American Experiment (460 page)

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC),
437
,
439
,
446

equality,
124-5
,
635
,
667-9

of condition,
124
,
668

economic,
77
,
84
,
538
,
635
,
667

and liberty,
125
,
267
,
635
,
679-80
; as

competing values,
631
,
679

of opportunity,
77
,
122
,
124-5
,
278
,
440
,
454
,
668
,
679
; FDR on,
16
,
84
,
203
; JFK on,
370

equal pay for equal work,
188
,
538

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA),
434
,
438-9
,
452
,
457
,
458-9
,
628

Erikson, Erik,
348

Ervin, Sam,
502
,
503-5

Escape from Freedom
(Fromm),
279

estate tax,
76
,
191
,
639

Ethiopia,
63
,
79
,
156
,
527

Europe:

1939 war danger,
149-51
,
153
,
155-9

postwar,
260
,
294-6
; goals of Eisenhower Administration for,
254
,
256
,
257-8
; Marshall Plan aid to,
233
,
265
,
295
,
496
,
555
; and NATO,
265
; reaction to American literature in,
297-301
; Soviet military buildup in,
528
; Soviet sphere of domination,
210-11
; Yalta discussions on,
206-7
,
211

World War II in,
159-64
,
166-70
,
177
,
180
,
182
,
196
,
199-201
,
206
,
211
,
223-4
; cross-Channel attack,
177-8
,
180-1
,
196-201
,
207

see also
Eastern Europe; Western Europe

European Economic Community,
538

Evans, M. Stanton,
626

Evers, Medgar,
372
,
380

executive branch (federal),
114-15
,
647-8

FDR’s reorganization bill,
105-6
,
115
,
131

executive privilege, doctrine of,
505-6

existentialism,
394

Ezekiel, Mordecai,
102

Fairbank, John K.,
469

Fair Deal,
236
,
239
,
320
,
359
,
461
,
629
,
639
,
652

fair employment, 1948 and 1952

proposals for,
236
,
250

Fair Employment Practices Committee,
321

Family Assistance Plan (FAP),
567

Fanon, Frantz,
388

Faraday, Michael,
269
,
542
,
547

Farley, James,
4
,
11
,
14
,
15
,
23
,
80
,
82
,
102
,
110-11
,
117
,
164
,
243

Farmer, James,
356
,
361-3
,
371

Farmer-Labor party,
68

Farmers’ Alliance,
655

farming, farmers,
16
,
49
,
64-6
,
81
,
114
,
122
,
656

Depression effects on,
19

FDR’s goals for,
5
,
16
,
35
,
64

foreclosures: 1930s,
19
,
25
; 1980s,
640

New Deal programs for,
25
,
40-1
,
64-6
,
81
,
107
,
213

production increases,
268

as special interest group,
107

subsidies and price controls,
629
; Eisenhower Administration,
285
,
320
; Fair Deal,
236
; Nixon Administration,
466

surpluses,
16
,
64-5

technological advances in,
268

farm labor,
40
,
54
,
66
,
81
,
141
,
268-9

strikes,
49-50
,
452

Farm Security Administration,
104
,
191

Farrell, James T.,
144

fascism,
20
,
54
,
101
,
137
,
220
,
279

FDR charged with,
43

Niebuhr and,
292-3

Faulkner, William,
297
,
298-9
,
593
,
605
,
615
,
620

Fay, James H.,
111

FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation),
230
,
361
,
514
,
546

in Watergate affair,
499-500
,
501
,
508

Federal Art Project (FAP),
134-5

federal budget,
559
,
639

balancing,
13
,
79
,
560
; Carter’s problems,
559
; FDR’s dilemma,
19
,
21
,
35
,
64
,
101
,
103
,
214-15
,
374
; Ford and,
558
; Kennedy and,
374
; Reagan and,
639
,
640
,
641
; supply-side theory,
639

deficit,
102
,
103
,
130
,
215
,
333
,
555
,
562
; Reagan years,
633
,
640
,
645
see also
federal spending

Federal Employee Loyalty Program,
230

federal regulation,
see
government regulation

Federal Reserve Board,
75
,
102
,
555
,
556
,
562
,
647

federal revenue sharing,
466-7
,
556

federal spending,
466
,
554-5
,
558
,
561-2

Keynesian arguments,
102
,
103
,
130
,
215
,
561-2

New Deal,
30
,
64
,
104
,
107
,
128
,
214
,
561

Reagan cuts,
639

special interest pressure for,
107
,
641

Roosevelt cuts and recession,
101
see also
defense spending; federal budget

Federal Theatre Project (FTP),
135-8

Federal Writers’ Project (FWP),
139-41

Federation of American Scientists,
549

Feminine Mystique, The
(Friedan),
436

feminism,
436-60
,
534-5
,
618
(
see also
women’s liberation movement)

