Niall Ferguson - Kissinger, Volume 1

de Gaulle and, 705

drinking by, 595

“Great Society” programs of, 576, 613, 615

as master manipulator, 595

in 1960 election, 436

in 1964 election, 596, 612–13

in 1968 election, 830–31

NSC and, 808

Paris peace talks and, 832

secret peace negotiations and, 632–33, 732, 748, 749, 752, 756, 758, 761, 766, 767–68, 770–71, 772–76, 779–80, 810–11, 813, 840–41

unscrupulousness of, 595

as vice president, 463

Vietnam bombing halted by, 792, 796, 828–29, 832

Vietnam War and, 584, 596, 599, 611–12, 613–17, 631–33, 675–76, 742, 750–51, 758, 769, 872

Johnson administration, 852

détente and, 714, 715

diplomatic isolation of, 703

dysfunctional foreign policy of, 633–37, 659, 799–800, 804, 815

HAK’s criticism of, 705–6

HAK’s public defense of, 669, 670–71, 674

interdepartmental rivalry in, 636–37, 664–65

nuclear nonproliferation treaty endorsed by, 714–15

Vietnam War skeptics in, 614, 615–16

Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S., 14, 389, 395, 550

Joint Research and Development Board, 257

Jordan, 518, 519

Jorgensen, Gordon, 650

Judd, Walter, 571

Judenedikt (Bavaria, 1813), 44

Jünger, Ernst, 288–89

Jupiter missiles, 547–48, 552, 554–55, 556, 567

Jurgensen, Jean-Daniel, 527, 566

Kahn, Herman, 32, 331 n, 369, 387

Kaiser, Karl, 559

Kalb, Marvin and Bernard, 20

Kallen, Horace, 215

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 191

Kammler, Hans, 195–96

Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, The (Wolfe), 669

Kant, Immanuel, 214, 231, 232, 235–36, 237, 364, 437, 870

HAK’s study of, 28–29, 232, 239–40

perpetual peace concept of, 238, 240, 242, 243, 260

Kaplan, Robert, 26, 292

Kashmir, India-Pakistan dispute over, 522

Katz, Milton, 280, 394, 628, 630, 631, 668

Katzenbach, Nicholas, 689, 770, 772–74, 848, 860

Kaufmann, William W., 377

Kaysen, Carl, 463, 492, 509, 511, 628, 630, 848, 858, 859

Kazan-Komarek, Vladimir, 745

Keating, Kenneth, 546, 550

Keever, Beverly Deepe, 644, 832

Kehillath Yaakov, 99

Kellogg-Briand Pact, 126

Kemal, Mustafa, 38

Kennan, George F., 192–93, 254, 255, 256, 263 n, 284, 319, 342, 360, 409, 424, 425, 858

containment policy of, see containment

on German reunification, 358

Long Telegram of, 250–51, 256, 290

Kennedy, Edward, 565, 624

Kennedy, Jacqueline, 476

Kennedy, John F. (JFK), 9, 32, 235, 421 n, 442, 443, 457, 501, 507, 509, 544, 551, 573, 694, 846, 847, 866

