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Fleeson, Doris, 73
Ford, Gerald, 6
n,
27, 72
n
Forrestal, James, 245
n
Forrestal, Michael, 245, 265
Foster, John, 210
n
“Friendship 7” Mercury capsule,
218
Fullbright, J. William, 38, 164
furniture purchase, calls about, 273–76
G
Gagarin, Yuri, 219
Germany, 17, 55–57, 214
Autobahn in, 248
Berlin,
see
Berlin
Gilpatric, Roswell, 145
call to, 166–67
Glenn, John,
218
Goldwater, Barry, 90
Goulart, João, 285
Grant, Ulysses S., 5, 100
Graybeal, Sidney, 141–44
Gromyko, Andrei, 145, 148,
261
meeting with, 260–62
Guantánamo, 165, 189
Guns of August, The
(Tuchman), 17–18, 51
Guthman, Edwin O., 73, 76, 79
H
Hackett, David, 271–72
Hamilton, Edith, 47
n
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 178
Harkins, Paul D., 245
Harriman, Averell, 12, 37, 208, 245
Harris, Lou, 90
call to, 90–93
Harvard University,
19,
20, 47
Hearst, William Randolph, 54
Helms, Richard, 256–57
Herter, Christian, 84
Hickenlooper, Bourke B., 248
n
Hickenlooper Amendment, 248
Hickey, Charles, 44
n
Hilsman, Roger, 245, 265
Hiss, Alger, 235
history, 17–18
Hitler, Adolf, 17, 137, 147
HMS
Resolute
desk,
xvii, 284
Ho Chi Minh, 235
n
hockey team, U.S., call about, 271–72
Hodge, W. J.,
98
Hoover, Herbert, 10, 188,
197
call to, 197
Houphouet-Boigny, Felix,
253
Humphrey, Hubert, 33, 38, 39
I
India, meeting on, 259
Indonesia, 265
Ireland,
16
Isham, John, 26
J
Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 213
meeting with, 213–16
Jefferson, Thomas, 5, 99
John XXIII, Pope, 206
Johnson, Alexis, 145
Johnson, Lyndon B., 6
n,
38
n,
78
n,
240, 270
in meeting with civil rights leaders, 128, 130–31,
131
memo from Kennedy about space program,
222
Johnston Island, 212
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 3
Cuban Missile Crisis meeting, 147–55
eavesdropping on, 156–57
Jones, Howard, 265
K
Kaplan, Kivie,
98
Kefauver, Estes, 35
Kelleher, Mike, 46
Kennedy, Caroline,
xvii,
24, 26, 139,
139, 247,
262,
288
Kennedy, Edward M. “Ted,” 8, 53
n,
84,
85
call to, 84–85
Kennedy, Jacqueline,
29, 253,
262
n
at dinner party, 27–42
hospital bedroom built for, 273–76,
274
letter to, 24–26
Kennedy, John F:
appointment book of, v
assassination of, 270
doodles of, 148, 149, 241
health problems of, 39–40, 270
political career of, 27–42, 43–50, 45, 64, 65, 269–70
presidential candidacy of, 5, 27–42
private dictations of, 145–46, 245–48, 285–86
Kennedy, John F., Jr.,
25,
246,
247,
262
Kennedy, Joseph P., 1, 19, 27, 32, 39, 44, 51
Kennedy, Joseph P., Jr., 27, 44
Kennedy, Patricia, 277
n
Kennedy, P. J., 44
n
Kennedy, Robert F., 1, 3, 74
n,
78
n,
113
n,
137,
184, 247,
282
n
call from, 80–83
calls to, 70–72, 73–79
Cuban Missile Crisis and, 137, 174–75, 182
in meeting about Vietnam, 240–42
in meetings about Birmingham, 114–21, 122–27
Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald, 44,
232
Khrushchev, Nikita, 55, 100, 148, 153, 154, 157, 158, 159–63, 165, 176, 182, 188, 189, 196, 201–2, 206–7, 214,
261
, 262
n
letter from,
190, 191
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 11, 114, 115, 117, 118
n,
120–21, 122–26,
131, 132
“I Have a Dream” speech, 100, 128
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” 122
n
meeting with, 133–34
as target of bombings, 114, 125
Knight, Goodwin, 68
Krulak, Victor, 243–44
Kuchel, Thomas, 68
L
Laos, 156, 214, 215, 233, 254
Lawford, Peter, 277
Lebanon, 152
LeMay, Curtis, 4, 137, 147, 150–52, 155, 156–57
Lemnitzer, Lyman, 180
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (King), 122
n
Lewis, John,
131
Libonati, Roland, 94, 95
Lincoln, Abraham, 4, 5, 18, 50
Lincoln, Evelyn,
v,
1, 2, 3, 4, 9
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 34
n
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 21, 33–34, 44, 47, 233, 245
cable to,
237
Loomis, Dan, 88
Lovett, Robert, 145
Luce, Henry R., 19, 80–81
Lumumba, Patrice, 252
Lundahl, Arthur, 140–41, 144
Luper, Calvin,
98
M
MacArthur, Douglas, 51
meeting with, 51–54,
52
Macmillan, Harold, 137, 175
n,
176,
177,
202
call to, on Cuban Missile Crisis, 176–81
Macy, John, 127
Mansfield, Mike, 38, 213
March on Washington, 100, 122
n,
128–29, 133
Marshall, Burke, 117–21, 123, 124, 125, 127
Martin, Ed, 145
McCarthy, Joseph, 235
n
McClellan, John, 78
McCone, John A., 73, 76–77, 78, 79, 159, 240, 245, 256
McDermott, Edward, 167
McHugh, Godfrey, 275–76
McKissick, Floyd,
131
McNamara, Robert S.,
xviii,
4, 8, 137, 144, 145, 156, 164, 165,
184,
240, 242, 245–46
conversation with, 186–87
in meeting about defense budget, 254–55
in meeting about India and China, 259
Mendenhall, Joseph, 243–44
Mercury spacecraft,
218
Meredith, James, 99,
102,
107–10
Metropolitan Club, 113
Mills, Wilbur, 281
n
Mortimer, Stanley, 24
Muskie, Edmund, 33
N
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 219
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
98,
123
Nevenson, Henry W., 46
n
–47
n
Newsweek,
3, 80, 81, 90
New York Post Sunday Magazine,
122
n
New York Times,
53, 111–12,
111
Nhu, Ngo Dinh, 233–34,
237,
243, 245–46
Nixon, Richard M., 6, 34
n,
38, 48, 67, 90, 91, 206, 207, 213
memorandum on conversation with, about Vietnam, 235–36
Nixson, S. Y.,
98
Norstad, Lauris, 57, 180
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 180–81, 182, 255

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