The Passage of Power (143 page)

“Fifty-five”
:
Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
p. 35.

“This was probably”
;
“good tables”
;
“a major breakthrough”
;
“one of the Negroes”
:
“One of the most unusual.…,” undated, Reedy to Johnson, “March 1963,” Box 8, Vice Presidential Aides’ Files of George Reedy.

“He didn’t want to have”
:
Peek interview.
“I’m
eatin’
with ’em”
:
Peek, quoted in Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
p. 39.
“Don’t forget us”
:
Robert Hayling, quoted in Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
p. 39.

“Very happy”
:
Peek interview.
“Happier than he had been”
:
Reedy interview.

Only a tape recorder:
Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
pp. 39–40. Fullerwood and Hawthorne to Kennedy, May 4, “St. Augustine,” Box 24, Lee White Papers, JFKL.
“They feel that they went even further”
:
undated memo, attached to Hobart Taylor to Walker, Aug. 8, 1963, quoted in Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
p. 40.

“Set up a date”
:
Reedy to Johnson, March 5, “Memos—March 1963,” Box 8, Vice Presidential Aides’ Files of George Reedy.
“LBJ last night”
:
NYHT,
March 28, 1963.

Inviting Marian Anderson:
J. Frank Dobie, “Texas Barbecues: 1903 and 1963,”
Congressional Record,
May 17, 1963, pp. A3138–39.

African-American press club scene:
Rosemarie Tyler, “LBJ Outstanding at CPC 20-Year Dinner,”
Washington Afro-American,
May 25, 1963.

Roberts had:
Busby interviews with Garth E. Pauley, in Pauley,
LBJ’s American Promise: The 1965 Voting Rights Address.

A few days before:
Busby interview.

Lead story: “
JOHNSON SAYS NATION WILL NOT BE FREE TILL ALL ARE BLIND TO COLOR
,”
WP,
May 31, 1963.
So short:
Garth Pauley, “The Genesis of a Rhetorical Commitment,” in James Arnt Aune and Enrique D. Rigsby, eds.,
Civil Rights Rhetoric and the America Presidency,
pp. 155–97.
“eloquence”
:
Editorial, “A Voice from the South,”
WP,
June 1, 1963.
Text of speech:
Garth Pauley, “Remarks of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Memorial Day, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—May 30, 1963,” sound recording, Audiovisual Archives, LBJL. See Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
p. 92.

Working himself up; pureness of his motives:
See Caro,
Master,
particularly “The Compassion of Lyndon Johnson” chapter.

Not part of drawing up:
White, Lee OHs; McPherson, Reedy, Sorensen interviews.
“Fifteen minutes alone”
:
Norbert Schlei to RFK, “Comments of the Vice President on the Civil Rights Legislative Proposals,” June 4, 1963; Schlei OH, cited in Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 348; Reedy interview.
At 10 a.m.:
Daily Diary, June 3, 1963; Reedy interview; Roberts OH.
He gave some:
“Edison Dictaphone Recording, LBJ-Sorensen, June 3, 1963,” OH Collection, LBJL.
The next morning:
Daily Diary, June 4, 1963.
“A Southern preacher”
:
Schlesinger interview.
“A very serious”
:
Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
p. 971.
When at another meeting:
NYHT,
June 5, 1963.

“For a couple of weeks there”
:
Reedy interview.
Once:
Schlei to Robert Kennedy, June 4, 1963, Box 11, “Attorney General—General Correspondence,” Robert Kennedy Papers, JFKL.

“I’ve got a date”
:
Louis Martin OH, LBJL.

Enlarging CEEO’s jurisdiction:
“Transcript of Proceedings—Mtg. of July 18, 1963,” pp. 96–143, Box 11, OH Collection, LBJL; Reedy to Johnson, June 10, 1963; Reedy to Johnson, undated, “Personal and Confidential,” “Memos—June 1963,” Box 8, VP Aides’ Files—Reedy, LBJL;
NYHT,
June 23, 1963.
“I checked”
:
Lee White OH, LBJL; White OH, JFKL; Shesol,
Mutual Contempt,
p. 84.

