At Canaan's Edge (143 page)

“mopped the floor”: Wiretap transcript of telephone conversation between Stanley Levison and Adele Cantor, Feb. 14, 1966, FLNY-9-850a.

slate-making summit: Cohen and Taylor,
Pharaoh,
p. 367.

“minimum take”: Wachtel to MLK, Feb. 18, 1966; MLK to Wachtel, March 21, 1966, thanking Wachtel and his wife, Lucy, for an evening that “will live in my memory eternally;” Wachtel to MLK, May 11, 1966, reporting on contributions received from March 11 pledges, A/KP25f35.

conductor Leonard Bernstein: Wiretap transcript of telephone conversation between Stanley Levison and Harry Wachtel, April 6, 1966, FLNY-9-901.

Harry Belafonte welcomed a sellout crowd: Ralph,
Northern,
p. 75.

“even unto the third and fourth generation”:
Chicago Sun-Times,
March 13, 1966, pp. 2–3.

“Never before in the history”: Ibid.

Stanley Levison called home: Wiretap transcript of telephone conversation between Stanley Levison and [name deleted], 12:43
P.M.
, March 14, 1966, FLNY-9-NS.

Mayor Daley trumped King: Cohen and Taylor,
Pharaoh,
pp. 368–69.

King declined: NYT, March 17, 1966, p. 31.

strict pledge of secrecy: Califano to LBJ, March 16, 1966, MLK Name File, Box 144, LBJ.

“glaring humbuggery”: AC, March 18, 1966, p. 1.

FBI wiretaps intercepted: Baumgardner to Sullivan, March 18, 1966, FSC-1266.

arriving twenty minutes late: PDD, March 18, 1966, LBJ. LBJ entered the scheduled 1:00 meeting at 1:14. King arrived at 1:24 and left at 2:35, saying “had to leave town on a plane,” according to LBJ's office diarist. The meeting continued until 3:11
P.M
.

“particularly difficult”: Garrow,
Bearing,
p. 467. One of LBJ's legislative aides used the word “impossible” three times on the first page of a memo about prospects for the 1966 civil rights package: Henry Wilson to LBJ, March 11, 1966, Henry Wilson Papers, Box 11, LBJ.

“we felt to be reputable”: Junius Griffin telegram to MLK at the Washington Hilton Hotel, March 18, 1966, A/KP22f16. The statement hedged for King on what Williams might have known: “The whole matter of purchasing cars was turned over to one of my assistants, Hosea Williams, in whom I have the highest confidence and respect.”

skeletal news release: NYT, March 19, 1966, p. 17.

“irregular routes”:
Jet,
April 7, 1966, p. 42.

“I don't want any other human”: LBJ phone call with Dean Rusk, 4:25
P.M.
, Feb. 3, 1966, in FRUS, Vol. 4, p. 203.

upstaged public examination of the war: Wallace,
“Hear,”
p. 352; Langguth,
Our Vietnam,
p. 420.

“pour the stuff out of the filth on television”: LBJ phone call with Lawrence O'Brien, 8:27
A.M.
, Feb. 5, 1966, Cit. 9623, Audiotape WH6602.02, LBJ.

“Americans who dissent can't do”: Meeting in the Cabinet Room, Feb. 24, 1966, Office of the President, Valenti Notes, Box 13, LBJ.

NBC broadcast the complete Fulbright hearings: Friendly,
Circumstances,
pp. 221–33; Halberstam,
Powers,
pp. 504–5.

“would be exploited mercilessly”: Fulbright,
Vietnam Hearings,
p. 107ff.

communication with the White House: Cf. Bill Moyers to Frank Stanton, Feb. 14, 1966, WHCF, Name File, LBJ; Halberstam,
Powers,
pp. 438–42.

held firm for the daytime comedies: Friendly,
Circumstances,
pp. 235–54; Halberstam,
Powers,
pp. 505–7.

The departure itself: NYT, Feb. 16, 1966, p. 1.

he had produced a watershed CBS broadcast: Friendly,
Circumstances,
pp. 23–67.

“I got no bellyache”: LBJ phone call with Henry R. Luce, 9:35
A.M.
, Feb. 21, 1966, Cit. 9650-51, Audiotape WH6602.06, LBJ.

a special section in the forthcoming
Life:
“Special Section on Vietnam, A Searching Assessment,”
Life,
Feb. 25, 1966.

“It is deplorable”: Ibid., p. 29.

“What does a man do”: LBJ phone call with Henry R. Luce, 11:56
A.M.
, Feb. 21, 1966, Cit. 9653, Audiotape WH6602.06, LBJ.

