Between You and Me (36 page)

Carmichael, Stokely, 82

Christian Tennessee University, 180

Carson, Johnny, 263–68

Churchill, Winston, 137

death of, 263–64

Cicero, Illinois, 82

at Hasty Pudding Club, 264, 268

civil rights,
see
African-Americans MW interview with, 264–68, 269

Civil Rights Act (1964), 81

privacy sought by, 264, 266, 268

Civil War, U.S., as Mr. Lincoln’s War, 22

and
Tonight Show,
264, 265, 266–67, 268

Clifford, Clark, 10–12

Carter, Jimmy

Clinton, Bill, 43

and Camp David accords, 109–10, 112,

in Arkansas, 76

114

and impeachment, 45

loss to Reagan, 59

and Oslo Accords, 116, 117

and Middle East, 105–6, 109–10, 112,

Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 44–45

114–15, 127

Close Encounters
(Wallace), 3

MW interview of, 47–49

Cohen, Mickey, 6, 159–65

post-presidency of, 51

as florist, 160

problems during presidency of, 47, 48

as killer, 161–62

rise to power of, 45–46

MW interview with, 161–63, 165, 166

Carter, Rosalynn, 45

remarks about Parker by, 162–65

and First Lady’s roles, 46–47, 51

cold war, end of, 62

helping others, 51

Collingwood, Charles, 100

and mental health programs, 50–52

Con Men
(Jackman), 185

MW interview with, 49–50

Connor, Bull, 80

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Cook, Greg, 179

presidential elections, 42

Copland, Aaron, 157

and race, 74, 79

Counsel to the President
(Clifford), 12

Wright’s views on, 138

Cravath, Swaine & Moore, 198

Eisenhower, Mamie Dowd, 43

Crile, George, 190–96, 202

Emancipation Proclamation, 79–80

Crowe, Russell, 218

Emerson, Faye, 3

Crystal, Billy, 268

Ernst, Max, 143

Executioner’s Song, The
(Mailer), 250

Dalí, Salvador, 140–43

autobiography of, 142

Farouk, king of Egypt, 111

immortality of, 143

Farrakhan, Louis, 93–98

MW interview with, 142, 143

anti-Semitism of, 97–98

Persistence of Memory,
140

and Elijah Muhammad, 93, 94

and surrealism, 140, 142, 143

and Malcolm X, 93–96

Daly, John Charles, 165

MW interviews with, 94, 95–98

Daughters of the American Revolution

and racial hatred, 93–94

(DAR), 39

travel to Africa, 96–97

Davis, Bette, 247

Faubus, Orval

Davis, Edie, 52–53, 54, 60

and integration, 73–76

Davis, Loyal, 53

MW interview with, 74–75, 166

Davis, Nancy, 53, 55;
see also
Reagan, and reelection, 75, 76

Nancy

FDR Memorial Commission, 42–43

Davis, Patti, 59

Fiedler, Arthur, 149

Davis, Sammy, Jr., 80, 222

First Lady, roles of, 40, 43–45, 46–47, Dayan, Moshe, 100

51

Death of a Salesman
(Miller), 259, 262

Fishburne, Laurence, 242

Desert Storm, 132

Fonda, Jane, 228, 229

Devotion, Edward, 8

Ford, Gerald R., 14, 46, 48, 55, 56

Dickson, Harry Ellis, 149

Forster, E. M., 232

DiMaggio, Joe, 258

Four Lads, 174

Dougherty, Jim, 257–58

Fox, Fannie “The Argentine Firecracker,”

Douglas Edwards with the News
(TV), 204

267

Dukakis, Kitty Dickson, 149

FOX News Sunday,
60

Dukakis, Michael, 149

Fratianno, Jimmy “The Weasel,” 167–71, Duncan, Isadora, 228

174

book by, 167

Eastland, James, 70–72

as killer, 168–69

Ed Sullivan Show, The
(TV), 150

MW interview with, 168–71

Edwards, Eldon Lee, 68–70, 80

Freud, Sigmund, 140

Egypt

Friedman, Thomas, 119

British occupation of, 111

Funny Girl
(Broadway musical), 236

and Camp David accords, 109–10,

112–13

Gabor, Zsa Zsa, 6

and Israel, 109–10, 111–13

Gandhi, Mohandas K. (Mahatma), 137

Sadat, 109–13, 130

Garment, Len, 25–26, 28, 30

territories of, 100

Gilmore, Gary, 250

Einstein, Albert, 107, 153

Godfather, The
(Puzo), 171, 173

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Goldenson, Leonard, 164, 165

