Landslide (61 page)

1
  
“He can’t separate himself from it”
Beschloss,
Reaching
, 280.

2
  
“he’s never the same without you”
Ibid., 389.

3
  
“I feel selfish”
Ibid., 389.

4
  
In the audience
Dallek,
Flawed Giant
, 200.

5
  
“She seemed not to realize it was meant as a souvenir”
Charles Mohr, “President Signs Education Bill at His Old School,”
New York Times
, April 12, 1965.

6
  
“No longer will older Americans be denied”
John D. Morris, “President Signs Medicare Bill; Praises Truman,”
New York Times
, June 31, 1965.

7
  
“The people of the United States love”
Ibid.

8
  
On the same day
E.W. Kentworthy, “Johnson Signs Voting Rights Bill,”
New York Times
, August 7, 1965.

9
  
“Today is a triumph”
Lyndon B. Johnson, “Remarks on the Signing of the Voting Rights Act” (speech, Washington, DC, August 6, 1965), Miller Center,
http://​millercenter.​org/​president/​speeches/​detail/​4034
.

10
  
He spoke in front of John Trumbull’s oil painting
“Johnson Signs Voting Rights Bill.”

11
  
In July, the press reported
“Johnson Predicts Vietnam Setbacks: U.S. Force to Exceed 75,000,”
New York Times
, July 10, 1965.

12
  
“Incidents are going up”
Lyndon Johnson, “The President’s News Conference,” (Televised News Conference, July 9, 1965),
Public Papers of the Presidents
, 1965, Vol. II, 725.

13
  
security officials learned of a plot
“Taylor Escapes a Plot in Saigon,”
New York Times
, July 20, 1965.

14
  
Vietnam is a different kind of a war
“At War in Vietnam,”
New York Times
, July 14, 1965.

15
  
“military victory in Vietnam”
William Fulbright, “The War in Vietnam” (speech, Washington, DC, June 15, 1965), Fulbright Collection, University of Arkansas,
http://​scipio.​uark.​edu/​cdm/​ref/​collection/​Fulbright/​id/​762
.

16
  
“we have set ourselves a task”
Walter Lippmann, “The Hard Lesson,”
Newsweek
, July 19, 1965.

17
  
“it is essential that the President”
Ibid.

18
  
Through his ambassador in Moscow
Karnow
Vietnam
, 437.

19
  
At a White House reception
“Foreign Relations: While the Bullets Whiz,”
Time
, March 12, 1965.

20
  
“The headlines are all I read and all anybody reads
Ibid.

21
  
“The sky over Saigon is alive”
James Reston, “Saigon: The Tragic Paradox of Vietnam,”
New York Times
, August 29, 1965.

22
  
Shirley O’Neal
See “Crime: Summer Job,”
Newsweek
, July 19, 1965; “Eighth Suspect Held in Attack on O’Neal Girl,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 5, 1965; “Handcuffed Rape Suspect Shot by Policeman,”
New York Times
; “4 Youths Found Guilty in Attack on O’Neal Girl,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 5, 1965.

23
  
“like a man in a dream”
“Girl Describes Being Raped as Father Tried in Shooting,”
Tuscaloosa News
, September 23, 1965.

24
  
A report showed
“Crime in the Streets,”
Newsweek
, August 16, 1965, 21.

25
  
The story began with the tale of one Chester E. Pierce
Ibid., 20.

26
  
Suellen Evans, on her way home from summer school
Ibid.

27
  
Mary Ellen Bay
Ibid.

28
  
Two “pretty … University of Texas coeds”
Ibid.

29
  
“many observers believe”
Ibid.

30
  
“A malignant enemy in America’s midst”
Ibid.

31
  
“I’ve been staggered”
George Plimpton, “The Story Behind a Non-Fiction Novel,”
New York Times
, January 16, 1966.

32
  
Time
reported that “resort towns”
“Youth: That Riotous Feeling,”
Time
, July 16, 1965.

33
  
“summer of discontent”
Fred Powledge, “Civil Rights—Another Long, Hot Summer,”
New York Times
, June 13, 1965.

