Master of the Senate (218 page)

“Could be”:
Theis OH.

“Most interactions”:
Goodwin,
Lyndon Johnson
, p. 126.

Being sworn in:
CR
, 81/1, pp. 3–5;
AA-S, DMN, HP, HC
, Jan. 4, 1949.
his own desk:
The desk is Desk No. 18.

Winked and grinned:
Mayer, “Your Capital City,”
AA-S
, Jan. 12, 1949.

Tirades during campaign:
Caro,
Means
, pp. 239–42.
“I had”:
Busby, quoted in Caro,
Path
, p. 422.

Graciousness during campaign; “Here, Buzz”:
Caro,
Means
, p. 269; Busby interview.

Driving to work:
Paul F. Healy, “The Frantic Gentleman from Texas,”
SEP
, May 19, 1951; Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, p. 318; Rather interview.
Shouting:
Miller, p. 182.
Glass affair:
Caro,
Path
, Chapter 25.

Douglas’ career:
Douglas,
Full Life;
Scobie,
Center Stage
.
“Ten of”:
Broun, quoted in Scobie, p. 24.
“Has made”:
NYHT
, Oct. 25, 1936.
“Had prepared”:
Louisville Courier-Journal
, quoted in Scobie, p. 170.
“Surrounded”:
Baltimore Sun
, Jan. 28, 1945, quoted in Scobie, p. 171.
“She stood”:
Bethune, quoted in Scobie, p. 270.
“Her waistline”:
NYP
, July [date unclear], 1949.
“Number One”:
New York Daily News
, June 4, 1950.

“Draped”:
Douglas,
Full Life
, p. 204.
“He never”:
Douglas interview.
“In a hurry”:
Douglas OH.
“Willing”:
Douglas, p. 260.
“Was it”:
Douglas OH.
“One of”; “he cared”:
Douglas OH.
“He knew”:
Douglas,
Full Life
, p. 205.
FDR’s funeral; “He looked”:
Douglas OH, Douglas interview.
Rankin episode:
Douglas,
Full Life
, pp. 226–31; Douglas OH.

Arriving together:
Davidson, “Texas Political Powerhouse,”
Look
, Aug. 4, 1959.
Holding hands:
Busby, Mary-Louise Young interviews.
Dinner, parties together:
Evelyn Chavoor, Charles A. Hogan OHs.
“Over the”:
Scobie,
Center Stage
, p. 181.
“Strikingly handsome”:
Hogan OH.

“Affair with Lyndon”:
Mary-Louise Young interview.
“It started”:
Busby, quoted in Russell,
Lady Bird
, p. 196.
“For quite”:
Busby interview.
“Lyndon would”:
Fath, quoted in Scobie, p. 172.

Helped her:
Scobie, pp. 244, 283; Busby interview.
Swimming pool scene:
Busby, quoted in Russell,
Lady Bird
, p. 212.

“Blow open”:
Skuce, quoted in Miller, p. 213.
“Tell Jake”; “What does”:
Mary-Louise Young interview.
Necktie-tying:
Califano,
The Triumph
, p. 27; Connally interview.
“What that woman needs”; “LBJ made”:
Califano, pp. 169–70.
“Lyndon’s idea”:
Woods, quoted in Caro,
Path
, p. 182.
“Let nature”:
Sidey,
Time
, May 13, 1974.

“When he barks”:
Healy, “Frantic Gentleman,”
SEP
, May 19, 1951.
“The other”; “He wouldn’t”:
Woodward interview.
Sending in note:
Goodwin,
Lyndon Johnson
, p. 104.
“Hi, Jake”:
Carlton interview.
Walter George scene:
Busby interview; Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, p. 345.
“He took”:
Woodward interview.

Joking with Vandenberg:
AA-S, DMN, HP
, Jan. 4, 1949.
Drawing for desk:
Pearson,
WP
, Feb. 12, 1949.
“Howdy”:
Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, p. 276.
Photograph:
FWS-T
, Jan. 1, 1949.
At Graham party:
Gooch to Johnson, March 12, 1951, Box 483, JSP.
Unceasingly:
For Johnson’s credit-grabbing in the House, see Caro,
Path
, pp. 523–33.
“Avoid”:
Busby to John Connally and Walter Jenkins, Jan. 7, 1949, Box 863, JSP.
Let his aides:
Busby, Connally, Jenkins interviews.

