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birth of
and blacks, itr.1, 4.1, 7.1
business pursuits of, itr.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1; oil interests, 6.3; see also subentry below: radio interests and ownership
character, personality, and temperament of, XXX, 7.1, 11.1, 15.1, 16.1; aggressiveness, 7.2; ambition, see subentry above: ambition(s) of; bragging and exaggeration, 3.1; Bunton strain, 1.1; charm, 1.2, 7.3; compassion for the poor, itr.1; contradictions in, itr.2, itr.3, 2.1, 3.2, 11.2; courage vs. cowardice, 2.2, 3.3, 3.4; cruelty, 4.1, 4.2; cynicism, itr.4, 1.3, 12.1; decisiveness, 15.2; determination to win, XX, 1.4, 11.3, 15.3; dominance, domination, itr.5, 1.5, 2.3, 5.1, no, 7.4, 7.5, 15.4; eloquence, 1.6; energy, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 3.5, 10.1, 10.2, 11.4; flattery and obsequiousness, 1.10, 1.11, 7.6, 7.7, 11.5, 11.6; leadership qualities, 2.4, 6.1, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7; lying, itr.6, itr.7, 1.12, 2.5, 3.6, 3.7, 11.7, 11.8, 12.2, 12.3, 14.1, 15.8, 16.2; manipulativeness, itr.8, 1.13, 3.8, 6.2, 7.8, 7.9, 15.9, 16.3; mannerisms of, etc., 1.14, 7.10; mood swings, 7.11, 7.12, 10.3, 11.9, 11.10, 11.11, 11.12, 11.13, 12.4; need for affection, 7.13, 11.14, 11.15; offensiveness, 11.16, 11.17, 12.5; as pragmatist and realist, itr.9, 1.15, 1.16, 2.6, 3.9, 12.6, 16.4; ruthlessness, itr.10, itr.11, 11.18, 11.19; secrecy, itr.12, 1.17, 2.7, 2.8; shaped by his youth, 1.18, 16.5; spellbinding, 1.19; strong will power, 10.4; talent for meeting and greeting, 3.10, 3.11, 11.20, 11.21; toughness of mind, 15.10
children of
circle of friends, 1.1, 7.1
and civil rights, itr.1, itr.2; early record, itr.3–xviii, 7.1, 10.1; legislation, itr.4, itr.5, itr.6; 1965 speech before Congress, itr.7, itr.8, itr.9
clothing of
as congressional aide, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 11.1; his methods in Little Congress, 1.3, 16.1 as Congressman, itr.1, itr.2, 1.4, 1.5, 3.2, 5.1, 7.2, 7.3, 12.1, 14.1; on Armed Services Committee, 7.4, 7.5; awarding of federal contracts, 1.6, 4.1, 7.6; “Board of Education”, admitted to, 1.7, 1.8, 5.2, 7.7; champion of FCC, 6.3; and civil rights bills, itr.3, itr.4, 7.8, 10.1; committee assignments, 5.3, 7.9; constituent work, itr.5, 2.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.4, 7.10; and electricity for 10th District, itr.6, 4.5, 5.5, 7.11, 11.2; failure to take stands, 5.6, 7.12; and Fair Deal legislation, 7.13, 11.3; fear of being stalled, 5.7, 7.14, 7.15,; 140–1; knows “levers”, 1.9; legislative record, itr.7, 5.8, 7.16; legislative record criticized by Stevenson, 12.2, 12.3; on Naval Affairs Committee, 2.2, 2.3, 5.9, 5.10, 7.17; NYA-CCC merger proposal, 2.4, 5.11; position used to make money, 6.4, 7.18; salary, 6.5; speeches, 5.12, 7.19; Taft-Hartley Act supported, 7.20, 11.4, 11.5, 12.4, 12.5; his vote counting skill, 1.10; voting record, 1.11
credibility of, 1.1; “Gap” as President, itr.1; about war service, 3.1
elections and political campaigns: financing of, see campaign financing, LBJ’s campaigns; first congressional, 1.1, 3.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3; issue manipulation, 9.2, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3; Lady Bird’s role, 4.1, 10.2, 12.4, 16.1; Little Congress residency, 1.2, 16.2; and Mexican vote, 9.3, 9.4, 11.7, 13.1, 14.1; 1938 and 1940 congressional, 4.2; 1941 senatorial, itr.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 4.3, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.5, 9.6, 11.8, 11.9, 12.5, 12.6, 13.2, 14.2, 14.3, 16.3; 1942 congressional, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5; 1942 senatorial, contemplated, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 2.6, 2.7, 11.10; 1946 congressional, 7.3, 7.4; 1948 senatorial, see Texas election for U.S. Senator in 1948; 1964 presidential, itr.2, itr.3, 16.4, 16.5; in college, 1.10, 16.6; 1941, outstolen by O’Daniel, 1.11, 8.2, 9.7, 13.3, 14.4, 14.5, 16.7; 1948, itr.4, 9.8, 12.7, 13.4, 14.6, 16.8; Salas’s allegation of involvement of LBJ, 16.9, 16.10, 16.11
