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injunction against LBJ,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
,
15.4

injunction appealed by LBJ,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
,
15.4

jurisdiction in state election,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
,
15.4
,
15.5
,
15.6
,
15.7

see also
Federal Masters-in-Chancery investigation

federal government:

and civil rights movement,
itr.1
–xvii,
itr.2
,
itr.3

Stevenson’s distrust of,
8.1
,
8.2
,
10.1

see also
government regulation

Federal Masters-in-Chancery investigation of 1948,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
,
15.4
,
15.5
,
16.1
,
16.2

Salas’ admission of perjury in,
16.1
,
16.2
,
16.3

Smith’s account of,
16.1

Federal Power Commission

Fehrenbach, T. R.,
8.1
,
8.2

Ferguson, Jim,
1.1
,
8.1
,
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2

Ferguson, Miriam

Ferguson Forum
,
12.1

filibusters, in U.S. Senate

by LBJ, in 1949,
itr.1

Southerners’ use of,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
itr.3

Fisher, O. C

Fly, James,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5

Flynn, Edward J.

Forrestal, James V.,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
5.1
,
7.1

Fortas, Abe,
itr.1
,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
1.4
,
7.1
,
15.1
,
16.1

on LBJ

strategy in LBJ’s federal courts appeal,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3

in Supreme Court hearing on 1948 election fraud,
15.1
,
15.2

Fortune
magazine,
1.1

Fort Worth, Tex.,
12.1
,
13.1

1948 runoff primary results,
13.1
,
14.1

1948 Democratic State Convention in: Loyalists vs. States Righters at,
14.1
,
14.2
; vote canvass and certification process,
14.3
,
15.1

Fort Worth Star-Telegram
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
13.1
,
15.1
,
15.2
,
16.1

Francis, Charles I.,
14.1
,
14.2
,
15.1

Fredericksburg-Austin highway

Fredericksburg Standard
,
2.1

“Freedom Summer”,
itr.1

free enterprise, Stevenson’s belief in,
8.1
,
8.2

Galveston County, Tex.

Garbutt Field,
3.1
,
3.2

Gardner, James,
14.1
,
14.2
,
15.1
,
15.2
n
.

Garner, John Nance

General Electric Company

Genthe, Arnold,
2.1
,
2.2

Gibson, Charlie C.

Gillespie County, Tex.

Gingrich, Cmdr. John

Glass, Alice,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
6.1
,
11.1

Glass, Mary Louise,
2.1
,
4.1
,
4.2

“Gold Dust Twins”

Goldschmidt, Arthur E.

Goldschmidt, Elizabeth Wickenden,
6.1
,
6.2

Goldthorn, Barney

Goldthwaite Eagle
,
4.1

Goldwater, Barry,
16.1
,
17.1

government regulation,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
12.1

Stevenson’s opposition to,
8.1
,
8.2
,
10.1
,
11.1

Graham, Callan,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
15.1

Graham, Elmer

Granville, Bonita

“Great Society”,
itr.1
,
itr.2

Green, Charles E.

Green, George Norris

Greer, Lieut. Walter H.,
3.1
,
3.2

Groce, Josh,
15.1
,
15.2
and n.,
15.3
,
15.4
,
15.5

Guadalcanal, battle of

Guam, fall of

“Guerra boys”

Guinn, Jack,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3

Gulf Oil Company

Gunther, John

Gutirez, Josefa

Gwyn, Jack,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

Halberstam, David

Hamer, Frank,
itr.1
,
8.1
,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
14.4
,
15.1

Hansford County, Tex.,
12.1
,
13.1

Harbin, Estelle,
2.1
,
7.1

Hardeman, D. B.

Harlow, Bryce N.

Harrington, Vincent

health insurance, national

Hearst newspapers

Heckling Hare
(B-26),
3.1
,
3.2

helicopter, campaigning in,
itr.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
11.4
,
11.5
,
11.6
,
11.7
,
12.1

Henderson, Herbert

Herrerra, Olivera

Herring, Charles,
5.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
13.1
,
14.1
,
16.1

Hess, William E.

Hickman, Jeff
,
n
.

