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304 1960 platform quote in Kirk Harold Porter,
National Party Platforms, 1840-1964
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1966).

304 For Heller's poverty program, see Taylor Branch,
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998), 175. For Kennedy's response to Heller, see Dallek,
Flawed Giant,
61. For preparation of poverty legislation, see ibid., 61, 74-80. For Goldwater quotes: January 15, 1964, speech to Economic Club of New York, RAC, Box 10/789.

305 For number of civil rights bills, see Edward G. Carmines and James A. Stimson,
Issue Evolution: Race and the Transformation of American Politics
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989); 150 were introduced between 1937 and 1946 alone.
He dismissed President Truman's civil rights program:
ibid., 42.
Columnists Evans and Novak called his handiwork:
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak,
Lyndon
B.
Johnson: The Exercise of Power: A Political Biography
(New York: New American Library, 1966), 119-40. Joe Clark quote is in Gorton Carruth,
What Happened When: A Chronology of Life and Events in America
(New York: Signet, 1991), 891.

305
“The Negro fought in the war”:
Dallek,
Flawed Giant,
24. For Johnson's speech echoing King, see Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
92.

306 Call to King: Beschloss, ed.,
Taking Charge,
37.

306
“I'm not going to cavil”:
Margolis,
Last Innocent Year,
44.
“Without a word or a comma
”: Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
210. For the legislative history of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, see Charles and Barbara Whalen,
The Longest Debate:
A
Legislative History of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
(Cabin John, Md.: Seven Locks Press, 1985).

307
“You're either for civil rights”:
Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
180.
“I hope that satisfies”:
Margolis,
Last Innocent Year,
197.

307
“You drink with Dirksen,” LBJ commanded:
ibid., 158.

307 NAM's brief can be found in HR, Box 55/19. For the Richard Russell amendment, see Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
258. For “prohibition” letter to the editor, see Felix W. Reese, LAT, February 13, 1964; for
ABA Journal
article, see David Lawrence column, LAT, February 25, 1964. For “enslavement” argument, see Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
298. For Coordinating Committee for Fundamental Freedoms, see GRR, February 29, 1964; March 30, 1964; September 30, 1964; and Group Research Inc. 1963 roundup, AC.

307
“Johnson Pledges Fight on Mental Retardation”
: LAT, February 6, 1964. For Johnson's business campaign, see Jack Bell,
The Johnson Treatment: How Lyndon B. Johnson Took Over the Presidency and Made It His Own
(New York: Harper and Row, 1965), 120 (for “Call me Lyndon”); Dallek,
Flawed Giant,
73 (“Is there a citizens group”).

308
“They're all in such sensitive states”:
Beschloss, ed.,
Taking Charge,
95. For visit of Italian leaders, see ibid., 96; for “English Scotch,” ibid., 172. For Teddy White, see ibid., 16.
In his February appearance in Miami:
LAT, February 28, 1964.

308 On Baker, see G. R. Schreiber,
The Bobby Baker Affair: How to Make Millions in Washington
(Chicago: Regnery, 1964); and Dallek,
Flawed Giant,
38-44. For summary of possible Johnson kickback, see Beschloss, ed.,
Taking Charge,
92. See also Carl Curtis OH, LBJL. For Goldwater's Austin quip, see
Newsweek,
April 10, 1961.

309 For arm-twisting to take Jenkins off witness list, hear LBJT 6401.24/13 and 6401.24/15.
“I've got considerably more detail on Reynolds's love life”:
Beschloss, ed.,
Taking Charge,
191. For
Minneapolis Tribune
poll, see Dallek,
Flawed Giant,
126. LBJ had eighty-eight recorded conversations about the Jenkins case in the month of January.

309 On the utility executive, see Bell,
Johnson Treatment,
126.
On March
23 the
Wall Street Journal: “The Johnson Wealth,” March 23, 1964, WSJ. For
Time
piece, “Mr. President, You're Fun,” see Frank Cormier,
LBJ the Way He Was: A Personal Memoir
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977), 86. The chamber of commerce speech is described in Bell,
Johnson Treatment,
127. Lippmann “healing man” quote is in Beschloss, ed.,
Taking Charge,
313; for Reston, see Beschloss, 319. Poll numbers are in LBJT 406.03/24.