“ends justifies the means” maxim of, itr.1, itr.2, 12.1
and Fair Deal, 7.1, 11.1
and father, 1.1, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 16.1
in federal court on civil rights violations charge by Stevenson, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3; advice of counsel disregarded, 15.4; appeal to Circuit Court, 15.5, 15.6; appeal to Supreme Court, 15.7, 15.8, 15.9, 15.10, 15.11
financial assets of: 1941 vs. 1948, itr.1; in 1943, after purchase of KTBC, 6.1; in 1948, itr.2, 6.2; in 1963, itr.3
fund-raising and disbursing by, see subentry below: political fund-raising by; and also the entries campaign financing; campaign spending
“Great Society” of, itr.1, itr.2
health problems, 3.1, 7.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3; fear of early death, 7.2; kidney stones, 7.3, 10.2
and idealism: image conveyed to others, 2.1, 3.1; viewed by LBJ, 1.1, 1.2, 3.2
initials of his name
legacy of, Wicker on, itr.1, itr.2, 16.1
letters: to FDR, 1.1; to Truman, 7.1, 7.2; to wife, 2.1, 4.1
loyalty and obedience demanded by, in
marriage of, 2.1, 4.1; see also below: and wife
mimic’s talent of, 11.1, 11.2, 16.1, 16.2
and money, itr.1, 6.1, 7.1; Austin land purchase, 6.2; charges of corruption, 7.2; influence used in pursuit of, 6.3, 6.4, 7.3; stinginess, 6.5, in, 6.6; see also below: political fund-raising
and mother
names bestowed on, 3.1, 16.1, 16.2
Naval Reserve Service of, 2.1, 3.1
and New Deal, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 11.1
at 1948 Texas State Democratic Convention, 14.1, 14.2
as NYA director in Texas, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 11.1
physical appearance of, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2; Bunton strain, 1.3; compared to father, 1.4, 7.1; facial expression, itr.2; at times of exhaustion, 3.1, 7.2, 14.1, 15.1
political astuteness of, 1.1, 7.1; instinct for jugular in campaigning, 2.1; knows “levers”, 1.2; in seizing opportunities, 12.1, 14.1; vote counting skill in Congress, 1.3
political career of, itr.1, 1.1, 7.1, 18.1; stalled in House of Representatives, 5.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5; war service in furtherance of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
political fund-raising: from the Browns, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1, 12.2; from conservatives and reactionaries, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5; from contractors, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 5.2, 9.3, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8; for Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (1940), 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 5.3, 7.1; from labor unions, 11.1, 12.9, 12.10, 12.11; as lever to national political influence, 1.8, 1.9, 5.4, 5.5, 7.2; from oil interests, 1.10, 1.11, 5.6, 9.4, 12.12, 12.13
political patronage dispensed by, 1.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
political philosophy of: avoidance of taking stands, 1.1, 5.1; liberalism, itr.1, 1.2, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1; pretense of conservatism, 1.3, 5.4, 6.2, 7.2, 12.3, 12.4
and poverty: constituent assistance, itr.1, 7.1; of his youth, itr.2, itr.3, 1.1, 1.2, 6.1
