American Experiment (459 page)

Dollfuss, Engelbert,
54

Domenici, Pete,
640

Dominican Republic,
329-30
,
404
,
524
,
527

domino theory,
232
,
342

Doolittle, James,
179

Dos Passos, John,
12
,
277
,
298
,
605

Douglas, Helen Gahagan,
468

Douglas, Lewis,
28
,
35
,
37
,
80

Douglas, Paul,
319-20

Douglas, William O.,
112
,
203
,
227
,
321
,
667

Douglass, Frederick,
395
,
399

Dow Chemical,
409
,
421

Dowling, Eddie,
136

Dozier, Bishop Carroll T.,
537

draft,
287
,
461

Vietnam War: card-burning,
408
,
410
,
513
; evasion,
420-1
,
522

World War II,
165

Dred Scott decision,
652

Dreiser, Theodore,
299

Drew, Elizabeth,
487
,
512

drug abuse,
466
,
552
,
569
,
571
,
594

and crime,
517

Dubinsky, David,
46
,
54
,
55-6
,
84
,
243

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt,
675

Duchamp, Marcel,
621
,
623

Dukakis, Michael,
658
,
659

Dulles, John Foster,
253-4
,
255
,
257
,
259
,
265
,
286
,
289
,
342
,
473
,
643

Dunne, Edward F.,
249

Dunne, Finley Peter,
54

Dunne, Ray,
47-8

Du Pont family and capitalism,
39
,
42-3
,
81
,
98
,
155
,
592

Durant, William Crapo,
572

Durkheim, Emile,
275
,
600

Duvalier, François,
330

Dworkin, Andrea,
535

Dylan, Bob,
421
,
428-9
,
671

Eagleton, Thomas,
458

“Eastern Establishment,”
246-8
,
250
,
522

Eastern Europe:

anti-Soviet unrest,
257-8

“liberation of captive peoples” goal of US,
256
,
257-8

Soviet domination over,
210-11
,
221
,
226
,
229
,
258
,
469

Yalta discussion on,
206-7
,
211

Eastland, James,
319-20
,
323

Eastman, Max,
202
,
628

Eccles, Marriner,
75
,
102
,
287

“economic bill of rights” of FDR,
16
,
202-3
,
276-7
,
344
,
666

economic equality,
77
,
84
,
538
,
637
,
667

see also
equality of opportunity

Economic Opportunity Act,
566
,
567

economic planning,
77
,
102-3
,
560
,
563-5

corporate,
563
,
573

“democratic,”
565

New Deal era failures,
130-1
,
214-15

economics,
553-4
,
560-5
,
571-2

Chicago School of,
562

Galbraith,
562-3

Hayek,
560

Keynesian,
102
,
103
,
130
,
561-2

laissez-faire views,
42
,
560-1

Marxist, neo-Marxist,
564-5

monetarism,
562
,
564

supply-side,
639-40
,
641

economic security,
16
,
41
,
75
,
122
,
202-3
,
213
,
538-9
,
560
,
666

economy:

Carter policies,
558-60
,
562
,
639
,
641

centralization vs. decentralization debate of 1930s,
28
,
74
,
77
,
103-4
,
128

Great Depression,
18-19
,
31
,
39-41

interventionism in,
554-7
,
560-1
(see also
economic planning)

New Deal programs,
23-7
,
30-5
,
37
,
40-1
,
62
,
63-6
,
75-6
,
214-15
(see also
New Deal)

in 1950s,
264
,
267
,
555

Nixon/Ford policies,
554-8

Reagan years,
633
,
638
,
639-42
;

recession,
562
,
640-1

Roosevelt recession of 1937-39,
101-4
,
114
,
128
,
130
,
214

rural South,
314
,
315

stagflation,
557-8
,
559
,
639

wartime,
182-4
,
186
,
215

see also
banking; business; industry; inflation; unemployment

Eden, Anthony,
195
,
206
,
255
,
341
,
405

Edison, Thomas,
270
,
542

Editor & Publisher
,
282

education,
553
,
594
,
596-8
,
663-5
,
681-2

federal role in,
553
,
629
;

Eisenhower measures,
285
,
320
;

Great Society (LBJ) measures,
389
,
566
; K

ennedy measures,
370
,
566
;

