deadlock (1984)
Watchmen in the Night:
Presidential Accountability After Watergate (1975)
The Kennedy Legacy (1969)
Kennedy (1965)
Decision-Making in the White House (1963)
Photograph made from a live television transmission by Telefis Eircann, Dublin, Ireland, during the Presidential visit in June, 1963
“He will stand to those of us who are left as an incarnation of the spirit of the land he loved.”
—John Buchan in Pilgrim’s Way,
on the death of Raymond Asquith
Copyright
The poem on page 336 is a translation by Robert Graves of a poem by Domingo Ortega, © International Authors, N.V. 1962. Reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press Limited.
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1965 by Harper Publishers.
KENNEDY. Copyright © 1965 by Theodore C. Sorensen. Preface copyright © 2009 by Theodore C. Sorensen.