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by Arthur M. Schlesinger

]; federal marshals in Montgomery, [>], [>]; federal troops to Birmingham, [>], [>]–[>] ; federalization of National Guard at University of, [>]. See also Birmingham

  Albert, Carl, [>], [>], [>] fn.

  Alejos, Roberto, [>]

  Alessandri, Jorge, [>]

  Alexander, Robert, and Latin American Task Force, [>]

  Algeria, [>], [>], [>], [>]; as Senator, JFK criticizes U.S. policy in, [>]–[>], [>]; presidential concern with, [>]; and French, [>]–[>], [>]; National Liberation Front, [>]; and Communists, [>]; and PL [>], [>]

  Allende, Salvador, [>]

  Alliance for Progress, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>] fn., [>], [>]–[>], [>]; JFK calls for establishment of, [>], [>]–[>]; and Goodwin, [>]–[>]; policies of, announced at Tampa (1960), [>]–[>]; and Berle, [>]; Fulbright’s view of, in Cuban Invasion, [>]; JFK urges OAS to expedite, [>]; 1962 status of, [>]–[>]; and bureaucrats, [>]; and Punta del Este conference, [>]–[>], [>]; and AID, [>]; and Muñoz Marin, [>]; JFK sets forth promise of, [>]; and democratic leaders, [>]–[>]; Bosch praises, [>]; and sanctions against Castro, [>]–[>]; JFK speaks to Latin American diplomats on accomplishments of, [>]; criticism of, [>]–[>]; prognosis for, [>]; and North American business community, [>]; Inter-American Committee for, [>]

  Alphand, Hervé, [>]–[>]

  Alphand, Nicole (Mme. Hervé), [>]

  Alsogaray, Alvaro Carlos, [>]

  Alsop, Joseph, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; JFK to, on Addison’s disease, [>]; JFK to, on Vice-Presidency (1958), [>]; urges Dillon appointment, [>]; recommends Bruce for State appointment, [>]; and ‘domino’ theory, [>]

  Alsop, Stewart, [>], [>], [>]; on Cuba in Saturday Evening Post (with Bartlett), [>]; “Great Tax Myth,” [>] fn.; “More on the Great Tax Myth,” [>] fn.

  Amagiri, [>]

  American Academy of Arts and Letters, [>]

  American Civil Liberties Union, [>]

  American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters, [>]

  American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and American Democracy, The (Myrdal), [>]

  American Institute of Architects, [>]

  American Medical Association, [>]

  American Mercury, [>]

  American Nazi Party, [>]

  American Newspaper Publishers Association, [>]

  American Scholar, Kazin essay in, [>]

  Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; Roosevelt Day Dinners, Boston, [>]; and James Loeb, Jr., [>]; National Board of, [>]; and Lawrence O’Brien, [>]; and civil rights, [>]. See also Liberals

  American Society of Newspaper Editors, [>]; post-Cuba speech by JFK, [>]

  American University, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; reaction to JFK speech at, [>], [>]

  American Veterans Committee, [>]

  Amery, Julian, [>]

  Amherst, [>], [>]; JFK speech at, [>]–[>]

  Amoedo, Dr. Julio A., [>]

  Amory, Robert, Jr., [>]

  Anderson, Clinton, [>], [>]

  Anderson, Robert, [>], [>]; and Castro’s Minister of Finance, [>]

  Anderson, Major Rudolph, Jr., [>]

  Angola, [>], [>]–[>], [>]; Resolution, [>]; Acheson on, [>]

  Anti-poverty program. See Poverty program

  Appalachia, [>]; ‘hard-core’ unemployment in, [>], [>]

  APRA, [>], [>]–[>]; and Haya de la Torre, [>]–[>]; Loeb on, [>]; and military coup, [>]

  Arango, Dr. Sánchez, [>]

  Arciniegas, German, [>]–[>]; 1952 definition of Latin America, [>]

  Area redevelopment, [>], [>] fn., [>]; and Paul Douglas, [>]; Congress passes bill for, [>], [>]; and Batt, [>]

  Argentina, [>], [>]–[>], [>]; and Castro, [>]–[>], [>]; opposes sanctions against Cuba, [>]–[>]; political and economic instability of, [>], [>]. See also Frondizi, Arturo

  Ariel (Rodó), [>]

