Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House (64 page)

Berlin crisis and, 229

on Bundy, 333

on Burke, 71

Castro ousting and, 215

on Dillon, 117

on Fulbright, 96

on Harriman, 193

Harriman message to JFK and, 322

at Harvard, 82, 83

Jacqueline Kennedy interviews, 27, 422

JFK and Berlin, 183–84

JFK and the Soviets, 223

JFK and Vietnam, 241

JFK on job of, 1

JFK on military as mad, 332

JFK presidential campaign and, 81–82

JFK’s health problems and, 79

on JFK’s management style, 112

JFK’s memory preserved by, 422

on JFK’s retention of Joint Chiefs, 75

on Lemnitzer, 69

as liability, 279–80

as liberal, 81

on Lovett, 84

on McNamara, 88, 294

“peace speech” and, 360

quashing of
New Republic
article and, 141

resignation from LBJ’s White House, 423–24

RFK and, 49

RFK’s anniversary party, 207

RFK’s presidential hopes, 336

on Rostow, 243

on Rusk, 100

Soviet build-up in Cuba disputed by, 288–89

Soviet nuclear testing and, 213

as speechwriter, 80, 279

State of the Union (1962), 251

Vietnam and, 345

Wilkins and, 402

writings on JFK’s presidency, 423, 424

Seaborg, Glenn T., 209, 212, 213, 255

Seigenthaler, John, 63

Shannon, William, 264

Sheehan, Neil, 275–76, 337–38, 345–46

Shepard, Alan, 179, 180

Shoup, David, 316

Shriver, Eunice Kennedy, 86, 129

Shriver, Sargent, 120, 129

JFK’s appointments and, 86, 119

JFK’s presidential campaign, 86

marriage to Eunice Kennedy, 86, 129

Peace Corps and, 129–30

Special Olympics and, 129

Sidey, Hugh, 75, 199

Smathers, George, 167, 379

Smith, Jean Kennedy, 143

Smith, Steve, 88

Sorensen, Theodore, x, 109

background, 76–78

Castro ousting and, 215

as civil rights activist, 76–77

Cuban missile crisis, 302, 318

JFK message to Khrushchev and, 323

JFK’s “alter ego,” 76

JFK’s health post-election, 3

JFK’s health problems and, 79

JFK’s inaugural speech and, 105

JFK’s memory preserved by, 422, 425–26

JFK’s presidential campaign, 80

JFK’s Senate years, 78–79, 80

LBJ and, 353

LBJ’s presidency and, 425

on LeMay, 74

memo on Vietnam, 165–66

“Ministry of Talent,” x

O’Donnell as hostile to, 81, 369

as “outsider,” 81

on the Peace Corps, 129

“peace speech” and, 359–60

Profiles in Courage
and, 80

on RFK, 44–45, 51

space race and, 177

as special counsel to the president, 80, 126

as speechwriter, x, 3, 80, 279, 302, 425

writings on JFK’s presidency, 423, 425–26

Sorensen, Tom, 360

Southeast Asia Task Force, 231, 236

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), 236, 242, 243

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 108

Soviet Union.
See also
Khrushchev, Nikita

arms race and, 67

atmospheric nuclear testing and, 208, 210–11

Bay of Pigs failure and, 146–47

Berlin and, 103, 180–86

Berlin Wall and, 225–26

Cuba, military build-up in, 288–91

Cuba and, 103, 106, 131, 366

Cuba as problem in U.S. relations, 372, 377

Cuban missile crisis, 292–329

East Germany, nuclear missiles in, 290

economic weakness, 178–79

JFK’s advisers wrong on, 290

JFK seen as weak, 146–47

Laos and, 159

menace to West of, 132–33, 203

“missile gap” and, 20, 67

nuclear war fears and, 40, 67–68

RFK and William O. Douglas in (1955), 46

Sino-Soviet split, 367

space race and, 177–79

test ban treaty and, 209–13

space race, 177–80

Stages of Economic Growth
(Rostow), 91–92

Stahr, Elvis, 274

Stalin, Joseph, 186, 189, 195

steel industry, 259–60

Steeves, John, 231–32

Steinbeck, John, 248

Stevenson, Adlai, 43, 81, 288–89

on America’s lack of grand vision, 107

Ball and, 103–4

Bay of Pigs failure, 151

as Bay of Pigs skeptic, 142–43

Berlin crisis and, 228

Bowles and, 101

calls RFK “Black Prince,” 59

campaign of 1956, 47–50

Cuba and, 386

Cuban missile crisis and, 301, 302, 308, 325

desire for Secretary of State job, 93–94

JFK campaigning for, 50

