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by Arthur M. Schlesinger

Power, General Thomas, [>]

  Powers, David, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; JFK to, on young people, [>]

  Powers, John, [>]

  Prado, Manuel, [>]

  Prebisch, Raúl, [>], [>]

  Presidency: JFK’s concept of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; interregnum problems of, [>]–[>]; historical lamentations on, [>]; JFK’s sense of transience of, [>]; bureaucratic limitations on, [>]–[>]; and Eisenhower’s staff system, [>]

  Presidential Medal of Freedom, [>]

  Presidential Power (Neustadt), [>], [>], [>]

  Press conferences, [>]–[>], [>]

  Press relations, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; and Bartlett-Alsop allegations against Stevenson, [>]–[>]

  Price, Don K., [>]

  Price of Union, The (Agar), [>]

  Price stability, [>], [>]; and world commodity prices, [>]

  Price supports, [>], [>]

  Prince Edward County, Virginia, [>]

  Prío Socarrás, Dr. Carlos, [>], [>]

  Profiles in Courage, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; and “grace under pressure,” [>]; JFK on Robert Taft in notes for, [>]; Drew Pearson accuses ghost-writing, [>]

  Profumo, John, [>]

  Progressive period (1900), [>]

  Proust, Marcel, [>]; Remembrance of Things Past, [>]

  PT-109, [>], [>]

  Public accommodations, [>], [>], [>]

  Public Law [>]. See Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954

  Public opinion, [>], [>], [>]; during campaign, [>]–[>]; Lincoln quote on, [>]; and Bay of Pigs, [>]–[>]; and resumption of testing, [>]; McCloy on world opinion, [>]–[>]; JFK view of world opinion, [>], [>]; and Volta Dam project, [>]; and steel price-raising, [>]; and test ban treaty, [>]; and JFK fiscal policy, [>]. See also Gallup Poll; Harris Poll; Lubell, Samuel

  Public Papers (Kennedy), [>] fn.

  Public service, [>]–[>]; JFK’s dedication to, [>], [>], [>]; in first State of Union Message, [>]

  Puerto Rico, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; Betancourt exile in, [>]

  Pugwash meeting, [>], [>]. See also Disarmament

  Punta del Este, Uruguay, [>]–[>], [>]; charter of Alliance for Progress at, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; OAS meets at, [>]–[>]; U.S. security resolution at, [>], [>]

  Pushkin, G. M., [>]; at Geneva, [>]

  Quadros, Janio, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  “Quality of American Culture, The” (Heckscher), [>]

  Quemoy-Matsu, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; JFK reaction to, [>]

  Quiet Crisis, The (Udall), [>]

  Quotations: JFK’s use of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Race riots, [>]. See also Birmingham; Civil rights

  Radford, Admiral Arthur, [>]; on Indochina, [>]; concern of, with test ban treaty, [>]

  Radioactive fallout, [>], [>], [>]; JFK’s concern for, [>], [>], [>] fn.; and Vannevar Bush, [>]; and limited testing proposal, [>]; and U.S. policy, [>]; public opposition to, [>]

  Radziwill, Lee (Bouvier), [>], [>], [>], [>]; accompanies Jacqueline Kennedy to India, [>]

  Rand Corporation, [>]; and arms problem, [>]

  Randall, Clarence, [>]

  Randolph, A. Philip, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; on JFK’s place in history, [>]

  Rauh, Joseph L., [>], [>], [>], [>]; joins JFK campaign, [>]; as liberal, [>], [>]; at Los Angeles, [>], [>], [>]; urges liberal endorsement of ticket, [>]; on release of Junius Scales, [>]; and James Baldwin, [>]–[>]

  Raushenbush, Stephen, [>]

  Ray, Manuel, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]; and Cuban underground, [>]; and MRP, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; and CIA control, [>]; and Varona authorize organization of Cuban Revolutionary Council, [>]; protests Anime appointment, [>]

  Rayburn, Sam, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; and DAC, [>]; and Nixon, [>]; and LBJ, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; White House party for, [>]–[>]; as Speaker of the House, [>]

  Re-apportionment, legislative, [>]

  Reardon, Timothy J., [>]

  Recession (economic), [>], [>], [>]; as JFK campaign issue, [>]

  Red and the Black, The (Stendhal), [>]

  Redbook, [>], [>] fn.

