American Experiment (463 page)

initiative, referendum, recall,
647

Institute for Advanced Study,
296
,
545

intellectualism, intellectuals,
15
,
276-81
,
298
,
546-8

critique of cold war policies by,
288-94

left wing,
394
,
409
,
462
,
565
,
625
,
629-32

of 1960s movements,
394
,
401
,
409
,
459-60
,
461-2

right wing,
625-8

“New York,”
616-17

intellectual leadership,
671-2

gap,
35
,
129-30
,
214-16
,
344
,
667
,
671

Tocquevillian void in,
125
,
214
,
294
,
518-19
,
548
,
593
,
595
,
665
,
667-8
,
671

Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (1947),
265

interest rates, 1970-80s,
531
,
555
,
562
,
638

Interim Agreement, US-USSR,
478

internationalism,
36
,
152-5
,
165
,
208

postwar,
236
,
247
,
253

of Roosevelt,
152
,
155

Wilsonian,
11
,
35
,
152

International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU),
46
,
55
,
138

International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA),
46-7

International Monetary and Economic Conference (London, 1933),
35-6

International Union of Electrical Workers,
273

International Women’s Year Commission,
452

interstate highway system,
285
,
573-4

interventionism, interventionists,
497

1930s and World War II,
154
,
155
,
157
,
165
,
167
,
169

in Latin America,
328
,
330-2
,
490
,
524

investment tax credit,
556

Iowa
, U.S.S.,
198

Iran,
229
,
266

US relations with,
255
,
643
; hostage crisis,
530
,
531
,
638
; secret dealings of Reagan White House,
495
,
633

Iran-Contra affair,
633
,
644
,
645
,
647
,
651
,
655

Irish immigrants,
305
,
306-9
,
313
,
387

“iron curtain,”
228

IRS (Internal Revenue Service),
499

isolationism, isolationists,
219

postwar,
234
,
236
,
247
,
286

prewar,
36
,
151
,
153-7
,
158
,
160
,
161
,
163
,
165
,
167
; and Lend-Lease,
169

Israel,
546

Camp David accord,
525-6

Six-Day War,
486

in Suez crisis,
257

Yom Kippur War,
487
,
574

Italian-Americans,
387

Italy,
295
,
337

fascist,
20
,
149
; as Axis member,
157
,
159
,
176
; invasion of Albania,
149
,
158
; invasion of Ethiopia,
79
,
156
; in World War II,
163
,
177
,
196
,
197-8
,
211
,
217

Iwo Jima,
206
,
211
,
224
,
675

Jackson, Andrew,
88
,
90
,
218
,
648
,
679

Jackson, George,
520

Jackson, Henry M.,
521

Jackson, Jesse,
658
,
661
,
662

Jackson, Jimmie Lee,
382-3

Jackson State College,
425

Jagger, Mick,
430

James, Henry,
620

James, William,
125
,
217
,
292
,
671

Janowitz, Morris,
612

Japan,
341

as Axis member,
157
,
159
,
167-8
,
173
,
176

invasion of China,
157-8
,
170-1
,
173
,
470

postwar,
472
,
548
;

economic competition,
556
,
578
,
633
; US defense partner,
265

prewar US relations with,
170-1
,
172-4

views of the US in,
337-8

in World War II,
173-80
,
201-2
,
207-8
,
210
,
211
,
224
; capitulation,
225
,
226

