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A Thousand Days

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by Arthur M. Schlesinger

], [>], [>], [>]; Stevenson report on, [>], [>], [>]–[>]; presidential role in, and responsibility for, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; task force for, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; and Latin America, [>], [>]–[>]; Eisenhower view of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; and Cuba, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; European criticism of, after Bay of Pigs, [>]–[>]; JFK’s concept of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; and Defense Department, [>]; and Berlin, [>]–[>]; traditional State Department role in, [>]; and power of CIA, [>]–[>]; and Rusk, [>]; and Bowles, [>]; and UN, [>], [>]; and colonialism, [>]–[>]; revision of, under JFK, [>]–[>]; and steel fight, [>]; and payments deficit, [>]; and liberals, [>]; and radical right, [>]

  Foreign Service, [>]–[>], [>]; and Africa, [>], [>]; Negroes in, [>], [>]; and JFK’s attitude toward professional diplomat, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; Kennan’s description of, [>]; effect of Dulles-McCarthy era on, [>], [>], [>]–[>]; task force re port on, [>]–[>]; lack of area specialization in, [>], [>]; growth of, since 1930s, [>]–[>]; and State Department, [>], [>]–[>]; Harriman comment on decline of, [>]–[>]; inertia of, [>]–[>]; JFK increases authority of ambassadors, [>]–[>]; and CIA, [>]; White House attitude toward, [>]; and LBJ, [>]; and Italy, [>]; and test ban treaty, [>]. See also State Department; Foreign policy

  Formosa. See Taiwan

  Forrestal, Michael, [>]; at Geneva, [>]; skepticism of, for Diem regime, [>]. [>]

  Fort Belvoir, [>]–[>]

  Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, [>]

  Fortune, [>]

  Fort Worth, Texas, [>]; JFK addresses Chamber of Commerce in, [>]

  Fosburgh, James, [>]

  Foster, John, [>], [>]

  Foster, William C., [>]–[>]; and ACDA, [>], [>]; and disarmament plan, [>]

  14th of June movement, Dominican Republic, [>]

  Fowler, H. H., [>]

  Fox, John, [>]

  France, [>]; role in Southeast Asia, [>]–[>]; and SEATO, [>]; Algeria and Tunisia, [>]–[>]; nuclear force of, [>]; and Coal and Steel Community, [>]; and independent nuclear deterrent, [>], [>], [>]; and multinational NATO force, [>]; and anti-American feelings, [>]–[>]; FrancoGerman treaty of cooperation, [>]; and test ban treaty, [>], [>]–[>]. See also De Gaulle Frank, John, [>]

  Frankfurt, Germany, [>]

  Frankfurter, Felix, [>], [>]; and Adrian Fisher, [>]; resignation from Supreme Court, [>]

  Franklin, Benjamin, [>]

  Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation, [>]

  Fredericks, Wayne, [>], [>], [>]; and Volta Dam project in Ghana, [>]; on Congo policy, [>], [>]

  Freedom fighters, Cuban. See Cuban Brigade

  ‘Freedom riders,’ [>], [>], [>]

  Freeman, Douglas Southall, [>]

  Freeman, Orville, [>]; in election of 1960, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; JFK’s enthusiasm for, [>], [>], [>]; and Department of Agriculture, [>]–[>]; war experiences, [>]; and new agricultural policy, [>]

  Free University, Berlin: R. F. Kennedy speech at, [>]; JFK speech at, [>]

  Freidel, Frank, [>]

  Freight rate bill, [>], [>] fn.

  Frei Montalva, Eduardo, [>], [>]

  Frente Revolucionario Democrático, [>]–[>], [>]; Time comments on, [>]; and Cuban freedom fighters discontent with training, [>]; rejects CIA invasion plan, [>]. See also Bay of pigs

  Freund, Paul, [>], [>]

  Fritchey, Clayton, [>]; and Stevenson, [>], [>], [>]; and U.S. mission to UN, [>]

  Frondizi, Arturo, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; described, [>]; to JFK on Castro, [>]; overthrow of, [>]–[>]

  Frost, Robert, [>], [>], [>], [>]; “The Gift Outright,” [>]; on Udall appointment, [>]; visit of, to U.S.S.R., [>]

