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Bork, Robert IL,
505
,
654
,
669

Born, Max,
547

Bosch, Juan,
404

Boston Irish,
306-9
,
314

Bowen, Howard R.,
597
,
664

Bowles, Chester,
286
,
287
,
340
,
343
,
344

Bowles, Samuel,
564

Boyer, Ernest,
597

Bozell, L. Brent,
627

Brademas, John,
559

Bradley, Bill,
641

brain trusters,
13-14
,
28

Brandeis, Louis D.,
13
,
45
,
71
,
73
,
89
,
91
,
95
,
112
,
122
,
667

decentralization advocate,
28
,
64
,
74
,
77
,
128

Brauer, Carl,
364

Braun, Ernest,
543

Brazil,
329
,
330

Brecht, Bertold,
605

Breech, Ernest R.,
573

Breines, Wini,
393

Brennan, William L.,
652

Breslin, Jimmy,
409

Brett, George,
610

Breytenbach, Breyten,
620

Brezhnev, Leonid,
476-7
,
485-8
,
523
,
529

Bricker, John,
111
,
191
,
203
,
204

Bridges, Harry,
47
,
48

Brinkley, Alan,
60
,
671

“brinkmanship” in foreign policy,
286
,
288

Broder, David,
414
,
416
,
612

Brokaw, Tom,
613

Brookhaven National Laboratory,
542

Brooks, Robert R. R.,
48

Broun, Heywood,
15

Browder, Earl,
53
,
137
,
188
,
204

Brown, Harold,
524

Brownmiller, Susan,
449

Brown
v.
Board of Education
,
321-2
,
347
,
354-5
,
596
,
651

Brubeck, Dave,
593

Bryan, William Jennings,
600
,
655

Brzezinski, Zbigniew,
522
,
523
,
527-9

Buckley, William F., Jr.,
246
,
626-7
,
628

Budenz, Louis,
243

Bundy, McGeorge,
343
,
403
,
412

Burger, Warren E.,
505-6
,
652-4

Burke, Edmund,
626

Burma,
176
,
201
,
341
,
495

Burns, Arthur F.,
467
,
556-7

Burns, James MacGregor,
513

Bush, George,
638
,
639
,
670

Bush, Vannevar,
549

business,
86
,
101-2
,
462
,
600
,
646

mergers and acquisitions,
267

1930s: Depression effects,
18
,
19
; NRA provisions,
32-3
,
41
; opposition to New Deal,
41-5
,
63
,
71-3
,
102-3

postwar,
267
,
575-8
; federal bailouts,
577-8
; white-collar crime in,
514-15

small: New Deal and,
71
,
103
; wartime,
186

US enterprise abroad,
295
,
329
,
330-1

wartime gains of,
185-6

Business Advisory Council,
103

Business Week
(magazine),
185

bus segregation,
315
,
348-52
,
361

Butler, Hugh,
244

Butler, M. Caldwell,
507

Butler, Samuel,
274

Byrd, Harry F.,
30
,
119
,
126

Byrd, Robert C.,
378

Byrnes, James F.,
24
,
203
,
226
,
229-30
,
235
,
244

cable television,
607
,
610
,
611
,
612
,
613

Cadmus, Paul,
134

Cahill, Holger,
134-5

Cairo conferences (1943),
195
,
198

Caldwell, Erskine,
49
,
298

California, Southern,
601-4
,
608-9

farm labor,
50

Calvinism,
276
,
533
,
600

Cambodia,
342
,
418
,
424-5
,
527

Camp, Lawrence,
110

campaigns, political,
see
elections and campaigns

Camp David accord,
526

campus movement,
394-7
,
413-14
,
421-3
,
425
,
460
,
532
,
548

Camus, Albert,
298
,
394

Cannon, Lou,
607

Cantwell, Robert,
140

capitalism, capitalists,
16
,
52
,
58
,
101
,
121
,
200-1
,
228
,
292
,
444
,
517
,
543
,
563-5
,
618
,
608

ex-colonialist revolts against,
305

Khrushchev quoted on,
302

Marxist view not valid for US,
48

and New Deal,
41
,
44
,
45
,
50-1
,
72
,
122-3
,
131

capital punishment,
519

Cardozo, Benjamin N.,
71
,
89
,
112

Carey, James B.,
273
,
287

Caribbean,
264
,
328

see also
Cuba; Dominican Republic

Carmichael, Stokely,
386-8
,
399
,
409
,
442

Carnegie, Andrew,
99
,
100
,
543
,
625

Caro, Robert,
552

car searches,
653-4

Carson, Rachel,
389

Carter, Hodding,
353

Carter, Jimmy,
521
,
522
,
629

and civil rights,
522
,
524

as President,
521
,
522-31
; economic policy,
558-60
,
562
,
639
,
641
;

