American Experiment (472 page)

invalidation of New Deal legislation,
72-3
,
74
,
82
,
89-90
,
91
,
652

makeup of,
652-4
; in 1935,
71-2
,
87
; in 1954,
321

Miranda
doctrine,
654

Nixon tapes case,
505-6
,
507-8

“preferred position” doctrine of,
667

prior restraint overturned by,
426

Rehnquist Court,
654
,
667

Roe
v.
Wade
,
448
,
653
,
654

Roosevelt Court,
652

and search of vehicles,
653-4

segregation and civil rights cases,
352
,
365
,
596
,
651
,
652
,
653
;
Brown
v.
Board of Education
,
321-2
,
347
,
651
;
Plessy
v.
Ferguson
,
314
,
322

Warren Court,
322
,
652
,
654

women’s rights cases,
653
,
654

Sweden,
571-2

Sweezy, Paul,
564

Symington, Stuart,
325

Syria,
486-7
,
574

Szilard, Leo,
545-6

Taft, Robert A.,
111
,
163
,
169
,
190
,
203
,
233
,
234
,
236
,
243
,
245
,
253
,
625

in 1952 campaign,
246-8
,
249-50

Taft, William Howard,
236
,
247
,
466

Taft-Hartley Act,
320

Taiwan,
240
,
254
,
265
,
472
,
474
,
578

US break with,
529
,
644

Talmadge, Eugene,
65

Talmadge, Herman,
503

Tamiris, Helen,
138

Tammany Hall,
8
,
10

Taney, Roger,
652

Tarbell, Ida,
122

tariffs, foreign trade,
17
,
36
,
490

Tawney, R. H.,
461

taxation,
559

1960s,
554-5

Nixon/Ford policies,
556
,
558

Reagan policies,
639
,
641-2

redistributionist,
76
,
215

Revenue Acts: 1935 “wealth tax,”
76
,
77
,
78
,
128
; of 1942,
191-2

Taylor, Frederick W.,
271

Taylor, Myron C,
19
,
71
,
100

teachers,
597-8
,
663-4

Teamsters Union,
46
,
188
,
573

Technics and Civilization
(Mumford),
274

technology,
266
,
267-9
,
394
,
541
,
542-3
,
550-3
,
572

automation,
272-3
,
274-5
,
543
,
550

socio-psychological impacts of,
274-6

space,
584-7

Teheran Conference (1943),
195
,
198-9
,
206

telecommunications satellites,
582
,
585
,
611

television,
284-5
,
605-6
,
607
,
610
,
611
,
612-14
,
615
,
620

Nixon and,
472-3
,
495
,
511

presidential campaign coverage by,
324
,
613
; debates,
326

presidential use of,
495

Teller, Edward,
549
,
578

Temporary National Economic Committee,
104

tenant farmers,
49
,
66
,
81
,
314

Tenant Farmers’ Union,
49
,
65

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA),
26
,
34
,
40
,
77
,
131
,
213
,
316-17

as socialist experiment,
123
,
128

Test Ban Treaty (1963),
390
,
392

Tet offensive,
411
,
412

textile industry, 1934 general strike,
48-9

Thatcher, Margaret,
633

theater,
615
,
620
,
624

charges of communism against,
132
,
138
,
231

Depression era,
138-9
,
145-6

New Deal programs,
135-8

Theatre Guild,
136

Thieu, Nguyen Van,
419
,
480-4

third parties,
108
,
118
,
655-7

bias of American system against,
238

1912, Progressive party,
118-19
,
236

1924, Progressive party,
46
,
416

1936, Union party,
84
,
85

1948, Progressive party,
235-7
,
238
; States Rights’ Dixiecrats,
237
,
238

1968, American Independent party,
415

1970s conservative debate on,
637-8

Third World,
296
,
306
,
328-32
,
325-44
,
451-2
,
539

GNP statistics,
304

liberation movements and revolutions,
338
,
341-4

poverty,
303-5
,
669

This Is War!
(radio program),
193

Tho, Le Duc,
481-2
,
484

Thomas, Norman,
14
,
18
,
53-4
,
84
,
122
,
154
,
293
,
631

Thomas Aquinas,
57
,
537

Thompson, Dorothy,
93
,
165

Thompson, Kathleen,
449

Thompson, Kenneth,
536

Thomson, Virgil,
593

Thoreau, Henry David,
338
,
352
,
368
,
595
,
673

Thurmond, Strom,
376
,
644
,
657

Dixiecrat candidate in 1948,
237
,
238

Till, Emmett,
352
,
378

Time
magazine,
68
,
202
,
276
,
284
,
456
,
560
,
612
,
622
,
640

Titov, Gherman,
580

Tobin, Dan,
55

Tobin, James,
461

Tocqueville, Alexis de,
125
,
294
,
519
,
548
,
593
,
595
,
599
,
600
,
665
,
667
,
671
,
679

