Listening In (48 page)

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The White House Tapes: Eavesdropping on the President
. New York: New Press, 2003.

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Washington: U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1962–1964.

Reeves, Richard.
President Kennedy: Profile of Power
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Rosenberg, Jonathan, and Zachary Karabell, eds.
Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice: The Civil Rights Tapes.
New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1965.

Sorensen, Ted.
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History
. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.

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Kennedy
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Averting “The Final Failure”: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings
. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.

INDEX

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NOTE: Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. The letter
n
indicates footnotes.

A

Acheson, Dean, 46
n
–47
n,
145

Adams, John, 18

Africa, 113
n,
251, 252

meeting with advisors, 252

Ahmann, Mathew,
131

Alexander, Kelly M.,
98

Alliance for Progress, 285

Americans for Democratic Action, 111–13

American University, 260

Amherst College, 18

AMVETS convention,
iv

Anderson, George, 151

Apollo program, 220, 224

Asia specialists, meeting with, 265

Attlee, Clement, 46
n

Auchincloss, Hugh D. “Yusha,” III, 24

Autobahn, 248

B

Bailey, John, 282

Ball, George, 145, 245, 254
n

Baltimore Sun,
60

Barnett, Ross, 11

calls to, 101–6, 107–10

Battle Act, 49

Bay of Pigs, xv–xvi, 3, 51, 156, 240

Bell, Dave, 223, 225

Berlin, 17, 55, 57,
59,
145–46, 147–52, 154–55, 157, 159–65, 179–80, 189, 196, 210, 213–14

Birmingham, Ala., 111–13,
111,
133–34

meetings about, 114–21, 122–27

Blake, Eugene Carson,
131

Bosch, Juan, 240

Boston Globe,
39–40

Bouck, Robert, 2–3, 6

Boutwell, Albert, 122

Bradbury, Norris, 210
n

Bradlee, Ben, 27–42,
29

Bradlee, Tony, 27–42,
29

Brandt, Willy, 157

Bridges, Styles, 41

Brown, Edmund “Jerry,” 67–69

Brown, Edmund “Pat,”
66,
67

call to, 67–69

Bundy, McGeorge, 3, 8, 145–46, 181, 182, 240, 248, 254
n

Butterfield, Alexander, 6

C

campaign song (1952), 21

campaign song (1960), 287

Cannon, James M., 27–42, 43

Caro, Robert A., 78
n

Carter, Jimmy, 6
n,
60

Carter, Marshall, 140

Castro, Fidel, 157, 178

Celebreeze, Anthony J., 83,
184

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 3, 76, 78, 140
n,
159, 256–58

Chamberlain, Neville, 137

Childs, Marquis, 76, 79

China, 206, 208, 210, 211, 215, 236

meeting on, 259

Churchill, Winston, 18, 46
n,
50

Civil Rights Act, 94, 100, 122, 159, 270

Civil Rights Movement, 3–4, 10–11, 13, 17, 65, 80, 99–100, 270, 285

Birmingham and, 111–13,
111,
114–21, 122–27, 133–34

calls to Ross Barnett, 101–6, 107–10

March on Washington, 100, 122
n,
128–29, 133

meeting with Americans for Democratic Action leaders, 111–13

meeting with civil rights leaders, 128–31,

meeting with Martin Luther King, 133–34

Civil War, 17, 100

Clay, Lucius, 57

Colby, William, 240

Cold War, 17, 55, 137, 202, 213, 219, 233, 252, 263
n,
265, 271

Congo, 252

Connor, Theophilus “Bull,” 111, 112, 122, 123

Conversations with Kennedy
(Bradlee), 27

Cooper, Gordon, 226

call to, 226

Cooper, John, 38

Cousins, Norman, 206

meeting with, 206–7

Cuba, 4, 214, 254, 260

Bay of Pigs, xv–xvi, 3, 51, 156, 240

Soviet ship
Poltava
en route to,
136

Cuban Missile Crisis, 4, 5, 9–10, 18, 55, 100, 137–38, 201, 210, 213, 251, 252, 254, 260

aerial photograph of Soviet missile installations,
143

aerial photograph of Soviet missile launch site,
187

calls to Eisenhower, 158, 188–94

call to Gilpatrick, 166–67

call to Hoover, 197

call to Macmillan, 176–81

call to Truman, 195–96

conversation with McNamara, 186–87

conversation with Robert Kennedy, 174–75

eavesdropping on the Joint Chiefs, 156–57

Kennedy’s address to nation on,
161, 162

letter from Khrushchev,
190, 191

meeting in cabinet room, 182–83

meeting with Joint Chiefs, 147–55

meeting with military advisors, 139–44

meeting with senators, 159–65

private dictation, 145–46

proclamation authorizing naval quarantine,
169, 170

Curley, James M., 46

Cushing, Freddy, 26

D

Daley, Richard, 94

call to, 94–95

Darden, C. R.,
98

Day, James Edward,
184

defense budget, 201, 214

meetings about, 203, 254–55

de Gaulle, Charles, 51, 180–81,
250

de Lattre de Tassigny, Jean,
239

de Zulueta, Philip, 181

Diem, Ngo Dinh, 5, 233–34,
237,
239, 240–42, 245–46

Dillon, Clarence Douglas, 124,
184

meeting with, 281

dinner party conversation, 27–42, 43, 65

Dirksen, Everett, 71, 163, 213

DiSalle, Mike, 41

Doar, John,
102

Dulles, John Foster, 235, 256

Dunphey, Chris, 26

E

economic advisors, meeting with, 281

Education and Freedom
(Rickover), 60

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 2, 6, 10, 13, 17, 34, 34
n,
35, 49, 51, 55,
56,
65, 84
n,
90–93, 152
n,
159, 201, 202, 214, 265, 281

calls to, during Cuban Missile Crisis, 158, 188–94

meeting with, 55–57

Vietnam and, 233, 236

Evans, Rowland, 71

Evers, Charles,
100

Evers, Danyi,
100

Evers, Medgar,
98, 100,
130–31

Evers, Mrs. Medgar,
100

Evers, Reena,
100

F

Faulkner, William, 50

Finletter, Thomas, 182

Fitzgerald, John F., 28, 30, 34
n,
38, 44
n,
46