Batista, Fulgencio, 189, 190
Bayh, Birch, 258
Bay of Pigs, 203–6, 216, 220, 225, 226, 232–33, 236
Beck, 146, 147, 149–51, 155, 156, 158
Bedford-Stuyvesant, 280–81
Belafonte, Harry, 199, 207, 209, 240, 241, 312
Bell, David, 237
Berlin, 72, 80, 226, 228, 229, 245, 259
Bethlehem Steel, 217
Billings, Lem, 5, 45, 47, 59, 60, 62, 67, 119, 151, 157, 254
Birmingham, Ala., 234, 238–41, 243, 244
Bissell, Richard, 203, 205
Blitz, 40
Blough, Roger, 217
Bolshakov, Georgi, 226–27, 231
Boston Globe, 43
Boston Museum of Science, 273
Boston Post, 65, 114–15
Boynton v. Virginia, 206
Bradlee, Ben, 172, 235
Branigin, Roger, 328
Braun, Eva, 57
Brazil, 277
Breslin, Jimmy, 278
Britain, see Great Britain
Brown, Edmund G. “Pat,” 201, 280
Brown v. Board of Education, 241
Buchan, John, 337
Buchanan, Pat, 333
Bunche, Ralph, 81–82
Bundy, McGeorge, 226–28, 251
Burns, James McGregor, 127
Cabot, George, 85
California primary, 311, 319, 330, 333, 340
Campbell, Judith, 219, 220
Camus, Albert, 278–79
Canada, 273–74, 339–40
capital punishment, 278–79
Caplin, Mortimer, 212
Capone, Al, 158, 212
Carlyle, Thomas, 331
Caro, Robert, 236
Castro, Fidel, 189–90, 203–6, 220, 232–33
Operation Mongoose and, 226
Catholics, Catholicism, 24, 29, 250, 286, 296–97
Communism and, 74, 111
Diem and, 248
Ethel Kennedy and, 75
Eugene McCarthy and, 74, 118
Irish, 9, 10, 19–21, 33, 54, 111, 267
JFK and, 20–21, 132, 137–38, 165–68, 176, 185–86, 197, 209, 254, 286
Joseph McCarthy and, 109–11, 118
New York Times and, 278
in Poland, 260
Republican, 167–69
RFK and, 6, 21, 24–25, 38, 74, 141–42, 186, 296–97
Roosevelt and, 30, 41–42, 74, 101, 132
Smith and, 20
Catholic Worker movement, 279
Cavalier Daily, 80
CBS, 122–23, 168, 186, 188, 253, 294, 305, 312, 334
Chamberlain, Neville, 27, 34, 35, 39, 41, 179, 283
Chancellor, John, 196
Chavez, Cesar, 283–84, 296
Chavez, Helen, 283
Chicago Herald-American, 57, 59
Chile, 277
Chiltern Hundreds, The, 73
China, 75–76, 79, 101, 111, 189, 283
British trade with, 113–14
Churchill, Winston, 34–35, 40, 41, 71
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 280
Cuba and, 190, 203–5, 219–20, 228
City Club, 327
civil rights, 137, 191–92, 238–47
Birmingham and, 234, 238–41, 243, 244
Boynton v. Virginia, 206
Brown v. Board of Education, 241
Civil Rights Act, 246, 260–61, 262
Evers murder, 246–47
Freedom Riders, 206–9, 216, 242
JFK and, 4, 16, 191–94, 245–47, 260
Justice Department and, 214–15, 239, 242, 244
Little Rock High School, 221
RFK and, 13, 16–17, 191, 193–94, 207–9, 213–15, 220–23, 238–47, 266, 279, 280, 285–86, 310, 322
sit-ins, 191
University of Alabama and, 244–45, 322
University of Mississippi and, 210, 220–23, 240
Vietnam War and, 242, 245, 246, 322
Wallace and, 243–45
Civil War, 86, 243, 299
Clark, Joseph, 295
Clark, Kenneth, 241
Clifford, Clark, 202, 315
Clinton, Bill, 306
Cohn, Roy, 112–22, 124–26
Cold War, 72, 74, 75, 78, 82, 122, 189, 232, 248
Coles, Robert, 296–97
College of the Holy Cross, 10
Committee on Government Operations, 110
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, 110, 112–26, 131, 145, 147, 178, 278
Communists, Communism, 80, 113, 211, 303
Army and, 118, 120–23
Catholics and, 74, 111
Eugene McCarthy and, 74
Hiss and, 76–77
JFK and, 76, 80
Joseph McCarthy and, 77, 80, 102–3, 110, 111, 117–23, 128, 283
King and, 247
National Security Council report on, 77–78
Nixon and, 76–77, 190
Oswald and, 260
