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Carter, Rosalynn, 45
remarks about Parker by, 162–65
and First Lady’s roles, 46–47, 51
cold war, end of, 62
helping others, 51
Collingwood, Charles, 100
and mental health programs, 50–52
Con Men (Jackman), 185
MW interview with, 49–50
Connor, Bull, 80
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Cook, Greg, 179
presidential elections, 42
Copland, Aaron, 157
and race, 74, 79
Counsel to the President (Clifford), 12
Wright’s views on, 138
Cravath, Swaine & Moore, 198
Eisenhower, Mamie Dowd, 43
Crile, George, 190–96, 202
Emancipation Proclamation, 79–80
Crowe, Russell, 218
Emerson, Faye, 3
Crystal, Billy, 268
Ernst, Max, 143
Executioner’s Song, The (Mailer), 250
Dalí, Salvador, 140–43
autobiography of, 142
Farouk, king of Egypt, 111
immortality of, 143
Farrakhan, Louis, 93–98
MW interview with, 142, 143
anti-Semitism of, 97–98
Persistence of Memory, 140
and Elijah Muhammad, 93, 94
and surrealism, 140, 142, 143
and Malcolm X, 93–96
Daly, John Charles, 165
MW interviews with, 94, 95–98
Daughters of the American Revolution
and racial hatred, 93–94
(DAR), 39
travel to Africa, 96–97
Davis, Bette, 247
Faubus, Orval
Davis, Edie, 52–53, 54, 60
and integration, 73–76
Davis, Loyal, 53
MW interview with, 74–75, 166
Davis, Nancy, 53, 55; see also Reagan, and reelection, 75, 76
Nancy
FDR Memorial Commission, 42–43
Davis, Patti, 59
Fiedler, Arthur, 149
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 80, 222
First Lady, roles of, 40, 43–45, 46–47, Dayan, Moshe, 100
51
Death of a Salesman (Miller), 259, 262
Fishburne, Laurence, 242
Desert Storm, 132
Fonda, Jane, 228, 229
Devotion, Edward, 8
Ford, Gerald R., 14, 46, 48, 55, 56
Dickson, Harry Ellis, 149
Forster, E. M., 232
DiMaggio, Joe, 258
Four Lads, 174
Dougherty, Jim, 257–58
Fox, Fannie “The Argentine Firecracker,”
Douglas Edwards with the News (TV), 204
267
Dukakis, Kitty Dickson, 149
FOX News Sunday, 60
Dukakis, Michael, 149
Fratianno, Jimmy “The Weasel,” 167–71, Duncan, Isadora, 228
174
book by, 167
Eastland, James, 70–72
as killer, 168–69
Ed Sullivan Show, The (TV), 150
MW interview with, 168–71
Edwards, Eldon Lee, 68–70, 80
Freud, Sigmund, 140
Egypt
Friedman, Thomas, 119
British occupation of, 111
Funny Girl (Broadway musical), 236
and Camp David accords, 109–10,
112–13
Gabor, Zsa Zsa, 6
and Israel, 109–10, 111–13
Gandhi, Mohandas K. (Mahatma), 137
Sadat, 109–13, 130
Garment, Len, 25–26, 28, 30
territories of, 100
Gilmore, Gary, 250
Einstein, Albert, 107, 153
Godfather, The (Puzo), 171, 173
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Goldenson, Leonard, 164, 165
Eleanor Roosevelt’s views on, 38
Goldin, Marion, 179, 184
Mailer’s remarks about, 251
Goldwater, Barry, 54
and Nixon, 24, 41
Goodman, Ellen, 183
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Gorbachev, Mikhail, 62–63
I, Tina (Turner), 242–43
Gore, Al, 198
I Can Get It for You Wholesale (Broadway Gorin, Norman, 184–85
musical), 236
Great Depression, 39
“I Have a Dream” (King), 80
Great Society, 20, 22, 24, 44, 62, 85
I Love Lucy (TV), 151
Greene, Bob, 183
In Search of Identity (Sadat), 111
Grosset & Dunlap, 253
Insider, The (film), 218–19
Guggenheim Museum, New York, 140
Iran
and Afghanistan, 131
Haley, Alex
anti-Western theocracy in, 130–31
