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White, Theodore, 97, 430, 467, 577–78

Whitehead, T. North, 148

Whitelaw, Aubrey, 82–83

Whitten, Thomas, 385

Why England Slept (J. F. Kennedy), 145, 158–59, 186, 229

Why I’m for Roosevelt (J. P. Kennedy Sr. and Krock), 108, 304

Wiener, Mickey, 422

Wild, Payson S., 102

Wiley, Alexander, 342

Williams, Bonnie, 446–47

Williams, Byard, 347

Williams, Edward Bennett, 370–71

Williams, Harrison, 72

Williams, Harry, 739–40

Williams, Nancy, 100

Willkie, Wendell, 151–56

Willy, Wilford, 214–15

Wilson, Bill, 445, 450

Wilson, David, 60

Wilson, Patricia, 203, 207–8, 212

Wilson, Philip D., 340

Wilson, Robin Filmer, 203

Wilson, Woodrow, 451, 467

Winchell, Walter, 105, 176, 693

Winmill, Joan, 264–65, 268–70

Wisconsin primary (1960), 416–17, 419, 421

Wofford, Harris, 473, 483

civil rights and, 459–61, 554, 557–58

JFK’s 1960 presidential campaignand, 458–61, 463, 558

Wood, Holton, 49, 183–84

Wood, Leonard, 32

World War I, 31–36, 122, 143, 185, 225, 235, 367, 648

World War II, 136–57, 160–63, 204–15, 244, 281, 283, 285, 292, 300, 316, 324, 383, 426–27, 434, 455, 484, 531, 578, 629, 639, 646–47, 677

anti-Semitism in, 114–15, 122, 128, 136–38, 141, 150–52, 222, 527

Britain bombed in, 148–51, 192, 227–28

casualties in, 140–41, 143, 152, 186–89, 193–94, 205, 207, 210, 212, 215, 238, 264

D-Day in, 209–10, 231, 455, 655

draft in, 160

FDR and, 119–23, 130, 139–40, 142, 149–53, 155–56, 162, 180–81

Harvard University and, 238, 240

honoring veterans of, 685–87

isolationism in, 113, 119–20, 122, 125, 130, 142–43, 146–47, 150, 152–53, 157, 160–62, 175

JFK and, 134, 140–41, 143–45, 160–63, 167–68, 172, 175–77, 181–96, 198–203, 206–7, 212–14, 221, 223, 225, 227–29, 232–35, 252, 275, 294, 327, 350, 374, 385, 426–27, 429, 435, 439, 444, 479, 481, 627, 677, 686

Joe Jr. and, 82–83, 129–30, 140, 143, 152–53, 162–63, 167–68, 171–72, 181, 187, 195–207, 209–15, 219–21, 233–34, 258, 275, 385, 397, 429, 685–87

Joe Sr. and, 83, 112–15, 119–23, 130, 136, 139–54, 156–57, 160–63, 167–68, 176–77, 180–82, 186–87, 194–96, 203, 207, 219, 221, 233–34, 258, 639

Pearl Harbor bombing in, 175, 180, 642, 646

Spanish Civil War and, 125–28, 132, 139, 197, 204

Wrightsman, Charles, 539

Wynne, Bud, 99

Yale University, 73, 372, 383, 554

Harvard’s rivalry with, 19, 24–27, 110–11, 239–40, 302, 332, 334–36, 369

Yarborough, Ralph, 733

Yarmolinsky, Adam, 480, 542

Young Melbourne, The (Cecil), 134–35, 146

Acknowledgments

The manuscript of The Kennedy Men ran 1, 100 pages, and it was a major imposition to ask busy people to read it looking for errors. No one read with a more knowing eye than did Myer “Mike” Feldman, President Kennedy’s deputy counsel. Sheldon Stern, the longtime historian at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, carefully read these many pages. Fellow Kennedy authors Burton Hersh, Nigel Hamilton, Gus Russo, and Dan Moldea read the book, each with his own unique expertise. Kerry McCarthy, who is Joseph and Rose Kennedy’s grand-niece and a historian of the family, gave the manuscript a judicious reading. Sam Halpern, a former high-ranking CIA official, read the Cuban material. Professor Barton Bernstein of Stanford University read the White House chapters. So did former Senator Harris Wofford, who served in the Kennedy administration. Dr. Mauro Di Pasquale read the material on President Kennedy’s health, as did Dr. David V. Becker, professor of radiology and medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York Presbyterian Hospital. Others who read all or part of the manuscript included Vesna Leamer, Lee Tomic, Count Alexandre De Bouthri Báthory, Joy Harris, Herb Gray, Jim Morrissey, Howard Reed, Raleigh Robinson, Patrick Flynn, and Diane Leslie. In an act of great generosity, Kristina Rebelo Anderson, the prominent investigative journalist, took weeks away from her important book on mercury poisoning to copyedit and fact-check the entire manuscript before I submitted it to my publisher. Of course, none of these people are responsible for any errors that may