“At the same”: Salinger, With Kennedy, p. 346; WP, March 20, 1964.
A “bombshell”: Lady Bird Johnson, A White House Diary, p. 96.
“The nostalgic pretense”: James Reston, NYT, March 20, 1964. “Do you approve?”: WP, March 11, 1964. March and April: WP, May 15, 1964. “Two out of three”: LAT, May 15, 1964. “Every President”: WP, July 1, 1945. “Compare favorably”: WP, May 15, 1964. “In the few”: Joseph Alsop, WP, April 20, 1964. “The most energetic”: Marquis Childs, WP, May 27, 1964. “The same”: NYT, May 3, 1964. “The Johnson Administration”: Roscoe Drummond, LAT, May 14, 1964. “In a good deal less”: Richard Rovere, “Letter from Washington,” The New Yorker, Feb. 15, 1964.
A hard man to beat: Gallup Poll, March 1964, “Poll Data Bank,” The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. “President Johnson’s”: “Republicans: The Man to Beat,” Time, May 8, 1964.
26. Long Enough
“History will record”: Sidey, quoted in Middleton, LBJ: The White House Years, p. 13. “recognized rule”: Feerick, From Failing Hands, p. 20. “Everything I had ever learned”: Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson, p.178. “Kennedy’s assassination touched”: Patterson, Grand Expectations, p. 531.
“A measure must be sent”: Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson, pp. 226–27. Johnson also said: “In some ways Congress is like a dangerous animal that you’re trying to make work for you. You push him a little bit and he may go just as you want but you push him too much and he may balk and turn on you. You’ve got to sense just how much he’ll take and what kind of a mood he’s in every day. For if you don’t have a feel for him, he’s liable to turn around and go wild. And it all depends on your sense of timing.”
“Almost at once”: Reedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, p. 137. “It is difficult”: Tom Wicker, “Hey, Hey, LBJ …,” Esquire, Dec. 1983.
Index
ABC, 9.1, 13.1
Abell, Bess
Abilene Reporter-News
Acheson, Dean, 8.1, 21.1
Ackley, Gardner, 16.1, 16.2
Adams, John, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 21.1
Adams, Sherman, 10.1, 10.2
ADA World
Adenauer, Konrad
AFL-CIO, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 20.1, 20.2
Agriculture Department, U.S., 6.1, 7.1, 21.1
in 1965 budget debate, 19.1, 19.2
Air Force, U.S., 7.1, 9.1
Air Force One, 7.1, 7.2, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1, 20.1, 26.1
in flight from Dallas to Washington, D.C., itr.1, itr.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
in flight to Dallas
Air Force Two, 12.1, 23.1
Alaska
Albert, Carl, 7.1, 16.1, 20.1, 20.2
Alexander, Birge
Alexander, Lucia Johnson
Alger, Bruce
Algeria
Allen, Robert S.
Alliance for Progress, 18.1, 24.1
Alsop, Joseph, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1, 17.1, 25.1
American Association for the United Nations
American Civil Liberties Union, 3.1, 8.1
American General Insurance Company
American Jewish Congress
American Power Company
Americans for Democratic Action
American Telephone and Telegraph
Anderson, Clinton, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1, 22.1, 23.1
Anderson, Marian
Anderson, Robert B., 3.1, 3.2, 16.1, 16.2, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
anti-Semitism
appropriations bill, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2, 20.1, 20.2, 23.1, 25.1
Area Redevelopment Program
Arends, Leslie C.
Arizona, 3.1, 3.2, 23.1
Arkansas, 3.1, 9.1
Arlington National Cemetery, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 24.1, 25.1
Army Corps of Engineers, U.S.