  Arlington National Cemetery, [>]

  Armco Steel Corporation, [>]

  Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, [>], [>] fn.; establishment of, [>]–[>], [>]; Committee of Principals, [>], [>]–[>]; concern of, with national security, [>]; and Rusk, [>]; and Dean, [>]; and test ban, [>]; and proposed Soviet-American moon shot, [>]

  Arms program: and Latin America, [>]–[>]; and Batista, [>]

  Arms Research Institute, JFK proposes, [>]

  Armstrong, Hamilton Fish, [>]

  Army, U.S.: state of in 1961, [>]–[>]; Special Forces, [>]–[>]; and MLF, [>]

  Article VI, [>], [>]

  Artime, Manuel, [>], [>], [>]; Miró Cardona names as commander of Cuban Brigade, [>]

  Arvey, Jacob, at 1960 convention, [>]

  Asquith, Raymond, [>]

  Atlantic Community, [>]; and de Gaulle, [>], [>]–[>], [>]; and E.E.C., [>]–[>]; and military protection, [>], [>]; ‘dumbbell’ theory, [>] fn.; and British entry in Common Market, [>]; and tariff reform, [>]–[>]; and MLF, [>]–[>]; united political front for, [>]

  Atomic bomb, [>]

  Atomic Energy Act, [>]

  Atomic Energy Commission, [>]; and Seaborg, [>]; and underground testing, [>] fn., [>]; and atmospheric testing, [>]

  Attwood, William, [>], [>]; on liberals’ endorsement of JFK, [>]; ambassador to Guinea, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Auchincloss, Hugh, [>]

  Auden, W. H., [>]; at inauguration, [>]

  Australia, [>]

  Autobahn, [>], [>], [>], [>]. See also Berlin

  Automation, [>]

  Avedon, Richard, [>]

  Ayer, A. J., [>], [>]

  Ayub Kahn, [>]

  Azikiwe, Nnamdi, [>]

  Azores, [>]; U.S. military bases in, [>]

  Back to Methuselah (Shaw), [>]

  Badeau, John, [>]; ambassador to Cairo, [>]

  Bagdikian, Ben, [>]

  Bailey, John, [>]; at 1960 convention, [>], [>]; in campaign organization, [>]

  Baker, Bobby, [>]–[>]

  Baker v. Carr, [>]

  Balaguer, Joaquín, [>]–[>]; and democratic opposition, [>]–[>]; JFK appeals to, [>]

  Balance of payments, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; Secretary of Treasury Anderson on, [>]; deficit in, [>]; and JFK, [>], [>], [>]; and Alliance for Progress funds, [>]; and tariffs, [>]

  Baldwin, James, [>]; “Letter from a Region of My Mind,” [>]–[>]; and Rauh, [>]–[>]; and Robert Kennedy, [>], [>]; on northern Negro, [>]

  Baldwin, Roger, [>]

  Baldwin, Stanley, [>]

  Ball, George W., [>], [>], [>]; on liberals’ endorsement of JFK, [>]; and Stevenson, [>], [>], [>]; and Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, [>]–[>], [>]; and Stevenson foreign policy report, [>]–[>]; and State Department “rhetoric,” [>]; JFK view of, [>]; and State Department shakeup, [>], [>]–[>]. [>]; background, [>]; and Volta Dam project in Ghana, [>]; and Congo, [>]; and foreign economic policy, [>]; and task force on payments and reserve problem, [>]; and international payments, [>], [>]–[>]; and travel restrictions, [>]; at JFK-Jagan meeting, [>]; and ExCom in Cuban missile crisis, [>], [>] fn.; and trade policy, [>], [>], [>]; and Skybolt cancellation, [>]; and European policy, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Banda, Hastings, [>]

  Ban-the-bomb movements, [>]; in London, [>]

  Bao Dai, [>]

  Baran, Paul, [>]

  Barghoorn, Frederick, [>]–[>]

  Barkley, Alben, [>], [>]

  Barnes, Tracy, [>], [>], [>]; and Cuban White Paper, [>]; briefs Stevenson on Cuba, [>]

  Barnes, William, [>]

  Barnett, Robert W., [>]

  Barnett, Ross, [>]–[>], [>]; and Robert Kennedy, [>], [>], [>], [>]; JFK’s calls to, [>]–[>]

