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Swords and Plowshares: A Memoir.
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INDEX

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Abel, Elie, 6

Acheson, Dean, 55

Adams, John Quincy, 154

Adams, Sherman, 25–26, 29, 30, 49, 120, 218

Addison’s disease, 33–35, 39, 82, 137, 151

AFL-CIO, 301

Agnelli, Gianni, 231

Air Force Association (AFA), 99

Air Force One, 43, 145, 210

Alabama National Guard, 161

Albert, Carl, 356

Alexander the Great, 83

Alphand, Hervé, 254–55, 337

Alsop, Joe, 43, 82, 295, 350

Alsop, Stewart, 113, 292

American Fact-Finding Committee, 339

American Legion, 201, 354

Anderson, George, 98

Anderson, Jack, 34

Archimedes, 183

Arms Control Agency, 159

Arvad, Ingrid, 216

Asquith, Herbert, 18

Asquith, Raymond, 18

atomic bombs, 77, 95

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 22, 30, 177

Attwood, William, 183–84, 190–92, 202, 250, 283, 285, 291, 321–22, 353, 357

Auchincloss, Hugh, 169, 170

Auchincloss, Janet, 12, 13, 19, 45, 170–71, 172

Bailey, Charles V., II, 95

Bailey, John, 285, 291

Baker, Bobby, 29, 298, 327

and JFK’s womanizing, 82

and Johnson, 218–19, 303, 318, 335

and Quorum Club, 79, 219, 303

and Senate investigation, 218–19, 223, 246, 248, 261, 266–68, 284, 317, 335

and women, 79, 249, 261, 266, 268, 275, 276, 355

Baker, Horace and Sara, 274

Baldrige, Letitia, 303–4

Baldwin, James, 286

Ball, George, 15, 33, 81, 220, 328

and Cable 243, 90–91, 105–6

and Vietnam, 78–79, 87, 188, 282

Bao Dai, 56

Barghoorn, Frederick, 299

Bartlett, Charlie, xii, 64, 83, 152, 154, 171, 198, 262, 288, 295

Bartlett, Martha, 152, 153, 154

Baruch, Bernard, 84, 85, 86

Batista, Fulgencia, 251, 327

Battelle, Kenneth, 205

“Battle Hymn of the Republic,” 200

Baughman, U. E., 44

Bay of Pigs (1961), 24, 210

and Cuban exiles, 18–19, 191, 290

and Eisenhower administration, 6, 106

“JFK’s next,” 97, 99, 117, 119, 264, 279

and Joint Chiefs, 58, 97

lessons learned from, 91, 121, 225, 327

stigma of, 129, 221

Beale, Betty, 52

Beardsley, Mimi, 31, 82, 215, 280

Bell, David, 307

Benson, Ezra Taft, 199

Bergquist, Laura, xi, xiii, 18, 27, 67, 97, 220, 222–23, 230, 343

Berlin, Isaiah, 81, 129

Berlin Wall, 58, 358

Betancourt, Romulo, 322

Biddle, George, 257

Bigart, Homer, 242, 293

Billings, Lem, 6, 11, 16, 20, 32, 82, 128, 152, 265

as constant houseguest, 263–64

and Garbo, 297–98

travel with, 43, 264

Birmingham:

church bombed in, 172–73, 174, 180, 189

civil rights battles in, 111–12, 114, 115, 161, 174, 181, 184, 187, 188–89, 227, 233, 246

Bishop, Jim:

