Listening In (50 page)

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 138, 176, 201–2, 208, 210, 211, 213

meeting with Henry “Scoop” Jackson, 213–16

meeting with scientists, 210–12

signing of, 211

nuclear weapons, 201, 254, 259

call to Truman, 208–9

Cuban Missile Crisis,
see
Cuban Missile Crisis

meeting about defense budget, 203

meeting with Norman Cousins, 206–7

Polaris missiles,
200,
201, 203,
205

O

Obama, Barack, 251
n

O’Brien, Lawrence, 281
n,
282
n

O’Connor, Edwin, 46
n

O’Donnell, Kenneth, 282
n

Ormsby-Gore, David, 175

Oval Office,
268

P

Palfrey, John, 210
n

Palmer, Bud, 26

Pastore, John, 85

Peace Corps, 256–58

Pearson, Drew, 88

Pittmann, Steuart, 167

Polaris missiles,
200,
201, 203,
205

political advisors, meeting with, 282–83

Politics USA: A Practical Guide to the Winning of Public Office
(Cannon), 27, 43

Poltava, 136

Potsdam Conference, 46

Prinz, Joachim,
131

Profiles in Courage
(Kennedy), 5, 17, 233

PT-109,
277,
278, 279

PT-109
(film), 277–80

Pushinka, 262

R

radio interview, Rochester, Minn., 19–20

Radziwill, Lee, 26

Radziwill, Stanislas “Stas,” 26

Randolph, A. Philip, 11, 99, 100, 128–30,
131

Reagan, Ronald, 6, 212
n

Resolute
desk,
xvii, 284

Reston, James “Scotty,” 235

Reuther, Walter, 128–29,
131

Ribicoff, Abraham, 82

Rickover, Hyman, 60

meeting with, 60–62,
61

Roberts, Dennis, 24

Robertson, Cliff, 277

Rockefeller, Nelson, 72, 90, 167

Romney, George, 53–54, 90

Romney, Mitt, 53
n

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 2, 6, 11, 39, 40, 50, 57, 99, 129
n,
131, 282, 283

Roosevelt, Theodore, 5, 17

Rusk, Dean, 12, 164–65, 240

Russell, Richard, 159, 165

Russell, Sarah, 24

Ryan, Ginny, 26

S

Salinger, Pierre, 273

Saturn rocket,
229

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., 8, 13, 70, 251

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Sr., 13

schools, 60–62

desegregation of, 124

on military bases, 80, 81–82

scientists, meeting with, 210–12

Seaborg, Glenn,
184,
210
n

Seamans, Robert, meeting with, 220–25

senators, meeting with, 159–65

Shaw, Leverett, 24

Shaw, Maude, 24, 26

Shoup, David, 154–55, 156–57

Shriver, R. Sargent,
257

call from, 256–58

Siegenthaler, John, 116

Sitton, Claude, 114

Smathers, George, 86

call to, 86–89

Smith, Stephen E., 282

Smith, Walter Bedell, 57

Sorensen, Theodore C., 8, 82, 83, 145,
184,
281
n,
282
n

Soviet Union, 100, 137, 248, 251

Cold War, 17, 55, 202, 213, 219, 233, 252, 263
n,
265, 271

Cuban Missile Crisis,
see
Cuban Missile Crisis

meeting with Andrei Gromyko, 260–62

nuclear weapons,
see
nuclear weapons

Poltava
en route to Cuba,
136

space program, 219, 224–25

space program, 219

call to Gordon Cooper, 226

“Friendship 7” Mercury capsule,
218

meeting with James Webb, 228–29

meeting with James Webb, Jerome Wiesner, and Robert Seamans, 220–25

memo to Johnson,
222

moon landing as priority of, 220–24, 228–29

rocket models at Cape Canaveral,
227

Saturn rocket launch pad,
229

Spottswood, Stephen G.,
98

Stalin, Joseph, 57

Stevenson, Adlai, 30, 33, 34, 35, 99,
132,
176, 179, 180

Sukarno, 265

Supreme Court, 112

Sylvester, Arthur, 273–75

Symington, Stuart, 38

T

Taft-Hartley Act, 48

Tanner, Jack E.,
98

Taylor, Maxwell,
xviii,
144, 145, 150, 152, 156, 240, 245–46

in meeting about defense budget, 254–55

in meeting about India and China, 259

Teller, Edward, 212

TFX, 77

Thant, U, 176, 178–81, 182, 186

Thirteen Days
(Kennedy), 1

Thompson, Llewellyn,
261

Tibet, 194

Time,
80, 81

Tito, Josip Broz, call to, 263–64

Tracy, Spencer,
20

Trilling, Steve, 277

Truman, Harry, 2, 6, 10,
22,
145
n,
188,
195,
282, 283

calls to, 195–96, 208–9

Tuchman, Barbara, 17–18, 51

Turkey, 182–83, 188, 196, 197

Turner, Edward,
98

U

Unitas, Johnny, 42

United Nations, 17, 46
n,
86, 138, 178

University of Mississippi, 99, 100, 101, 107
n, 109

V

Vietnam War, 11, 13, 206, 213, 214, 233–34,
241,
251, 254, 259, 270

cable to Henry Cabot Lodge calling for Diem to remove Nhu,
237

Dien Bien Phu, 235

Kennedy at the Boston Chamber of Commerce following a speech about his tour of Asia,
232

meetings with advisors on, 239, 240–42, 243–44

memorandum on conversation with Nixon, 235–36

press conference,
244

private dictation, 245–48

W

Warner, Jack L., 277

Washington, George, 4

Watergate hearings, 6

Watkins, Thomas, 101, 104, 105–6

Weaver, Robert,
184

Webb, James, 13,
184,
219,
221

meetings with, 220–25, 228–29

Wharton, Edith, 24

Wheeler, Earle, 120, 153, 157

Why England Slept
(Kennedy), 19,
20

Wiesner, Jerome,
184,
254
n

meeting with, 220–25

Wilkins, Roy, 83, 128,
131

Williams, G. Mennen, 252

Wilson, Woodrow, 5, 17, 282, 283

Wirtz, William Willard,
131, 184

World War I, 17, 51

World War II, 17, 18, 263
n

Y

Yale University, 1, 14, 20

Young, Whitney M., Jr.,
131

Yugoslavia, 263
n