Master of the Senate (227 page)

“Sometimes”:
Solberg, p. 137; Eisele, p. 89.
“unprepared”:
Humphrey,
Education
, p. 124.
“Anathema”:
Solberg, p. 129.
“Still”:
Humphrey, p. 157.
Committee assignments:
Solberg, p. 136.
“The most sacred”:
Eisele, p. 89.
Small Business Committee:
Humphrey, p. 158.
“Of course”:
Humphrey OH I, p. 12.

The snubbing:
Humphrey, pp. 123–25; Solberg, pp. 136–38. “
Too early”:
Jenner, quoted in Eisele, p. 89.
“‘Can you imagine’”:
Russell, quoted in Humphrey, p. 124.

Byrd Committee:
Eisele, pp. 90–93; Sol-berg, pp. 143–45.
“Ominously”; “The senator”:
Solberg, p. 144; “Paddling a Freshman,”
Newsweek
, March 13, 1950; “The Elephant Hunt,”
Time
, March 13, 1950; Anderson and Blumenthal, “The Washington Merry-Go-Round,”
WP
, Aug. 2, 1950.
Capehart incident:
Eisele, p. 94; Solberg, p. 161.

“I just”:
Humphrey OH I, p. 11.
“Dark days:”
Humphrey,
Education
, p. 147.
“Just couldn’t believe”; “I always worked”:
Humphrey OH I, p. 11.
“I was prepared”; “I hated”:
Humphrey, pp. 124–25.
“I didn’t feel”:
Eisele, p. 93.
Crying:
Solberg, p. 136; McCulloch interview.

“Johnson and I”:
Humphrey,
Education
, p. 161.
Conversation on subway:
Reedy,
U.S. Senate
, p. 34.
“He started”:
Humphrey OH I, p. 4.
“To invite”:
Humphrey,
Education
, p. 162.
“Fascinating”:
Humphrey OH I, pp. 15, 16.
“I am learning”:
Humphrey to Johnson, Dec. 9, 1955, Box 2, WHFN. Humphrey told an oral history interviewer: “In some ways I suppose he was a kind of teacher.” (OH I, p. 18).
“Johnson said”:
Humphrey OH II, p. 5.
“Very beginning”:
Humphrey, quoted in Miller,
Lyndon
, p. 149.
“Knew Washington”:
Humphrey,
Education
, p. 162. “
At the feet”:
Humphrey, on
The American Experience: LBJ
. PBS Home Video, 1997.

“You have just”; “a lion”:
Humphrey OH III, p. 7.
“Like a plant”:
Humphrey, quoted in Miller, p. 420.
“Those great big”; “muscular”:
Humphrey, quoted in Miller, pp. 166, 346.
“A very strong”:
Humphrey OH III, p. 27.
“Political lover”:
Humphrey OH III, p. 8.
“Like a tidal wave”:
Humphrey, quoted in Miller, p. 175.

“Always able”:
Humphrey OH III, p. 8. “Johnson was like a psychiatrist,” he said on another occasion. “Unbelievable man in terms of sizing up people, what they would do, how they would stand up under pressure, what their temperament was” (Humphrey OH I, p. 26).
“What’s so”:
Eisele, p. 59.
“From the moment”:
Rauh interview.
Hyde Park visit:
Solberg, p. 125.

Why Johnson befriended:
Reedy to Johnson, undated but attached to GER to Senator, Jan. 2, 1957, Box 5, PPMF; Reedy, Solberg interviews.

“Nobody can”:
“London Dispatch 5434, from Robert Manning” to NA, Nov. 13, 1958
(in author’s possession), p. 3.
Humphrey repeated:
Manning, Rauh, Rowe, Solberg interviews; Rowe to Johnson, April 8, 1957, Box 32, LBJA SN. In interviews with Solberg, Thomas Hughes said, “Johnson was … opening vistas to him.” Rowe said, “For Johnson Humphrey was a bridge to the liberals. For Humphrey Johnson was a bridge to power” (Hughes interview with Solberg, March 3, 1981; Rowe interview with Solberg, Nov. 3, 1980; both in author’s possession).

