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Authors: Ted Sorensen

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moon race, 523–524, 525–526, 527–528
Morales Carrion, Arturo, 237, 700
Morrissey, Francis X., 72
Morse, Wayne, 44, 48, 50, 98, in, 124, 128, 130, 132, 135, 147, 235, 335
Morton, Thruston, 185, 211–212, 215
Moscoso, Teodoro, 534
Moscow, 557
Moscow conference, 551, 729, 732, 734- 740
MRBMs, 677, 679–680, 709, 711
multilateral force,
see
MLF
Mundt-Daniel Electoral College Amendment, 62n.
Muñoz Marin, Luis, 115, 209
Murphy, Charles S., 277
Murphy, Robert, 73
Murray, John Courtney, 190
Murrow, Edward R., 256, 277, 580, 581, 591, 619, 631, 675, 723
Muscle Shoals (Ala.), 492

N

NAACP, 50, 51, 473, 476, 490
Nam Tha, 647
Naples, 581, 733
Napoleon, 563
NASA, 525
Nassau agreement, 559, 565–566, 567–568, 607
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 539–540, 546, 663
National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
see
NASA
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,
see
NAACP
National Association of Manufacturers, 31, 430, 439
National Catholic Welfare Conference, 360
National Committee, Democratic,
see
Democratic
National Committee National Conference of Citizens for Religious Freedom, 188
National Convention of Manufacturers, 465
National Defense Education Act,
see
NDEA
National Education Association, 359
“national interest,” 440
National Liberation Front, 650
National Park Service, 385
National Press Club, 436
National Science Foundation, 480
National Security Council, 281, 590, 625, 644, 674, 679, 693, 698, 701, 723
Executive Committee (Ex Comm), 679, 701, 708, 709, 715, 720
National Space Council, 525
National Stockpiles, 317
National University of Ireland, 582
Nationalist China, 547, 665, 736
NATO, 557, 558, 561, 562, 563, 566–567, 568, 571, 572, 573–574, 557, 588, 591, 596, 625, 627, 628, 681, 685, 686, 697, 705, 715
NATO-Warsaw Pact Treaty, 736
Naval Academy, 370
NDEA, 360–361, 480
Neal, Alfred, 13
Nebraska Law Review
, 60
Negro population, 229
Negroes,
see
civil rights
Nehru, B. K., 663
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 331, 380, 546, 578, 642, 663–664
Nelson, Gaylord, 133, 136
Nestingen, Ivan, 116
Netherlands, 580
Neuberger campaign, 44
Neustadt, Richard, 229–230, 236, 254, 255, 259, 389, 569
New Bedford (Mass.), 74
New Deal, 15
New England Senators’ Conference, 57
New Frontier, 167, 465, 525
New Guinea, 580
“New Lands,” 741
“New Look,” 602, 627
New Orleans, teachers in, 479
New Republic
, 316
New York
Herald Tribune
, 316, 317–318
New York
News
, 316
New York Times
, 66, 169, 176, 203, 316, 318, 370, 404, 461
New Yorker, The
, 316
New Zealand
, 647
Newport (R.I.), 376
Newsweek
, 316, 461
Nhu, Ngo Dinh, 657, 659, 660
Nhu, Madame, 336, 657, 659
Nigeria, 532
Nitze, Paul H., 118, 236, 256, 277, 674, 698
Nixon, Richard M., 49, 50, 54, 55, 66, 84, 87, 96, 103, 107, 133, 136, 138, 141, 143, 147n., 148, 149, 152, 166, 168, 169, 170, 171, 173, 174, 176, 177, 178, 180 ff., 193 ff., 211 ff., 222, 227, 231–232, 233, 235, 251,253, 288, 324, 339, 352, 393, 394, 406, 413, 434, 444, 457, 472, 476, 541, 544, 558, 612, 677, 721, 742, 749
Nixon, Mrs. Richard M. (Patricia), 208, 212
Nixon, Russ, 394, 433
“Nixopedia,” 176
Nkrumah, Kwame, 539, 546, 577, 636
Norris, George, 17, 48, 67, 74, 492
Norstad, Lauris, 595, 596
North Carolina, 493
North Korea, 513–514
North Vietnam, 640, 642, 645, 647, 648, 649, 650, 655
see also
Vietcong
Norton, Clem, 15
“Nose McCone,” 316
“no-win” policy, 514
NSC,
see
National Security Council nuclear deterrent, 608–610
nuclear test ban, 293, 329, 332, 367, 369, 503, 515, 519, 520, 538, 548,549, 551, 552, 558, 565, 618, 728, 729, 733, 736, 742, 743
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 26, 551, 562, 573, 600, 617, 622, 733, 734–740,744, 745, 752, 756
nuclear testing, 617–624
nuclear war, 512–514, 516, 517, 616
Nyerere, Julius, 578