and power, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2; lack of, 7.3, 7.4; on national stage, 1.1, 6.2, 7.5; power for its own sake, itr.1, 7.6; pursuit of, itr.2, itr.3, 6.3, 7.7; over subordinates, 1.2, 6.4, 7.8, 7.9; through money, 1.3, 1.4, 5.1, 5.2; use of, in helping the downtrodden, itr.4
as President, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 6.1, 16.1; and civil rights, itr.4, itr.5, itr.6; “Credibility Gap”, itr.7; damage to image of Presidency, itr.8, 16.2; invasion of Dominican Republic, itr.9; social reforms and legislation, itr.10, itr.11, itr.12; and Vietnam War, itr.13, itr.14
and the press, 11.1; avoidance of reporters, 5.1; manipulation and use of, 3.1, 11.2 and n., 12.1; planting rumors, 5.2
“professional son” label for, 1.1, 7.1
radio interests and ownership, 6.1, 6.2; advertising obtained, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1; intervention at FCC, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 7.2
recruitment of aides by, 6.1, 6.2
refusal to take stand on issues, 1.1, 5.1, 7.1
relationships, 1.1, 7.1; in Congress, 5.1, 6.1, 7.2, 7.3; at KTBC, 6.2; see also subentry below: subordinates; and entries for individual persons, e.g., Rayburn, Sam; Roosevelt, Franklin D. retirement years of, itr.1
as Senator, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 18.1; and civil rights bills, itr.1–xviii; Democratic Whip, 16.4, 18.2; filibuster, itr.2; Majority Leader, itr.3, 18.3; Minority Leader, 18.4
as Southerner, itr.1–xviii; drawl of, itr.2
speeches of: on civil rights, to Congress (1965), itr.1, itr.2, itr.3; as Congressman, paucity of, 5.1, 7.1; in 1948 campaign, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12
.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6; tailored to audience, 11.6; about war experience, 3.1, 11.7
on Stevenson, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3; on civil rights, itr.1, 7.1; on Communist danger and “Preparedness”, 10.1, 10.2, 11.6, 12.4, 12.5; on FDR, 7.2; on KTBC radio change in restrictions, 6.1; on loyalty, 6.2; on 1948 election results, 14.1; on Pacific war service, 3.1, 3.2, 11.7; on Taft-Hartley Act amendment, 12.6; on Truman, 7.3; on Vietnam War, itr.2, itr.3
storytelling talent of, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 16.1; war experience, 3.3, 11.1
as student, 1.1, 3.1, 16.1
and subordinates, 1.1, 11.1, 11.2; campaign aides, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5; correction of LBJ’s behavior, 12.1; in Congress, 7.1, 7.2; at KTBC, 6.1; at NYA, 1.2, 6.2
and superiors, 1.1, 7.1, 7.2
as a teacher
as Vice President
War on Poverty of, itr.1, itr.2
and wife, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1; his expectations and commands, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 6.2; Lady Bird in his congressional office, 4.8, 4.9; praise for her work, 4.10
and women, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2
in World War II, itr.1; on air raid against Lae, 3.1; ambition to be Admiral, 2.1; ambition to be Secretary of the Navy, 5.1; avoidance of combat zone, 2.2, 2.3, 3.2, 3.3; campaign pledge, 2.4, 2.5, 3.4, 3.5; contradictions of LBJ’s character revealed by war, 3.6; exaggerated stories, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.7, 11.1; home-front jobs sought, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 3.8; Navy-New Zealand liaison assignment on West Coast, 2.12, 4.1; resignation from military on FDR’s order, 3.9; shipyard training inspection assignment, 2.13, 2.14, 4.2, 4.3; Silver Star award, 3.10, 3.11, 11.2; Southwest Pacific Survey Team assignment, 2.15, 3.12, 4.4
Johnson, Rebekah Baines (LBJ’s mother)
Johnson, Robert V.
