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*
BeLieu,
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Horwitz OH, p. 5.

Notes

ABBREVIATIONS

AA-S
Austin American-Statesman
AC
Atlanta Constitution
ACWD
Ann C. Whitman Diary
APSR
American Political Science Review
AWNS
Ann Whitman Name Series
AWPP
Alvin Wirtz Personal Papers
AWRP
A. Willis Robertson Papers
CCC-T
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
CR
Congressional Record
DDEL
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
DDEPP
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Public Papers of the Presidents
DMN
Dallas Morning News
DT-H
Dallas Times-Herald
FDRL
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library
FWS-T
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
HC
Houston Chronicle
HHLP
Herbert H. Lehman Papers, Columbia University
HP
Houston Post
HSTL
Harry S Truman Library
JNYA
Johnson National Youth Administration Papers
JSP
Johnson Senate Papers
KGP
Katharine Graham Papers
LAT
Los Angeles Times
LBJA
Lyndon Baines Johnson Archives
LBJA
CF LBJA Congressional File
LBJA
FN LBJA Famous Names File
LBJA
SF LBJA Subject File
LBJA
SN LBJA Selected Names File
LBJL
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
LC
Library of Congress
LLM
Legislative Leaders Meetings
LMS
Legislative Meetings Series
LOP
Leland Olds Papers
MP
MacNeil Papers
NA
National Archives
NAACPP
NAACP Papers
NARA
National Archives and Records Administration
NYHT
New York Herald Tribune
NYP
New York Post
NYT
New York Times
NYWT
New York World Telegram
OH
Oral History
PPCF
Pre-Presidential Confidential File
PPMF
Pre-Presidential Memo File
RBRL
Richard B. Russell Library
RP
Rauh Papers
SAE
San Antonio Express
SEP
Saturday Evening Post
SHO
Senate Historical Office
SLP-D
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
SP
Steele Papers
SPF
Senate Political Files
SRL
Sam Rayburn Library
USN&WR
U.S. News & World Report
UVaL
University of Virginia Library
WHFN
White House Famous Names File
WN
Washington News
WP
Washington Post and Times Herald
WS
Washington Star
WSJ
Wall Street Journal
W-SJ
Winston-Salem Journal
WT
Washington Times
Introduction: The Presence of Fire

Barbour County episode:
“Testimony of Margaret Frost, Eufaula, Barbour, Ala.,” U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,
Hearing Held in Montgomery, Alabama, Dec. 8, 1958
, pp. 262–67; Ina Caro and Robert Caro interviews with David Frost and Margaret Frost; see also Testimony of George R. Morris and Andrew Jones, pp. 248–262.
“There is”:
U.S. Senate,
Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, Eighty-fifth Congress, First Session, on S. 83, And Amendment 2.S.83, S. 427
, p. 239. See also Strong,
Registration of Voters in Alabama;
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,
With Liberty and Justice for All
, pp. 59–75, 84–95.

“Back then”:
Hugh Sidey, “The Presidency,”
Time
, Dec. 15, 1985.

240:
Hurst interview.

“If you’re”:
Humphrey, quoted in Miller,
Lyndon
, p. 166. For Humphrey describing Johnson’s gesture in slightly different words, see his OH II, pp. 10, 11, and OH III, pp. 9, 10.

“For all”:
Steele to Williamson, June 9, 1955; March 4, 1958; SP; Steele interview.
“It was”:
Sidey,
Personal Presidency
, p. 45.
“He signaled”:
Sidey interview.

“I do understand”:
Johnson, quoted in McPherson,
Political Education
, p. 450.
“Would explain”:
Jackson, quoted in Reston,
Deadline
, pp. 304, 305.
“I’m just”:
Johnson, quoted in Dickerson,
Among Those Present
, pp. 154–55.

“The South’s unending”:
White,
Citadel
, p. 68.