Arthur, Chester A., 4.1, 13.1
Arvey, Jake
Associated Press, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 21.1
Atlanta Constitution
Atomic Energy Commission
Bailey, John, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 4.1, 10.1
Bailey, Oreole, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4
Baines, Huffman, 21.1, 21.2
Baker, Dorothy
Baker, Robert G. “Bobby,” itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1
RFK’s confrontation with
scandal of, see Baker scandal
vice-presidency offer to LBJ as viewed by, 4.1, 4.2
Baker, Russell, 6.1, 8.1, 21.1, 25.1
Baker scandal
Baker’s business transactions and
Baker’s resignation in
campaign funds and
conviction in
D.C. stadium deal and
Fortas and
Johnson business holdings and
Johnson business kickbacks and
Lady Bird’s “soft soap” in
LBJ Company and
LBJ’s wealth and
Life’s coverage of, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 21.1, 26.1
media and, 10.1, 10.2
Reynolds’s revelations in, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2
RFK and
Senate reaction to
Serv-U Corp. lawsuit and, 10.1, 10.2
sex in, 10.1, 10.2
White House connection to
Williams’s investigation of, 10.1, 10.2
Baldrige, Tish
Ball, George, 8.1, 8.2, 13.1, 16.1
Baltimore Sun, 21.1, 21.2
Barksdale Air Force Base
Barnes, Ben
Barnett, Ross, 3.1, 8.1
Barr, Joe
Bartlett, Charles, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 24.1
Bartlett, Edward L.
Battle, John S.
Baudouin, King of the Belgians, 15.1, 26.1
Bay of Pigs invasion, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
Beaverbrook, Lord
Beer, Sam
Behn, Gerald, 13.1, 13.2
BeLieu, Kenneth E., 6.1, 8.1
Bell, Jack, 2.1, 7.1, 9.1
Ben-Gurion, David
Berlin, Isaiah
Berlin, Richard
Bickel, Alexander
Biemiller, Andrew
Bigart, Homer
Billings, Lem, 2.1, 2.2
Bissell, Richard
Black, Fred
Black, Hugo
Black Jack (horse), 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 26.1
Black Stars social club
Blakley, William A.
Boatner, Charles, 8.1, 8.2
Boggs, Hale, 4.1, 9.1, 17.1, 20.1
Bohlen, Charles E. “Chip,”
Boise, Tom, 3.1, 3.2
Bolling, Richard, 3.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 23.1, 23.2
Bolshakov, Georgy
Boozer, Yolanda
Boston Herald
Boston Post, 2.1, 8.1
Bowles, Chester, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Bradlee, Ben, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 14.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
Brinkley, David, 15.1, 15.2
Broder, David S., 3.1, 3.2
Broderick, Tom
Brooklyn Eagle
Brooks, Jack, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Brough, Frank
Brown, Clarence, 20.1, 20.2, 23.1
Brown, George R., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 9.1, 21.1
Brown, Herman, 3.1, 6.1, 21.1
Brown, Pat, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 9.1, 16.1, 16.2
Brown & Root, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 6.1, 9.1, 20.1, 21.1
Brown vs. Board of Education, 3.1, 17.1, 18.1
Bruce, David
Bryan, William Jennings
Bucharest
Budget and Accounting Act of 1921
Budget Bureau, 6.1, 9.1, 16.1, 16.2, 19.1, 21.1, 22.1
Agriculture Department and, 19.1, 19.2
base-closing issue and, 21.1, 21.2
Byrd and, 16.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 22.1
in State of the Union address, 21.1, 21.2,
21.3
budget of 1965, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 21.1, 22.1
Bunche, Ralph
Bundy, McGeorge, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6, 16.7, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1
in Cuban Missile Crisis, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
in JFK-LBJ transition, 13.1, 16.1
in Johnson Ranch visit
Vietnam conflict and, 16.1, 21.1
Bundy, William P.
Burdick, Quentin N.
Burke, Vincent J.
Burkley, George G.
Burns, George
Burns, James MacGregor, 2.1, 13.1
Burris, Howard L., 7.1, 8.1
Busby, Horace, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1, 19.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
in bedtime episode
on LBJ moniker
at LBJ-RFK first meeting
LBJ’s demeanor described by, 12.1, 12.2
LBJ’s reprimand of
LBJ’s vice-presidential role and, 7.1, 7.2
Busch, August
Business Advisory Council, 16.1, 20.1
Byrd, Harry, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 25.1
background of
economic philosophy of, 19.1, 19.2
LBJ’s relationship with, 19.1, 22.1
1965 budget debate and, 16.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 22.1
racism of
Roosevelt and
Senate power of, 19.1, 19.2
tax bill and, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 18.1, 18.2, 20.1, 20.2, 22.1, 22.2
Byrd, Harry Flood, Jr.
