Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House (61 page)

Rusk and, 299–300, 302–3

Soviet’s motives, 298, 304, 305

Soviet’s response to blockade, 319–21

Turkish missile swap proposed, 326–29

U-2 photos of Soviet missiles, 293, 296, 302, 310

U-2 plane fired upon, 327

U.S. allies and, 300, 303, 311

Curley, James, 37

Cushing, Richard Cardinal, 364

Daley, Richard, 21

Danger and Survival
(Bundy), 428

Daniel, Jean, 387, 390

Dealey, E. M., 254–55

Dean, Arthur, 257

de Gaulle, Charles, 186, 187, 228, 232, 300, 432

JFK meeting with, 186–89

Democratic Party

civil rights and, 173–74

China’s loss to communists and, 98, 164, 248, 273

Convention 1956, Stevenson’s running mate and, 48–49

Convention 1960, 56–58

foreign policy and, 16–17

JFK urged to focus on vice presidency, 15–16

JFK’s acceptance speech, 107

liberals in, 20, 58, 78, 151

presidential race 1960, 16–21

as “war party,” 128

Dewey, Thomas, 19

Diem.
See
Ngo Dinh Diem

Dillon, C. Douglas, 65, 84, 116–18, 126, 368, 371

Cuban missile crisis and, 297, 309–10, 318

Dillon, Clarence, 117

DiSalle, Michael, 53–54

Dobrynin, Anatoly, 293, 294, 320, 328, 329, 372, 383–84

JFK and, 383–84

RFK and, 333–34, 357, 361, 373

Donovan, James, 366, 374

Douglas, William O., 46

Dr. Strangelove
(film), 74

Dulles, Allen, 22, 76, 132, 142, 213, 287

advice on Cuba, 132

Bay of Pigs and, 135, 149–50

Dulles, John Foster, 99, 197, 312

Durbrow, Elbridge, 162–63

Eastland, James, 123

economy, 1, 20, 121, 251, 336, 393

JFK’s appointments and, 116–19

poverty in America, 107

recessions, 20, 107, 116, 259

steel price increase threat, 259

trade imbalances, 23, 116

unemployment, 107

education reforms, 107, 108

“Effects of Nuclear Weapons, The” (U. S. Air Force), 362–63

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 15, 24, 28, 42, 43, 44, 47, 107, 157

