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33 “With Lyndon Johnson it was the reverse” Lawrence (Larry) O’Brien OH VI.
34 “wasn’t informing him on an hourly basis” Ibid.
35 “If it’s really going to work” Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson, 226.
36 “I didn’t need anything to eat” O’Brien, Interview VI.
37 “God, you should have called me” Ibid.
38 “Economic policy” “Nation: Toward the Fuller Life,” Time, February 5, 1965.
39 “Peace on earth” Lyndon B. Johnson, “Remarks to the Winners of the Science Talent Search” (speech, Washington, DC, March 1, 1965), Public Papers of the Presidents, 1965, Vol. I, 223.
40 By 1992, distances on earth will have lost all meaning Ibid.
41 “an area the size of Texas” Karnow, Vietnam, 416.
42 Throughout 1964, a massive and well-organized Vietcong army Ibid.
43 On Christmas Eve, they took provocative action Ibid., 424.
44 “We are presently on a losing track” Ibid., 425.
45 “Both of us are now pretty well convinced” Ibid., 427.
46 “that bitch of a war” Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson, 251.
47 “I knew that Harry Truman” Ibid., 252-3.
48 After the November election Karnow, Vietnam, 418-20.
49 “Bundy … had resorted to a classic bureaucratic device” Ibid., 419-20.
50 “we’re all going to die” Ibid., 427-8.
51 “Not only Americans” “Pleiku and Qui Nhon: Decision Points,” Newsweek, February 22, 1965, 32.
52 The National Security Council considered a request Karnow, Vietnam, 431.
53 “Even as he finished” Halberstam, Best and the Brightest, 522.
54 “Now we’re off to bombing” Telephone conversation between Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara, February 26, 1965, Citation #6887.
55 “How long before you should hear something?” Telephone call between Lyndon Johnson and White House Situation Room, March 2, 1965, Citation # 7008.
56 “We’re going to send the Marines” Telephone conversation between Lyndon Johnson and Richard Russell, March 6, 1965, Citation #7026.
57 “a turncoat if ever there was one” Branch, At Canaan’s Edge, 114.
58 “I don’t know, Dick” Telephone conversation between Lyndon Johnson and Richard Russell, March 6, 1965, Citation #7026.
59 “There’s no end to the road” Telephone conversation between Lyndon Johnson and Richard Russell, March 6, 1965, Citation #7027.
60 “I can’t get out” Lady Bird Johnson, White House Diary, 248.
61 “Lyndon lives in a cloud of troubles” Ibid.
62 “I am counting the months” Ibid.
63 “Get him! Get him!” Goldman, Tragedy, 367.
64 “Negroes stood in line” “Nation: Selma, Contd.” Time, February 5, 1965.
65 “We’ve gone too far now” Martin Luther King Jr., “Bridge to Freedom” (speech, Selma, AL, 1965).
66 “America didn’t like what it saw” Goodwin, Remembering America, 319.
67 “What do you want left after you when you die?” Ibid., 323.
68 “I am glad that he is launched” Beschloss, Reaching, 228.
69 “There was, uniquely, no need to temper conviction” Goodwin, Remembering America, 327.
70 “I speak tonight” Lyndon B. Johnson, “Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise” (speech, Washington, DC, March 15, 1965), Public Papers of the Presidents, 1965, Vol. I, 281.
71 “Pulses quickened” “Washington D.C. Watches Selma,” Time, March 26, 1965.
72 Rarely in any time “Special Message to the Congress.”
73 This time on this issue there must be no delay Ibid.
74 Lady Bird had convened a meeting Sharon Francis OH I.
75 Their cause must be our cause too “Special Message to the Congress.”
76 Johnson recalled the young Mexicans Ibid.
77 “It was terrific” Beschloss, Reaching, 228.
78 “The greatest speech you ever made” Goodwin, Remembering, 337.
79 “Your speech was beyond belief” Beschloss, Reaching, 243.
80 Goodwin would recall the smile Goodwin, Remembering, 337.
81 “Let’s have a little whiskey” Ibid.
82 “Roosevelt’s got eleven” Telephone conversation between Lawrence O’Brien and Lyndon Johnson, April 9, 1965, Citation #7337.
83 “Lyndon talked of the last week” Beschloss, Reaching, 277.
Chapter Nine: Lonely Acres
1 “He can’t separate himself from it” Beschloss, Reaching, 280.
2 “he’s never the same without you” Ibid., 389.
3 “I feel selfish” Ibid., 389.
4 In the audience Dallek, Flawed Giant, 200.
5 “She seemed not to realize it was meant as a souvenir” Charles Mohr, “President Signs Education Bill at His Old School,” New York Times, April 12, 1965.
