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Dallas Morning News, 160–61, 173, 186
Dallek, Robert, 312
Daniels, Jonathan, 121–22
Daughters of the Republic of Texas, 40
Davis, Carol, 46
Davis, George, 276
Deason, Bill, 276
Death of a President (Manchester), 350–51
Degas, Edgar, 299
Democratic National Convention:
of 1964, 235–39, 250–53, 261, 337
of 1972, 375
Democratic Party, 150, 196, 198, 204, 276, 342
antiwar, 360
California, Women’s Division of, 150
conservative faction in, 110
Finance Committee of, 343
Highway Act and, 302
liberals in, 215
populists in, 40
Southern, 160–61, 203, 244, 252
Texas, “Loyal” vs. “Regular” in, 143–44, 158
Depression, Great, 56, 129, 141
Diamond, Henry L., 298
Dickerson, Nancy, 343–55
Disciples of Christ, 282
Disneyland, 185
Dixon, George, 175
Dobrynin, Anatoly, 361
Dodge Hotel, 74
Dogan, Matthew, 128
Dole, Robert, 302
Dominican Republic, 328
Donahue, Thomas, 294
Doodlebug (playmate), 15
Dordogne, 395
Doubleday, 370
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 148–52
Douglas, Melvyn, 149–50
Douglas, William O., 114–15
Driskill Hotel, 39, 52, 260–61
Duchin, Peter, 5
Duncan, Dawson, 53, 160–61
Dungan, Ralph A., 228
Durr, Clifford, 105–7, 110, 111, 136, 215–16
Durr, Virginia, 35–36, 105–7, 110, 111, 215–16, 414n
Eakins, Thomas, 299
Earhart, Amelia, 50
education, 103, 173, 187, 266, 268, 270–71
Eisenhower, Dwight, 136, 188, 246, 334
Eisenhower, Mamie, 216, 246, 262, 334, 335, 368
Eisenhower Presidential Library, 378
Elaine (Lady Bird’s cousin), see Fischesser, Elaine
Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation, 242
elections:
of 1928, 46
of 1930, 58
of 1937, 91–95, 98, 100, 110
of 1940, 120
of 1941, 118–21, 126
of 1942, 129
of 1944, 144, 150
of 1946, 143–48, 152
of 1948, 106, 123, 152–56, 166, 253
of 1956, 188
of 1960, 194, 195–204, 208, 253, 260, 290
of 1964, 235–62, 289, 291, 367
of 1968, 345–46, 351, 359–60
of 1972, 385
of 1977, 392
of 2008, 303
electrification, rural, 98–99, 107
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 268
employment, full, 187
Englehard, Charles, 358
Englehard, Jane, 358
environment, 360
Ephron, Nora, 340
Episcopal Church, 26, 163, 282–83, 328
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 211
Evans, Cecil A., 44
Fair Housing bill, 362–63
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 115
Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia, 314
Family Album, A, 29–30
farmworkers, 107
Fath, Creekmore, 151–52
Faulkner, William, 370
FBI, 163, 285
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 124, 136–37, 138, 144, 171–72, 220
Federation of Women’s Clubs, 144
Fehmer, Marie, 165, 328, 329–30, 340, 360. See also Chiarodo, Marie Fehmer
Feldman, Myer, 228
Feminine Mystique (Friedan), 218
feminism, 218
Fern School, 23
Finland, 336
Fischesser, Elaine, 79
Fisher, Bill, 310–11, 354
Floresville, Tex., 59, 60
Florida, 256, 328
in 1964 election, 260
Florio, Lucinda Robb, 364, 376, 382, 400, 439n
Fly, James Lawrence, 136
Ford, Betty, 303, 368, 392, 393
Fore, Sam, 59, 60
Fortas, Abe, 108–9, 110, 111, 220, 221, 237, 258, 291, 308
Fortas, Carolyn Agger, 108–9, 110, 111, 138, 219, 291
Fortune, 249
France, 376–77, 395
Francis, Sharon, 287, 296, 303, 363
Frank, “Aunt,” see Martin, Frank
Frankfurter, Felix, 115
Fredericksburg, Tex., 31, 38, 357
Freeman, Jane, 296–97
Freeman, Orville, 297
Friedan, Betty, 218
Frost, David, 371
Fulbright, William, 307
Furman, Bess, 50
