The Path to Power (138 page)

The Werner File was given to the author by Mr. Werner’s daughter, Julia Gary.

T
HE PAPERS
dealing with the period covered in this volume are found in a number of collections at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas. They are:

House of Representatives Papers:
The memoranda (both intra-office and with others), casework, speech drafts and texts, and other papers kept in the files of Johnson’s congressional office from 1937 through 1948, when he was Congressman from Texas. These papers also include records pertaining to his other activities during this period, records which were originally compiled by his staff in other offices, such as the records compiled in an office he temporarily rented in Washington’s Munsey Office Building when he was raising money for scores of Democratic Congressmen in 1940, and records kept in his Austin campaign headquarters during his first campaign for Congress in 1937 and his first campaign for Senate in 1941. These papers, of which there are 140 linear feet, contained in 349 boxes, are abbreviated in the notes as “JHP.”

Lyndon Baines Johnson Archives:
These files were created about 1958, and consist of material taken both from the House of Representatives Papers and from Johnson’s Senate Papers. It consists of material considered historically valuable or of correspondence with persons with whom he was closely associated, such as Sam Rayburn, Abe Fortas, James Rowe, George and Herman Brown, Edward Clark and Alvin Wirtz; or of correspondence with national figures of that era. These files, of which there are 34 linear feet in 61 boxes, are abbreviated as “LBJA” and are divided into four main categories:

1. Selected Names (LBJA SN): Correspondence with close associates.
   

2. Famous Names (LBJA FN): Correspondence with national figures.
   

3. Congressional File (LBJA CF): Correspondence with fellow Congressmen and Senators.
   

4. Subject File (LBJA SF): This contains a Biographic Information File, with material relating to Johnson’s year as a schoolteacher in Cotulla and Houston; to his work as a secretary to Congressman Richard M. Kleberg; to his activities with the Little Congress; and to his naval service during World War II.
   

Pre-Presidential Confidential File:
This contains material taken from other files because it dealt with potentially sensitive areas. It is abbreviated as PPCF.

Family Correspondence (LBJ FC):
Correspondence between the President and his mother and brother, Sam Houston Johnson.

Personal Papers of Rebekah Baines Johnson (RBJ PP):
This is material found in her garage after she died. It includes correspondence with her children (including Lyndon) and other members of her family, and material collected by her during her research into the genealogy of the Johnson family. It includes 27 boxes, as well as scrapbooks.

Papers of the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRAP):
60 linear feet, contained in approximately 165 boxes (the material is currently being re-filed), this
material, invaluable in tracing the early political careers of both Lyndon Johnson and Alvin Wirtz, consists of the office files of the LCRA from 1935 through 1975, as well as material dealing with the authority’s two predecessor private companies, Emory Peck and Rockwood Development Company and Central Texas Hydro-Electric Company, which throws great light on Wirtz, and was associated with both of them.

Personal Papers of Alvin Wirtz (AW PP):
25 boxes.

White House Central File (WHCF):
The only files in this category used to a substantial extent in this volume were the Subject Files labeled “President (Personal)” (WHCF PP). They contain material about the President or his family, mainly articles written after he became President about episodes in his early life.

White House Famous Names File (WHFN):
This includes correspondence with former Presidents and their families, including Johnson correspondence when he was a Congressman with Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Record Group 48, Secretary of the Interior, Central Classified Files (RG 48):
Microfilm from the National Archives containing documents relating to Lyndon Johnson found in the files of the Department of the Interior.

Documents Concerning Lyndon B. Johnson from the Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, John M. Carmody, Harry L. Hopkins, and Aubrey Williams (FDR-LBJ MF):
This microfilm reel was compiled at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park and consists of correspondence to and from Johnson found in various PPF and OF files at the Roosevelt Library. Whenever possible, the author has included the file number, by which the original documents can be located at the Roosevelt Library.

Johnson House Scrapbooks (JHS):
21 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings compiled by members of his staff between 1935 and 1941.

Each document from the LBJ Library is cited in the Notes by collection in the Library, by box number within that collection, and by the folder title within that box. If no folder title is included in the citation, the folder is either the name of the correspondent in the letter or, in the case of files kept alphabetically, the appropriate letter (a letter from Corcoran, for example, in the folder labeled C).

A bibliography for this book would be another book in itself, and an exercise in pedantry to boot. The following list includes only those books specifically cited in the Notes, and I include it for one purpose alone: so that I can use abbreviations in the Notes.

A
DAMS
, F
RANK C
:
Texas Democracy: A Centennial History of Politics and Personalities of the Democratic Party, 1836–1936
. Springfield, 111.: Democratic Historic Association; 1937.

A
LBERTSON
, D
EAN
:
Roosevelt’s Farmer: Claude R. Wickard in the New Deal
. New York: Columbia University Press; 1961.

A
LEXANDER
, H
ERBERT E
.:
Money in Politics
. Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press; 1972.

A
LLEN
, F
REDERICK
L
EWIS
:
Only Yesterday
. New York: Harper; 1931.

A
LLEN
, R
OBERT
S
HARON, ED
.:
Our Sovereign State
. New York: Vanguard Press; 1949.

