“provide public work . . . from public funds”: Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, p. 50.
“wishy-washy”: Ibid., p. 51.
“the bottom up . . . was a living person”: Ibid., pp. 61–62.
“absurd . . . in professed ignorance”: FDR, “Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination for the Presidency,” July 2, 1932, PPA, 1:647.
“I pledge you . . . it is a call to arms”: Ibid.
“nearer to the final . . . the history of any land”: Burns and Dunn, The Three Roosevelts, p. 209.
At the slightest uptick in the stock market . . . the worst was over: Ibid.
“The country needs . . . try something”: FDR, “Address at Oglethorpe University,” May 22, 1932, PPA, 1:646.
CHAPTER EIGHT
Lyndon Johnson: “The most miserable period of my life”
“he could get . . . anybody else”: Birdwell Interview, April 1965.
“wunderkind”: Dallek, Lone Star Rising, p. 113.
“familiar with disappointments”: AL, “Communication to the People of Sangamon County,” March 9, 1832, CW, 1:9.
“a darn good sail”: Levin, The Making of FDR, p. 59.
“the most miserable period of my life”: DKG/LBJ Conversations.
“immediately interested”: Dallek, Lone Star Rising, p. 207.
“Lyndon Johnson . . . things together!”: April 22, 1941, Press Conferences of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933–1945, FDRL.
“If you really . . . and Lyndon B.”: Harfield Weedin Interview, Feb. 24, 1983, LBJOH.
“tremendously commanding presence”: Ibid.
“When my mother . . . days in the hospital”: Merle Miller, Lyndon, p. 84.
“nervous exhaustion”: Dallek, Lone Star Rising, p. 213.
“He was depressed and it was bad”: Jan Jarboe Russell, Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson (Waterville, Maine: Thorndike Press, 2000), p. 252.
“legal fees” or “bonuses”: Robert Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate (New York: Vintage, 2003), p. 685.
“shed his coat . . . talked turkey”: Brownsville Herald (Texas), June 19, 1941.
raffle ticket: Caro, The Path to Power, p. 710.
a photograph appeared: El Paso Herald Post, June 30, 1941.
“Lyndon Johnson . . . Election”: McAllen [Texas] Daily Press, June 29, 1941.
“Only Miracle . . . Anointed Out”: Caro, The Path to Power, p. 733.
“We gave him . . . he didn’t win”: Merle Miller, Lyndon, p. 106.
“I felt that . . . in my face”: Dallek, Lone Star Rising, p. 226.
“Lyndon . . . sit on ballot boxes”: Merle Miller, Lyndon, p. 88.
“I always believed . . . make him my friend”: DKG/LBJ Conversations.
“Some of us . . . very, very silent”: Robert Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent (New York, Vintage, 1991), p. 77.
“I always had . . . worlds to conquer”: O. C. Fisher Interview, May 8, 1969, LBJOH.
“Fits of depression . . . him after that”: Randall B. Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006), p. 158.
“had to get . . . devoured”: Dugger, The Politician, p. 216.
“I was literally working . . . I never took a breath”: Caro, The Path to Power, p. 494.
“Like two young oaks . . . intertwining”: Louis Kohlmeier, Ray Shaw, and Ed Cony, “The Johnson Wealth,” Wall Street Journal, March 23, 1964.
“I think the term . . . out of business”: Wichita Daily Times, April 9, 1947.
“I just could not bear . . . losing everything”: DKG/LBJ Conversations.
“You have to realize . . . election rolls around”: Joe Phipps, Summer Stock: Behind the Scenes with LBJ in ’48 (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1992), pp. 117–18.
“even worked . . . never stopped”: Dallek, Lone Star Rising, p. 306.
“This is Lyndon . . . all of you”: Woods, LBJ, p. 204.
“Hello there, Mr. Jones . . . at election time”: Merle Miller, Lyndon, p. 120.
“In 1948 . . . sort of fraud”: Dallek, Lone Star Rising, p. 327.
“They were stealin’ . . . actually won it”: Ibid., p. 347.
“folkways . . . norms of behavior”: Donald R. Matthews, U.S. Senators and Their World (New York: W. W. Norton, 1973), p. 92.
“the right man . . . the right time”: George Reedy, Lyndon B. Johnson: A Memoir (New York: Andrews & McMeel, 1982), p. 89.
