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by Matthews, Chris


  Can, Ngo Dinh, 231

  Carpenters Union, 146

  Carswell, Harold, 286

  Carter, Jimmy, 342

  Casals, Pablo, 192, 313

  Castro, Fidel, 124–25, 163–66, 168, 176, 189, 195–200, 213, 214, 222–23, 235, 238, 247, 256, 293, 314, 315

  Caulfield, Jack, 280, 286, 305, 310

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 124, 163–68, 185, 186, 195–98, 200, 208, 214, 231, 256, 293, 303, 307, 311, 315–16, 338

  Chambers, Whittaker, 60–64

  Chancellor, John, 162

  Chapin, Dwight, 302, 319

  Chappaquiddick incident, 19, 279–281, 284, 286, 291, 302, 304–6, 323–25, 329, 338, 341

  Checkers speech, 82–86, 91, 104, 144, 147, 174, 179, 280, 337

  Chennault, Anna, 269, 272

  Chennault, Claire, 269

  Chiang Kai-shek, 54, 67, 162, 158

  Chicago Herald American, 28

  Chicago Sun-Times, 281

  China, 54, 75, 77, 87, 94–95, 108, 152, 189, 194, 227, 304

  admission to UN of, 186–87, 217

  Communist victory in, 67

  in Korean War, 73

  Nixon and, 16, 256–57, 303, 308, 312

  Quemoy and Matsu and, 158–63, 257

  split between Soviet Union and, 224

  Vietnam and, 253

  Choate, Robert, 114–15

  Choate School, 23–24, 44

  Chotiner, Murray, 12, 35–38, 48, 74, 79, 84, 85, 96, 105, 173, 285, 337

  Chou En-lai, 312

  Christoffel, Harold, 53–54, 64, 88

  Churchill, Winston, 33, 103, 138, 344

  Civil Rights Act (1957), 120

  Civil Rights Act (1964), 251

  Clean Air Act, 288

  Clifford, Clark, 115, 189, 248

  Clinton, Bill, 344, 345

  Collingwood, Charles, 157

  Colson, Charles, 12, 16, 120, 127, 281, 289–91, 300, 302–4, 307, 311, 313, 317, 321

  Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 79, 83, 130, 144, 145, 148, 157, 230, 241, 301, 342

  Committee of 100, 34–36, 49, 58, 283

  Committee to Re-Elect the President, 322, 324

  Communists, 16, 37, 41, 82, 91, 129, 151, 200, 225–26, 237

  Congressional crusades against, 46–49, 52–54, 59–64, 67–69, 74, 87–89, 96, 97, 99, 133

  Nixon denounces opponents as soft on, 39, 69–73, 212

  see also China; Cuba; Soviet Union; Vietnam

  Conant, Howard, 116

  Conein, Lucien, 231

  Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 36–38, 50

  Congressional Quarterly, 126

  Connally, John, 134, 237, 252, 253, 267, 269, 290–91, 318, 321, 330

  Constitution, U.S., Twenty-fifth Amendment, 330, 331

  Corbin, Paul, 10, 129, 244–45, 249, 262

  Cox, Archibald, 119, 145–46, 326–328, 330–33, 343

  Cox, Dorothy, 55

  Cox, Edward, 302

  Cox, Tricia Nixon, 43, 84, 179, 198, 207, 208, 221, 293–97, 302

  Cronin, John F., 46–47

  Cronkite, Walter, 130, 144–45, 168, 230

  Cuba, 124–25, 163–68, 175, 189, 223, 235, 238, 247, 256, 311;

