marriage of
Navy service in World War II, 2.1, 5.1
on LBJ at State Convention, 14.1; on 1948 election results, 14.2
West Coast assignments with LBJ (World War II), 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
Connally, Tom, 2.1, 7.1, 12.1, 17.1
conservatism, conservatives:
FCC probe pushed by
LBJ and, 1.1; 124–5; pretense, 5.1, 6.1, 12.1, 12.2
of Peddy and East Texas, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1
of Stevenson, itr.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 12.1, 17.1, 17.2
Texan, itr.1, 7.1, 7.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2; East Texas, 9.1, 11.3, 12.3; and O’Daniel, 12.4; in 1948 election, 11.4, 11.5, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 14.1; reactionaries, 12.8
contractors and subcontractors, influence-wielding with, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 14.1; see also federal contractors
Coral Sea, battle of
Corcoran, Thomas G., 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 12.1
influence at FCC, 6.1, 6.2
and LBJ’s 1948 campaign, 11.1, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2
on retainer at Brown & Root, 1.1, 1.2
Corpus Christi, Tex., 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 16.1
Corpus Christi Caller-Times, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 14.2
Corregidor, battle of
Corrigan, Pat, n.
corruption:
LBJ accused of, in 1946 campaign
O’Daniel accused of
road construction kickbacks
in Texas politics and government, 8.1, 14.1; Salas on, 16.1; “Valley” politics, 9.1; voting fraud in Valley, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1, 13.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 16.2
court injunctions, use in 1948 election dispute:
by LBJ, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1
by Stevenson, 15.1, 15.2; see also Federal District Court
cowboy tradition
Reunion
Stevenson as embodiment of, itr.1, 11.1
Cox, Eugene
Cox, Hugh
Cox Committee
Credibility Gap, LBJ’s, itr.1, 3.1
about war service
Crooker, John, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
Daily Texan, 4.1
Dallas, Tex., 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1
1948 runoff primary results, 14.1, 14.2
1948 State Democratic Convention
delegates, 14.1, 14.2
Dallas County, Tex., 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
Dallas News, 2.1, 11.1, 11.2, 16.1, 17.1
1948 election coverage, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Dallas Times-Herald, 12.1, 12.2
Daniels, Jonathan, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 6.1, 15.1
Davidson, Bill
Davidson, Judge T. Whitfield, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7, 16.1
appeal of his injunction, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5
Davis, Carol
Davis, Cyclone
Deason, Willard, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
DeMille, Cecil B.
democracy:
political power and elections in, itr.1
role of favoritism and influence in, itr.1, 8.1, 14.1
Stevenson’s belief in, itr.1, 8.1, 8.2, 14.1
Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee (DCCC), 1.1, 5.1, 7.1
LBJ’s 1940 fund-raising for, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1, 7.1
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
Pauley’s 1942 fund-raising for
Democratic Party:
House minority in 1947/48
fund-raising
Senate minority in 1953/54
Texas: Jim Wells County Committee, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3; Loyalists vs. States Righters, 14.6, 14.7, 15.4; primaries, see primary system in Texas; reform members, 11.1, 13.1, 14.8, 14.9, 14.10, 14.11; State Convention of 1948, 14.12, 14.13, 14.14, 14.15, 15.5, 15.6; State Committee (and Executive Committee), 14.16, 14.17, 14.18, 14.19, 15.7, 15.8, 16.1; ballot line for Senate in 1948, 15.9, 15.10, 15.11
Dempsey, William J.
departments of federal government, see U.S. Department of Justice; U.S. Department of the Interior
Deschler, Lewis, 1.1, 7.1n.
