The Path to Power (150 page)

Refusing lobbyists’ meals, travel expenses:
Alsop and Kintner, “Never Leave Them Angry”; Dulaney, p. 24; Hardeman.
One trip:
Dulaney, p. 24.
“Not for sale”:
Dorough, p. 85; Steinberg, p. xii.
$15,000:
Steinberg, p. 346.

Pumping of a piston:
Daniels,
Frontier
, p. 58.
Holding the two Congressmen apart:
Miller, p. 242; Hardeman.
“Amidst the multitude”:
Sam Rayburn Scrapbooks, Rayburn Library; McFarlane, Hardeman.
“Young in years”:
Rep. William C. Adamson, quoted in Steinberg, p. 45.

“Someday”:
Alsop and Kintner, “Never Leave Them Angry.”
“The only way”:
Steinberg, p. 33.

“My ambition”:
Rayburn to Katy Thomas, Feb. 2, 1922, in Dulaney, p. 35.
“Almost kills me”:
Alsop and Kintner, “Never Leave Them Angry.”
Standing in the aisle etc.:
Time
, Dec. 14, 1936.
“The smartest thing”:
Dulaney, p. 37; Miller, p. 234.

Cochran Hotel:
Alsop and Kintner, “Never Leave Them Angry.”

Becoming a part of the hierarchy:
Timmons,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
, Oct. 11, 1961.
“Indefinable knack”:
Richard Lyons, “Mr. Sam Made History in 48 Years’ Service.”
WP
, B9, Nov. 17, 1961.
“Sam stands hitched”:
WP
, Nov. 17, 1961.
“Employed him”:
Alsop and Kintner, “Never Leave Them Angry.”
Began to use:
Hardeman.

“He would help you”:
Boiling.
“The House soon spots”:
Jones OH, pp. 110–12.

“A lonesome, dark day here”:
Rayburn to H. B. Savage, 1919, quoted in Dulaney, p. 32.
Waiting in silence:
Steinberg, pp. 63–76; Hardeman, Harding.

“Truth-in-Securities” Act:
Freidel, pp. 340–50.
“I want it”:
Alsop and Kintner, “Never Leave Them Angry.”
Problems with the “Truth in Securities” Act:
Schlesinger,
Coming
, pp. 440–42; Moley,
After Seven Years
, pp. 175–84; Parrish, pp. 42–72.
Rayburn paid a visit:
Moley,
After
, pp. 179–81.

Rewriting the bill:
Cohen, Corcoran; Landis OH and Landis, “The Legislative History.”
“A countryman”:
Cohen.
“Rayburn who decided”:
Landis OH, p. 161.
“I
had thought”:
Landis, “The Legislative History,” p. 37.
“Strong … right … just”:
Cohen.
“I confess”; “I went back”; “very obscene”; “Now Sam”:
Landis OH, pp. 165–70.
“A genius”:
Corcoran.
“Temporary dictatorship”:
Parrish, p. 112.
Moley was to write incorrectly:
In
After Seven Years
, p. 181, and in
27 Masters
, p. 243.

Complexities in full House:
Corcoran; Landis, “The Legislative History,” p. 41.
In conference committee:
Landis, “The Legislative History,” pp. 43–46; Landis OH, p. 169; Corcoran.
On every crucial point:
Freidel, p. 349.

Securities Exchange Commission fight:
Parrish,
passim;
Schlesinger,
Coming
, 456–70; Gadsby, “Historical Development”; Hardeman, Corcoran.
In his own committee:
Parrish, p. 132.

Public Utilities Act:
Parrish, pp. 145–74; Schlesinger,
Politics
, pp. 302–24; Steinberg, pp. 125–29; Hardeman, Corcoran, Cohen.
“You talk”:
Roosevelt, in Schlesinger,
Politics
, p. 314.
Carpenter’s threat:
Steinberg, p. 127.
A rare public statement:
Rayburn speech on NBC, Aug. 30, 1935, in Dulaney, p. 59.

“Few people”:
NYT
, April 2, 1934.
“He did”:
Halberstam, p. 246.
“I always”:
Hardeman, “Unseen Side.”
“Let the other”:
Dulaney, p. 372.
“In on the borning”:
Pearson article, March 3, 1955, quoted in Anderson and Boyd, pp. 279–80.
“I cut him”:
Miller, pp. 231–32.
“The ‘Sam Rayburn Commission’”:
Douglas,
George Washington Law Review
, Oct., 1959, pp. 3–4.
Putting FDR’s picture beside Lee’s:
Hardeman;
Time
, Sept. 27, 1943.

