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of Father Coughlin,
58-9

of Huey Long,
59-63

pornography,
449
,
534-5
,
635
,
654

Port Huron Statement,
393
,
394
,
397
,
462

Postmodernism,
624

Potsdam Conference (1945),
224-5
,
226

Potter, Paul,
407

poverty,
122
,
539-40
,
565-71
,
629
,
668-9

of blacks,
570-1
; in South,
313-16
; in urban North,
385

and crime,
516
,
518
,
568-9
,
571

cultural view (subculture),
568-9
,
571

definition of,
567-8

Depression,
19
,
31
,
39-41
,
58
,
648
; New Deal programs,
25
,
27
,
34-5
,
40-1
,
76
,
81
; 1937-39

recession,
103-4

intellectual failure in understanding,
567-71
,
668-9

1930s literature of,
141-5

of 1980s,
633
,
641

reduced in wartime,
184-5
,
188-9

in South,
354
,
567
; among blacks,
313-16
; among whites,
316-18

structural/environmental view,
569
,
570

Third World,
303-5
,
669
; India,
303
,
305
,
339
; Latin America,
303-4
,
329
,
330
,
336

War on (LBJ),
516
,
566-7
,
568

Powdermaker, Hortense,
603
,
606

Powell, Lewis F., Jr.,
506
,
653

power:

as exercised in foreign policy,
291-2
,
496

vs. moral leadership,
512
,
522

Niebuhrian realism,
125
,
292-3
,
522

presidential use and abuse of,
495-6
,
503
,
510-12

Powers, Francis Gary,
261

Powers, John A.,
580-1

pragmatism,
125
,
278
,
292
,
548
,
559
,
661
,
671

as self-serving doctrine,
658

Pravda
,
229
,
491
,
523

Presbyterian Church,
594

presidency,
647-8
,
651
,
655

executive privilege,
505-6

“imperial,”
510
,
511
,
646

veto,
646
,
647

“presidential” parties, Democratic and

Republican,
119
,
126

and civil rights legislation,
321

press,
281
,
283
,
611

prior restraint,
426

see also
media; newspapers

prices:

controls,
560
; Nixon freeze,
556
;

postwar,
230
; World War II,
556

inflation: 1970s,
531
,
554-5
, 1980s,
638
; postwar,
230
; World War II,
187

New Deal manipulation of,
35
,
36

Priestley, J. B.,
603

primary system,
117
,
647
,
662

Princeton University,
290
,
545

printing innovations,
281-2

prior restraint,
426

prisons,
519-20

Pritchett, Laurie,
364

“pro-choice” groups,
448

production,
271

agricultural,
268

industrial,
266
; during Depression,
30-1
; postwar,
264
; wartime,
182-4
,
186
,
199

Profiles in Courage
(Kennedy),
343
,
677

Progressive Labor party,
421

Progressive party (T. Roosevelt’s),
46
,
118-19
,
236
,
416
,
656

Wisconsin, 1934,
68
,
108
,
117

Progressive party (Wallace’s),
235-7
,
238

progressivism,
7
,
13
,
14
,
16
,
41
,
68
,
122
,
236
,
646-7

Prohibition,
5
,
10
,
16
,
25

property rights,
43
,
88
,
90
,
97
,
667

Protestantism,
57
,
279
,
594-5

in Boston, anti-Irish,
307
,
308

China missionaries,
470

peace movement,
536

Protestant
magazine,
282

Proxmire, William,
577

public facilities and transport,

desegregation of,
315
,
321
,
348-52
,
356-8
,
361
,
364
,
370
,
378

Public Interest, The
(journal),
627
,
628

Public Opinion
(Lippmann),
289

public-opinion polling,
153
,
291
,
511

Public Philosophy, The
(Lippmann),
289-90
,
294

Public Utility Holding Company Act,
76
,
214

public works,
130
,
566

art programs, New Deal,
134
,
135

Depression era,
34
,
37
,
81
,
214

Public Works Administration (PWA),
34
,
81

Pyle, Ernie,
194-5

Quakers,
391
,
396
,
536

Quebec meeting of FDR and Churchill (1943),
198
,
206

Quemoy and Matsu islands,
255
,
468

quota systems,
653

Rabi, Isador Isaac,
269

race riots,
189
,
397-8
,
400
,
554
,
574

racial discrimination:

against blacks,
313-16
,
321-3
,
348-58
,
378-84
,
439
,
610
; in education,
236
,
314
,
321-3
,
365
,
370
,
278
,
653
; in employment,
188-9
,
315
; outlawed,
378
; pay,
189
; public facilities,
315
,
321
,
348-52
,
356-8
,
361
,
364
,
370
; voting,
321-3
,
355
,
357
,
366
,
371
,
378-84
; wartime,
188-9
,
371
; women,
189
,
452

against Japanese, wartime,
189-90

racism,
94
,
111
,
113
,
319
,
353-5
,
358-9
,
367
,
444
,
631

Radical Women (Feminists),
443-4
,
449

radio,
59
,
63
,
285
,
303
,
612
,
614

FDR’s use of,
31
,
63
,
82
,
86

Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty,
523

Rafferty, Max,
627

Railroad Pension Act,
72
,
73

railroads,
16
,
26-7
,
555

Rainbow Coalition (FDR term),
199
,
211
,
217
,
220

Rand, Ayn,
600

Randolph, A. Philip,
371

Random House,
139

rape,
449
,
534

Raskob, John J.,
10
,
14
,
42-3
,
81

Rather, Dan,
614

Rauh, Joseph,
381

Rauschenberg, Robert,
621

Rauschenbusch, Walter,
292
,
350
,
352
,
461

Rayburn, Sam,
26
,
76
,
203
,
325
,
376

Reader’s Digest
,
202
,
284
,
311
,
627
,
628

Reagan, Nancy Davis,
607

Reagan, Ronald,
430
,
474
,
558
,
624
,
636
,
638
,
656

anticommunism of,
607
,
642-4

background and career,
606-7
,
636
,
643

as ideologue,
636
,
643-4

as President,
513
,
540
,
618
,
636
,
638-45
,
655
,
672
; budget deficits,
633
,
640
; defense buildup,
639
,
640
; domestic policy,
639-42
; economic policy,
639-41
; foreign policy,
537
,
538
,
642-5
; and Iran-Contra affair,
644-5
; personal popularity,
641
; speeches,
600
,
636
,
642
,
644
; Star Wars,
585-6
; Supreme Court appointments,
654
,
667
; tax policy,
639
,
640
,
641-2

as President-elect,
624-5

presidential candidacies:
1976
,
524
,
625
,
637-8
;
1980
,
529
,
530
,
638
;
1984
,
641
,
644

as unifier of conservatives,
628-9
,
636-8

Reagan Administration,
535
,
537
,
585

loss of internal control,
633
,
644-5
,
651

Reagan Revolution,
630
,
639
,
645

Reagon, Bernice,
364

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

recessions, economic:

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

1950s, Eisenhower,
555

1980s, Reagan,
562
,
640-1

Reconstruction,
88
,
313
,
355
,
646

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC),
28
,
48
,
318

Red Menace (Red Scare),
47
,
50

see also
anticommunism; communism, fears of

Redstockings,
444

Reed, James A.,
122

Reedy, George F.,
246
,
510

Refregier, Anton,
135

Regents of University of California
v.
Bakke
,
653

Rehnquist, William H.,
652
,
654

Reich, Robert B.,
630

Reinhardt, Ad,
621

religion,
594-6
,
601

degendering of,
457-8

freedom of,
178
,
281
,
666

see also
churches

reorganization bill of 1937,
105-7
,
115
,
131

Republican party,
358
,
462
,
629-30
,
636-8
,
646
,
655-6
,
663

anti-New Deal,
43
,
83
,
132

“compact majorities” of,
87
,
120

congressional gains:
1938
,
111
;
1942
,
191

congressional majorities of:
1947-48
,
230
;
1953-4
,
253
,
285
;
1981-82

in Senate,
629
,
639

“congressional” vs. “presidential,”
119
,
126
,
236
,
238
,
247
,
320
,
558
,
678
; and civil rights legislation,
321
,
376-8

conventions of:
1936
,
83
;
1940
,
163-4
;
1944
,
203
;
1948
,
236
;
1952
,
247-8
;
1960
,
326
;
1964
,
381
;
1968
,
415

cracking of Solid South,
250-1
,
382
,
460

economic laissez-faire policies,
42
,
560

influence in newspaper industry,
282
,
284

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