JFK desire for vice presidency and, 48–49

JFK’s administration and, 63

JFK’s ambassadorship offers, 94–95

Kennedy’s “Irish gutter talk” and, 104

Nixon’s attack on, 20

RFK campaigning for, 49–50

on Soviet nuclear testing, 211

third-time candidate hopes, 15–16, 51–52

Stilwell, Joseph W., 98

Strategy for Peace, Th
e (JFK), 120

Strauss, Lewis, 209

Sullivan, William H., 411

Sully, François, 286

Sulzberger, Arthur, 414

Sylvester, Arthur, 71, 72

Symington, Stuart, 16, 57, 243

tax reform, 107, 108

Taylor, Maxwell, 72, 93

background, 157–58

Berlin crisis and, 228

Castro ousting and, 213, 216, 254

Cuba and, 360

Cuban missile crisis and, 297, 298, 303, 305, 315, 317, 318, 332

as Diem supporter, 231, 284, 398, 401, 407, 409, 416

as JFK adviser, 157–58

JFK’s diminished confidence in, 279

Joint Chiefs and, 330–31

resignation from LBJ’s White House, 431

Vietnam and, 232, 234, 235, 242, 341, 342, 346, 397, 406–8, 411–12

Vietnam fact-finding trips, 237, 238, 239, 282, 283, 409–11

Vietnam report to JFK, 284

Teller, Edward, 209

Tempelsman, Maurice, 423

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
(R. Kennedy), 427

Thompson, Llewellyn “Tommy,” 182–83, 185, 192, 198

background, 313

on Cuba, 367–68

Cuban missile crisis and, 311, 312–13, 328, 333

nuclear test ban treaty and, 358

Thompson, Robert G. K., 347–48

Thornton, Charles, 86

Thousand Days, A
(Schlesinger), 424–25

Thunder Out of China
(White), 235

Time
magazine, leaks to, 203

Travell, Janet, 308–9

Troutman, Robert, 174

Truman, Bess, 125

Truman, Harry, 17, 19, 25, 28, 42, 47, 53

Acheson and, 205

Bell and, 119

Bowles and, 101

“buck stops here,” 25, 147

China policy, 98, 164, 248

containment policy, 28

dislike of Nixon, 60

Eisenhower and, 22

firing of MacArthur, 75

Harriman and, 192

on JFK, 60

JFK and, 379

Korean War and, 247, 262, 273

Lovett in administration, 84

Neustadt serving under, 25

reputation as sob, 59

Symington and, 243

test ban treaty and, 379, 382

Tuchman, Barbara, 320

Turkey, U. S. missiles in, 326–27, 328–29

Twain, Mark, 13

Udall, Stewart, 255

Ugly American, The
(Lederer and Burdick), 218

Uncertain Trumpet, The
(Taylor), 72, 158

Unfinished Life, An
(Dallek), ix, 12

Ung Van Kiem, 280

United Nations

Cuban missile crisis and, 323

Eleanor Roosevelt at, 95, 125

Fulbright support for, 96

Khrushchev address (1956), 195

Stevenson ambassadorship, 94–95

United States Information Agency (USIA), 264

University of Georgia, 176

University of Virginia, 40–41

Unruh, Jesse, 38

U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, 208, 209

U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, 120, 121, 258

U. S. Congress

House Appropriations Committee, 274

JFK’s low opinion of the House and congressmen, 13–14

JFK’s speech (1961), 176–77

JFK’s term in the House, 13, 38

JFK’s term in the Senate, 14, 96

O’Brien as JFK’s congressional point man, 113–14

Senate Armed Services Committee, 71, 242

Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 96, 261, 268

Senate Labor Rackets Commission, 111

Senate Space Committee, 179

southern opposition to civil rights, 123, 173

test ban treaty and, 380, 382

Vietnam and, 242

U. S. Department of Defense.
See also
Joint Chiefs

anti-Castro forces and, 366

Cuba, Castro, and JFK’s policy toward, 366

Cuban missile crisis and, 318

disagreement with negotiated Vietnam outcome, 272

JFK criticism of, 257

nuclear war and, 294

task force on Vietnam, 274

Vietnam and, 236, 245, 268

U. S. Department of Justice

Civil Rights Division, 122, 174

Cuban missile crisis and, 301

RFK as attorney general, 62–65

White as deputy attorney general, 122

U. S. Department of State.
See also
Rusk, Dean

Ball replaces Bowles, 155

Bay of Pigs and, 133, 139–40, 150

Berlin and, 183, 185–86

Bowles as Undersecretary, 101–3, 139

