Authors: Ted Widmer
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 138, 176, 201–2, 208, 210, 211, 213
meeting with Henry “Scoop” Jackson, 213–16
meeting with scientists, 210–12
signing of, 211
nuclear weapons, 201, 254, 259
call to Truman, 208–9
Cuban Missile Crisis,
see
Cuban Missile Crisis
meeting about defense budget, 203
meeting with Norman Cousins, 206–7
Polaris missiles,
200,
201, 203,
205
O
Obama, Barack, 251
n
O’Brien, Lawrence, 281
n,
282
n
O’Connor, Edwin, 46
n
O’Donnell, Kenneth, 282
n
Ormsby-Gore, David, 175
Oval Office,
268
P
Palfrey, John, 210
n
Palmer, Bud, 26
Pastore, John, 85
Peace Corps, 256–58
Pearson, Drew, 88
Pittmann, Steuart, 167
Polaris missiles,
200,
201, 203,
205
political advisors, meeting with, 282–83
Politics USA: A Practical Guide to the Winning of Public Office
(Cannon), 27, 43
Poltava, 136
Potsdam Conference, 46
Prinz, Joachim,
131
Profiles in Courage
(Kennedy), 5, 17, 233
PT-109,
277,
278, 279
PT-109
(film), 277–80
Pushinka, 262
R
radio interview, Rochester, Minn., 19–20
Radziwill, Lee, 26
Radziwill, Stanislas “Stas,” 26
Randolph, A. Philip, 11, 99, 100, 128–30,
131
Reagan, Ronald, 6, 212
n
Resolute
desk,
xvii, 284
Reston, James “Scotty,” 235
Reuther, Walter, 128–29,
131
Ribicoff, Abraham, 82
Rickover, Hyman, 60
meeting with, 60–62,
61
Roberts, Dennis, 24
Robertson, Cliff, 277
Rockefeller, Nelson, 72, 90, 167
Romney, George, 53–54, 90
Romney, Mitt, 53
n
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 2, 6, 11, 39, 40, 50, 57, 99, 129
n,
131, 282, 283
Roosevelt, Theodore, 5, 17
Rusk, Dean, 12, 164–65, 240
Russell, Richard, 159, 165
Russell, Sarah, 24
Ryan, Ginny, 26
S
Salinger, Pierre, 273
Saturn rocket,
229
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., 8, 13, 70, 251
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Sr., 13
schools, 60–62
desegregation of, 124
on military bases, 80, 81–82
scientists, meeting with, 210–12
Seaborg, Glenn,
184,
210
n
Seamans, Robert, meeting with, 220–25
senators, meeting with, 159–65
Shaw, Leverett, 24
Shaw, Maude, 24, 26
Shoup, David, 154–55, 156–57
Shriver, R. Sargent,
257
call from, 256–58
Siegenthaler, John, 116
Sitton, Claude, 114
Smathers, George, 86
call to, 86–89
Smith, Stephen E., 282
Smith, Walter Bedell, 57
Sorensen, Theodore C., 8, 82, 83, 145,
184,
281
n,
282
n
Soviet Union, 100, 137, 248, 251
Cold War, 17, 55, 202, 213, 219, 233, 252, 263
n,
265, 271
Cuban Missile Crisis,
see
Cuban Missile Crisis
meeting with Andrei Gromyko, 260–62
nuclear weapons,
see
nuclear weapons
Poltava
en route to Cuba,
136
space program, 219, 224–25
space program, 219
call to Gordon Cooper, 226
“Friendship 7” Mercury capsule,
218
meeting with James Webb, 228–29
meeting with James Webb, Jerome Wiesner, and Robert Seamans, 220–25
memo to Johnson,
222
moon landing as priority of, 220–24, 228–29
rocket models at Cape Canaveral,
227
Saturn rocket launch pad,
229
Spottswood, Stephen G.,
98
Stalin, Joseph, 57
Stevenson, Adlai, 30, 33, 34, 35, 99,
132,
176, 179, 180
Sukarno, 265
Supreme Court, 112
Sylvester, Arthur, 273–75
Symington, Stuart, 38
T
Taft-Hartley Act, 48
Tanner, Jack E.,
98
Taylor, Maxwell,
xviii,
144, 145, 150, 152, 156, 240, 245–46
in meeting about defense budget, 254–55
in meeting about India and China, 259
Teller, Edward, 212
TFX, 77
Thant, U, 176, 178–81, 182, 186
Thirteen Days
(Kennedy), 1
Thompson, Llewellyn,
261
Tibet, 194
Time,
80, 81
Tito, Josip Broz, call to, 263–64
Tracy, Spencer,
20
Trilling, Steve, 277
Truman, Harry, 2, 6, 10,
22,
145
n,
188,
195,
282, 283
calls to, 195–96, 208–9
Tuchman, Barbara, 17–18, 51
Turkey, 182–83, 188, 196, 197
Turner, Edward,
98
U
Unitas, Johnny, 42
United Nations, 17, 46
n,
86, 138, 178
University of Mississippi, 99, 100, 101, 107
n, 109
V
Vietnam War, 11, 13, 206, 213, 214, 233–34,
241,
251, 254, 259, 270
cable to Henry Cabot Lodge calling for Diem to remove Nhu,
237
Dien Bien Phu, 235
Kennedy at the Boston Chamber of Commerce following a speech about his tour of Asia,
232
meetings with advisors on, 239, 240–42, 243–44
memorandum on conversation with Nixon, 235–36
press conference,
244
private dictation, 245–48
W
Warner, Jack L., 277
Washington, George, 4
Watergate hearings, 6
Watkins, Thomas, 101, 104, 105–6
Weaver, Robert,
184
Webb, James, 13,
184,
219,
221
meetings with, 220–25, 228–29
Wharton, Edith, 24
Wheeler, Earle, 120, 153, 157
Why England Slept
(Kennedy), 19,
20
Wiesner, Jerome,
184,
254
n
meeting with, 220–25
Wilkins, Roy, 83, 128,
131
Williams, G. Mennen, 252
Wilson, Woodrow, 5, 17, 282, 283
Wirtz, William Willard,
131, 184
World War I, 17, 51
World War II, 17, 18, 263
n
Y
Yale University, 1, 14, 20
Young, Whitney M., Jr.,
131
Yugoslavia, 263
n