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Red
Star
, 619
Reinsch, Leonard, 196
Reischauer, Edwin O., 279
Reston, James, 136, 201, 322–323
Reuter, Richard, 531
Reuther, Walter, 53, 335, 504
Reynolds, Jim, 277, 442
Reynolds, John, 115, 116
Ribicoff, Abraham A., 81, 83, 85, 86, 88, 115, 117, 126, 159, 253, 254, 265, 273–274, 359, 360, 361, 482
Rio
Escondido
(ship), 299
Rio Treaty (1947), 708
Robbins, Jerome, 388
Roberts, Dennis, 81, 85, 86, 117, 120
Robinson, Joe, 164
Rockefeller, David, 468
Rockefeller Foundation, 271
Rockefeller, Nelson, 96–97, 147n., 168, 184, 207, 253, 424–425, 614, 617, 754
Rogers, Will, 63
Romney, George, 754
Roncalio, Teno, 115
Rooney, John, 278
Roosa, Bob, 235, 253, 277, 408, 456
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 15, 17, 139, 145- 146, 147, 152, 155, 164, 168, 169, 199, 223, 231, 239, 242, 252, 256, 283, 319, 235n., 329, 400, 410, 435, 466, 492, 533, 558, 560, 562, 693, 734, 754, 755
Roosevelt, Mrs. Franklin D. (Eleanor), 86, 118, 119, 123, 155, 170, 256, 334, 382
Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr., 139, 141–142, 145, 235, 249, 277
Roosevelt, Theodore, 257, 336, 385, 515, 754
Roper, Elmo, 137
Rosebery, Lord, 331
Ross, Edmund G., 67
Rostow, Walt, 66, 118, 261, 289, 595, 653
Rovere, Richard, 470
Rowley, Jim, 749
Royal Air Force, 566
Royall, Kenneth, 503
RS-70, 347, 348
Rules Committee,
see
House Rules Committee
Rusk, Dean, 235, 243, 391, 510, 521, 565, 726
and Berlin crisis, 590, 598, 599
and Bowles, 289–290
and conventional forces, 626
and Cuban crisis, 296, 322, 673, 681–682, 702, 706, 712
and Laos, 647
and meetings, 285
and National Security Council, 674
and nuclear testing, 618, 622, 736
and Obote, 701
and political functions, 272
qualities of, 270, 272
as Secretary of State, 252, 253, 255n., 265, 270, 288, 323
and Soviet Union, 542, 555–556, 618, 691, 692, 734
and State Department team, 287
and Vietnam, 649
Russell, Bertrand, 706, 709
Russell, Richard B., 702, 737
Russia,
see
Soviet Union
Ryan, Mary Kennedy, 582