6 “No longer will older Americans be denied” John D. Morris, “President Signs Medicare Bill; Praises Truman,” New York Times, June 31, 1965.
7 “The people of the United States love” Ibid.
8 On the same day E.W. Kentworthy, “Johnson Signs Voting Rights Bill,” New York Times, August 7, 1965.
9 “Today is a triumph” Lyndon B. Johnson, “Remarks on the Signing of the Voting Rights Act” (speech, Washington, DC, August 6, 1965), Miller Center, http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/detail/4034.
10 He spoke in front of John Trumbull’s oil painting “Johnson Signs Voting Rights Bill.”
11 In July, the press reported “Johnson Predicts Vietnam Setbacks: U.S. Force to Exceed 75,000,” New York Times, July 10, 1965.
12 “Incidents are going up” Lyndon Johnson, “The President’s News Conference,” (Televised News Conference, July 9, 1965), Public Papers of the Presidents, 1965, Vol. II, 725.
13 security officials learned of a plot “Taylor Escapes a Plot in Saigon,” New York Times, July 20, 1965.
14 Vietnam is a different kind of a war “At War in Vietnam,” New York Times, July 14, 1965.
15 “military victory in Vietnam” William Fulbright, “The War in Vietnam” (speech, Washington, DC, June 15, 1965), Fulbright Collection, University of Arkansas, http://scipio.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Fulbright/id/762.
16 “we have set ourselves a task” Walter Lippmann, “The Hard Lesson,” Newsweek, July 19, 1965.
17 “it is essential that the President” Ibid.
18 Through his ambassador in Moscow Karnow Vietnam, 437.
19 At a White House reception “Foreign Relations: While the Bullets Whiz,” Time, March 12, 1965.
20 “The headlines are all I read and all anybody reads Ibid.
21 “The sky over Saigon is alive” James Reston, “Saigon: The Tragic Paradox of Vietnam,” New York Times, August 29, 1965.
22 Shirley O’Neal See “Crime: Summer Job,” Newsweek, July 19, 1965; “Eighth Suspect Held in Attack on O’Neal Girl,” Los Angeles Times, July 5, 1965; “Handcuffed Rape Suspect Shot by Policeman,” New York Times; “4 Youths Found Guilty in Attack on O’Neal Girl,” Los Angeles Times, October 5, 1965.
23 “like a man in a dream” “Girl Describes Being Raped as Father Tried in Shooting,” Tuscaloosa News, September 23, 1965.
24 A report showed “Crime in the Streets,” Newsweek, August 16, 1965, 21.
25 The story began with the tale of one Chester E. Pierce Ibid., 20.
26 Suellen Evans, on her way home from summer school Ibid.
27 Mary Ellen Bay Ibid.
28 Two “pretty … University of Texas coeds” Ibid.
29 “many observers believe” Ibid.
30 “A malignant enemy in America’s midst” Ibid.
31 “I’ve been staggered” George Plimpton, “The Story Behind a Non-Fiction Novel,” New York Times, January 16, 1966.
32 Time reported that “resort towns” “Youth: That Riotous Feeling,” Time, July 16, 1965.
33 “summer of discontent” Fred Powledge, “Civil Rights—Another Long, Hot Summer,” New York Times, June 13, 1965.
34 “The fuel of unrest and injustice is still here” Theodore Jones, “Uneasy Calm in Harlem,” New York Times, July 17, 1965.
35 “We’re going to see to it” “Illinois: Hot and Dry,” Time, June 18, 1965.
36 “this or that date is to be the time for another outbreak of violence” Powledge, “Civil Rights.”
37 “Positive hope” Ibid.
38 “not just legal equity but human ability” Lyndon Johnson, “Commencement Address at Howard University” (speech, Washington, DC, June 4, 1965), http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/650604.asp
39 “The Negro Family” For Moynihan Report see memo from Daniel Patrick Moynihan to Bill Moyers, January 21, 1965, WHCF: EX-HU2-1; Lee Rainwater and William Yancy, The Moynihan Report and the Politics of Controversy (Cambridge, 1967); Patterson, Freedom is Not Enough.
40 “We have been in the business” Ibid.
41 “The attached Memorandum is nine pages of dynamite” Moynihan ed., Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 90.
42 Time described a “brooding” President “The Presidency: At the Perigree,” Time, July 9, 1965.
43 “stock on the gossip market” Kenneth Crawford, “Washington: Disrobing the King,” Newsweek, July 19, 1965.
44 “While he had so much going for him” Tom Wicker, “Washington: Fadeout for Super Lyndon,” New York Times, July 7, 1965.