Johnson, Sam Ealy, Jr. (LBJ’s father), 1.1, 7.1, 11.1
death of, 7.1, 7.2
financial failure of, 1.1, 1.2, 6.1
honesty and idealism of, 1.1, 16.1
political career of, 1.1, 1.2, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2
Johnson, Sam Houston (LBJ’s brother), 1.1, 7.1, 7.2, 16.1
Johnson, Samuel Ealy (LBJ’s grandfather)
Johnson, Tom (LBJ’s uncle), 7.1
Johnson City, Tex., 1.1, 1.2, 8.1, 13.1, 13.2
LBJ’s boyhood in, 2.1, 3.1, 13.1
Johnson family:
Bunton strain in
history of heart disease and early death
in politics, 1.1, 1.2, 6.1
and poverty, 1.1, 1.2, 6.1
Johnson Journal, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Johnson (Lyndon Baines) Library, 6.1n, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Johnson Ranch (Pedernales Valley), 1.1, 7.1, 13.1
Johnston, Gen. Albert Sidney
Jones, Luther E., 6.1, 9.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
Joseph, Edward
Junction, Tex., 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 17.1
Junction Eagle, 17.1
Junction-Kerrville Road
Junction State Bank, 8.1, 8.2
Justice Department, see U.S. Department of Justice
Kazen, E. James (“Jimmy”)
KBWD radio
Kearns, Doris
Kefauver, Estes
Kellam, Jesse, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
Kenedy County, Tex., 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Kennedy, John F., itr.1, itr.2
Kennedy, Vann M.
Keogh, Eugene F.
Kerr, Robert S., 16.1, 18.1
Kerr County, Tex.
Kerrville Times, 12.1
Key, V. O., Jr.
Kilday, Owen, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
Kilday, Paul
Kilgore, Joe M., 3.1, 9.1, 11.1
Kimble County, Tex., 8.1, 8.2, 14.1
King, Campbell, 15.1, 15.2
King, Charles E.
King, Dennis
King, Marguerite (“Teeney”), see Stevenson, Marguerite King
King, Martin Luther, Jr., itr.1, itr.2, itr.3
King Ranch, South Texas, 9.1, 14.1
Kingsbery, E. G., 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Kinney County, Tex., 12.1, 13.1
Kleberg, Richard, 2.1, 9.1, 11.1, 14.1
Knapp, James H.
Knight, Jimmy
Knight, Oliver
KNOW radio, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Knox, Frank
Knudsen, William S., 2.1, 2.2
Kohlmeier, Louis M.
Korth, Fred
KTBC radio, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1
advertising on, in return for government favors, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
advertising revenues
CBS affiliation, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Lady Bird’s purchase of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Lady Bird’s work at, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
LBJ’s involvement, 6.1, 6.2; denied, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1
original restrictions on
restrictions lifted
and staff
KTSA radio, 6.1, 6.2
KWOW radio,
labor:
LBJ’s contradictory stances toward, 1.1, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
Northeastern financial support to LBJ in 1948, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Stevenson’s stance toward, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2; “secret deal” allegation, 11.3, 11.4, 12.3, 12.4
in Texas, 7.1, 11.1
see also Taft-Hartley Act; unions
Labor-Management Relations Act (1947), see Taft-Hartley Act
Lae (Japanese air base), raids on, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Lambert, William
Landrum, Lynn
Laredo, Tex., 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 16.1
La Salle County, Tex., 9.1 265, 13.1
Latimer, Eugene, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
law:
vs. legalisms, 14.1n., 14.2, 15.1, 15.2
spirit of equity
Stevenson’s belief in, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
subversions of, in 1948 election in Texas, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Lawson, William J., 6.1, 6.2
LBJ Company
Leach, Ed, 11.1, 11.2
Lewis, John L., 1.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
Lexington, U.S.S., 3.1
liberals, liberalism:
of LBJ, 11.1; compromises, itr.1, 1.1, 5.1, 7.1, 12.1, 12.2; pretense, 5.2, 6.1, 11.2, 14.1
and LBJ legislation, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3
LBJ’s circle, 1.1
Mavericks
in Texas, 8.1, 8.2; Loyalists, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1
Life magazine, itr.1, 1.1, 6.1
Lilienthal, David
Lincoln, Abraham
“Little Congress”, 1.1, 1.2, 7.1, 16.1
Lloyd, Edward, 9.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
Lloyd, Frank B.