Johnson on the floor:
Busby interview.
“A general feeling”:
Woodward interview.
“Gentlemen”:
Busby interview.

“Time and again”:
Connally interview.

“Mild-mannered”:
Willard Shelton, “The New ’Truman Committee,”
The Nation
, Oct. 21, 1950.
“His manner”:
“The Watchdog Committee and How It Watches,”
Newsweek
, Dec. 3, 1951.
“I found”:
Lucas, quoted in

Evans and Novak,
LBJ: Exercise
, p. 33.

“I always”:
Johnson, quoted in Goodwin,
Lyndon Johnson
, pp. 120–21.
Flattery at college; contemporaries’ contempt:
Caro,
Path
, Chapters 8, 11, 16.
“Uriah Heep”:
Caro, p. 489.
“Smiling and”:
Corcoran, quoted in Caro, p. 449.
“I never”:
Clark, quoted in Caro, p. 363.

Johnson and Rayburn:
Caro,
Path
, Chapter 18.
Betraying Rayburn:
Caro, Chapter 30.
Heart melting:
Caro, Chapter 36.

“Don’t forget”:
Vinson to Johnson, Dec. 22, 1949, Box 57, LBJA.

“He could”:
Goodwin,
Lyndon Johnson
, p. 103.
“Now they”:
Johnson, quoted in Goodwin, p. 120.

“A classic prototype”; “as nearly pro-labor”; “To hear Senator Murray’s response”:
William S. White, “Democrats’ ‘Board of Directors,’”
NYT Magazine
, July 10, 1955.
Murray aging:
McClure OH; Reed, Tames interviews.
Sometimes:
McClure OH.
Lit up:
Tames interview.

“Real sweet”:
Busby, Latimer interviews.
“I certainly”:
Johnson to Ed Johnson, April 23, 1956, Box 381, JSP.
“Boy, whenever”:
Reedy interview.
“During”:
Shuman to Caro, Jan. 13, 1984, p. 2 (in author’s possession).
“The very”:
Baker,
Friend and Foe
, p. 22.
“Christ”:
Connally interview.
“Johnson thought”:
Mooney OH.
Hayden found:
Hayden to Wever, Jan. 27, Box 116, LBJA SF.
“When he”:
Busby interview.
“After”:
Connally interview.
“Mr. Johnson”:
Jenkins, quoted in Miller, p. 141.

Baker conversation:
Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, pp. 40, 41; Parker,
Capitol Hill
, p. 73.
“Mr. Baker, I understand”:
Johnson, quoted in Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, p. 34.
“Just another”:
Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, p. 40.
Waiter saw:
The waiter was Parker, who described the scene in
Capitol Hill
, p. 73.
“
The
power”:
Baker, quoted in Miller, p. 142.

Johnson and Evans:
Caro,
Path
, pp. 149, 152, 192.
And Wirtz:
Caro, pp. 392–93.
With Roosevelt:
Caro, pp. 448–49 and
passim
.

The boy’s game:
Fite,
Richard B. Russell
, p. 9; Harold H. Martin, “The Man Behind the Brass,”
SEP
, June 2, 1951; Reedy recalls Russell telling him about “Fort Lee” and reenacting the southern charges (Reedy interview).

“From the oldest”:
Robert Paul Turbeville,
Eminent Georgians
, quoted in Fite, p. 1.
Father’s legislative, judicial career:
Marion H. Allen, “Memorial to Chief Justice Richard Brevard Russell,” Georgia Bar Association,
Report of Proceedings
, 56th Annual Session, May 25–27, 1939, pp. 171–77.
“Always looking”:
Fite, p. 3.
“The Senate post”:
Russell speaking in “Richard Russell, Georgia Giant,” three-hour documentary, Atlanta, Ga.: WSB-TV, Cox Enterprises, broadcast 1970, Tape, Part 1. (Referred to hereafter as “Georgia Giant.”)
“Speaking”:
Martin, “The Man Behind the Brass,”
SEP
, June 2, 1957.
“Radical” or:
“Georgia Giant,” Tape, Part 1.
“The poorest”:
Leonard, “The Russells of Our Flock,” University of Georgia
Alumni Record
, May 1967, quoted in Fite, p. 3.
“Got in”:
And Ina Russell Stacy says in her OH, “He was never defeated for a judicial position, and never elected to any of the others.”