  Fulbright, J. William, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; on Ball appointment, [>]; as Rhodes Scholar, [>]; and Bay of Pigs memorandum, [>]; denounces Cuban invasion plan, [>], [>], [>], [>]; criticizes Acheson’s Berlin policy, [>]; comments on East German refugee flow, [>]; and disarmament, [>]–[>]; accused of ‘muzzling the military,’ [>]; and Cuban missile crisis, [>]

  Furcolo, Foster, [>], [>]

  Furtado, Celso, [>]; on economic development of Brazil, [>]–[>]; described, [>]

  “Future of Socialism, The” (Schlesinger), [>]

  Gagarin, Yuri, [>]

  Gaitskell, Hugh, [>], [>]; and nuclear testing, [>]; appraisal of Jagan, [>]; and Cuban missile crisis, [>]; and Britain in Common Market, [>], [>]; and JFK, [>]–[>]

  Galbraith, John Kenneth, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; and Stevenson, [>], [>]; and liberals, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; at Los Angeles, [>]–[>], [>]; and Luce, [>]; in JFK-Nixon debates, [>]; during interregnum, [>], [>], [>], [>]; and New York Establishment, [>]; ambassador to India, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>] passim; and foreign and economic policy, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; and Foreign Service, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; and Ball, [>]; to JFK on resumption of testing, [>]; reports Indian reaction to handling of Bay of Pigs crisis, [>]; JFK specialist on Nehru, [>]–[>]; and Goa, [>], [>]; and Vietnam, [>]; and Europeanists, [>]; and education in underdeveloped nations, [>]; The Affluent Society, [>], [>]; congratulates Dillon’s economic policy, [>]–[>]; and JFK’s Yale commencement speech, [>]; and public needs vs. tax-cutting, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; on Pentagon shelter instruction booklet, [>]; and Common Market, [>]

  Gallegos, Rómulo, [>]

  Gallup Poll: post-Bay of Pigs, [>], [>]; and tax reduction, [>]; and congressional election of 1962, [>]; and Negro vote in 1960, [>] fn.; poll of JFK popularity, [>]

  Gandhi, Indira, [>]

  Gandhi, Mohandas K., [>], [>]

  Gant, George, [>]

  Gardner, Arthur, [>]

  Gardner, Richard N., [>], [>], [>]; states American population policy at UN, [>]–[>]

  Gardner, Trevor, [>] fn.

  Garfield, James A., [>]

  Gamer, John Nance, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Gasperi, Alcide de, [>]

  Gates, Thomas, [>], [>]; and Polaris missiles, [>]

  Gaud, William, [>]

  Gavin, James, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; War and Peace in the Space Age, [>]; urges Peace Corps plan to JFK, [>]; and de Gaulle, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  General Electric Company, [>]

  Geneva Agreement, [>]–[>]; and division of Vietnam, [>]; and Laotian independence, [>], [>]; and Laotian neutralization, [>]; cease-fire, [>], [>]–[>]; and South Vietnam, [>]; violations of, [>]–[>]

  George, Walter, [>]

  German Democratic Republic. See East Germany

  German Federal Republic. See West Germany

  Germany, [>], [>], [>]; Franco-German treaty of cooperation, [>]; JFK. visit to, [>]; and MLF, [>]–[>]; reunification of, and Adenauer, [>]. See also Berlin; East Germany; West Germany

  Ghana, [>]; JFK policy in, [>]; Volta River Dam project, [>]–[>]

  Gilmour, Ian, [>]

  Gilpatric, Roswell, [>], [>]; and limited war thesis, [>] fn.; and Pentagon reorganization, [>]; and Laos task force, [>]; and disarmament policy, [>]; on public opposition to test ban, [>]; and ExCom in Cuban missile crisis, [>]; and reciprocal/unilateral arms reduction and control, [>]

  Gizinga, Antoine, [>]

  Goa, [>]–[>]; American reaction to invasion of, [>]

  Gold, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; in Stevenson foreign policy report, [>]; and Joseph Kennedy, [>]; and international payments, [>], [>]; and Roosa, [>]; and European bankers, [>]–[>]; and foreign policy, [>]; and sale of foreign securities, [>]; reserves and Western Europe, [>]