A
LSOP
, J
OSEPH, AND
T
URNER
C
ATLEDGE
:
The 168 Days
. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday; 1937.

A
NDERSON
, J
ACK, AND
J
AMES
B
OYD
:
Confessions of a Muckraker
. New York: Random House; 1979.

A
NGEVINE
, E
RMA, ED
.:
People—Their Power: The Rural Electric Fact Book
. Washington, D.C.: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association; 1980.

B
AKER
, B
OBBY, WITH
L
ARRY
L. K
ING
:
Wheeling and Dealing
. New York: Norton; 1978.

B
AKER
, G
LADYS L., WAYNE D. RASMUSSEN, VIVIAN WISER, JANE M. PORTER
:
Century of Service: The First Hundred Years of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, GPO; 1967.

B
AKER
, L
EONARD
:
The Johnson Eclipse: A President’s Vice Presidency
. New York: Macmillan; 1966.

B
ANKS
, J
IMMY
:
Money, Marbles, and Chalk: The Wondrous World of Texas Politics
. Austin: Texas Pub. Co.; 1972.

B
EARSS
, E
DWIN C
:
Historic Resource Study … Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site, Blanco and Gillespie Counties, Texas
. Denver: U.S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service; 1971.

B
ELL
, J
ACK
:
The Johnson Treatment: How Lyndon B. Johnson Took Over the Presidency and Made It His Own
. New York: Harper; 1965.

B
ELLUSH
, B
ERNARD
:
Franklin D. Roosevelt as Governor of New York. New York:
Columbia University Press; 1955.

B
ENDINER
, R
OBERT
:
White House Fever
. New York: Harcourt, Brace; 1960.

B
ILLINGTON
, R
AY ALLEN
:
Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier
. New York: Macmillan; 1949.

B
LAIR
, J
OHN M
.:
The Control of Oil
. New York: Pantheon; 1976.

B
ROWN
, D
. CLAYTON
:
Electricity for Rural America: The Fight for REA
. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood; 1980.

B
ROWN
, G
EORGE ROTHWELL
:
The Speaker of the House: The Romantic Story of John N. Garner
. New York: Brewer, Warren, and Putnam; 1932.

B
URNER
, D
AVID
:
Herbert Hoover: The Public Life
. New York: Knopf; 1978.

B
URNS
, J
AMES MACGREGOR
:
Roosevelt:
The Lion and the Fox
. New York: Harcourt Brace, and World; 1962.

C
HILDS
, M
ARQUIS
:
The Farmer Takes a Hand: The Electric Power Revolution in Rural America
. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday; 1952.

C
OCKE
, W
ILLIAM A
.:
The Bailey Controversy in Texas
. San Antonio: The Cocke Co.; 1908.

C
ORMIER
, F
RANK
:
LBJ, The Way He Was
. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday; 1977.

C
RAWFORD
, A
NN
F
EARS, AND
J
ACK
K
EEVER
:
John P. Connolly: Portrait in Power
. Austin: Jenkins; 1973.

C
ROLY
, H
ERBERT
D.:
Marcus Alonzo Hanna
. New York: Macmillan; 1912.

D
ANIELS
, J
ONATHAN
:
The End of Innocence
. Philadelphia: Lippincott; 1954.

———
Frontier on the Potomac
. New York: Macmillan; 1946.

———
White House Witness, 1942–1945
. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday; 1975.

D
AVIE
, M
ICHAEL
:
LBJ: A Foreign Observer’s Viewpoint
. New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce; 1966.

D
AVIS
, K
INGSLEY
:
Youth in the Depression
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1935.

D
ONOVAN
, R
OBERT
J.:
Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman
. New York: Norton; 1977.

D
OROUGH
, C. D
WIGHT
:
Mr. Sam
. New York: Random House; 1962.

D
OUGLAS
, W
ILLIAM
O.:
The Court Years, 1939–1975
. New York: Random House; 1980.

———
Go East, Young Man
. New York: Random House; 1971.

D
OYLE
, J
ACK
:
Lines Across the Land: Rural Electric Cooperatives, the Changing Politics of Energy in Rural America
. Washington, D.C.: Environmental Policy Institute; 1979.

D
UGGER
, R
ONNIE
:
The Politician: The Life and Times of Lyndon Johnson
. New York: Norton; 1982.

D
ULANEY
, H. B., E
DWARD
H
AKE
P
HILLIPS
, M
AC
P
HELAN
R
EESE
:
Speak, Mr. Speaker
. Bonham, Tex.: Sam Rayburn Foundation; 1978.

E
LLIS
, C
LYDE
T.:
A Giant Step
. New York: Random House; 1966.

E
NGLER
, R
OBERT
:
The Brotherhood of Oil
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1977.

———
Politics of Oil
. New York: Macmillan; 1961.

E
VANS
, R
OWLAND, AND
R
OBERT
N
OVAK
:
Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power
. New York: New American Library; 1966.

F
ARLEY
, J
AMES
A.:
Behind the Ballots
. New York: Harcourt, Brace; 1938.