  invasion of, see Bay of Pigs invasion

  Missile Crisis, 214–15, 222, 250, 253, 306, 313

  Curley, James Michael, 29

  Cushing, Richard, 93

  Cushman, Maj. Robert, 164

  Czechoslovakia, 60

  Daily People’s World, 71

  Daley, Richard, 178, 267, 272

  Dallas Morning News, 213, 222, 236, 237, 239, 247

  Dalton, Mark, 31, 50, 64, 86, 92

  Davis, Mary, 57

  Day, Roy, 35

  Dealey, E. M., 213

  Dean, John, 305, 318, 325

  de Gaulle, Charles, 224, 277, 289

  Democratic party, 17, 49, 52, 104, 189, 193, 199, 213, 219, 243, 285, 291, 321

  anti-Communist rhetoric against, 39

  in California, 34–38, 41, 42, 60, 67, 69, 71, 73, 205, 212

  in Florida, 69

  foreign policy of, 75, 95

  in House, 45–46

  Hughes and, 310–11

  liberal establishment of, 24, 118, 120, 123, 128

  in Massachusetts, 33, 40, 44, 76, 87–89, 107

  McCarthy and, 97, 100

  in 1952 election, 25, 81

  in 1956 election, 16, 105–13

  in 1958 election, 122

  in 1960 election, 117, 123, 128–37, 141, 143, 157, 160–63, 166–68, 171, 173, 175, 178, 181, 182

  in 1964 election, 237, 245, 248, 249

  in 1966 election, 253–55

  in 1968 election, 19, 259, 260, 262, 264, 266–69

  in 1972 election, 273, 301–3, 311–13, 317–18, 320–21, 328

  in 1976 election, 338, 342

  in 1992 election, 344

  and Nixon presidency, 272, 275, 305

  in Senate, 100

  and Vietnam, 230

  and Watergate, 314–15, 318, 319, 321–322, 324, 329–31, 334, 338, 339

  Dewey, Thomas E., 12, 60, 62, 73, 78, 82, 83, 104, 135, 147, 220, 239

  Diefenbaker, John, 201

  Diem, Ngo Dinh, 19, 95, 226–33, 244–47, 303, 306, 307–8, 323, 343

  Dien Bien Phu, battle of, 95, 118

  Dixiecrats, 120

  Doar, John, 334

  Dole, Bob, 249, 319

  Dominican Republic, 201

  Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 67–74, 82, 86, 123, 135, 147, 156, 285

  Douglas, Melvyn, 67

  Dowd, Martin, 102

  Downey, Sheridan, 67, 69, 74

  Duffy, Edward, 40, 46

  Duke University, 254

  Dulles, Allen, 62, 124, 166–68, 186–87, 198, 208

  Dulles, John Foster, 62

  Dutton, Fred, 213

  Eagleton, Thomas, 317–18

  Eden, Anthony, 28

  Egypt, 338

  Ehrlichman, John, 12, 134, 251, 260, 276–78, 280, 284, 301, 303, 307, 315, 316, 320, 325

  Eisenhower, David, 264

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 12, 16, 93, 119, 121, 127, 135, 138, 141, 169, 184, 185, 193–95, 198, 212, 233

  Cuba and, 124, 125, 164–67, 189

  health crises of, 103, 109–10, 122, 178

  inauguration of, 91

  and Indo-China, 95, 118

  Nixon as running mate of, 17, 79, 81–85, 89, 337

  and Nixon’s candidacy, 137, 153, 154, 173–76, 178

  nomination of, 77–79

  and Quemoy-Matsu crisis, 162, 163

  re-election of, 104–5, 108, 112–113, 262

  in World War II, 33

  Eisenhower, Julie Nixon, 56, 179, 207–8, 212, 221, 257, 293, 294–297

  Eisenhower, Mamie, 85, 174

  Eisler, Gerhart, 47, 53

  Elizabeth II, Queen, 277

  Ellsberg, Daniel, 119, 275, 302–3

  Environmental Protection Agency, 288

  Ervin, Sam, 318, 324

  Face the Nation, 108, 233

  Fair Deal, 227

  Fair Play for Cuba, 197

  Fay, Paul “Red,” 10, 28, 29, 74, 93, 175, 188

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 61, 214, 272, 315, 316, 338