1. The Desks of the Senate

Webster’s reply to Hayne:
Wiltse, ed.,
Papers of Daniel Webster
, pp. 349–93 (Reported Version); Byrd,
The Senate
, Vol. I, pp. 109–15; Vol. III, pp. 3, 4.

“Coarse homespun”; “White, triumphant”:
Byrd, Vol. I, p. 111.
“Could shake”; “great cannon”:
Emerson, quoted in Schlesinger,
Age of Jackson
, p. 84.
Smile faded:
Byrd, Vol. I, p. 113.
Tears; “even Calhoun”:
Byrd, Vol. I, p. 114.
“Thrilled”:
Josephy,
The Congress
, p. 178.

“Embellished”:
Wiltse, ed.,
Papers of Daniel Webster
, p. 286.
Edition followed:
Wiltse, ed., p. 286.
“Has probably”; “No speech”; “raised”; “part”:
Peterson,
The Great Triumvirate
, pp. 179–80.

“The Founding”:
Schlesinger,
Imperial Presidency
, p. 79.
“The turbulence”:
Madison,
Notes of Debates
(1920 ed.), p. 34.
“Real”:
Madison,
Debates
, (1987 ed.), pp. 193–94; Hamilton,
Federalist Papers
, p. 387.
“A necessary”:
Madison,
Debates
(1987 ed.), p. 194.
“To be guarded”; “first”:
Madison, pp. 194–95, 193.

“The use”:
Madison,
Debates
(1920 ed.), p. 34, quoted in Haynes,
The Senate of the United States
, Vol. I, p. 14.
“An anchor”:
Hamilton, p. 385.
“Why”:
Josephy, p. 46.

“Numerous”:
Hamilton, pp. 379, 380.
When Wilson:
Haynes, Vol. I, p. 11.
“The people”; “the evils”:
Madison,
Debates
(1920 ed.), p. 71, quoted in Haynes, Vol. I, p. 11.

“Filtration”; “refinement”:
Madison,
Debates
(1920 ed.), p. 69, quoted in Haynes, Vol. I, p. 13.
“Change of men”; what good:
Hamilton, pp. 380, 381.
“The object”; “hold”:
Madison, p. 34, quoted in Haynes,
Vol. I, p. 16.
“It was so”:
White,
Citadel
, pp. 33–34.
“Where else”:
Hamilton, No. 65, p. 441.

“The senatorial trust”:
Hamilton, p. 376.
“As”:
Haynes, Vol. I, p. 15.

Judiciary Act:
Byrd, Vol. I, pp. 14, 17; Josephy, pp. 10, 67–69.
“Almost an appendage”:
Josephy, p. 67.

The desks:
Description of Senate Chamber from Adams,
History
, pp. 454–55.

“Better calculated”; “such success”:
Adams, pp. 437, 438.
“To impeachment”:
Schlesinger,
Imperial Presidency
, p. 30.
Republicans succeeded:
Josephy, p. 134; Malone,
Jefferson: First Term
, pp. 148, 460–64.

“Outrageously”:
Garraty,
American Nation
, p. 220.
“Towered”:
Malone, p. 464.

“Nothing more”:
John Quincy Adams,
Memoirs
, Vol. I, pp. 321–22, quoted in Schlesinger,
Imperial Presidency
, p. 30.
Endangered:
Garraty, p. 220.

“Aged patriot”:
Harper, quoted in Elsmere,
Justice Samuel Chase
, pp. 285–86.
Description of the voting:
Adams, pp. 462, 463; Elsmere, pp. 293–306.
White House pressure:
Elsmere, p. 295, says, “The President had attempted discreetly throughout the trial to aid the prosecution. Guests at several dinners included Aaron Burr, some of the managers, and the more important senators or those whose votes were in doubt.”

