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Authors: James MacGregor Burns
Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr.,
4
,
24
Roosevelt, Sara Delano,
6
,
7
,
9
,
18
,
166
Roosevelt, Theodore,
7-8
,
9
,
40
,
72
,
87
,
88
,
127
,
217
,
218
,
219
,
330
,
600
and foreign affairs,
330
,
490
,
642-3
progressivism of,
14
,
41
,
646
; and
desertion of his party (1912),
73
,
118-19
,
236
,
247
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr.,
20
Rosenberg, Nathan,
267
Rosenblatt, Roger,
636
Rosenman, Samuel,
3-4
,
11
,
157
,
192
Rosie the Riveter myth,
188
Rothko, Mark,
621
Rovere, Richard,
244
Rowan, Carl,
314-15
rubber industry, 1930s,
49
,
97
,
98
,
188
Ruckelshaus, William D.,
505
Rudolph, Frederick,
397
Rural Electrification Administration,
191
Russell, Bertrand,
546
Russell, John,
621
Russell, Richard,
250
,
319-20
,
325
,
376-7
Russian Revolution,
221
Ryan, Paddy,
307
Sabin, Albert,
543
Sacco-Vanzetti case,
140
Sadat, Anwar el-,
525-6
Safire, William,
470
Sakharov, Andrei D.,
523
Sale, Kirkpatrick,
421
Salk, Jonas F.,
543
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks),
477-9
Saltonstall, Leverett,
111
Samuelson, Paul,
561
Sandino, Augusto,
328
SANE (National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy),
392
San Francisco,
430
Coit Tower mural,
134
general strike of 1934,
46-7
UN organizing conference,
209
,
211
,
223
Santana (rock group),
427
Sargent, James,
35
Saroyan, William,
605
Saturday Evening Post, The
,
284
,
614
“Saturday Night Massacre,”
505
,
507
Saturday Review of Literature
,
21
Saudi Arabia,
574
Schaar, John,
396
Scherman, Harry,
594
Schine, David,
251
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.,
278
,
287
,
328
,
340
,
366
,
369-70
,
495
,
658
cited: on FDR,
11
,
114
; on John Kennedy,
360
,
370
; on Norman Thomas,
53
Schlesinger, James R.,
489
Schneider, William,
658
Schoenberg, Arnold,
605
school busing,
653
school prayer,
628
desegregation of,
236
,
321-3
,
370
,
378
;
Brown
v.
Board of Ed.
,
321-2
,
347
,
596
,
651
; Little Rock,
322
,
352
; 1970s Supreme Court decisions,
653
;
Plessy
v.
Ferguson
(separate but equal),
314
,
322
Schulberg, Budd,
605
Schuman, Frederick L.,
513
Schurz, Carl,
625
Schuster, Jack H.,
664
education and literacy,
553
political fragmentation of,
546
,
547-50
Science: Servant or Master?
