Kennedy: The Classic Biography (141 page)

Citizens Committee for a Nuclear Test Ban, 739

Citizens for Educational Freedom, 361

civil defense, 613–617, 708

civil defense shelters,
see
shelters, bomb and fallout

civil rights, 2, 17, 47, 48, 49–51, 150, 168, 172, 187, 470ff., 577, 578, 731, 753

Civil Rights Act, 51, 330–331, 333, 342, 496

Civil Rights Commission, 472, 474, 475n., 480, 488, 494

Civil Rights Message, 472, 494, 495

Civil Service Commission, 473

Civil War Centennial Commission, 477

Clark, Champ (James Beauchamp), 155

Clark, Joe, 236

Clay, Henry, 74, 163, 356

Clay, Lucius, 347, 351, 594–595

Clement, Frank, 81, 86

Clemson University, 488

Cleveland, Grover, 436

Cleveland Press, 131

Clifford, Clark, 69, 70, 229–230, 231, 254, 255, 457, 458

Clifton, Chester, 607

Coal Valley News
, 142

Coast Guard, 473

coexistence, 514–516

Cogley, John, 190

Cohen, Wilbur, 118, 237, 274

Cohn, Roy, 35

Cold War, 228, 514, 521–522, 553, 643, 744, 757

Cole, Charles W., 279

Coleman, J. P., 103

collective bargaining, 441, 459

Collins, LeRoy, 96, 124, 321–322

Colmer, William, 340, 361

Cologne Cathedral, 581

Colombia, 535, 536–537

Colorado Fuel and Iron, 456

Columbus, Christopher, 152

Committee on Equal Opportunity, 497

Common Market (EEC), 410–412, 561, 562, 566, 567, 570–571, 572

Commonweal
, 190, 363

Communications Satellite Board, 439

Communications Workers, 438

Communism and Communists, 26, 210, 245, 351, 530, 532, 538, 539, 563, 573, 626, 634, 685, 727, 741

and Berlin, 331–332, 515, 521, 561, 593, 601

in Burma, 631–632

and censorship, 286

in civil rights groups, 503

coexistence with, 514–516

and collective farms, 402

in Congo, 636

in Cuba, 515, 536, 631–632, 670, 671, 684, 688, 689, 693, 698, 703, 719, 722, 726;
see also
Cuban crisis and De Gaulle, 562

in Greece, 631–632

and guerrilla warfare, 548, 631–632

and Indonesia, 580

in Katanga, 638

kinds of, 510, 540

and Khrushchev, 514, 515, 516, 625

in Laos, 510, 631–632, 639, 641 ff.

in Latin America, 510–511, 689

in Malaysia, 631–632

in the Philippines, 631–632

in Red China, 516, 547, 631–632, 661

and religion (JFK), 194

and Soviet Union, 515, 516, 518, 529, 545–546, 625

and space, 529

trade policies toward, 540

U Thant and, 709, 710, 712, 714, 720

and UN, 523

and USIA, 697, 704

in Vietnam, 510, 631–632, 648 ff.

and Western Europe, 570, 573, 627

Zorin and, 706–707

see also
Bay of Pigs
and
Castro

Community Relations Service, 497

Conant, James B., 46, 335

Confident Living
, 188

Congo, 228, 520, 522, 523, 531, 533, 549, 564, 565, 577, 617, 625, 634, 635–639

Congressional Record
, 67

Connally, John, 39, 156, 164

Connor, T. Eugene, 489, 490, 492

Coolidge, Calvin, 183, 465

Cooper, John Sherman, 44, 140

Cooper, R. Conrad, 445, 446

Corbin, Paul, 136

Cornwell, Elmer, 325n.

Corwin, Thomas, 67

Costa Rica, 535

Council of Economic Advisers, 323, 419, 423, 437, 444, 446, 449

“counterforce,” 610

counterinsurgency training, 632

Cousins, Norman, 728, 729, 730

Cox, Archibald, 53–54, 66, 118, 176, 179, 277, 466

Craig, May, 326

Crimea, 548

Criswell, W. A., 363

Crockett, Davy, 190

Cromwell, Oliver, 6, 166n.

Cromwell, Richard, 166n.

Cuban crisis, 232, 319, 325, 329, 331, 354, 390, 429, 467, 515, 552, 563, 564, 575, 626, 638, 664, 717, 748, 752, 754, 756

Acheson and, 719

Adenauer and, 715

air strike for, 682, 683, 684, 685, 687, 693–694, 695, 696, 697, 711, 712, 713, 714, 715, 716, 721

Barnett and, 707

Bartlett—Stewart Alsop article on, 315

and Berlin crisis, 667, 668–669, 672, 677, 680, 681, 683, 686, 687, 689, 690, 694, 699, 724, 725

and blockade, 682, 683, 687–689, 694, 697, 698, 704, 711, 721

Bundy and 673, 674

Carter and, 675

CIA and, 670, 673, 674, 678

civil defense and, 708

and communications, 279

and Congress, 285

and De Gaulle, 569, 697, 705, 715

and diplomatic pressures, 682–683, 687, 694–695

and “Disable, don’t sink” order, 708

and Dobrynin, 667–668, 701

Executive Committee and, 679, 701, 708, 709, 715, 720

Fulbright and, 702

Gromyko and, 690, 691

and Guantánamo, 676, 681, 684, 697, 704, 705

Halleck and, 702

and hijacked plane, 510

and “hot line,” 727

and invasion, 682, 711–712, 714, 715, 716

Joint Chiefs of Staff and, 674, 678, 684, 692, 697, 701, 705, 738

Jupiter missile bases and, 691, 695–696, 712, 713

Keating and, 670, 672, 707

Kennedy, Edward, and, 701

Kennedy, Robert, and, 679, 709, 714, 715

Khrushchev and, 514–515, 529, 552–555, 600, 666–668, 691, 694, 709, 710, 712, 713, 714, 716, 717–718, 719, 720, 721, 724–725

and Laos, 724

and Latin America, 669, 671, 676, 677, 681, 682, 683, 687–688, 689, 692, 697, 700, 701–702