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

Toffler, Alvin,
597

Tojo, Hideki,
175
,
201

Tokyo, bombing of,
179
,
225

Toledano, Ralph de,
627

Tong, Rosemarie,
535

Tonkin Gulf incident and Resolution,
403

Townsend, Francis,
66-8
,
79
,
80
,
84
,
85
,
604
,
661

trade deficit,
557

Trento, Joseph,
584

triangular diplomacy,
469
,
474-6
,
488
,
496
,
527-9

Trilling, Lionel,
629

Trudeau, Garry,
624
,
636

Trujillo, Rafael,
329

Truman, Harry S,
219
,
222-3
,
287-8
,
293
,
319
,
448
,
593

and Kennedy,
324
,
325
,
333

as President,
212
,
230
,
246
,
248-9
,
253
,
277
,
466
,
561
,
656
; and A-bomb,
224-6
,
288
; cabinet of,
223
; and civil rights,
236
,
249
,
321
,
359
,
657
; Fair Deal of,
236
,
239
,
359
; foreign policy,
229-30
,
232-5
,
239-43
,
285-6
,
289
,
290
,
340
,
342
,
347
,
402
,
468
,
490
; Korean War,
241-3
,
651
; loyalty program,
230
,
232
,
239
,
245
; at Potsdam,
224-5
,
226

presidential candidacy in 1948,
236-8

quoted, on Nazis vs. Soviets,
221

as Senator,
185-6

as Vice President,
223
; candidacy,
203-4

Truman Doctrine,
232-3
,
234
,
235
,
239
,
289
,
347

Tubman, Harriet,
451

Tugwell, Rexford,
13
,
14-15
,
17
,
24
,
28
,
30
,
33-35
,
64
,
74
,
118-19

Tully, Grace,
3
,
212

Tunney, Gene,
609

Turkey,
229
,
232-3
,
239
,
265

US missile bases,
334-5
,
337

Turner, Nat,
355

Twain, Mark,
299

two-party system,
see
party system

Tydings, Millard,
110-11
,
119
,
164
,
245-6

Udall, Morris,
521

Ulam, Adam,
242

“ultra-conservatives,”
123

unemployment:

of blacks,
571

counter-measures,
561-2

of Depression years,
5
,
18-19
,
31
,
39
,
40
,
47
,
58
,
81
,
215
,
648
; 1937-39 recession,
101
,
104
,
113
,
214

New Deal programs,
26
,
27
,
31
,
34
,
568

1970s,
555
,
557-8
,
559

1980s,
640
,
641

unemployment benefits,
75

unilateralism,
154
,
234
,
494
,
496

Union party (1936),
84
,
85

unions, labor,
27
,
33
,
45
,
54-7
,
96-101

and automation,
273

and civil rights movement,
371
,
377

company,
45
,
100

craft,
33
,
54-6
,
97

and ERA,
439
,
457

federal,
55

fight for recognition,
46-50
,
55
,
97-100
; recognition by GM,
99
; recognition by U.S. Steel,
100

industrial,
33
,
53
,
54-6
,
97-100

membership statistics,
186

open vs. closed shop,
186-7

racial and sex discrimination by,
188-9
,
457

“red,”
53

wartime problems,
186-7

women’s,
457

see also
AFL-CIO; American Federation of Labor; Congress of Industrial Organizations United Automobile Workers (UAW),
187
,
273
,
392
,
573
,
577-8

United Farm Workers,
452

United Mine Workers,
46
,
54
,
187-8

United Nations,
208
,
209
,
210
,
211
,
223
,
227
,
229
,
235
,
256
,
386
,
523
,
584
,
586

Communist China admitted,
469

Declaration of Human Rights,
523
,
536-40

Declaration of 1942,
178

Human Rights Commission,
339

and Israel,
525

Khrushchev at,
260

Soviet use of,
228

United Textile Workers of America,
46

Universal Negro Improvement Association,
385

universities,
270
,
553
,
597-8
,
622
,
663

University of Alabama,
370