and King, 91–92
hostage crisis in, 47, 127–29, 132
and Malcolm X, 88, 91–92
and Iraq, 131–32
MW interview with, 91–92
Khomeini, 127–31
Hamas, 118
nuclear energy program in, 131
Hamill, Pete, 225
and oil embargo, 122
Hammett, Dashiell, 229
revolution in, 126–27, 130, 131, 132
Haney, Carol, 222
SAVAK in, 124
Harvey, Terrel, 182
Shah, 122–27
Hasty Pudding Club, Harvard University, Iran-Contra affair, 60–61
264, 268
Iran-Iraq war, 131–32
Hawkins, Gains, 192, 202
Iraq
Hayes, Helen, 247
as “axis of evil,” 131
Heifetz, Jascha, 149, 151
Desert Storm, 132
Hellman, Lillian, 229
and Iran, 131–32
Hemingway, Ernest, 251
U.S. assistance to, 132
Hertzberg, Rabbi Arthur, 104
Iraq-Gate banking scandal, 206
Hewitt, Don
Irgun Zvai Leumi, 107, 108
and CBS News, 30
Irma La Douce (film), 222
as executive producer, 17
Israel
and Jewish lobby, 103–4
Begin interviews, 105–9
and LBJ Library tour, 17, 18–19, 20
and Camp David accords, 109–10,
and MW’s career, 216
112–13
reputation of, 30
and Egypt, 109–10, 111–13
and 60 Minutes, 30, 175, 212, 216
and guerrilla warfare, 106–8, 118
and special edition, 183–84
Knesset in, 105, 109
and Tobacco War, 211–12, 213–17
occupied territories, 100, 102, 112, 115, Hill, Clint, 14–17
116, 117, 119
Hitler, Adolf, 137, 271
and Oslo Accords, 116–17
Hooks, Benjamin, 57
and Palestine/PLO, 114, 115, 116,
Hoover, J. Edgar, 214
117–19, 121–22
Horowitz, Vladimir, 152–57
Redgrave’s views on, 230–31
comeback of, 155–56
relocation to, 105
fiftieth anniversary of, 152, 153
right to exist, 115, 116
MW interview with, 153–56, 175
Six-Day War, 20, 100, 101, 106, 112, 116
“Stars and Stripes Forever,” 156–57
War of Independence, 107, 116
withdrawal period of, 155
Yom Kippur War, 101, 111–12
Horowitz, Wanda, 154–56
Howards End (film), 232
Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy Humphrey, Hubert H., 27, 32
(Parmet), 13
Hussein, Saddam, 131–32
Jackman, Ian, 18
5
Huston, John, 159
James, Henry, 232
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Jewish Defense League, 229
Haley’s views on, 91–92
Jewish lobby, 98, 101, 102, 103–4, 108,
“I Have a Dream,” 80
114, 125–26, 229–30
influence of, 137
Jim Crow laws, 68, 76
and militant activists, 81–82
Johnson, Lady Bird, 18, 19–20, 44
ministry of, 76
Johnson, Lyndon B., 12, 17–24
MW interviews with, 78, 79–80, 82–84
achievements of, 20, 21, 22, 24, 44, 62, MW’s admiration for, 84, 85
85
Nobel Peace Prize to, 81
on the burdens of the presidency, 22
nonviolent protests of, 77, 78, 80, 83, 84
and civil rights, 81, 85
and presidential politics, 78–81
and Hoover, 214
threats and violence aimed at, 77, 84
LBJ Presidential Library, 17, 18, 20
Knobel, Beth, 275
and LBJ ranch, 18–19
Korean War, as Mr. Truman’s War, 22
political career of, 45, 46, 54
Kovacs, Ernie, 1
and Vietnam War, 18, 20, 21, 22–24, 32, Kowet, Don, 195
84–85, 192
Kraft, Robert, 8–9
Jordan, territories of, 100, 112
Krips, Alfred, 149
Julia (film), 229, 232
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 68–70
Just for the Record (Streisand), 236
Kuwait, Iraqi invasion of, 132
Kaden, Ellen, 211, 213, 217
Lancaster, Burt, 234–35
Kaplan, Marvin, 201, 202
Lando, Barry, 127, 128, 184
Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier, 15, 43–44, 158
Last Mafioso, The (Fratianno), 167
Kennedy, John F.