evaluation,
529-31
; foreign policy,
522-9
,
531
,
644
; human rights policy,
522-4
,
526
,
528
,
539
; “malaise” speech,
529-30
,
591-3
,
601
,
638
; self-evaluation,
530

presidential candidacies:
1976
,
521
,
558
,
613
,
625
;
1980
,
530
,
559
,
638

Carter, Rosalyn,
522

Casablanca Conference (1943),
195-7
,
206

“cash and carry” exports,
160
,
161

Castro, Fidel,
331-2
,
336

Cater, Douglass,
283

Cather, Willa,
605

Catonsville Nine, the,
421

CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System),
59
,
285
,
530

censorship,
449
,
534-5
,
619
,
635
,
654

Central America,
626

US interventionism in,
328
,
330-2
,
490
,
524
,
527
,
633
,
644
see also
Latin America

centralization vs. decentralization debate,
28-9
,
66
,
74
,
77
,
103-4
,
122
,
128
,
560

Century Group,
164

Century of the Common Man, The
(Wallace),
237
,
277

Challenger
space shuttle tragedy,
583-4

Chamberlain, Neville,
158
,
161
,
402

Chambers, Whittaker,
231-2

Chandler, A. B. “Happy,”
110-11

Chappaquiddick,
499
,
511

checks and balances,
see
Constitution, US

chemistry,
268
,
541
,
553

Chevalier, Maurice,
429

Chiang Kai-shek,
171
,
195
,
198
,
201
,
208
,
240
,
254
,
255
,
337
,
338
,
341
,
470
,
473

Chiang Kai-shek, Madame
198
,
240

Chicago,
19
,
100
,
400

Chicago
Tribune.
31
,
169
,
202
,
230
,
283

child care services,
112
,
440
,
668

child labor,
32
,
33
,
667

children’s rights,
668

Chile,
330
,
524

China,
218
,
240
,
469-70

Communist,
240
,
254
; bombardment of Quemoy and Matsu,
255
; and India,
340
,
472
; in Korean War,
241-3
,
418
; Nixon/Kissinger policy,
468-9
,
470-5
,
488
; nuclear weapons of,
485
; Soviet estrangement,
260
,
265
,
469
,
472
,
474-6
,
485-6
,
488
,
526-9
; in triangular policy,
469
,
474-6
,
488
,
496
,
526-9
; and Vietnam,
405
,
472
,
476
,
529

Japanese aggression,
158
,
170-1
,
173
,
470

“loss” of,
241
,
243
,
247
,
342
,
402
,
404
,
468

Nationalist,
240
,
243
,
254
,
472
,
578
; US break with,
474
,
529
,
644
; Western Allies and,
197
,
198
,
201
,
470

Open Door policy,
170
,
470

Stimson Doctrine,
170
,
470

views in the US of,
469-70

views of the US in,
337-8
,
470

“China card,”
528

China Lobby,
243
,
468
,
475

Chisholm, Shirley,
439
,
457-8
,
499

Chou En-lai,
405
,
472-5

Christian, Meg,
451

Christian Voices,
627-8

Chrysler Corporation,
99
,
577-8

churches,
594-6

as civil rights battle base,
355-6

degendering of,
457-8

membership statistics,
594-5

peace stance of,
536-8

Churchill, Sir Winston,
7
,
122
,
158
,
161
,
232
,
255
,
592

FDR and,
38
,
161
,
171
,
177
,
195
,
217
,
338-9
,
341-2

“iron curtain” speech of,
229

prime minister, wartime,
162
,
167-9
,
171
,
172-3
,
175
,
177-8
,
182
,
195-9
,
211
,
222
,
224
,
495
; at Casablanca,
195
,
196
; and India,
178
,
208
,
338-9
; at Teheran,
195
,
198-9
; at Yalta,
159
,
205-8

and United Nations,
178
,
208

visits to US,
177-8
,
195
,
228-9

Church of Christ,
594

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency),
261-2
,
277
,
331-2
,
343
,
499
,
501
,
524

civil defense,
193
,
333
,
391

civil disobedience:

civil rights struggle,
352
,
366
,
367-8

peace movement,
391
,
409-10
,
421

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC),
25
,
29
,
34
,
104
,
191
,
214

civil liberty,
131
,
393

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