  Feldman, Mike, 145

  Finch, Robert, 12, 146–47, 150, 182–84, 195, 205, 246, 258

  Fleming, Ian, 163

  Flowers, Walter, 339

  Flug, James, 10, 286, 301, 318, 319, 326, 333

  Ford, Gerald, 82, 105, 318, 330–31, 341

  Fordham University, 47

  Foreign Affairs, 129, 256

  Forrestal, Michael, 228–29

  France: Algeria and, 118–19

  Vietnam and, 76, 94–95, 118, 161

  Franco, Francisco, 75

  Friends of Vietnam, 95

  Galbraith, John Kenneth, 119, 147, 280

  Gardner, Arthur, 123

  Gardner, Joan, 123

  Gavin, William, 257
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br />   Gemstone, 311

  George Washington University, 93

  Germany: divided, 60, 199, 201–2

  Nazi, 27, 48, 52, 53, 60, 161, 253

  Giancana, Sam, 164, 195–96, 214

  Goldwater, Barry, 94, 242, 246, 248, 250, 318, 329, 341

  Goodwin, Richard, 165, 166, 177, 187

  Gore, Albert, 110–11

  Great Debate, 15, 18, 20, 144–56, 160, 185, 241, 268, 328, 342

  Great Society, 275

  Greenfield, Meg, 275

  Griffin, Bob, 88

  Gromyko, Andrey, 201

  Hagerty, James, 104, 105, 178

  Haig, Alexander, 332, 339, 345

  Halberstam, David, 231

  Haldeman, H. R. “Bob,” 13, 20, 218, 246, 270, 277, 282, 283, 285–86, 288, 292, 293, 298, 311, 344

  in 1968 campaign, 257–60, 265

  and Ted Kennedy, 279, 280, 284, 289–290, 301, 303, 305, 306, 310, 312–13, 318

  and Watergate, 315–16, 320, 325, 337, 339

  and White House tapes, 299–300, 329

  Hall, Leonard, 104, 165

  Harper & Row, 252

  Harriman, Averell, 28, 228–29

  Harris, Lou, 118, 129, 130, 140, 145, 146, 155, 165, 269, 281–82, 298, 305

  Hart, Philip, 333

  Harter, John, 159

  Harvard University, 24, 45, 61, 75, 92, 119–20, 275, 288, 328

  Law School, 64, 86

  Haynesworth, Clement, 286

  Healy, Joe, 92

  Hearst, William Randolph, 28, 29, 31

  Helms, Richard, 200, 214, 316

  Herter, Christian, 13, 50, 54, 99, 112, 124, 163

  Hess, Stephen, 194–95, 204, 211, 216, 226, 238–39, 246, 254

  Hewitt, Don, 144, 148–49, 241

  Hillings, J. Patrick, 13, 70, 79, 82–85, 126, 133, 174, 176, 202, 204, 217

  Hilsman, Roger, 228–29, 232, 244

  Hiss, Alger, 27, 48, 60–64, 66, 68, 69, 71, 75, 82, 86, 91, 107, 108, 131, 133, 147, 156, 217, 219, 326

  Hiss, Priscilla, 62, 64

  Hitler, Adolf, 27, 48, 52, 53, 60, 161, 253

  Ho Chi Minh, 76, 94

  Hoover, Herbert, 13, 184, 204

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 214, 272

  House of Representatives, 126, 256, 321, 330

  Banking Committee, 318

  District of Columbia Committee, 44

  Education and Labor Committee, 44–46, 48–49, 52–53, 153, 186, 221

  Judiciary Committee, 337–39

  Rules Committee, 50

  Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 46, 58–63

  Hughes, Howard, 177–78, 193, 212, 291, 293, 310–11, 314

  Humphrey, Hubert, 116, 117, 126, 129–31, 149, 192–93, 254, 266, 268, 269, 272, 282, 291, 302, 314, 317, 330

