68. And in 1964, President Johnson was the one who posed for pictures with poor families in Appalachia.
69. A planned trip to Japan by Eisenhower in June 1960 was cancelled just before his planned arrival because of anti-American riots.
70. BARRY GOLDWATER (1909–1998) was Republican senator from Arizona and the most prominent conservative of the day. JFK had met Goldwater before World War II when he went to an outdoor work camp near Phoenix, and they remained warm and jocular friends for the rest of their lives. Kennedy presumed that voters would find the Arizonan so extreme that, if nominated, he would lose to Kennedy in a landslide in 1964 (as Goldwater ultimately did to LBJ). Goldwater later insisted that JFK had agreed, if they should be the two presidential candidates in 1964, to fly around the country and debate together, almost like Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in 1858. There is no doubt that when Goldwater raised the idea, the President responded pleasantly, but it does not seem likely that in 1964, the competitive JFK, eager for the biggest victory possible, would have so gingerly offered so weak a challenger as Goldwater the benefit of being seen all over the country arguing with the President as an equal. Kennedy had, however, committed himself to face his 1964 opponent in televised debates like those of 1960 with Nixon.
71. GEORGE ROMNEY (1907–1995) was president of American Motors before his election as Republican governor of Michigan in 1962. RFK later recalled in a 1964 oral history conversation that for a time, Romney was the opponent his brother "feared the most. . . . He thought he had this appeal to . . . God and country. . . . He spoke well, looked well. He perhaps would cause some trouble in the South, where we were in trouble anyway [over civil rights]. . . . That's why . . . we never talked about Romney."
72. NELSON ROCKEFELLER (1908–1979) was elected governor of New York in 1958. Two years later, he seriously considered challenging Nixon, whom he loathed, in the 1960 Republican primaries but decided to stay out. JFK had worried that Rockefeller might be a strong opponent when he ran for reelection; however, he divorced his wife and in May 1963 remarried a younger woman, which at the time was a mortal sin in presidential politics.
73. After the 1960 campaign, JFK told Bradlee that Nixon was "mentally unsound" and "sick, sick, sick." When Nixon was defeated in 1962 for governor of California, Kennedy called the victor, Edmund "Pat" Brown (1905–1996)—the President's hidden tape machine was on—and marveled at how the loser had told reporters in Los Angeles that they wouldn't have Nixon "to kick around anymore" because it was his "last press conference." JFK explained to Brown, "You reduced him to the nuthouse." Brown agreed: "I really think he's psychotic. He's an able man, but he's nuts."
74. WILLIAM SCRANTON (1917– ) was a moderate Republican congressman when elected Pennsylvania governor in 1962.
75. Referring to the relaxation between Washington and Moscow that began after the missile crisis and ripened with the test ban treaty of the summer of 1963.
76. JFK pursued a frequent private correspondence with the Soviet leader, which Bundy puckishly called "the pen-pal letters."
77. In 1963, the Senate Permanent Investigations Committee examined the award to General Dynamics of a $6.5 billion contract, the most lucrative such mandate in American history, to build a new TFX fighter plane. Before his appointment as McNamara's deputy, Gilpatric had been counsel to General Dynamics and was criticized for participating in the TFX decision. Although in March 1963 Gilpatric had announced his return to the law, he remained at the Pentagon until January 1964 in an effort to clear his name.
78. TIMOTHY REARDON (1915–1993) was JFK's administrative assistant in the House and Senate and a special assistant in the White House.