Conference Room B:
Committee on EEO, Minutes of the Seventh Meeting, May 29, 1963, OH Collection, LBJL; Dallek,
Flawed Giant,
pp. 36–37; Lemann,
Promised Land,
p. 138; Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
pp. 335–36.
“Within a matter”
:
Conway OH, JFKL, LBJL.
“He wanted”
:
Lawson OH.

“In late summer”
:
McPherson OH, interview.
“Than I had ever”
:
Busby interview.
Grabbing the phone:
Wright interview.
“Humiliated”
:
For example, “Bobby came in the other day to our Equal Employment Committee, and I was humiliated” (Johnson to Sorensen, Edison Dictaphone recording).
Had, in Johnson’s mind:
Wright, Busby, Reedy, McPherson interviews.

“There have been”
:
NYT, WP,
May 9, 1963.
“Assuming”
:
NYT, WP,
Nov. 1, 1963.
“That’s preposterous”
:
Bradlee,
Conversations with Kennedy,
p. 218.
“Everybody”
:
O’Donnell OH.
“What do you mean”
:
Fay,
The Pleasure of His Company,
p. 259.
“There was no”
:
Guthman and Shulman, eds.,
Robert Kennedy: In His Own Words,
p. 389.
“Reports”
:
Johnson,
The Vantage Point,
p. 2.
“The ticket was definitely”
;
“emphatically”
:
Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 605.
“I have never”
:
Frankel, quoted in Miller,
Lyndon,
p. 308.
“In the back room”
:
Thomas,
Dateline: White House,
p. 121.
“Obsessed”
:
Reedy,
Lyndon B. Johnson,
p. 63.
“His complaints”
:
Baker with King,
Wheeling and Dealing,
p. 144.

Polls:
AA-S,
Sept. 20, 1963;
WES,
Aug. 25, 1963;
WP,
June 30, 1963. The August 25 poll said Goldwater would beat Kennedy in six southern states if the election were held then.
“I don’t know”
;
“Lyndon never”
:
NYHT,
Aug. 27, 1963.
“Said they doubted”
:
Philadelphia Inquirer,
July 5, 1963.
“The President”
:
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
July 24, 1963.
“If the solid”
;
“written off”
:
NYT News Service in
HC,
July 2, 1963.
“New political”
:
Allen and Scott, “Washington Report,”
AA-S,
Oct. 1, 1963.

“The mere mention”
:
AA-S,
Oct. 2, 1963. A
bout the same:
HC,
July 2, 1963.

With the Texans who mattered:
Brown, Clark, Connally, Kilgore, Oltorf, Yarborough interviews.
“Basically”
:
Brown interview.
“Transcended”
:
Oltorf interview.
“Lyndon as vice”
:
“Washington Whispers,”
USN&WR,
Jan. 21, 1963.
“He had promised”
:
Clark interview.
“Loopholes!”
:
Oltorf interview.

The same Belden Poll:
AA-S, Grand Rapids Press,
Sept. 22, 1963.
“One thing”
:
Connally interview.
“Still had”
;
“John controlled”
;
“almost”
:
Kilgore interview.
“After”
:
Connally interview.
“I had frankly”
:
“Hearings before the Select Committee on the Assassination,” 1978, pp. 13, 14.
“The one thing”
:
Lincoln,
Kennedy and Johnson,
p. 197.
“Did not”
;
“no desire”
:
O’Donnell and Powers,
“Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,”
pp. 5, 11.
“Well, Lyndon”
:
“Hearings,” p. 14; Connally with Herskowitz,
In History’s Shadow,
pp. 170–71; Connally interview.

“John Connally wanted”
:
Hugh Sidey, “Jackie Onassis’ Memory Fragments on Tape,”
Time,
April 24, 1978.
“That thought”
:
Connally,
In History’s Shadow,
p. 173.
“The last thing”
:
Yarborough interview.
“Less viable”
:
Bradlee,
Conversations,
p. 237.

“He’d like”
:
Bartlett, quoted in Miller,
Lyndon,
p. 307.
Reedy went:
Reedy interview.
“Strongly conscious”
:
Fay,
The Pleasure,
pp. 3, 4.

