The Path to Power (147 page)

State championships—“It is evident”:
Latimer OH, p. 3.
Sixty-seven victories:
HP
, Oct. 4, 1938.
“I just almost cried”:
Johnson, in McKay Transcript, pp. 10–11.
“Disbelief”:
Latimer OH, p. 3.
Never knew:
Latimer, Jones.
Vomited:
Time
, May 21, 1965.

“The splendid work”:
Houston Chronicle
, April 3, 1931, p. 34.
Banquet:
Houston Post-Dispatch
, May 24, 1931, Sec. 1, p. 10; Pool, pp. 157–58.
$100 raise:
Board Minutes;
The Houston Independent School District, Book E, 121, 170, quoted in Pool, p. 158.
Daugherty’s opinion:
“Everett Collier, Sidebar #2—LBJ,” General PP 13–5, WHCF, attached to Collier to Valenti, January 21, 1964; she is quoted in a draft of a “proposed article” for the
Houston Chronicle
written by Everett Collier.
“Pleasing in personality”:
“The Printer’s Devil,” April 10, 1931.
“To see them”:
Johnson quoted in McKay Transcript, p. 18.
“Every time”:
McKay Transcript, p. 17.

Dale Carnegie course:
So Relle.
Heckling:
Johnson, quoted in Steinberg, p. 700.

Lonely in Houston:
So Relle, Boody Johnson, RJB.
“‘What can I do next?’”
So Relle.

Wanted to go into politics:
Hopkins, Jones.
“When I go into politics”:
Bess Scott to Johnson, July 1, 1941, “Harris Co.,” Box 19, JHP.
Notes in margins:
Jones.

Phone call from Kleberg:
Hopkins, SHJ.
Johnson “was so excited”:
Helen Weinberg,
quoted in Pool, p. 159. Weinberg says he said he “would consult with his uncle and call back in a few minutes.” Hopkins and SHJ, both of whom had the story from Kleberg, say he agreed without hesitation to come for the interview.
Leave of absence:
Oberholtzer to Hofheinz, May 3, 1931, Box 73, LBJA SF.
The first night in the Mayflower:
Johnson to Jones, Dec. 6, 1931.

The description of the daily routine in Kleberg’s office, and of Johnson’s activities as Kleberg’s secretary, is based primarily on interviews with the other persons in that office: Estelle Harbin, Luther E. Jones, and Gene Latimer. Unless otherwise noted, the description comes from these interviews.

Johnson’s letters to Jones and Latimer are in their respective possession.

Oral Histories:

Russell Brown, Luther E. Jones, Carroll Keach, Gene Latimer.

Other Interviews:

William Goode, Welly K. Hopkins, Dale Miller, J. J. Pickle, James Van Zandt.

Running:
Harbin.

Garner’s election; Texas coming to power:
“King Ranch in Garner’s House,”
Time
, Dec. 7; “The Congress: Sitting of the 72nd,”
Time
, Dec. 14; “Work of the Week,”
Time
, Dec. 28; Samuel G. Blythe, “How Congress Mixes In,”
Sat. Eve. Post
, Nov. 21, all 1931.

Kleberg:
“Richest Cowboy Now Serves in Congress,”
NYT
, Dec. 20, 1931;
Time
, “King Ranch in Garner’s House,” Dec. 7, 1931; “New Faces in Congress,”
Washington Herald
, Dec. 9, 1931; “Texas’ Kleberg,”
Washington Herald
, Oct. 31, 1933;
CCC
, Oct. 11, 1932, Nov. 27, 1933; “Kleberg, Richard M.,” Vertical File, Barker Texas History Center, Univ. of Texas; “Texas Kingdom That Blocks a Road,”
Washington Sunday Star
, Oct. 15, 1933; “The World’s Biggest Ranch,”
Fortune
, Dec., 1933.
Kleberg’s campaign:
American Business Survey
, Jan., 1932, p. 3; Harbin, Jones, Latimer, Hopkins, Miller.

“The trouble”:
Kleberg, quoted in
CCC
, July 21, 1932; Dec. (date unreadable), 1932.
“Whittling down”:
CR
, 72 Cong., 1 Session (Jan. 21, 1932), p. 2446.
“Un-American”:
CCC
, Oct. 9, 1932. In June, 1932, Kleberg declared himself “unqualifiedly opposed to the constant and shameless encroachment of the federal government upon state and local authority, [to] the continued and increasing use of federal authority to control the business as well as the social and private affairs of our citizens” (
CCC
, June 24, 1932).

“Hello, Dick”:
Johnson to Jones, Dec. 6, 1931.
Miller’s carte blanche:
Dale Miller.