RFK and, 74–75, 226, 247, 249, 277, 282
Roosevelt and, 30
Truman and, 76, 78, 80, 101
in Vietnam, 248, 249
see also China; Cuba; Soviet Union
Congo, 286
Connally, John, 176, 182
Connor, Eugene “Bull,” 238
Constitution, 82, 284, 286
Coolidge, Calvin, 27
Corbin, Paul, 168, 214, 256–57, 267–68
CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), 206, 242
Crash of 1929, 28–30
crime:
juvenile delinquency and, 212–13
organized, 211–12, 218–20
Cronkite, Walter, 168, 253, 312–13
Cuba, 189–90, 203–6, 219–20, 225–33, 248
Bay of Pigs invasion of, 203–6, 216, 220, 225, 226, 232–33, 236
Missile Crisis in, 4, 226–33, 237, 266
RFK and, 204–6, 219–20, 226–33, 236, 266
Soviet Union and, 189, 206, 225–33
Curley, James Michael, 28, 89
Cushing, Richard, 6, 117
Czechoslovakia, 34, 35, 39, 79
Daily Tar Heel, 299
Daily Worker, 121–22
Daladier, Édouard, 34, 41
Daley, Chuck, 302
Dalton, Mark, 91, 97
Danachair, Caoimhín Ó, 37
Dante Alighieri, 255
Darden, Colgate W., 81–82
Davis, Jefferson, 243
Day, Dorothy, 279, 296
Definition of Communism (Schine), 113
de Gaulle, Charles, 290
Democratic National Committee (DNC), 256, 257
Democratic National Conventions:
of 1932, 29
of 1956, 132–40
of 1960, 160, 176, 178–82, 305
of 1964, 257, 261–65
of 1968, 11, 319, 341
Democrats, 2, 9, 74, 86–87, 90, 99–100, 103, 105, 109–10
Depression, Great, 28, 30, 57, 283
Des Moines Register and Tribune, 145
Dever, Paul, 87, 93, 99–101, 104, 105, 108
Dewey, Thomas E., 73–74
Dillon, Douglas, 237
Dioguardi, John (“Johnny Dio”), 158
Dirksen, Herbert von, 33
DiSalle, Michael, 164–66
Doar, John, 208, 214
Dobrynin, Anatoly, 231, 233
Dodd, Tom, 116
Donovan, James B., 232
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 102
Douglas, William O., 81
Duff, James, 151
Dutton, Fred, 201, 302
Edelman, Peter, 266, 284
Edmondson, J. Howard, 138
Edwards, India, 176
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 9, 86, 90, 101, 104, 105, 108, 109, 117, 131–32, 134, 143, 162, 178, 188, 190, 195, 199, 221
elections:
of 1928, 19–20
of 1940, 41–43
of 1948, 73–74
of 1952, 104
of 1956, 132–40
of 1960, 2, 9, 143, 165–73, 170, 175–83, 185–97, 305
of 1964, 237, 256–58
of 1968, 2–4, 10, 302, 304–7, 309–15, 317–29, 330, 331–37, 338, 341
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 342
Enemy Within, The (Kennedy), 157–58, 197
Evers, Medgar, 246–47
ExComm, 228–30, 237
Face the Nation, 305
“Family in Irish Tradition, The” (Danachair), 37
Farley, James, 42
farmworkers, 283–84
Faubus, Orval, 136
Fay, Paul “Red,” 61–63, 161, 195–96, 200
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 211–12, 217–19, 247
Hoffa and, 149, 150
King and, 247–48
Fire Next Time, The (Baldwin), 241
Fisher, Fred, 124
Fitzgerald, John F. “Honey Fitz,” 17–18, 27–28, 86
Flanagan, Francis “Flip,” 112
Fleeson, Doris, 114
Forrestal, James, 58
Frankfurter, Felix, 76
Freedom Riders, 206–9, 216, 242
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, 16–17
Frost, Robert, 265
Fuchs, Klaus, 79–80
Fulbright, J. William, 281–82
Gandhi, Mahatma, 284
Garner, John Nance, 29
Germany, 71, 228
Berlin, 72, 80, 226, 228, 229, 245, 259
Nazi, 32–35, 39–41, 79
Giancana, Salvatore “Sam,” 158, 212, 218–20
GI Bill, 89–90
Glenn, Annie, 341
Glenn, John, 310, 341–42
Goldwater, Barry, 108, 147, 237, 258, 261, 262
Goodwin, Richard, 167, 170, 195, 302, 306, 314, 328–29, 333, 336
Gore, Albert, Sr., 137–39
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Baldwin), 241