Eleanor Roosevelt’s views on, 38

Goldin, Marion, 179, 184

Mailer’s remarks about, 251

Goldwater, Barry, 54

and Nixon, 24, 41

Goodman, Ellen, 183

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Gorbachev, Mikhail, 62–63

I, Tina
(Turner), 242–43

Gore, Al, 198

I Can Get It for You Wholesale
(Broadway Gorin, Norman, 184–85

musical), 236

Great Depression, 39

“I Have a Dream” (King), 80

Great Society, 20, 22, 24, 44, 62, 85

I Love Lucy
(TV), 151

Greene, Bob, 183

In Search of Identity
(Sadat), 111

Grosset & Dunlap, 253

Insider, The
(film), 218–19

Guggenheim Museum, New York, 140

Iran

and Afghanistan, 131

Haley, Alex

anti-Western theocracy in, 130–31

and King, 91–92

hostage crisis in, 47, 127–29, 132

and Malcolm X, 88, 91–92

and Iraq, 131–32

MW interview with, 91–92

Khomeini, 127–31

Hamas, 118

nuclear energy program in, 131

Hamill, Pete, 225

and oil embargo, 122

Hammett, Dashiell, 229

revolution in, 126–27, 130, 131, 132

Haney, Carol, 222

SAVAK in, 124

Harvey, Terrel, 182

Shah, 122–27

Hasty Pudding Club, Harvard University, Iran-Contra affair, 60–61

264, 268

Iran-Iraq war, 131–32

Hawkins, Gains, 192, 202

Iraq

Hayes, Helen, 247

as “axis of evil,” 131

Heifetz, Jascha, 149, 151

Desert Storm, 132

Hellman, Lillian, 229

and Iran, 131–32

Hemingway, Ernest, 251

U.S. assistance to, 132

Hertzberg, Rabbi Arthur, 104

Iraq-Gate banking scandal, 206

Hewitt, Don

Irgun Zvai Leumi, 107, 108

and CBS News, 30

Irma La Douce
(film), 222

as executive producer, 17

Israel

and Jewish lobby, 103–4

Begin interviews, 105–9

and LBJ Library tour, 17, 18–19, 20

and Camp David accords, 109–10,

and MW’s career, 216

112–13

reputation of, 30

and Egypt, 109–10, 111–13

and
60 Minutes,
30, 175, 212, 216

and guerrilla warfare, 106–8, 118

and special edition, 183–84

Knesset in, 105, 109

and Tobacco War, 211–12, 213–17

occupied territories, 100, 102, 112, 115, Hill, Clint, 14–17

116, 117, 119

Hitler, Adolf, 137, 271

and Oslo Accords, 116–17

Hooks, Benjamin, 57

and Palestine/PLO, 114, 115, 116,

Hoover, J. Edgar, 214

117–19, 121–22

Horowitz, Vladimir, 152–57

Redgrave’s views on, 230–31

comeback of, 155–56

relocation to, 105

fiftieth anniversary of, 152, 153

right to exist, 115, 116

MW interview with, 153–56, 175

Six-Day War, 20, 100, 101, 106, 112, 116

“Stars and Stripes Forever,” 156–57

War of Independence, 107, 116

withdrawal period of, 155

Yom Kippur War, 101, 111–12

Horowitz, Wanda, 154–56

Howards End
(film), 232

Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy
Humphrey, Hubert H., 27, 32

(Parmet), 13

Hussein, Saddam, 131–32

Jackman, Ian, 185

Huston, John, 159

James, Henry, 232

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Jewish Defense League, 229

Haley’s views on, 91–92

Jewish lobby, 98, 101, 102, 103–4, 108,

“I Have a Dream,” 80

114, 125–26, 229–30

influence of, 137

Jim Crow laws, 68, 76

and militant activists, 81–82

Johnson, Lady Bird, 18, 19–20, 44

ministry of, 76

Johnson, Lyndon B., 12, 17–24

MW interviews with, 78, 79–80, 82–84

achievements of, 20, 21, 22, 24, 44, 62, MW’s admiration for, 84, 85

85

Nobel Peace Prize to, 81

on the burdens of the presidency, 22

nonviolent protests of, 77, 78, 80, 83, 84

and civil rights, 81, 85

and presidential politics, 78–81

and Hoover, 214

threats and violence aimed at, 77, 84

LBJ Presidential Library, 17, 18, 20

Knobel, Beth, 275

and LBJ ranch, 18–19

Korean War, as Mr. Truman’s War, 22

political career of, 45, 46, 54

Kovacs, Ernie, 1

and Vietnam War, 18, 20, 21, 22–24, 32, Kowet, Don, 195

84–85, 192

Kraft, Robert, 8–9

Jordan, territories of, 100, 112

Krips, Alfred, 149

Julia
(film), 229, 232

Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 68–70

Just for the Record
(Streisand), 236

Kuwait, Iraqi invasion of, 132

Kaden, Ellen, 211, 213, 217

Lancaster, Burt, 234–35

Kaplan, Marvin, 201, 202

Lando, Barry, 127, 128, 184

Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier, 15, 43–44, 158

Last Mafioso, The
(Fratianno), 167

Kennedy, John F.