Gallup polls, 246
Garbo, Greta, 149
Garner, John Nance, 81, 110, 196–97, 204, 422n
Garner, Mariette “Ettie” Rheiner, 204
gas and oil industry, 51
General Motors, 39
George (LBJ’s uncle), see Johnson, George
Georgetown, 108–9, 198, 207
dinner parties and gossip in, 221, 227
Jacqueline Kennedy’s house in, 232, 240
George Washington University, Lynda at, 224
Georgia, 161, 260
Germany:
Nazi, 113, 149
West, 206
Giacometti, Alberto, 299
Gilbert, Robert E., 309–10
Glass, Alice, 112–13, 118, 151, 177, 415n
LBJ’s relationship with, 116–17
Glass, Mary Louise, 151–52
Glassboro, N.J., 355
Glenn Advertising, 340
Godfrey, Arthur, 185
Goldberg, Arthur, 282–83
Goldberg, Dorothy, 282–83
Goldman, Eric F., 271–72, 288, 310
Goldschmidt, Arthur, 109
Goldschmidt, Elizabeth Wickenden, “Wicky,” 109, 373
Goldwater, Barry, 248, 249, 252, 255, 260
Gonella, Ashton, 211, 369
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 23, 340, 371–72
Goodwin, Richard, 273–74, 285, 351
Gould, Lewis L., 117, 295, 298
Graham, Katharine, 308
Great Society, 66, 242, 265–66, 270, 277, 305
Greece, 210
Green, Theodore Francis, 175
Greene, Howard M., 46
Greenleaf Gardens, 297
Gruening, Ernest, 307–8
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 307
Haar, Charles, 289, 296
Halberstam, David, 372
Haldeman, Bob, 375
Haley, J. Evetts, 247
Halsell, Grace, 337–39
Hamilton, George, 319, 321, 356
Harbin, Estelle, 59–60
Hardesty, Robert, 371, 373, 390
Hardin, Jim, 374
Harding, Florence, 333, 335
Harding, Warren G., 333
Harris, Patricia Roberts, 337
Harrison, Cecille, 53–56, 63, 75, 81
Harrison County, Tex., 17, 330
Harvard Law School, 115
Harvard University, 236, 243
Haskins & Sells, 248
Hawaii, 323, 328
Head Start, 277
Heath, William W., 378
health insurance, 266
national, 274–75
Healy, Paul F., 173–74
heart disease, 290
Helen (girlfriend of LBJ), 73, 76
Henderson, Leon, 115
Hersey, John, 272–73
Hershman, D. Jablow, 37–38, 308–9
Highway Beautification Act of 1956, 291, 300–303
highways, beautification of, 291, 295, 298, 300–302, 381–82,
394
Hiroshima, 272–73
Hirshberg, Henry, 81–82
Hirshhorn, Joseph, 275, 298–300
Hirshhorn, Olga, 299
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 298–300, 378
Hobby, Oveta Culp, 338
Hollers, Hardy, 144–46
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 104
Holt, Harold, 358
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 368
Homer, Winslow, 241
Hood, Buck, 131
Hoover, J. Edgar, 163
Hoover, Lou, 39
Hope, Laurence, see Nicolson, Adela Florence
Hopkins, Welly, 59, 83
House Committee on Naval Affairs, LBJ on, 127
House of Representatives, U.S., 292, 366
Douglas in, 150
Highway Act and, 301–2
LBJ in, 36, 95–100, 143–48
military draft in, 121, 126
Rayburn as speaker of, 97
Republican control of, 147–48
housing, 187, 293, 362–63
Houston, Tex., 48, 58, 268
Houston Post, 337, 338
Hoyt, Mary, 260
Hughes, Elizabeth, 353
Hull, Richard, 396
Hume, Paul, 231
Humphrey, Hubert, 175, 185, 265, 284, 360, 364, 386
Humphrey, Muriel, 175, 185, 194, 265, 360, 364
Huntland, 176, 245–46, 320
Hurd, Peter, 347–48
Hurst, J. Willis, 181–83, 237, 244–46, 267, 269–70, 310, 321–22, 358, 384
Ickes, Harold L., 113–14, 129
Ickes, Jane, 113–14, 129
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 320
immigration, 266, 281–82
Independence, Mo., 274–75, 378
Interior Department, U.S., 296
Israel, 299, 386
Istanbul, 212
Italy, 231–32
Janeway, Elizabeth, 217
Jean Louis, 357
Jefferson, Tex., 23, 27