Given patronage:
For example, Steinberg, p. 120.
“A man in the shadows”: R
. Tucker, “Master for the House.”
“If you were”:
Boiling.
“A very big mistake”:
White, “Sam Rayburn,”
NYT Magazine
, Feb. 27, 1949.
Never ask you again:
Hardeman.

“Always”:
Hardeman.
“She-e-e-e-t”:
Miller p. 230.
“Afraid”:
Harding.

Pitied him:
Hardeman, Harding, Rayden, Holton.
“For all my children”:
Steinberg, p. 35.
“They crawled all over him”:
Hardeman, “Unseen Side.”
“I was the joke”:
Steinberg, p. 207.

Metze Jones:
Dorough, pp. 183–84; Miller, pp. 228–29; Steinberg, pp. 78–79. Miller says that Rayburn later in life saw another woman once or twice a week, but Miller says, “I never found out who she was” (p. 229). Rayburn’s other aides do not believe this is correct.
“A great hurry”:
Steinberg, p. 79.
“Oh, I’m so cranky”:
Hardeman, “Unseen Side.”
“Kept watch”; “It is true”:
Miller, pp. 228–29.

“I never felt that [the hostess] knew or cared”:
Steinberg, p. 37.
Trying to prolong the hours:
Hardeman, Rayden, Harding.
“Sometimes I had something planned, but”:
Harding.
“Those who went”:
Steinberg, p. 200.
“God what I would give”:
Steinberg, p. 151; Dulaney, p. 176.
Walking alone on weekends:
Hardeman, Harding.

“You are one member”:
Rayburn to Sam Ealy Johnson, Feb. 22, 1937, “General Correspondence” file,
R
ayburn Library.
Limited by custom:
Latimer, Jones.

Inviting “Mr. Sam” to dinner:
Mrs. Johnson.
Sitting beside Lyndon’s bed:
Steinberg, p. 159; Hardeman.

Johnson’s feelings:
Hopkins, Latimer, Jones, Lucas.
Coleman’s feelings:
Coleman.
The Coleman election:
Lucas, Coleman, Payne.
“My God”:
Swist.

“That burning ambition”; trying to get him a job in Texas:
Hopkins.
Wirtz offering a partnership:
Jones.

At Law School:
Brown OH, pp. 1, 2, 5, 7, 19–20; Jones.

College presidency:
Jones.
“I want to be”:
Dale Miller.
The job offer:
Jones, Mrs. Johnson; Corcoran, who heard the story later.

Rayburn going to see Connally:
Connally to his biographer, Steinberg; quoted in Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, p. 94.
Announcing and retracting the Kinard appointment:
Kinard, Corcoran.
“When I”:
McFarlane, SHJ.

Books, articles, theses, documents:

Davis,
Youth in the Depression;
Lash,
Eleanor and Franklin;
Lindley,
A New Deal for Youth;
Manchester,
The Glory and the Dream
.

Edwin W. Knippa, “The Early Political Life of Lyndon B. Johnson, 1931–1937” (unpublished Master’s Thesis), San Marcos, 1967. Deborah L. Self, “The National Youth Administration in Texas, 1935–1939 (unpublished Master’s Thesis), Lubbock, 1974.

Federal Security Agency, “Final Report of the National Youth Administration: Fiscal Years 1936–1943,” Washington, 1943. NYA, “Administrative and Program
Operation of the NYA, June 25, 1935—January 1, 1937,” Washington, D.C., 1937. NYA, “Digest—NYA in Texas,” Feb., 1939. NYA, “Facing the Problems of Youth: The Work and Objectives of the NYA,” Washington, 1936. Mary Rodgers, “Youth Gets Its Chance,” a mimeographed pamphlet of the New York NYA, 1938.

George Creel, “Dollars for Youth,”
Collier’s
, Sept. 28, 1935; Walter Davenport, “Youth Won’t Be Served,”
Collier’s
, March 7, 1936; “Texas Gets Better Roadsides,”
Engineering News-Record
, Sept. 23, 1937; “Government and Youth,”
Life
, May 15, 1940; “Texas Tech Again Receives NYA Funds,”
Texas Tech Magazine
, Oct. 1937; “Second Start,”
Time
, July 27, 1936; “NYA,”
The State Week
, Nov. 14, 1935; “NYA—‘Marginal’ Jobs Developed for Youth,”
The State Week
, May 7, 1936.

Barker Scrapbooks, Barker Texas History Center. Birdwell Scrapbooks, LBJL. Johnson NYA Papers, LBJL.

Oral Histories:

Sherman Birdwell, Richard R. Brown, Willard Deason, L. E. Jones, Jr., Carroll Keach, Jesse Kellam, Ray Roberts, Fenner Roth.