(Morgenthau),
547-8
scientific management,
271
,
280
,
550
Scientific Man vs. Power Politics
(Morgenthau),
291
Scott, Hugh,
508-9
Screen Actors Guild (SAG),
605
,
607
Seale, Bobby George,
399
Securities and Exchange Commission,
77
,
89
securities regulation,
25-6
,
40
,
122
Seeger, Pete,
428
Seeman, Melvin,
275
segregation and desegregation,
348
,
370-1
Kennedy measures,
370-1
public facilities and transportation,
315
,
321
,
348-52
,
356-8
,
361
,
364
,
370
rural South,
313-16
Southern
post-Brown
racist laws,
354-5
see also
schools
Selective Service Act,
165
Sellers, Cleveland,
384
Selma, Ala., civil rights march,
382-4
Selznick, Lewis J.,
601
semiconductor electronics,
542-3
Army-McCarthy hearings,
251-2
,
258
and court-packing plan of FDR,
93-6
Democratic majorities in:
1935-36
,
37
;
1937-38
,
87
;
1939-40
,
111
;
1949-50
,
238
;
1951-52
,
245
;
1955-56
,
320
;
1965-66
,
389
; Nixon/Ford years,
479
,
555
,
558
direct election amendment,
646-7
8-year term proposal,
650
filibuster rule,
321
,
322
,
323
,
360
,
376-7
,
647
investigation of munitions industry,
155
isolationism in,
154
,
155-6
,
158-9
Republican gains in: 1938,
111
; 1942,
191
Republican majorities in:
1947-48
,
230
;
1953-54
,
253
,
285
;
1981-82
,
629
,
639
,
641
treaty ratification power,
491
,
495
,
645-6
,
648
,
650
; Panama Treaty,
525
; SALT II abandoned,
529
,
645
Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
291
Senate Judiciary Committee,
323
Senate Watergate Committee,
502
,
503-5
Seventeenth Amendment,
646
sex discrimination,
433
,
439-43
,
454
,
459
,
618
,
635
,
646
civil rights bill of 1964,
376
,
378
,
437
in credit,
439
in employment,
81
,
188
,
433
,
437
,
439
,
446-7
,
457
sexual customs and mores,
533-5
,
569
,
628
Sexual Politics
(Millett),
456
Shanghai Communiqué (1972),
474
Shapley, Harlow,
269
Shaw, George Bernard,
301
Shcharansky, Anatoly,
523
Shepard, Alan B., Jr.,
579-80
Sherrod, Charles,
364
Sherwood, Robert,
21
Shils, Edward,
278
Shimabukuro, Stanley,
189-90
shipbuilding, wartime,
183-4
Short, Dewey,
132
Shouse, Jouett,
42-3
Shriver, Sargent,
390
,
458
,
461
,
521
,
566
Shultz, George,
617-18
Sicily, Allied invasion of,
197-8
Sidey, Hugh,
560
Sihanouk, Prince Norodom,
424
Silent Spring
(Carson),
389
Silk, Leonard,
555
Silone, Ignazio,
277
Simon, John,
621
Simon, William E.,
627
Simon and Garfunkel,
430
Simonds, Benjamin,
675
Simpson, George Gaylord,
269
Sinclair, Upton,
69-70
,
80
,
117
,
603
,
604
Sirica, John J.,
501
,
503
,
505
,
512
sit-down strikes, 1930s,
96
,
97-100
,
107
sit-in demonstrations,
189
,
356-7
,
395-6
Sivachev, Nikolai,
131
Six-Day War (1967),
486
Skylab missions,
582
slavery,
121
,
353
,
357
,
358
,
646
,
655
,
666
FWP narratives on,
139
Sloan, Alfred P., Jr.,
98-9
,
572
,
575
,
578
Sly and the Family Stone (rock group),
427
Small War Plants Corporation,
186
Small War Plants Division,
186
Smeal, Eleanor,
635
Smith, Al,
4
,
10-11
,
42-3
,
58
,
79
,
81-2
,
119
,
137
,
656
Smith, Alice Kimball,
549
Smith, “Cotton Ed,”
110-11
Smith, Gerald L.K.,
80
,
84
,
85
,
169
Smith, Hedrick,
642
Smith, Howard W.,
106
,
112
,
126
,
375-6
,
437
Smith, Jerome,
369
Smith, Margaret Chase,
245
Smith, Mike,
583
Smith, Miranda,
603
Smith Act (1940),
243
Smith-Connally bill,
191
Snow, C. P.,
547-8
social change:
for Boston Irish,
308-9
for Southern blacks,
315-16
social criticism,
275-81
Social Democratic Federation party (1936),
84
socialism, socialists,
564-5
American,
42
,
51
,
53-4
,
79
,
122-3
,
165
,
631-2
New Deal misconceived as,
43
,
45
,
102
,
123
,
128
Niebuhr and,
292-3
public schools as experiment in,
596
Third World nations,
305
; India,
339-40
Socialist party,
14
,
49
,
53
,
84-5
,
122-3
,
128
social protest movements,
347-8
,
460-2
,
655-6
,
659-61
group-oriented participatory leadership,
358
,
384
,
395-6
,
443-4
,
455-6