Kennedy: The Classic Biography (144 page)

Kenya, 531

Keppel, Francis, 118, 237, 274, 359

Kerner, Otto, 221

Kerr, Robert, 344, 348, 351–352, 430

Key, V. O., Jr., 219

Keynes, John M., 395–396, 466

Khrushchev, Nikita, 170, 183, 188, 199, 206, 230, 240, 270, 292, 313, 330–331, 463, 516, 561, 571, 637, 731, 733

and arms inspection, 728

and Berlin crisis, 549–550, 554, 564, 569, 583 ff., 724, 725

and Castro, 555

on Communism, 545–547

and correspondence with Kennedy, 514–515, 529, 552–555, 600, 667–668, 691, 694, 709, 710, 712, 713, 714, 716, 717–718, 719, 720, 721, 724–725, 727

and Cuban crisis, 390, 546–547, 629, 667 ff.

and disarmament, 518–519, 549

and Dulles, 545

and Eisenhower, 231, 549, 555

and espionage, 549, 617

and Geneva Conference, 642

and “hot line,” 727

and “kitchen debate,” 169, 182–183, 196

and Laos, 548–549, 643, 646–647, 648

and meetings with Kennedy, 543 ff.

and missiles, 611–612, 619, 725–726

and Moscow meeting, 729

Nehru and, 663

“New Lands” and, 741

Nixon and, 169, 173, 182–183, 185, 196, 201, 544

and peace treaty, 293, 583

and Red China, 724–725

and “salami” tactics, 625

and space race, 524, 527, 529

and television exchange, 557–558, 730

and test-ban treaty, 549, 551, 620, 728, 729, 733, 734–735, 736, 737

and U-2 incident, 550

and UN, 169, 520

U.S. defense budget and, 460

and U.S. election (1960), 54

at Vienna, 44, 518–519, 529, 543 ff., 617

and visit by Kennedy, 552, 752

and “wars of liberation,” 634

and World War II, 552

see also
Soviet Union

Khrushchev, Mrs. Nikita, 382, 543, 562

Killian, James, 630

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 33, 188, 215–216, 476, 489, 490, 491, 493–494,504–505

King, Mrs. Martin Luther, Jr., 489

King
Henry V
, 256

“kitchen debate,” 169, 182–183, 196

Klinkert, Kenneth, 145

Knebel, Fletcher, 82

Knowland, William, 52, 66

Kohler, Foy, 691, 701

Kong Le, 640, 648

Korea, 419, 513–514, 535, 641, 681, 686

Kraft, Joseph, 176–177, 240

Kraus, Hans, 369

Krock, Arthur, 66, 67, 103, 317, 318, 450, 477

Ku Klux Klan, 478

L

labor, 51–54

Labor-Management Advisory Committee, 442

labor movement, 403–404

labor relations, 438–443

Labouisse, Henry R., 279

Lafayette Park, 386

LaFollette, Robert, Sr., 74

Lamont, Corliss, 46

Land Grant College Act, 359

Landis, James, n, 66, 67, 236

Landon, Alfred M., 183, 207

Landrum-Griffin bill, 54

Laos, 228, 292, 510–511, 548–549, 553, 577, 625, 631–632, 634, 639–648, 649, 652–653, 661, 724

Laski, Harold, 32, 394

Lasky, Victor, 25, 336

Last Hurrah, The
, 72

Latham, Earl, 117

Latin America, 228, 229, 510, 533–540, 581, 625, 628n., 630, 631, 662, 669, 671, 672, 677, 681, 682, 683, 685, 686, 687–688, 689, 692, 697, 700, 701–702, 706

Lattimore, Owen, 12

Lausche, Frank J., 98, 124, 131, 202, 289, 739

Lawford, Peter, 35

Lawford, Mrs. Peter (Patricia Kennedy), 35, 36, 173, 210

Lawrence, David, 82, 88, 91, 98, 124, 161, 195, 206–207, 482

Lawson, Marjorie, 120, 473

League of Nations, 737

Lee, Robert, 46

Lehman, Herbert, 48

LeMay, Curtis E., 608, 739

Lemnitzer, Lyman L., 296, 589

Le Monde
, 316

Lenin, Nikolai, 677

Lenin Peace Prize, 544

Lewis, Jean, 116–117

Lexington (N.C.), 493

Liddell Hart, B. H., 626

Life
magazine, 106, 419, 615

Lincoln, Abraham, 131, 153, 198, 223, 234, 240, 252, 392, 489, 497, 506

Lincoln, Evelyn, 55–56, 99, 243, 263, 264, 370, 374

Lindbergh, Charles A., 527

Linder, Harold F., 277

Lippmann, Walter, 108, 155, 243, 255

literacy tests, 480

Little Big Horn, 744

Little Rock (Ark.), 471, 479

“little tax bill,” 431

Living for Young Homemakers
, 106

Lloyd George, David, 560, 582n.

lobbyists, 341

Lodge, George, 354

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 12, 46, 74, 75, 168, 169, 187, 196, 207, 208, 215, 354, 631n., 659, 660, 753