S

SAC, 574, 612, 628, 675, 704, 739
Saigon, 653, 656, 658, 659, 660
St. Lawrence Seaway, 58–59, 76, 136
St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
, 316
Salamis, 745
Salinger, Pierre, 117, 120, 143, 154, 171, 186–187, 190, 221, 230, 260n., 261, 263, 264, 285, 290, 311, 318, 320, 321, 323, 324, 325–326, 327, 355, 370, 374, 377, 381, 555, 556, 557, 693, 697, 700
Salter, John, 120
Saltonstall, Leverett, 57–58, 73–74, 75
SAMs, 670, 672, 673, 676, 684, 708–709, 713, 714, 716, 723
Samson, 436n.
Samuelson, Paul, 118, 238, 253, 255, 395, 396, 398, 413, 424
San Jose Conference, 581, 723
Sandburg, Carl, 388
Sanford, Terry, 154, 160, 505
Saturday Evening Post
, 35
Sayre, Francis B., Jr., 143–144, 335
Scales, Junius, 26
Scab, John, 712
Scammon, Richard M., 277
Scandinavia, 681
Schaetzel, Robert, 237
Schirra, Walter, 676
Schlei, Norbert, 499
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 5, 83, 84, 85, 118, 176, 234, 256, 261, 264, 307, 353, 462, 534, 622, 706
Schönbrunn Palace, 543, 581
Scott, Hugh, 149, 185
Scranton, William, 455
Seaborg, Glenn T., 277
SEATO, 644, 646, 647
Secret Service, 478, 749, 750
Seeger, Alan, 748
segregation,
see
desegregation
and
civil rights
Selective Service, 403
Seltzer, Louis, 131
Senate Armed Services Preparedness Subcommittee, 739
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 545
Senate Labor Committee, 52
Senate Rackets Committee, 555
Seven Days in May
, 606
Shah of Iran, 546, 547, 628n.
Shakespeare, William, 256, 385, 392
Shannon airport, 582
Sharon, John, 236
shelters, bomb and fallout, 513, 614–616, 624, 707
Shepard, Alan, 526
Shepard, Tazewell, 607
Sherman, John 74
Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 453
Shoup, David, 607
Shriver, Sargent, 85, 117, 172, 230, 255, 269, 288, 532, 581
Shriver, Mrs. Sargent (Eunice Kennedy), 32, 36, 88, 173
Siberia, 741
Sidey, Hugh, 316
Simulmatics Corporation, 184
Sinatra, Frank, 151, 388
Sitrin, Gloria, 718
“Situation Room,” 710
skipjack submarines, 572
Skopje, 540
Skybolt missile, 564, 565, 566, 569, 581, 607
Small Business Administration, 397
Smathers, George, 36, 44, 88, 124, 130, 159, 343–344, 348, 355, 356, 391n.
Smith, Al, 91, 109, 164, 363
Smith, Ben, 36, 91, 235
Smith, Frank, 88, 102, 236
Smith, Howard W., 340, 361
Smith, Margaret Chase, 45, 739
Smith, Stephen, 116–117, 119, 171, 195
Smith, T. V., 63
Smithsonian Institution, 385
Social Security, 342
Solomon, 751
Solow, Robert, 424
Sorensen, Eric, 366
Sorensen, Thomas, 557, 730
South Carolina, 488
South Korea, 293, 625
South Vietnam, 228, 293, 634, 641, 645, 648 ff.
Souvanna Phouma, 640, 642, 647, 648
Soviet Alliance, 627
Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, 730
Soviet Union, 1–2, 228, 482, 516, 518–519, 520, 522, 523, 524, 538, 541 ff., 560, 571, 580, 583, 585–586, 596, 600, 609, 611, 612, 617 ff., 634, 635, 639, 640, 642, 645, 648, 662, 670–671, 676, 677, 680, 682–683, 685, 686, 689, 690, 696, 700, 702, 706, 709, 710–711, 714, 719–720, 725–726, 728–729, 731, 733, 736, 738, 740–741, 742, 743, 745, 746, 753, 754, 755
see also
Khrushchev
Spaak, Paul-Henri, 637, 725
space capsules, 228
space projects
budget for, 526
capsules for, 228
Eisenhower and, 524
facilities for, 526
and foreign policy, 528–529
Glenn and, 526, 528–529
Johnson and, 524, 525
Kennedy and, 524–529
McNamara and, 525
for moon landing, 523–524, 525–526, 527–528
and satellites, 524
Shepard and, 526
suborbital nights as, 526
and Telstar, 526
Truman and, 524
to Venus, 526
Webb and, 525
Wiesner and, 524
space satellites, 519, 524
Spain, 547
Spalding, Charles F., 36, 135
Sparkman, John, 343, 475, 481
Special Forces, 632–633
Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 208, 360
Spingarn, Jerry, 237
Spocke, Dr. Benjamin, 380
Sports Illustrated
, 316
Springer, Harvey, 194
Stalin, Joseph, 515–516, 558, 734
“Standing Group” (NSC), 723
State of the Union messages, 331, 341, 345, 406–407, 410, 430, 524, 525, 529, 534, 604, 613, 626–627
steel,
see
Big Steel
steel, price dispute, 443 ff.
Steelworkers Union, 438
Stennis, John, 103, 483, 739
Stephansky, Ben S., 279
Stern, Isaac, 385
Stevens, Rise, 440
Stevenson, Adlai, 2, 85, 114, 115, 130, 133, 135, 136, 141, 149, 151, 157, 158, 166, 169, 171, 202, 217, 218, 219, 253, 256, 271
and Arvey, 53
as Cabinet member, 252, 284
in campaign (1956), 99–100, 118, 222
and Catholic vote (1956), 81–82, 84, 123
and Cuban crisis, 300, 322, 710, 714
in Dallas, 749
divorce of, 81 and foreign policy, 236
on Kennedy team, 170, 173, 176, 236, 240, 279, 287, 300, 322, 534, 714,737n.
and Massachusetts, 78, 79, 80
and National Security Council, 675
and New Hampshire, 81
and nomination (1960), 83, 86–87, 96, 124, 125, 126, 128, 129, 147–148,155–156, 159, 160
and nuclear test ban, 617
for Secretary of State, 168, 251
as UN Ambassador, 252, 254, 287–288, 300, 522, 581, 706–707, 719
and Zorin,706–707
Stimson, Henry, 177
stock market, 421–424, 428, 429, 707
Strategic Air Command,
see
SAC
Strategy of Peace, The
, 113, 118, 205, 375
Strauss, Lewis, 739
Stravinsky, Igor, 385
strike, railroad, 441–442
Strike Command, 606
Suez invasion (1956), 681, 696
Sukarno, Achmed, 540, 546
surface-to-air missiles,
see
SAMs
“surgical” strike, 684, 687
Surrey, Stanley, 235, 237, 277, 427
“survival insurance,” 614
Swedish Glee Club, 91
Sweeney, Walter, Jr., 697
Swidler, Joseph C, 277
Sylvester, Arthur, 260, 261, 321
Symington, Stuart, 52, 54, 96, 98, 121, 123–124, 125, 126, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 135, 138, 141, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 156, 158, 159, 160, 165, 166, 229, 236, 238, 252, 253, 346

T

Tactical Air Command, 697
Tactical Bombing Command, 694
Taft, Robert A., 31, 67, 74, 443
Taft-Hartley Act, 51, 440
“take care to be fair,” 188n.
Talleyrand
, 388
Tanganyika, 578
Tass, 624
Tawes, J. Millard, 124, 130
tax bill (1963), 427–433, 503
Taylor, A. J. P., 513
Taylor, Maxwell, 298, 301, 303–304, 308, 347, 374, 591, 607, 618, 626, 630, 631, 653, 654, 655, 656, 674, 682, 738, 739
television
debates with Nixon, 140–141, 196–203
exchange with Russia, 557–558
Teller, Edward, 615, 618, 739
Telstar satellite, 526
Tempelhof Airport, 586
test ban,
see
nuclear test ban

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