Jenkins, Beth, 258
Jenkins, Margery, 258
Jenkins, Walter, 86, 146, 158, 181, 184, 235–36, 249, 257–59
Jews, Judaism, 108, 113, 149
Johnson, Edwina, 375
Johnson, Eliza Bunton, 32–33, 44, 183
Johnson, George (LBJ’s uncle), 48, 58, 94
Johnson, Josefa, 62, 100, 120, 169–70
Johnson, Lady Bird, 121–22, 337, 436n
adventurous nature of, 27, 49–50, 210–11, 280
in Alabama, 25
ambitions of, 21, 49–51, 61, 74, 104, 111, 320
appearance of, 21
Barbara Walters interviews of, 7–8, 391–92
beautification projects of, see conservation
birthday celebrations of, 386–87, 394
birth of, 8, 15, 16
blind trust and, 221–22
broadcast holdings of, 138–39, 190, 191, 213, 219, 220, 247–50, 302, 383, 385
business and financial sense of, 21–22, 26, 27, 123–42, 174–75, 219
Camino Alto home of, 396–97
campaigning by, 2, 92–94, 119–21, 144–46, 193, 199–202, 204, 208, 261, 392
cautious nature of, 69, 71, 76
celebrity status as delight of, 392–93
childhood of, 7–8, 15, 17–18, 288–89
in comparisons with Jacqueline Kennedy, 3, 4, 223, 239–40, 262
confidence of, 125
conservation and, 7, 104–5, 108, 287–304, 312, 357, 381–82, 394, 399
courtship letters and, 5, 65–74, 76–79, 83, 91, 104, 115, 143, 210, 278
death and funeral of, 350, 399–400
detachment of, 163
determination and hard work of, 57, 160
difficulty conceiving by, 101, 125–26
discipline of, 53
education of, 21–24, 26–27, 68
The Elms home of, 205, 207, 219, 220, 291, 327, 369
entertaining by, 96, 205, 206–7, 276
as Episcopalian, 26
exercise by, 315
exhaustion of, 156
family in widowed years of, 180
final interview of, 259
as first lady, 216–86, 287–304, 305–24
as first lady prospect, 193–94
flexibility of, 88, 96, 101, 108
foreign leaders and, 231–32
frugal nature of, 126, 127, 130, 166, 207, 280, 382, 395
gardening by, 141, 293
as grandparent, 354–55, 382, 398
Head Start and, 270–71, 277
hecklers faced by, 255, 427n
as heiress, 92–94, 250
honorary doctorate of, 354
household management by, 87, 89–91, 101, 106, 140–42, 168, 174, 293
investigative trips taken by, 241–42
Johnson siblings and, 169–70
ladylike demeanor of, 24, 255, 276, 399
on LBJ, 85, 91
LBJ advised by, 93, 97–98, 101, 234
LBJ as first priority of, 2, 4–5, 67, 168, 178–79, 389–90
LBJ historic sites and, 382–83
LBJ marketed by, 79, 152–53, 158
LBJ’s Congressional office run by, 126–29, 131–34, 136
LBJ’s courtship of, 61–79
LBJ’s criticisms and cruelty towards, 62, 87, 127, 142, 207, 273, 376, 387
LBJ’s dependence on, 101, 146–47, 160, 175, 181–82, 186, 188, 199, 202–3, 218, 236–37, 268, 270, 275–76, 280, 283, 284–85, 286, 288, 310, 316, 321–22, 354, 355–56, 375, 385, 387, 389–90
at LBJ’s inauguration, 263–64
LBJ’s introduction to, 56, 58, 60–61
LBJ’s love for, 344, 386–87
LBJ’s mistakes smoothed over by, 86, 103–4, 210, 212, 280–81, 285, 310–11, 375
on LBJ’s spontaneity, 102–3
LBJ supported by, 67–68, 70, 71–72, 74, 75, 84
LBJ’s womanizing and, 3–4, 117–18, 151–52, 325–26, 328–30, 331, 334–36, 339, 341, 343, 344, 391
legacy of, 239–40
letter of encouragement to, 237–38
in life after LBJ, 391–400
at Lynda’s wedding, 1–5, 356–58
Martha’s Vineyard summers of, 395–96
at Medicare signing, 274–75
memoir written by, 368–71
miscarriages of, 160, 167, 192
moving by, 89, 109–10, 128, 136
nature and botany loved by, 20–21, 49, 288–89, 304, 394
networking of, 104, 105, 130, 173
and 1964 election, 245–46, 252–57, 367
and 1968 election, 346, 356, 359–60
as nonjudgmental, 114
