1960 vote in
1964 election and, 9.1, 9.2
two-office problem of
Texas Broadcasting Company
Texas Cattle Kingdom
Texas National Bank
Texas Observer
Texas State Board of Insurance
Thimmesch, Nick, 3.1, 8.1
Thomas, Albert, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1
Thomas, Donald, 3.1, 21.1
Thomas, Evan, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 10.1, 14.1, 24.1, 24.2
Thomas, George, 7.1, 12.1
Thompson, Llewellyn
Thornberry, Homer, 4.1, 4.2, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 16.1, 20.1
Thurmond, Strom, 16.1, 18.1
Tierney, Gene
Tilden, Samuel J.
Time, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 19.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 21.5, 25.1
Times (London), 15.1
Timmons, Bascom
Tippit, J. D., 13.1, 16.1
Tippit, Marie
Today
Tower, John
Travell, Janet, 2.1, 2.2, 13.1
Treasury Department, U.S., 19.1, 22.1
Trinity River Navigation Project
Trujillo, Rafael
Truman, Bess
Truman, Harry S., 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 17.1, 18.1, 19.1
Fair Deal program of, 18.1, 21.1
presidential transition of
Rowe’s Armageddon memo to
southern conservative coalition and
swearing-in of
Vaughan scandal and
Tuchman, Barbara
Turkey
Turner, Bessie
Turnure, Pamela, 12.1, 13.1
TVA
Twelfth Amendment
Twentieth Amendment
Twenty-fifth Amendment
Tyler, Carole, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Tyler, John, 4.1, 13.1
U-2 shootdown incident
Udall, Stewart, 13.1, 16.1, 23.1, 25.1
United Automobile Workers (UAW), 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 9.1, 16.1, 20.1
United Mine Workers
United Nations, 8.1, 16.1, 16.2
United Press International, 9.1, 12.1, 23.1
United States Steel Corporation
United Steelworkers of America, 4.1, 16.1, 20.1, 20.2
Unruh, Jesse
Urban Affairs Department, U.S.
USIA
U.S. News & World Report, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1
Utah, 3.1, 10.1
Valenti, Jack, 12.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 19.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 25.1
JFK assassination and, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5
LBJ-Byrd meeting described by
LBJ’s demeanor described by, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
at state governors conference
Valeo, Francis R.
Van Buren, Martin, 4.1, 13.1
vanden Heuvel, William, 8.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
Vanderbilt, Jeanne Murray
Van Kirk, Burkett, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Vantage Point, The (Johnson), 19.1
Vatican
Vaughan, Harry
Vend, 10.1, 10.2
Vidal, Gore
Viet Cong, 16.1, 16.2, 21.1
Vietnam, Democratic Republic of (North Vietnam), 16.1, 16.2, 21.1
Vietnam, Republic of (South Vietnam), 16.1, 21.1
Vietnam War, itr.1, 26.1
Krulak commission report on, 21.1, 21.2
LBJ’s hardening view of
1964 election and
OPLAN 34–A and, 16.1, 21.1
in State of the Union address
troop replacement policy for
U.S. aims in
Virginia, 5.1, 5.2, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2
“Viva Kennedy” committees, 5.1, 5.2
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 23.1, 26.1
Waco News-Tribune
Wagner, Robert F., 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1
Wagner Act of 1935
Waldron, Bob
Wallace, George
Wallace, Henry A.
Wall Street Journal, 3.1, 21.1
Walsh, David
Walton, William, 7.1, 16.1
War on Poverty, itr.1, 21.1, 26.1
announcement of
budget issue in
Heller’s role in, 21.1, 21.2
LBJ’s childhood poverty and
NYA model for, 21.1, 21.2
provenance of
in State of the Union address
Warren, Earl, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1, 17.2
Warren, Nina Elisbeth Palmquist
Warren Commission
Congress and, 17.1, 17.2
creation of, 17.1, 17.2
FBI and, 16.1, 17.1
fear of conspiracy and, 17.1, 17.2
media reaction to
members of, 17.1, 17.2
purpose of
report of, 17.1, 24.1, 26.1
Washington, George, 8.1, 19.1, 21.1
Washington Afro-American
Washington Evening Star, 3.1, 5.1
Washington Monument
Washington National Cathedral
Washington Post, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 22.2, 24.1
Washington Star, 3.1, 4.1, 20.1
Washington State, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Washington State Democratic Convention of 1960
Webb, James E., 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 23.1
Wechsler, James
Weisl, Edwin, 3.1, 3.2, 16.1, 16.2
West, J. B.