Japanese-Americans, wartime “relocation” of,
189-90
,
218

Jaworski, Leon,
505

Jefferson, Thomas,
88
,
137
,
142
,
213
,
218
,
337
,
341
,
549
,
634
,
648

Jefferson Airplane (rock group),
427
,
430
,
431

Jeffersonians,
11
,
13
,
23
,
42
,
116
,
679

Jenner, William,
230
,
249

Jennings, Peter,
613

Jews,
353
,
387
,
525
,
595
,
601

Nazi persecution of,
218-19

New York intellectuals,
616-17

in Soviet Union,
488

Jim Crow laws,
313
,
355

Job Corps,
390

job discrimination,
see
employment: discrimination in

job programs,
556

New Deal,
25
,
27
,
34
,
76
,
81
,
104

training,
370
,
566

War on Poverty,
566

John XXIII, Pope,
536

Johnson, Andrew,
506

Johnson, Hiram,
14
,
16
,
24
,
36
,
73
,
94
,
151

Johnson, Gen. Hugh,
13
,
32-3
,
55
,
77
,
114

Johnson, Lyndon B.,
306
,
317-20
,
584

background and education of,
317-18
,
323

and civil rights issue,
322-3
,
324
,
375
,
377-8
,
381-2
,
383-4
,
657

as Congressman,
110-11
,
318-19
,
323

exposure to poverty,
317-18
,
323

as a politician,
318-20

populist compassion of,
319

as President,
375-8
,
382
,
409
,
496
,
499
,
549
,
561
,
651
,
656-7
; domestic program of,
375
,
377-8
,
383-4
,
389-90
,
439
,
461
; foreign policy,
467
,
524
; tax policy,
554-5
; and Vietnam War,
391
,
401-7
,
410-13
,
417-19
,
491
,
593
; War on Poverty,
516
,
566-7
,
568
,
570-1

as presidential candidate: in 1960,
323-5
; in 1964,
381-2
,
637

and Robert Kennedy,
325
,
402
,
413

as Senator,
319-20
; Majority Leader,
313
,
320
,
322-3
,
578-9

vice-presidential candidacy of,
325
,
360
,
373

Johnson, Rebekah Baines,
317

Johnson, Sam Ealy,
317

Johnston, Eric,
267

Jones, Jesse,
28
,
48
,
318-19

Jong, Erica,
618

Joplin, Janis,
430
,
431

Jordan,
486
,
526

Jordan, Barbara,
507

Jordan, Hamilton,
530

journalism,
282-3
,
612

see also
newspapers

Journal of Philosophy, The
,
121

Judaism,
57
,
536

judiciary,
116
,
646
,
651-2
,
667

see also
Supreme Court, US Justice Department, and Watergate,
500
,
505

juvenile delinquency,
569

Kalmbach, Herbert,
501

Kant, Immanuel,
276
,
600

Katzenbach, Nicholas,
370

Kazin, Alfred,
131
,
139
,
141
,
409
,
615-16

Kearns, Doris,
319
,
401
,
403
,
413

Kefauver, Estes,
248
,
286
,
287
,
319

Kehler, Randy,
425-6

Keller, Kent,
107

Kemp, Jack,
641

Kempton, Murray,
99

Kennan, George,
288
,
290
,
293
,
294
,
538

“long telegram” of, and X article,
227-8
,
229
,
234
,
290

Kennedy, Edward,
412
,
499
,
623

1980 presidential candidacy,
530
,
531
,
559

Kennedy, Jacqueline,
332
,
340-1
,
677-8

Kennedy, John F.,
306
,
309-13
,
377
,
378
,
382
,
414
,
521
,
656-7
,
677-8

ancestry and background of,
309-10
,
323

assassination of,
373-4
,
382
,
460

and civil rights issue,
323-4
,
326
,
359-60
,
362
,
365-6
,
367-72
,
374-5
,
376

as Congressman,
311-12
,
323
,
339

King and,
326
,
360

personality of,
310-11
,
323

as President,
326-44
,
359-60
,
362
,
365-6
,
367-75
,
461
,
466
,
504
,
549
,
561
,
581
,
584
,
632
,
651
; Bay of Pigs fiasco,
331-2
,
334-5
,
336-7
,
343
,
524
; and civil rights legislation,
360
,
369
,
370-1
; in Cuban Missile Crisis,
334-5
,
337
,
495-6
; domestic program,
360
,
369
,
370-1
,
390
,
554
,
566-7
; evaluation of,
342-4
,
374-5
,
677
,
681
; foreign policy,
328-9
,
331-7
,
339-44
,
390-1
,
491
; “hawk” vs. “dove” advisers,
334-5
,
343
; inaugural address,
326-8
,
335
,
342
,
566
; steel price rollback,
651
; and Vietnam,
342-4
,
390-1
,
402
; women’s issues and,
433
,
434
,
437
,
438

presidential candidacy of,
323-6
,
331
,
413
,
468
,
512
,
555

as Senator,
313
,
323
,
339

Kennedy, Joseph Patrick,
59
,
89
,
160
,
309-10
,
311
,
312
,
324

Kennedy, Joseph Patrick, Jr.,
310
,
311

Kennedy, Patrick,
309

Kennedy, Patrick Joseph,
309-10

Kennedy, Robert F.,
251
,
461
,
530
,
593
,
678

assassination of,
414
,
460

and civil rights issue,
360
,
362-3
,
365-6
,
369-70
,
374

in Cuban missile crisis,
334-5

Johnson and,
325
,
402
,
413

as presidential candidate,
412-13
,
414
,
426