Graham, Frank, 301
Graham, Phil, 178
Great Britain, 72
Chinese trade with, 113–14
Germany and, 32–35, 39–41
Great Depression, 28, 30, 57, 283
Greater Houston Ministerial Association, 185
gun control, 332
Guthman, Ed, 146–47, 149–51, 155, 156, 178, 204, 214, 222, 229, 235, 243, 246, 250, 254, 257–59, 262, 265–68
Hackett, Dave, 47–48, 53–54, 56–58, 163–64, 177, 196, 213, 320, 336
Hall, Robert, 121–22
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 317
Hansberry, Lorraine, 241, 243
Hardball, 188
Harlow, Dick, 65, 68
Harrington, Michael, 279
Harter, John, 188
Hartington, William “Billy” Cavendish, Marquess of, 73
Harvard University, 102
RFK at, 50, 53–54, 56, 64–69, 74
Harwood, Richard, 322, 336
Hatcher, Richard, 328
Hearst, William Randolph, 29
Helms, Richard, 228
Hersey, John, 64
Herter, Christian, 108–9
Hewitt, Don, 186
Hiroshima, 58, 75
Hiss, Alger, 76–77, 103
Hitler, Adolf, 32–35, 39–41, 57, 58, 80, 86
appeasement of, 34, 35, 39, 41, 80, 179, 229, 283
Ho Chi Minh, 88, 283, 311
Hoffa, Jimmy, 147, 152–53, 188, 193
RFK and, 149–50, 152–58, 163, 168, 188, 212
Hood, James, 244–45
Hoover, Herbert, 19, 20, 27–28
Hoover, J. Edgar, 149, 211–13, 219–20, 247, 250, 300
Hoover Commission, 118–19
Horne, Lena, 241
House Education and Labor Committee, 72
Hugo, Victor, 175
Humphrey, Hubert, 137, 139, 262, 282, 301, 323, 336, 340
Johnson and, 263, 323, 340
in 1960 elections, 165–73, 186, 187
RFK’s campaign and, 323
war record of, 170–71
Humphrey, Muriel, 173
Image of America and the Youth of the World, The, 294
India, 286
Indianapolis, 324–27
Indiana primary, 328
Ireland, 15–17, 20, 29–30
Great Famine in, 15, 19
Irish Americans, 16–18, 102, 216, 286
Crash of 1929 and, 28
Irish Catholics, 9, 10, 19–21, 33, 54, 111, 267
see also Catholics, Catholicism
IRS (Internal Revenue Service), 212
Issues and Answers, 335
Jackson, Gardner “Pat,” 103
Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 117, 124–25, 178, 262, 264
Jackson Daily News, 221
Japan, 79
atomic bombing of, 58, 75
Javits, Jacob, 101–2
Jews, 33–35, 186
Joseph Kennedy Sr. and, 33–34, 101–2
John Paul II, Pope, 260
Johnson, Lyndon B., 9, 112, 123, 162, 225, 299
Corbin and, 256–57
draft and, 293–94
“Dump Johnson” movement, 301–2, 304, 318
Eugene McCarthy and, 2, 4, 304–6, 322–23
Great Society programs of, 279, 280
Humphrey and, 263, 323, 340
JFK and, 108, 132, 139, 137, 162–63, 174, 175–80
as JFK’s running mate, 178–83, 196–97
Joseph Kennedy Sr. and, 132, 139, 162, 179
McCarthy and, 2, 4
in 1960 presidential elections, 170, 177
in 1964 presidential elections, 256–58, 261–64
presidency of, 1, 3, 255–57
renomination rejected by, 322
RFK and, 1–2, 4, 108, 112–13, 137, 162–63, 171, 175–83, 202–3, 236–37, 255–57, 261, 263, 292, 301, 302, 304, 305, 307, 310–12, 314–15, 318–20, 322
and Roosevelt’s conversation with Joseph Kennedy Sr., 42–43, 112
Stevenson and, 179–80
Vietnam War and, 1, 3, 9, 281–83, 289, 291–94, 300–301, 304–5, 310–15, 340
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 228, 229
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., 58–59
Joyce, James, 51
Justice Department, 209, 212, 257
civil rights and, 214–15, 239, 242, 244
Meredith’s letter to, 220–21
minorities at, 214–15
RFK as attorney at, 88–89, 96, 97
RFK as attorney general at, 13, 198, 201–3, 211–23, 235–36, 278
juvenile delinquency, 212–13
Kansas State University, 320–21