O

OAS, 537, 575, 580, 669–670, 672, 675–676, 682, 686, 687, 688, 695, 697,698, 699, 704, 706, 708, 721
Obote, Prime Minister Milton, 701
O’Brien, Lawrence, 80, 107, 117, 119, 121, 125, 131, 139, 171, 174–175, 230, 255, 263–264, 274, 284, 341, 344, 348, 355, 356–357, 361, 374, 385n., 425, 454, 484, 697
“O’Brien Manual,” 175
OCDM, 613, 614
Ockenga, Harold, 188
Oder-Neisse, 562, 571, 597
O’Donnell, Kenneth, 80, 107, 117, 119, 125, 139, 156, 171, 230, 263–264,355, 373, 374, 447, 448, 484, 674–675
Office of Civil Defense Mobilization,
see
OCDM
O’Leary, “Muggsy,” 25, 41
“Operation Farmgate,” 632
Oppenheimer, J, Robert, 26, 335
Organization of American States,
see
OAS
Ormsby-Gore, Sir David, 66, 378, 559, 565, 566n., 704–705, 706, 710
Ortega, Domingo, 336
Outer Mongolia, 661
“overkill,” 610
Oxford (Miss.), 483–488
Oxford Race Conflict, 329
Oxnam, Bishop Bromley, 144

P

Paar, Jack, 195
Pakistan, 372, 383, 538, 547, 628, 663, 664, 681, 717
Palace of Nations (Geneva), 647
Palm Beach, 38, 68, 120, 255, 278, 327- 328, 340, 352, 367–368, 369, 377, 378, 380, 429, 607, 623
Palmer, Arnold, 378
Panama Canal, 692, 735 “paper tigers,” 652, 677
Paris Summit Conference, 149, 216, 229, 583
Passman, Otto, 330, 351
Pastore, John, 50
Pathet Lao, 640, 641, 642, 643, 645, 646, 647, 648
patronage, 72–73, 349
Patterson, Floyd, 388
Patterson, John, 158
Paul VI, Pope, 365
Pauling, Linus, 26, 384
Paulskirche, 574
Peace Corps, 181, 184, 347, 531–532, 534, 539, 581, 756
Peale, Norman Vincent, 188–189
Pearson, Drew, 68, 70, 229
Pearson, Lester, 575, 576
Pentagon, 603–604, 605, 608, 621, 630, 644, 655, 678, 682–683, 697, 704,708
Persons, Wilton, 231, 232, 262
Pescadores Islands, 662
Peterson, Esther, 277
Peterson, Howard, 411
Philadelphia
Inquirer
, 316
Philippines, 631–632, 649n., 660–661
Phoumi Nosavan, 640, 641, 644, 648
Pilgrim’s Way
, 14
Pitt, William, 331, 661
Plaine des Jarres, 640
“Plans for Progress,” 474
POAU, in, 137, 144, 186, 240, 363
“POL,” 689, 694, 708, 711, 715
Poland, 111, 513, 540, 547, 597
Polaris missile, 564, 565, 566, 567, 570, 571,574, 604, 606, 609, 696n., 707, 725
Poling, Rev. Daniel, 191–192
politics, 332–333, 471–472
poll taxes, 475, 480
Pollard, Ramsey, 194
Pope John XXIII, 194
Pope, Lincoln, 78
Pope Paul VI, 365
population explosion, 112
Porter, Sylvia, 433
Portugal, 292, 533, 538, 547, 578, 608
Powell, Adam Clayton, 156, 172, 183, 340
Powell, Wesley, 133
Power, Thomas, 739
Powers, David, 28, 77, 134–135, 162, 179, 190, 198, 264, 368, 369, 373, 383, 388, 582
Powers, Gary, 517
pre-emptive first strike, 513
Presidency, The
, 271
Presidential Power
, 389
President’s Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy, 437, 456
President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, 474
press conferences, 322–326, 341
press relations, 310–318
preventive war, 513
Price, Leontyne, 440
Price
of Union, The
, 62, 67
Prince Edward County (Va.), 480, 502
Printers Union, 441
Profiles in Courage
, 4, 29, 40, 57, 68–70, 71, “3, 371, 375, 718,749
Progressive
, 106
proliferation (nuclear), 567
Protestants and Other Americans United for the Separation of Church and State,
see
POAU
Proxmire, William, 133
PT-109, 710n.
public opinion, 106–108, 184
public relations, 327 ff.
public service, 4
Public Welfare Bill, 343, 344
public works, 398
Public Works program, 404
Puerto Rico, 700
Pulitzer Prize, 4, 68, 69, 315, 758
Punta del Este (Uruguay), 669
“purple telephone,” 727
Pusey, Nathan M., 78, 234

Q

Quadros, President (Brazil), 293
Quai d’Orsay Palace, 497, 581
quarantine of Cuba, 694, 705–711, 715, 745
Quemoy, 662 “quickie” tax bill, 424, 425, 426

R

race relations, 325, 329
racketeers, 53–54
Rackets Committee, 52, 117, 135
Radford, Arthur, 739
radiation, 621
Railroad Retirement Act, 12
Railway Labor Act, 443
railway labor dispute, 441–443, 503
Raines, Albert, 481
Rambouillet, 570, 571n.
Randolph, A. Philip, 505
Randolph, Jennings, 344
Raskin, Hy, 117, 120
Rayburn, Sam, 82, 90, 92, 152, 156, 163, 164, 165, 170, 193, 340–341, 355–356, 362, 364, 380
RB-47 incident, 517
RB-47 planes, 286, 517
Reader’s Digest, The
, 419
Reardon, Ted, 29, 55, 57, 167, 264, 283n., 285, 747
recession, 217, 229, 393 ff.
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, 410, 411
Red China, 228, 289, 482, 522, 523, 537, 547, 548, 558, 564, 573, 624, 631–632, 640 ff., 661–666, 677, 681, 685, 720, 724, 726, 735, 736, 741, 745, 755

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