Bowles ousted, 155–56

Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, 365

China White Paper
, 98

Cuban missile crisis and, 302–3, 318

Cuba reconciliation opposed by, 388

Far Eastern affairs department, 98, 273

FDR’s exasperation with, 184

Intelligence Bureau, 355

JFK-Khrushchev summit and, 191

JFK’s attitude toward, 93, 103, 184, 270

JFK’s reforming of, 95–96

press censorship in Vietnam and, 263, 264–65

Rusk as Secretary, 93, 97–101, 103, 328

“shit list” of those to be fired, 95

on U. S. military intervention in Cuba, 134

Vietnam and, 236, 241, 346

Vietnam rationale, 286–87

Vietnam working group, 336, 348–49, 355

U. S. Department of the Treasury

Cuban missile crisis and, 318

Dillon as Secretary, 116–18

U. S. Intelligence Board, 290

U. S. News & World Report
, “Curtain of Secrecy” story, 263

U Thant, 323, 325, 329

Vandiver, Ernest, 61

Vann, John Paul, 346

Varentsov, Sergei, 225

Vienna summit (1961), 186–200

Vietnam, xi, 162–72, 229–49, 260–78, 280–87, 336–52, 354–56, 390–419

Ap Bac, 339–40, 341, 345–46

assassination of Diem and Nhu, 417–18

British Advisory Group, 347–48

Buddhist repression and crisis, 349, 351–52, 355, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395–96, 397, 399

bureaucratic infighting and failing policy of, 345, 346

consensus on U. S. military support, 336–37

cost of war, 338

Counterinsurgency Plan, 162

Diem and (
see
Ngo Dinh Diem)

domino theory, 160–61, 431

Durbrow as ambassador, 162–63

Eisenhower’s policy, 160, 165

expanding U.S. role, 266, 267–68

fog of war and, 396

French advice to JFK, 234–35

French defeat, 160, 170, 241, 338

Galbraith advice on, 166, 232–33, 234, 269–71

GAO report on aid programs, 347

Geneva Accords, 160, 270–71

Gilpatric advice on, 166

Green Berets, 218

Harkins as commander in, 260, 265, 274, 275, 280–81, 337, 340, 343, 346

hawkish demands for military intervention, 233, 236–38

Hilsman and Forrestal trip and report (1963), 340–41

JFK administration failure to ask five basic questions before engagement in, 246–47

JFK and a negotiated settlement, 269–71, 272, 273–74, 280

JFK’s advisers divided on, 401, 405–9, 414–15

JFK’s advisers supporting Diem, 164, 168, 170–71, 230–31, 237, 414

JFK’s ambivalence on, 429

JFK’s commitment to, 246–47, 286–87, 343, 393, 405

JFK’s dilemma in, 350–51

JFK’s doubts about financing South Vietnamese forces, 171

JFK’s eight questions for advisers, 242

JFK’s final policy on, 418–19

JFK’s hiding U.S. involvement, 260–61, 262, 263–64, 269, 340

JFK’s intention to withdraw, 351

JFK’s lack of prioritizing, 342

JFK’s meeting of January, 1961, 161

JFK’s meeting of September 10, 1963, 406–8

JFK’s meetings of August 26– 28, 1963, 397–401

JFK’s meetings of October 29, 1963 on Diem coup, 415–16

JFK’s motivations for expanding U.S. commitments in, 247–48, 273, 350

JFK’s opposition to build-up of U.S. military in, 161–62, 229–30, 232–33, 237, 240, 241, 242, 261–62

JFK’s press conference (July 17, 1963), 393

JFK’s reluctance to back Diem coup, 354–55, 416–18

JFK’s skepticism about rescuing South Vietnam, 339–40

JFK’s task force on, 280–82

JFK’s TV interviews to put Diem on notice, 405–6

JFK turns over management of war to McNamara, U.S. military, and the Saigon embassy, 267, 283, 342

Joint Chiefs and, 166, 236–37, 240, 245, 260–61, 340, 341–42, 343, 395

Kattenburg’s warning, 404

Kennedy letter to Diem, 245–46

Kennedy letter to Khrushchev, 246

Khrushchev holds up as model for insurgencies, 166–67

Landsdale as CIA station head, 218

Lansdale report to JFK, 161, 163

LBJ report (1961), 168–70

LBJ’s Rolling Thunder campaign, 427–28

LBJ’s Vietnam policy, 429–30

LBJ trip to (1961), 167–68

Lodge as ambassador, 355–56, 391, 392, 396

Mansfield memo to JFK, 238–39

Mansfield report, 337–39, 343