West, Wesley
Westinghouse Broadcasting
West Virginia, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1
Wheeler, Keith, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2
White, Byron “Whizzer,”
White, Lee, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1
White, Theodore H., 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 13.1, 16.1, 24.1, 25.1
White Stars club
Whittington, Gerri, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2
Why England Slept (Kennedy), 2.1
Wickenden, Elizabeth, 8.1, 21.1
Wicker, Tom, 7.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 16.1, 16.2, 21.1, 21.2, 25.1, 26.1
Wiesner, Jerome B.
Wiley, Mary Margaret, 3.1, 3.2
Wilkins, Roy, 3.1, 19.1, 20.1
Williams, G. Mennen “Soapy,” 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 20.1
Williams, John J., 10.1, 10.2, 19.1, 22.1, 26.1
Williamson, Hugh
Willkie, Wendell
Wilson, Henry, 20.1, 20.2
Wilson, Will
Wilson, Woodrow, 16.1, 21.1, 21.2
Wirtz, Willard, 3.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 21.1
Wisconsin, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1
Wofford, Harris
Wolfe, Herbert E.
Woodcock, Leonard
Woods, Howard B., 3.1, 20.1
World War I, 8.1, 17.1
World War II, 3.1, 18.1
JFK in, 2.1, 2.2
LBJ in
Worley, Ann
Worley, Gene
Wortham, Gus
Wright, James C., 3.1, 3.2, 8.1
Wright, Sammy
Wright, Zephyr, 16.1, 20.1
Wyoming, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 8.1
Yale Law Journal
Yalta Conference (1945)
Yarborough, Ralph W., 11.1, 11.2, 16.1
Connally’s feud with, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2
Kennedy’s LBJ ranch visit and, 10.1, 11.1
Young, Stephen M.
Young, Whitney, 16.1, 20.1, 20.2
Youngblood, Rufus W., 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
Youth Conservation Corps
Zapruder, Abraham
Illustration Credits
Associated Press: ill.10, ill.32, ill.41
C Bettmann/Corbis: ill.48
C John Bryson/ Sygma/Cor
bis: ill.9
Hulton Archive/Getty Images: ill.39
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum: ill.7, ill.16, ill.17, ill.30, ill.34, ill.35
Bill Berger, Hondo Anvil Herald, ill.15
Jeff Broody, ill.1
Dallas Times-Herald, ill.20, ill.21
Lawrence Krebs, ill.2
R. L. Knudsen, ill.25
Dan Lewis, ill.36
Frank Muto, ill.18, ill.19, ill.24
Yoichi Okamoto, ill.42, ill.43, ill.49, ill.50, ill.51, ill.52, ill.53, ill.55, ill.56
Abbie Rowe, ill.26
Cecil Stoughton, ill.29, ill.37, ill.38, ill.44, ill.45, ill.46, ill.47, ill.54
U. S. Army, ill.22, ill.23
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston: ill.3, ill.4
C Look/Douglas Jones, ill.6
Abbie Rowe, ill.40
Cecil Stoughton, White House, ill.28, ill.33
C John Vachon, Look Magazine, ill.5
Jacques Lowe: ill.8, ill.11, ill.12, ill.13, ill.14, ill.27
Illustrations
Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (illustration credit ill.1)
1957: Senators celebrate the Leader’s forty-ninth birthday. Left to right: Richard Russell, unidentified, Harry Byrd, William Knowland, George Smathers, LBJ, Sam Ervin (behind LBJ), J. William Fulbright, Hubert Humphrey, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kerr (illustration credit ill.2)
Joseph P. Kennedy with sons Joe Jr., John and Robert (illustration credit ill.3)
June, 1946: Congressional candidate John Kennedy leads Boston’s Bunker Hill Day parade minutes before collapsing. The next day he won the primary. (illustration credit ill.4)
The brothers. Conferring in JFK’s office, May, 1959. (illustration credit ill.5)
The brothers. Questioning a witness at the McClellan Rackets Committee (RFK was chief counsel). (illustration credit ill.6)
The 1960 Democratic National Convention. Lucy, Lady Bird, LBJ, Lynda. (illustration credit ill.7)
The 1960 Democratic National Convention. LBJ and JFK at the Pennsylvania caucus. (illustration credit ill.8)