Connally’s trip to Washington:
Connally interview; Connally,
In History’s Shadow,
pp. 171–73.
“Irritated”
:
Connally,
In History’s Shadow,
p. 173.
“Hurt”
:
Connally interview. Talking to the ghostwriters of his autobiography during his retirement, Johnson said, “The President got Connally up without telling me about it and got Connally to the White House and they agreed on this November date, and I heard Connally was in town and I … asked him what it was all about and he said well he assumed that the President would tell me if he wanted me told.… They had agreed on this date. This was the first I knew about the date” (Transcript, “Tape Recording between Lyndon B. Johnson, Jack Valenti, and Bob Hardesty,” March 8, 1969, pp. 7, 8, OH Collection, LBJL. And on another tape recording he made during his retirement, Johnson said, “Kennedy wanted to identify with Connally—Connally’s stock was high” (Johnson, “Reminiscences of Lyndon B. Johnson,” August 19, 1969, transcript of tape recording, OH Collection, LBJL). Johnson was to say that Kennedy’s “poll in Texas showed that only 38% of the people approved of what he was doing as President. And this poll pointed out that if we were to have any chance whatever in the ’64 campaign against Goldwater, we had to have the state machinery and the leadership of the state Governor, John Connally, because the Governor is a powerful leader.… And he also wanted to have the machinery of the state in back of him in the form of the Governor” (CBS News Special—
LBJ: “Tragedy and Transition,”
May 2, 1970.

“There was”
;
“closed the door”
;
“You could sense”
;
“as grim”
:
McDowell OH; Elizabeth A. Shedlick interview.
“The press of business”
:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Sept. 14, 1963.
Schedule changes:
Copenhagen Berlingske Tidende,
Sept.13, 1963.
Canceled:
WP,
Sept. 14, 1963;
DMN,
Sept. 14, 1963.
“An official guest”
:
Copenhagen Aktuelt,
Sept. 15, 1963.
Told the State Department aides:
Sarah McClendon, “Re conversation with Dick Schreiver,” undated, p. 5, McClendon Papers.

The call had been:
Des Moines Register,
Sept. 18, 1963; Rowe,
The Bobby Baker Story,
p. 50; “It was reported by friends that the Baker problem was on his mind,” (Mollenhoff,
Despoilers of Democracy,
p. 273).
Hill’s lawsuit:
G. R. Schreiber, “A Special Report—Onward and Upward with Serve-U,”
Vend,
Oct. 1, 1963, pp. 71–74. See also
NYT,
Oct. 8, 1963, which puts it this way: “The company said in the suit that it had retained Mr. Baker to help it obtain placement of vending machines in a government contractor’s plants and also alleged that he had interfered to cause cancellation of one of its own contracts.…”
“Taken money to”
:
Murray Kempton, “The Vendor,”
The New Republic,
October 19, 1963.

Landau was given a tip:
“And recognized immediately the explosive implications of [the] suit” (Laurence Stern and Erwin Knoll, “Washington: Outsiders’ Expose,”
Columbia Journalism Review,
Spring 1964, pp. 18–23). Other
accounts say he was making a routine check of court filings and recognized Baker’s name (Rowe,
Bobby Baker Story,
p. 49; Baker with King,
Wheeling and Dealing,
p. 175.
An official of Serv-U assured Landau:
WP,
Sept. 12, 1963.
“Considerable soul-searching”
:
Laurence and Knoll, “Washington.”

Schreiber had allowed:
McClendon interview.
The
“protégé”
:
G. R. Schreiber, “Special Report.”
One of its stockholders; business dealings:
The
WP
was to report that Baker and his partners had sold their Carousel Motel to Serv-U for $1,200,000 (
WP,
Oct. 3, 1963).

“He panicked”
:
Reedy OH.
“The way”
:
Reedy interview.
Fortas suggested:
Reedy OH III.
“Oh my God”
:
Reedy OH III.
“That was just stupid”
:
Reedy OH XXI.
Johnson claiming he was not responsible for Baker’s election:
Steele, Oct. 28, 1963: “Bobby Baker? He was nominated as Secretary of the Senate by his own senator, Olin Johnston, seconded by Matt Neely; I didn’t have anything to do with it and he was here even before I came.” “Once Confidential Memoranda Prepared by John Steele for the editors of
Time,
August ’61–Sept. ’68,” LBJL.