Dewey, Thomas
Dibrell, Kellis, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Dies, Martin
Dies Committee
Dimmit County, Tex., 13.1, 13.2
Dominican Republic, itr.1
Donald, B. F. (Tom), 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 15.2
Dorbrandt, Mrs. Seth
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 1.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Douglas, William O., 1.1, 1.2
draft, itr.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1
Drake, William
Drewry, Patrick Henry
Dubinsky, David
DuBose, Cliff, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
Duckworth, Allen, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1
Dugger, Ronnie, 3.1, 16.1
“Duke of Duval”, see Parr, George
Durr, Clifford, 1.1, 1.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Durr, Virginia, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 6.1
Duval County, Tex., 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 13.1, 14.1
1948 first primary results
1948 runoff results, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 16.1; fraud and “corrections” of, 13.4, 13.5, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 16.2; evidence gathered by Stevenson, 14.4, 15.6; fraud probe by Master-in-Chancery, 15.7, 15.8, 15.9, 15.10, 16.3
Eagle, R. M.
Early, Stephen
Easley, Lewis T. (“Tex”)
Eckhardt, Robert, 14.1, 14.2
education:
federal aid to
racial discrimination in, itr.1
Eightieth (“do-nothing”) Congress
Eisenhower, Dwight D., itr.1, itr.2, 7.1
election law, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
elections and election campaigns, itr.1
buying of votes, 1.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
LBJ in, see Johnson, Lyndon Baines: elections and political campaigns; Texas election for U.S. Senate in 1948
1940 congressional, 1.1, 5.1
1942 congressional, 5.1, 7.1
1948 presidential, itr.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
1948 senatorial in Texas, as watershed in politics, itr.1, 9.1, 11.1, 17.1; see also Texas election for U.S. Senate in 1948
1964 presidential, itr.1, itr.2, 16.1
stealing of, 1.1, 8.1, 9.1; by LBJ, itr.1, 1.2, 8.2, 9.2, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1
Stevenson in, see Stevenson, Coke Robert, elections and political campaigns; Texas election for U.S. Senate in 1948
see also campaign financing; campaigning; campaign spending; Texas elections; votes (and voting)
electricity, rural, LBJ’s work for, itr.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2
electronics, political use of, itr.1, 9.1
see also radio
Elliot, Mary
Elliot, William
El Paso Times, 12.1
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
employment, desegregation of, itr.1, 7.1
English, Virginia Wilke
Escobar, Ignacio (“Nachito”)
Essex, U.S.S., 5.1
Estes, Carl
ethnic (bloc) vote, in Texas, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2
buying of, 9.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2
“corrected” counts of, in 1948, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2
Evangelista, Albert A.
Evans (Robert) and Novak (Stewart),
Fair Deal, 7.1, 11.1
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC), 7.1, 10.1
Farmer, James
farmers, LBJ’s 1948 campaign promises to
farm-to-market roads, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
favoritism, political, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
advertising on KTBC, 6.1, 6.2
awarding of federal contracts, 1.1, 4.1, 6.1
effect on democratic government
suspected of LBJ by Stevenson
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
in civil
rights battles in South
investigation of 1948 Texas vote fraud
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 6.1, 6.2
Cox Committee investigation of
handling of KTBC applications, 6.1, 6.2
and LBJ, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
and network affiliates vs. independent stations
“Order 79”
susceptibility to congressional pressures
federal contracts, federal contractors, 7.1, 7.2
advertising on KTBC by
Brown & Root, 1.1, 4.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2
political contributions by, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
see also contractors and subcontractors
Federal District Court, Stevenson’s action against LBJ in, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1
injunction against LBJ, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
injunction appealed by LBJ, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
jurisdiction in state election, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7
see also Federal Masters-in-Chancery investigation
federal government:
and civil rights movement, itr.1–xvii, itr.2, itr.3
Stevenson’s distrust of, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1
see also government regulation
Federal Masters-in-Chancery investigation of 1948, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 16.1, 16.2
Salas’ admission of perjury in, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Smith’s account of, 16.1
Federal Power Commission
Fehrenbach, T. R., 8.1, 8.2
Ferguson, Jim, 1.1, 8.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
Ferguson, Miriam
Ferguson Forum, 12.1
filibusters, in U.S. Senate
by LBJ, in 1949, itr.1
Southerners’ use of, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3
Fisher, O. C
Fly, James, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
Flynn, Edward J.