INDEX
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A
Abboud, Ibrahim, 212, 308
Abu Simbel, temples of, xvii, xxix–xxx
Acheson, Dean, 31, 295n12
Adams, Abigail and John, xxviii
Adams, John Quincy, 127, 144
Adenauer, Konrad, 195, 220, 233–34, 247n29,
248
Adzhubei, Aleksei, 206–7
Adzhubei, Rada Khrushcheva, 206, 207
Africa, diplomats in, 304
Agnelli, Giovanni, 219n82
Ahmed, Aziz, 220n85
Ahmed, Bashir, 274n77
AID (Agency for International Development), 320
Air Force One, xxx, xxxin4, 276
Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, 103n37, 105
Algeria, political unrest in, 64, 65
Alliance for Progress, 197n42, 273
Alphand, Hervé, 229n95, 254, 292, 293, 294, 298, 318
Alphand, Nicole, 225, 229, 254
Alsop, Joseph, 27, 87, 133, 155, 156, 216,
324
Alsop, Stewart, 270, 271n64
Alsop, Susan Mary, 27n36
American Ballet Theatre, xxx
American Revolution, 143n42, 215n77
American University, JFK's speech at, 147n47
Anderson, George, 266n58
Angelo, Bonnie, 341
Arno, Peter, 49n23
Attwood, William, 304n23, 316
Auchincloss, Hugh D., Jr., xix, 66, 158n61, 314, 341
Auchincloss, Janet, 83n13, 314–15, 341
Auchincloss, Nina Gore, 173n75
Ayub Khan, Mohammad, 303–4
B
Bailey, John, 94–95
Baldrige, Letitia "Tish," 131n30, 169
and C. Luce, 168, 306
and press conferences, 170
as social secretary, 132, 168–69, 170, 208, 333, 348
and White House-itis, 174–75
Ball, George, 90, 315
Barnes, Donald, 194–95
Barnett, Ross, 258n47
Bartlett, Charles:
and elections, 278n79
JFK and the press, 271, 323, 325
and Latin America, 270, 311
socializing with, xx, 24, 156n58
Bartlett, Martha Buck, 24n32, 156n58
Batista y Zaldívar, Fulgencio, 183n12, 195–96n39
Battle, William, 303n22
Bay of Pigs, 181–89
and A. Dulles, 181, 186n17, 188–89
and CIA, 116n11, 181nn7–8, 183n12, 186, 272–73
and Eisenhower administration, 116n11, 180n5, 181n7, 183
as "first Cuba," 13n13, 270
investigation of, 45n13, 119, 189, 190n27
political opponents of, 116, 271n63
prisoners captured, 191–92n28
responsibility for, 116n11, 186, 187n18
Beale, Elizabeth Virginia, 170n73
Bell, David, 319–20
Berckemeyer, Fernando, 311
Berle, Adolf, 184
Berlin:
and Cold War, 49n23, 201n49, 211n70, 220, 233–35, 236, 245n24
JFK's visit to, 198, 220
post-World War II designs for, 201n49
Berlin, Isaiah, 252–53
Berlin Wall, 69n52, 201n49, 245n24
Beschloss, Michael, xix–xxxii
Betancourt, Rómulo, 199n47, 200, 309, 311
Billings, Lemoyne, 239n15
Biltz, Norman, 10–11
Blair, William McCormick, 303n22, 314
Blake, Robert, 145n45
Blake, Sylvia Whitehouse, 145
Blanch, Lesley, The Sabres of Paradise,
209
Blough, Roger, 256–58
Boggs, Hale, 281
Bohlen, Charles "Chip," 295n14, 317–18
Bosch Gavin~o, Juan, 312n36
Boston Post, 75
Boudin, Stéphane, 138n36, 142n42,
293n8
Bouvier, Janet Norton Lee, xix
Bouvier, John V., Jr., 158n61, 315
Bouvier, John V. III, xix, xx, 1
67
Bowles, Chester, 270, 315, 315n39
Bradlee, Ben, 221n86, 277
connections of, 195n39, 196
JFK and the press, 128, 323
socializing with, 24, 24, 81, 255
Bradlee, Tony, 24, 24, 81
Brandt, Willy, 247n30
Bridges, Styles, 149
Brown, Edmund "Pat," 346n73
Bruce, Evangeline Bell, 168n69
Buchan, John, 42
Buchanan, James, 134
Buck, Pearl, 331
Buckley, William F., 323n52
Bundy, McGeorge, 128, 130, 215, 254
and Cuba, 264, 265, 271
and de Gaulle, 223–24
and Kennedy administration, 113n7, 119, 157, 202, 292, 312, 315, 332, 347
and Skybolt, 290
Burin des Roziers, Étienne, 295
Burke, Arleigh, 184n14, 190n27
Burke, Edmund, "Speech to the Electors of Bristol," 41, 215
Burke, Maud Alice, 253n40
Burke, William "Onions," 9–10, 13, 14, 34n56, 75n3
Burkley, George, 334n61
Burns, James M., 36n57
John Kennedy: A Political Profile,
52n26
Burton, Richard, 46
Busch, Noel, 49
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 244
C