  Goldberg, Arthur J., [>], [>], [>], [>]; to JFK on labor-liberals and LBJ, [>]–[>]; as Secretary of Labor, [>], [>], [>]; and steel, [>]–[>]; and Supreme Court, [>]; and the arts, [>]–[>], [>]; and Italian policy, [>]

  Goldschmidt, Arthur, [>]

  Goldwater, Barry, [>], [>], [>]; applauds Peace Corps, [>]; on JFK and steel fight, [>]; criticizes Schlesinger’s Partisan Review article, [>]; and Bay of Pigs, [>]; and extremism, [>]; and southern Republicans, [>]; and extremism in foreign policy, [>], [>]; in election of 1964, [>], [>]

  Gonzalez, Henry, [>
], [>]

  “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors” (Schlesinger), [>]

  Goodman, Paul, [>]–[>]

  Good Neighbor policy, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; Haya de la Torre on, [>]–[>]; Berle’s view of, [>]

  Goodwin, Richard N., [>], [>] fn., [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; as speech writer, [>], [>]–[>], [>]; as Special Assistant, [>], [>], [>], [>]; described, [>]–[>]; and Latin America, [>], [>], [>]–[>]; as archetypal New Frontiersman, [>]; and Bay of Pigs, [>]–[>]; and Cuban policy, [>]; and hemisphere developments, [>], [>]; and State Department reorganization, [>]–[>]; and Peace Corps, [>], [>]; and domestic policy, [>]; at Punta del Este, [>], [>]; and Woodward, [>]; urges JFK’s Latin American trip, [>]; and Alliance for Progress, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; Guevara describes Cuban status to, [>]; and release of Cuban freedom fighters, [>]–[>]

  Gordon, Kermit, [>], [>]; as Rhodes Scholar, [>]; and Bureau of Budget, [>]; and steel fight, [>]

  Gordon, Lincoln, [>]; and Latin American Task Force, [>], [>]; and Marshall Plan, [>]; and foreign economic policy, [>]; at Punta del Este, [>]; and Brazilian-American relations, [>]

  Gore, Albert, [>], [>], [>]; to JFK on importance of Treasury Department, [>]–[>]; and Senate Subcommittee on Africa, [>]; and Volta Dam project for Ghana, [>]

  Goulart, João, [>]

  Graham, Billy, [>]

  Graham, Katherine, [>]

  Graham, Philip L., [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; described, [>]–[>]; facilitates LBJ-JFK meeting at convention of 1960, [>]; during interregnum, [>]; recommends Bruce for State Department appointment, [>]; and Rusk, [>]; death of, [>]

  Grand Design, The (Kraft), [>]

  Grant, Frances, [>]

  Grattan, Henry, [>]

  Great Britain: and JFK, [>]; and SEATO, [>]; urges revival of International Control Commission in Laos, [>]; and Common Market, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; and Yemen, [>]; and British Guiana, [>]–[>], [>]; intelligence officers from, [>]; and Cuban missile crisis, [>]–[>]; and nuclear deterrents, [>] (see also Skybolt); and Jupiter missiles, [>]; and Skybolt, [>]–[>], [>]; Labour Party, [>]; and test ban negotiations, [>]; fiscal policy in, [>]; reaction of, to assassination, [>]. See also Macmillan, Harold

  Great Contemporaries (Churchill), [>]

  Green, Edith, [>]

  Green, Jerry, [>]

  Grewe, Wilhelm, [>]

  Griffin, John Howard, [>]

  Grimond, Jo, [>]

  Griswold, Erwin, [>]

  Gromyko, Andrei, [>], [>], [>], [>]; and JFK, [>]; at Vienna summit meeting, [>]; Rusk talks, [>], [>]; visits JFK during missile crisis, [>], [>]; and test ban treaty negotiations, [>]; and disarmament, [>]

  Gropius, Walter, Architects Collaborative, [>]

  Gross national product, [>], [>], [>]

  Group Research, Inc., [>]

  Gruening, Ernest, [>]

