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Eastland, James O., 103
Ebert, Mayor, 576
Economic Club (NYC), 430, 468
economic growth, 393 ff.
Economic Message (1961), 397
Ecuador, 689
Edmondson, Howard, 114, 161
education, 357 ff., 390, 403, 472, 479–480, 497–498
Edwards, India, 39, 156, 164
EEC,
see
Common Market Egypt, 228, 539
Einstein, Albert, 20
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 75, 103, 163, 208, 212, 227, 232, 235, 238, 244, 252, 253, 304, 336, 468, 676, 701, 755
and Adams, 281
AID and, 350
Allen, George, and, 204
and Army strength, 66
and balance of payments, 407
Benson and, 171
and budget, 414, 419–420
Cabinet of, 254, 257
and Catholic vote, 217–219
and CIA, 295
and Congo, 635–636
and Congress, 340, 345, 346, 347
contributions for, 173–174
and Cuban crisis, 295, 391
and defense, 602, 627
and deficit, 425, 429
De Gaulle and, 561–562
and Democrats, 168, 170, 217
Dillon and, 3
and equal time, 196
and “falling domino” theory, 644
and farmers, 333
and foreign policy, 176, 281, 413
and Germany, 585
and golf, 378
and Great Britain, 566
health of, 83, 462
Hughes, Emmet, and, 5
and incoming personnel, 233
Kennedy attitude toward, 114, 183–184, 228, 314, 476, 499
Khrushchev and, 231
and Laos, 640
and Massachusetts, 12, 74, 78
and massive retaliation, 625
and military-industrial complex, 416
and missile gap, 610–611
and national stockpiles, 317
and NATO, 567
Nixon and, 168, 169, 200, 207, 216–217, 558
popularity of, 169, 214, 334, 335
and Protestant vote, 218–219
and Recession, 217
Saltonstall and, 58
and schools, 360
and Soviet Union, 107, 549, 555
and space program, 524
and teamwork, 282
and test-ban treaty, 738n.
and
Time
magazine, 317
and U-2 flight, 544
and USIA, 322
and Vietnam, 651–652
and vote by religions, 217–219, 221–222
Eisenhower, Mrs. Dwight D., 114
Electoral College, 62n., 66
Ellis, Frank, 613, 614
Emancipation Proclamation, 497
employment, 185
Engels, Friedrich, 546
England, 579, 755
see also
Great Britain
equal rights, 26, 470 ff.
Ervin, Samuel J., Jr., 501
espionage, 549, 617
see also
U-2 flights
Estes, Billie Sol, 276, 317
European Economic Community,
see
Common Market
Evers, Medgar, 496
Ex Comm,
see under
National Security Council

F

“falling domino” theory, 644
fallout, 621, 623
fallout shelters,
see
shelters, bomb and fallout
Farley, James A., 115, 155
farm problems, 402–403
Faubus, Orville, 159
Fay, Paul B., Jr., 36, 249, 378
Fayette County (Tenn.), 479
FBI, 453–454, 460, 502–503, 750
“featherbedding,” 441
Federal Aid to Education Bill, 361
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
see
FBI
Federal Home Loan Banks, 397
Federal Reserve Board, 217, 407, 423, 435
Federal Trade Commission, 453
Feldman, Myer, 176, 179, 189, 203, 248, 253, 264, 323, 701
FEPC, 497, 498
Ferguson, Homer, 66
Fermi, Enrico, 26
Fifth Amendment, 54
filibusters, 342
Finletter, Thomas K., 237, 279
Finnegan, James, 81, 82
“fireside chats,” 329
“first-strike,” 609–610, 611, 621
Fischer, John, 291 Fisher, Adrian, 734
Fitzgerald, John F., 15, 36
FKBW, 253
Flanagan, Francis, 34
Flanders, Ralph, 47, 48
Fleming, Ian, 388 “floating depots,” 627
Fomin, Aleksander, 712, 714
Food-for-Peace, 280, 531, 534, 759
Food Stamp program, 397
“For Kennedy Before Wisconsin,” 253
Ford, George L., 195
Ford, Henry, 17
foreign affairs, 509 ff.
foreign aid, in, 350–351, 529–532, 759
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, 630
Foreign Office, 555
foreign policy, 528, 533–540, 605
Foreign Relations Committee, 43, 96, 164
Foreign Service, 473
Forge of Democracy
, 349
Formosa, 289, 548, 625, 661, 662, 681, 707
Formosa Resolution, 49
Forrest County (Miss.), 479
Fort Bragg (N.C.), 632
Fortune
magazine, 316
Foster, William, 518, 734, 737
Fourteenth Amendment, 499
Fowler, Henry, 237, 252–253, 277, 454, 456
Fox, Charles James, 718
Fox, John, 78, 79
France, 566 ff., 570, 571, 573, 590, 597, 617, 650, 735, 736, 740, 741, 755
see also
De Gaulle
Franck, Isaac, 240
Frankfurt, 581
Franklin, Benjamin, 100
Freedman, Max, 591
“Freedom Riders,” 478
“freedom walk,” 493
Freeman, Orville, 84, 154, 158, 165, 253, 257, 265, 273, 276, 277, 283, 333, 402–403, 740
Freeman, Mrs. Orville (Jane), 277
French-German Treaty of Friendship, 573
French-Indochinese War, 654
Freund, Paul, 50, 66, 273
FROGs, 715
Frost, Robert, 14, 64, 240, 244, 384, 398, 458–459, 669, 752
Fulbright, J. William, 307, 501, 702
fund-raising, 173–174
Furcolo, Foster, 73, 76, 77, 263