The 1960 Democratic National Convention. LBJ and RFK listening as John Kennedy speaks at the Massachusetts/Texas delegation debate. (illustration credit ill.9)
The 1960 Democratic National Convention. RFK whispers to LBJ after his arrival at the Los Angeles Coliseum. (illustration credit ill.10)
JFK chooses LBJ as his running mate: July 14, 1960. 8 a.m.—JFK calls Lyndon to request a meeting. (illustration credit ill.11)
JFK chooses LBJ as his running mate: July 14, 1960. 10:45—Returning from the meeting, JFK announces its result, and Pennsylvania’s Governor David Lawrence congratulates him. Looking on: Matt McCloskey. (illustration credit ill.12)
JFK chooses LBJ as his running mate: July 14, 1960. Late afternoon—LBJ, RFK and JFK discuss threats of a floor fight. (illustration credit ill.13)
JFK chooses LBJ as his running mate: July 14, 1960. The Kennedy brothers at the end of the day. (illustration credit ill.14)
The candidates and their wives together at Hyannis Port after the convention (illustration credit ill.15)
The candidates, with Congressman Albert Thomas, campaigning in September in Houston (illustration credit ill.16)
The “LBJ Special” whistle-stop tour of the South (illustration credit ill.17)
LBJ campaigning in Oklahoma. (illustration credit ill.18)
LBJ campaigning in Pennsylvania. (illustration credit ill.19)
The incident at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas that turned the tide for the Democratic ticket in Texas (illustration credit ill.20)
The incident at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas that turned the tide for the Democratic ticket in Texas (illustration credit ill.21)
January 20, 1961: Inauguration Day. Speaker Sam Rayburn swears in Lyndon Johnson as Vice President. Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy are on the left; Richard M. Nixon is on the right. (illustration credit ill.22)
The new President and Vice President review the inaugural parade. (illustration credit ill.23)
A Texas Society reception for Johnson: Lynda, Lady Bird, LBJ and Lucy, who is kissing Sam Rayburn. (illustration credit ill.24)
The Vice President overshadowed. The President pledging support for Equal Employment Opportunity as LBJ looks on. (illustration credit ill.25)
The Vice President overshadowed. The President signing a bill at his desk in the Oval Office as LBJ looks on. (illustration credit ill.26)
The Vice President overshadowed. The President confers with a congressional delegation. (illustration credit ill.27)
The Cuban Missile Crisis. October 29, 1962: ExComm meets in the cabinet room. Around the table, clockwise, from Attorney General Robert Kennedy (standing at left): Deputy USIA Director Donald Wilson; Special Counsel Ted Sorensen (behind him Executive Secretary NSC Bromley Smith); Special Assistant McGeorge Bundy; Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon, Vice President LBJ; former Ambassador to Russia Llewellyn Thompson; William C. Forster; JFK; Secretary of State Dean Rusk; CIA Director John McCone (partially obscured); Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Maxwell Taylor; Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze (illustration credit ill.28)
Arriving in Texas, November 21, 1963: (from the top) Representative Jack Brooks, unidentifi ed, Senator Ralph Yarborough, Representative Albert Thomas, Governor John Connally, Nellie Connally, President and Mrs. Kennedy greeted by Vice President and Mrs. Johnson. (illustration credit ill.29)
November 22: President Kennedy speaking in Fort Worth. Behind him, from the foreground, LBJ, Governor John Connally and Senator Ralph Yarborough (illustration credit ill.30)
The Bobby Baker scandal had already erupted and on November 22 was heating up in Washington and New York.