34
  
“The fuel of unrest and injustice is still here”
Theodore Jones, “Uneasy Calm in Harlem,”
New York Times
, July 17, 1965.

35
  
“We’re going to see to it”
“Illinois: Hot and Dry,”
Time
, June 18, 1965.

36
  
“this or that date is to be the time for another outbreak of violence”
Powledge, “Civil Rights.”

37
  
“Positive hope”
Ibid.

38
  
“not just legal equity but human ability”
Lyndon Johnson, “Commencement Address at Howard University” (speech, Washington, DC, June 4, 1965),
http://​www.​lbjlib.​utexas.​edu/​johnson/​archives.​hom/​speeches.​hom/​650604.​asp

39
  
“The Negro Family”
For Moynihan Report see memo from Daniel Patrick Moynihan to Bill Moyers, January 21, 1965, WHCF: EX-HU2-1; Lee Rainwater and William Yancy,
The Moynihan Report and the Politics of Controversy
(Cambridge, 1967); Patterson,
Freedom is Not Enough
.

40
  
“We have been in the business”
Ibid.

41
  
“The attached Memorandum is nine pages of dynamite”
Moynihan ed.,
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
, 90.

42
  
Time
described a “brooding” President
“The Presidency: At the Perigree,”
Time
, July 9, 1965.

43
  
“stock on the gossip market”
Kenneth Crawford, “Washington: Disrobing the King,”
Newsweek
, July 19, 1965.

44
  
“While he had so much going for him”
Tom Wicker, “Washington: Fadeout for Super Lyndon,”
New York Times
, July 7, 1965.

45
  
“It is said”
Crawford, “Disrobing the King.”

46
  
“irrepressible longing to have every story”
Joseph Alsop, “Matter of Fact: Johnson’s Achilles Heel,”
Washington Post
, February 17, 1965.

47
  
“To those beyond the limits”
Joseph Alsop, “Matter of Fact: The State of LBJ,”
Washington Post
, July 5, 1965.

48
  
“The major industry in New York this summer,”
Sorensen,
Counselor
, 408.

49
  
In her notes
Ibid., 406.

50
  
“tone down my references to JFK’s praise of LBJ”
Ibid., 404.

51
  
Most insidious
“JFK’s Alter-Ego,”
Newsweek
, January 27, 1964, 17**.

52
  
“mawkish, tasteless”
“Remembering JFK,”
Newsweek
, August 2, 1965, 46-47.

53
  
“Images do not spring full-blown”
Jack Valenti, memo to LBJ, November 11, 1964, Box 4, Special Files, Handwriting File, LBJL.

54
  
“Jacksonian and Rooseveltian”
Ibid.

55
  
“Mr. President, You’re Fun!”
“Mr. President, You’re Fun!”
Time
, April 10, 1964.

56
  
“He first called his dogs”
Helen Thomas OH I.

57
  
“an awfully strong Kennedy man”
Telephone conversation between Lyndon Johnson and Bill Moyers, July 1, 1965, Citation #8301.

58
  
“I think there’s a lot can be done with just more candidness”
Ibid.

59
  
“I don’t want to get in a war”
Beschloss,
Taking Charge
, 403.

60
  
“I hate this war”
Clifford,
Counsel to the President
, 419-20.

61
  
“He said, ‘Things are not going well here’ ”
Beschloss,
Taking Charge
, 390.

62
  
“I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth”
Lyndon B. Johnson, “The President’s News Conference” (press conference, Washington, DC, July 28, 1965),
Public Papers of the Presidents
, 1965, Vol. II, 797.

63
  
“monkeys in a zoo”
“New Negro Riots Erupt on Coast,”
New York Times
, August 13, 1965.

64
  
“tragic and shocking”
Califano,
Triumph and Tragedy
, 60.

65
  
“deeply distressed”
Ibid., 61.