———
Jim Farley’s Story: The Roosevelt Years
. New York: Whittlesey House; 1948.

F
EHRENBACH
, T. R.:
Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans
. New York: Macmillan; 1968.

F
ISHER
, O. C:
Cactus Jack
. Waco: The Texian Press; 1978.

F
LEMMONS
, J
ERRY
:
Amon: The Life of Amon Carter, Sr., of Texas
. Austin: Jenkins; 1978.

F
LYNN
, E
DWARD
J.:
You’re the Boss
. New York: Viking; 1947.

F
RANTZ
, J
OE
B.:
37 Years of Public Service: The Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson
. Austin: Shoal Creek Publishers; 1974.

F
RANTZ
, J
OE
B.,
AND
J. R
OY
W
HITE
:
The Driskill Hotel
. Austin: Encino Press; 1973.

———
Limestone and Log: A Hill Country Sketchbook
. Austin: Encino Press; 1968.

———
Texas: A Bicentennial History
. New York: Norton; 1976.

F
REIDEL
, F
RANK
:
Franklin D. Roosevelt. Launching the New Deal
. Boston: Little, Brown; 1973.

———,
ED
.:
The New Deal and the American People
. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall; 1964.

G
ANTT
, F
RED
, J
R
.:
The Chief Executive in Texas
. Austin: University of Texas Press; 1964.

G
ARWOOD
, J
OHN, AND
W. C. T
UTHILL
:
The Rural Electrification Administration: An Evaluation
. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; 1963.

G
EYELIN
, P
HILIP
L.:
Lyndon B. Johnson and the World
. New York: Praeger; 1966.

G
ILLESPIE
C
OUNTY
H
ISTORICAL
S
OCIETY
:
Pioneers in God’s Hills
. Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones; 1960.

G
OLDMAN
, E
RIC
:
The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson
. New York: Knopf; 1969.

G
OODWYN
, F
RANK
:
Lone-Star Land: Twentieth-Century Texas in Perspective
. New York: Knopf; 1955.

G
OODWYN
, L
AWRENCE
:
Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America
.
New York: Oxford University Press; 1976.

G
OULD
, L
EWIS
L.:
Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democrats in the Wilson Era
. Austin: University of Texas Press; 1973.

G
RAVES
, J
OHN
:
Hard Scrabble
. New York: Knopf; 1974.

———
Texas Heartland: A Hill Country Year
. College Station: Texas A&M University Press; 1975.

G
REEN
, G
EORGE
N.:
The Establishment in Texas Politics
. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press; 1979.

G
UNTHER
, J
OHN
:
Inside U.S.A
. New York: Harper; 1947.

———
Roosevelt in Retrospect
. New York: Harper; 1950.

H
ALBERSTAM
, D
AVID
:
The Best and the Brightest
. New York: Random House; 1972.

———
The Powers That Be
. New York: Knopf; 1979.

H
ARWELL
, T
HOMAS
F
LETCHER
:
Eighty Years Under the Stars and Bars
. Kyle, Tex.: United Confederate Veterans; 1947.

H
ARWOOD
, R
ICHARD, AND
H
AYNES
J
OHNSON
:
Lyndon
. New York: Praeger; 1973.

H
EARD
, A
LEXANDER
:
The Costs of Democracy
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press; 1960.

H
ENDERSON
, R
ICHARD
B.:
Maury Maverick: A Political Biography
. Austin: University of Texas Press; 1970.

H
UMPHREY
, W
ILLIAM
:
Farther Off From Heaven
. New York: Knopf; 1977.

H
UNTER
, J
OHN
M
ARVIN, AND
G
EORGE
W. S
AUNDERS
:
The Trail Drivers of Texas
. Dallas: The Southwest Press; 1929.

I
CKES
, H
AROLD
L.:
The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes
. 3 vols. New York: Simon and Schuster; 1953–54.

J
AMES
, M
ARQUIS
:
Mr. Garner of Texas. Indianapolis
, New York: Bobbs-Merrill; 1939.

———
The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston
. New York: Blue Ribbon Books; 1929.

J
OHNSON
, C
LAUDIA
A
LTA
(T
AYLOR
):
A White House Diary
. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston; 1970.

J
OHNSON
, L
YNDON
B
AINES
:
A Time for Action: A Selection from the Speeches and Writings of Lyndon B. Johnson, 1953–64
. New York: Atheneum; 1964.

———
My Hope for America
. New York: Random House; 1964.

———
Pattern for Peace in Southeast Asia
. Washington, D.C.: Department of State, GPO; 1965.

———
The Presidential Press Conferences
. New York: Coleman Enterprises; 1978.

———
This America
. Photographed by Ken Heyman. New York: Random House; 1966.

———
To Heal and to Build: The Programs of Lyndon B. Johnson
. Edited by James MacGregor Burns. New York: McGraw-Hill; 1968.

———
The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the President, 1963–1969
. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston; 1971.

J
OHNSON
, R
EBEKAH
(B
AINES
):
A Family Album
. Edited by John S. Moursund. New York: McGraw-Hill; 1965.