45 “It is said” Crawford, “Disrobing the King.”
46 “irrepressible longing to have every story” Joseph Alsop, “Matter of Fact: Johnson’s Achilles Heel,” Washington Post, February 17, 1965.
47 “To those beyond the limits” Joseph Alsop, “Matter of Fact: The State of LBJ,” Washington Post, July 5, 1965.
48 “The major industry in New York this summer,” Sorensen, Counselor, 408.
49 In her notes Ibid., 406.
50 “tone down my references to JFK’s praise of LBJ” Ibid., 404.
51 Most insidious “JFK’s Alter-Ego,” Newsweek, January 27, 1964, 17**.
52 “mawkish, tasteless” “Remembering JFK,” Newsweek, August 2, 1965, 46-47.
53 “Images do not spring full-blown” Jack Valenti, memo to LBJ, November 11, 1964, Box 4, Special Files, Handwriting File, LBJL.
54 “Jacksonian and Rooseveltian” Ibid.
55 “Mr. President, You’re Fun!” “Mr. President, You’re Fun!” Time, April 10, 1964.
56 “He first called his dogs” Helen Thomas OH I.
57 “an awfully strong Kennedy man” Telephone conversation between Lyndon Johnson and Bill Moyers, July 1, 1965, Citation #8301.
58 “I think there’s a lot can be done with just more candidness” Ibid.
59 “I don’t want to get in a war” Beschloss, Taking Charge, 403.
60 “I hate this war” Clifford, Counsel to the President, 419-20.
61 “He said, ‘Things are not going well here’ ” Beschloss, Taking Charge, 390.
62 “I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth” Lyndon B. Johnson, “The President’s News Conference” (press conference, Washington, DC, July 28, 1965), Public Papers of the Presidents, 1965, Vol. II, 797.
63 “monkeys in a zoo” “New Negro Riots Erupt on Coast,” New York Times, August 13, 1965.
64 “tragic and shocking” Califano, Triumph and Tragedy, 60.
65 “deeply distressed” Ibid., 61.
Chapter Ten: Like a Winner
1 “Governor Volpe” Speech delivered at New England convention of Federation of Republican Women, Hotel Statler Hilton, Boston, September 29, 1965, folder “RR Material (2/4),” Box C32, 1966 Campaign, Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers, Ronald Reagan Library.
2 “With this legislation” Lyndon B. Johnson, “Remarks at the Signing of Bill Establishing a Department of Housing and Urban Development” (speech, Washington, DC, September 9, 1965), Public Papers of the Presidents, 1965, Vol. II, 986.
3 “Admiration flows abundantly” “The President: Greyer, Graver—and Growing,” Time, September 3, 1965.
4 “People just aren’t going to get excited” “The People: Not Great, but Good,” Time, October 8, 1965.
5 “How’s your battle going out in Vietnam?” Telephone conversation between Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara, November 2, 1965, Citation #9103.
6 making millions by selling spears in Watts “TV Riot Squad,” Newsweek, September 11, 1965.
7 “Our president is fond of quoting from Isaiah” Speech delivered at New England convention of Federation of Republican Women.
8 “the one-time motion picture star” David B. Wilson, “Reagan Assails Welfare State,” Boston Herald, September 30, 1965.
9 Two months after Johnson’s 1964 landslide Cannon, Reagan, 103.
10 “Reagan … is the man” Ibid.
11 “Oh, my God” Cannon, Governor Reagan, 133.
12 “I almost laughed them out of the house” Reagan, American Life, 144-5.
13 “Double parking in Sacramento” Peter Kaye, “Reagan Impresses National Press Club Members,” San Diego Union, [date does not appear], folder “66: Press/Media (2),” Box C35, 1966 Campaign, Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers 1966-75, Ronald Reagan Library.
14 He would effectively be a candidate for governor U.S. Borax, News Release, 4 January, 1966, folder “66 Campaign: RR (2/4),” Box C32, 1966 Campaign—Subject Files, Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers, Ronald Reagan Library.
15 “Oh gosh, Jack!” Interview with Ronald Reagan, KNBC, April 10, 1965, Box C35, 1966 Press Media, Ronald Reagan Library.
16 “I’m thinking of running” Stuart Spencer OH.
17 “We had heard” Cannon, Reagan, 104; James Perry, “Ronald Reagan in Dazzling Performance,” National Observer, January 10, 1966, Box C32, 1966 Campaign, Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers, Ronald Reagan Library.
18 “He was obsessed with one thing” Stuart Spencer OH.