  Bartlett, Charles, [>], [>]; Alsop piece on Cuba, Saturday Evening Post, [>]–[>]; article by, precedes Bowles’s transfer, [>]; and Metropolitan Club, [>]

  Baruch Plan, [>]

  Batista, Fulgencio, [>], [>], [>], [>]; recognition of, by Eisenhower administration, [>]; JFK on, [>], [>]

  Batt, William L., Jr., [>]

  Battle, Lucius, [>]
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  Baughman, U. E. (Secret Service Chief), [>]–[>]; on JFK’s egalitarianism, [>]

  Bay of Pigs, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; U.S. expects internal Cuban support, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; Schlesinger memo opposes invasion, [>]–[>], [>]; and U.S. military support, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; and pre-invasion air strikes, [>]–[>], [>]; confusion at UN over, [>]–[>]; failure of invasion, [>]–[>]; public criticism, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; JFK assumes responsibility for debacle of, [>]–[>]; foreign criticism of, [>]–[>]; JFK creates commission of inquiry, [>]–[>]; in retrospect, [>]–[>]; State Department document after, [>]–[>]; effect of, on White House staff, [>]–[>], [>]; effect of, on JFK’s role in foreign affairs, [>], [>], [>], [>]; and inherited executive bureaucracy, [>]–[>]; and civil defense, [>]. See also CIA; Cuba

  Beer, Samuel H., calk for liberal endorsement of JFK-LBJ ticket, [>]

  Belafonte, Harry, [>]

  Belaunde Terry, Fernando, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Belgium, [>]

  Belgrade Meeting of Neutrals, [>]–[>]

  Bell, David, [>], [>]–[>]; and Stevenson, [>]; and development missions, [>]; and JFK foreign aid message, [>]; and AID, [>]–[>]. [>]–[>]; and Bureau of Budget, [>]; and Skybolt, [>]

  Bellamy, Edward, [>]

  Beltrán, Pedro, [>], [>]

  Bemis, Samuel Flagg (John Quincy Adams), [>]

  Ben Bella, Ahmed, [>]–[>]; and Cuban missile crisis, [>], [>]; reaction of, to assassination, [>]

  Bender, Frank (Droller), CIA agent, [>]–[>], [>]; Time comments on, [>]; and Sanjenis, [>]; tells Frente to come to agreement with Ray, [>]–[>]; and Cuban Revolutionary Council, [>]

  Ben Gurion, David, [>]

  Bennett, James V, [>]

  Benny, Jack, [>]

  Benson, Ezra Taft, [>]

  Benton, Wilbur, [>]

  Benton, William, [>]; Khrushchev to, on Harriman, [>]

  Berenson, Bernard, [>]

  Berle, Adolf, [>], [>], [>], [>]; as New Dealer, [>], [>]–[>], [>] fn.; and Latin America, [>], [>]; and Latin American Task Force, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]; and Quadros, [>]; criticizes Eisenhower’s Latin American policy, [>]; and Cuban White Paper, [>]; and Bay of Pigs invasion plan, [>]; and Cuban Revolutionary Council, [>], [>], [>], [>]; mission to Miami, [>]–[>]; resignation of, [>]; and Dominican unrest, [>]

  Berlin, [>], [>], [>]–[>]. [>], [>], [>], [>]; and Stevenson foreign policy report, [>]; Khrushchev on, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>] [>]; background of problem, [>]–[>]; ‘free city’ proposal, [>]–[>] [>]–[>]; JFK and de Gaulle discuss access and status problem, [>]–[>], [>]; East and West Berlin compared, [>]; JFK and Khrushchev discuss at Vienna, [>]–[>], [>]; JFK and Macmillan discuss in London, [>]; Soviet policy in, [>], [>]; Acheson thesis and policy debate, [>]–[>]; blockade, [>], [>], [>]; Autobahn, [>], [>], [>], [>]; task force, [>], [>]; political issues in, [>]–[>]; military planning, [>]–[>], [>]; negotiations planning for, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; the Wall, [>]–[>]. [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; LBj visits, [>]; military build-up for, [>]–[>]; pessimism in government concerning, [>]–[>]; Robert and Ethel Kennedy visit, [>]–[>]; reaction of neutrals to U.S. policy for, [>]–[>], [>]; U.S. reaction to, and economic policy, [>]; and Soviet missiles in Cuba, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; and Nenni, [>]; JFK’s triumphal visit to, [>]; effect on, of non-aggression pact, [>]; reaction in, to assassination, [>]. See also East Germany; West Germany