310 For Oregon primary rules, see Harold Faber, ed.,
Road to the White House: The Story of the 1964 Election by the Staff of the New York Times
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965), 34; and James M. Perry,
A Report in Depth on Barry Goldwater
(Silver Spring, Md.: National Observer, 1964). For Smith petition, see LAT, February 15, 1964.

310 For Lodge headquarters and quote, see Time, May 15, 1964.

310
“Intimate contact with Gov. William Scranton”
: Richard Wilson, LAT, February 2, 1964. Connecticut backers noted in NYHTEN, February 14, 1964. For
Meet the Press,
see LAT, February 17, 1964; for Lippmann, see LAT, February 19, 1964. Rhodes's efforts are described in LAT, February 23, 1964. Alsop's column is in LAT, February 25, 1964.
Reader's Digest
quote is from April 1964 issue.

311 For $25,000 fund-raising and press conference, see George D. Wolf,
William Warren Scranton: Pennsylvania Statesman
(State College: Penn State Press, 1981), 100.

311 For Scranton's not taking name off Oregon ballot, see ibid., 94, 99.

311 For Nixon's meeting with Haldeman et al. November 1, 1964, I rely on Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “The Unmaking of a President,”
Esquire,
November 1, 1964; author interview with Leonard Nadasdy; and, for unheeded advice, Nadasdy to Nixon, March 17, 1964, LN.

311 For NAR and Oregon mutual affection, see James Desmond,
Nelson Rockefeller: A Political Biography
(New York: Macmillan, 1964), 228. For chairman of board of regents, see Sensenbrenner to Walton, FCW, Box 8/Rus Walton. For February tour:
Rockefeller Campaign Express,
February 15, 1964, RAC, Box 12/946 (for chain saw); and (Salem, Ore.)
Capital Journal and Oregon Statesman,
February 7, 8, and 9, 1964. For Sabre-Liner, see Villar to Douglas, January 14, 1964, RAC, Box 11/939. For Goldwater's San Francisco stop, see Stephen Shadegg,
What Happened to Goldwater?: The Inside Story of the 1964 Republican Campaign
(New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1965), 108.

312 For Jackie Robinson in Oregon, see Arnold Rampersad,
Jackie Robinson:
A
Biography
(New York: Knopf, 1997), 385.

 

313
“Gentlemen
,
off the record”:
Author interview with Lee Edwards. For delegate totals by March 10, 1964, see F. Clifton White with William Gill,
Suite
3505:
The Story of the Draft Goldwater Movement
(New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1967), 301. Milliken telegram and Virgin Islands votes are in White with Gill, 304. See also Theodore H. White,
The Making of the President 1964
(New York: Atheneum, 1965), 132.

313 White's convention technique is described in John Kessel,
The Goldwater Coalition: Republican Strategies in 1964
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968), 70.
Without, Life was fooled: “Goldwater's
Foreign Policy,”
Life,
November 1, 1963.
The Washington Post had just reported:
“Goldwater Aides Admit Momentum Has Changed,” WP, February 8, 1964.

314 For White's mounting frustrations with the Arizona Mafia, see White with Gill, Suite
35o5,
275-77, 293. Joe Alsop is quoted in Norman Mailer, “In a Blue Light: A History of the 1964 Republican Convention,”
Esquire,
November 1964. Kitchel's mood is in White with Gill,
Suite
3505, 301.

314 For Goldwater being kept from White memo, see White with Gill, 287. For fund-raising, see CT, January 4, 1964, 1; Bill Middendorf, “Balance Sheet per December 31, 1963,” WAR, Box 155/8; and Finance Highlights Report No. 10, April 4, 1964, FCW, Box 8/G. R. Herberger. For New York office, see Marvin Liebman,
Coming Out Conservative: An Autobiography
(San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992), 167.
“For a publicity splash”
: “Neal” to Rusher, n.d., “RLN—PAR,” WAR, Box 155/7. For Kitchel's resignation, see White with Gill, Suite 3505, 278; and Stephen Shadegg,
What Happened to Goldwater?: The Inside Story of the 1964 Republican Campaign
(New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1965), 100.

314 On whether thirty-seven or forty covenants were being broken, see ABC Reports transcript, January 9, 1964, RAC, Box 10/787. For Hess biography, see Karl Hess,
Mostly on the Edge: An Autobiography
(Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 1999).
“It would not be America really”: American Mercury,
May 1954.
“If we in this hour of world crisis”:
April 6, 1964, speech from Portland Hilton, AHF, Box 1/13.