G

Gagarin, Yuri, 524, 525, 544
Gaitskell, Hugh, 576, 623
Galbraith, Kenneth, 14, 118, 174, 176, 235, 240, 243, 249, 256, 261, 279, 290, 370, 372, 386, 388, 395, 406, 430, 433, 578, 664
Gallo, Joey, 170
Gallup, George, 107
Gallup Polls, 193n, 209, 333, 352, 358, 463, 618, 745
Garcia, Argemil Plazas, 537
Garner, John Nance, 164
Gaughan, Vince, 172
Gavin, James, 118, 184, 279, 560
General Assembly
see under
United Nations
General Services Administration, 452
Geneva Accords, 639, 647–648, 649, 650, 651, 652
Geneva Conferences, 518, 618, 619, 623, 642, 646–648, 729
German Democratic Republic,
see
East Germany
Germany, 549, 554, 560, 562, 567, 571, 573, 579, 584, 667, 733
Gettysburg Address, 240
Ghana, 228, 268, 533, 537, 539, 636, 638
“GI bill of rights,” 488
Gilpatric, Roswell L., 277, 456, 604, 674, 694
Gizenga, Antoine, 636, 637
Glenn, John, 526, 528–529
Goa, 537, 578–579
gold reserves, 229, 405–407
Goldberg, Arthur, 253, 265, 273, 275, 277, 283, 395, 398, 439, 440, 442,443, 444, 445–446, 447, 448, 449–450, 454, 456, 457, 458, 462
Goldwater, Barry, 54, 55, 58, 168, 170, 207, 272, 324, 439, 505, 669, 739, 754
“Good Neighbor Policy,” 533
Goodwin, Richard, 66, 117, 176, 186, 253, 261, 289, 533, 534
Gordon, Kermit, 263, 395, 420–421, 449
Gordon, Lincoln, 237, 279
Gore, Albert, 81, 88, 89, 90, 98, 271, 450
Government Operations Committee, 46
Graham, Billy, 143, 222, 235, 240, 364
Graham, Philip, 165 “Grand Design,” 572
Grant, U. S., III, 477
Graves, Robert, 336
Great Britain, 558, 560, 564–568, 570, 572, 591, 597, 647, 740
see also
England
and
Macmillan
Great Debates, 196–203
Greece, 568, 571, 628, 631, 660–661
Green, Abel, 387
Green, Edith, 121
Green, Theodore Francis, 45, 63
Green, William J., Jr., 124
Grewe, Wilhelm, 559
Gridiron Club, 64, 91, 98, 119, 144, 261n., 355, 363, 477
Gromyko, Andrei A., 544n., 549n., 586, 597, 598, 599, 618, 642, 649, 689–691, 700, 735
Guantánamo Bay, 676, 681, 684, 687, 697, 704, 705
Guatemala, 206, 296, 306, 689
Gudeman, Edward, 277, 456
guerrilla warfare, 632–633, 646, 649, 650- 652, 653, 654–655, 656–657,
Guevara, Ernesto “Che,” 632
“guidelines,” 438, 439–440
Guinea, 228
Gullion, Edward, 66, 279, 637
Guns of August, The
, 388, 513

H

Hackett, David, 120, 154
“Hail to the Chief,” 387
Haile Selassie, 578
Hailsham, Lord, 734, 735
Haiti, 689
Halaby, Najeeb E., 277
Hall, Leonard, 195
Halleck, Charles, 341, 350, 431, 500, 702, 736–737
Hamilton, Fowler, 630–631
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 255, 293, 520–521, 635, 636
Hand, Judge Learned, 744
“hard liners,” 696, 709, 712
Harding, Warren G., 183
Harlech, Lady, 378
Harlech, Lord, 378
Harper’s Magazine
, 67, 291
Harriman, Averell, 78, 81, 98, 174, 236, 287, 289, 369, 542, 555, 556, 579, 648, 663, 728, 733, 734, 735, 736
Harriman, John, 13
Harris, Rev. Frederick Brown, 143
Harris, Louis, 106–107, 119, 131, 333
Harris Polls, 106–108, 131, 132, 133, 134, 139, 162, 184, 208n., 221, 411, 737
Harris, Seymour, 13, 118, 395–396
Harris, Mrs. Seymour, 395
Hart, Philip, 148
Hartke, R. Vance, 124, 130
Harvard University, 71
Hastie, William, 273, 482
Hatcher, Andrew, 171, 448, 458, 473, 478, 505
Hatfield, Mark, 147n.
Havana, 683
Hayden, Carl, 44, 115, 344, 345
Hayes, Al, 52, 335
Haywood County (Tenn.), 479
“Heart of My Heart,” 387

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