  Redevelopment. See Area redevelopment

  Red Star (Soviet Army newspaper), [>]

  Reed, James A., [>], [>], [>]

  Reed, Stanley, [>]

  Reeve, Franklin D., [>] fn.

  Reid, Eliot, [>]

  Reischauer, Edwin, [>], [>]

  Religious issue, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; JFK speech before Greater Houston Ministerial Association, [>]; and congressional election of 1960, [>]

  Remembrance of Things Past (Proust), [>]

  Reporter, The, [>]

  Research Institute of America, surveys business executives, [>] fn.

  Res ton, James B., [>], [>]; cancels Times pre-invasion Cuban story, [>]; on JFK’s White House routine, [>]; questions JFK on his blueprint for Presidency, [>]; criticizes JFK’s failure as public educator, [>]; cancels Times Cuban missile crisis story, [>]

  Reuss, Henry, [>]; and Peace Corps, [>]; and trade expansion bill, [>]; praises Dillon, [>]

  Reuter, Ernst, [>]

  Reuter, Richard, [>]

  Reuther, Victor, [>]

  Reuther, Walter, [>], [>], [>]; Khrushchev comments on, [>]; and Harriman, [>]; and Tractors for Freedom Committee, [>]; and U.S. Italian policy, [>]

  Reynolds Metals Company, [>]

  Reynolds v. Sims, [>]

  Rhodes Scholars, [>], [>]

  Ribicoff, Abraham, [>], [>]; as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Ricketts, Admiral Claude V, [>]

  Rickover, Admiral Hyman, [>]

  Ridgeway, General Matthew B., [>], [>], [>]; Soldier, [>]

  Riesman, David, [>]

  Rio Treaty of 1947, [>], [>]

  Rivera, José, [>]

  Rivkin, William, [>]; and Stevenson, [>]

  Roa, Raúi, [>]

  Robbins, Jhan, [>] fn.

  Robert Frost in Russia (Reeve), [>] fn.

  Roberts, Chalmers, [>]

  Robertson, Walter, [>], [>]

  Roca, Bias, [>]

  Roche, John P., [>]

  Rockefeller, Nelson, [>], [>], [>]; as coordinator of Office of Inter-American Affairs, [>]; JFK talks with after Bay of Pigs, [>]; denounces test ban, [>]

  Rockefeller Foundation, [>]; and Dean Rusk, [>]–[>]

  Rockefeller Panel Report on the Performing Arts, [>]

  Rockwell, George Lincoln, [>]

  Rodó, José Enrique (Ariel), [>]

  Rodríguez, Carlos Rafael, [>]

  Rogers, William, [>]; and ICA, [>]; and Alliance for Progress, [>]

  Romualdi, Serafino, [>]

  Roony, John, [>]

  Roosa, Robert V, [>], [>]; and domestic policy, [>]; and payments crisis, [>], [>]

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; and Stevenson, [>], [>]; at Los Angeles, [>]; on JFK, [>]; and Kennedy’s, [>]; death of, [>]–[>]; and Tractors for Freedom Committee, [>]

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; LBJ on, [>]; Galbraith on, [>]; as Organization Man, [>]; domestic success of, [>], [>], [>]; and crowds, [>]; Robert Kennedy on, [>]; and JFK compared, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]; JFK’s admiration for, [>]; Neustadt on, [>]–[>]; Good Neighbor policy, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]; JFK, de Gaulle discuss, [>]; and career diplomats, [>]; and Foreign Service, [>], [>]; and Indochina, [>]; and Business, [>], [>]; and London Economic Conference, [>]; and conservation, [>]; humor of, [>]; in Schlesinger, Sr., poll of presidential greatness, [>]; on Lincoln, [>]; “The Old Navy; 1776–1860,” [>]; and presidential intervention in government, [>], [>]; and legislative office, [>]; and public education, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; and mid-term elections, [>], [>]; and Winston Churchill, [>]; and de Gaulle, [>], [>]; and national recognition of Negro, [>]; and labor revolution, [>], [>]; and poverty, [>]. See also Good Neighbor policy; New Deal

