Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
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PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS
Insert I follows page 196; insert II follows page 612.
Carl Albert Center, Congressional Archives, University of Oklahoma: I 9 top AP/Wide World Photos: I 10 top; II 2 bottom left, 3 top, 4 bottom, 8 top, 12–13, 14 top, 15 top, 16
Bettmann/Corbis: I 7 top, 8; II 2 top
Boston Art Commission 2001: I 2–3 top
© 1951 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing Co., Indianapolis, IN. www.curtispublishing.com: II 1
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library: I 9 bottom, 10 bottom, 11, 12 both, 13 all (bottom, George Tames), 14 all, 15 both (Frank Muto), 16 (Frank Muto); II 4 top, 5 left top and bottom and right bottom, 7 (© Gittings), 9 top right, 10 both, 11 top left and right, 14 bottom, 15 bottom
Library of Congress: I 4 bottom, 5 both
© Arnold Newman / Getty Images: I 1
© 1951 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission: II 2 bottom right
New York Times, George Tames: I 7 bottom; II 6
TimePix: I 6 (Hank Walker); II 3 bottom (Mark Kauffman), 5 right top (Mark Kauffman) and right center (Ralph Morse), 8 left (Paul Schutzer) and right bottom (Ralph Morse), 9 top left (Paul Schutzer) and bottom (Hank Walker), 11 right center (Grey Villet) and bottom (Mark Kauffman)
U.S. Senate Collection: I 2 bottom, 4 top
Above: Webster Replying to Hayne, by George P. A. Healy. Vice President John C. Calhoun, at far left, presides in the old Senate Chamber, January, 1830.
Opposite: The United States Senate, A.D. 1850, engraved by Robert Whitechurch after a painting by Peter Rothermel. Henry Clay presents his compromise to the Senate, presided over by Vice President Millard Fillmore. Calhoun is to the right of Fillmore, and Daniel Webster is seated at left, head in hand.
Above: Senate as a Court of Impeachment for the Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868, after Theodore Davis. Below: Keppler’s The Bosses of the Senate, Puck magazine, 1889
The Senate Four: left to right, Orville H. Platt, John C. Spooner, William B. Allison, and Nelson W. Aldrich, at Aldrich’s Newport, Rhode Island, estate, 1903
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, right, talks to newsmen during Senate debate over the Treaty of Versailles, 1919.
A Russell of the Russells of Georgia
Richard Brevard Russell Jr. being sworn in as Governor of Georgia by the Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, Richard Brevard Russell Sr., June 27, 1931
Russell and Johnson at a Washington Senators baseball game in 1955
The Orator of the Dawn: Hubert Humphrey, the fiery mayor of Minneapolis, fighting for a strong civil rights plank at the 1948 Democratic National Convention
Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas emerging from the voting booth
Below: The Texas delegation in Washington to attend Lyndon Johnson’s January, 1949, inauguration ceremony. At Johnson’s right are Justice Tom Clark and the senior Senator from Texas, Tom Connally.
New Senator Lyndon B. Johnson allows new Senator Robert Kerr to take center stage. Senator Clinton Anderson is at right.
Opposite: Johnson joins the Senate Armed Services Committee, January, 1949. From left, Democrats Lester C. Hunt, Estes Kefauver, Lyndon B. Johnson, Virgil Chapman, Richard B. Russell, Chairman Millard E. Tydings; Republicans Styles Bridges, Chan Gurney, Leverett Saltonstall, Wayne Morse, Raymond E. Baldwin, and William Knowland.
The Johnsons at home, August, 1948
Christmas photographs. Above, 1949: from left, Lucia, Rebekah Baines, Josefa, Rodney on Sam Houston’s lap, Becky Alexander, Rebekah Bobbitt, O. P. Bobbitt, and their son Phil. Below, 1955, at the Johnson Ranch: Aunt Jessie Hatcher, Lucy, Ramon, Sam Houston, Lyndon, Lynda, unidentified
Johnson with Walter Jenkins en route to the office. Congressman Homer Thornberry is in the middle.
Johnson and John Connally at the Austin airport
Christmas, 1950, photograph of staff for Collier’s magazine. From left, Warren Woodward, Mary Rather, Johnson, Dorothy Nichols, Horace Busby, Glynn Stegall.
At the ranch with his family, after his heart attack, August, 1955
The press conference, with Sam Rayburn (left) and Adlai Stevenson, September, 1955
“Lyndon Johnson Day” at his alma mater, Southwest Texas State Teachers College, November, 1955
On the ranch
Fording the river to get to the ranch
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