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“teas”, JFK campaign, 128–29, 138, 139

television, 118–19, 126, 144, 225, 345, 351

Cuban missile crisis and, 369–70

Democratic convention of 1956 and, 203, 209, 211

Democratic convention of 1960 and, 280, 281, 284

Furcolo Senate bid and, 185–86

JFK-Humphrey debate and, 240

JFK-Nixon debates and, 284–85, 291–304, 307–8

JFK’s civil rights address and, 380–81

JFK’s religion speech and, 289

McCarthy and, 175, 177, 181

Nixon’s concession and, 315

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 67–68

Texas, 317, 394, 396–97

Third World, 352

Thirty-Nine Steps, The (Buchan), 38–39, 41

Thom, Lenny, 51, 53, 54, 55

Thomas, George, 106

Thomas, Norman, 103–4

Thompson, Llewellyn, 340

Thurmond, Strom, 256

Time, 99, 225, 274, 319, 343

Tojo, Hideki, 367

Touch of the Poet, A (O’Neill), 6

Travell, Janet, 279

Treasury Department, U.S., 322, 329

Truman, Harry S., 8, 69, 217, 307, 324

atomic bomb and, 349

Cold War and, 96, 97, 301, 306

election of 1960 and, 287, 301

JFK’s criticisms of, 112, 141, 143, 173, 182, 306, 334

Korean War and, 112, 249

McCarthy and, 176

Symington and, 249

Truman Doctrine (1947), 96, 97

Tulagi Island, 48–49

Tunisia, 228

Turkey:

Truman Doctrine and, 96

U.S. missiles in, 371–72

U-2 spy plane, 364

Udall, Morris, 278

Udall, Stewart, 363–64

“Ulysses” (Tennyson), 67–68

United Auto Workers (UAW), 236, 249–50, 387

United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, 97

United Nations, 307, 364

founding conference of, 69–72

Hiss and, 111

Korean War and, 112

Stevenson and, 322

United Press International (UPI), 98

United States Steel, 353, 354

United Steelworkers, 353

V-3 cannon, 61

Vandiver, Ernest, 310

Vassar College, 160

V-E Day, 71

Versailles, Treaty of (1919), 30, 31

Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), 77

Vienna, Austria, U.S.-Soviet summit in, 320, 339–44

Viet Cong, 393

Viet Minh, 172, 393

Vietnam, South, 385, 386, 391, 396

Vietnam War, 117, 119, 172–73, 326, 381, 385–87, 390–94, 396–97

Virginia, Kennedys’ Glen Ora retreat in, 328

V-J Day, 91

Voorhis, Jerry, 92, 291, 295

voting rights, 380

Wagner, Robert F., 204, 208

Wallace, George C., 379

Wallingford, Conn., 14, 16

Walsh, David I., 46–47, 90, 125

Ward, Barbara, 73

Washington, D.C.:

Dumbarton Oaks in, 168, 183

King and civil rights march on, 374, 387

Lafayette Park in, 327, 328

Washington, George, 405

Washington Post, 8, 280

Washington Times-Herald, 43, 44, 161

Watergate scandal, 8

Webster, Charlie, 49

Webster, Daniel, 227

Welch, Joseph Nye, 177

West Virginia, 112, 174–75

Democratic primary of 1960 in, 4, 262–69, 271, 286

Wheeling, W.Va., McCarthy’s speech at, 112, 174–75

White, Theodore H., 13, 197, 284, 399–402

White, Thomas P., 346

White House, 325, 327–28, 356, 358

Billings’ room in, 19, 328

Garbo visit to, 394–95

Oval Office of, 374, 380, 384

Rose Garden renovated at, 330–31

White Sands, N.Mex., 348

Why England Slept (Kennedy), 11, 37–38, 49, 67

Wilson, Bill, 292–93, 300

Wilson, Mrs. Woodrow, 330

Wilson, Woodrow, 124

Winscote, Lt., 56

Wisconsin:

Democratic primary of 1960 in, 4, 248, 256–61, 271, 279

election of 1960 and, 315

Wofford, Harris, 305, 308, 309–11, 323

Worcester, Mass., 123, 246

JFK campaign “tea” in, 129–30

JFK’s 1952 win and vote in, 146–47

World Crisis 1911–1918, The (Churchill), 17

World War I, 13, 17, 30, 31, 34, 35, 42, 67, 124

World War II, 1, 2, 26, 69, 99, 175, 176, 201, 238, 285, 290, 359

atomic bomb and, 348, 349, 372

Bradlee and, 237

JFK and, 11, 40, 41–63, 65–66, 80, 90, 169, 170, 264, 265, 398

O’Donnell and, 123

Pearl Harbor attack and, 42, 367