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr., [>], [>], [
>], [>], [>]; JFK hopes to name as Secretary of Navy, [>]; LBJ to, on role of Vice-President, [>]; and Appalachia, [>]–[>]

  Roosevelt, John, [>]

  Roosevelt, Theodore, [>], [>], [>], [>]; and public information, [>], [>]; and off-year elections, [>]

  Root, Elihu, [>]

  Rose, Alex, [>], [>]

  Rosenstein-Rodan, P. N., [>]; on Marshall Plan, [>]

  Ross, Edmund G., [>]

  Rostow, Walt W., [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; and Rusk, [>]; and foreign economic policy, [>], [>], [>], [>]; and National Security Council, [>]; as Rhodes Scholar, [>]; to JFK on Bay of Pigs fiasco, [>]–[>]; at Pugwash meeting, Moscow, [>], [>]; and Laos, [>], [>]; and guerrilla warfare, [>]; JFK to, on East German problem of refugee flow, [>]; and Bundy, [>]–[>]; Stages of Economic Growth, [>]; in State Department reorganization, [>]–[>]; and arms control, [>]; and uncommitted nations, [>], [>]; mission to Vietnam with General Taylor, [>]; and policy of retaliation in Vietnam, [>]; and presidential diplomacy, [>]; A Proposal—Key to a More Effective Foreign Policy (with Millikan), [>]; The Stages of Economic Development, [>]; at Punta del Este, [>]; and cancellation of Skybolt, [>]; and JFK’s test ban speech, [>]; and Inter-American Committee for Alliance for Progress, [>]

  Rovere, Richard H., [>], [>]; “The American Establishment,” [>] fn.; describes East German refugee flow, [>]; on Senate interpretation of test ban treaty, [>]

  Rowan, Carl T., [>], [>]

  Rowe, James H., Jr., [>]–[>]; and Humphrey, [>]; and LBJ, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; to JFK on interregnum, [>]

  Rowen, Hobart, [>], [>]

  RS-72 bomber, [>]

  Rubottom, R. R., Jr., [>]; meets Castro’s Minister of Finance, [>]

  Rukeyser, Merryle Stanley (The Kennedy Recession), [>]

  Rusk, Dean, [>], [>], [>], [>]; background of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]; and Bundy, [>], [>]; and Rostow, [>]; and foreign policy task forces, [>]; and Latin American policy, [>], [>]; and Bay of Pigs, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]; and Gromyko, [>]; and Laos, [>], [>], [>]; at Vienna summit meeting, [>]; and Berlin, [>], [>], [>]; JFK asks “negotiating perspectus” on Berlin of, [>]–[>]; proposed four-power talk, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; JFK to, on east-west negotiations, [>]; Gromyko talks, [>], [>]; describes JFK’s expectations of State Department, [>]; comments on State Department bureaucracy, [>]–[>]; as Secretary of State, [>]–[>]; administrative philosophy, [>], [>]; as enigma to White House, [>], [>]; and JFK, [>]–[>], [>]; and Bowles, [>], [>]–[>]; and nuclear testing, [>], [>]–[>]; and UN, [>], [>]; and disarmament, [>], [>], [>]; “two China” solution at UN, [>]; brings test ban proposals to Geneva, [>]; and Nogueiria of Goa, [>]–[>]; and Luns, [>]; and Vietnam, [>], [>]. [>]; foreign policy view, [>]–[>]; and travel restrictions policy, [>]; and British Guiana, [>]; and Cuba, [>], [>]; and minister of Haiti, [>]; addresses foreign ministers at Punta del Este II, [>]–[>]; and Cuban missile crisis, [>], [>] fn., [>], [>]; and U.S.-Soviet negotiations over missiles in Cuba, [>]; and Skybolt, [>], [>]; and Italian policy, [>]–[>]; and Khrushchev’s emissaries’ proposal for test ban, [>]; skepticism for value of non-aggression pact, [>]–[>]; and Vietnam policy, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Russell, Bertrand, [>]; and Cuban missile crisis, [>], [>]