  Berlin, Sir Isaiah, [>]; and Hickory Hill seminar, [>]

  Bermuda, [>]–[>]; JFK, Macmillan meet in, [>]

  Bernard, Claude, [>]

  Bernhard, Berl, [>], [>]

  Bernstein, E. M., [>]

  Betancourt, Ernesto, [>]

  Betancourt, Rómulo, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; described, [>]; and Henry Holland, [>]; and Berle, [>]; State Department policy toward, [>] fn.; and social democracy, [>], [>]; reaction of Communists to, [>]; and reactionaries, [>]; JFK visits, [>]; JFK’s respect for, [>]–[>]; and Trujillo, [>]; and Bosch, [>]; Castro predicts overthrow of, [>]

  Bethe, Hans, [>]

  Bethesda Naval Hospital, [>]

  Bethlehem Steel Company, [>]; and F.B.I., [>]; rescinds price increase, [>]

  Bevan, Aneurin, [>]

  Biddle, Francis, [>]

  Bigart, Homer, on Harkins-Nolting policy toward Ngo Dinh Diem, [>]

  Billings, Lemoyne, [>]

  Bingham, Jonathan B., [>]

  Birmingham, Alabama, [>]–[>], [>]; and JFK Vanderbilt University speech, [>]–[>]; Lubell polls civil rights issue in, [>]

  Birth control, [>]; and Catholic President, [>], [>]. See also Population policy

  Bishop, Jim (The Day Lincoln Was Shot), [>]

  Bissell, Richard, [>], [>]; and Dulles brief JFK on Cuba, [>], [>]; and Trinidad Plan, [>]–[>]; described, [>]; outlines Zapata plan, [>]; and Cuban Brigade, [>], [>]–[>]; and Bay of Pigs, [>], [>], [>]; JFK on, [>]; and Special Forces, U.S. Army, [>]

  Black, Eugene, [>], [>]; and Clay foreign aid committee, [>], [>]

  Black, Hugo, [>]

  Black Like Me (Griffin), [>]

  Black Muslims, [>], [>]

  Blair, William McCormack, Jr., [>], [>], [>], [>]; on liberals’ endorsement of JFK, [>]; at Los Angeles, [>]–[>]. [>]. [>], [>]; and JFK, [>]; ambassador to Denmark, [>]; and Stevenson, [>]

  Blake, Peter, [>]

  Blough, Roger, [>], [>]; announces steel price increase to JFK, [>]; Scranton exhorts against steel price increase to, [>]; Goldberg and Clifford visit, [>]

  Blum, Leon, [>]

  Board of Economic Warfare, [>]; and Ball, [>]

  Bogotá Agreement, [>], [>]; Social Progress Fund, [>], [>]

  Bohlen. Charles E., [>], [>], [>]; and McCarthyism, [>], [>]; Soviet expert, [>], [>]; on Gromyko, [>]; at Vienna, [>], [>]; proposes elimination of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ from policy language, [>]; and JFK, [>]–[>]; and offer of Polaris to France, [>]–[>]; and de Gaulle, [>]

  Bolivia, [>], [>], [>], [>]; aid to during Eisenhower administration, [>]–[>]; nationalization program of, [>]; and Castro, [>], [>]

  Bolling, Richard, [>]

  Bolshakov, Georgi, [>]

  Bomb and fallout shelters. See Shelters, bomb and fallout

  Bonn, Germany, [>], [>], [>]; U.S. Embassy in, on East German uprising, [>]; discontent of, with U.S. policy for Berlin, [>]–[>]; and disarmament, [>]; and multilateral force, [>]; and Skybolt cancellation, [>]; and test ban treaty, [>], [>]. See also Adenauer; West Germany

  Bonnelly, Rafael, [>]

  Bonsai, Philip, [>], [>]; and Cuban Revolutionary Council platform, [>]

  Boothby, Lord, on Bay of Pigs, [>]

  Borges, Jorge Luis, [>]

  Bosch, Juan, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Boston Globe, [>]–[>]

  Boston Post, [>]