Feminist Anti-Censorship Taskforce (FACT),
535

feminist publications,
439
,
447

Feminists (group),
444

Field, Marshall, III,
283

Fields, Gracie,
184

filibuster,
321
,
322
,
323
,
360
,
376-7
,
647

film industry,
601-3
,
604-8
,
612
,
620

Finland,
160-1
,
221

Firestone, Shulamith,
443-5

Firestone Tire and Rubber Company,
515

First Amendment rights,
281
,
395
,
426
,
534-5
,
651
,
654
,
667

fiscal policy:

FDR’s lack of strategy,
130-1
,
214-15

Keynesian,
102-3
,
130
,
561-2

Nixon,
555

see also
federal spending

Fish, Hamilton,
41
,
165
,
169
,
190
,
507

Fish, Hamilton, Jr.,
507

FitzGerald, Frances,
406

Fitzgerald, F. Scott,
296
,
298
,
568
,
605
,
608

Fitzgerald, John “Honey Fitz,”
309-10

Flacks, Richard,
422

Flanagan, Hallie,
136-8

Fletcher, Rear Adm. Frank Jack,
179

Flink, James,
574

folk music,
428-9

Fonda, Jane,
499

food stamp program,
639

Ford, Gerald R.,
488
,
521

as President,
557-8
,
560
,
586
,
625
,
630
,
637
; foreign policy,
488-9
,
523
,
524
; pardon of Nixon,
498
,
522
,
558

as presidential candidate,
613
,
625
,
637-8

Ford, Henry,
21
,
32
,
543
,
573
,
576
,
578

Ford, Henry, II,
271
,
573
,
575
,
576-7

Ford Foundation,
296

Ford Motor Company,
56
,
99
,
183
,
187
,
188
,
485
,
515
,
572-3
,
576-7

as leader in automation,
272
,
273
,
274

Foreign Affairs
(journal),
229

foreign affairs and policy,
489-96
,
535-40

bipartisanship in,
204
,
235
,
285-6
,
493
,
494
,
497

brinkmanship in,
286
,
288

Carter Administration,
522-9
,
531
,
644

containment,
239
,
286-7
,
290
,
491
,
496

economics,
555-6

Eisenhower Administration,
253-63
,
285-7
,
331
,
340
,
342
,
490

Ford Administration,
488-9
,
523
,
524

human rights,
496
,
538-40
,
638

intellectual critics of cold war policies,
288-94

Johnson Administration,
391
,
401-6
,
410-13
,
467
,
491
,
524
(see also
Vietnam War)

Kennedy Administration,
328-9
,
331-7
,
339-44
,
390
,
491
,
495-6
,
524

massive retaliation policy,
254
,
286

national interest and,
291-2

Nixon Administration,
417-20
,
422-6
,
467-88
,
491
,
492-4
,
496
,
524

power exercised in,
291-2
,
496

Reagan Administration,
537
,
538
,
624-5

realist thinking in,
290-2
,
293-4

Realpolitik
,
159
,
216
,
217
,
223
,
465
,
488

Roosevelt Administration,
35-7
,
149-57
,
158-74
,
205-12
,
234
,
290
,
328
(see
also
World War II)

sphere-of-interest, balance-of-power policy,
232
,
234
,
239-40

triangular diplomacy,
469
,
474-6
,
488
,
496
,
527

Truman Administration,
229-30
,
232-5
,
239-43
,
285-6
,
289
,
290
,
340
,
342
,
402
,
468
,
490

see also
arms control; cold war; détente; internationalism; interventionism; isolationism; summit meetings; unilateralism

foreign aid,
339-40
,
669

foreign trade,
35-6
,
264
,
555-6

deficit,
557

tariffs,
17
,
36
,
490
,
556

Forman, James,
371
,
379
,
384
,
386

Forrestal, James,
229

Forsythe, David,
540

Fortune
magazine,
55
,
98
,
108
,
273
,
276
,
280
,
563

Foster, William Z,
18

Four Freedoms,
203
,
266
,
276
,
281
,
666
,
672

four-party politics,
119
,
126
,
236
,
491