Niall Ferguson - Kissinger, Volume 1

as public intellectual, 336, 341, 386, 400, 421–23, 427, 835, 871

realism of, 20–21, 26, 28, 291–92, 727–28, 866, 873–74

religious faith lost by, 202–3

secrecy of, 16–17

as secretary of state, 9, 29, 36

self-deprecating humor of, 12–13, 123, 146, 857

speaking engagements of, 404

temper of, 397–98, 438

treaties negotiated by, 9–10

vitriolic attacks on, 5–9, 10–11, 14–15

as voracious reader, 119–20, 223

women’s relationships with, 13–14, 55, 108, 180, 201–2, 204, 225, 398–99

Kissinger, Herbert, 71

Kissinger, Ida, 48

Kissinger, Isak, 47

Kissinger, Karl, 48, 49, 50, 71

Kissinger, Karoline Zeilberger, 48

“Kissinger, Le Duc Tho” (song), 4

Kissinger, Löb, 47

Kissinger, Louis, 37, 52, 61, 102–3, 878

ejected from teaching post, 65, 67

emigration of, 72–73

as German patriot, 49–50

HAK’s accomplishments as source of pride for, 619–20

HAK’s relationship with, 54, 618–20

marriage of Paula and, 51

teaching career of, 48–49

in Washington Heights, 96

Kissinger, Margot, 71

Kissinger, Martin, 80

Kissinger, Meyer Löb, 47, 80

Kissinger, Nancy Maginnes, 14, 471, 620, 763, 816

Kissinger, Paula Stern, 67, 71–72, 102

as avid reader, 50–51

catering business of, 103

emigration of, 72–73

as family’s breadwinner, 103

HAK’s relationship with, 618, 619–20

marriage of Louis and, 51

Kissinger, Schoenlein, 47

Kissinger, Selma, 48

Kissinger, Simon, 48, 71, 80

Kissinger, Walter, 226, 400, 618–19

childhood and adolescence of, 52, 105

corporate career of, 400

emigration of, 73

HAK’s letters to, 116, 145–46, 147–48

marriage of Eugenie and, 400

in Washington Heights, 99

in World War II, 114, 118, 121

Kissinger: The Adventures of Super-Kraut (Ashman), 2

“Kissinger Doctrine,” 20

Kissinger family:

emigration of, 82

in Holocaust, 80

in Washington Heights, 98, 99, 102

Kissinger on the Couch (Schlafly and Ward), 7

Kistiakowsky, George, 15, 227, 400, 444, 598

Klapproth, Willy, 187–89, 190

Kluckhohn, Clyde, 401

Knight, John, 596

Kohler, Foy, 484

Kohn, Hans, 311

Komer, Robert, 509, 586

Korean War, 249, 256, 260, 283, 317, 320, 333, 337, 342, 344, 409, 427, 750

HAK on, 312–13, 338–40

Kornbluh, Peter, 10

Koschland, Manfred, 69

Kosygin, Alexei, 693, 723, 741 n, 748, 752

Kraemer (Krämer), Fritz Gustav Anton, 112, 123–24, 183, 278, 288, 331, 365, 392, 565

anti-intellectualism of, 129

background of, 124–29

on corrupting effects of power, 875–78

elitism of, 125

ETIS and, 197, 201

FBI file on, 130

Haig and, 863–64

on HAK’s attunement to history, 26–27

HAK’s first meeting with, 131–32

as HAK’s mentor, 32, 124, 127, 128, 132, 210–11, 223–24, 228, 229, 265–66, 390, 458–60, 863–64, 865, 867, 875–77