  Russell, Richard B., [>]–[>]; and Cuban missile crisis, [>]

  Russia, [>], [>], [>]; Bolshevik Revolution, [>], [>]; Cuba negotiates trade agreements with, [>]. See also Soviet Union

  Russo-Chinese relations, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]; JFK and de Gaulle discuss, [>]; ideological talks, Moscow, [>], [>]; JFK, Macmillan discuss, [>]

  Rustin, Bayard, [>], [>]

  SAC. See Strategic Air Command

  Sahl, Mort, [>]

  Saigon, [>]–[>]; American newsmen in, [>]–[>]; and Buddhist protests, [>]–[>]; and Lodge, [>]–[>], [>]; reasons behind coup, [>]; LBJ on, [>]. See also Ngo Dinh Diem; Vietnam

  St. Lawrence Seaway, [>]

  St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington, [>]

  Salazar, António de Oliveira, [>]–[>], [>]; and Goa invasion, [>]; and Azores, [>]

  Salinger, Pierre, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; as press secretary, [>], [>], [>]; approves Wechsler column on JFK, [>]; and Robert Kennedy, [>]; and the arts, [>]–[>]; in Cuban missile crisis, [>]; distributes JFK’s statement on Stevenson to press, [>]

  Salt Lake City, Utah, [>]

  Saltonstall, John L., Jr., [>]

  Saltonstall, Leverett, [>], [>]

  Salvador, David, [>]–[>]; imprisonment of, by Castro, [>]

  SAMs, [>], [>], [>]. See also Cuba

  Samos (satellite), [>]

  Sampson, Anthony, [>]

  Samuelson, Paul, [>], [>]; proposes Roosa for Treasury post, [>]; and domestic policy, [>]; and economic policy, [>], [>], [>]; and interregnum task force, [>], [>]

  San Antonio, Texas, [>]

  San Cristóbal, [>], [>]

  Sanjenis, Joaquín, [>]

  San Román, Pepe, [>], [>], [>]; CIA offers to evacuate from Cuban beach, [>]; presents Cuban Brigade banner to JFK, [>]

  Saragat, Giuseppe, [>]. See also Italy

  Sarit Thanarat, [>], [>]; and LBJ’s Southeast Asia tour, [>]

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, [>], [>]

  Satellites (Communist), [>], [>]

  Saturday Evening Post: quotes JFK on liberalism, [>]–[>]; Alsop-Bartlett piece on Cuba, [>]–[>]

  Saturday Review, [>]

  Saudi Arabia, [>], [>]

  Scales, Junius, [>]

  Scali, John, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Scammon, Richard, [>]

  Schaetzel, Robert, [>], [>]

  Schelling, Thomas C., [>], [>] fn.

  Schine, G. David, [>]

  Schlei, Norbert, [>]

  Schlesinger, Arthur M., Sr., [>]–[>]

  Schlesinger, Christina, [>], [>]

  Schlesinger, Marian, [>], [>], [>]; views television debates with Jacqueline Kennedy, [>]

  Schröder, Gerhard, [>]

  Schwartz, Abba, [>]–[>]

  Schwarz, Dr. Fred, [>]; Life apology to. [>]. [>]

  Scott, Howard, [>]

  Scranton, William W., [>]

  Seaborg, Glenn, [>]; and nuclear testing, [>]; and disarmament policy, [>]

  Second World War, [>]; JFK in Europe before, [>]–[>]; JFK’s naval experience in, [>]–[>]; Latin American loyalty to U.S. in, [>]; experiences of New Frontiersmen in, [>]–[>]; state of Europe after, [>]

  Secret Service, [>], [>]; thwarts Pavlick assassination attempt. Palm Beach, [>]–[>]; JFK discusses role of, [>]

  Securities and Exchange Commission, [>]

  Security Matters, Special Consultative Committee of Experts on, [>]

  Seeger, Alan, [>]; “I Have a Rendezvous with Death,’’ [>]

  Segni, Antonio, [>]

  Segregation, [>], [>]; and public schools, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], See also Mississippi; Meredith, James

  Seigenthaler, John, [>], [>], [>]

  Selden, Armistead, [>]

  Seldes, Gilbert, [>] fn.