  Bourguiba, Habib, [>]; relationship with JFK, [>]

  Bourguiba, Habib, Jr., [>]

  Boutin, Bernard, [>]

  Bouvier, Jacqueline. See Kennedy, Jacqueline

  Bowie, Robert, [>]

  Bowles, Chester, [>], [>], goo, [>], [>], [>], [>]; JFK’s political indebtedness to, [>]–[>], [>]; Senate confirms appointment of, [>], [>], [>]; and Henderson plan for ambassadors to Africa, [>], [>]; staffs top State Department posts, [>]–[>]; and Stevenson Foreign Policy Report, [>]; and Bay of Pigs, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; and ambassadors, [>], [>]; and New Frontier, [>]; in State Department reorganization, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; and Harriman, [>]; and UN recognition of Outer Mongolia, [>]; and uncommitted nations, [>], [>]; and India’s five-year plan, [>], [>]; and Vietnam, [>]; and Volta Dam project, Ghana, [>]; and foreign aid, [>]; on acceptance of new ideas by bureaucracy, [>]; and Bartlett article, [>]

  Bradbury, Norris, [>], [>]

  Bradlee, Benjamin, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Brain trust, [>], [>]; speech and research operations, [>], [>]–[>]; academic, see Bundy, Galbraith, Rostow; personal, see Feldman, Goodwin, Sorenson; political, see Donahue, Dungan, O’Brien, O’Donnell

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sp; Branch, Lesley (Sabres of Paradise), [>]

  Brandon, Henry, [>], [>]–[>]

  Brandt, Willy: condemns western reaction to Berlin Wall, [>]; greets Robert Kennedy in Berlin, [>]; Schlesinger questions on the Wall, [>]; JFK and, [>], [>]

  Brazil, [>], [>]–[>], [>]; northeast described, [>]; Communism in, [>]; and Castro, [>]; opposes sanctions against Cuba, [>], [>]; U.S. aid to, [>]

  Breuer, Marcel, [>]

  Brezhnev, Leonid, [>]; and Nkrumah, [>]

  Bricker, John W., [>]

  Brinkley, David, [>], [>]; JFK to, on de Gaulle, [>]

  Brinksmanship, [>], [>]

  British Guiana, [>]–[>]; and foreign aid, [>]–[>]; and neutralism, [>]–[>]

  Brodie, Bernard, [>]

  Brogan, Sir Denis, [>]

  Brookings Institution, [>]–[>]; and Clark Clifford, [>]

  Brooks, Van Wyck, [>]; New England: Indian Summer, [>] fn.

  Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, [>]

  Brown, George, [>]

  Brown, Dr. Harrison, [>] fn.

  Brown, Winthrop, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; and Harriman, [>]

  Browne, Malcolm W., [>], [>] fn., and Admiral Felt, [>]

  Bruce, David, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; and task force on national security, [>]; and Graham, [>]; and Skybolt, [>]; at JFK-Macmillan meeting, Nassau, [>]; and MLF, [>]–[>]

  Buchan, John, [>]; Pilgrim’s Way, [>], [>], [>]

  Buchanan, James, [>]

  Buchwald, Art, [>]

  Buckley, Charles, [>]

  Buddhists, [>]–[>], [>]

  Bunche, Ralph, [>]

  Bundy, McGeorge, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; and Strauss nomination, [>]–[>]; and Stevenson, [>]; war experience of, [>]; and National Security Affairs, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; and Sorensen, [>]; described, [>]–[>]; in Bay of Pigs crisis, [>], [>], [>]; as coordinator of security affairs within White House, [>], [>]–[>]; and Pentagon reorganization, [>]; and de Gaulle, [>]–[>]; and Berlin, [>]–[>]. [>]; emphasizes authority of Secretary of State, [>]; and role of National Security Council, [>]; attitude of staff toward, [>]; and CIA, [>]; and nuclear testing, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]; and UN, [>], [>]; on JFK and weapons systems, [>]; and disarmament issues, [>]; and presidential diplomacy, [>], [>]; and JFK’s Yale commencement address, [>]; on White House staff, [>]–[>]; and Cuban missile crisis, [>], [>]; and MLF, [>], [>]; at JFK-Macmillan meeting in Nassau, [>], [>]; and Italian policy, [>]; and test ban, [>

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