315 Expressions of culture clash came in author interviews with Lee Edwards, Ron Crawford, Charles Lichenstein, and Richard Kleindienst; and Godfrey Hodgson to author, January 3, 1997.
“When you get a phone call”
: F. Clifton White with Jerome Tuccille,
Politics as a Noble Calling
(Ottawa, III.: Jameson Books, 1994), 155.

315 For Chicago meeting, see White with Gill, Suite
3505,
276-78; Shadegg,
What Happened,
120; and Karl Hess,
In a Cause That Will Triumph: The Goldwater Campaign and the Future of Conservatism
(New York: Doubleday, 1967), 21 (for “Boy Scouts” exchange).

316 The March 18, 1964, meeting is in White with Gill, Suite 3505, 302-4.

316 For entreaties to Kleindienst, see Richard Kleindienst,
Justice: The Memoirs of an Attorney General
(Ottawa, III.: Jameson Books, 1985), 32-33. For purging from strategy sessions, see White with Gill, Suite
3,505,
304.

316
“Lee, we're not going to have that kind of crap”:
author interview with Lee Edwards.

317 For Wallace's Ivy League tour, see Dan T. Carter,
The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995), 195-99; and Stephan Lesher,
George Wallace: American Populist
(Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1994),261-65.

317 For Wallace on the West Coast, see Carter,
Politics of Rage,
200; and Leshèr,
George Wallace,
268-71 (for quotes).

317 For Cincinnati, see Lesher,
George Wallace,
271-73.

318 For Chicago, see Lesher, loc. cit.

318 Madison appearance and the Herbstreith proposal are in Lesher, 273-74; and Carter,
Politics of Rage,
203-4.

319 For Thurmond quote from 1948, see Alexander Lamis,
The Two-Party South
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), 9.
“States' Rights have become household words”:
Jim Johnson, “Orval Faubus Can Be Elected President,” CM, Box 69/4.

319 For Wallace's filing trip to Wisconsin, see Carter,
Politics of Rage,
204.

319 Malcolm X and “rifle clubs” are noted in Jon Margolis,
The Last Innocent Year: America
in
1964: The Beginning of the “Sixties”
(New York: Morrow, 1999), 157. For CORE at Triborough Bridge, see Tamar Jacoby,
Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration
(New York: Free Press, 1998), 23-24. For school boycott, see Jacoby, 26.

319 For Cleveland, see Margolis, Last Innocent Year, 116; and Lesher,
George Wallace,
272. For Bay Area, see Max Heirich, The
Spiral
of Conflict: Berkeley, 1964 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1968), 86; David Lance Goines,
The Free Speech Movement: Coming of Age in the 1960s
(Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, 1993), 96-97; and Margolis,
Last Innocent Year,
157.
“Here as elsewhere the Negro”
: NYHTEN, April 4, 1964. For Emmanuel Cellers quote, see Jacoby,
Someone Else's House,
24.

320 For Reynolds increasing votes estimate and labor and religious efforts, see Carter,
Politics of Rage,
204-5; and Lesher,
George Wallace
, 277.

320 For speeches, hecklers, and responses: ibid., 276-79.

320 For Milwaukee Serb Hall appearance, see ibid., 282-84; and Carter,
Politics of Rage,
206-7.

321 For LBJ and Gronouski, see Lesher,
George Wallace,
284; and LBJT 6404.03/7. For Wallace home stretch in Wisconsin, see Lesher,
George Wallace,
284-85 (for 175,000 figure); and Carter,
Politics of Rage,
208 (for victory celebration and quote).

321
“An anachronistic Southern demagogue,” sniffed:
ibid., 208.

321 For the egging of Smith supporters in Illinois, see Tristram Coffin to “George,” July 24, 1964, LBJWHNG; and undated draft of MCS to Joly's July 9, 1964, letter, MCSL, “Goldwater, Barry” file. For spoiled NAR reception, see Marquis Childs, WP, July 10, 1964. For vandalized currency, see “Goldwater Bills Probed,” LAT, February 2, 1964.

322 For 1963
Human Events
conference, see
Democrat,
newspaper of the Democratic National Committee, July 22, 1963, in JCJ.

322 For Wyoming GOP convention: White,
Making of the President 1964,
113; and Kleindienst interview.