Macmillan and, 705, 717, 719

and Martin, 706

McCloy and, 706

McCone and, 716

McNamara and, 673, 674, 678, 679, 696, 702, 710, 716, 722, 734, 738

National Security Council and, 693, 701, 723

NATO and, 705, 715

Nixon and, 677

OAS and, 669–670, 672, 675, 682, 686, 687, 688, 695, 697, 698–699, 704,706, 708, 721

and Ormsby-Gore, 706, 710

and quarantine, 705 ff.

and Red China, 573

Republican Party and, 205, 206, 216

Rusk and, 681–682

Russell, Bertrand, and, 706, 709, 710

Russell, Senator, and, 702

and SAC, 628, 675, 704, 739

Schlesinger and, 706

security measures for, 321–322

and Skybolt, 565

and Soviet equipment and personnel, 667 ff.

and Soviet missiles, 2, 3, 482, 523, 629, 662, 667 ff.

speeches on, 366, 703–704

Stevenson and, 706–707, 714

“surgical strike” for, 684, 687

and Thompson, 706

and U-2 flights, 519, 672, 674, 680, 698–699, 713, 723

and UN, 667, 677, 678, 682, 684, 686, 688, 695, 696, 698, 704, 705, 706, 708, 714–715, 717, 719, 720, 721, 730, 732

Cuban Families Committee, 303n.

Cunningham, Bill, 77

Curley, James Michael, 21, 72

Curtis, Carl, 74

Cushing, Richard Cardinal, 109, 113, 192, 244, 363, 367

Custer, Gen. George A., 744

Cyprus, 564

D

Daley, George P., 356–357

Daley, Richard J., 87–88, 115, 124, 159, 207

Dallas, 479, 749–751

Dallas
News
, 335

“Danny Boy,” 387

Danville (Va.), 494

Davids, Jules, 67

Dawson, William, 252n., 471

Day, J. Edward, 253, 254, 265, 275, 469

Dean, Arthur, 288, 617, 618, 728

“Decade of Development,” 531, 754

decision-making, 281–285

Decision-Making in the White House
, 392

Defense Intelligence Agency, 418

deficit, 229

deficit spending, 405

De Gaulle, Charles, 230–231, 270, 279, 323, 375, 408, 409, 412, 436, 554, 559–562, 563, 569, 570–573, 578, 579, 581, 584, 593, 597, 599, 681, 686, 697, 705, 715, 720, 736

Delaney, Jim, 361, 362

“Democrat Looks at Foreign Policy, A,” 106

Democratic National Committee, 172, 174, 475

Denver
Post
, 220

DeSapio, Carmine, 88, 124, 147, 150

DeSautels, 356–357

desegregation, 26, 102, 477–478, 479–480, 483 ff.

De Valera, Eamon, 582

devaluation, 407–408

Dever, Paul, 86

Dewey, Thomas E., 183, 207, 251

Dickinson, Emily, 381

Diefenbaker, John, 370, 575–576

Diem, Ngo Dinh, 650, 651–653, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659–660

Dienbienphu, 642

Dillon, Douglas, 3, 252, 253–254, 265, 269, 271–272, 275, 280, 281, 282, 283, 391, 395, 399, 401, 407–409, 421, 422, 424, 425, 427, 428, 432, 454, 456, 459, 462, 464, 469, 473, 534, 674, 716

Dillon, Mrs. Douglas, 281

Dilworth, Richardson, 98, 151

Dirksen, Everett, 149, 331, 350, 351–352, 498, 499, 736–737, 738, 739, 742

“Disable, don’t sink,” 708

DiSalle, Michael V., 88, 121, 124, 130, 131, 151, 161, 172

disarmament, 517–519, 549, 562, 567, 623

discrimination, racial, 470 ff.

Disraeli, Benjamin, 560

diversity, 539

Dixon, Paul Rand, 454, 462

Dobrynin, Anatoly F., 555, 598, 667–669, 690, 701

Docking, George, 124, 148, 155

Dodd, Tom, 115, 729

Dolan, Joe, 116, 159

domestic affairs, 509–510

Dominican Republic, 293, 536

Don
Juan
, 467n.

Donahue, Richard, 171, 255, 356–357

Donovan, James, 308n.

Dorchester
(S.S.), 192

Douglas, Paul, 12, 86, 221, 237

Douglas, Stephen A., 198

Douglas, William O., 31, 425

Douglass, Frederick, 473

Dulles, Allen, 291, 630

Dulles, John Foster, 65, 230, 270, 284, 288, 295–296, 538, 545, 548, 559, 596, 639

Dungan, Ralph, 53–54, 56, 255, 264

Dunn, Finley Peter, 63

Durkin, Martin P., 252

Dutton, Fred, 283n., 289

E

East Berlin, 293, 583, 593, 594, 595

East Carrol Parish (La.), 479 East Germany, 293, 562, 583, 584, 587, 588–589, 590, 593, 594, 596, 599, 600, 601, 736