1
  
“Governor Volpe”
Speech delivered at New England convention of Federation of Republican Women, Hotel Statler Hilton, Boston, September 29, 1965, folder “RR Material (2/4),” Box C32, 1966 Campaign, Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers, Ronald Reagan Library.

2
  
“With this legislation”
Lyndon B. Johnson, “Remarks at the Signing of Bill Establishing a Department of Housing and Urban Development” (speech, Washington, DC, September 9, 1965),
Public Papers of the Presidents
, 1965, Vol. II, 986.

3
  
“Admiration flows abundantly”
“The President: Greyer, Graver—and Growing,”
Time
, September 3, 1965.

4
  
“People just aren’t going to get excited”
“The People: Not Great, but Good,”
Time
, October 8, 1965.

5
  
“How’s your battle going out in Vietnam?”
Telephone conversation between Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara, November 2, 1965, Citation #9103.

6
  
making millions by selling spears in Watts
“TV Riot Squad,”
Newsweek
, September 11, 1965.

7
  
“Our president is fond of quoting from Isaiah”
Speech delivered at New England convention of Federation of Republican Women.

8
  
“the one-time motion picture star”
David B. Wilson, “Reagan Assails Welfare State,”
Boston Herald
, September 30, 1965.

9
  
Two months after Johnson’s 1964 landslide
Cannon,
Reagan
, 103.

10
  
“Reagan … is the man”
Ibid.

11
  
“Oh, my God”
Cannon,
Governor Reagan
, 133.

12
  
“I almost laughed them out of the house”
Reagan,
American Life
, 144-5.

13
  
“Double parking in Sacramento”
Peter Kaye, “Reagan Impresses National Press Club Members,”
San Diego Union
, [date does not appear], folder “66: Press/Media (2),” Box C35, 1966 Campaign, Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers 1966-75, Ronald Reagan Library.

14
  
He would effectively
be
a candidate for governor
U.S. Borax, News Release, 4 January, 1966, folder “66 Campaign: RR (2/4),” Box C32, 1966 Campaign—Subject Files, Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers, Ronald Reagan Library.

15
  
“Oh gosh, Jack!”
Interview with Ronald Reagan, KNBC, April 10, 1965, Box C35, 1966 Press Media, Ronald Reagan Library.

16
  
“I’m thinking of running”
Stuart Spencer OH.

17
  
“We had heard”
Cannon,
Reagan
, 104; James Perry, “Ronald Reagan in Dazzling Performance,”
National Observer
, January 10, 1966, Box C32, 1966 Campaign, Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers, Ronald Reagan Library.

18
  
“He was obsessed with one thing”
Stuart Spencer OH.

19
  
“darling of the Goldwaterites and the choice of the John Birch Society”
Dallek,
Right Moment
, 111; Evans and Novak, “Sen. Kuchel Knows He Won’t Run,”
St. Petersburg Times
, Sept. 1, 1965.

20
  
“hyphenated Republicans”
Interview with Ronald Reagan, KNBC, April 10, 1965, Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Campaign, Box C35, 1966 Press Media, Ronald Reagan Library.

21
  
“I’m sure that we all recognize”
Ronald Reagan, “Speech at Hilton Inn, San Diego,” February 25, 1966, Box C30, Campaign Materials: Ronald Reagan Speeches and Statements I, Ronald Reagan Library.

22
  
“I think you have to preface anything”
Lee Edwards, “Why Californians Look to Ronald Reagan,”
Human Events
, February 19, 1966, 8-10, Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Campaign Files, Box C35, 1966 Press Media, Ronald Reagan Library.

23
  
“You’d have me going counter to the talks”
Ronald Reagan, News Conference, Televised on KNBC, April 10, 1965, Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Campaign, Box C35, 1966 Press Media, Ronald Reagan Library.

24
  
“I have no intention of compromising my beliefs”
Ronald Reagan, letter to
Harry Feyer, July 21, 1966, Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Campaign, Box C35, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

25
  
“Do you really want to be mayor?”
Sam Tanenhaus, “The Buckley Effect,”
New York Times
, October 2, 2005.