The Bobby Baker scandal had already erupted and on November 22 was heating up in Washington and New York. (illustration credit ill.32)
Dallas: the motorcade (illustration credit ill.33)
Dallas: the motorcade (illustration credit ill.34)
LBJ leaves Parkland Hospital after the death of JFK. Secret Service Agent Rufus Youngblood is at left, and Representative Homer Thornberry at right. (illustration credit ill.35)
Back in Washington, at Andrews Air Force Base, the new President speaks to the nation. (illustration credit ill.36)
On Air Force One in Dallas, LBJ—with Lady Bird and Jacqueline Kennedy by his side—is sworn in as President by Judge Sarah T. Hughes. (illustration credit ill.37)
November 23: President and Mrs. Johnson leave the East Room after paying their respects. (illustration credit ill.38)
November 24: The procession from the White House to the Capitol. (illustration credit ill.39)
The casket is carried into the Capitol, followed by Jacqueline Kennedy and the family. (illustration credit ill.40)
Leaving the Capitol after the eulogies, Jacqueline Kennedy with Caroline and John, (behind them) RFK, Sydney Lawford, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Peter Lawford; Jean Kennedy Smith, Stephen E. Smith, LBJ and Mrs. Johnson. Rufus Youngblood is left of Johnson. (illustration credit ill.41)
LBJ in the Oval Office. (illustration credit ill.42)
Moving in to the White House: Lucy is escorting the beagles; Lady Bird is carrying her favorite picture of Sam Rayburn. (illustration credit ill.43)
Taking command. LBJ meets with the state governors in the Executive Office Building. (illustration credit ill.44)
Taking command. LBJ in the first meeting on Vietnam, with (from left) Ambassador to South Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Undersecretary of State George Ball. (illustration credit ill.45)
Taking command. LBJ with the press. (illustration credit ill.46)
Taking command. LBJ with members of Congress at a White House breakfast. To LBJ’s right is House Speaker John McCormack, to his left is Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. (illus
tration credit ill.47)
In Texas, over Christmas. The first state visit: German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, happy with his new ten-gallon hat, with the Johnsons at the barbecue state dinner in the Stonewall High School gymnasium, near Fredericksburg (illustration credit ill.48)
LBJ strides across a field on his ranch with reporter James Reston and his white-faced Herefords. (illustration credit ill.49)
LBJ chats with the press in his living room. (illustration credit ill.50)
The Harry Byrd lunch: wooing him in the White House (illustration credit ill.51)
The Harry Byrd lunch: wooing him in the White House (illustration credit ill.52)
The Harry Byrd lunch: wooing him in the White House (illustration credit ill.53)
The State of the Union address, January 8, 1964 (illustration credit ill.54)
President Lyndon Baines Johnson in charge (illustration credit ill.55)
Robert Kennedy in mourning (illustration credit ill.56)
A Note About the Author
For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best nonfiction book of the year, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best “exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist.” In 2010, he received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama.
To create his first book, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Caro spent seven years tracing and talking with hundreds of men and women who worked with, for, or against Robert Moses, including a score of his top aides. He examined mountains of files never opened to the public. Everywhere acclaimed as a modern classic, The Power Broker was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. It is, according to David Halberstam, “Surely the greatest book ever written about a city.” And The New York Times Book Review said: “In the future, the scholar who writes the history of American cities in the twentieth century will doubtless begin with this extraordinary effort.”
To research The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Caro and his wife, Ina, moved from his native New York City to the Texas Hill Country and then to Washington, D.C., to live in the locales in which Johnson grew up and in which he built, while still young, his first political machine. Caro has spent years examining documents at the Johnson Library in Austin and interviewing men and women connected with Johnson’s life, many of whom had never before been interviewed. The first volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power, was cited by The Washington Post as “proof that we live in a great age of biography … [a book] of radiant excellence … Caro’s evocation of the Texas Hill Country, his elaboration of Johnson’s unsleeping ambition, his understanding of how politics actually work, are—let it be said flat-out—at the summit of American historical writing.” Professor Henry F. Graff of Columbia University called the second volume, Means of Ascent, “brilliant. No brief review does justice to the drama of the story Caro is telling, which is nothing less than how present-day politics was born.” And the London Times hailed volume three, Master of the Senate, as “a masterpiece … Robert Caro has written one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age.”
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