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Nimitz, Adm. Chester,
180
,
198
,
201
,
205
,
206
,
211
Nixon, E. D.,
349-50
Nixon, Richard M.,
492-3
,
624
,
644
,
681
anticommunism of,
230
,
244
,
418
,
468
,
480
; Hiss case,
232
,
468
background of,
604
character contradictions in,
465-6
,
494
,
508
; the “new” Nixon,
417
,
469
,
637
Checkers speech of,
250
,
252
,
511
income-tax fraud allegation,
504
penchant for secrecy,
467
,
471
,
476
,
492
post-resignation life of,
513-14
as President,
416-20
,
422-6
,
462
,
466-88
,
560-1
,
625
,
630
,
651
; China policy,
468-9
,
470-5
,
488
; decision leaps,
559-60
,
561
; a disappointment to conservatives,
557
,
625
; domestic programs,
466-7
,
479
,
567
; economic policy,
554-7
,
561
,
571
; “enemies list,”
499
,
504
; foreign policy,
467-88
,
491
,
492-4
,
496
,
524
; and the media,
472-3
,
495
,
510-11
; and minority rights issues,
466
; resignation,
488
,
508-9
,
558
; Russian policy,
476-9
,
485-8
,
493
; second inaugural,
484
; siege mentality,
499
,
503
; Supreme Court appointments,
506
,
652-3
; and Vietnam War,
417-20
,
422-6
,
475-6
,
478-84
,
493-4
presidential candidacies:
1960
,
262
,
326
,
331
,
360
,
468
,
555
,
637
;
1968
,
415-16
,
555
,
637
;
1972.
460-1,
479
,
511
,
557
as Vice President,
255
,
257
,
313
; urges A-bomb at Dien Bien Phu,
255
,
342
,
465
; urges invasion of Cuba,
331
vice-presidential candidacy,
250
,
252
and Watergate,
500-14
,
593
; impeachment,
503
,
506-7
,
511
; pardon,
498
,
513-14
,
522
,
558
(see also
Watergate affair)
Noble, Robert,
604
Nol, Lon,
424
in civil rights movement,
352
,
357
,
363
,
364
,
366-8
,
383
,
400
; abandoned,
386
,
388
,
398
,
400
see also
civil disobedience
Normandy, 1944
invasion of,
200-1
Norris, George W.,
14
,
26
,
61
,
73
,
91
,
190-1
North:
civil rights battle in,
384
,
385-6
,
388
,
397-401
North Africa, World War II in,
180
,
196-7
Allied invasion of 1943,
178
,
181
North Korea,
240-2
see also
Korean War
North Vietnam,
402-6
,
410-11
,
418-19
,
422-5
,
472
,
475
,
479-84
,
488
,
489
,
493-4
,
642
Norway, Nazi invasion of,
161
NSC-68 memorandum,
222
nuclear submarines,
264
,
268
,
391
,
478
Prevention Agreement, 1973,
485-6
nuclear weapons,
222
,
239-40
,
256-7
,
264
,
391
,
477-8
China in possession of,
485
Reagan on,
643
Test Ban Treaty (1963),
390
,
392
US superiority,
259
,
264
,
265
,
333-4
US-USSR parity,
527
see also
arms control; arms race; atom bomb; hydrogen bomb
occupational safety and health,
466
Ochs, Phil,
428
O’Connell, William, Cardinal,
58
O’Daniel, “Pappy,”
319
Odets, Clifford,
146
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO),
566
Office of Facts and Figures,
193
Office of Price Administration,
556
,
562
Office of War Information (OWI),
193-4
off our backs
(newspaper),
447
Oglesby, Carl,
421
oil,
255
,
319
,
329
,
330-1
,
574-5
,
644
Okun, Arthur,
561
Oldenburg, Claes,
621
Oliphant, Herman,
102
Olivier, Laurence,
285
Olson, Culbert L.,
604
Omaha Action,
391
O’Mahoney, Joseph,
94
Omnibus Housing Act (1965),
389
O’Neill, Eugene,
624
O’Neill, Thomas P. “Tip,”
559
,
640
O’Neill, William L.,
431
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries),
558
,
574
“Open Skies” proposal,
257
Oppenheim, Dennis,
623
Oppenheimer, J. Robert,
269
,
270
,
288-9
,
290
,
549
Organization of Afro-American Unity,
386
Ormandy, Eugene,
484
Orwell, George,
418
Oshinsky, David,
251
Our Bodies, Ourselves
(handbook),
447
Ozick, Cynthia,
619
Pacem in Terris
(encyclical),
536
Pacific Ocean:
US bases in,
264-5
war in,
174-80
,
196
,
198
,
201-2
,
206
,
207
,
224-5
; island hopping,
201
,
206
,
211
pacifists,
536
Palestine Liberation Organization,
592
Palestinians,
525
Paley, Grace,
618
Panama,
330
Panama Canal Treaty,
524-5
,
526-7
Paris:
American writers celebrated in,
297-8
summit plan aborted (1960),
261-2
Vietnam peace talks,
481-4
Parsons, Talcott,
67
Parsons, Louella,
606-7
Partisan Review
(journal),
409
party system,
116-18
,
125-6
,
491
,
646-7
,
655-7
four-party actuality within,
119
,
126
,
236
; and civil rights legislation,
321-2
,
376-8
overlapping of interests and groups,
119
,
126
,
320
,
376
party shifts and reconstitution,
656-7
see also
third parties
Pasadena school desegregation case,
653
“Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teachings and the U.S. Economy,”
537-8
,
668-9
Patterson, James,
109
Patterson, John,
362
Patterson, Robert “Tut,”
354
Patton, Gen. George,
216
Paul VI, Pope,
484
Pavese, Cesare,
298
Peace Corps,
390
peaceful coexistence,
260
peace movement,
391-2
,
401
,
418
,
443
,
460
,
536
,
659
self-immolations,
408
see also
anti-nuclear movement; anti-Vietnam War movement Peale, Norman Vincent,
326
Pearl Harbor,
174-6
,
177
,
179
,
192
,
304
,
338
Peck, Jim,
361
Peck, George N.,
154
Pegler, Westbrook,
123
Pells, Richard,
278
PEN International Congress (1986),
617-20
Penn Central Railroad,
555
Pentagon Papers,
425-6
Pepper, Claude,
106
Percy, Walker,
615
Perkins, Frances,
23
,
28
,
29
,
31
,
34
,
83
,
101
,
102
,
112
,
114
,
130
,
434
,
593
Perón, Juan and Evita,
328
Pershing, Gen. John Joseph,
543
Persian Gulf,
644
Pélain, Henri Philippe,
163
Peter, Paul and Mary (rock group),
428
Phantom Public, The
(Lippmann),
289
Philippines,
265
World War II: US loss of,
176-7
,
178
; US recapture of,
202
,
206
Phillips, Clarence,
520
Phillips, Kevin,
637
Phillips, William,
154
Pickering, William,
578
Piehl, Mel,
536
Pioneer planetary probes,
582
Planned Parenthood-World Population,
448
planning, comprehensive national and regional,
130-1
,
214-15
social, Dewey on,
121
see also
economic planning
PM
(newspaper),
283
Podell, Janet,
610
Podgorny, Nikolai,
477
Nazi and Soviet invasion of,
159
,
160
postwar,
206
,
223
,
224
,
257-8
,
476
; Solidarity,
644
; Soviet domination,
210-11
,
221
,
226
,
229
; Yalta discussions on,
206-7
,
208
,
211
Polenberg, Richard,
193
Pollock, Jackson,
621
Poor, Henry Varnum,
133