in American collective memory, 461–62

assassination of, 575–77, 587

Berlin Crisis and, 494, 495, 496, 499, 505, 508

Cuba and, 462

in Cuban Missile Crisis, 550, 551, 552, 553–54, 556, 557

deceptions and deviousness of, 514–15

Diem coup and, 591–94

extramarital relationships of, 476–77, 514

German reunification and, 462

HAK’s disillusionment with, 510–11, 536

HAK’s expertise solicited by, 463–64, 466

on HAK’s meeting with Adenauer, 532

“ Ich bin ein Berliner ” speech of, 573

marriage of, 476

medical problems concealed by, 514–15

in 1960 presidential campaign, 436, 445, 448, 454–55, 457, 465–66, 515

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perceived idealism of, 462

pragmatism of, 496–98, 509, 513

on use of tactical nuclear weapons, 540

at Vienna summit, 491

Vietnam War and, 590–91, 839

Kennedy, Joseph, Sr., 514

Kennedy, Robert, 508, 514, 515, 546, 582, 613, 623, 715, 749

assassination of, 786, 789, 818

in Cuban Missile Crisis, 549, 551, 553–54

Vietnam War and, 751

Kennedy administration, 865

Adenauer’s distrust of, 529

allies’ relationships with, 563, 566

assassination as policy of, 515

Bay of Pigs debacle and, 11, 478–80, 482, 488, 585

Berlin Crisis and, 483–503, 545

bureaucracy and, 502, 510, 542–43, 544

Cuban Missile Crisis and, see Cuban Missile Crisis

defense policy of, 481–82

de Gaulle and, 704

disarmament and, 502, 510

former Harvard faculty in, 463

German reunification and, 502, 510

HAK as consultant to, 469, 480–81, 484–513, 516–37, 624

HAK’s critique of, 562–63, 567–68, 705–6

nuclear strategy of, 565–66

overall strategy lacked by, 501–2, 510

pragmatism of, 462, 562, 569, 575, 594, 610

South Vietnamese coup and, 11

streamlining of, 475–76

Kennedy family, 331, 564

Kent, Sherman, 258

Kesey, Ken, 669

Kesting, Heinrick, 160

Keynes, John Maynard, 448

KGB (Committee for State Security), 23, 411, 518

K’hal Adath Jeshurun synagogue, 98, 104

Khrushchev, Nikita, 357, 409, 424, 428–29, 433, 473, 474, 483, 560, 574, 585

Berlin Crisis and, 483, 485, 493–94, 495, 496, 509, 540

Cuban Missile Crisis and, 545, 547–50, 551–52, 555, 556–57, 558

Eisenhower’s meeting with, 435

HAK on, 433–34, 435, 439

in “kitchen debate,” 21

at Vienna summit, 491

in visit to U.S., 433–35

Khvostov, Vladimir, 504, 505

Kiesewetter, Erwin, 187, 189

Kiesinger, Kurt Georg, 717, 723

Killian, James R., 392

Kindleberger, Charles, 291, 325

King, Ernest J., 133

King, James E., Jr., 374, 376

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 466, 515, 752, 844

assassination of, 786

King, Stephen, 576 n

Kintner, William, 269, 317, 319, 350, 355, 854 n

Kissinger, Abraham, 47

Kissinger, Ann (Anneliese) Fleischer, 108, 115, 272, 399–400

breakdown of HAK’s marriage to, 477–78

HAK’s divorce from, 617

HAK’s marriage to, 225–27

Kissinger, Arno, 48, 71

Kissinger, David, 47–48, 71, 175–76, 399, 477, 618

Kissinger, Elizabeth, 399, 618

Kissinger, Erwin, 71

Kissinger, Eugenie Van Drooge, 400

Kissinger, Fanny, 48

Kissinger, Fanny Stern, 47

Kissinger, Henry A. (HAK), 6, 257, 506, 825

accent of, 104, 172

Ann Fleischer and, see Kissinger, Ann (Anneliese) Fleischer

anti-Communism of, 199–200

antimaterialist philosophy of, 296

anti-Semitism in criticisms of, 19

approval ratings of, 2

army service of, see Army, U.S., Kissinger in

as assistant to the president for national security affairs, 9, 11, 32, 262, 440, 583, 793–94, 809, 834, 853–54, 857–64, 866, 875, 876

awards and honors of, 9

birth of, 52

bookkeeping job of, 226

childhood and adolescence of, 35–36, 52–55, 67–70, 99–100, 101–5, 106–11, 113, 866

combative personality of, 268

as comedic target, 3–5

emigration of, 72, 73, 79, 82

governmental service of, 354–55

grudges in criticism of, 17–18

at Harvard, see Harvard University, Kissinger as student at; Harvard University, Kissinger on faculty of

hypersensitivity of, 438

as idealist, 28, 32, 111, 242, 243, 415–16, 430, 431, 454, 458, 459–60, 461, 462, 465, 471–72, 497–98, 502–3, 513, 594, 610, 622, 702, 727, 789–90, 823, 865–66, 870–71, 873–74, 877

insecurity of, 16–17

letters to parents from, 169, 175, 177, 182, 202–5, 211

missile gap theory and, 444–45

mode of operation of, 16–19

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to, 9

at Oberammergau, 191–92, 197–200, 201

and opening to People’s Republic of China, 10, 726, 784–85, 802

as parent, 617–18

as perennial outsider, 439

as political independent, 436, 446, 447, 449

pragmatism of, 513

as prose stylist, 293