26
  
“a miracle”
Richard J. H. Johnston, “William Buckley Opens Headquarters,”
New York Times
, August 31, 1965.

27
  
“a ban on mid-day truck deliveries”
Richard Witkin, “William Buckley Jr. Is Reported Considering Running for Mayor,”
New York Times
, June 4, 1965.

28
  
“I don’t think it’s very pertinent”
Interview with Ronald Reagan, KNBC, April 10, 1965, Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Campaign, Box C35, 1966 Press Media, Ronald Reagan Library.

29
  
“I have received some kick-back”
Ronald Reagan, letter to Barry Goldwater, January 13, 1965, Box C29, 1966, Personal Correspondence of Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan Library.

30
  
“Spencer Roberts does not handle any Democrats”
Lee Edwards, “Why Californians Look to Ronald Reagan.”

31
  
“I think he should have been briefed”
John L. Harmer, letter to Bill Roberts, July 12, 1965, Box C32, 1966 Campaign, Ronald Reagan: Gubernatorial Papers, Ronald Reagan Library.

32
  
“If he can zero in on California”
Gordon C. Luce, letter to Stu Spencer, July 7, 1965, Box C32, 1966 Campaign: Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

33
  
“I think Henry tried to say”
W. S. McBirnie letter to RR, November 30, 1965, Box C31, 1966 Campaign, Ronald Reagan: Gubernatorial Papers, Ronald Reagan Library.

34
  
“Damn,” he exclaimed to BASICO co-founder Stanley Plog
Reagan
Dutch
, 342.

35
  
“positive direction”
W. S. McBirnie letter to Ronald Reagan, November 30, 1965, Box C31, 1966 Campaign, Ronald Reagan: Gubernatorial Papers, Ronald Reagan Library.

36
  
“These are the most hopeful times”
Lyndon Johnson, “Remarks at the Lighting of the Nation’s Christmas Tree,” (speech, Washington, DC, December 18, 1964),
Public Papers of the Presidents
, 1963-64, Vol. II.

37
  
“We must show the voters”
Dave Hope, “Reagan on Verge of Declaring,”
Oakland Tribune
, December 9, 1965, Box C32, 1966 Campaign, Ronald Reagan: Gubernatorial Papers, Ronald Reagan Library.

38
  
The idea of an actor named Ronald Reagan
Emmett John Hughes, “The Squandering Republicans,
Newsweek
, June 27, 1966.

39
  
“Sure he’s drawing the crowds”
James Phelan, “Can Reagan Win California?”
Saturday Evening Post
, June 4, 1966.

40
  
“It was on the late show”
James Perry, “Ronald Reagan in a Dazzling Performance.”

41
  
“Ronald Reagan … who recently announced he was seeking”
John Voorhees, “Ulysses: Man or Myth,”
Washington Post-Intelligencer
, January 11, 1965, Box C35, 1966 Campaign, Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers 1966-75, Ronald Reagan Library.

42
  
“He is assiduously playing the role”
“Play Acting Can Give Illusion of Competence,”
Fresno Bee
, July 3, 1965, Box C35, 1966 Campaign, Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers 1966-75, Ronald Reagan Library.

43
  
He would tell crowds that his son
“Ronald Reagan Republican for Governor,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 13, 1966.

44
  
“Only a generation ago”
Ronald Reagan, “Address at the Comstock Club,” August 2, 1965, 1966 Campaign: Speeches and Statements, Box C30, Ronald Reagan Library.

45
  
Entries included
Campaign Resume, Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Papers, Box C32, 1966 Campaign, Ronald Reagan Library.

46
  
“So what’s this empty nonsense”
“Political Ad: ‘John Wayne’ Reagan, 1966”
Political Advertisement
, New York, NY: NBC Universal, 1966. Accessed Wed, Sep 5, 2012 from NBC Learn:
https://​archives.​nbclearn.​com/​portal/​site/​k-​12/​browse/​?cuecard=​4100

47
  
“I’ll probably be the only fellow”
“The Illustrated,”
Orange County Illustrated
, May 1965, Box C35, 1966 Press Media, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

48
  
“There are no jobs in politics”
Ronald Reagan, Letter to the Editor,
Oroville Mercury Register
, November 24, 1965, Box C32, 1965 Press Media, Ronald Reagan Library.

