Title: Let us begin anew : an oral history of the Kennedy presidency /
Authors: Strober, Gerald S.; Strober, Deborah Hart, 1940-; Strober, Deborah H. 1940-
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Kennedy, John F.; Presidents United States Election; Oral history; United States Politics and government
Abstract: "Let Us Begin Anew" is a startlingly vivid inside look at what it was like to be a member or a close witness - friendly or hostile - of the Kennedy administration. The nearly 120 people interviewed for this book, speaking informally and from the less-pressured perspective of thirty years later, include men and women who worked for the president or observed him as insiders, from his decision to run for the Democratic nomination in 1960 through the aftermath of the.
Contents: 1. The 1960 Campaign -- 2. The Kennedy Appeal -- 3. Kennedy's Political Philosophy -- 4. The Kennedy Family and the Presidency -- 5. Was There a Dynasty in the Making? -- 6. Cabinet Appointments -- 7. Sub-Cabinet-Level Appointments -- 8. President Kennedy's Administrative Style -- 9. Lyndon Johnson -- 10. Foreign Affairs -- 11. Kennedy's Knowledge of, and Policy on, Various Issues -- 12. J. Edgar Hoover and the Kennedys -- 13. Civil Rights -- 14. The Bay of Pigs -- 15. The Vienna Summit -- 16. The Berlin Crisis -- 17. The Cuban Missile Crisis -- 18. Vietnam -- 19. The Assassination -- 20. Camelot -- 21. If Kennedy Had Lived -- 22. The Kennedy Legacy -- Appendix A Schedule of Interviews -- Appendix B The Interviewees: Where Are They Today?