  Hunt, E. Howard, 13, 164, 196–97, 303–4, 307, 314–17

  Indo-China, see Vietnam

  Inter-American Press Association, 235

  Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 97, 221

  In the Arena (Nixon), 343

  ITT, 311, 313

  Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 273

  Jaworski, Leon, 333, 337

  Johnson, Andrew, 336

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 219, 242, 243, 247, 251–53, 274, 278, 299, 302, 310, 313

  and Cuba, 256

  in 1960 campaign, 126, 127, 130, 133–34, 136, 141, 153, 180, 181, 290–91

  and 1968 election, 258–61

  re-election of, 245, 248, 250

  in Senate, 67, 110, 117, 119

  as vice president, 18, 223, 236, 237

  and Vietnam, 246, 251, 254–55, 257, 268–69, 272, 275, 306

  Justice Department, U.S., 193, 278, 310, 311, 328, 329, 332, 334

  Keating, Kenneth, 214

  Kefauver, Estes, 110–12, 262

  Kelly, Grace, 99, 116

  Kempton, Murray, 15

  Kendall, Donald, 235

  Kennedy, Caroline Bouvier, 122, 213, 248, 293–97

  Kennedy, Edward M. “Ted,” 16, 33, 213, 264, 267, 272–74, 276, 278, 285–86, 291, 298, 326–34, 337, 343, 345

  and Chappaquiddick, 19, 279–81, 284, 286, 291, 302, 304–6, 323–25, 329, 338, 341

  and 1972 election, 273, 290, 300–306, 308, 310, 312–13, 317–18

  and 1976 election, 338, 342

  Vietnam War opposed by, 289, 309

  and Watergate, 314, 318–22, 324, 326–34, 338, 339, 341

  Kennedy, Edward M., Jr., 338

  Kennedy, Ethel, 277, 328

  Kennedy, Jacqueline, 17, 93, 103, 111, 112, 122, 123, 128, 221, 236, 248, 261, 276, 277, 313, 328, 344

  at inauguration, 189

  and JFK’s assassination, 16, 239, 242–44

  during JFK’s illness, 100–101

  and Manchester book, 252

  and 1960 election, 178, 179

  and Profiles in Courage, 106

  television appearances by, 157, 207

  visit to Nixon White House by, 292–96

  Kennedy, Joan, 278

  Kennedy, John F.: assassination of, 16, 235–44, 247

  in Berlin, 225

  Churchill and, 103

  on civil rights, 224–25

  Clinton and, 344

  congressional campaign of, 29–33, 40–42, 47

  Cox and, 326

  and Cuba, 194–200, 213–15, 222–23, 284, 335 (see also Bay of Pigs invasion)

  Democratic Convention tribute to, 248–49

  early days of presidency of, 192–194

  education of, 23–24

  elected president, 179–189, 207–8

  at end of World War II, 28–29

  in House of Representatives, 16, 17, 43–45, 54, 57–58, 64–67, 75–76, 337

  illnesses of, 17–18, 54–57, 89, 99–102, 201, 267

  inauguration of, 189–90

  and Johnson presidency, 251

  marriage of, 92–93

  and 1964 election, 233–34, 254

  and Nixon’s gubernatorial campaign, 204–6, 208–11, 213, 218–19

  and Nixon’s senatorial campaign, 70, 74

  personality of, 20

  presidential campaign of, 15, 18, 116–20, 125–78, 217, 257–59, 266, 328

  public legacy of, 244–45, 252, 256, 275–79, 285

  Pulitzer Prize won by, 114–16, 118, 119

  in Senate, 17, 90–92, 94–98, 118, 120–24, 262

  senatorial campaign of, 76–77, 86–89

  and Soviet Union, 201–3, 223–24

  and television, 79–80

  and vice-presidential nomination, 16, 105–12

  and Vietnam, 226–32, 245–46, 272, 283, 307–8, 313, 343

  Kennedy, John F., Jr., 293–97, 344

  Kennedy, Joseph, Jr., 28, 57

  Kennedy, Joseph, Sr., 23, 28–33, 42, 43, 54, 87, 88, 92, 106, 114–15, 118, 133, 140, 184, 186, 187, 276

