The Passage of Power (133 page)

“To get”
:
Mooney,
LBJ,
p. 124.
“Extremely effective”
:
Reedy OH II.
“We’ve had”
:
Rayburn, quoted in Baker,
Wheeling,
p. 119.

Mateos celebration:
Time,
April 25, 1960;
AA-S, DMN,
Oct. 19, 1959.
Six journalists:
WES, WP,
Jan. 14, 1960.

“Just kidding”
:
“Telephone Call from President Eisenhower to Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, August 4, 1959,” “1959,” “Notes and Transcripts of Pre-Presidential Conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson,” LBJL.

“As usual”
:
NYT,
Nov. 26, 1959.
“I didn’t think of him”
:
NYT,
Dec. 15, 1959.

Brown meeting;
“downright angry”
:
“Telephone Conversation between Walter Jenkins and Leonard Marks,” Feb. 1, 1960, “Transcripts of Telephone Calls—Feb. 1960,” Box 1, Series 2, OFWJ, LBJL.
“Senator Johnson did”
;
“electable”
:
Dutton.
Responded on national television:
NYT,
Jan. 24, 1960; Nov. 1, Nov. 26, 1959. Following the telecast, according to Ed Weisl, Johnson’s ally Richard Berlin of Hearst newspapers “had a long talk with Governor Brown in California, and Brown said he was ashamed of himself about what he had said about Lyndon.… However, the Governor did not come out and say he would support Lyndon” (“Ed Weisl—,” “Transcripts of Telephone Calls—December 1959,”
Dec. 1959, OFWJ, LBJL. Also see “Resume of Telephone Conversation with Dick Berlin,” Dec. 10, 1959.

“Son”
:
Dallek,
Lone Star,
p. 559; Shesol,
Mutual Contempt,
p. 10; Bullion,
In the Boat with LBJ,
p. 111. A. W. Moursund, Johnson’s business partner and frequent hunting companion, related the story. Busby, Oltorf, Stehling interviews. Robert Kennedy said only that on the hunting trip, “Johnson took him to an elevated concrete
structure from which they awaited in comfort the appearance of deer to be shot.… Kennedy was disgusted. ‘This isn’t hunting. It’s slaughter’ ” (vanden Heuvel and Gwirtzman,
On His Own,
p. 246).
Assuring Bobby:
Evans and Novak,
Lyndon B. Johnson,
p. 246.

“I hear”
:
CSM,
Nov. 14, 1959.
“I am not”
:
“Statements of Lyndon Johnson,” Jan. 6, 1960, SLBJ, LBJL.
“Spent”
:
Leslie Carpenter OH.

“The only man”
:
Busby interview.
Jenkins was organizing:
Transcripts of Telephone Calls, January 1960 through April 1960 folders, Box 1, Series 2, Box 1, OFWJ, LBJL.
White said:
Reedy, “Memoranda and Drafts, May 13, 1960, Box 267, Papers of George Reedy, SPF, LBJL.
“What it would take”
:
Edwards OH.
“I have some”
:
Jan. 5, 1960, Jenkins’s Resume of Telephone Conversations: George Brown—“I have some money that I want to know what to do with. I was wondering if it should be sent to Jake Jacobson or just who should be getting it and I will
be collecting more from time to time” (“Transcripts of Telephone Conversations—January 1960,” Box 1, Series 2, OFWJ, LBJL).
Envelopes:
Clark, Connally, Wild interviews. And, for example, Gene Chambers: “I gave John some you know what to bring along when he meets Lyndon.… It is sizable” (Jan. 20, 1960, “Transcripts of Telephone Calls—January 1960,” Box 1, Series 2, OFWJ, LBJL), and “Ed Clark
called saying Mr. Hill talked to the Senator and he told him he wanted him to raise some cash.… Somebody mentioned it to H. E. Butt and has already sent Clark $1,000. Mr. Butt said this was just a starter” (“Resume of Telephone Conversations—Ed Clark,” Jan. 7, 1960, “Transcripts of Telephone Calls—January 1960,” Box 1, Series 2, OFWJ, LBJL). Clark said he did not recall this specific contribution, but that most of Butt’s
contributions were in cash. And see Caro,
Master,
pp. 676, 406–9.
“Twice I personally”
:
Mooney,
LBJ,
p. 127. He adds that Hunt “said substantial contributions were also being sent to Washington by other oil men and business people in Dallas and Houston.”