Loeb, William, 210

Look
magazine, 82, 109, 111, 189, 190, 316

L’Osservatore Romano
, 148

Louisiana, 479

Loveless, Herschel, 124, 148, 155, 159

Lovett, Robert, 235, 255, 271, 675

Lowe, Jacques, 117

loyalty oaths, 47

Luang Prabang, 641

Lubell survey, 505

Luce, Henry, 317

Lucey, Pat, 116, 134, 274

Lukens Steel Company, 452

Lumumba, Patrice, 292, 635, 636

lunar landing, 525–526

Luxembourg, 544

Lyautey, Marshal, 392

M

McAdoo, William, 155

MacArthur, Douglas, 294, 641

McCafferty, Edward, 190

McCarran Internal Security Act, 26

McCarthy, Eugene, 89, 158

McCarthy, Joseph, 12, 26, 34–35, 45–48, 49, 54, 78, 118, 135–136, 148, 156, 288, 335

McClellan, John, 51–52, 54

McCleod, 288

McCloskey, Matt, 279

McCloy, John, 255, 288, 469, 518, 556, 592, 706

McCone, John, 235, 469, 631, 670, 673, 674, 691, 693, 697, 702, 705, 711, 716, 734

McCormack, John, 72, 78, 79, 88, 123, 343, 355, 356, 362

McCulloch, William, 277, 499–500

McDonald, David J., 445, 446, 448

McDonough, Bob, 115, 139

McElroy, Neil H., 611

McGhee, George, 289

McGovern, George, 276, 531

McGroarty, John Steven, 57

McHugh, Godfrey, 607

McKinley, William, 183

McKinney, Frank, 82, 124

McLeod, Scott, 46

McMillan, Miles, 136

McMurphy, Joe, 237

McNamara, Robert, 252, 253, 254, 255n., 265, 269, 270, 272, 273, 275, 281, 283, 286, 296, 348, 380, 416–418, 452, 454, 456, 459, 525, 564–565, 590, 603 ff., 622, 626, 627, 632, 644, 656, 673, 674, 678, 679, 691, 696, 702, 710, 716, 722, 734, 738

McNamara, Mrs. Robert, 281

McNaughton, John, 734

MacNeil, Neil, 349

McNichols, Stephen L. R., 124

McShane, Jim, 485

Macaulay, Thomas B., 334

Macbeth
, 392

Macdonald, Torbert, 36, 88, 117

Macmillan, Harold, 270, 550, 551, 558, 559, 560, 563, 564, 565–566, 569, 570, 571, 575, 576, 599, 620, 622–623, 642, 686, 705, 717, 719, 720, 728, 729, 734, 735, 736, 756

Macon County (Ala.), 479

Macy, John W., Jr., 277

Madison, James, 152

Madison
Capital Times
, 136

Magnuson, Warren Grant, 235

Maguire, Richard, 171

Malaya, 660–661

Malaysia, 631, 652

Malcolm X, 503

Mali, 228

Mallory, George, 528

Malraux, André, 384

Manatos, Mike N., 356–357

Manchester
Guardian
, 733

Mann, Thomas, 307

Manning, Robert, 323

Manpower Development and Assistance, 359, 404

Mansfield, Mike, 342, 355, 356, 399, 498, 738

Mao Tse-tung, 336, 546, 547, 632

March, Fredric, 385

Marín, Luis Muñoz,
see
Muñoz Marin Marlborough, 388

Marshall, Burke, 277, 476, 483, 484, 490–491, 499

Marshall, Humphrey, 67

Marshall, Thurgood, 473

Marshall Plan, 351

Martin, Edmund, 447, 453

Martin, Edwin M., 674, 691, 692, 706

Martin, John Bartlow, 176–177

Martin, Louis, 279, 476

Martin, William McChesney, Jr., 394, 395, 407, 421–422

Marx, Karl, 546

massive retaliation, 513, 602, 603, 625

Matsu, 662

Mayflower
, 194

Meader, Vaughn, 383

Meany, George, 52–53, 439

Medal of Freedom Award, 384

Medicare, 342–344

medium-range ballistic missiles,
see
MRBMs

Meet the Press
, 123, 155, 378

Mekong Valley, 640, 643, 647

Melbourne, Viscount, 334

Melbourne
, 388

Memoirs
(De Gaulle), 560

Memphis (Tenn.), 479

Menon, Krishna, 578, 663

Merchandise Mart, 85

Merchant, Livingston T., 279

Meredith, James, 483–488, 502

metric system, 754

Metropolitan Club, 477

Metropolitan Opera, 440

Mexico, 535

Meyer, Armin H., 279

Meyner, Robert B., 96, 124, 130, 148, 151, 155, 160

Miami
Herald
, 316

Midwest Democratic Conference, 76

MIG-21 fighter aircraft, 296, 663, 670, 684, 713, 722

Mikoyan, Anastas I., 677, 720, 725–726

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 381

Miller, Arthur, 335

Millikan, Max, 66, 118

Mills, Wilbur, 343, 351–352, 425–426, 430, 432–433, 457

Milwaukee
Journal
, 133, 137

Minh, Ho Chi, 650, 651–652

minimum wage bills, 342, 347, 352, 356

Minow, Newton, 85, 277

Minuteman missile, 564, 609

Mir? Cardona, José, 303

“missile gap,” 610–613, 614, 624

Missile Sites Labor Commission, 440

Mississippi, 102–103, 479, 483–488, 490

Mississippi, University of, 483–488, 493n.

Mississippi National Guard, 484, 486, 487

Mitchell, James, 215

MLF, 567–570, 572, 573

Mobutu, Joseph D., 635

Molotov, Vyacheslav M., 548

Monnet, Jean, 280

Monroe Doctrine, 536

Monroney, Michael, 344