Forrestal, James V., 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 5.1, 7.1
Fortas, Abe, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 7.1, 15.1, 16.1
on LBJ
strategy in LBJ’s federal courts appeal, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
in Supreme Court hearing on 1948 election fraud, 15.1, 15.2
Fortune magazine, 1.1
Fort Worth, Tex., 12.1, 13.1
1948 runoff primary results, 13.1, 14.1
1948 Democratic State Convention in: Loyalists vs. States Righters at, 14.1, 14.2; vote canvass and certification process, 14.3, 15.1
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
Francis, Charles I., 14.1, 14.2, 15.1
Fredericksburg-Austin highway
Fredericksburg Standard, 2.1
“Freedom Summer”, itr.1
free enterprise, Stevenson’s belief in, 8.1, 8.2
Galveston County, Tex.
Garbutt Field, 3.1, 3.2
Gardner, James, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2n.
Garner, John Nance
General Electric Company
Genthe, Arnold, 2.1, 2.2
Gibson, Charlie C.
Gillespie County, Tex.
Gingrich, Cmdr. John
Glass, Alice, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 11.1
Glass, Mary Louise, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2
“Gold Dust Twins”
Goldschmidt, Arthur E.
Goldschmidt, Elizabeth Wickenden, 6.1, 6.2
Goldthorn, Barney
Goldthwaite Eagle, 4.1
Goldwater, Barry, 16.1, 17.1
government regulation, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 12.1
Stevenson’s opposition to, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 11.1
Graham, Callan, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1
Graham, Elmer
Granville, Bonita
“Great Society”, itr.1, itr.2
Green, Charles E.
Green, George Norris
Greer, Lieut. Walter H., 3.1, 3.2
Groce, Josh, 15.1, 15.2 and n., 15.3, 15.4, 15.5
Guadalcanal, battle of
Guam, fall of
“Guerra boys”
Guinn, Jack, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Gulf Oil Company
Gunther, John
Gutirez, Josefa
Gwyn, Jack, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Halberstam, David
Hamer, Frank, itr.1, 8.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 15.1
Hansford County, Tex., 12.1, 13.1
Harbin, Estelle, 2.1, 7.1
Hardeman, D. B.
Harlow, Bryce N.
Harrington, Vincent
health insurance, national
Hearst newspapers
Heckling Hare (B-26), 3.1, 3.2
helicopter, campaigning in, itr.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 12.1
Henderson, Herbert
Herrerra, Olivera
Herring, Charles, 5.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1
Hess, William E.
Hickman, Jeff, n.
Hicks, John, 6.1, in, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1
Hidalgo County, Tex., 13.1, 13.2
Hill Country of Texas, see Texas: Hill Country
Hines, Jimmy
Hise, Harley
“Hispanic” vote, Texas, 9.1, 11.1; see also ethnic vote
Hitler, Adolf, 2.1, 4.1
Hobby, William P., 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
Hofheinz, Roy
Hollers, Hardy
Holman, Alma Lee, 14.1, 14.2
Holmgreen, Jimmy, 11.1, 13.1, 16.1
Hopkins, Alice, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2
Hopkins, Harry
Hopkins, Welly K., 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
Houston, Tex., 11.1, 12.1, 13.1
1948 runoff primary results, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
1948 State Democratic Convention delegates
River Oaks Precinct Box
Houston Chronicle, 13.1, 14.1
Houston Post, 2.1, 2.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 14.1
Hughes Aircraft
Hughes (Joe D.) Trucking Company
Humble Oil Company, 6.1, 9.1
Huntress, George
Hutcheson, Judge Joseph C.
