as third-party candidate, 220–22, 234, 251, 323
Truman Doctrine opposed by, 207–8
Truman’s firing of, 202–5
Wall Street, xxxii, 7, 41, 55, 64, 73, 112, 122, 138, 184, 197, 231, 290, 426, 545–46, 547
under Obama, 550–54, 556–58, 560
opposition to, xxi, 48
rejection of gold standard and, 54
Wall Street Journal, xv, 34, 221–22, 256, 293, 343, 419, 432, 485, 493–94, 554, 567, 600
war crimes, G. W. Bush administration and, 499–500, 507, 511
War Department, U.S., 12, 19, 176, 177, 196, 199–200, 205
War Industries Board (WIB), 50
War Is a Racket (Butler), xxxi–xxxiii
Warnke, Paul, 404–5
War Powers Act of 1973, 472–73, 494
War Production Board, 122–23
War Relocation Authority (WRA), 154, 156
Warren, Earl, 151–52
Warren Commission, 323
war reparations, U.S.-German, 82
Warriors of Islam, 260
Warsaw, 111, 115, 157, 182
Warsaw Pact, 297, 298, 313, 469, 537
Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), 153
Washington, D.C., xix, 20, 121, 242, 335
antiwar protests in, 369, 370
Washington, George, xxvii, 94, 289
Washington Evening Star, 19
Washington Post, 9–10, 16, 19, 64, 68, 69–71, 77, 108, 126, 148, 182, 191, 192, 195, 225, 249, 262, 272, 278, 284, 300, 338, 370, 385, 418–19, 423, 435, 464, 472, 476, 500, 504, 506, 510, 520, 530–31, 532, 539, 553, 556–57, 559, 564–65, 566, 567, 570, 575, 578, 588, 589, 591, 598, 611
waterboarding, xxvii, 508–10, 511
Watergate scandal, 387, 389–90, 401, 494
Watson, Thomas, 78–79
wealth inequities, global, 546–47
weapons of mass destruction (WMD), 482
Webster, William, 461, 475
Weekly Standard, xv, 503
Weinberger, Caspar, 442–43, 457–59, 466
Weiner, Tim, 213, 263, 279, 542
welfare state, 400–401
Wells, H. G., 23, 30, 132, 133
Werth, Alexander, 127–28, 172
West Berlin, 356
Western Defense Command, 156
Westmoreland, William, 340–41
West Point, 459, 586, 599
West Virginia, Knights of the White Camelia in, 53
Wheeler, Burton, 93–94
Wheeler, Earle, 330, 333–34
White, John Campbell, 38–39
White House Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives, 495
White House Special Investigations Unit (“Plumbers”), 386
Whitman, Walt, xviii, 43, 367
Whitney, George, 36, 73
WikiLeaks, 26, 459, 562–64, 569, 576, 583, 613
Will, George, 480, 514
Willkie, Wendell, 90, 93, 108
Wilson, Edmund, 56, 60
Wilson, Harold, 329, 340
Wilson, Woodrow, xiv, 1–3, 5–6, 17, 26, 28–30, 28, 29, 36, 39–40, 73–76, 103, 253, 354, 355, 392
declaration of war by, 7–8, 29, 75, 97, 98
failures of, 43–44
Fourteen Points of, 27, 30–33, 34, 98, 464
League of Nations and, 30, 32, 35–36, 37, 44
Mexico policy of, 2–3
at Paris Peace Conference, 30–35, 34, 44
“peace without victory” speech of, 6, 31
“world safe for democracy” speech of, 7, 31
Winged Defense (Mitchell), 24
Winthrop, John, xiii–xiv
wiretapping, 551, 563–64
Wisner, Frank, 213–14, 226, 348
Wolfowitz, Paul, 383–84, 397, 427, 466, 479, 480, 482–83, 485, 489, 490, 498, 503, 513–14, 519, 601, 685n
on Iraq, 502, 503, 512–14, 529
larger agenda of, 504
Woman’s Peace Party, 6
women, in Afghanistan, 488, 489, 579, 580
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 65
Woodward, Bob, 472, 495, 504, 578, 586
Woolsey, James, 491, 514, 685n
workers, xviii–xix, 52, 56, 57–58, 66
communism’s appeal for, 26–27
declining wages of, 545–46, 554–55
strikes by, xviii–xix, 33–34, 35
World War I and, 4, 5
working class, 436, 551, 554
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 61, 62
World Bank, 111, 337, 345, 375, 477, 484–85, 530
World Economic Conference of 1933, 54
World Trade Center, 500, 502, 504, 507
World War I, 3–28, 41, 44, 45, 50, 73–76, 100, 116, 141, 354, 521, 596–97
aerial warfare in, 23–24, 25
antiwar sentiment and, 5, 7, 8
beginning of, 3, 4, 87
casualties in, 18, 20
chemical weapons in, 18–26, 27
oil production during, 4, 38
profiteering investigations regarding, 65–79, 82–83
propaganda in, 8–10, 9
World War II, xv, 70, 87, 182, 190, 211, 227, 273, 303, 354, 358, 387, 414, 464, 481, 505, 538, 568
atomic bomb and, xiv, 44, 118, 120, 129, 131–37, 142–44, 146, 157–81, 236
end of, 181, 199
as “good war,” 87
Reagan’s imagined service in, 422–23
U.S. entry into, 44
Wurmser, David, 685n
Wyoming, 153, 154
Yale University, 424, 464, 523, 524, 542
Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, 576
Yalta Agreement, 114–17, 118, 122–24, 128, 144, 164
Yeltsin, Boris, 481, 484–86, 487
drone campaign in, 574, 575
Yergin, Daniel, 38
Yoo, John, 501, 511
Young, Andrew, 404, 408
Yugoslavia, 87, 114, 129, 206, 208–9, 257, 486
Zarqawi, Abu Musab al-, 510
Zawahiri, Ayman al-, 460, 528, 530
Zelikow, Philip, 500–501
Zhou Enlai, 238, 268
Zhukov, Georgi, 108, 172, 248
Zia ul-Haq, Muhammad, 415, 416, 429, 459–60
Zinni, Anthony, 523, 528
Zoellick, Robert B., 685n
Zubaydah, Abu, 509–10
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Federal Bureau of Investigation: page 235
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