international law expertise of, 125–27, 128

morality valued over materialism by, 128–29

on Psychological Strategy Board, 269

in U.S. Army, 123–24, 129–30, 146n, 147, 149n, 151, 152, 156, 161, 177

Kraemer, Sven, 266

Kraft, Joseph, 15, 771, 854

Krämer, Georg, 127

Kraslow, David, 780

Krasniczyn, 79

Kraus, Marvin, 219

Krefeld, Germany, 155–56

Allied bombing of, 156

American occupation of, 156–58, 159

Gestapo in, 160–61

HAK as CIC agent in, 158, 159, 161

Jews in, 160–61

Kristallnacht, 74–77, 91, 92, 93, 102, 195

Krone, Heinrich, 718

Kubrick, Stanley, 21, 331, 471

Kühlmann-Stumm, Knut von, 529

Ku Klux Klan, 6

Kumpa, Peter, 657

Kushner, Tony, 874

Kuznick, Peter, 8

Ky, Prime Minister, see Nguyen Cao Ky

labor movement, 42, 84

Lafayette College, 119, 122

La Grandville, Jean de, 693, 722, 723

La Guardia, Fiorello, 90

Laing, David C., 154

Laird, Melvin, 572, 604

Laloy, Jean, 527, 528, 566

Landau, David, 18

Lang, Georg, 196, 197

Lang, Raimund, 195, 196, 197

Lange, Dorothea, 83

Langer, William L., 258, 293

Lansdale, Edward, 546, 634, 650, 664, 681, 684

Laos, 339, 409, 483, 585, 586, 588, 589–90, 599, 617, 621, 634, 870

Pathet Lao coup in, 37

U.S. bombing of, 750

Vietnam’s border with, 589, 594, 679

Lapp, Ralph E., 374

Laroche, Belgium, 144

LaRouche, Lyndon, 6

Lash, Joseph, 178

Laski, Harold, 215

Lasswell, Harold, 286

Latin America, 408, 602

Communism in, 517–18, 547

HAK and, 516–18

Nixon’s visit to, 415

Laughlin, James, 280

League of Nations, 125–27, 128, 231, 308

Leary, Timothy, 752

le Carré, John, 22

Lederer, William, 410

Le Duan, 742, 744, 753, 813

Le Duc Tho, 13, 753, 816

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to, 9

Lee Kuan Yew, 753, 872

Legate, Project, 267

Leghorn, Richard, 406

Lehman, Herbert H., 89–90, 91

Lehman, John F., 794

Lehmann-Lauprecht, Hans, 188

Lehrer, Tom, 4, 535

Lelyveld, Joseph, 581

LeMay, Curtis, 550–51, 614, 615, 845

Lemnitzer, Lyman, 479, 480

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 38

Leverett, John, 213

Levi, Primo, 173

Levine, David, 4

Lewandowski, Bogdan, 742

Lewandowski, Janusz, 741, 742–43, 744

Lewis, Anthony, 17, 20

Lewis, Arthur, 451

liberals, liberalism, 220–21, 627

Liberal Tradition in America, The (Hartz), 235

Library of Congress (LOC), 128

Liddell Hart, Basil, 340, 537

Life, 361, 608

Lifebuoy, Operation, 182, 184, 185–86

“Light My Fire” (song), 751

Lilienthal, David E., 343

Lima, Hermes, 517

“Limitations of Diplomacy, The” (Kissinger), 340–41

limited nuclear war, 21, 235, 304, 317, 330, 337, 338, 340, 341, 351–52, 353, 356–57, 362, 383, 392, 393, 412–14, 424–25, 429, 471–72, 494, 544, 869–70

conventional weapons vs., 447

Eisenhower’s skepticism of, 344, 347

flaws in HAK’s argument for, 370

goals of, 366

HAK’s about-face on, 447–48, 451

as ineffective deterrence, 352

as lesser evil, 372–73

risk of escalation into all-out war in, 352, 362, 370, 374–75, 538, 870

risks of continuing vs. settlement in, 367

role of diplomacy in, 362–63, 367, 370–71

Soviet rejection of concept of, 371, 384

as viable strategy, 369

Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963), 704

Limited War (Osgood), 340

Lincoln, Abraham, 874

Lincoln, Evelyn, 477

Lincoln, George A., 356

Lincoln (film), 874

Lindbergh, Charles, 93, 112–13, 114

Lindsay, A. D. “Sandy,” 230, 232

Lindsay, Franklin A. “Frank,” 260, 280, 355, 809, 845, 859

Lindsay, Richard C., 350, 352–53

Linebarger, Paul, 356

Lion, Menahem (Heinz), 52–53, 69, 73

Lippmann, Walter, 215, 249, 253, 315, 493, 587

Lipset, Seymour Martin, 286, 668

“List of Satanists” (Icke), 8

Live Oak, 484, 506–7

Locarno, Treaty of (1925), 126, 322, 323

Locke, Alain, 215

Lodge, George, 565, 624, 672

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 379, 466, 591, 597, 598, 602, 603, 604, 605, 809, 816, 860

as ambassador to South Vietnam, 591–97, 624, 633–34, 654, 659, 674, 680, 686, 687, 690

HAK as consultant to, 624–25, 633–34, 637–44, 660–62, 680, 684, 688

1964 presidential campaign of, 597, 598, 600, 602, 603, 604, 605

as Nixon’s 1960 running mate, 466, 591