Cochrane, James L., 365
Coffin, William Sloan, 413, 416, 422–23
Cohen, Wilbur, 94, 156–58;
and air pollution legislation, 290;
and AMA’s opposition to Medicare, 163, 178–80;
and child benefit theory, 188;
comparison of Johnson’s and Roosevelt’s performance, 530;
contributions to Johnson presidency, 530;
criticism of Economic Opportunity Act, 113;
at Health, Education, and Welfare, 158–59;
and Higher Education Act, 207, 208, 210;
on House version of Water Quality Act, 284;
and implementation of Medicare bill, 180;
on Javits bill, 162;
and Kerr-Mills bill, 158;
and passage of Medicare bill, 165–66, 170, 171–72, 175, 182;
and 1964
presidential campaign, 146;
relationship with Lyndon Johnson, 159;
relationship with Wilbur Mills, 159–60;
and Social Security Amendments, 431–32, 433, 434–35, 436;
task force on financing public broadcasting, 456;
on Wilbur Mills’s Medicare position, 167
Collins, Judy, 381
Collins, LeRoy, 79, 229, 231, 361
Colmer, William, 55, 109
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 451—52
Commission of Fine Arts, 440
Commission on the Assassination of
President John F. Kennedy (Warren Commission), 22–23
Commission on the Humanities, 442
Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and
Youth Crime, 89, 96
Committee on Racial Equality, 228
Commons, John R., 113, 157
Community action program, 88, 95–97, 104–5, 112, 113
Conant, James B., 453
Conein, Lucien, 328
Conference on Economic Progress, 87
Congressional Quarterly: analysis of
Johnson’s accomplishments, 528–29
Congress of Racial Equality, 390
Connally, John, 11, 139, 141, 150, 487;
enforcement of Johnson’s Vietnam
plank at 1968 convention, 511–12
Connell, William, 141
Conner, John, 302
Connor, Bull, 218
Connor, Jack, 361;
and minimum wage increase, 428
Conservation movement, 265
Constellation, 336
Constitution of the United States of
America: Fifteenth Amendment, 222;
and the vice presidency, 3
Conway, Jack T., 388
Cooley, Harold D., 110
Coolidge, Calvin, 248
Cooper, Annie Lee, 220
Cooper, John Sherman, 22, 162, 297
Corcoran, Tom, 5
Cordiner, Ralph, 143–44
Cormier, Frank, 155
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 454, 455–56;
funding problem, 454–57
Cotton, Norris, 73, 77
Council of Economic Advisers: on effect of interest rates, 367;
inability to foresee inflation, 363–64;
under Kennedy, 28;
proposal for minimum wage increase, 430;
support for surtax, 371, 375–76;
and wage-price guideposts, 360, 427
Council of Graduate Schools, 442
Cox, Archibald, 23;
and voting rights bill, 223, 237–38
Crafts, Edward C, 269, 272
Cramer, William C., 300, 302
Cronkite, Walter: response to Tet offensive, 476
Cruikshank, Nelson, 158, 160
Curtis, Carl, 311;
and Civil Rights Act of 1964, 73;
and tax-cut bill, 35
Curtis, Thomas, 168, 170
Daley, Richard J., 392–93, 509;
concern about impact of war, 411, 472;
at 1968 Democratic convention, 515;
importance to Johnson, 396;
on Martin Luther King, 396;
and Model Cities Act, 464;
response to fair housing demonstrations, 398;
response to withholding of federal funds for Chicago schools, 395–96
Dallek, Robert, 184
Daniel, Clifton, 411
Davenport, Charles B., 245
Davidson, Roger, 98
Davies, Terry, 288
Davis, Rennie, 512
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 234
Davis, Sid, 16
Day, Dorothy, 99
Dean, Arthur: support for disengagement in
Vietnam, 481;
“Wise Men” meetings, 425
Deasy, Tim, 234
Death Valley National Monument, 304
DeBenedetti, Charles, 414
DeGaulle, Charles, 325;
warning to U.S. about Vietnam involvement, 330
Dellinger, David, 414, 421–23, 512, 514
DeLoach, C. D.