“If we don't make clear”: NYT, Feb. 19, 1966, p. 1.

Kennedy called a press conference: Shesol,
Contempt,
pp. 288–90.

“a share of power and responsibility”: “Kennedy Bids U.S. Offer Vietcong a Role In Saigon/ Suggests Sharing of Power in South Vietnam Presents Best Hope for an Accord/ Breaks with Johnson/ Senator Says Neither Side ‘Can Have Complete Surrender,'” NYT, Feb. 20, 1966, p. 1.

lightning struck: Shesol,
Contempt,
p. 290; Stein,
Journey,
p. 212; NYT, Feb. 21, 1966, p. 20.

“The uproar was general”: Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 794.

They flew together in the presidential cabin: PDD, Feb. 23, 1966, pp. 6–8, LBJ.

five thousand antiwar pickets: Robinson,
Abraham,
p. 205; DeBenedetti,
Ordeal,
pp. 148–49.

A. J. Muste presented: Zaroulis and Sullivan,
Who Spoke Up?,
p. 78.

twice before a hand clapped: PDD, Feb. 23, 1966, p. 9, LBJ.

to serve sixty days: NYT, May 10, 1966, p. 32.

“The reason it is going to cause”: Burke Marshall to RFK, Feb. 21, 1966, RFK Papers, Senate Correspondence, personal file M, 1966, Box 7, JFK.

“on a high, solid level”: Fred Dutton to RFK, “Steps in Support of Your Vietnam Statements,” Feb. 23, 1966, RFK Papers, Senate Correspondence, personal file Dutton, F., '65–'66, Box 3, JFK.

“emotional and psychological box”: Frederick G. Dutton to RFK, Feb. 8, 1966, RFK Papers, Senate Correspondence, personal file Dutton, F., '65–66, Box 3, JFK.

avoided provocative Vietnam statements: Guthman,
Band,
p. 320; Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 797; Collier,
Kennedys,
p. 335.

series of speeches on poverty: Thomas,
Robert Kennedy,
pp. 317–19.

having consulted Robert Spike: Robert W. Spike to RFK, Nov. 9, 1965, and Dec. 22, 1965 [with handwritten notes about a meeting on Jan. 13, 1966], RFK Papers, Trips, Africa Correspondence, Box 13, JFK.

“hate my guts”: Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 839.

flurry of secret memos: Cf. Katzenbach to Hoover, March 3, 1966, FRK-1822; SAC, Jackson, to Director, March 9, 1966, FRK-1830; Hoover to Katzenbach, March 11, 1966, FRK-1818; DeLoach to Tolson, March 15, 1966, FRK-1834; Hoover to Katzenbach, March 15, 1966, FRK-1825; Hoover to SACs, Birmingham and Jackson, March 17, 1966, FRK-833.

“Somebody down here”: WLBT news film 0173/D39, March 18, 1966, MDAH.

“We must create a society”: RFK address, University of Mississippi Law School forum, 2:30
P.M.
, March 18, 1966, and RFK address, University of Alabama, 8:30
P.M.
, March 18, 1966, RFK Papers, Senate Speeches and Press Releases, March 11–20, 1966, Box 2, JFK.

three standing ovations: Jack Nelson, “Ole Miss Students Laugh at Kennedy's Quips on Barnett,” LAT, March 19, 1966, p. 1.

Coach Don Haskins received: Fitzpatrick,
Walls,
p. 228.

Frank Fitzpatrick reviewed films: Ibid., p. 24.

“That son of a bitch”:
Sports Illustrated,
April 4, 1991, p. 70ff.

flown the capitol flag at half mast: Fitzpatrick,
Walls,
p. 57.

Vanderbilt offered Perry Wallace: Charles H. Martin, “Jim Crow in the Gymnasium: The Integration of College Basketball in the American South,”
International Journal of the History of Sport,
1993, pp. 80–81.

eleven of 2,236 SEC scholarships:
Sports Illustrated,
Feb. 19, 1968, p. 10.

Harris jumped to his death: Fitzpatrick,
Walls,
p. 238.

when Kentucky would win: Tubby Smith, who grew up in segregated Maryland, coached Kentucky to its seventh NCCA basketball championship in 1998. Cf. “History in Black, White—And Gray,”
Baltimore Sun,
Dec. 10, 1969, p. D-1.

abolished its track team for the 1970s: Joan Paul, Richard V. McGhee, and Helen Fant, “The Arrival and Ascendence of Black Athletes in the Southeastern Conference, 1966–1980,”
Phylon,
Vol. 45, No. 4, 1984, p. 286.

intimidating “dunk” shot: Fitzpatrick,
Walls,
pp. 239–41.