  Guantánamo Naval Base, [>]; Rusk suggests use of, in Bay of Pigs, [>]; and Cuban missile crisis, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Guatemala, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; Cuban Brigade training base in, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; base becomes public knowledge, [>]. See also CIA; Bay of Pigs

  Guerrilla warfare: JFK view of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; in Vietnam, [>]–[>]; Communist reliance on, [>]–[>], [>]; and strategic hamlet program in Vietnam, [>]–[>], [>] [>]; and Hilsman, [>]

  Guevara, Ernesto (“Che”), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; at Punta del Este, [>]; states Cuban attitude toward Alliance for Progress, [>]; on irreversibility of Cuban Revolution, [>]

  Guinea, [>], [>], [>]–[>]; nationalism in, [>]; Shriver visits, [>], [>]; reaction in, to assassination, [>]

  Gullion, Edmund, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; on JFK and ambassadors, [>]; and disarmament policy, [>]–[>]; and African affairs, [>]; and Congo, [>]–[>]

  Guns of August, The (Tuchman), [>]

  Gunther, John: Inside Europe, [>]; Inside Africa, [>]

  Gunther, Violet, [>]

  Guthman, Edwin O., [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Hackett, David, [>]

  Haddad, William, [>]

  Hagerty, James, [>]

  Hailsham, Lord. See Hogg, Quintin Haiti, [>]; at Punta del Este II, [>]–[>]

  Halaby, Najeeb, [>]

  Halberstam, David, [>], [>] fn., [>], [>]; on U.S. Embassy, Vietnam, [>]

  Haley, J. Evetts, [>] fn.

  Hall, Gus, [>]

  Halle, Kay, [>]

  Halleck, Charles, [>], [>] fn.

  Halperin, Maurice, [>]

  Hamilton, Fowler, [>], [>]; staffs AID, [>]–[>]; and Congress, [>]; leaves AID, [>]–[>]

  Hammarskjöld, Dag, [>]; role of, at UN, [>]–[>]; U.S. backing of, [>]; death of, [>]–[>]; visits Congo, [>]

  Hammersmith Farm, [>]

  Hampton, Robert, [>]

  Hand, Learned, [>]

  Handelman, Howard, [>]–[>]

  Hannah, John, [>], [>]

  Hansberry, Lorraine, [>]

  Hansen, Kenneth, [>]

  Hargis, Reverend Billy James, [>]

  Harkins, General Paul, [>], [>], [>]–[>]; and newsmen, [>], [>]; and Ap Bac, [>]; and Lodge, [>]

  Harriman, W. Averell, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; and Truman attack on JFK, [>]; and LBJ nomination, [>]; role of, in new administration, [>], [>]–[>]; as roving ambassador, [>], [>]–[>], [>]; and Khrushchev, [>], [>], [>]; and Pushkin, [>]; background of, [>]–[>] [>]–[>]; and Laos, [>], [>]; and Berlin, [>]; and FDR, [>]; views of, of State Department, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; on JFK, [>]; and Bowles, [>]; and Far Eastern affairs, [>]–[>], [>]; and uncommitted nations, [>]; and Geneva conference, [>]–[>]; and Vietnam, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; JFK sends, to Africa, [>]; and Congo policy, [>]; and ECA, [>]; and Business Advisory Council, [>]; at Eleanor Roosevelt’s funeral, [>]; and travel restrictions, [>]; and Cuban missile crisis, [>]–[>]; and Italian policy, [>]; test ban treaty negotiations, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; JFK congratulates on treaty, [>]; Georgetown welcome for, after signing, [>]; and non-aggression pact, [>]; and poverty programs, [>]–[>]

  Harrington, Michael, [>], [>]; The Other America, [>]

  Harris, Reed, [>]

  Harris, Richard, [>]

  Harris, Seymour, [>], [>] fn.; interregnum role of, [>]; role of, in Treasury Department, [>], [>], [>]; and domestic economy task force, [>]; on background of New Frontiersmen, [>]; The Economics of the Political Parties, [>] fn.; and economic policy, [>], [>], [>]; and stock market drop, [>]

  Harrison, Gilbert, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Harris Poll, [>] fn., [>]; and civil rights issue, [>]

