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by Richard Nixon

and Eisenhower’s stroke, 170–77;

  farm program of, 333–34;

  first crises of, 12;

  on friendship in politics, 393–94;

  Guildhall speech of, 303;

  and Hiss case, 1–71;

  hostility to, 69–70;

  with Kennedy in Congress, 298–99;

  on leadership, 19, 169–70;

  lessons learned from crises by, xii–xvi, 37, 69, 96, 105, 108–9, 120–21, 198–99, 206, 271, 372, 401;

  on “liberalists,” 67–68;

  on loyalty screening, 63;

  on mobs, 213;

  in Poland, 242, 283–87;

  on radicals of the right, 65–66;

  on responsibility of foreign service, 207;

  on responsibility of the Presidency, 154;

  returns to private life, 423–24;

  Russian tour after Khrushchev meetings, 274–78;

  Russian TV broadcast of, 278–80;

  on smear campaigns, 128–29;

  steel mediation by, 304, 305;

  on women’s attitude to defeat, 405–6; see also Khrushchev, Nikita;

  Latin America;

  1952 election;

  1954 elections;

  1956 election;

  1958 elections;

  1960 election;

  Television debates

  Nolan, Lloyd, 372

  Novins, Stuart, 382, 388

  Nye, Gerald, 39

  Paraguay, Nixon’s trip to, 191–92

  Pawley, William, 352

  Payne, John, 372

  Peale, Norman Vincent, 327–28

  Pearson, Leon, 359

  Pegler, Westbrook, 259

  Percy, Charles, 316

  Perez Jiminez, Marcos, 211, 216, 222, 224, 226

  Persons, Wilton B., 163–65, 321–22;

  and heart attack, 138–39, 146, 148, 156, 157;

  and stroke, 172, 173

  Peru, Nixon’s trip to, 192–209, 231 n.

  Peters, J., 17

  Peterson, Elmer, 359

  Peurifoy, John, 53

  Pinkley, Virgil, 391

  Plaza Lasso, Galo, 208

  Poland, Nixon’s trip to, 242, 283–87

  Powell, Adam Clayton, 366

  Prado, Manuel, 192, 194

  Presidency: and Congress, 409;

  staff system and, 140–41, 158, 160–61;

  succession to, 139, 142, 168, 177–81

  Pressman, Lee, 3, 6, 39

  Price Waterhouse & Co., 108

  Priest, Ivy Baker, 125

  Providence Journal, 174

  “Pumpkin papers,” 49–51; see also Chambers, David Whittaker

  Pyle, Howard, 163

  Quarles, Donald, 173

  Radio Free Europe, 285 n.

  Rainville, Harold, 385

  Rajagopalachari, C., 290

  Rankin, John, 9

  Rayburn, Sam, 416

  Rebozo, Bebe, 393, 403, 418

  Reilly, John, 98 Religion, see 1960 election, religion in

  Remón, José Antonio, 169

  Reston, James, 20, 280, 344, 356, 359, 397

  Reuther, Walter, 365

  Reynolds, Bob, 402

  Rhyne, Charlie, 375

  Rickover, Hyman, 243, 286

  Robinson, Claude, 305, 306, 308, 313, 329, 341, 345, 358, 362, 407

  Robinson, James A., xiii

  Rockefeller, Nelson: in 1960 campaign, 327, 373;

  1960 nomination and, 302, 305, 309, 318;

  Nixon meets with, 313–16;

  in Venezuela, 234

  Rodham, Wade, 216, 219

  Rogers, Ted, 112–13, 118, 125, 338, 345, 357

  Rogers, William P., 20, 70, 172, 177–79, 243–44, 312, 362–63;

  and heart attack, 133–35, 138–42, 146;

  in 1952 campaign, 78–80, 82–83, 85–87, 106–7, 109–11, 117

  Rojas Pinella, Gustavo, 185, 208

  Roper poll, 358

  Rosen, William, 40

  Rubottom, Roy R., Jr., 183–86, 193, 195, 197, 207–8, 224

  Russell, Louis, 15, 32, 36 Russia, see U.S.S.R.

  St. Johns, Adela Rogers, xi–xii

  St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 54, 126

  Salinger, Pierre, 396, 410

  Salisbury, Harrison E., 275–76

  Saltonstall, Leverett, 176

  San Marcos University, 194–203, 206–7, 209, 231 n.