49
  
“Roll it”
James M. Perry, “Ronald Reagan in a Dazzling Performance.”

50
  
California also leads in some things
“Ronald Reagan Announces for Governor,” Campaign advertisement, January 4, 1966.

51
  
“This is like a stage play”
Stuart Spencer OH.

52
  
“She’d say something every now and then”
Ibid.

53
  
“the daughter of one of the world’s great neurosurgeons”
“Ronald Reagan” campaign brochure sponsored by the Orange County Reagan for Governor Committee, folder “66 Campaign: RR (4/4),” Box C32, 1966 Campaign, Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers, Ronald Reagan Library.

54
  
“Reagan Girls”
“Reagan Girls” Flyer, Box C33, Ronald Reagan Staff Interoffice Memos III, Ronald Reagan Library.

55
  
mostly expunged his first marriage
Maureen Reagan,
First Father, First Daughter
, 149.

56
  
“Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy have two childen”
Ibid.

57
  
“an ordinary citizen”
Reagan for Governor Committee, News Release, Noon April 19, folder “66 RR: Philosophy of Government Citizen Participation,” Box C35, 1966 Campaign, Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers 1966-75, Ronald Reagan Library.

58
  
“Here’s Boraxo waterless hand cleaner”
Ronald Reagan Advertisement for Boraxo, shown during
Death Valley Days
, December 27, 1964, Ronald Reagan Library.

59
  
In one episode he played the nineteenth-century senator George Vest
“Tribute to the Dog,”
Death Valley Days
, December 27, 1964.

60
  
“I don’t believe that just holding public office”
“Ronald Reagan for Governor,” Campaign Advertisement 1966,
http://​www.​youtube.​com/​watch?​v=​aHyt-​l6XLAM
.

61
  
As the teleplay begins
“The Battle of San Francisco,”
Death Valley Days
, March 18, 1965.

62
  
“People have been coming to this place”
“Reagan Announces for Governor.”

63
  
“You have read about the report”
Reagan,
The Creative Society
, 125.

64
  
“That’s the way you lose a mob”
“The Battle of San Francisco.”

65
  
“did more harm than anything to the Republican Party”
Cannon,
Governor Reagan
, 142.

66
  
“We did some studies”
Stuart Spencer OH.

67
  
In California, actor Ronald Reagan and Mrs. Reagan arrive
“Ronald Reagan Nominated for California Governor,”
Universal Newsreel
, November 8, 1966.

68
  
“Are you feeling all right?’
Telephone conversation between Lyndon Johnson and Edmund G. “Pat” Brown, June 13, 1966, Citation #10228.

69
  
“President Eisenhower and [Republican Party chair] Ray Bliss”
Joe Califano, letter to Ronald Reagan, June 10, 1966.

70
  
“You’re selling everybody on the fact that you can’t win!”
Telephone conversation between Lyndon Johnson and Edmund G. “Pat” Brown, June 13, 1966, Citation #10228.

71
  
“California is the most populous state in the Union”
“Political Battle for State Seen,”
San Diego Union
, June 14, 1966, Box C35, 1966 Press Media II, Ronald Reagan Library.

72
  
“We’ve just got to go after him”
Telephone conversation between Lyndon Johnson and Edmund G. “Pat” Brown, June 13, 1966, Citation #10228.

73
  
“Here in a brick house on a shaded lawn”
Julius Duscha, “Ike Likes Reagan as 1968 Possibility,”
Washington Post
, June 16, 1966.

74
  
“I’ve never advocated selling the Post Office”
Robert Donovan, “Reagan Chides Brown in Deft Debut at National Press Club,”
Los Angeles Times
, June 17, 1966.

75
  
“Right-winger”
the columnist William S. White, “GOP Shake-up,”
Washington Post
, June 21, 1966.