  Hartington, Marchioness. See Kennedy, Kathleen

  Hartington, William, [>]

  Harvard College, [>], [>], [>], [>]; JFK’s student years at, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; Douglas delivers Godkin Lectures at, [>]; Board of Overseers, [>]; and economists, [>]–[>]

  Harvard School of Public Administration, [>]

  Haryou program, [>]

  Hastie, William H., [>], [>]

  Hatcher, Andrew, [>], [>]

  Haworth, Leland, [>]

  Hawthorne, William R., [>]

  Haya de la Torre, Victor, [>], [>], [>], [>]; and military regime, [>]. See also APRA

  Hayden, Carl, [>]

  Hazlitt, William, [>]

  Health, Education and Welfare, U.S. Department of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]; economic views of, [>]

  Hearst press, [>]

  Hébert, F. Edward, [>]

  Heckscher, August: describes Foggy Bottom, [>]; and the arts, [>]–[>]; “The Quality of American Culture,” [>]; The Public Happiness, [>]; “The Arts and the National Government,” [>]

  Heinkel, Fred V, [>]

  Heller, Walter, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; and domestic economy task force, [>]; and Berlin crisis, [>]; on JFK’s economic views, [>]; as Chairman of Council of Economic Advisers, [>], [>], [>], [>]; and economic policy, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>] fn., [>]; and ‘fiscal drag,’ [>]; and steel fight, [>]; JFK to, on administrative spending, [>]; and Dillon, [>], [>]; and internation
al payments, [>]–[>]; and Hickory Hill seminars, [>]; and anti-poverty program, [>]–[>]

  Helms, Richard, [>]

  Hemingway, Ernest, [>], [>]

  Henderson, Leon, [>], [>] fn.

  Henderson, Loy, [>], [>]

  Henry, E. William, [>]

  Herber, Lewis, [>]

  Her block, [>]

  Herrera, Felipe, [>]

  Hersey, John, [>], [>]; at inauguration, [>]

  Herter, Christian A., [>], [>]; and Algerians at UN, [>]; and Nkrumah, [>]

  Hesburgh, Reverend Theodore, [>], [>]

  Hévia, Carlos, [>], [>]

  Hickenlooper, Bourke B., [>]; and Argentina, [>]

  Hickory Hill seminars, [>]–[>]

  Hightower, John M. (Associated Press), [>] fn.

  Hill, John, [>]

  Hilsman, Roger, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; on Keating and Cuban missile crisis, [>], [>]; and Diem, [>], [>]; and over-Americanization in Vietnam, [>]; at high-level meeting on Vietnam, [>]–[>]

  Hilton, Ronald, [>]

  Hines, Jerome, [>]

  Hirschman, Albert O., [>]

  Hispanic-American Report, [>]

  Hitch, Charles J., [>], [>]; on national defense, [>], [>] fn.

  Ho Chi Minh, [>], [>], [>]; economic policy of, [>]; and Viet Cong, [>]

  Hodges, Luther, [>], [>], [>]–[>]; and Business Advisory Council, [>]; and steel price increase, [>]

  Hoffa, James, [>]; and Robert Kennedy, [>]

  Hoffman, Paul, and ECA, [>]

  Hofstadter, Richard, [>]

  Hogg, Quintin (Lord Hailsham), [>], [>]

  Holborn, Fred, [>]

  Holcombe, Arthur, [>]

  Holifield, Chet, [>]

  Holland, Henry, [>]

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, [>]

  Holmes, Reverend William, [>] fn.

  Holt, Pat, [>]

  Holy Loch Naval Base (British), [>], [>]

  Home, Lord. See Douglas-Home, Alec Honduras, [>], [>] fn.

  Honey Fitz (presidential yacht), [>]

  Honolulu, [>]

  Hoover, Herbert, [>], [>], [>]

  Hoover, J. Edgar, [>], [>], [>]–[>]; and Attorney Generals, [>]

  Hope, Bob, [>]

  Hopkins, Harry, [>]

  Hopper, Bruce, [>]

  Horne, Lena, [>]

  Horsey, Outerbridge, [>]

  Hosmer, Craig, [>]

  “Hot line,” [>]

 

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