open house of, 89–90, 154, 162, 168, 281
optimism of, 72, 255
organized nature of, 126
parenting by, 2, 4, 139–40, 142, 165–69, 178–81, 224–26, 317–19, 382, 392
perceived as subservient, 3, 4, 101, 147, 199, 218, 258, 289, 351, 391
“pigeonholes” in mind of, 163, 288
in planning of LBJ Library, 377–81
as political partner, 67, 83, 84, 95, 216–18, 226, 230–31, 233–34, 240, 260–64
political skills of, 98–101, 130, 131–33, 219
pregnancy and childbirth of, 139
publicity and press handled by, 129, 131–32
public speaking of, 205–7, 241–43, 312–14
radio stations owned by, 106, 124, 135–39, 142, 143, 144–46, 165, 171, 174, 385
real estate purchases of, 134–35
return to Texas by, 365
rules for first ladies changed by, 260–61
scaled back business role of, 396
self-sufficiency of, 20–21, 70, 316
social skills of, 68, 84, 96, 97, 99, 101, 104, 110, 163, 173, 190–91, 199, 201, 226, 300, 310, 347
Southern campaigning of, 252–57, 427n
stoicism of, 181, 387
strokes and declining health of
, 259, 398–99
suitors considered by, 53–54
talk tailored by, 110–11
television stations owned by, 123–25, 171, 172
“Texas Trails” and, 362–63
theater loved by, 27
30th Place home of, 135, 140–42, 146, 162, 168, 172, 190, 198, 349
thrifty nature of, 77–78, 89, 90–91
T.J. and, 21–22, 27, 50
T.J.’s will and, 170–71, 202, 316, 423n
toughness of, 207
travel of, 209–12, 313, 376–77, 392, 395
uncharacteristic anger of, 134, 294, 326, 357–58
unexpected guests and, 101, 103
unflappable nature of, 7, 8, 17, 23, 87, 96, 203, 257, 273, 312–13, 322, 353
at University of Texas, 52–56, 60–61, 130, 133–34
on vice presidential nomination, 107
as vice president’s wife, 205–7
on Vietnam War, 306–7, 311–12, 323–24
visiting Texans welcomed by, 95–96, 174
wardrobe of, 223, 232, 266, 344, 376
and War on Poverty, 216–17, 242, 276
wealth of, 67–68, 137, 138–39, 144, 172–73, 205, 220–22, 247–50, 383, 385, 396, 426n
wedding of, 3, 5, 80–82
White House departure of, 363–64
White House entertaining of, 226–27, 228
White House Festival of the Arts and, 271–73
White House open-door policy of, 222–23, 281
Wildflower Research Center founded by, 394
Johnson, Lucia, see Alexander, Lucia Johnson
Johnson, Luci Baines, see Nugent, Luci Baines Johnson
Johnson, Lynda, see Robb, Lynda Bird Johnson
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 33, 243
adulation needed by, 184
in affair with Douglas, 148–52
anxiety of, 142
audience needed by, 314–15, 377, 387
bad behavior of, 29
birth of, 30, 34, 35
blind trust and, 221–22
braggadocio of, 61, 175, 326
broadcast holdings of, 138–39, 213, 220, 383, 385
campaigning by, 2, 58–59, 92–94, 100, 144–46, 152–58, 195–96, 202, 257
charm of, 59–60, 61, 86, 250, 342
civil rights supported by, 103, 160–62, 188–89, 196, 200, 226, 243–44, 252–53, 266, 290–91, 371, 386
as commanding and manipulative, 28
common-ground approach of, 45
as congressman, 85, 95–101
conservation and, 289, 293, 360
conspiracy theorists and, 434n
conversation monopolized by, 103, 140, 174–75
courtship letters and, 5, 65–74, 76–79, 83, 91, 104, 115, 142, 210, 278
credit not shared by, 133
as cruel and insensitive to Lady Bird, 67, 160
“Days Dwindle Down” speech of, 384–85, 387
death of, 7, 192, 387–88, 392, 395
and decision to run in 1964, 235–39
dependence on Lady Bird of, 101, 146–47, 160, 175, 181–82, 186, 188, 199, 202–3, 218, 236–37, 268, 270, 275–76, 280, 283, 284–85, 286, 288, 310, 316, 321–22, 354, 355–56, 375, 385, 387, 389–90