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Authors: James MacGregor Burns

BOOK: Roosevelt

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White House, the: as home and office of F.D.R.,
61
; as a military command post,
198
; as a mirror of F.D.R’.s personality,
58-59
; seclusion of,
468
; security precautions,
173
; simplicity and grace of,
58
; in wartime,
173

White House Correspondents’ Association dinners,
50-51
,
437
,
594-595

White Russia,
567

“Why We Fight” (film series),
471

Wickard, Claude,
39

Wilhelina, Queen of the Netherlands,
253
,
300
,
592
,
593

Williams, Aubrey,
124
,
594

Willkie, Wendell L.: address of, at New York Herald Tribune Forum,
296
; advocates offensive tactics by the Navy,
222
; attacked by Barkley,
435
; attacks conservative Republicans,
499
; and attempt to unseat Fish,
275
,
279
; author of
One World
,
358
,
512
; champion of civil rights,
275
,
499
,
512
; Madame Chiang’s opinion of,
377
; and Churchill,
43
,
274
,
573
; and congressional Republicans,
275
,
499
,
510
,
512
,
513
; considered for committee to study defense organization,
194
; considered for post of director of manpower,
274
; critic of the administration,
51
,
222
,
274-275
,
358
,
434
,
437
,
499
,
512-513
; death of,
513
,
573
; demands that MacArthur be brought back to unify defense effort,
274
; effigy of, hanged,
48
; endorses Lend-Lease,
48-49
; foe of imperialism,
275
,
358
,
379
; former supporters of, back liberal Democrats,
280
; founder of Freedom House,
275
; leader of the Republican party,
38
,
274
,
276
,
279
,
358
; loses election,
38
; loses party support,
499
,
510
,
511
; meetings with F.D.R.,
43
,
275
,
280
,
512
; member of Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission,
356
; in Moscow,
283
; not informed of plans for North Africa,
283
; not offered job as production chief,
274
; offered job as arbitrator under the War Labor Board,
274
; and party realignment plan,
275-276
,
280
,
511-512
,
513
; persuades Republican National Committee to take an international position,
275
; relations with F.D.R.,
43
,
48-49
,
60-61
,
274-276
,
279-280
,
500
,
511-513
,
604
; Republican nominee for governor of New York,
275
; Republican presidential candidate in 1940,
5
,
33
,
499
,
502
,
528
; as F.D.R.’s personal representative,
276
; strong advocate of postwar international organization,
275
,
358
,
361
,
427
,
428
,
499
,
510
,
512
; supported by John L. Lewis,
52
; trip around the world,
275-276
,
279
,
358
,
499
; unsuccessfully seeks 1944 Republican presidential nomination,
499-500
; urges F.D.R. to send wheat to Turkey,
279
; urges a second front,
275
,
279
,
283
; visit to England after election campaign,
43
,
48
; warns that F.D.R.’s third term will bring war,
6
,
49
Willow Run bomber plant,
268
Wilson, Charles.
See
Moran, Lord Wilson, Henry Maitland,
479
,
519

Wilson, Woodrow, viii,
4
,
50
,
130
,
174
,
197
,
274
,
281
,
343
,
357
,
359
,
361
,
386
,
426
,
427
,
428
,
435
,
534
,
550
,
604
,
605
,
607
,
608

Wilson, Mrs. Woodrow,
356

Wilson
(film),
515

Winant, John G.,
73
,
163
,
234
,
238
,
504
,
537
,
561
,
579

Winchell, Walter,
201
,
212
,
431

Windsor, Duke and Duchess of,
24
Wisconsin primary, 1944,
499
,
510

Wise, Stephen S.,
395
,
441

Wolff, Karl,
585
,
587
,
596

Wolfsschanze headquarters,
496

Women: draft of, into Army, suggested,
461
; education of,
464
; employment of,
262-263
,
334
,
355
,
460
,
461
,
462
; health aid to,
355
; Eleanor Roosevelt as spokesman for,
59
; in the services,
262
,
460
,
469
; tendency to vote Democratic,
524

Women’s Neutrality League,
48

Wood, Kingsley,
11

Wood, Robert E.,
500

“Work or fight” bill.
See
National-service law

Works Progress Administration (WPA),
301
,
430

World Court,
359

World-security organization.
See
United Nations

World War I,
11
,
14
,
24
,
26
,
42
,
51
,
76
,
88
,
131
,
143
,
174
,
176
,
181
,
187
,
205
,
214
,
231
,
244
,
306
,
312
,
365
,
459
,
491

Yale University,
189

Yalta Conference,
373
,
558
,
559
,
564-580
,
582
,
583
,
584
,
585
,
586
,
588
,
590
,
591
,
592
,
608

Yamamoto, Isoroku,
159
,
225
,
226

Yamato
(Japanese dreadnought),
225

Yangtze River,
81

Yank
,
470
Yenan,
542
,
576

“Ying Wo” (Eagle’s Nest) (home of

Chiang Kai-shek),
82

Yorktown
, U.S.S.,
225
,
226

Yoshida, Zengo,
19

Youth cult,
461

Yugoslavia,
57
,
71-72
,
74
,
76
,
80
,
88
,
94
,
185
,
253
,
272
,
395
,
408
,
484
,
537

Yunnan,
544

Yusupov Palace,
568

Zaharoff, Basil,
200

Zeman, Z. A. B.,
386

Zhukov, Georgi,
496

Zion,
397
,
578

Zuikaki
(Japanese carrier),
225

Zurich,
585

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