“A Day in the Life of President Eisenhower,” 244, 247, 253

A Day in the Life of President Kennedy,
243–44, 247–48, 249, 252–53, 311, 325–26

The Day Lincoln Was Shot,
253

Bishop, Kelly, 243, 244, 252

Blaik, Earl, 227

Blaik-Royall mission, 181–82, 187, 190, 227

Blaine, Gerald, 311–14

Boggs, Hale, 288, 325, 330

Bohlen, Charles “Chip,” 30, 54, 129, 353

Bolton, Frances, 50

Booker, Simeon, 181

Boring, Floyd, 311–14

Bouck, Robert, 23, 24

Boutwell, Albert, 181, 189, 227

Bradford, William, 307–8

Bradlee, Ben, 4, 129

and Baker scandal, 246, 249, 276, 284

conversations with, 98, 127, 172, 246–47

Conversations with Kennedy,
172

and friendship, 127, 146, 171

and JFK interviews, 34, 127, 132, 139

and Johnson, 139, 295, 356

socializing with, 169, 170, 246, 249, 271, 284, 286, 298, 361

Bradlee, Tony, 169, 171, 194, 246, 284, 286, 361

Brandon, Henry, 338, 362

Brinkley, David, 158, 270, 359

Broder, David, 155, 335

Brown v. Board of Education,
8

Bruce, Preston, 108

Bruno, Jerry, 193, 195, 198, 200, 201, 344

Bryant, Traphes, 295

Buchan, John,
Pilgrim’s Way,
18

Buchwald, Art, 348

Bundy, McGeorge, 129n, 227, 292, 330

and coup, 118, 119, 213, 254, 271, 272, 273, 279

and Cuba, 283, 291, 321, 357

and JFK’s death, 350

and Johnson, 355, 359, 360

and Laos, 57

as National Security Adviser, 27, 57, 90, 359

and Vietnam, 60, 90, 118, 119, 121, 166, 206, 207, 208, 213, 217, 254, 279, 359–60

Bundy, William, 206, 208

Burke, Arleigh, 58

Burkley, George, 32, 35–36, 38, 39, 121, 296

Burns, James MacGregor, 10, 352–53

Busby, Horace, 334

Calhoun, John C., 84

Campbell, Judith, 83

Camp David, 230, 233, 263

Cannon, Jim, 34, 132, 139

Cape Canaveral Space Center, 305–9

Carter, Jimmy, 350

Cassini, Oleg, 16, 83, 254, 297, 301

Castro, Fidel, 96, 134, 332

and Bay of Pigs, 6, 210

and CIA, 192, 283–84, 290–91, 322

and Johnson administration, 357–58

and media interviews, 67, 191

and missile crisis, 251–52

and secret negotiations, 183–84, 191–92, 195, 250, 251–52, 283–84, 290–91, 315–16, 319, 322, 327, 354

and Soviet Union, 183, 191, 192, 251, 252, 283, 316

Castro, Raoul, 191

Celebrezze, Anthony, 155, 311

Celler, Emmanuel, 180

Chaffee, John, 169–70

Chase, Gordon, 191–92, 283, 321–22, 357–58

Chen, Toy Lin, 156n

Chessman, Caryl, ix

China:

and atomic bomb, 159

recognition of (Communist), 167

trade with, 328, 354

and UN, 319–20

and Vietnam, 55, 57

Christina
(yacht), 89, 120

Chuong, Tran Van, 65, 66

Churchill, Randolph, 222–23

Churchill, Winston, 89, 128, 129, 130–31, 134, 146

CIA:

and Bay of Pigs, 6, 58

and cold war, 165

and Cuba, 184, 192, 283–84, 290–91, 322, 348

and Vietnam coup, 106, 117–18, 143, 248, 271

White House bugged by, 23

Citizens Committee for a Nuclear Test Ban, 22

civil rights, 107–16, 286

in Birmingham, 111–12, 114, 115, 161, 172–73, 174, 180–81, 184, 188–89, 227, 233, 246

FEPC, 114, 115, 234, 269

Freedom Riders, 111

and the Golden Rule, 315

“I have a dream . . . ,” 108–9

JFK’s speeches on, 8–9, 10–11, 77, 107

leaders in the movement, 24

legislation, 24, 29, 107–8, 109, 111–14, 115–16, 155, 178, 180–82, 190, 195, 210, 223, 233, 234, 249, 255, 268–70, 274–75, 301, 311, 320, 354, 355, 356, 361, 362