Last Year at Marienbad (film), 180
assassination of, 13–17
Lawford, Peter, 222
in Brookline, 8–9
LBJ Presidential Library, 17, 18, 20
and integration, 79, 80
Lebanon, 115
and New Frontier, 61
Lee, Spike, 91, 92
and Pearson interview, 7, 9–13
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 137
political career of, 9–10, 46
Leno, Jay, 268
presidential election (1960), 25
Leonard, Bill, 60
and Profiles in Courage, 10–13, 42, 164
Leonardo da Vinci, 142
and Vietnam, 22, 24
LeRoy, Mervyn, 55
in World War II, 9
Lewinsky, Monica, 45
Kennedy, Joseph P., 8, 9–10, 12
Life, 175
Kennedy, Robert F., 10, 223
Lincoln, Abraham, 22
assassination of, 14
Lincoln Memorial concert (1939), 40
Mailer’s conjectures about, 253, 254–55
Little Rock, Arkansas, 73–75
Kennedy, Rose, 8
Lloyd’s of London, 166
Kennedy family
Lomax, Louis, 86–87, 88
in Brookline, 7–9
Long Day’s Journey into Night (O’Neill), 232
counsel for, 10, 11, 12
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 8
lawsuit threat from, 11–12
Lorillard, 212–13
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 127–31
Louis X, see Farrakhan, Louis MW interview with, 128–30
Luciano, Lucky, 172
and revolution, 130–31
Lucky Strike, 204
King, Larry, 50, 64
Lund, Peter, 214
King, Rev. Martin Luther, Jr., 14, 76–85
assassination of, 84, 91
MacLaine, Shirley, 221–27
on the economic plight of the Negro,
as actress, 221–22, 225
83–84
as dancer, 221–22
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MW interviews with, 223–24, 226–27
Mead, Marikay, 128
and political causes, 223, 227
Medicaid, 176–77
and Rat Pack, 222–23
Menuhin, Yehudi, 151
spirituality of, 223–24, 226–27
Mexican War, as Mr. Polk’s War, 22
Madison, James, 22
Middle East
Mafia
Afghanistan invasion, 131
capo don of, 171
Al Qaeda, 131, 132
Capone, 171–72
Arab oil embargo, 47, 101, 122
Castro plot of, 170–71
Camp David accords, 109–10, 112–13,
ceremony of, 169
114, 117
and Godfather, 171, 173
Desert Storm, 132
hit men for, 167–69, 171
Egypt, 109–13
membership in, 174
freedom fighters/terrorists in, 107–8, omertà code of, 171
116–19, 132
Sicilian vs. American culture in, 172
Iran, 122–31
Mailer, Adele, 252
Iran-Iraq war, 131–32
Mailer, Norman, 249–57, 259
Iraq, 131–32
book about Monroe by, 249–50, 253–56
Israel, 105–9, 116
controversy welcomed by, 250, 251–52
and Jewish lobby, 98, 101, 102, 103–4, MW interviews with, 250–51, 252,
108, 114, 125–26, 229–30
253–57
Oslo Accords, 115, 116–18, 119
political campaigns of, 252
peace efforts, 99–100, 109–10, 112–13, Pulitzer and National Book awards to, 250
114, 116–19, 121–22
Malcolm X, 14, 87–92
PLO and Arafat, 107–8, 113–22
assassination of, 91, 93, 94–96
radical Islamic groups in, 118
autobiography of, 88, 91–92
Six-Day War, 20, 100, 101, 106, 112, 116
“by any means necessary,” 88, 92
Syrian Jews, 101–5
and Elijah Muhammad, 89, 94
Yom Kippur War, 101, 111–12
family of, 94–96
Mike Wallace Interview, The
and Farrakhan, 93–96
at ABC, 5–6, 68, 78, 159
Haley’s views on, 91–92
cigarette commercials on, 205
influence of, 88, 92, 93–94
end of, 78
magnetic presence of, 88
guest list on, 6
MW interviews with, 88, 89, 90–91