Lloyd & Lloyd
lobbyists, Texas, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
Lockhart, O. P.
Loeffler, Emil
Lone Star Gas
Long, Stuart
Longlea estate, Virginia, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Longview Morning Journal, 11.1
Look magazine, 16.1
Looney, Everett, 6.1, 7.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 16.1
Looney & Clark, 6.1, 12.1
Louis, Alex
Lower Colorado River Authority, 7.1, 12.1
“Loyalist” liberals, in Texas, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1
Lucas, Wingate, 4.1, 7.1
Lyle, John
Lynch, Dudley,
Maas, Melvin
MacArthur, Gen. Douglas, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 11.1
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Magnuson, Warren, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2
mailings, political:
in 1941 senatorial campaign
in 1948 senatorial campaign, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4; of
campaign newspaper, 12.1, 12.2
Mancha, Willie
Manford anti-labor bills (Texas), 11.1, 14.1
Mangan, James W.
Mann, Gerald C, 1.1, 8.1, 14.1
Marcus, Stanley, 5.1, 15.1
Marks, Leonard H., 6.1,
6.2, 6.3
Marquat, Brig. Gen. William F., 3.1, 3.2
Marsh, Alice, see Glass, Alice
Marsh, Charles E., 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
support given to LBJ, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 7.1
Marshall, Gen. George C.
Marshall, Thurgood
Marshall Ford Dam
Martin, A. B.
Martinez, Conrado, 14.1, 15.1n.
Martinez, Juan R.
Mashman, Joe, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 16.1
Mason, William H.
Matthews, Wilbur
Maverick, Maury, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 9.1, 13.1
Mavericks
Maybank, Burnet R.
Mayer, Margaret, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 18.1
Mayo Clinic
McAllen, Tex.
McClendon, Sarah
McCormack, John
McCredie, Sgt. Claude
McFarlane, W. D.
McIntyre, Marvin, 2.1, 5.1, 7.1
McKay, Seth
McKnight, Felix
McNeil, Marshall, 3.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
media, political use of, itr.1, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
manipulation, itr.1, 3.1, 5.1, 11.1 and n., 12.1, 12.2
money factor, 6.1, 11.1, 12.1
see also newspapers; press and publicity; radio
Melasky, Harris
Melbourne, Australia, 3.1, 3.2
Meredith, Fred
Mexican-American areas, Texas
vote of, 9.1, 13.1; in first 1948 primary, 11.1, 12.1; in 1948 runoff primary, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1; San Antonio area, 9.2, 12.2, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6; “Valley” area, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 11.2, 13.7, 13.8, 13.9, 13.10, 13.11
Mexico
Micenheimer, Stokes, 11.1, 13.1, 16.1
Middleton, Harry
Midway, battle of
Miller, Dale, 1.1, 7.1
Miller, Merle
“missionaries” (“travelers”), in political campaigns, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5
Mississippi, civil rights battles
money and politics:
Brown’s financial support for LBJ, 1.1, 4.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2
“buying a ticket” on a politician
buying of votes, 1.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
influence derived from dispensing of, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1
in media-oriented campaigns, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1
wealth amassed through political influence, 6.1, 7.1
Rayburn on
sources: conservative business, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3; federal contractors, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1, 9.1, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6; labor, 11.1, 12.7, 12.8, 12.9; oil interests, 1.4, 1.5, 5.2, 9.2, 12.10, 12.11