19 “darling of the Goldwaterites and the choice of the John Birch Society” Dallek, Right Moment, 111; Evans and Novak, “Sen. Kuchel Knows He Won’t Run,” St. Petersburg Times, Sept. 1, 1965.
20 “hyphenated Republicans” Interview with Ronald Reagan, KNBC, April 10, 1965, Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Campaign, Box C35, 1966 Press Media, Ronald Reagan Library.
21 “I’m sure that we all recognize” Ronald Reagan, “Speech at Hilton Inn, San Diego,” February 25, 1966, Box C30, Campaign Materials: Ronald Reagan Speeches and Statements I, Ronald Reagan Library.
22 “I think you have to preface anything” Lee Edwards, “Why Californians Look to Ronald Reagan,” Human Events, February 19, 1966, 8-10, Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Campaign Files, Box C35, 1966 Press Media, Ronald Reagan Library.
23 “You’d have me going counter to the talks” Ronald Reagan, News Conference, Televised on KNBC, April 10, 1965, Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Campaign, Box C35, 1966 Press Media, Ronald Reagan Library.
24 “I have no intention of compromising my beliefs” Ronald Reagan, letter to Harry Feyer, July 21, 1966, Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Campaign, Box C35, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
25 “Do you really want to be mayor?” Sam Tanenhaus, “The Buckley Effect,” New York Times, October 2, 2005.
26 “a miracle” Richard J. H. Johnston, “William Buckley Opens Headquarters,” New York Times, August 31, 1965.
27 “a ban on mid-day truck deliveries” Richard Witkin, “William Buckley Jr. Is Reported Considering Running for Mayor,” New York Times, June 4, 1965.
28 “I don’t think it’s very pertinent” Interview with Ronald Reagan, KNBC, April 10, 1965, Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Campaign, Box C35, 1966 Press Media, Ronald Reagan Library.
29 “I have received some kick-back” Ronald Reagan, letter to Barry Goldwater, January 13, 1965, Box C29, 1966, Personal Correspondence of Barry Goldwater, Ronald Rea
gan Library.
30 “Spencer Roberts does not handle any Democrats” Lee Edwards, “Why Californians Look to Ronald Reagan.”
31 “I think he should have been briefed” John L. Harmer, letter to Bill Roberts, July 12, 1965, Box C32, 1966 Campaign, Ronald Reagan: Gubernatorial Papers, Ronald Reagan Library.
32 “If he can zero in on California” Gordon C. Luce, letter to Stu Spencer, July 7, 1965, Box C32, 1966 Campaign: Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
33 “I think Henry tried to say” W. S. McBirnie letter to RR, November 30, 1965, Box C31, 1966 Campaign, Ronald Reagan: Gubernatorial Papers, Ronald Reagan Library.
34 “Damn,” he exclaimed to BASICO co-founder Stanley Plog Reagan Dutch, 342.
35 “positive direction” W. S. McBirnie letter to Ronald Reagan, November 30, 1965, Box C31, 1966 Campaign, Ronald Reagan: Gubernatorial Papers, Ronald Reagan Library.
36 “These are the most hopeful times” Lyndon Johnson, “Remarks at the Lighting of the Nation’s Christmas Tree,” (speech, Washington, DC, December 18, 1964), Public Papers of the Presidents, 1963-64, Vol. II.
37 “We must show the voters” Dave Hope, “Reagan on Verge of Declaring,” Oakland Tribune, December 9, 1965, Box C32, 1966 Campaign, Ronald Reagan: Gubernatorial Papers, Ronald Reagan Library.
38 The idea of an actor named Ronald Reagan Emmett John Hughes, “The Squandering Republicans, Newsweek, June 27, 1966.
39 “Sure he’s drawing the crowds” James Phelan, “Can Reagan Win California?” Saturday Evening Post, June 4, 1966.
40 “It was on the late show” James Perry, “Ronald Reagan in a Dazzling Performance.”
41 “Ronald Reagan … who recently announced he was seeking” John Voorhees, “Ulysses: Man or Myth,” Washington Post-Intelligencer, January 11, 1965, Box C35, 1966 Campaign, Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers 1966-75, Ronald Reagan Library.
42 “He is assiduously playing the role” “Play Acting Can Give Illusion of Competence,” Fresno Bee, July 3, 1965, Box C35, 1966 Campaign, Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers 1966-75, Ronald Reagan Library.
43 He would tell crowds that his son “Ronald Reagan Republican for Governor,” Los Angeles Times, September 13, 1966.
44 “Only a generation ago” Ronald Reagan, “Address at the Comstock Club,” August 2, 1965, 1966 Campaign: Speeches and Statements, Box C30, Ronald Reagan Library.