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Authors: James MacGregor Burns
of Father Coughlin,
58-9
of Huey Long,
59-63
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
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
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
power:
as exercised in foreign policy,
291-2
,
496
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
Presbyterian Church,
594
executive privilege,
505-6
“presidential” parties, Democratic and
and civil rights legislation,
321
prior restraint,
426
see also
media; newspapers
prices:
controls,
560
; Nixon freeze,
556
;
inflation: 1970s,
531
,
554-5
, 1980s,
638
; postwar,
230
; World War II,
187
New Deal manipulation of,
35
,
36
Priestley, J. B.,
603
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
Progressive party (Wallace’s),
235-7
,
238
progressivism,
7
,
13
,
14
,
16
,
41
,
68
,
122
,
236
,
646-7
property rights,
43
,
88
,
90
,
97
,
667
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
art programs, New Deal,
134
,
135
Public Works Administration (PWA),
34
,
81
Pyle, Ernie,
194-5
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 Free Europe, Radio Liberty,
523
Rafferty, Max,
627
Rainbow Coalition (FDR term),
199
,
211
,
217
,
220
Rand, Ayn,
600
Randolph, A. Philip,
371
Random House,
139
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
background and career,
606-7
,
636
,
643
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
Reagon, Bernice,
364
Realpolitik
,
159
,
216
,
217
,
223
,
465
,
488
recessions, economic:
1937-39, Roosevelt,
101-4
,
114
,
128
,
130
,
214
1950s, Eisenhower,
555
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC),
28
,
48
,
318
see also
anticommunism; communism, fears of
Redstockings,
444
Reed, James A.,
122
Refregier, Anton,
135
Regents of University of California
v.
Bakke
,
653
Reich, Robert B.,
630
Reinhardt, Ad,
621
degendering of,
457-8
see also
churches
reorganization bill of 1937,
105-7
,
115
,
131
Republican party,
358
,
462
,
629-30
,
636-8
,
646
,
655-6
,
663
“compact majorities” of,
87
,
120
congressional gains:
1938
,
111
;
1942
,
191
congressional majorities of:
1947-48
,
230
;
1953-4
,
253
,
285
;
1981-82
“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