Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (137 page)

total,
4
n,
10
,
11
,
447
,
578

women,
32

youth,
451
,
621

Pornography,
565
–66,
567

Port Huron Statement,
444
,
624

Portugal,
167
n

Potsdam conference,
5
,
107
–8,
156
,
362

Poussaint, Alvin,
659

Poverty: and African-Americans,
62
,
311
,
381
–82,
688

and Congress,
274

decline of,
64
,
451
,
673

and education,
570

and Eisenhower administration,
270
,
411

Michael Harrington on,
444

and life expectancy,
319

and Mexican-Americans,
62
,
311

and minorities,
788

and Native Americans,
311
,
377
,
723

and social class,
538

in the South,
23
,
325
,
530
,
536
–37

struggle against,
452
,
589
,
721
–22

and Students for a Democratic Society,
624
–25

and student protest,
446

and urban riots,
663
–64

War on Poverty,
533
–42

and women,
639

Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.,
29
,
406
,
569
,
666

Powell, Lewis,
733
,
734
n

The Power of Positive Thinking
(Peale),
332

Powers, Francis Gary,
425
,
426

Present at the Creation
(Acheson),
104

Presidential Commission on the Status of Women,
462
,
643

President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency,
533

Presley, Elvis,
372
–73,
374
,
408

Pressman, Lee,
51

Price, Cecil,
553

Princeton University,
102
,
113
,
252
,
417

Pritchett, Laurie,
472

Professional Golfers Association (PGA),
382

Progressive Citizens of America,
146
,
155
,
161

Protestant Catholic Jew
(Herberg),
328

Protestantism,
17

Pruitt-Igoe,
336
–37

The Public Interest
,
651
,
652

Public Works Administration,
26
–27

Quayle, J. Danforth,
632
n,
770
n

Quemoy,
281
,
290
,
299
–302,
303

Quo Vadis?
(film),
329

Race relations,
5
,
375
–406,
430
–33,
787

and busing,
732
–35

and Eisenhower administration,
411
–16

and foreign affairs,
475
,
481

and Johnson administration,
579
–88

and Kennedy administration,
468
–85

and Nixon administration,
723
–25,
730
–35

and popular culture,
347

and Vietnam War,
617
,
626

Radford, Arthur,
281
,
294
,
298
,
299
,
301

Radio,
10
,
165
,
238
,
286
,
349
,
354

Railroads,
47
–48,
71
,
274
,
334
–35

Randolph, A. Philip,
20
,
23
,
411
,
482
,
552
,
583
,
658

Rankin, John,
189
,
190

Rauh, Joseph,
484

Ravitch, Diane,
572

Rayburn, Sam,
93
,
138
,
228
,
262
,
411
,
461
,
462
,
466
,
528
–29

Reagan, Ronald: as conservative leader,
668
–69,
770

and counterculture,
670

elected Governor of California,
650
,
737

IranContra affair,
777
,
781

and radical right,
261

and Screen Actors Guild,
189
–90

and urban riots,
663
,
667

Rebel Without a Cause
(film),
347
,
370
,
372
,
672

Reconstruction,
142
,
413
,
415

Red
Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television
(1950),
238

The Red Menace
(film),
238

Red Scare,
182
,
183
,
263

of 1919,
187

and academe,
185
–87

and Cold War,
54
,
165
,
169

criticism of,
416

and American culture,
179

and Eisenhower,
261
,
312

and Korean War,
236

loyalty boards,
190

and Joseph McCarthy,
196
–205,
270

and 1952 election,
255

Red
Snow
(film),
239

Redbook
,
365

Reedy, George,
528

Rehnquist, William,
733
,
734
n

Reich, Charles,
712

Religion,
17
,
88
,
328
–33,
456
,
567
,
668

Religious Right,
669

Republican Party (GOP): and Acheson,
101

and civil rights,
482

in Congress,
251
,
264

conservatives within,
781

and Cuba,
500

division within,
251
–52

and Eisenhower,
249
–50

and foreign affairs,
127
,
128

and Korean War,
213
,
223

and Marshall Plan,
131

and New Deal,
55
,
57

1946 election,
145

1952 election,
254
,
259

1968 election,
698
,
701
,
703
,
706
–7

1970 election,
737

1972 election,
763

Nixon and,
735
,
736
–37

and McCarthyism,
202
,
203

rebuilt,
455
–56,
652
n

in the South,
24
,
560

and Truman,
160

and Vietnam War,
703

weakened by television,
259

Reston, James,
282
n,
283
,
304
,
564
,
650

Reuther, Walter: background,
41
–42,
44

and business,
45
,
50

and civil rights,
555

and communism,
54

and Industrial Union Department of AFL-CIO,
326

and Johnson,
544

and Korean war,
214

and John L. Lewis,
48

and Truman,
144
,
156

on escalation in Vietnam,
607
–8

and Henry Wallace,
157