advice after Bay of Pigs, 156

Berlin and, 185

Bohlen and, 312

campaign of 1956, 47

Castro ousting and, 219

civil rights and, 108, 120

Cuban missile crisis, 307, 314

Cuba plan, 130, 131–32, 138

Dillon and, 116–17

domino theory, 160–61

JFK’s criticism of, 130

JFK’s opinion of, 22, 23

JFK’s pre-inaugural meetings with, 22–24, 131

LBJ and, 57

Lemnitzer and, 68–69

military-industrial complex, 152

Nixon and, 20, 26, 59

nuclear policy, 69, 72, 93, 157, 158

nuclear war study, 304

nuclear weapons stockpiling, 208

opinion of JFK, 59, 105, 295, 296

opinion of RFK, 59

Rostow and, 91

state department and, 99

test ban treaty supported, 382

Truman and, 22

U-2 incident, 142

Vietnam and, 160, 165

Eisenhower, Mamie, 125

Enemy Within, The
(RFK), 51

Farley, James, 9

Faubus, Orval, 96, 108

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 22, 102

investigation and intimidation of steel executives, 260

Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 180

Felt, Henry, 261, 340, 345–46

Fitzgerald, John F. “Honey Fitz,” 4–6

Ford, Gerald, ix, x

Ford Motor Company, 85, 86, 430

Forrestal, James, 285

Forrestal, Michael, 281–82, 285–86, 409

JFK asks for Vietnam withdrawal plan, 419

letter on Diem, 344

Vietnam and, 337, 340–41, 344, 391, 392–93, 394, 399, 409, 410, 415, 417

Foster, William C., 104

Frankfurter, Felix, 130

Frondizi, Arturo, 214, 215

Fulbright, J. William, 96, 97, 103, 104, 225

Bay of Pigs opposition, 140

on Castro, 138, 152, 376

test ban treaty and, 382

Furcolo, Foster, 112

Fursenko, Aleksandr, 320

Gagarin, Yuri, 177

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 81, 119

ambassador to India post, 82, 84

foreign policy issues detailed by, 106

as JFK campaign adviser, 19, 21

on JFK getting bad advice during the Cuban missile crisis, 331

JFK’s inaugural speech and, 105

JFK’s motivations for staying in Vietnam, 247–48

negotiated solution in Vietnam proposed, 269–71, 273–74

warnings about Vietnam, 166, 232–33, 234, 341

Germany.
See also
Berlin

Adenauer government, 181

Eastern sector and, 181

JFK address (1963), 391

Khrushchev’s demand for East German peace treaty, 199–200

U.S. show of force on the Autobahn, 227

Gilpatric, Roswell, 124, 166, 254, 297, 317, 322, 328, 337, 401

Goldwater, Barry, 146, 335

Goodwin, Richard, 130–31, 140, 153–54, 214, 215, 389

Graham, Philip, 99, 116

Greene, Graham, 218

Grewe, Wilhelm, 181

Gromyko, Andrey, 210, 256, 380, 385–86

Groton School, 118

Guevara, Che, 214, 362, 366, 385

Guns of August, The
(Tuchman), 320

Halberstam, David, 126, 230, 285, 337, 338, 395, 412–13

JFK complaints about, 397–98, 413, 414

Hammarskjöld, Dag, 195

Hannah, John A., 121

Harding, Warren, 28

Harkins, Paul, 340

as commander, Vietnam, 260, 265, 274, 275, 280–81, 337, 340, 343, 346

Diem ouster and, 400, 401, 403, 414

Harriman, Averell, 155, 192–93, 285, 411

Cuba and, 377

Cuban missile crisis and, 322–23

Diem ouster and, 401–2, 407, 416

JFK-Khrushchev summit and, 192–94, 198–99

Moscow delegation and, 380, 381

Vietnam and, 242–43, 245, 269, 271–72, 273, 277, 280, 336–37, 341, 344, 391, 396, 397, 415

Harrington, Michael, 107

Harrison, Gilbert, 141

Harvard University, 6, 118, 119

Bundy and, 89, 90–91

JFK at, 11, 12, 39

Joe Kennedy, Jr., at, 9

Joe Kennedy, Sr. at, 6–7

O’Donnell at, 111

RFK at, 40, 111

Schlesinger and, 82, 83

Harvey, William, 216, 217, 219

Hersey, John, 207–8

Hesburgh, Theodore, 121, 258

Hilsman, Roger, 262, 273, 278, 336, 394

Diem ouster and, 398, 399–401, 407, 415

Rusk’s cables and, 409

Soviet build-up in Cuba disputed by, 289

Vietnam and, 340–41, 344, 346–47, 391, 394, 397

warning to Diem and, 355

Hiroshima
(Hersey), 207–8

Hofstadter, Richard, 82

Hoover, Herbert, 19

Hoover, J. Edgar, 22, 76, 102, 121

Howard, Lisa, 377

Humphrey, Hubert H., 19, 54, 55–56, 57, 102, 118

Ickes, Harold, 8

India, 102, 273–74

Galbraith posted to, 82, 84, 166

In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
(McNamara), 431

Internal Revenue Service (IRS), JFK’s use of, as threat, 260

International Commission for Supervision and Control in Vietnam, 270–71

Israel, 40, 97

Jackson, Andrew, 82

Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 57, 78

James, Henry, 128

Jefferson, Thomas, 81, 249

Johnson, Lyndon Baines, ix, x, 47–48

advisers on Vietnam, 429–31

Bundy and, 427–28

as CEEO head, 123, 174–75

character and personality, 118, 167–68, 297

civil rights and, 123, 429, 353

Congress and, 113–14

Cuban missile crisis and, 296–97

Diem and, 168, 170

Dillon and, 118

Great Society, 424

on JFK-Khrushchev summit, 199

JFK’s Addison’s disease and, 2, 56–57

JFK’s civil rights bill and, 427

JFK’s opinion of, 297

as JFK’s vice president, 26–27, 245, 297

Kennedy family feud, 52, 56

McCarthy hearings and, 45–46

NASA and, 123–24, 177–79, 180

presidency of, 424

presidential ambitions, 16, 51–52

presidential bid (1956), 47–48

RFK and, 45, 48, 51–52, 56, 175, 369, 426

Rusk and, 333

Sorensen as speechwriter, 425

succession to presidency, 423–24

trip to West Berlin, 227

as vice presidential candidate, 57–58, 102

Vietnam and, 260, 404, 419

Vietnam trip and report (1961), 165, 167–70

Vietnam War and, 427–28

War on Poverty, 424

Johnson, Priscilla, 30

Johnson, U. Alexis, 297–98, 337

Joint Chiefs, 69–74, 138, 149, 158–59, 162, 166

Berlin crisis and, 202–3, 224

Cuban invasion discussed, 363–64

Cuban military intervention and, 245, 254, 362

Cuban missile crisis and, 301–3, 311, 315–17, 327, 330–31, 332

disagreement with negotiated Vietnam outcome, 272

JFK’s loss of confidence in, 432

JFK’s opinion of, 332

nuclear test ban treaty and, 209, 210, 358, 381–82

nuclear war and, 223

opinion of JFK, 316–17, 330–31

ousting Castro and, 220

Vietnam and, 166, 236–37, 240, 245, 260–61, 340, 343, 395

Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (JSCP), 74

Kattenburg, Paul, 404

Katzenbach, Nicholas, 365

Kaysen, Carl, 93

Kazin, Alfred, 82

Keating, Kenneth, 293, 366–67

Kefauver, Estes, 48–49

Kennan, George F., 28, 182, 191–92, 228

Kennedy
(Sorensen), 425

Kennedy, Caroline, 422–23

Kennedy, Edward “Ted,” 7, 12, 32, 207

Kennedy, Ethel Skakel, 41, 207, 279

Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier, 29–30, 124–25, 186, 423