Hicks, John,
6.1
, in,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
7.1

Hidalgo County, Tex.,
13.1
,
13.2

Hill Country of Texas,
see
Texas: Hill Country

Hines, Jimmy

Hise, Harley

“Hispanic” vote, Texas,
9.1
,
11.1
;
see also
ethnic vote

Hitler, Adolf,
2.1
,
4.1

Hobby, William P.,
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2

Hofheinz, Roy

Hollers, Hardy

Holman, Alma Lee,
14.1
,
14.2

Holmgreen, Jimmy,
11.1
,
13.1
,
16.1

Hopkins, Alice,
2.1
,
4.1
,
4.2

Hopkins, Harry

Hopkins, Welly K.,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
6.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1

Houston, Tex.,
11.1
,
12.1
,
13.1

1948 runoff primary results,
13.1
,
13.2
,
14.1

1948 State Democratic Convention delegates

River Oaks Precinct Box

Houston Chronicle
,
13.1
,
14.1

Houston Post
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
11.4
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4
,
14.1

Hughes Aircraft

Hughes (Joe D.) Trucking Company

Humble Oil Company,
6.1
,
9.1

Huntress, George

Hutcheson, Judge Joseph C.

hydropower, public
,

Ickes, Harold L.,
1.1
,
1.2
,
4.1
,
7.1

idealism:

viewed by LBJ,
1.1
,
1.2
,
3.1

perceived in LBJ by others,
2.1
,
3.1

of Stevenson

individualism:

of Stevenson,
itr.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5

of Texans,
itr.1
,
8.1

influence:

effect on democratic government,
itr.1
,
8.1
,
14.1

of LBJ, and favoritism,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1

through money,
1.1
,
1.2
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
9.1
,
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
14.1

Stevenson’s concern about,
8.1
,
8.2

injunctions,
see
court injunctions

Internal Revenue Service (IRS),
1.1
,
9.1
,
12.1

International News Service (INS)

Interstate Commerce Commission

Interstate Theaters

isolationism, LBJ’s charge against Stevenson,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1
,
12.2

Izak, Edouard V. M.
,

Jackson, Jimmie Lee,
itr.1
,
itr.2

James, W. Ervin (“Red”),
1.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4

Janeway, Eliot

Java Sea, battle of

Jeffersonianism

of Stevenson,
itr.1
,
8.1
,
8.2

Jenkins, Walter,
2.1
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1

in LBJ’s 1948 campaign,
11.1
,
12.1
,
14.1
,
16.1

Jester, Beauford

Jim Hogg County, Tex.

1948 primary results in,
11.1
,
13.1
,
13.2

Jim Wells County, Tex.,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

Democratic Committee of,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
15.1
; reform majority of,
11.1
,
13.1
,
14.4
,
14.5
,
14.6
,
14.7
;

restraining order and injunction against,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
,
15.4

1948 first primary in

1948 runoff voting in,
13.1
,
13.2
,
16.1
; fraud and “corrections” of,
13.3
,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
14.4
,
15.1
,
15.2
,
16.2
; fraud evidence gathered by Stevenson,
14.5
,
15.3
,
15.4
,
15.5
; fraud probe by Master-in-Chancery held in,
15.6
,
15.7
,
15.8
,
15.9
,
16.3
,
16.4

see also
Box 13
;
Precinct 13

Johnson, Ava (LBJ’s cousin),
1.1
,
1.2

Johnson, Bob

Johnson, Claudia Alta Taylor (Lady Bird),
1.1
,
2.1
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
12.1
,
18.1

admired by staff at KTBC,
6.1
,
6.2

background of

business interests,
itr.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1

in LBJ’s congressional office,
4.1
,
4.2
,
12.1

character and personality of,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
; dignity and poise,
4.4
,
4.5
; graciousness,
4.6
,
4.7
,
12.1
,
13.1
; quiet determination,
4.8
,
4.9
; self-confidence,
4.10
; self-discipline,
4.11
; shyness,
4.12
,
4.13
,
4.14
,
12.2

childhood of

daughters of

education of

on election day in 1948,
13.1
,
13.2

at federal court hearing on 1948 run-off primary,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
,
15.4

as a journalist,
4.1
,
4.2

LBJ and,
1.1
,
2.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
6.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
11.1
,
12.1
; courtship and marriage,
4.6
; devotion and love, her,
4.7
,
4.8
,
4.9
; expectations, LBJ’s,
4.10
,
4.11
,
4.12
,
4.13
, in; in kidney colic crisis,
10.3

with LBJ on first West Coast assignment,
2.1
,
4.1

at Longlea,
4.1
,
4.2

love of nature

nickname of,
4.1
,
4.2

at 1948 State Democratic Convention,
14.1
,
14.2

physical appearance and dress,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
15.1
,
15.2

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