Camelot, xiii, 247n29
Camp David, 165, 167, 254, 263
Canada, state visit to, 220–22
Cardona, Jose Miro, 183–84, 192, 193, 196–97
Casals, Pablo, xxx
Cassini, Oleg, 25n35
Castro Ruz, Fidel:
and Bay of Pigs, 116n11, 181n7, 191–92n28
and Eisenhower administration, 116n11, 179, 180n5, 181n7, 183n11
and missile crisis, 196n41, 236n7
plots to overthrow government of, 116n11, 181n7, 195, 196n41
takeover of Cuban government by, 179, 180, 196n39
and test ban treaty, 292
U.S. sanctions against, 310n33
Cavanaugh, Father John, 103
Celeste, Vincent, 35n56
Childs, Blair, 29n41
China, 292, 295, 347
Christina (yacht), 219n83
Churchill, Clementine, 219n83
Churchill, Randolph (Winston's father), 54, 55
Churchill, Randolph (Winston's son), 287–89, 290–91
Churchill, Winston, 50, 54, 161, 216n79, 219–20, 228, 248
books by, 42n3, 47–48
and de Gaulle, 225, 291
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency):
and Bay of Pigs, 116n11, 181nn7–8, 183n12, 186, 272–73
and Penkovsky, 193
and Soviet missile crisis, 182n9–10
civil rights movement, 258–61, 273, 274n76, 310
Clay, Henry, 223
Clifford, Clark, 85n18, 126
and Profiles in Courage, 59–61
and steel crisis, 257, 258
and White House restoration, 137, 138
Cohn, Roy, 75
Cold War:
and Berlin, 49n23, 201n49, 211n70, 220, 233–35, 236, 245n24
and Cuba, see Cuba
and nuclear testing, 245–46
sensitive spots in, 112n6, 201
test ban treaty, 213n73, 246, 247–48n31, 248n32, 251, 292
Cole, Nat "King," 148n50
Common Market, 291, 295, 298
Condon, Elizabeth Guest, 173
Connally, John, 89, 90n25
Connally, Nellie, 89
Cooper, John Sherman, 29n39
Cooper, Leroy Gordon, 327
Cooper, Lorraine, 29n39, 156
Cuba, 179–86, 189–96
Bay of Pigs, 13n13, 45n13, 116, 119, 181–89, 190n27, 270–71, 272–73
and calendar, 267n61, 268–69
covert action against, 194n34, 195
Soviet missiles in, 13n13, 112n6, 182, 187, 196n41, 211n69, 234–35, 236n7, 248n31, 251, 254, 261–67, 270–73, 274n76, 294n10, 295n12, 317n42
Tractors for Freedom, 191–92n28, 193
U-2 photographs of, 182n9, 262n53, 264n55
U.S. sanctions against, 262n53, 310n33
Cuban brigade, 191, 193–94
Cugat, Xavier, 194n33
Cunard, Lady Emerald, 253
Cushing, Richard Cardinal, 103–4, 149, 260
D
Dallas Morning News, 124n23
Daniel, Jean, 195–96
d'Argenlieu, Georges, 65
Davids, Jules, 46, 252
Day, J. Edward, 123n20, 124–25
Dean, Arthur, 248, 250
de Gaulle, Charles, 52–54, 53, 198, 200, 207, 247n29, 293–99
and China, 347
and Churchill, 225, 291
and Common Market, 291, 298, 299
and Cuba, 233, 294n10, 295n12
and the glory of France, 52n27, 224n90, 292
Jacqueline's impersonation of, 203n52
and JFK's funeral, 54, 294n11, 295n12, 296–97
and Kennedys' visit to France, 222–24, 223
memoirs of, 54, 291
and Mona Lisa, 227n92
and NATO, 224n90, 254n41
and nuclear testing, 247–48n31, 292
and Roosevelt, 225, 291
supporters of, 228, 229
visit to D.C., 222
de Gaulle, Yvonne, 224, 227
Delon, Alain, 28
De Sapio, Carmine, 119n15
Devonshire, Duchess of, 253
Diefenbaker, John, 220–21n86, 221–22, 287n1, 290
Diem, Ngo Dinh, 202n50, 305n24
Dillon, C. Douglas, 116–17, 123, 263, 272n66, 319
Dillon, Phyllis, 263
Dirksen, Everett, 279n81
Dobrynin, Anatoly, 206n62
Donald, David H., 251–52, 305n24
Douglas, Paul, 74
Douglas, Stephen, 345n70
Douglas, William O., 321n50
Douglas-Home, Alec, 216, 218–19
Douglas-Home, William, 216n79, 218–19
Douglass, Adele Astaire, 215
Duke, Angier Biddle, 239n13, 314
Dulles, Allen, 180–81, 186n17, 187–89, 190n27, 228, 343
Dulles, John Foster, 236n5
Dungan, Ralph, 332
du Pont, Harry, 138n36, 279
E
Egypt, historic preservation in, xvii, xxix–xxx
Eisenhower, Dwight D.:
administration of, 8n5, 45n13, 64, 119n14, 186n17, 189n25, 236n5, 277, 306n28
and Camp David, 165
and civil rights, 259n49, 277
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