Convened:
“Resume of Telephone Conversations
on December 16—Bobby Baker,” Dec. 14, 16, 1959, “Transcripts of Telephone Calls—December 1959,” Box 1, Series 2, OFWJ, LBJL.

“Wherever”
:
Hoff interview.
“We have no organization”
:
Jones to Hoff, May 19, 1960.
“Many people do not know”
;
“Many people”
:
“Telephone conversation between Irv Hoff and Bobby Baker,” Feb. 25, 1960, “Transcripts of Telephone Calls—February 1960,” Box 1, Series 2, OFWJ, LBJL.

Wyoming awakening:
Reedy OH II.

“They’re a”
:
Hoff interview.

“The problem was”
:
Baker,
Wheeling,
p. 44.
“ ‘We’ve got to know’ ”
:
Hoff interview.

“If I could”
:
Jan. 25, 1960, “Transcripts of Telephone Calls—February 1960,” Box 1, Series 2, OFWJ, LBJL.
Although
“Johnson hadn’t”
:
Hoff, “California Situation—as it looked between March 28 and April 5,” April 6,
1960; “Johnson for President File, 1959–1960,” “Johnson for President—Hoff—California,” Box 93, SPF, LBJL.
“The California delegation”
:
“Irv Hoff from Sacramento,” March 30, 1960,” “Transcripts of Telephone Calls—March 30, 1960,” Box 1, Series 2, OFWJ, LBJL.

“Jesus”
:
Chandler,
The Natural Superiority of Southern Politicians,
p. 265.
“However much”
:
Caro,
Master,
p. 194.
“Mongrelization”
:
Caro,
Master,
p. 194.
“Yes, I understand”
:
Johnson, quoted in Miller,
Lyndon,
p. 226.
The first rupture:
Mann,
The Walls of Jericho,
p. 246.
“A lynching”
:
Russell, quoted in Mann,
Walls,
p. 249.
“This was the only kind of lynching”
:
Note on back of Diary page, Feb. 21, 1960, LBJL.
A show:
Fite,
Richard B. Russell,
p. 374.
“A cozy”
;
“bonhomie”
:
Rovere, “Letter from
Washington,”
New Yorker,
March 17, 1960.
Working with Rogers:
Brownell, Rogers interviews.
“A victory”
:
Javits, quoted in
WP,
April 9, 1960.
“only a pale”
:
Clark, quoted in
NYT, WP,
April 9, 1960.
“The roles”
:
WP,
April 9, 1960.
“Dick, here is”
:
Clark, quoted in
WP,
April 9, 1960.

Johnson got:
WP,
April 19, 1960.
Gallup Poll:
WP,
March 16, 1960.
“Lost support”
:
NYT,
Jan. 12, 1959.
“Hated”
:
Rauh OH I.
Douglas went:
Watson,
Lion in the Lobby, p. 425.
JOHNSON REJECTED
:
NYDN,
March 11, 1960.
“All the”
:
Wilkins, quoted in
WP
, May 30, 1960.

Asked Hobart Taylor:
Detroit Sunday Times,
March 27, 1960.
“I talked”
:
Edwards OH.
Detroit discussion:
David S. Broder, “Johnson Lacks Link with Michigan Party,”
WES,
March 28, 1960.

Busch telephoned Fleishman:
Fleishman, “Gussie and Lyndon Johnson,”
St. Louis Business Journal,
Aug. 26–Sept. 1, 1961.
Woods on Convair:
Howard B. Woods, “One Man’s Journal” and “Lyndon Talks,”
The St. Louis Argus,
April 29, 1960.

“Horace”
:
Busby interview.

Ambassador Hotel fiasco:
“Leonard Marks,” May 17, 1960, “Transcripts of Telephone Calls—May 1960,” Series 2, OFWJ, LBJL.
San Antonio Light,
May 19, 1960;
WP, AA-S, El Paso Times,
May 20, 1960; Gonella interview;
WP,
May 26, 1960;
Denton Record-Chronicle, DT-H,
May 27, 1960.

“Why didn’t he?”
:
“Telephone Conversation—E. Janeway Called Walter Jenkins from New York,” March 17, 1960, 1:30 P.M.
“We
DO
”
:
“Telephone Conversation between Charlie Herring and W. Jenkins,” March 23, 1960. Both
from Box 1, Series 2, OFWJ, LBJL.

