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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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