Capitol Hill life:
Charles McLean, “Typical Day in the Life of a Congressman,”
NYT
, Sec. 5, p. 9, April 17, 1932; R. L. Duffus, “Congress: Cross Section of the Nation,” NYT, April 10, 1932.
Employing relatives:
G. F. Nieberg, “All in the Congressional Family,”
Atlantic Monthly
, Oct., 1931; “Nepotism,”
Time
, May 30, 1932.

Dodge Hotel description:
Hopkins, SHJ; Keach OH, Brown OH.
“Two bits”:
Brown, quoted in Newlon,
LBJ
, p. 46.
Johnson shooting questions:
Perry, quoted in Mooney,
LJ Story
, p. 38.

Incident in the gallery:
Robert Jackson, quoted in Edwin W. Knippa, “The Early Political Life of Lyndon B. Johnson” (unpublished Master’s Thesis), San Marcos, 1967, pp. 10–11. Knippa says this incident occurred in December, but Johnson to Jones, Feb. 26, 1932, puts the date in February.
“I remember”:
Van Zandt.
Inscribed photographs:
Johnson to Latimer, Feb. 25, 1932.

“Have you forgotten me?”:
Johnson to Jones, Feb. 13,1932.
“Thanks”:
Johnson to Jones, Feb. 26, 1932.
“Burn this”; “Hope”:
Johnson to Jones, Dec. 6, 1931.
“Have not been out”:
Johnson to Jones, April 18, 1932.

Motives of Latimer and Jones for coming:
Latimer, Jones.
“I know”:
Johnson to Jones, April 18, 1932.
Latimer’s salary:
Latimer; Latimer OH, p. 8; “Civil Service Retirement System—Individual Retirement Record—Latimer, Gene”; Latimer to author, Oct. 19, 1978; Johnson to Latimer’s parents, “Jan. 31, 1933,” and “Tuesday evening,” 1933.

“Saint Paul”:
Johnson to Fore, April 13, 1939 (letter in possession of Mrs. Sam Fore).

“As if his life”:
Goode.
Graduation congratulations letters:
Latimer OH, pp. 10–11.
“No compunction”:
Jones OH I, p. 6.

Mail swelling:
For example, Dirksen, “Mr. Dirksen Goes to Congress,”
New Outlook
, March, 1933; Hal Smith, “A Deluge of Mail Falls on Congress,”
NYT
, Jan. 21, 1934, Sec. 9, p. 2.

“When the pain had been severe”:
Latimer OH, p. 9.

“Probably the finest”; “lawyer’s lawyer”:
Bowmer,
Texas Parade
, May, 1968, p. 45, which also said: “As a money earner he is probably in the top five percent of Texas lawyers; as a legal scholar he is second to none. Many colleagues consider him the finest appellate lawyer in the country.”
“Any kind”:
Latimer.
Making him take dictation:
Latimer, Pickle.

Books, articles:

Albertson,
Roosevelt’s Farmer;
Burner,
Herbert Hoover;
Burns,
Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox;
Farley,
Behind the Ballots
and
The Roosevelt Years;
Freidel,
Launching the New Deal;
Henderson,
Maury Maverick;
Lash,
Eleanor and Franklin;
Leuchtenburg,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal;
Lord,
The Wallaces of Iowa;
Manchester,
The Glory and the Dream;
Phillips,
From the Crash to the Blitz;
Nourse,
Three Years of the AAA;
Schlesinger,
The Age of Roosevelt: I, The Crisis of the Old Order; II, The Coming of the New Deal; III, The Politics of Upheaval;
Smith,
The Shattered Dream;
U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Farmers in a Changing World
.

Lionel V. Patenaude, “The New Deal and Texas” (unpublished Master’s Thesis), Austin, 1953.

Charles A. Beard, “Congress Under Fire,”
Yale Review
, Sept., 1932; James E. Boyle, “The Farmer’s Bootstraps,”
The Nation
, Jan. 11, 1933; Garet Garrett, “Notes of These Times—The Farmer,”
Saturday Evening Post
, Nov. 19, 1932; J. H. Kolb, “Agriculture and Rural Life,”
American Journal of Sociology
, Nov., 1933; Jonathan Mitchell, “The Farmer is Financed,”
The New Republic
, June 30, 1937; William Allen White, “The Farmer Takes His Holiday,”
Saturday Evening Post
, Nov. 26, 1932; “Bounty,”
Fortune
, Feb., 1933; “Mr. Roosevelt’s Man,”
Fortune
, April, 1934; “The Department of Agriculture,”
Fortune
, April, 1936.

Corpus Christi Caller
, 1931–1935.

