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Authors: James T. Patterson

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security of,
211

and Soviet Union,
87
,
107
,
118

Japanese-Americans,
6
,
16
,
180
,
389

Jaworski, Leon,
776
,
777

Jefferson Airplane,
710
,
736

Jenner, William,
200
,
202
,
231
,
255

jews: anti-Semitism,
347
,
397

and culture,
328

discrimination against,
18
,
27
,
75
,
241
,
568

and Israel,
152
–55

and Jackson-Vanik amendment,
780

and New Deal,
152

in politics,
55
,
148
–49,
152
,
162

population of,
17
,
151

and Vietnam War,
629

during World War II,
4

JFK
(film),
521
n

Job Corps,
539
,
541

John Birch Society,
408
n,
417
,
549
,
698

Johnson, Andrew,
142
,
243

Johnson, Judge Frank,
580
,
581
,
582
,
583

Johnson, Haynes,
438

Johnson, Louis,
168
,
175
,
178
,
211

Johnson, Lyndon,
100
,
213
,
611
,
692
,
728
,
766

background,
525
–26,
528

and civil rights,
413
,
473
,
530
,
542
–45,
552
,
554
–55,
584
–89,
662

in Congress,
262
,
280
,
300
,
411
,
418

and Cuban missile crisis,
500

and Dominican Republic,
611
–12

and educational reform,
568
–72

and Eisenhower,
243
,
529

and Goldwater,
559

and Great Society,
562
–65,
568
–92,
638
–39,
646
–52,
782

and Humphrey,
702

and "Imperial presidency,"
745
,
781

and Kennedy,
525
–27,
691

and Kennedy, assassination of,
517
–18,
519
,
520
,
521
,
524
–25

and liberals,
529
–30,
531
,
534

and Robert McNamara,
99

and 1960 election,
435
,
436
,
438
–39

and 1964 election,
559
–61

1968 presidential campaign,
683
,
685
,
690

and New Left,
624
–25

and poverty,
533
–42

and tax cut,
532
,
542

and urban riots,
664
–68

and Vietnam War,
525
,
558
–59,
593
–636,
677
,
679
,
682
–85,
703
,
708

as Vice-President,
461
,
465
–66,
517

and Voting Rights Act,
579
–88

and George Wallace,
547
–48

Johnston, Alvanley,
47
,
48

Jones, Landon,
77
,
79

Jones, LeRoi (Imanu Amiri Baraka),
655
,
657
,
686

Joplin, Janis,
710
,
711
,
716

Jordan,
423

Jordan, Barbara,
764

Jordan, Vernon,
729

Judd, Walter,
171

Jupiter Missiles,
500
,
502
,
504
,
505

Juvenile delinquency,
80
,
343
,
369
–71,
373
–74,
533

Kaltenborn, H. V.,
119
–20

Kantor, MacKinlay,
14

Katyn Forest Massacre,
85

Kaufman, Irving,
263

Kaye, Danny,
190

Kearns, Doris,
527
n

Keats, John,
340

The Crack in the Picture Window
,
337

Kefauver, Estes,
197
,
305
,
370
,
398

Kelly, Grace,
349

Kempton, Murray,
24
–48,
194

Kennan, George,
152
,
625

fears of communism,
133

and "Establishment,"
99
n,
102
–3

and Korean War,
214

"Long Telegram,"
113
–15,
126

on military policy,
170
,
174
,
422

and McCarthyism,
203
–4

and NSC–68,
177
–78

on Soviet Union,
87

and State Department,
176

Kennard, Clyde,
412

Kennedy, Caroline,
522

Kennedy, Edward "Ted,"
758
–59,
761

Kennedy, Jacqueline,
435
,
460
,
517
,
518
,
522
,
523

Kennedy, John F.: assassination,
447
,
517
–22,
524
,
531
,
693

childhood,
523

and Castro,
459
–60,
492
–97,
498
,
507
,
509

and civil rights,
413
,
436
,
440
,
444
,
447
,
468
–85,
513

and Cold War,
434
,
436
,
441
,
486
–523

as Congressman,
146
,
171
–72

and Cuba,
436
,
492
–97,
498
–509

and Ngo Dinh Diem,
297

economic policy,
463
–65,
467

and Eisenhower,
245
,
248
,
459
,
468

and "Flexible Response,"
489
,
600

and "imperial presidency,"
745
,
778

inauguration,
458
–59

and Johnson,
438
,
527

and Khrushchev,
421
,
475
,
490
–92,
506
–7,
509
,
511

and Malcolm X,
551

and Joseph McCarthy,
202
,
436

and Robert McNamara,
99

1958 re-election to Senate,
410

1960 presidential campaign,
433
–38,
705

personal popularity,
438
,
461

and poverty,
533

and space program,
453
,
491

and television,
352
,
353
,
460
,
502

and Truman,
468

and Vietnam,
430
,
509
–16,
598
,
604

Vice-Presidential nomination,
305
n

and women,
438
,
462
–63

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