Interviews:

Willard Deason, Edward A. Clark, Mary Henderson, Lady Bird Johnson, L. E. Jones, Ernest Morgan, J. J. Pickle, Horace Richards, Vernon Whiteside, one NYA staff member who asked not to be quoted by name.

“NYA Group Interview” conducted by William S. White with Willard Deason, J. J. Pickle, Ray Roberts, Fenner Roth, Albert W. Brisbane, C. P. Little.

“Moments of real terror”:
Eleanor Roosevelt, quoted in Lash, p. 536.
College attendance falling:
Lindley, p. 158.
“Shoes”:
Lindley, p. 195.
“Scalpels”:
Lindley, p. 12.
A study:
Davis, pp. 18–19.
“The more”:
Lindley, p. 193.
5 million:
NYA, “Facing the Problems of Youth,” p. 5.

“Maybe”:
Quoted in Lindley, p. 21.
“Only boys”:
Davis, p. 5.
Comparison with old West:
Davis, p. 29.
“The worst thing”:
Davis, p. 5.
“To workers”:
Manchester, p. 21.
2.25 million more:
Lindley, p. 7.
“Boys and girls”:
Davis, p. 44.
“Lost generation”:
Quoted in Lash, p. 550.
No fewer than 700,000:
Davenport, “Youth Won’t Be Served.”
“A civilization”:
Eleanor Roosevelt, quoted in Lash, p. 538.
Early began pressing:
Lash, pp. 536–554 is the best description of Mrs. Roosevelt’s catalytic role in the creation of the NYA. The following quotes are from those pages. Discussion between Eleanor and Franklin is Fulton Oursler,
Behold the Dreamer
, quoted in Lash, pp. 539–540.
“That was another side”:
Lash, p. 540.

“Minimum”:
NYA, “Facing,” p. 9

Recruiting Deason:
Deason OH IV, pp. 17–18; Deason.
Recruiting Kellam:
Knippa, p. 53; Birdwell OH.
Central staff:
Rodgers, pp. 209–210.
White Stars:
Self, p. 20; Deason, Jones, Richards, Whiteside.

Creating the program:
Self, “The NYA”; Lady Bird Johnson; Jones, Deason OHs and interviews; NYA “Facing,” p. 9.
Roadside parks:
“Texas Gets Better Roadsides,”
Engineering News-Record;
Knippa, pp. 58 ff; Johnson to Brown, July 29, 1936, Box 3, JNYA Papers: Griffith to Johnson, Aug. 27, 1936, Box 7, JNYA Papers; Self, “The NYA,” pp. 82–85; Deason and Deason OHs and interviews; Jones.

Hiring Henderson:
Jones, Jones OH I, pp. 14–15; Mary Henderson.
Williamson Creek:
AA
, May 25, 1941.
Quota:
Self, p. 35.
Additional projects:
Birdwell Scrap-books; “Texas Gets Better Roadsides,”
Engineering News-Record;
Griffith to Johnson, Aug. 27, 1936, Box 7, JNYA Papers.

Resistance from local officials and Taylor:
Deason.
“The greatest salesman”:
Deason.

Directives:
Lindley, pp. 184–188.
“A lot of travel”:
Deason OH V, p. 11.
Dean Moore:
Self, pp. 54–55, 63.
Red tape:
Self, pp. 53–57; Deason; Morgan.
Other state directors:
Rodgers, pp. 22–24, 210–212.

The staff was very young:
Analysis of staff résumés in Box 5, JNYA Papers, and interviews cited in Sources.
“Very nervous”:
Morgan.
Dictating:
Mary Henderson.
“The nature”; “tomorrow”; competition:
NYA Group Interview, pp. 22, 23, 28.
“Goddammit”; cursing:
Morgan.
Hurting Henderson, other staffer:
SHJ, confirmed by others.
Without a pause:
Jones.
“I hope”:
staff member. Gas lights: Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, p. 97; Deason, Birdwell OH, pp. 14–15.

“Lyndon is the leader”:
Lady Bird Johnson, quoted by Schreiber, “Lady Bird Johnson’s First Years of Marriage,”
Woman’s Day
, Dec. 1967.
Guests:
Jones; Deason; Mrs. Johnson, quoted in Self, pp. 23–4.
“Hardest thing”:
Deason OH IV, p. 25.
“Lyndon would”:
Birdwell OH II,
p. 14, OH I, pp. 7–8.
“We weren’t off duty”:
Deason OH IV, p. 22; Deason.
“When he woke up”:
Mrs. Johnson.