“It was”
:
Clark interview.
“He was always”
;
“What convinces”
;
“would quickly”
;
“had a fantastic”
:
All from Caro,
Master,
p. 886.

“I was one”
:
Wright interview.

“Just pooh-poohed”
:
Dick Berlin reporting on conversation, March 10, 1960, “Transcripts of Telephone Calls—March 1960,” Box 1, Series 2, OFWJ, LBJL.
“Next!”
:
Baker,
Wheeling,
p.121.

“After some”
:
O’Neill with Novak, pp. 181–82.

“As a”
;
“would convince”
:
White,
Making 1960,
pp. 94–102.
“Open up”
:
In their book
Lyndon B. Johnson,
Evans and Novak wrote that “It would
create a wide-open convention at LA that just might wind up nominating LJ” (p. 256).

Johnson began helping Humphrey:
Evans and Novak,
LBJ,
p. 259.

Kennedy paid a call:
“Notes of Conversation, May 3, 1960,” p. 3, Notebook 3, Box 1, Krock Papers, “Vice Presidency, 1960, Decision to Run for Vice President,” Reference File, LBJL.
HP,
May 8, 1960.

“How the hell”
Rowe interview.

A last-minute:
White,
Making 1960,
pp. 110–12. “TV is no medium for a poor man,” White concluded.

The ambassador;
“did not confine”
:
Kearns,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 799.
The Kennedys had:
Although Schlesinger (
Robert Kennedy,
p. 201) says that after an anonymous Minnesotan sent the material to Lawrence O’Brien, and O’Brien says FDR Jr. brought it up on his own, Schlesinger also quotes FDR Jr. as “blaming its
use on Robert Kennedy’s determination to win at any cost.” He also says that “Roosevelt’s memory is that … he was under insistent pressure, especially from Robert Kennedy, to bring up Humphrey’s war record.”
He quotes FDR Jr. as saying, “I don’t think that Jack really had anything to do with deciding whether to insist on my going ahead.…” He also quotes FDR Jr. as calling
this “the biggest political mistake” of his career. FDR Jr.’s quotations are from a “recorded interview by Jean Stein, Dec. 9, 1969, pp. 6–8.” The Stein interviews have not been opened by the JFKL.
Although, in fact:
Solberg,
Hubert Humphrey,
pp. 97, 99; Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 201; Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 95.
“Repeated contacts”
:
Humphrey,
The Education of a Public Man,
p. 475.
“Any discussion”
;
“As Kennedy”
:
Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds,
p. 799.
“Did not
challenge”
:
Dallek,
Unfinished,
p. 257.
“The biggest”
:
Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 201.

The tide; Kennedy’s telecast;
“With a rush”
:
White,
Making 1960,
pp. 107–8.
“I think”
:
White,
Making 1960,
p. 114.

“Washington heard”
:
NYT,
May 12, 1960.
“The road”
:
NYT,
May 15, 1960.

Johnson press conference:
NYT, WP, AA-S,
May 12, 1960.
Reedy’s statement”;
“slumped further”
:
AA-S,
May 12, 1960.
Cloakroom scene:
AA-S,
May 12, 1960.

“If you want”
:
Rowe OH II.

“See those houses”
; Indianapolis press conferences:
Amarillo Daily News,
May 29, 1960.
As the plane
“thundered”
:
Abilene Reporter-News,
May 26, 1960.

Five-day tour:
WS,
May 27, 1960;
DT-H,
May 30, 1960;
Waco News-Tribune,
June 1, 1960.

“Biggest day”
:
Idaho Falls Post-Register,
May 26, 1960.
Drevlov scene:
FWS-T,
May 1960.
Pierre scene;
“a day that”
:
DT-H, HP,
May 30, 1960.
“Hadn’t slept”
:
Waco News-Tribune,
June 1, 1960.

Kennedy said that he would have:
Kennedy had responded to a question as to whether he would “apologize” to the Soviet Union for the U-2 mission by saying, “I certainly would express regret at the timing and give assurances that it would not happen again. I would express regret that the flight did take place.”
BS,
May 18, 1960.
“I
want”
;
“It was Mr. Khrushchev”
:
NYT, DMN, DT-H,
May 28, 1960.
“At every stop”
:
WES,
May 29, 1960.
“I am not prepared”
:
NYT,
May 31, 1960.
“Lyndon Johnson alone”
:
Caro,
The Path to Power
, p. 416.