Byrd, Robert C., 1.1, 3.1, 6.1
Byrd, Westwood
Byrd, William
Califano, Joseph, 3.1, 8.1, 25.1
California, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 9.1, 25.1
Cambodia
Camelot
Candid Camera (TV show), 8.1, 13.1
Cannon, Clarence, 4.1, 18.1, 23.1
Capron, William M., 21.1, 21.2
Carlton, John “Jake,”
Carousel Motel, 10.1, 10.2
Carpenter, Leslie
Carpenter, Liz, 7.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 16.1
Carr, Waggoner
Carroll Arms, “Quorum Club” at
Carswell Air Force Base
Carter, Amon, Jr.
Carter, Amon, Sr.
Carter, Cliff, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1
Castro, Fidel, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 24.1, 24.2
CBS News, 4.1, 4.2, 12.1, 13.1
Celler, Emanuel, 20.1, 23.1
Central Arizona Water Project
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 6.1, 8.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 17.1, 24.1
in Bay of Pigs invasion, 7.1, 7.2
Operation Mongoose of, 8.1, 24.1, 24.2
Chambers, James F., Jr.
Chaney, James
Chapman, Oscar, 3.1, 3.2
Charleston (South Carolina) Courier
Chavchavadze, Helen
Chavez, Dennis, 1.1, 3.1
Chicago Daily News, 3.1, 10.1
Chicago Tribune, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 21.1
Childs, Marquis, 2.1, 6.1, 13.1, 16.1, 21.1, 23.1, 25.1
China, People’s Republic of, 16.1, 21.1
Choosing War (Logevall)
Christian Science Monitor
Church, Frank
Churchill, Pamela
civil rights, itr.1, itr.2, 4.1, 13.1
in Birmingham crisis, 9.1, 9.2
clergymen’s role in
congressional stalemate on, see Civil Rights Act of 1964
Forty Acres incident and
LBJ’s early voting record on
in Meredith crisis, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
Mississippi violence and
in presidential transition
in St. Augustine dinner episode, 9.1, 16.1
in State of the Union address
Civil Rights Act of 1957, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 13.1, 16.1, 18.1, 20.1, 23.1
Part III of
Civil Rights Act of 1960, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 13.1, 16.1, 20.1, 23.1
Civil Rights Act of 1964, itr.1, 16.1, 19.1, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 25.1, 26.1, 26.2
civil rights leaders and
cloture motions in, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3
congressional deadlock on, itr.1, 13.1, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2
discharge petition in, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 23.1
filibuster on, 22.1, 23.1
House passage of, 23.1, 23.2
JFK and, 13.1, 18.1, 23.1
LBJ’s advice to JFK on, 13.1, 18.1
LBJ’s signing of
Leadership Conference and, 3.1, 20.1
1964 election and
organized labor and, 20.1, 20.2
RFK and
Senate passage of
southern attempts at compromise on, 23.1, 23.2
Civil Rights Commission
Civil War, U.S.
Clark, Edward A., 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 21.1
Clark, Joseph, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 18.1, 18.2
Clark, Ramsey
Clark, Thomas, Harris, Denius & Winters
Clark, Tom, 8.1, 8.2
Clements, Earle, 4.1, 4.2
Cleveland, Grover
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cliburn, Van, 21.1, 21.2, 25.1
Clifford, Clark
Clifton, Ted, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 15.1
Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union
cloture vote, 9.1, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3
Coates, Winnie
Cohen, Ben
Cohn, Roy
Cold War, 3.1, 17.1
Collier, Everett, 21.1, 21.2
Collins, Chairman
Collins, LeRoy
Colmer, William M.