legal watchdog for, 166
and Nation of Islam, 88, 89, 95
libel suit threats to, 6, 11, 12, 164–67
and Organization of Afro-American Unity, live broadcasts of, 162–63
89
national audience of, 6
pilgrimage to Mecca, 89
Miller, Arthur, 258–63
respect accorded after death of, 91
autobiography of, 260
Malcolm X (film), 91
as dramatist, 259, 261, 262, 263
Man of Honor, A (Bonanno), 171
Monroe’s marriage with, 257, 258–62
Mansfield, Jayne, 6
MW interview with, 259–61, 262–63
Martha’s Vineyard Arts Association, 147–48
Million Dollar Baby (film), 247
Martin, Dean, 222
Million Man March, 96
Mary, Queen of Scots (film), 228
Mills, Wilbur, 267
McChristian, Joseph, 191, 192, 202
Mirage Tavern, 177–78, 184
McClure, Bill, 101, 123
Misfits, The (film), 261, 262
McGovern, George, 223
Monroe, Marilyn
McK
ellar, Kenneth, 6–7
and DiMaggio, 258
McKenna, Siobhan, 3
and Dougherty, 257–58
McNamara, Robert S., 22
Mailer’s views on, 249–50, 253–56
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Monroe, Marilyn (continued)
presidential campaign of, 24–30, 31, 32, and Miller, 257, 258–62
33, 35
in Misfits, 261
as “Tricky Dick,” 25, 32
Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, 76–77, as vice president, 24–25
84
and Vietnam War, 22, 32, 34, 46
Morath, Inge, 262
and Watergate, 29, 34, 46, 55, 176
Moreau, Jeanne, 247
Nolte, Nick, 239
Morgan (film), 228
North Korea, as “axis of evil,” 131
Muhammad, Elijah, 87–88, 89–90, 93, 94
Murdoch, Rupert, 60
Ober, Eric, 211–12, 213, 217
Murray, Eunice, 255–56
Olivier, Laurence, 228
Murrieta Hot Springs, 178–80, 184, 185
Onassis, Aristotle, 157
Murrow, Edward R., 205, 217
O’Neill, Eugene, 232
My Turn (N. Reagan), 63
Organization of Afro-American Unity, 89
Oslo Accords (1993), 115, 116–18, 119
NAACP, 57, 69, 87
Out on a Limb (MacLaine), 223
Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer), 250
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 111
Paar, Jack, 233
Nation, The, 78
Pacino, Al, 173, 218–19
National Guard, 101st Airborne Division, 74
Pahlavi, Shah Mohammad Reza, 122–27
Nation of Islam, 87–88, 89, 93, 94–95
and American hostages, 127–28
Native Son (Wright), 246
as anti-Communist, 130
Near East Report, 104
and Jewish lobby, 125–26
Negroes, see African-Americans
MW interviews with, 123–26
New Deal, 37, 39, 40
and revolution, 126–27, 130, 131
New England Patriots, 8
Pajama Game, The (Broadway musical), New Frontier, 61
222
Newsweek, 87
Palestine
New York Daily News, 217
British rule in, 107
New York Philharmonic, 152
guerrillas of, 106–7, 115, 118, 120–21
New York Times, The
homeland of, 105, 114
on Black Muslims, 87
and Israel, 114, 115, 116, 117–19, 121–22
on CBS self-censorship, 217
and Middle East peace, 114
on Faubus interview, 75
and Oslo Accords, 116
on Ku Klux Klan, 69
self-rule, 116, 117, 121, 122
ownership of, 126
stateless refugees of, 113
Nicholson, Jack, 225
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Nicoli, Frankie, 168
107–8
Night Beat
Arafat, 113–22
controversial topics covered in, 3, 160, intifada of, 115, 118
165, 250–52
Redgrave’s film about, 229
format of, 2–3, 5
Palestinian, The (film), 229