The Passage of Power

by Robert A. Caro

  “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