“Deke,” 138, 217
Democratic National Committee, 146
Democratic National Convention (1964), 133, 136–39, 140–43
Democratic National Convention, 1968: debate on Vietnam plank, 513–14;
demonstrations, 512–13, 514–15;
endorsement of Johnson’s Vietnam policy, 511
Democratic party: in 1964
elections, 169;
in 1966 midterm elections, 410–11; 1968
platform on Vietnam, 511; 1948
split over civil rights bill, 44
Democratic Republic of Vietnam. See Vietnam
Democratic Study Group, 50
Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan
Development Act. See Model Cities Act
de Murville, Couve, 341
Dent, John, 429
Detroit riots, 418
Dewey, Thomas, 118
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (Montgomery, Ala.), 234
Dickens, Charles, 82, 83
Diem, Bui, 519
Diem, Ngo Dinh, 325–26, 339
Dillingham, William P., 247
Dillon, Douglas, 27;
support for disengagement in Vietnam, 481;
and tax-cut bill, 36, 38;
“Wise Men” meetings, 425
Dingell, John, 297
Dirksen, Everett, 25, 44;
and Civil Rights
Act of 1964, 64, 66, 67–75;
“Dirksen substitute” to Civil Rights Act of 1964, 68–69, 72, 73, 74;
and Medicare bill, 167;
nomination of Goldwater, 130;
opposition to fair housing bill, 391, 498–99;
opposition to repeal of Section 14b of Taft-Hartley, 311–12;
and 1968 Republican platform, 507;
and Social Security Amendments, 435;
and surtax bill, 373, 374;
and tax-cut bill, 35, 37;
and voting rights bill, 235, 237, 238, 239, 240
Displaced Persons Act of 1953, 248, 250
Disraeli, Benjamin, 82, 91
District of Columbia: home rule issue, 313–14
Doar, John, 220, 228, 233
Dodd, Thomas J., 141, 251
Dohrn, Bernardine, 496
Dole, Robert, 302
Dominick, Peter, 199, 200, 210
Domino theory, 535
Donahue, Maurice, 485
Dong, Pham Van, 413
Donohue, Harold, 255
Donovan, Hedley W., 187
Douglas, Lewis, 147
Douglas, Paul H., 45–46, 60, 399, 410;
and economic inequity, 86;
on Hubert Humphrey, 59;
and Medicare bill, 167, 175;
and Model Cities Act, 463, 465;
and tax-cut bill, 35;
on Wilbur Cohen, 158
Dow Chemical Company, 420
Dow-Jones Industrial Average: after JFK assassination, 26
Draft evasion, 536
Drew, Elizabeth, 29
9, 301
Dubinsky, David, 430
DuBridge, Lee, 453
Duhl, Leonard, 88, 89, 460
Dulles, Allen W., 22, 332
Dulles, John Foster, 250
Dungan, Ralph, 20
DuPuy, William E., 481
Durgan, A. J., 219
Dust Bowl, 84
Dutton, Fred, 134, 503;
and 1964 presidential campaign, 146
Eastland, James O., 56, 210;
opposition to immigration reform, 250, 252;
and voting rights bill, 237
Eckstein, Otto, 360;
on aluminum price increases, 362;
on minimum wage increase, 428;
and price stability commission, 366–67;
and USW wage demand, 361
Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, 102, 103–5;
administrative system, 112–13;
church-state issue, 108–9;
community action program, 104–5, 112, 113;
Head Start issue, 109;
House committee hearings, 107—9;
House debate, 109–11;
Job Corps, 103–4, 112;
Neighborhood Youth Corps, 104, 112;
Office of Economic Opportunity, 105;
political problem of, 106;
in Senate, 109–11;
Smathers Amendment, 109;
Title II, 189;
Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), 105, 112;
work-study, 104
Economic Report (January 1964), 92, 97
Edmondson, Howard, 75
Edwards, Norman, 11
Eidenberg, Eugene, 196, 200
Eisele, Albert, 142, 509
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 117, 118, 147;
advice to Johnson, 23–24;