  Kennedy, Kathleen, 57

  Kennedy, Robert, 16, 98, 105, 200, 252, 253, 277, 287, 298, 302, 305, 323, 326

  assassination of, 19, 264

  as attorney general, 193, 208, 209, 214, 310, 316, 319, 328, 334

  and 1960 campaign, 130, 132, 141, 143, 146, 159, 171–72

  and 1964 election, 244–45, 248–49

  and 1968 election, 18–19, 254, 259–264, 274

  senatorial campaign of, 249

  Stevenson and, 113

  Kennedy, Rose, 88, 115, 123, 296, 305, 340

  Kennedy: The Man and the Myth (Lasky), 226

  Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 305–6, 314, 345

  Kennedy Foundation, 31

  Kent State University, 287

  Kersten, Charles, 46–47, 52–54

  Khan, Ayub, 246

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 125, 136, 149, 151, 155, 164, 167, 201–3, 215, 222, 344

  King, Coretta Scott, 170–73

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 120–21, 170–73, 263, 298

  King, Martin Luther, Sr., 172

  Kissinger, Henry, 119, 275, 280, 302, 303, 319, 328, 339

  Kitc
hen Debate, 125, 147, 149, 168

  Klein, Herb, 13, 39, 54, 125, 148, 149, 172, 179, 183, 184, 215–17, 256, 258, 264, 276, 277, 288, 320

  Knight, Goodwin, 205–6

  Knights of Columbus, 116

  Kopechne, Mary Jo, 279, 280, 341

  Korean War, 71, 72, 175

  Krock, Arthur, 114–15

  Labor Advisory Committee, 119

  Laos, 189, 193–94, 199, 200, 227, 247

  Lasky, Victor, 226

  Lausche, Frank, 104

  Lenin, V. I., 49

  Library of Congress, 317, 318, 333

  Liddy, G.Gordon, 311, 314

  Life magazine, 93, 243, 308

  Lincoln, Abraham, 150

  Lincoln, Evelyn, 90–91, 98, 99, 121, 123

  Lodge, Henry Cabot, 13, 91, 186, 239

  as ambassador to South Vietnam, 228–32, 247, 273, 303

  JFK’s Senate campaign against, 76–78, 87–89, 102, 146, 152

  in 1964 election, 242, 246

  as UN ambassador, 119, 135

  vice-presidential candidacy of, 18, 135–36, 147, 155, 172, 176

  London Observer, 118

  Look magazine, 252–53

  Los Angeles Daily News, 69

  Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 70

  Los Angeles Times, 41, 66, 226, 293

  Luce, Clare Booth, 341

  Lynn, James, 331

  MacArthur, Gen. Douglas, 227

  Macmillan, Harold, 215

  MacNelly, Jeff, 312

  Magruder, Jeb, 259, 277, 283, 290, 311–12, 315

  Maheu, Robert, 164, 293

  Making of a President, The (White), 226, 243

  Manchester, William, 244, 252, 253

  Mankiewicz, Frank, 264

  Mansfield, Mike, 301

  Mao Tse-tung, 54, 67, 312

  Marcantonio, Vito, 39, 47, 58, 69, 71, 73, 97, 211

  Marshall, George C., 54

  Marshall Plan, 54, 60, 78

  Martin, Joseph, 39, 46

  Martin, Louis, 171–73

  Masaryk, Jan, 60

  Mauldin, Bill, 281

  Mazo, Earl, 144, 182

  McCarthy, Eugene, 259, 260

  McCarthy, Joseph R., 68–69, 74–75, 87–88, 92, 93, 96–100, 108–9, 123, 129, 143, 177, 329

  McClellan, John, 105

  McCord, James, 314, 325

  McCormack, Edward, 213

  McCormack, John W., 44, 45, 107

  McGee, Frank, 161

  McGovern, George, 281, 312–15, 317–18

  McGrory, Mary, 218

  McKeesport Daily News, 52

  McLuhan, Marshall, 221

  McNamara, Robert, 209, 229, 245

  McWhorter, Charles, 131

  Meet the Press, 63, 76, 77, 81, 124, 141, 163

  Methodist Christian Advocate, 126–127

  Miller, Melody, 333

  Minh, Duong Van, 231

  Mitchell, John, 258, 259, 278, 286, 301, 306, 311

  Molotov, Vyacheslav M., 27–28

  Monroe, Marilyn, 210

  Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 273, 287–88

  Mudd, Roger, 342

 

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