“The way you get . . . heads of things”: Merle Miller, Lyndon, p. 28.
“there was only . . . request was granted”: DKG/LBJ Conversations.
“Russell found . . . care of him”: Ibid.
“one of the most . . . of his life”: DKG, LJAD, p. 107.
“they feared . . . older people”: DKG/LBJ Conversations.
“When you’re . . . particular senator”: Ibid.
Knowledge of the minutiae: Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power (New York: New American Library, 1966), pp. 113–15.
“the biggest . . . of the Senate”: Stewart Alsop, “Lyndon Johnson: How Does He Do It?,” Saturday Evening Post, Jan. 24, 1959, p. 14.
“a magnificent . . . lives in his interests”: Reedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, pp. 130, xiii.
“superb . . . forgot his grievances”: Ibid., p. xiv.
“sitting on the top of the world”: LBJ, “My Heart Attack Taught Me How to Live,” American Magazine (July 1956), p. 17.
“blew his stack . . . hell out of here”: Caro, Master of the Senate, p. 621.
“my chest really began to hurt”: Merle Miller, Lyndon, p. 181.
“as though I had . . . crushed my chest in”: Samuel Shaffer, “Senator Lyndon Johnson: ‘My Heart Attack Saved My Life,’ ” Newsweek, Nov. 7, 1955, p. 35.
“My God . . . heart attack”: Woods, LBJ, p. 293.
“It was a very hectic . . . serious thing”: Caro, Master of the Senate, p. 622.
“undertake any . . . period of months”: Ibid., p. 625.
“Heart Attack . . . Hopefuls”: Ibid., p. 626.
“He’d just sort . . . going full speed”: George Reedy Interview, Aug. 16, 1983, LBJOH.
“He’d read them . . . in those letters”: Caro, Master of the Senate, p. 630.
“got to the point . . . room for him”: Reedy quoted in Woods, LBJ, p. 295.
“everybody loves Lyndon”: Caro, Master of the Senate, p. 630.
“Time is the most . . . spend it well”: Gillette, Lady Bird, p. 162.
healthy diet: Newsweek, Nov. 7, 1955, p. 36.
“My Heart Attack Taught Me How to Live”: American Magazine, July 1956.
“sprawled on . . . into the air”: Newsweek, Nov. 7, 1955, p. 35.
“the brink of death”: William Deason Interview, April 11, 1969, LBJOH.
“a matter of honor for everybody”: Merle Miller, Lyndon, p. 184.
“back in the saddle again”: George Reedy, quoted in Caro, Master of the Senate, p. 647.
“We’ve got to look . . . we’re here for”: Caro, The Path to Power, p. 82.
“every three minutes . . . were still flying”: George Reedy Interview, Aug. 16, 1983, LBJOH.
“He even rewrote . . . the last minute”: Merle Miller, Lyndon, p. 184.
“call to arms . . . Program with a Heart”: Woods, LBJ, p. 299.
“I had never . . . of an audience”: George Reedy Interview, Aug. 16, 1983, LBJOH.
“leapt to their feet . . . their approval”: The Baytown (Texas), Nov. 23, 1955.
“sounded like . . . it and the fire”: Reedy Interview, Aug. 16, 1983, LBJOH.
“affected every newspaperman . . . and one strike out”: Ibid.
“A very fine batting average . . . at last”: NYT, Nov. 23, 1955.
he would carry a civil rights bill: NYT, Sept. 2, 1957.
“ran his pen . . . be it in the end!”: Ibid.
“there’ll be . . . wild legislation�
��: DKG/LBJ Conversations.
“I want to see . . . in a long time”: Clinton Anderson, in “Congress Approved Civil Rights Act of 1957,” Congressional Quarterly, https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal57-1345184.
“by the standards . . . old national wound”: NYT, Sept. 1, 1957.
“A man with . . . own hands”: DKG/LBJ Conversations.
“We’ve shown . . . couple of years”: Harry McPherson, in Sylvia Ellis, Freedom’s Pragmatist: Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights (Tallahassee: University Press of Florida, 2013), p. 98.
“without the Democratic . . . been expected”: Raymond Lahr, “Political Winds: This Year Has Been Lyndon’s Year,” Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Miss.), Sept. 2, 1957.
“to leave the Confederacy voluntarily”: LBJ, Speech before the Democratic Caucus, Sept. 15, 1957, quoted in DKG, LJAD, p. 151.