Katzenbach, Nicholas, 212, 214, 222, 244, 260
Keating, Kenneth, 227, 228, 262, 266, 268
Kefauver, Estes, 132, 135, 137, 138–40, 145–46, 148, 164
Kefauver Committee, 146
Kempton, Murray, 149–50
Kennedy, David, 336
Kennedy, Edward M. “Ted,” 14, 22, 78, 140, 152, 184, 185, 254–55, 261, 279, 291–92
in plane crash, 258, 273
RFK’s presidential campaign and, 302, 306, 309–10, 317–18
as senator, 272, 274–76
Kennedy, Ethel Skakel, 11, 62, 69, 71, 75, 76, 82, 96, 97, 99, 120, 129, 150, 200, 230, 250, 255–56, 268, 277, 296, 330, 335–37, 341–42
Catholicism of, 75
marriage of, 70, 78–79
in Poland, 259, 260
Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier, 6, 23, 186, 197, 203, 255
JFK’s assassination and, 251
marriage of, 117, 141
stillborn daughter of, 140–41
Kennedy, Jean, 22–23, 49, 55, 56, 58, 59, 61, 62, 84, 101, 138, 147
Kennedy, Joe, Jr., 6, 22, 31–32, 36, 40, 41–42, 65, 73
death of, 55–57, 60, 72, 73, 166
Joseph Sr. and, 5, 55–56, 59
naval service of, 45, 51–52, 54–56
Navy destroyer named
for, 58–59
Kennedy, John F., 10, 12–13, 21, 22, 40, 46, 47, 65, 68, 73, 78, 81, 116, 117, 256, 272, 283, 309, 319–20, 336, 337, 338
Addison’s disease of, 72–73, 88, 89, 127–28, 176–77
as ambassador’s son, 26, 31
anti-Communism of, 76, 80
assassination of, 1, 3, 7–8, 12, 16, 250–51, 253–55, 259–60, 272–73, 276
Bay of Pigs invasion and, 205, 206
Berlin and, 259
Campbell and, 219, 220
Catholicism of, 20–21, 132, 137–38, 165–68, 176, 185–86, 197, 209, 254, 286
charisma of, 6–7, 11, 46, 60, 64, 100, 134, 175
civil rights and, 4, 16, 191–94, 245–47, 260
in Congress, 72
Congressional campaign of, 7, 60–64, 68, 164
Cuban Missile Crisis and, 4, 227–33
elected president, 197, 199, 213
entry into politics, 59–60
funeral for, 252
illnesses and back problems of, 23, 54, 64, 65, 72–73, 88, 89, 127–28, 176–77
Joe Jr.’s death and, 56
Johnson and, 108, 132, 137, 139, 162–63, 174, 175–80
Johnson as running mate of, 178–83, 196–97
Joseph McCarthy and, 80, 102–3, 109, 125–27, 166, 167
Joseph McCarthy’s censure and, 126, 128, 167, 179
Joseph Sr.’s relationship with, 23, 92, 96
liberalism and, 103, 127, 167
marriage of, 117, 141
Native Americans and, 271
navy service and heroism of, 45, 51–54, 57, 60, 64, 169
New Frontier of, 4, 9, 309
Nixon and, 72, 102–3
Nixon’s televised debates with, 186–89
photographs of, 26, 36, 84, 94, 130, 144, 174, 198, 224
poverty and, 170, 279
presidential appointments of, 199–201, 237
presidential campaign of, 9, 143, 175–83, 185–97, 305
presidential candidacy announced by, 1, 2
presidential inauguration of, 203, 220, 273–74
presidential nomination of, 180
in presidential primaries, 161–73, 177
Profiles in Courage, 133
reading of, 23, 46
RFK as attorney general to, 13, 198, 201–3, 211–23, 235–36, 278
RFK compared with, 6–7, 13
RFK’s political partnership with, 7, 10–11, 13
RFK’s presidential candidacy announcement and, 2–4
Rose’s relationship with, 23
Senate campaign of, 84, 85–93, 94, 95–101, 104–5, 107–8, 145
on Senate Rackets Committee, 144, 147–48
as senator, 109
sexual affairs of, 219
steel industry and, 216–18
stillborn daughter of, 140–41
on tour of Europe and Asia, 87–88
vice presidential nomination sought by, 132–40, 146
Vietnam and, 248–50, 292, 304–5
Why England Slept, 41, 44
Kennedy, Joseph P., Sr., 5, 17–19, 27–35, 36, 47, 51, 65, 67, 73, 109, 117, 135, 138–39, 147, 149, 258, 310, 336
as ambassador, 26, 31–35, 38–44, 55, 179