in 1952 and 1956 elections, 6;
and the arts, 440;
“domino theory,” 339, 535;
exemptions to national immigration quotas, 248;
opposition to federal air pollution regulation, 290;
support for Diem, 326;
support for District of Columbia home rule, 313
Eisenhower, Milton, 456
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), 188;
aid to low-income areas, 394;
Carey amendment, 194, 198;
church-state controversy, 188–91;
House committee hearings, 193–96;
House debate, 196—97;
Jewish ambivalence over, 197–98;
omission of teacher salaries, 189;
Senate committee hearings, 198–200;
signing, 200–1
Ellender, Allen, 240
Ellington, Buford, 231–32
Ellison, Ralph, 453
Ellsberg, Daniel, 324
Ellsworth, Oliver, 23
Engle, Clair, 75, 76, 77
Enquirer (Cincinnati), 151, 154
Environmental Protection Agency, 288
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: on federal troops in Selma, 228
Equal Rights Amendment, 53
Eriksen, Erik, 333
Ervin, Sam, 77, 200;
and immigration reform bill, 257;
opposition to fair housing bill, 391;
and proposed filibuster on House AFDC amendments, 437;
and voting rights bill, 237
Eskridge, Chauncey, 217
Esposito, John C., 294
Eugenics movement, 245–46
Eugenics Record Office, 245–46
Evans, Elizabeth, 504
Evans, Rowland, 415
Evans, Walker, 84
Ever son v. Board of Education, 189
Pact magazine, 154
Fair Housing Act of 1968, 498–99
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): 1966
amendments, 427—31;
minimum wage increases, 430–31;
Roosevelt bill, 428
Falk, I. S., 157, 180
Fallen, George H., 299
Fallows, James M., 280
Fannin, Paul, 311
Farm Security Administration, 84
Farmer, James, 228, 238
Farmers Union, 310
Farr, Walter, 467
Fauntroy, Walter, 217
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 151;
campaign to destroy Martin Luther King, 216–17;
and march on Pentagon, 422
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 451–52
Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities, 443
Federal Reserve Board: inability to control interest rates, 367; 1965
increase in discount rate, 364, 365; 1967
increase in discount rate, 371
Feighan, Michael A., 252–56, 260
Feldman, Myer, 158;
and immigration reform, 252, 253;
and 1964
presidential campaign, 146
Feuer, Lewis S., 402
Finney, Tom, 138;
and 1964 presidential campaign, 146
Fire Island National Seashore, 271
Fisher, Pete, 222
Fitch, Lyle, 462
Fitt, Alfred B., 110
Five O’Clock Club, 146
Flemming, Arthur S., 162, 199, 290
Floyd, Charles F., 303
Folsom, Marion B., 199
Fong, Hiram, 239
Forand, Aime, 158, 173
Ford, Gerald, 22;
and Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 196;
“Get Out of Vietnam” policy, 415;
and highway beautification bill, 302;
and Medicare bill, 170
Ford Foundation: and educational television, 452;
Gray Areas Project, 88, 89;
pilot program on urban problems, 458;
support for public broadcasting, 454
Forest Service, 272;
multiple use policies, 274–75;
wilderness lands, 278
Forman, James, 79, 228, 233, 402
Forrestal, James, 356
Forrestal, Michael, 333
Fortas, Abe, 21, 24, 418;
and 1964
presidential campaign, 145;
support of Vietnam War, 480, 481;
and Walter Jenkins affair, 152;
and Warren Commission, 22;
“Wise Men” meetings, 425
Fowler, Henry H., 31, 147, 364;
on impact of reserve call-up, 479;
and price stability commission, 366–67;
and surtax bill, 367, 370, 371, 372–74;
and tax-cut bill, 36
Frank, Gerold, 493
