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Catholics, see Roman Catholics

CBS, 144, 175, 292

Cecil, David, 151, 161, 399

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 70, 307, 321–22

Bay of Pigs invasion and, 331–36

Cuban missile crisis and, 365

Chacharis, George, 242

Chamberlain, Neville, 35–38, 252, 280

Chapel of the Chaplains, 290

Charleston, S.C., 45

Charleston, W.Va., JFK campaign in, 240

Charlestown, Mass., 86

Chattanooga Times, 160

Chelsea Naval Hospital, 60–61

Chiang Kai-shek, 111, 173, 300

Chicago, Ill., 220

Democratic convention of 1956 in, 2–3, 196, 202–11, 216, 217, 225, 229, 241

Chicago Herald-American, 69, 71

China, Nationalist, 111, 300–303

China, People’s Republic of, 120, 141, 206, 300–303, 339

China, Republic of, Communist takeover of, 111–12, 173, 176, 300, 306, 334

Choate school:

Archbold Infirmary at, 15

Billings and, 18–23

Brief yearbook of, 18, 23

JFK and, 14–23, 26, 27, 29, 162, 326

JFK’s near expulsion from, 21–22, 26

Joe Kennedy, Jr. and, 14, 16, 18

Muckers group at, 19–23, 164, 181, 326

Christoffel, Harold, 98, 111, 142

Churchill, Winston S., 17, 39, 41, 59, 65, 108–9, 235, 239, 252, 277, 285, 325, 347

anti-Nazi warnings of, 33, 34–35

postwar dismissal of, 72–73

civil rights movement, 97, 206, 229–31, 256, 287, 308–11, 323, 359–62, 374, 375, 379–81, 383, 384, 387, 389–90, 394, 396

Clay, Henry, 227

Clay, Lucius, 111

Cleveland, Ohio, 220

Clifford, Clark, 324

coal industry, 264–65

Coca-Cola, 85

Cohn, Roy, 168, 178, 179, 181

Coldstream Guards, British, 62

Cold War, 5, 9, 87, 96, 98–101, 104, 105–6, 111–13, 121, 135, 149, 156, 206, 228–29, 238–39, 283–84, 285, 296–97, 300–303, 305–8, 323, 325, 333, 334, 336–37, 339–45, 347–52, 362–73, 406

Berlin and, 111, 303, 326–27, 337, 338, 339–45, 362–64, 366–67, 368, 373, 374, 381, 382–83, 405

civil rights issue and, 380–81

Indochina and, 172–73, 301, 303

JFK’s “Peace speech” and, 376–79, 383

nuclear arms testing and, 347–52, 376, 378, 384, 386

Rosenberg case and, 112

Colliers, 197

Columbia, 225

Commons, House of, 36

see also Parliament, British

Communism, 91, 92, 96, 97–99, 105–6, 111–13, 142, 296–97, 326–27, 377, 382, 405–6

McCarthy’s campaign against, 112, 173–82

Congress, U.S.:

Truman’s address to joint session of, 96, 97

see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.

Connally, John, 278–79, 394, 397

Connecticut, 314

Connor, Eugene “Bull,” 379

Conservative Party, British, 72–73

Conway, Jack, 236

Corbin, Paul, 259

Council of Economic Advisers, 353

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, 380

Croix de Guerre, 125

Cronkite, Walter, 261

Cuba, 239, 306–7, 396

Batista overthrow in, 239

Bay of Pigs invasion in, 331–38, 343, 347, 360, 362, 373

U.S. naval blockade of, 368, 369, 370

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), 9, 364–73, 376

Cuban Revolutionary Council, 338

Curley, James Michael, 8, 68, 122

O’Neill’s assessment of, 103

pardon petition for, 101–3, 124, 170

Curley, Mary, 101, 102

Czechoslovakia, Nazi seizure of, 31, 32, 34, 304

Daley, Richard J., 255, 323, 369, 389–90

Dallas, Tex., Stevenson assailed in, 394, 397

Dallas Morning News, 397

Dallas Times Herald, 394

Dallek, Robert, 182

Dalton, Mark, 81, 113, 154, 155, 388, 394

Curley petition and, 102

election of 1946 and, 126

Hyannis visit of, 108–9

JFK’s first House speech and, 93

JFK-Thomas debate and, 103–4

Senate race of 1952 and, 126, 127, 132–33, 148

Dante O’Shaughnessy, 83

Davis, Mary, 100, 101, 104, 105, 106, 107, 151–55

“Davy Crockett,” 259

Decker, G. H., 346

Defense Department, U.S., 322

Democratic National Convention:

of 1948, 256

of 1952, 141, 244

of 1956, 2–3, 196, 202–11, 216, 217, 225, 229, 241

of 1960, 4, 262–63, 272, 277–84

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