Last Year at Marienbad
(film), 180

assassination of, 13–17

Lawford, Peter, 222

in Brookline, 8–9

LBJ Presidential Library, 17, 18, 20

and integration, 79, 80

Lebanon, 115

and New Frontier, 61

Lee, Spike, 91, 92

and Pearson interview, 7, 9–13

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 137

political career of, 9–10, 46

Leno, Jay, 268

presidential election (1960), 25

Leonard, Bill, 60

and
Profiles in Courage,
10–13, 42, 164

Leonardo da Vinci, 142

and Vietnam, 22, 24

LeRoy, Mervyn, 55

in World War II, 9

Lewinsky, Monica, 45

Kennedy, Joseph P., 8, 9–10, 12

Life,
175

Kennedy, Robert F., 10, 223

Lincoln, Abraham, 22

assassination of, 14

Lincoln Memorial concert (1939), 40

Mailer’s conjectures about, 253, 254–55

Little Rock, Arkansas, 73–75

Kennedy, Rose, 8

Lloyd’s of London, 166

Kennedy family

Lomax, Louis, 86–87, 88

in Brookline, 7–9

Long Day’s Journey into Night
(O’Neill), 232

counsel for, 10, 11, 12

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 8

lawsuit threat from, 11–12

Lorillard, 212–13

Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 127–31

Louis X,
see
Farrakhan, Louis MW interview with, 128–30

Luciano, Lucky, 172

and revolution, 130–31

Lucky Strike, 204

King, Larry, 50, 64

Lund, Peter, 214

King, Rev. Martin Luther, Jr., 14, 76–85

assassination of, 84, 91

MacLaine, Shirley, 221–27

on the economic plight of the Negro,

as actress, 221–22, 225

83–84

as dancer, 221–22

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MW interviews with, 223–24, 226–27

Mead, Marikay, 128

and political causes, 223, 227

Medicaid, 176–77

and Rat Pack, 222–23

Menuhin, Yehudi, 151

spirituality of, 223–24, 226–27

Mexican War, as Mr. Polk’s War, 22

Madison, James, 22

Middle East

Mafia

Afghanistan invasion, 131

capo don of, 171

Al Qaeda, 131, 132

Capone, 171–72

Arab oil embargo, 47, 101, 122

Castro plot of, 170–71

Camp David accords, 109–10, 112–13,

ceremony of, 169

114, 117

and
Godfather,
171, 173

Desert Storm, 132

hit men for, 167–69, 171

Egypt, 109–13

membership in, 174

freedom fighters/terrorists in, 107–8, omertà code of, 171

116–19, 132

Sicilian vs. American culture in, 172

Iran, 122–31

Mailer, Adele, 252

Iran-Iraq war, 131–32

Mailer, Norman, 249–57, 259

Iraq, 131–32

book about Monroe by, 249–50, 253–56

Israel, 105–9, 116

controversy welcomed by, 250, 251–52

and Jewish lobby, 98, 101, 102, 103–4, MW interviews with, 250–51, 252,

108, 114, 125–26, 229–30

253–57

Oslo Accords, 115, 116–18, 119

political campaigns of, 252

peace efforts, 99–100, 109–10, 112–13, Pulitzer and National Book awards to, 250

114, 116–19, 121–22

Malcolm X, 14, 87–92

PLO and Arafat, 107–8, 113–22

assassination of, 91, 93, 94–96

radical Islamic groups in, 118

autobiography of, 88, 91–92

Six-Day War, 20, 100, 101, 106, 112, 116

“by any means necessary,” 88, 92

Syrian Jews, 101–5

and Elijah Muhammad, 89, 94

Yom Kippur War, 101, 111–12

family of, 94–96

Mike Wallace Interview, The

and Farrakhan, 93–96

at ABC, 5–6, 68, 78, 159

Haley’s views on, 91–92

cigarette commercials on, 205

influence of, 88, 92, 93–94

end of, 78

magnetic presence of, 88

guest list on, 6

MW interviews with, 88, 89, 90–91

legal watchdog for, 166

and Nation of Islam, 88, 89, 95