Book One : Prelude to politics -- Candidate -- Campaign-trains and planes -- A changed world, formation of a cabinet, a mission to Korea -- Book Two : New duties, New Faces -- Trouble in NATO, Suez, Iran, Indochina -- Korea : The End of bloodshed -- The platform : promises to keep -- Some early decisions -- With churchilla dn laniel in bermuda-atoms for prace -- Life in the white house-tricycles in the corridor -- Book Three : The executive and the congress -- Problems of internal security -- Chaos in Indochina -- Power-electrical and political -- Three hurdles cleared : Western Europe, triests, guatemala -- Off-Year leection, 1954 -- Book Four : A new look at americ's defenses -- Formosa doctrine -- Laws for a changing America -- Meeting at Geneva -- Book Five : Heart attack -- Election-year politics -- Second beginning

1. United States -- Foreign relations -- 1956-1961
2. USA
3. United States -- Politic and government -- 1953-1961
4. World war II
5. Political science
6. International relations
7. United States -- History