“He admitted to no solutions”: Moyers to LBJ, Feb. 21, 1966, Office of the President, Box 4, LBJ.

he ordered a compilation of every personal contact: “Mr. President, Official Times you saw Sen. Fulbright—39, Unofficial times—17, TOTAL—46 [sic],” Juanita Roberts to LBJ, Jan. 7, 1966, with attached note from LBJ instructing her to “get me that list separated.” Office of the President, Box 4, LBJ.

“because of your goddam trip”: LBJ phone call with Lawrence O'Brien, 8:27
A.M.
, Feb. 5, 1966, Cit. 9623, Audiotape WH6602.02, LBJ.

voted with only four senators: Evans,
Lyndon B. Johnson,
p. 597.

“going through a menopause”: LBJ phone call with Hubert Humphrey, 6:05
P.M.
, March 2, 1966, Cit. 9812-13, Audiotape WH6603.01, LBJ.

“I just looked at him”: Ibid.

Fulbright began to warn: “Fulbright Warns of Peril in Power,” NYT, April 22, 1966, p. 16; “Fulbright Warns of ‘Fatal' Course by U.S. in Vietnam,” NYT, April 29, 1966, p. 1; “Hyperbole on Vietnam,” editorial, NYT, May 1, 1966, p. IV-10.

“not arrogance but agony”: WS, May 18, 1966; NYT, May 18, 1966, pp. 1, 8; Zaroulis and Sullivan,
Who Spoke Up?,
pp. 82–83.

“nervous Nellies”
:
NYT, May 18, 1966, p. 1.

mocked Fulbright in person: Evans,
Lyndon B. Johnson,
p. 599; Dallek,
Flawed,
p. 367.

“trying to beat down Fulbright's ears”: McPherson to LBJ, May 13, 1966, McPherson Papers, Box 7, LBJ.

sulking disregard: Int. Harry McPherson, Sept. 24, 1991.

“Bobby is behind this revolt”: LBJ phone call with Nicholas Katzenbach, 10:02
P.M.
, March 17, 1966, Cit. 9895-96, Audiotape WH6603.09, LBJ.

“I didn't run or shimmy”: Ibid.

“Kennedy infiltration”: LBJ phone call with Dean Rusk, 10:10
A.M.
[?], Feb. 20, 1966, Cit. 9649, Audiotape WH6602.05, LBJ, in FRUS, Vol. 4, pp. 241–44.

“sons-of-bitches boring from within”: LBJ phone call with Deke DeLoach, 7:49
P.M.
, March 14, 1966, Cit. 9887-89, Audiotape WH6603.07, LBJ; Theoharis and Cox,
Boss,
p. 398.

“When he said the other day”: LBJ phone call with Dean Rusk, 10:10
A.M.
[?], Feb. 20, 1966, Cit. 9649, Audiotape WH6602.05, LBJ, in FRUS, Vol. 4, pp. 241–44.

1,361 American soldiers killed: NYT, April 16, 1966, p. 1; Zaroulis and Sullivan,
Who Spoke Up?,
p. 82.

mission to retake the Bong Son area: Moore,
Soldiers,
p. 343.

discovered his own arm shaking: Ints. Hank Thomas, March 14, 1991, Dec. 17, 2003.

exhumed remains of a humble farmer:
Jet,
Dec. 2, 1965, pp. 6–8.

three white women pummeled: NYT, Dec. 5, 1965, p. 74.

“The Ballad of the Green Berets”:
Rolling Stone Rock Almanac,
p. 113;
Life,
March 4, 1966, p. 93ff; DeBenedetti,
Ordeal,
p. 151.

comments by John Lennon:
Rolling Stone Rock Almanac,
pp. 112–14; NYT, Aug. 5, 1966, p. 20.

The Sound of Music:
“Biggest Money-Making Movie of All Time—How Come?” NYT Magazine, Nov. 20, 1966, p. 45ff; NYT, April 19, 1966, p. 34; NYT, May 14, 1966, p. 19.

Martin Luther King's favorite film: Int. Bernard Lee, June 19, 1985.

Bonnie and Clyde: Vincent Canby, NYT, Sept. 17, 1967, p. II-21; Roger Ebert, “Great Movies: ‘Bonnie and Clyde,'” www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatmovies/bonnie_clyde.html.