Colorado, 3.1, 3.2
Commerce Department, U.S.
Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity (CEEO), 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1
changed mandate of
community action concept
Congress, U.S., itr.1, itr.2, 8.1, 8.2, 16.1, 21.1, 21.2
appropriations bills in, 18.1, 18.2, 20.1, 20.2, 23.1, 25.1
civil rights bill deadlocked in, 13.1, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2
court-packing scheme and
LBJ’s joint address to
1948 election and
southern coalition in, itr.1, 18.1, 18.2
Warren Commission and, 17.1, 17.2
see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.
Congressional Quarterly
Congressional Record
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Connally, Ben
Connally, John, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 21.1
JFK assassination and, 11.1, 11.2, 16.1
JFK’s meeting with
political rise of
and vice-presidency offer to LBJ, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
Yarborough’s feud with, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2
Connally, Nellie, 7.1, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2
Connally, Tom
Connor, Bull
Constitution, U.S., 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 12.1, 18.1, 26.1
Article II of, 6.1, 12.1
Article I of
separation of powers in
Twelfth Amendment of
Twentieth Amendment of
Twenty-fifth Amendment of
vice-presidential powers in
Constitutional Convention of 1787
Conway, Jack, 4.1, 4.2, 9.1
Cook, Donald
Coolidge, Calvin, 4.1, 13.1
Cooper, John Sherman
Corallo, Anthony “Tony Ducks,”
Corbin, Paul
Corcoran, Thomas G., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 8.1
Corcoran & Rowe
Cormier, Frank, 21.1,
21.2
Coronado, Thomas, 9.1, 20.1
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Cotton, Norris
Council of Economic Advisers, 16.1, 16.2, 21.1
Cox, Archibald, 8.1, 17.1
Cox, Ava Johnson, 8.1, 21.1, 21.2
Crider, Ben
Cronkite, Walter, 4.1, 12.1, 13.1
Cuba, itr.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 13.1, 17.1, 17.2, 21.1, 24.1, 26.1
Cuban Exile Brigade
Cuban Missile Crisis, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 8.1, 13.1, 14.1, 18.1, 24.1
blockade in, 8.1, 8.2
congressional meeting on
ExComm meetings on, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
JFK’s television address and
LBJ’s bellicosity in, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
onset of
Oval Office conference on
RFK in, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6
Turkey-missiles trade in, 8.1, 8.2
U-2 shootdown in, 8.1, 8.2
war hawks in, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Cushing, Richard Cardinal
Cyprus
Daley, Richard, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1
Dallas Junior Leaguers
Dallas Morning News, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 11.1
Dallas Times-Herald
Dallek, Robert, 2.1, 7.1, 7.2
Daniel, Price, 3.1, 5.1
Darden, William H.
Davis, James
Davis, Mary, 2.1, 2.2
Davis, Sid, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Deadlock of Democracy, The (Burns), 13.1
Deathe, Earl, 10.1, 21.1
Defense Department, U.S., 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 17.1, 18.1, 19.1, 21.1
base closing issue and
Defense Ministry, German
de Gaulle, Charles, 7.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 21.1, 26.1
Delaware, 3.1, 8.1
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Midwest Conference
Democratic National Committee, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 9.1, 9.2, 13.1, 13.2, 24.1
Democratic National Convention of 1956, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1
Democratic National Convention of 1960, itr.1, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 8.2
floor fight threat in, 4.1, 4.2
LBJ-JFK debate in
nominations in
opening of
vice-presidency issue in
voting in
Democratic National Convention of 1964, 13.1, 13.2, 21.1
Democratic Party, Kansas
Democratic Party, Texas
Democratic Party, U.S., itr.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 16.1, 16.2, 21.1
civil rights bill and
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, 1.1, 10.1
Denmark, 10.1, 10.2
Dent, Harry
De Sapio, Carmine, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2
Des Moines Register, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
De Valera, Eamon
Dewey, Thomas
Dillon, Douglas, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 12.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 19.1, 19.2, 24.1
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