March on Washington, 107–9, 114

military integrated, 110, 181, 190

Northern liberals vs., 113, 155, 270, 274–75

and race riots, 181

and reelection, 320–21

school desegregation, 8, 111, 190, 301

Southern Democrats vs., 112–13

Southern Strategy (GOP) vs., 270

voting rights, 111

“We Shall Overcome,” 108

White House meeting with leaders, 109, 113–16

Clark, Blair, 108

Clifford, Clark, 27, 30, 275–76, 358–59

Clifton, Chester, 49, 70, 121, 138, 147, 287

Cohen, Eugene, 34, 35, 36–38, 39

Coit, Margaret, 84–86, 354

Colby, William, 271

cold war:

and arms race, 8, 13, 103, 158, 164–68, 301

and Berlin, 58, 89, 165, 217, 250, 284, 290, 358, 360

containment in, 268

and Cuba,
see
Cuba

and détente, 30, 93–95, 101–2, 104–5, 160, 165, 183, 215, 221, 226–27, 239, 253, 303, 321, 349, 354

and disarmament, 103

domino theory in, 55, 56, 58, 60, 158

four safeguards in, 23

nuclear threat in, 7–8, 9, 10, 18, 57, 58, 93, 158, 164–66, 197, 198, 215, 217, 239, 251, 293

prevention, 100–101

and space race,
see
space race

test ban treaty, 9, 13, 21–23, 28–29, 30–31, 49, 77, 80, 81, 88, 93, 99–101, 104, 158–60, 165, 194, 196, 197, 198–200, 211, 214–16, 225–27, 238, 239, 284–85, 354, 362

U.S. first strike in, 165–66

and Vietnam, 55–57

Committee Against the Treaty of Moscow, 99

Conein (CIA officer), 281

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 8

Connally, John, 95, 359

and JFK’s Texas tour, 211–12, 321, 330, 344

and Johnson, 330, 334–35

and motorcade, 332, 344–45

and Yarborough, 321, 330, 333, 334–35, 341–42

Coolidge, Calvin, 149, 194

Cooper, Chester, 208

Cooper, Gordon, 305, 334

Cormier, Frank, 185–86

Cousins, Norman, 9–10, 22, 93–94

Cowan, Jill, 83

Crespi, Countess Vivian Stokes, 185

Cronkite, Walter, 135–37, 143, 158, 270–71, 347, 359

Crosby, Bing, 201

Cuba:

Bay of Pigs,
see
Bay of Pigs

exiles from, 18–19, 191–92, 285, 290–91, 312

Guantánamo Bay, 96

and JFK’s death, 348–49, 357–58

Khrushchev’s visit to, 102

secret U.S. negotiations with, 183–84, 190–92, 251, 283–84, 315–16, 321–22, 327–28, 354

Soviet missiles in, 6, 7, 10, 18, 38, 59, 88, 91, 93, 95, 97–98, 121, 133, 134, 150, 151, 159, 197, 225, 251–52, 360

as Soviet problem, 251, 290

U.S. naval blockade of, 59, 97, 184, 215, 290–91, 327

and U.S. terrorist plans, 94–98

Curry, Jesse, 344

Cushing, Cardinal Richard, 19, 287

Custer, George Armstrong, 199

Daar, Aden, 206

Daley, Richard, 269, 347

Dallas:

anniversary of, 356

as dangerous place, 210, 212, 253, 255, 283, 325, 330, 339

JFK’s planned trip to, 212, 247, 255, 283, 316, 324, 325

JFK urged to skip, 210, 211, 253, 255, 283, 301, 324, 327, 347

Kennedys’ visit to, 342–46

memories of, 128

Stevenson’s visit to, 253, 254, 255, 283, 301, 325, 347

Dallas, Rita, 152

Dalton, Mark, 16, 131

Daniel, Jean, 250–52, 255, 291, 315, 321, 327, 357

Daniel, Price, 330

Darlington, Charles, 329

Daw Mya Sein, 228

Dealey, Ted, 339

Decker, Bill, 344

Decker, George, 58

de Gaulle, Charles, 101, 128, 237, 241, 250–51, 255, 349

de Kooning, Elaine, JFK portraits by, ix–xi, xiii, 326, 327, 350, 362

de Kooning, Willem, ix

DeLoach, Cartha, 262

Democratic National Committee (DNC), 291

De Niro, Robert, Sr., ix

Desta, Ruth, 205–6

Dickerson, Nancy, 65, 67, 228–29

Diem, Ngo Dinh, 136–37

and Buddhists, 76, 78, 136, 137

and Cable 243, 90–91, 92, 105–6, 117, 270, 271

and coup, 66, 92, 105–6, 118, 143, 162, 176–77, 206, 213, 248–49, 270–73, 279–81

death of, 280–81, 282

and Nhu, 62, 65, 142, 143

U.S. support of, 56, 59, 61, 143, 187, 292

and Vietnam War, 54, 63, 137, 143, 161, 177, 188

Dietrich, Marlene, 162–63, 280

Dillon, Douglas, 27, 110, 159, 179, 327

Dirksen, Everett, 201

and Adams case, 25–26, 120

and Baker scandal, 218, 266–68, 275

and civil rights bill, 28, 29, 356

and test ban treaty, 23, 28, 29, 30–31, 158–59, 214

Dixon, George, 119

Dobrynin, Anatoly, 101–2

and JFK’s death, 357

and joint lunar venture, 104, 160, 175

and Khrushchev, 93, 94–95, 100, 303, 357

and secret contacts, 93, 98, 100, 102, 105, 224

Don, General (Vietnam), 271, 272

Donald, David Herbert, 130

Donovan, James, 191–92

Douglas, Kirk, 98, 349

Douglas, William O., 326

Douglas-Home, Sir Alec, 215, 349

Douglas-Home, Robin, 303

Drummond, Roscoe, 164, 167

Dryden, Hugh, 307

Duffy, La Verne, 79, 81, 355

Dugger, Ronnie, 343

Duke, Angier Biddle, 138, 254

Dulles, Allen, 165

Dulles, John Foster, 55

Eastland, James, 113

Eban, Abba, 353

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 44, 108, 242, 258

and Adams, 25–26, 28, 29, 30, 49

and cold war, 8, 28–29, 57

and Cuba, 6, 106, 358

and election, 354

and foreign aid, 236, 285

and Goldwater, 221

and health, 36, 37

historical ranking of, 132, 133

media stories about, 127, 244, 247, 253

and test ban treaty, 30–31

Eisenhower administration, 51, 178, 349

and civil rights, 112

and Vietnam, 55, 56, 60, 358

Elfand, Sam, 44

Eliot, T. S., 285

Elizabeth II, queen of England, 236

Ellison, Ralph, 286

Ellsberg, Daniel, 35n, 360

Emancipation Proclamation, 28

Estes, Thomas, 329

Europe:

colonial empire of, 285

and Marshall Plan, 285

U.S. troops in, 225, 250

Evans, Courtney, 79

Evers, Medgar, 112, 114, 174, 347

Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC), 114, 115, 234, 269

“Family of Man” citation, 285

Farmer, James, 8

Fay, Anita, 5, 185

Fay, Paul “Red,” 5, 14, 43, 52, 58, 97, 98, 99, 139, 149, 154, 185, 276, 280

FBI:

and break-ins, 39

and civil rights, 174

and Hoover, 355

and JFK’s womanizing, 79, 80, 260–62

White House bugged by, 23, 24–25

Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 135

Fitzgerald, Desmond, 290

Fitzgerald, John “Honey Fitz,” 27, 51, 139

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