hydropower, public,
Ickes, Harold L., 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 7.1
idealism:
viewed by LBJ, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1
perceived in LBJ by others, 2.1, 3.1
of Stevenson
individualism:
of Stevenson, itr.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
of Texans, itr.1, 8.1
influence:
effect on democratic government, itr.1, 8.1, 14.1
of LBJ, and favoritism, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
through money, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1
Stevenson’s concern about, 8.1, 8.2
injunctions, see court injunctions
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 1.1, 9.1, 12.1
International News Service (INS)
Interstate Commerce Commission
Interstate Theaters
isolationism, LBJ’s charge against Stevenson, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2
Izak, Edouard V. M.,
Jackson, Jimmie Lee, itr.1, itr.2
James, W. Ervin (“Red”), 1.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Janeway, Eliot
Java Sea, battle of
Jeffersonianism
of Stevenson, itr.1, 8.1, 8.2
Jenkins, Walter, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
in LBJ’s 1948 campaign, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1
Jester, Beauford
Jim Hogg County, Tex.
1948 primary results in, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2
Jim Wells County, Tex., 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Democratic Committee of, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1; reform majority of, 11.1, 13.1, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 14.7;
restraining order and injunction against, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
1948 first primary in
1948 runoff voting in, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1; fraud and “corrections” of, 13.3, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 15.1, 15.2, 16.2; fraud evidence gathered by Stevens
on, 14.5, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5; fraud probe by Master-in-Chancery held in, 15.6, 15.7, 15.8, 15.9, 16.3, 16.4
see also Box 13; Precinct 13
Johnson, Ava (LBJ’s cousin), 1.1, 1.2
Johnson, Bob
Johnson, Claudia Alta Taylor (Lady Bird), 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 12.1, 18.1
admired by staff at KTBC, 6.1, 6.2
background of
business interests, itr.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
in LBJ’s congressional office, 4.1, 4.2, 12.1
character and personality of, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3; dignity and poise, 4.4, 4.5; graciousness, 4.6, 4.7, 12.1, 13.1; quiet determination, 4.8, 4.9; self-confidence, 4.10; self-discipline, 4.11; shyness, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 12.2
childhood of
daughters of
education of
on election day in 1948, 13.1, 13.2
at federal court hearing on 1948 run-off primary, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
as a journalist, 4.1, 4.2
LBJ and, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1; courtship and marriage, 4.6; devotion and love, her, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9; expectations, LBJ’s, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13, in; in kidney colic crisis, 10.3
with LBJ on first West Coast assignment, 2.1, 4.1
at Longlea, 4.1, 4.2
love of nature
nickname of, 4.1, 4.2
at 1948 State Democratic Convention, 14.1, 14.2
physical appearance and dress, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 15.1, 15.2
and politics, 4.1, 4.2; on campaign trail, 4.3, 10.1, 12.1; constituent work, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6; public speaking, 4.7, 4.8, 12.2, 12.3; telephone campaigning, 12.4, 16.1
radio and TV stations of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8
Rayburn and
Johnson, George (LBJ’s uncle)
Johnson, Lucy Baines (daughter of LBJ)
Johnson, Lynda Bird (daughter of LBJ),
JOHNSON, LYNDON BAINES (LBJ):
ambition(s) of, itr.1, 1.1, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3; to be Admiral, 2.1; to be Secretary of the Navy, 5.1; Bunton strain, 1.2; no effort spared, 1.3, 3.2, 3.3, 11.1; for elective vs.
appointive office, 7.1; for national vs. state office, 7.2; for presidency, itr.1, 1.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.3, 11.1, 16.1, 16.2; for U.S. Senate, itr.2, 2.1, 6.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
anti-war movement and, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3
appearance of, see subentry below. physical appearance
attitudes of: toward labor and unions, 1.1, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, and n., 12.3, 12.4; toward physical danger, 3.1; toward World War II, 5.1, 7.2
background and childhood of, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 11.1, 16.1
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