  Sayre, Francis B., 6

  Scott, Hugh, 381

  Scott, Philip Gordon, 144

  Scribner, Fred, 305

  Seaton, Fred A., 87, 305, 317, 340, 348, 354, 385

  Selser, Gregorio, 190

  Seltzer, Louis, 343

  Sevareid, Eric, 67, 380, 382, 391

  Shepley, Jim, 305, 340, 361 n., 374

  Sherwood, Jack, 188, 197, 201–4, 210, 212, 216–20, 248, 249, 377–78

  Shriver, Sargent, 421

  Siles, Hernan, 192

  Slim, William, 131–32

  Smathers, George, 408

  Smith, Dana, and “fund,” 73–75, 79, 84, 90, 126

  Smith, Earl E. T., 352

  Smith, Howard K., 338, 380, 384

  Smith, Marvin, 40

  Smith, Paul, 108

  Snyder, Howard: and heart attack, 135–38, 146, 162;

  and ileitis attack, 167–69;

  and stroke, 170–72

  Snyder, Murray, 132, 137

  Sorensen, Theodore C., 407

  Spargo, Mary, 9

  Sparkman, John J., 116

  Sparks, Edward J., 224–26

  Spivak, Larry, 44, 73

  Stalin, Joseph, change in Russia since, 264, 280–81

  Stanton, Frank, 372

  Starnes, Richard, 342

  Stassen, Harold, 97–98, 123, 167, 300

  Steele, Jack, 357

  Stephens, Thomas, 153, 163

  Stevenson, Adlai, 159, 231, 387;

  on “fund,” 90, 115–16;

  and Hiss, 6 n.;

  in 1960 election, 306, 365, 366, 383;

  Nixon’s opinion of, 96, 109;

  on U-2 incident, 311

  Strauss, Lewis, 417

  Stripling, Robert, 5, 7, 10, 11, 15, 18, 23, 25, 29–30, 35–36, 47–49, 51, 54–56

  Stroessner, Alfredo, 191 Succession to Presidency, see Presidency

  Summerfield, Arthur, 89, 100, 121, 163

  Symington, Stuart, 306

  Szulc, Tad, 202

  Taft, Robert A., on “fund,” 89–90

  Taft-Hartley Act, 299

  Television debates: in future campaigns, 323, 357–58;

  in 1960 campaign, 322–24, 337–48, 351–57

  Thayer, Walter, 414

  Thomas, J. Parnell, 27, 31

  Thompson, Llewellyn, 246–49, 252, 260–62, 263, 268–69, 279;

  on change in U.S.S.R. since Stalin, 280–81

  Thompson, Mrs. Llewellyn, 261

  Time, 359

  Tkach, Walter, 326

  Todd, Malcolm, 341

  Tower, John, 370

  Tribuna Popular (Venezuela), 212

  Trinidad, Nixon in, 187

  Troyanovsky (interpreter), 252, 271

  Truman, Harry S., and Hiss case, 9–10, 26, 46, 54, 59, 64–65

  Un-American Activities, Committee on: function of, 14;

  Truman wishes to abolish, 46; see also Chambers, David Whittaker; Hiss, Alger

  Underwood, Cecil, 316

  United States Exhibition (U.S.S.R.), 237;

  Nixon and Khrushchev pay visit to, 252–60, 262;

  ridiculed by Communist press, 247

  Uruguay, Nixon’s trip to, 185, 187–88

  U.S. News & World Report, 359

  U.S.S.R.: “bugging” in, 247–48;

  change there since Stalin, 280–81;

  hecklers in, 274–78;

  Nixon’s trip to, 246–83;

  Nixon’s TV broadcast in, 278–80; see also Communism; Khrushchev, Nikita;

  United States Exhibition

  Vanocur, Sander, 339
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  Venezuela, Nixon’s trip to, 185, 209–27, 231–32

  Vershinin, Marshall, 266

  Vietnam, 268

  Voorhis, H. Jerry, 323

  Voroshilov, Kliment Y., 249–50, 258 n.

  Wadsworth, Jerry, 350

  Waldron, Agnes, 367

  Walters, Vernon, 188, 201–4, 214, 216, 219

  Wardlaw, John, 402–3, 417

  Warren, Earl, 78, 300;

  Eisenhower disappointed in his decision not to run, 159

  Washburn, Abbott, 237

  Washington Post, 174

  Watkins, Arthur, 125

  Welles, Sumner, 53

  White, Harry Dexter: dies, 31;

  documents in handwriting of, 51;

  named as “fellow traveler,” 4;

  receives rug, 58

  White, Paul Dudley, 138–39, 146, 151, 154, 163

  White, William S., 342

  Whitman, Ann, 156, 178;

  and stroke, 170

  Wilson, Woodrow, illness of, 146

  Witt, Nathan, 3

  Woods, Rose Mary, 99, 106, 120, 133, 170, 340–41, 367, 374, 403, 414

  Woodward, Robert, 187–88

  Worthy, Jim, 385

  Young, Robert, 372

  Zender, Gladys, 194

  Zhukov, Georgi, 276–78

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