“Crooked gun”; offered two:
Elsmere, p. 217; Adams, p. 450.
“Almost”:
Samuel Taggert, quoted in Elsmere, p. 269.
“Fresh”; “a stillness”:
Josephy, p. 135.
Burr’s speech:
Baker,
The Senate
, “Reading No. 16: Aaron Burr’s Farewell to the Senate, March 2, 1805,” pp. 148–49.
“The Senate”:
Byrd, Vol. I, p. 48.

“Ideal:
Josephy, p. 176. And see Baker,
The Senate
, p. 33.
Ridiculous; “within”:
Byrd, Vol. I, p. 86.
Houston’s clothing:
Josephy, p. 203.
Bluntly:
Byrd, Vol. I, p. 177.

Buzzing:
Byrd, Vol. I, p. 122; Josephy, p. 179.
“Disunion”; “within”:
Peterson, pp. 216, 221.
On the day:
Peterson, pp. 222–23.
The most difficult:
Peterson, p. 409.
“Commanding”:
Schlesinger,
Age of Jackson
, pp. 242–43.
“His voice”:
Matthews,
Oratory and Orators
, p. 312, quoted in Peterson, pp. 408, 409.
How much; “the arch”:
Byrd, Vol. I, p. 123.
“A caged”; “the impious”:
Peterson, p. 222.

“Hypnotize”; “depopulate”; “white gloves”; “No lover”; “Stepping”:
Peterson, pp. 167, 379; Matthews,
Oratory and Orators
, Van Deusen,
Life of Henry Clay, passim;
Josephy, p. 200.
“So penetrating”:
Matthews, p. 38.
“Made”:
Schlesinger,
Age of Jackson
, p. 83.
Clay’s speech:
Peterson, pp. 227–30.

“Such was”:
William T. Hammett to F. W. White, Feb. 12, 1833, quoted in Peterson, p. 227.
“Day and night”; “Would generally”; “ornaments”:
Peterson, pp. 232–34.

“He spoke”:
Peterson, p. 457.
“If any”:
Byrd, Vol. I, p. 188.
Visiting Webster:
Kennedy,
Profiles in Courage
, pp. 61–62, 65–67.
“Rose”:
Van Deusen, p. 399.
“I implore”:
Byrd, Vol. I, p. 189.
“When”:
National Era
, July 18, 1850, quoted in Peterson, p. 472.
“Seized”:
Peterson, p. 459.
“What”:
New York Herald
, Jan. 31, Feb. 8, 1850, quoted in Peterson, p. 458.
“Emaciated”:
Charles Wiltse, ed.,
John C. Calhoun
, Vol. III, quoted in Byrd, Vol. I, p. 190.
Sitting at his desk:
Richard M. Ketchum, “Faces from the Past—XXII,”
American Heritage
, Oct. 1967.
“The greatest”:
Byrd, Vol. I, p. 190.
“Not since”:
Peterson, p. 462.
Webster’s speech:
Byrd, Vol. I, pp. 191–92.
Their last exchange:
Byrd, Vol. I, pp. 193, 194;
Congressional Globe
, 31/1, Appendix, pp. 271, 273.
“If I”:
Wiltse,
John C. Calhoun
, Vol. III, p. 475, quoted in Byrd, Vol. I, p. 194;
Congressional Globe
, 31/1, p. 520.

“A higher”:
Garraty, p. 386.
“Let him fire!”:
Baker,
The Senate
, p. 48.
“A truly”: “the mighty”:
Peterson, p. 495.

The fuse:
Josephy, p. 210.
Sumner’s caning:
Burns,
Vineyard of Liberty
, p. 552.

Bought the time:
Baker,
The Senate
, p. 33.
“Perhaps”:
Byrd, Vol. I, p. 200.
“Beginning”:
Peterson, p. 234.
“The Senate contains”:
Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
, Vol. I, pp. 204, 205.
“The only”; “the most”:
Lindsay Rogers, “The Gentlemen and Their Club,”
NYT Book Review
, Jan. 13, 1957.

“It only”:
Byrd, Vol. I, p. 227.
“If people”:
Josephy, p. 233.

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