Frankenheimer, John, 503
Freedom House: peace award to Johnson, 411
Freedom Movement, 398
Freeman, Orville, 30, 105, 516;
relationship with Udall, 269;
support for Wilderness Act, 276
Free Press (Detroit), 154
Free Speech Movement, 403—7
Freer, Charles, 447
Friedman, Milton, 144
Friendly, Fred, 66
Frome, Michael, 273, 275
Frost, Robert, 441
Frye, Marquette, 383, 385
Frye, Ronald, 383
Fulbright, J. William, 166, 251;
hearings on Tonkin Gulf Resolution, 380;
hearings on Vietnam War, 411;
on limitations of U.S. power in Vietnam, 473;
and Medicare bill, 167, 175, 176;
on Model Cities Act, 466;
opposition to bombing of North Vietnam, 408;
and tax-cut bill, 35
Gaither, James: task force on financing public broadcasting, 456
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 24, 327, 341, 459, 483;
The Affluent Society, 86;
on Johnson’s credibility problem, 536;
opposition to Vietnam War, 327;
teacher corps proposal, 199
Gallinee, 280
Galton, Francis, 245
Gammino,
Michael A., 456
Gardner, John W., 178, 184;
and automobile emissions standards, 293, 296;
and Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, 453;
concern about shift of funds to Vietnam, 410;
concern about Vietnam War, 380;
and education task force, 186–87, 187–88, 203;
and industry proposal on air pollution, 296;
on LBJ’s running for reelection, 471;
opposition to House AFDC amendments, 434, 436;
opposition to reorganization of Department of Interior, 285;
resignation, 372;
restrictions on sulfur dioxide emissions, 296;
as Secretary of HEW, 471;
and sulfur research appropriation, 297;
and withholding of federal funds for Chicago schools, 394–95
Garner, John Nance, 3
Garrow, David J., 79
Gary, Romain, 501
Gavin, James M., 410, 483
Gelb, Leslie H., 356
Geneva conference of 1954, 325
Giap, Vo Nguyen, 325, 351, 476
Gila National Forest, 275
Gilbert, Jacob, 255
Gilligan, James P., 275
Gilpatric, Roswell, 335
Ginsberg, Allen, 382, 512
Ginsburg, David, 366;
and price stability commission, 366—67;
support for surtax, 367
Gitlin, Todd, 400
Glazer, Nathan, 407, 460
Godkin Lectures, 401
Goebbels, Joseph, 526
Goering, Hermann, 526
Goldberg, Arthur, 361;
opposition to continued bombing of North Vietnam, 480
Goldberg, Irving, 15
Goldberg, Jackie, 404
Goldman, Eric, 381–82;
on Vietnam War, 562 n.1
Goldstein, Ira, 504
Goldwasser, Michael, 122
Goldwater, Baron, 122
Goldwater, Barry M., 118;
as author, 550 n.2;
campaigning for Republicans, 124;
The Conscience of a Conservative, 124, 550 n.2;
decision to run for president, 124—26;
emphasis on nuclear war, 147—48;
hawkishness toward Vietnam, 330;
intelligence, 123;
legislative interest, 123–24;
personality, 123;
presidential campaign, 143—45;
primary campaign, 127–29, 130;
public perception of as racist, 149;
public perception of as radical, 149;
and Senate Civil Rights Act debate, 76, 77;
and Tonkin Gulf incident, 337;
vote against Medicare, 167;
Why Not Victory?, 147
Goldwater, Margaret Johnson, 123
Goodell, Charles E., 108, 194
Goodman, Andrew, 137
Goodman, Paul: Growing Up Absurd, 400
Goodwin, Richard N.: and education task force, 186;
establishment of task forces, 459;
Great Society concept, 131—32;
and “guns and butter” speech, 320, 321;
on Johnson’s mental stability, 343;
on Johnson’s paranoia, 541, 542;
and 1964 presidential campaign, 145, 150;
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