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Nixon’s Taft-Hartley debate with, 95–97
nuclear disarmament and, 305, 311, 325, 342, 347–52, 375, 376, 378, 384, 386
O’Neill and, 81, 83, 116, 140, 143, 151–53, 158, 171, 202, 241–42, 274, 281–82, 394, 403
organized crime and, 234–37, 357
Peace Corps and, 304–5, 311, 312, 329–30, 375, 389, 405
“Peace speech” of, 376–79, 383
personality of, 15, 17, 26, 50, 73, 104, 166, 167, 215, 230, 324, 373
personnel issues and, 132–33, 151–56, 157
political discussion and, 50–51, 68
polling data and, 228, 248, 257–58, 262
poverty issue and, 264–65
preparation for 1960 race by, 217–39, 241–52
presidential campaign of 1960 and, 283–319
presidential candidacy announced by, 252
primary campaign of 1960 and, 240
Princeton and, 24, 26–27, 253
PT-109 sinking and, 40, 51–56, 66, 169, 170
Pulitzer Prize and, 225, 227
Quemoy and Matsu issue and, 300–303, 305–6
“Ratface” nickname of, 16
reading of, 15, 17, 38–39, 41, 50, 67–68, 73, 78, 108–9, 191, 400
religion and, 16, 45, 109, 221–22, 223, 238, 245, 254, 261–64, 272, 274–75, 285–90, 313, 315, 388–89
risk-taking and, 22–23, 26, 45, 82, 110
Roosevelt and, 74, 87, 112
sailing as passion of, 46
St. Lawrence Seaway and, 170–71
Saltonstall and, 89–90, 184–85, 202
Schlesinger and, 231–33, 253–54, 303, 322, 327, 336, 393, 403
“second son” status of, 13–23
self-improvement and, 144, 290–91, 382
Senate career of, 170–71, 178–82, 183, 188–89, 193, 214, 227–29, 233–37, 242, 252
Senate race of 1952 and, 8, 115–49, 156, 285
Senate Rackets Committee and, 214, 233–37, 242
Senate reelection of, 241
sense of humor of, 50, 104, 394–95
“Shafty” nickname of, 50
signatures gathered for Senate bid of, 138
Smathers and, 105, 107–8, 113, 118, 155–56, 165, 192, 202, 205, 230, 357, 396, 404
Sorensen and, see Sorensen, Theodore “Ted”
Soviet Union and, 87, 96, 100–101, 120, 252, 362–64, 376–79
speechwriting skills of, 104
sports and, 17, 24, 27, 29, 30, 46, 183
State of the Union address of (1963), 380
steel industry and, 353–55
Stevenson and, 141, 142, 276
strategist skill of, 23
tax cut and, 376
television studied by, 144
Texas trip of, 396–97
Thomas’s debate with, 103–4
toughness of, 137–38, 155, 193, 242, 248–49, 254–55
Truman and, 112, 141, 143, 173, 182, 287, 306, 334
UN founding and, 69–72
vice presidential nomination sought by, 197–211
Vienna summit and, 320, 339–44
Vietnam conflict and, 117, 119, 173, 381, 385–87, 390–94, 396–97
war letter to Inga Arvad by, 57–59
wedding of, 150, 164–67
womanizing of, 162–63, 166, 183, 312, 356–58
World War II and, 11, 40, 41–63, 65–66, 80, 90, 169, 170, 264, 265, 398
writings of, 11, 36–38, 49, 67
Yalta conference and, 70–71, 100–101, 112, 182, 206
Kennedy, John F., Jr., 374, 384, 389, 392, 394
Kennedy, Joseph P., 13, 16, 19, 398
ambition of, 122, 152–53
anti-Semitism of, 33, 143–44
appeasement issue and, 32–33, 36, 37, 100, 252, 304
Bobby Kennedy and, 127–28, 131, 133, 134
British ambassadorship of, 30–38, 41, 44, 218, 238, 304
Chamberlain and, 32, 35–38, 252, 280
Democratic convention of 1956 and, 205
election of 1946 and, 68, 80, 83
Furcolo Senate bid and, 186
JFK’s near expulsion and, 21–22, 26
JFK’s presidential run and, 243, 254, 261–62, 275, 282
JFK’s Pulitzer Prize and, 227
Joe Kennedy, Jr. and, 13–14, 22
lack of political sense of, 126–27, 205
McCarthy and, 178, 179, 188, 233, 238
Merchandise Mart and, 171
Nixon and, 113, 260, 279, 317–18
SEC and, 21
Senate race of 1952 and, 126–29, 131, 133, 134, 138, 140–41, 222
Kennedy, Joseph P., Jr., 13–14, 338, 388, 398
Choate school and, 14, 16, 18
death of, 26, 61–63, 66, 67, 75, 106, 109, 116, 388
Harvard and, 26, 27, 28, 46
personality of, 26
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