“the most dramatic moment”: Henry Graff, quoted in Robert Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power (New York: Vintage, 2013), p. 343.
“The Democratic Party . . . close to Appomattox”: Dallek, Lone Star Rising, p. 541.
“the best qualified . . . a Southerner”: Woods, LBJ, p. 573.
“the balance . . . and west”: Caro, The Path to Power, p. 449.
“never said a word . . . in the Senate”: Robert Dallek, Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961–1973 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 7.
“A vice president . . . he resides”: Dallek, Lone Star Rising, p. 567.
“evangelical . . . Attorney General”: Quoted in Woods, LBJ, p. 411.
“appeared almost a spectral presence”: Caro, The Passage of Power, p. 226.
“made to be Vice President”: Dallek, Flawed Giant, p. 34.
“trips around . . . every minute of it”: DKG/LBJ Conversations.
“He felt . . . political road”: Ed. Weisl Sr. Interview, May 13, 1969, LBJOH.
“engines in pants”: Robert Woods, LBJ, p. 11.
CHAPTER NINE
Transformational Leadership: Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
“I consider the central idea . . . to govern themselves”: AL quoted, “7 May Tuesday,” in Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger, eds., Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997), p. 20.
“I began at once . . . with me the burden”: AL, quoted in entry for Aug. 15, 1862, in Gideon Welles; Howard K. Beale, ed., Diary of Gideon Welles: Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861–March 30, 1864 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1960), p. 159.
“No one, not in my situation . . . I may return”: John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Century, 1909), p. 169.
“They were so great . . . possible to survive them”: Memo, July 3, 1861, quoted in Michael Burlingame, ed., With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860–1865 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000), p. 46.
“differences in . . . measure was his”: Gideon Welles, “The History of Emancipation,” Galaxy (Dec. 1872), p. 844.
“We are in . . . gloomy thinking”: Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas, eds., The Diary of George Templeton Strong (New York: Macmillan, 1952), Vol. 3, p. 241.
“Things had gone . . . change our tactics”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln, p. 20.
Slaves’ war work: Welles, entry for October 1, 1862, Diary of Gideon Welles, p. 159; Burton J. Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet (Boston: Little, Brown, 1946), p. 355.
“The slaves . . . with us or against us”: Welles, “The History of Emancipation,” p. 843.
“he had literally to run the gantlet”: John Hay, “Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln,” Century (Nov. 1890), p. 34.
Soldiers’ Home: Matthew Pinsker, Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
“earnestly on the . . . and delicacy”: Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, p. 70.
“a military . . . of the Union”: James A. Rawley, Turning Points of the Civil War (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989), p. 134.
“otherwise unconstitutional”: AL to Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864, CW, 7:281.
“the weapon of emancipation”: James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 85.
“You can not . . . embrace it?”: AL, “Proclamation Revoking General Hunter’s Order of Military Emancipation of May 9, 1862,” May 19, 1862, CW, 5:222.
“emancipation in any form”: AL, “Appeal to Border State Representatives to Favor Compensated Emancipation,” July 12, 1962, CW, 5:319, note 1.
“I am a patient . . . card unplayed”: AL to Reverdy Johnson, July 26, 1862, CW, 5:343.
“that band . . . never before”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln, p. 11.
“As a fit . . . be free”: AL, “Emancipation Proclamation—First Draft,” [July 22, 1862], CW, 5:336.
“first the one side . . . question arising”: Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3, p. 115.
“immediate promulgation”: Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln, A Life, Vol. 2, p. 363.
“magnitude . . . and weight”: Welles, “The History of Emancipation,” p. 848.
“an extreme . . . War powers”: Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 359.
“desperation . . . slave-owners”: Welles, “The History of Emancipation,” p. 848.
“resign and . . . Administration”: John P. Usher, President Lincoln’s Cabinet (New York: Nelson H. Loomis, 1925), p. 17.
Blair position: Welles, “The History of Emancipation,” p. 847.
“It went beyond . . . on the other”: Ibid.
“No commanding general . . . my responsibility”: AL to Salmon P. Chase, May 17, 1962, CW, 5:219.
“feel justified . . . in the field”: “Proclamation Revoking General Hunter’s Order of Military Emancipation of May 9, 1862,” May 19, 1862, CW, 5:222.