Moving to Winder; “would be”; “distraught”:
Fite, pp. 4, 5.

“I was”:
“Georgia Giant,” edited transcript, Part I, p. 10.
“Round the curve!”:
Author’s visit to Winder; “Georgia Giant,” edited transcript, Part I, p. 4; Richard B. Russell III interview; Fielding Russell OH.
“He might”:
Fite, p. 6.
“Thought that”:
WS
, March 9, 1969.
“My mother”:
“Georgia Giant,” edited transcript, Part I, p. 3.

“With a sense”:
WS
, March 9, 1969.
Family close:
Fite, pp. 12–15.
A gang:
Harold H. Martin, “The Man Behind the Brass,”
SEP
, June 2, 1951; Griggs to Williamson, Aug. 1, 1957, SP.
“Those funny songs”:
Stacy OH.
“Although”:
Peterson OH.

“My own”:
Ina Russell Stacy, quoted in Fite, p. 14.

“Where”; “I read”:
Fite, p. 12.
Listening to the veterans:
Karen K. Kelly, “Richard B. Russell: Democrat from Georgia,” unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1979, p. 22.

Father’s letters:
Fite, pp. 24, 22, 29.
Mother’s letters:
Fite, p. 22.
“She wrote”:
“Georgia Giant,” edited transcript, Part I, p. 9.
“Becomingly”:
Fite, p. 17.

“Oh”; “you bear”:
Fite, pp. 20, 18.

“The finest”; “I expect”:
“Georgia Giant,” edited transcript, Part I, pp. 12–13, 18.
“Almost”:
Fite, p. 37.

“His tribute”:
Winder News
, April 27, 1922.
“Was careful”:
Fite, p. 41.
“Young Turks”:
Robert Byrd,
CR
, 87/2, p. S 349; Roy Harris OH.
Father’s 1926 campaign:
Fite, p. 49; Mann,
Walls of Jericho
, p. 32.
“A great bit”:
Rev. Henry E. Russell OH.

“Though young”:
Fite, p. 50.

“These are”:
Fite, p. 51.
“The closest thing”:
Griggs to Williamson, Aug. 1, 1957, SP.
“Leader who”:
Isaac S. Peoples, quoted in Fite, p. 58.

Race for Governor:
Harold H. Martin, “The Man Behind the Brass,”
SEP
, June 2, 1951; Griggs to Williamson, Aug. 1, 1957; Fite, Chapter 4.
Borrowing a thousand dollars:
“The Southern General,”
Time
, Aug. 12, 1957.
“Nothing save”:
Fite, p. 66.
“No man”:
“Georgia Giant,” edited transcript, Part I, p. 21.
“Never used”; “Ananias”; “farmers seemed”:
Fite, pp. 65, 63.

“He considered”:
Fite, p. 96.
Who realized:
Fite, p. 361.
Dated women:
Griggs to Williamson, Aug. 1, 1957.

“So many”:
Jordan interview.
“Lights glow”:
Atlanta Georgian
, Dec. 26, 1931, quoted in Fite, p. 96.
Governorship:
Fite, Chapter 5;
Life
, March 24, 1952.
Agricultural research:
WS
, March 9, 1969.
“Flatter, cajole”:
Fite, p. 87.
“A new day”:
Fite, p. 83.

“The worst”:
Fite, p. 102.
Without canceling:
Harold H. Martin, “The Man Behind the Brass,”
SEP
, June 2, 1951. “
Kilowatt Charlie”:
Griggs to Williamson, Aug. 1, 1957.

“If I can’t:
“Footnotes on Russell,” Robert Allen and John Goldsmith,
Macon Telegraph
, Jan. 30, 1971.
Ultimatum to Robinson:
“Georgia Giant,” edited transcript, Part I, p. 28.
“A wild-spoken”:
“Georgia Giant,” edited transcript, Part I, p. 28.
“Buy his peace”; “Old Ed”; “I got to be”:
“Georgia Giant,” edited transcript, Part I, p. 29.

“To a minimum”:
Fite, p. 125.
Memorizing the rules; He borrowed:
Harold H. Martin, “The Man Behind the Brass,”
SEP
, June 2, 1951; McConaughy to Williamson, July 31, 1957, SP.
Discussing with Watkins:
Riddick interview.
A legend:
Fite, p. 125.