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Powell, Adam Clayton, 231

Power of Positive Thinking, The (Peale), 286

Powers, Dave, 64, 80, 84, 110, 118, 341, 355, 385, 388

JFK’s death and legacy and, 399

JFK’s presidential run and, 288, 304–5

Senate race of 1952 and, 129, 138, 147

Presbyterians, 6

Princeton University, JFK and, 24, 26–27

Private Property, 268

Profiles in Courage (Kennedy), 190–92, 225, 232, 322

origins of, 171–72

Protestants, 2, 6, 14, 16, 156, 286–90

Proust, Marcel, 232

PT 109, 40, 51–56, 140, 169, 170, 265

Hersey’s New Yorker piece on, 66, 83

television treatment of, 225

Pulitzer Prize, 225, 227

Pursuit of Happiness, The, 203

Quemoy and Matsu, 300–303, 305–6

radio, 299, 351

Raleigh, Walter, 15

Raskin, Hy, 247

Rayburn, Sam, 206, 209, 210, 282, 288

Reader’s Digest, 83, 140

Reagan, Ronald W., 8

Reardon, Timothy “Ted,” 27, 168, 188, 202, 299

election of 1946 and, 85–86

JFK’s House term and, 91, 108

JFK’s Senate office and, 157

Senate race of 1952 and, 136

Red Army, 74, 367

Redbook, 225

Reed, Jim, 49, 54, 165, 329

Reedy, George, 98

Reggie, Edmund, 203

Rendova Island, Solomon Islands, 56

Republican National Convention, of 1960, 4–5

Republican Party, election of 1946 and, 91

Reuther, Walter, 236, 250, 387

Ribicoff, Abraham, 205, 247

RKO, 203

Rockefeller, Nelson A., 3, 395

Rogers, Ted, 294, 301

Roman Catholics:

Cold War and, 100–101

election of 1952 and, 201

election of 1960 and, 4, 5–7, 286–90

politics and, 156, 201–2, 206, 209, 211, 220, 223, 238, 245–46, 254, 256, 261–64, 272, 274–76, 286–90, 313, 315

postwar assimilation of, 2, 201

Vietnam and, 386, 391

Rooney, Art, 274

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 111, 206–7, 276

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 125, 206, 207, 226, 253, 285

death of, 69

JFK’s criticism of, 74, 87

Joseph P. Kennedy and, 21, 30–31, 36

pro-Soviet policies of, 96

Yalta and, 70–71, 87, 92, 100–101, 112, 182, 206

Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr., 265

Roosevelt, Theodore, 405

Roselli, John, 357

Rosenberg, Ethel, 174

Rosenberg, Julius, 112, 174

Ross, Barney, 51, 267

Ross, George, 54

Rotary Club, 77

Rusk, Dean, 335, 364, 369, 387

Russell, Richard, 236, 369

Russell Islands, 51

Russian Empire, 71

Russo, Joe, 82–83, 86

St. John, George, 14, 19–20, 21, 23, 326

St. Lawrence Seaway, 170–71

Salinger, Pierre, 235–36, 242, 262, 264, 265–66, 269, 369, 380

Democratic convention of 1960 and, 278–79, 282

election of 1960 and, 284, 294, 314, 316

JFK-Nixon debates and, 284, 294

Saltonstall, Leverett, 89–90, 184–85, 202

San Francisco, Calif.:

JFK’s honeymoon in, 166–67

UN founding conference in, 69–72

Saturday Evening Post, 163, 182, 225, 226, 235

scarlet fever, 16, 400

Schary, Dore, 203

Schlesinger, Arthur, 108, 216, 253–54, 282, 303, 319, 322, 336, 393, 403

Berlin issue and, 327

Kennedys’ dinner with, 231–33

Schlesinger, Marian, 231

Scopes “monkey” trial (1925), 263

Scott, Hugh, 3

Secret Service, U.S., 188, 316–17, 324, 328, 329, 388, 403

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), U.S., 21

Seeger, Alan, 67, 161

Senate, U.S.:

Adams and, 171–72

Armed Services Committee of, 369

Committee on Naval Affairs of, 47

Cuba and, 364–65

election of 1946 and, 91

election of 1952 and, 202

Foreign Affairs Committee of, 345

Foreign Relations Committee of, 227

Government Operations Committee of, 234

JFK and, 170–71, 178–82, 183, 188–89, 193, 214, 227–29, 241, 252

Kefauver organized crime committee in, 205

McCarthy and, 173–82, 184, 188–89, 206

Muskie and, 236

Profiles in Courage and, 190–92

Rackets Committee of, 214, 233–37, 242, 247

St. Lawrence Seaway and, 170–71

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

Shakespeare, William, 215