“The depression . . . on the retreat”: Frederick William Seward, Seward at Washington as Senator and Secretary of State: A Memoir of His Life, with Selections from His Letters, 1861–1872 (New York: Derby and Miller, 1891), p. 121.
“until the eagle . . . its neck”: Frances Carpenter, “A Day with Govr. Seward,” Seward Papers, LC.
“It was an aspect . . . of events”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln, p. 22.
“the bloodiest . . . history”: Drew Gilpin Faust, Republic of Suffering (New York: Vintage, 2009), p. 66.
“arson in the third degree”: Retold in Cincinnati Enquirer, Nov. 23, 1869.
“I wish it were . . . driven out”: John Niven, ed., The Salmon P. Chase Papers, Vol. 1: Journals, 1829–1872 (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1983), p. 394.
“fixed and unalterable . . . were his alone”: Welles, “The History of Emancipation,” p. 848.
“pondered . . . passed on”: Ibid., p. 847.
“very emphatic . . . opinion”: Ibid., p. 846.
“fully” satisfied . . . with all my heart”: Entry for Sept. 22, 1862, in Niven, ed., The Salmon P. Chase Papers, Vol. 1, pp. 394–95.
“an arbitrary . . . of freedom”: Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 359.
“to assent . . . the measure”: Welles, “The History of Emancipation,” p. 846.
Caleb Smith: Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, pp. 356, 347.
“afraid of the . . . on the army”: David Herbert Donald, ed., Inside Lincoln’s Cabinet: The Civil War Diaries of Salmon P. Chase (New York: Longmans, Green, 1954), p. 152.
“but the difficulty . . . forward movement”: Welles, “The History of Emancipation,” p. 847.
“to recognize and to maintain”: William Henry Seward, quoted in entry for Sept. 22, 1862, in Niven, ed., The Salmon P. Chase Papers, Vol. 1, p. 394.
“So long as . . . man’s bosom”: AL, “Response to Serenade,” Nov. 10, 1864, CW, 8:101.
“greatly pained . . . to the country”: AL, “Memo to Cabinet,” July 14, 1864, CW, 7:439.
“too vast for malicious dealing”: Randall Miller, ed., Lincoln and Leadership, p. 98.
“The pressure . . . is immeasurable”: Frank Abial Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton: The Autocrat of Rebellion, Emancipation, and Reconstruction (Akron, Ohio: Saalfield, 1905), pp. 369–70.
“Every one likes a compliment”: AL to Thurlow Weed, March 15, 1865, quoted in Phillips, Lincoln on Leadership, p. 18.
“Neptune”: Welles, entry for July 14, 1863, Diary of Gideon Welles, Vol. 1, p. 370.
“that you have been remiss . . . success”: AL to GW, July 25, 1863, CW, 6:349.
“the President . . . still work on”: SPC to James Watson Webb, Nov. 7, 1863, reel 29, Chase Papers.
“by his like . . . his friend”: Leonard Swett, HI, p. 166.
“principle of . . . wrong hereafter”: AL to Stanton, Feb. 5, 1864, CW, 7:169.
“Why did you . . . you no good”: William Henry Herndon to James Watson Webb, Jan. 6, 1887, reel 10, Herndon-Weik Collection, Manuscript Division, LC.
“seen anything . . . thoroughly prepared”: Ralph and Adaline Emerson, Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Emerson’s Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln (Rockford, Ill.: Wilson Brothers, 1909), p. 7.
“when convinced . . . the appointment”: William L. Miller, Lincoln’s Virtues, p. 424.
“No two men . . . each other”: New York Evening Post, July 13, 1891.
“never sent and never signed”: AL to Major General Meade, “never sent or signed,” July 14, 1863, CW, 6:328.
“I would like . . . in the basket”: William H. Crook, “Lincoln as I Knew Him,” Harper’s Monthly (May–June 1907), p. 34.
“Forget it . . . of it again”: Elizabeth Blair to Samuel Lee, March 6, 1862, in Elizabeth Blair Lee; Virginia Jeans Laas, ed., Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999), p. 109.
“declared that . . . to them”: Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, Vol. 1, pp. 23–25.
“The Secretary of War is not . . . of War”: AL, “Address to Union Meeting at Washington,” Aug. 6, 1862, CW, 5:388–89.
“enthusiastically . . . very satisfactory”: Welles, “The History of Emancipation,” p. 483.
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