  Senate, U.S.: JFK’s election to (1952), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; Labor Committee, [>]; Judiciary Committee, [>], [>], [>]; Subcommittee on National Security Staffing and Operations, [>]; Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, [>]; Foreign Relations Committee, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; Rackets Committee, [>], [>]; Internal Security Committee, [>]; Labor and Education Committee, [>]; Joint Committee on the Economic Report, [>], [>], [>], [>]; Committee on Government Operations, [>]; Armed Services Committee, [>], [>], [>]; Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, [>]; Stennis subcommittee, [>]; and test ban treaty, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; Finance Committee, [>]; Subcommittee on Employment and Manpower, [>]. See also Congress, U.S.

  Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Jacques, [>]; and JFK Algerian speech, [>]; attacks French anti-Americanism, [>]

  Sevareid, Eric, on Nixon-JFK similarities, [>]–[>]

  Shangri-La, Maryland. See Camp David “Shape of National Politics To Come, The,” [>]

  Sharon, Jo
hn, [>], [>]; at Los Angeles convention, [>]; and Stevenson foreign policy report, [>]–[>]; and task force concept, [>]–[>], [>]; and Cuban embargo, [>]; JFK to, on cabinet meetings, [>]

  Shaw, George Bernard, [>]

  Sheehan, Cornelius, [>]

  Shelters, bomb and fallout, [>], [>]; during Berlin crisis, [>]–[>]

  Shepard, Captain Alan, [>]

  Shepard, Commander Tazewell, [>]

  Sheridan, Walter, [>]

  Show (magazine), [>] fn.

  Shriver, Eunice Kennedy, [>]

  Shriver, Sargent, [>]; pre-election duties, [>], [>]–[>]; interregnum duties, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]; mission to Guinea, [>], [>]; and Peace Corps, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Shulman, Marshall, [>]

  Siam. See Thailand

  Sidey, Hugh, [>]; JFK describes State Department to, [>]; and JFK, business relationship, [>]; JFK to, on Burke and LeMay, [>]; JFK to, on election of 1964, [>]

  Sierra Maestra. See Castro, Fidel; Cuba

  Sihanouk, Prince Norodom, [>]–[>], [>]; welcomes news of JFK election, [>]; on handling of Bay of Pigs crisis, [>]; and Nehru, [>]; reaction of, to assassination, [>]

  Siles, Hernán, [>]

  Silone, Ignazio, [>]

  Silver, James W., [>]

  Sisco, Joseph, [>], [>]

  ‘Sit-ins,’ [>], [>]

  Six Crises (Nixon), [>]

  Skybolt, [>]–[>]; and Holy Loch, [>]; and Amery, [>]; and McNamara, [>]–[>], [>]; London reaction to cancellation of, [>]; and European allies, U.S. relations, [>]; and Macmillan, [>]

  Sloan, John, [>]

  Smathers, George, [>], [>]

  Smirnov, Andrei, [>]

  Smith, Al, [>]

  Smith, Bromley, [>]; NSC Secretary, [>], [>] fn.

  Smith, Earl E. T., [>], [>]

  Smith, Gerard, [>]; and MLF, [>]

  Smith, Howard, [>]

  Smith, Howard K., [>], [>]

  Smith, Jean Kennedy, [>]; visits Southeast Asia, [>]

  Smith, Jerome, [>]

  Smith, Merriman, [>]

  Smith, Stephen, [>], [>]–[>], visits Southeast Asia, [>]; in campaign organization, [>]

  Snow (C. P.), Lord, [>]

  Social Progress Trust Fund, [>], [>]–[>], [>]; and Inter-American Development Bank, [>]

  Social Security, [>], [>]

  Sol, Jorge, [>]

  Soldier (Ridgeway), [>]

  Somoza, Luis, [>]

  Sorensen, Theodore C., [>

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