Reagan cuts,
639

racial discrimination in,
236
,
314
,
321-3
,
365
,
370
,
378
(see also
schools)

sex discrimination in,
433
,
439

trivializalion of,
597-8
,
601

Egypt,
257
,
486-7
,
574

Camp David accord,
525-6

Ehrenburg, Ilya,
295

Ehrlichman, John,
467
,
503-5
,
513

Einstein, Albert,
269
,
544-7

Eisenhower, David,
510

Eisenhower, Dwight D,,
236
,
246
,
263
,
266
,
289
,
448
,
543
,
593
,
607

and McCarthy,
249-50
,
252-3
,
258

and Nixon,
250
,
326

as President,
252-63
,
267
,
277
,
285
,
418
,
466
,
467
,
560-1
,
573
,
630
; “Atoms for Peace” plan,
256
; and civil rights issue,
322-3
,
352
,
359
; domestic measures,
285
,
320
,
321
,
322-3
; evaluation and criticism,
255-6
; foreign policy,
253-63
,
285-7
,
331
,
340
,
342
,
490
; and Korea,
254
,
255
,
418
; military spending,
255
,
256
,
262
; recession,
555
; rejects atomic strikes and foreign adventurism,
255
; and space program,
259
,
579
,
584
,
585
; Supreme Court appointments,
322
,
652
; U-2 incident,
261-3
,
476

presidential candidacies,
460
,
479
,
637
;
1952
,
246-8
,
249-51
,
253
,
286
,
312
;
1956
,
257
,
286

in World War II,
180
,
198
; as ETO commander,
199-201
,
205
,
206

elderly, Townsend proposals for,
67

elections and campaigns,
646-7

congressional:
1918
,
190
,
191
;
1932
,
19
;
1934
,
37
,
63
,
70
;
1936
,
87
;
1938
,
108-11
,
117-18
;
1942
,
190-1
;
1946
,
230
;
1948
,
238
;
1950
,
245
;
1952
,
253
,
285
;
1964
,
390
,
404
;
1972
,
461
,
479
;
1980
,
629
,
632
,
639

media use in,
312
,
324
,
613

presidential,
1860
and
1896
,
655-6
;
1912
,
118-19
,
236
;
1924
,
11-12
,
46
,
416
,
656
;
1928
,
656
;
1932
,
3-6
,
10-18
,
42
,
61
,
656
,
662
;
1936
,
79-86
,
87
,
91
,
117-18
,
656
;
1940
,
161
,
163-5
,
656
;
1944
,
203-5
;
1948
,
2
35-9;
1952
,
246-51
,
253
,
625
,
637
;
1956
,
257
,
286
,
287
,
637
;
1960
,
262
,
323-6
,
331
,
512
,
555
,
625
,
637
:
1964
,
380-2
,
625
,
637
;
1968
,
412-16
,
555-625
,
637
:
1972
,
458
,
460-2
,
469
,
479
,
481
,
511
,
557
;
1976
,
521
,
558
,
613
,
625
,
637-8
,
656
;
1980
,
530
,
559
,
638
,
649
,
656
;
1984
,
641
,
644
,
649
,
661
;
1988
,
657-8
,
659
,
661-2
,
668
,
669-70
; primary system,
117
,
647
,
662
; reform proposals,
650

state:
1972
,
53
;
1934
(Wisconsin),
68
;
1936
,
87
;
1938
,
111
;
1942
,
190-1

voter turnout decrease,
646
,
661

electric power,
13
,
14
,
264

New Deal programs,
26
,
76
,
191
,
214

electronics industry,
268
,
273
,
542-3
,
550-1
,
572

Eliot, T. S.
136
,
233

Ellison, Ralph,
297
,
408
,
615
,
620

Ellsberg, Daniel,
425-6
,
499
,
504
,
513

Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists,
546

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
142
,
338

employment:

discrimination in: ethnic,
308
; outlawed,
378
,
437
; racial,
188-9
,
315
; sex,
81
,
188
,
433
,
437
,
439
,
446-7
,
457

fair, 1948 and 1952 proposals,
236
,
250

full, inflationary effect of,
561

wartime,
184
,
188
,
453
,
648

women in,
188
,
453

see also
job programs

End Poverty in California (EPIC),
69
,
603
,
604

energy crisis, 1970s,
530
,
574-5
,
591

Engels, Friedrich,
567

entitlement programs,
41
,
218
,
641

environmental pollution,
552
,
574
,
575

environmental protection,
466
,
629
,
651

Equal Credit Opportunity Act (1974),
439