on Acheson, 205

on Bundy, 333

Cuban exiles speech, 364–65

Cuban missile crisis and, 329–30

JFK’s memory preserved by, 422

on JFK’s opinion of Joint Chiefs, 149

on JFK’s opinion of Rusk, 140

on JFK’s reactions to Bay of Pigs failure, 143, 144

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 125

on Khrushchev, 330

on LBJ and JFK, 27, 297

Schlesinger interviews, 422–23

Vienna summit, 186, 194, 196

White House Historical Association, 125

White interview, 422

Kennedy, John F., ix, xi, xii

Addison’s disease, 2, 11, 56–57, 79, 308–9

ambition to be a historical figure, 188

America’s reverence for, ix–x, 433

appearance, 15, 21

assassination of, ix, 421

as author, 12, 14, 120

character and personality, 12, 29, 35, 36, 39, 41, 102, 103, 207, 307

childhood, 31

“devoted to idea of great men,” 187–88

European travel of, 12

Georgetown house, 84, 98

Glen Ora, Virginia estate, 2

as good listener, 28, 188

health problems, 2, 3, 10, 11, 16–17, 248–49, 257–58, 308–9

health problems, hiding of, 2–3, 11–12, 64, 79

marriage of, 29–30, 124–25

medications taken by, 11, 224, 308

mother, Rose, and, 6

national honoring of, 422

Palm Beach retreat, 260, 338

personal weaknesses, 33

poem often quoted by, 75

premonition of short life, 258

public service as a calling, 29

romanticized picture of, 422

unanswered questions left by his death, 433

as war hero, 37

winning and staying on top, family motto, 12, 36, 306

as womanizer, 29–33, 76, 330

appointments and principal advisers, x, xii, 24, 76, 126, 266

Acheson, 135, 183, 184, 203–5, 228, 315, 317–18

advisers on Bay of Pigs, 133–51

advisers on Berlin, 180–86, 201–5, 221–29

advisers on Castro, 213–21, 253–54, 360–77, 383–90

advisers on civil rights, 119–23

advisers on Cuba and Soviet military build-up, 287–91, 292–93

advisers on Cuban missile crisis, 292–329

advisers on Khrushchev and summit, 185–86, 187, 189–94

advisers on test ban treaty, 209–13, 255–57, 356–60, 379–83

advisers on Vietnam, 162–72, 229–49, 260–78, 280–87, 336–52, 354–56, 390–419

Ball, 103–4, 155, 232, 240–41, 269, 297, 309–10, 314, 328, 341, 391, 396, 400–401, 414–15

Bay of Pigs reprisals and removal of Bowles, Dulles, and Bissell, 149–51, 153–56, 216

the “best and the brightest,” 126

Bowles, 101–3, 139, 153–55, 271, 272–73

Bundy, 74, 89–91, 102, 126, 146, 149, 216, 228, 232, 243–44, 279, 297, 302, 304–5, 315, 317, 318, 323, 328, 332–33, 360, 364, 386, 389, 414, 415

Burke, 122–23, 174, 427

bypassing of Joint Chiefs in decisions on national security, 70–71, 315

chief of staff and, 61–62

CIA chief chosen, 22, 76, 102, 132

conflict among advisers, x, 81, 111, 368–70, 373, 401

consequences of open opposition to presidential policy, 155–56

Defense Secretary candidates, 83–88, 95–101

Deputy National Security Adviser post created, 91

Dillon, 116–18, 126, 297, 309–10, 318, 371

diminished confidence in, 279, 315

distrust of military advisers, 322, 331, 332, 381, 395

domestic problems and, 283

economic posts, 116–19

father as early adviser to, 35–36, 47, 67

FBI’s Hoover, 22, 76, 102, 121

Forrestal (Michael), 281–82, 285–86, 337, 391, 392–93

Galbraith, 106, 166, 232–33, 234, 269–71, 273, 341

Harriman, 155, 192–94, 242–43, 245, 269, 271–72, 322–23, 336–37, 380, 391, 396, 415

Harvard University and, 82, 93

Hilsman, 262, 273, 278, 289, 336, 346–47, 391, 398, 399–401, 415

identifying and convincing people to serve, 3, 29, 35, 67, 68, 75–76, 83–88, 116, 119, 172

Irish Mafia, 81, 112

Joint Chiefs, 69–74, 138, 149, 158–59, 162, 166, 202–3, 209, 210, 211, 220, 240, 260–61, 301, 303, 311, 315–16, 381–82