Interviews:

Benjamin V. Cohen, Thomas G. Corcoran, Luther E. Jones.

“Not seen”:
Smith, p. 223.
Farm prices in 1932:
Manchester, pp. 36–38; Freidel, p. 84.
Inflation, debt:
Davis, “The Development of Agriculture Policy Since The End of the World War,” and Genung, “Agriculture in the World War Period,” in U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Farmers in a Changing World;
White, “The Farmer Takes His Holiday.”
$3 to $10 billion:
White, “The Farmer Takes His Holiday.”
One out of eight:
Freidel, p. 84.

Deaf to their pleas; “on the very day”:
Freidel, pp. 85–87; Schlesinger,
Crisis
, pp. 107–9.
4,000 thrown off:
Time
, Jan. 4, 1932.
Federal Farm Board:
Garrett, “Notes of These Times–The Farmer”; Schlesinger,
Crisis
, pp. 239–40; Freidel, p. 88.
“Surplus is ruin”:
Garrett, “Notes of These Times.”
Surprising agreement:
White, “The Farmer Takes His Holiday.”
Hoover’s solution:
Freidel, p. 88.
20,000 per month:
Freidel, p. 84.
¼ of Mississippi:
Manchester, p. 37.
“Even though”:
White, “The Farmer Takes His Holiday.”

Nueces County cotton production and unsold bales for 1930, 1931; “In many instances”:
CCC
, Oct. 26, 1934.
683,000:
Manchester, p. 21.
“For strangers”:
CCC
, Feb. 14, 1933; see also Feb. 18.
Gulf Coast farmers in trouble:
CCC
, 1931
passim
.
“My boy”:
T. W. Newman, in
CCC
, Feb. 15, 1935.
Going on relief:
CCC
, Nov. 22, Dec. 30, 1932; by Jan. 20, there were 1,795 on relief (
CCC
, Jan. 20, 1933).
“No need”:
Mrs. Berry, in
CCC
, Nov. 18, 1931.
500 schoolchildren:
CCC
, Feb. 25, 1932.
Relief funds running out:
CCC
, 1931–1932
passim
.

Unemployed:
Manchester, pp. 35–36.
“Washington, D.C., resembled”:
Manchester, p. 3.
Congress returning:
“Relief after Recess,”
Time
, Jan. 4, 1932.
Situation in Congress; Bonus Marchers:
Schlesinger,
Crisis
, pp. 256–61.
“Have we gone mad?”:
Sen. Millard Tydings of Maryland, in “Taxation Time,”
Time
, May 30, 1932.
“Looking on”:
The Forum
, Sept., 1932.
“The Monkey House”:
In Pearson’s “The Washington Merry-Go-Round,” quoted by
Charles A. Beard, in “Congress Under Fire,”
Yale Review
, Sept., 1932.
“Representative government”:
Time
, May 16, 1932.

“Hoover locks self”:
Manchester, p. 3.
Hoover’s statements:
Schlesinger,
Crisis
, p. 231; Manchester, pp. 26–27.
Visitor authorized:
Rep. Strong of Kansas, in
Time
, April 25, 1932.
“They won’t get by”:
Smith, p. 80.
Couldn’t bear:
Manchester, p. 22.
“The nation’s needy”:
Time
, May 23, 1932.
“Nobody”:
Manchester, p. 41.
Hoover dining:
Smith, pp. 96–97; Manchester, p. 23.
“Unexampled”:
Schlesinger,
Crisis
, p. 232.
“Cannot squander”:
Time
, May 30, June 6, 1932.
RFC:
For example, Manchester, p. 46.
“Set his face”:
Long, quoted in Smith, p. 175.
Hoover’s campaign:
Smith, pp. 199–201.

Winter of despair:
Schlesinger,
Crisis
, pp. 448 ff; Manchester, pp. 54–55.
Farm revolt:
Schlesinger,
Crisis
, pp. 459–60; Manchester, pp. 58–60; Smith, p. 221.
“Wholly unworkable”:
Freidel, p. 100.
Banking crisis:
Manchester, pp. 72–75.

Revolt on the Gulf:
CCC
, Jan. 27, 1933; Patenaude, p. 259;
CCC
, May 17, Nov. 4, 1932.
38%:
CCC
, June 10, 16, 1934.
Out of funds:
CCC
, Feb., March, 1933
Bonds for relief:
CCC
, March 6, 1932, Jan. 6, 1933.
Eleven bills defeated:
CCC
, Feb. 11, 1933.
Although:
CCC
, Feb. 2, 1933.
“I know”; vowed:
CCC
, Feb. 26, 1933.
“Crisis”:
Burns, p. 161.