Listening In (49 page)

Fleeson, Doris, 73

Ford, Gerald, 6
n,
27, 72
n

Forrestal, James, 245
n

Forrestal, Michael, 245, 265

Foster, John, 210
n

“Friendship 7” Mercury capsule,
218

Fullbright, J. William, 38, 164

furniture purchase, calls about, 273–76

G

Gagarin, Yuri, 219

Germany, 17, 55–57, 214

Autobahn in, 248

Berlin,
see
Berlin

Gilpatric, Roswell, 145

call to, 166–67

Glenn, John,
218

Goldwater, Barry, 90

Goulart, João, 285

Grant, Ulysses S., 5, 100

Graybeal, Sidney, 141–44

Gromyko, Andrei, 145, 148,
261

meeting with, 260–62

Guantánamo, 165, 189

Guns of August, The
(Tuchman), 17–18, 51

Guthman, Edwin O., 73, 76, 79

H

Hackett, David, 271–72

Hamilton, Edith, 47
n

Hammarskjöld, Dag, 178

Harkins, Paul D., 245

Harriman, Averell, 12, 37, 208, 245

Harris, Lou, 90

call to, 90–93

Harvard University,
19,
20, 47

Hearst, William Randolph, 54

Helms, Richard, 256–57

Herter, Christian, 84

Hickenlooper, Bourke B., 248
n

Hickenlooper Amendment, 248

Hickey, Charles, 44
n

Hilsman, Roger, 245, 265

Hiss, Alger, 235

history, 17–18

Hitler, Adolf, 17, 137, 147

HMS
Resolute
desk,
xvii, 284

Ho Chi Minh, 235
n

hockey team, U.S., call about, 271–72

Hodge, W. J.,
98

Hoover, Herbert, 10, 188,
197

call to, 197

Houphouet-Boigny, Felix,
253

Humphrey, Hubert, 33, 38, 39

I

India, meeting on, 259

Indonesia, 265

Ireland,
16

Isham, John, 26

J

Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 213

meeting with, 213–16

Jefferson, Thomas, 5, 99

John XXIII, Pope, 206

Johnson, Alexis, 145

Johnson, Lyndon B., 6
n,
38
n,
78
n,
240, 270

in meeting with civil rights leaders, 128, 130–31,
131

memo from Kennedy about space program,
222

Johnston Island, 212

Joint Chiefs of Staff, 3

Cuban Missile Crisis meeting, 147–55

eavesdropping on, 156–57

Jones, Howard, 265

K

Kaplan, Kivie,
98

Kefauver, Estes, 35

Kelleher, Mike, 46

Kennedy, Caroline,
xvii,
24, 26, 139,
139, 247,
262,
288

Kennedy, Edward M. “Ted,” 8, 53
n,
84,
85

call to, 84–85

Kennedy, Jacqueline,
29, 253,
262
n

at dinner party, 27–42

hospital bedroom built for, 273–76,
274

letter to, 24–26

Kennedy, John F:

appointment book of, v

assassination of, 270

doodles of, 148, 149, 241

health problems of, 39–40, 270

political career of, 27–42, 43–50, 45, 64, 65, 269–70

presidential candidacy of, 5, 27–42

private dictations of, 145–46, 245–48, 285–86

Kennedy, John F., Jr.,
25,
246,
247,
262

Kennedy, Joseph P., 1, 19, 27, 32, 39, 44, 51

Kennedy, Joseph P., Jr., 27, 44

Kennedy, Patricia, 277
n

Kennedy, P. J., 44
n

Kennedy, Robert F., 1, 3, 74
n,
78
n,
113
n,
137,
184, 247,
282
n

call from, 80–83

calls to, 70–72, 73–79

Cuban Missile Crisis and, 137, 174–75, 182

in meeting about Vietnam, 240–42

in meetings about Birmingham, 114–21, 122–27

Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald, 44,
232

Khrushchev, Nikita, 55, 100, 148, 153, 154, 157, 158, 159–63, 165, 176, 182, 188, 189, 196, 201–2, 206–7, 214,
261
, 262
n

letter from,
190, 191

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 11, 114, 115, 117, 118
n,
120–21, 122–26,
131, 132

“I Have a Dream” speech, 100, 128

“Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” 122
n

meeting with, 133–34

as target of bombings, 114, 125

Knight, Goodwin, 68

Krulak, Victor, 243–44

Kuchel, Thomas, 68

L

Laos, 156, 214, 215, 233, 254

Lawford, Peter, 277

Lebanon, 152

LeMay, Curtis, 4, 137, 147, 150–52, 155, 156–57

Lemnitzer, Lyman, 180

“Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (King), 122
n

Lewis, John,
131

Libonati, Roland, 94, 95

Lincoln, Abraham, 4, 5, 18, 50

Lincoln, Evelyn,
v,
1, 2, 3, 4, 9

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 34
n

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 21, 33–34, 44, 47, 233, 245

cable to,
237

Loomis, Dan, 88

Lovett, Robert, 145

Luce, Henry R., 19, 80–81

Lumumba, Patrice, 252

Lundahl, Arthur, 140–41, 144

Luper, Calvin,
98

M

MacArthur, Douglas, 51

meeting with, 51–54,
52

Macmillan, Harold, 137, 175
n,
176,
177,
202

call to, on Cuban Missile Crisis, 176–81

Macy, John, 127

Mansfield, Mike, 38, 213

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

Marshall, Burke, 117–21, 123, 124, 125, 127

Martin, Ed, 145

McCarthy, Joseph, 235
n

McClellan, John, 78

McCone, John A., 73, 76–77, 78, 79, 159, 240, 245, 256

McDermott, Edward, 167

McHugh, Godfrey, 275–76

McKissick, Floyd,
131

McNamara, Robert S.,
xviii,
4, 8, 137, 144, 145, 156, 164, 165,
184,
240, 242, 245–46

conversation with, 186–87

in meeting about defense budget, 254–55

in meeting about India and China, 259

Mendenhall, Joseph, 243–44

Mercury spacecraft,
218

Meredith, James, 99,
102,
107–10

Metropolitan Club, 113

Mills, Wilbur, 281
n

Mortimer, Stanley, 24

Muskie, Edmund, 33

N

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 219

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
98,
123

Nevenson, Henry W., 46
n
–47
n

Newsweek,
3, 80, 81, 90

New York Post Sunday Magazine,
122
n

New York Times,
53, 111–12,
111

Nhu, Ngo Dinh, 233–34,
237,
243, 245–46

Nixon, Richard M., 6, 34
n,
38, 48, 67, 90, 91, 206, 207, 213

memorandum on conversation with, about Vietnam, 235–36

Nixson, S. Y.,
98

Norstad, Lauris, 57, 180

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 180–81, 182, 255