“Our little”:
Humphrey, quoted in Solberg, p. 161; Humphrey OH I, p. 8.

“A Roosevelt man”:
Humphrey OH III, p. 11; OH I, p. 6.
“I knew”:
Humphrey OH III, p. 11.
“Never was”:
Humphrey OH I, pp. 6, 7.
“We were”:
Solberg, p. 163.
“I really”:
Humphrey OH I, p. 36.
“Johnson had”:
Humphrey, quoted in Goodwin,
Lyndon Johnson
, p. 132.
“The same old”:
Steele to Williamson, March 4, 1958, SP.

Letters from Texas:
Johnson to Humphrey, Dec. 15, 1953; Sept. 18, 1956; Feb. 27, Sept. 9, 1957, all Box 2, WHFN; Aug. 27, 1954, “1954 Austin Office General Files,” Box 533, JSP.
“The privilege”:
Humphrey to Johnson, Jan 26, 1957, Box 2, WHFN.

“You know”:
Califano,
Triumph
, p. 66.

The 7:30 conversations:
Solberg, p. 163.
“Compromise”:
Humphrey, pp. 136, 137.
“It doesn’t bother me”:
Humphrey OH I, p. 17.

“Senator, Hubert”:
White,
Professional
, pp. 201, 202; Reedy interview.
Humphrey and George in cloakroom:
Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, p. 345.
Working on Russell:
Reedy interview.
“The South and”; Russell present:
Humphrey, p. 162.
“Humphrey utilized”:
Steinberg, p. 345.
“Came to”:
Goldsmith,
Colleagues
, p. 23.

“Actually becoming”:
Humphrey OH I, p. 5.
“Since there”:
Humphrey, p. 161.
“My apprenticeship”:
Humphrey, p. 161.
Brought Russell around:
Humphrey OH II, p. 8.

“Seemed to foresee”:
Goodwin,
Lyndon Johnson
, p. 132.

All dates are 1952 unless otherwise noted.

Steinberg interview:
Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, pp. 320–21.
“Despite”:
“Who will run with Truman?” undated, Feb. 1952, from internal evidence, SP.

“The only way”:
Reedy interview.
“Russell has”:
Time
, March 10.
“The chances”:
Russell to Ayres, March 2, 1951, Dictation Series, Political, RBRL.
“I’m under”:
NYT
, Dec. 12, 1951.

More for:
Fite,
Russell
, pp. 271–77.
“Has to all”:
NYT
, April 16.
“Destroy a fable”:
Atlanta Journal
, May 29.

Big Ed; McCarran:
Fite, p. 287.
“Assuming”:
Van Linden interview.
“Those”:
Young, quoted in
NYT
, March 2.
“I am the only”:
AC
, April 26. For another version of this thought, see Roscoe Drummond, “State of the Nation,”
Christian Science Monitor
, June 26.
“Dick: I hope”:
“March, 1945, from President Truman,” in XV, General EE, Redline File, 1941–67, RBRL.

Johnson had persuaded:
Unidentified to Russell, Feb. 4, Box 24, II, Intra-Office Communications A., Memoranda: 1952, RBRL.
“We felt”:
Connally interview.
“Richardson regarded”:
Connally with Herskowitz,
In History’s Shadow
, p. 142.

“A new league”:
Russell to Cocke, March 14, Political, Presidential Campaign, 1952, RBRL.
Arranging:
Clark, Connally interviews.

Lined up Texas:
Dugger,
Politician
, pp. 374ff.
“Let’s Hussle”:
Johnson to Russell, March 18; Russell to Johnson, March 21, LBJ Congressional File, RBRL.
Russell’s optimism:
Fite, p. 289.
“I told”:
RBR, “Truman, Harry Memo,” June 10, VI Political, G., Pres. Cmpn., “Winder” Folder, RBRL. And see Fite, p. 290.

“When he started”:
Darden interview.
“He had”:
Connally interview.
“A fixation”:
WS
, April 25.

“Enumerated”; “He could not”; “Morally bound”; ignore:
Fite, pp. 285–89.

“Of all of them”:
Muskie interview.
“‘My God, Senator’”:
Reedy OH IV, p. 34; Shaffer,
On and Off
, p. 207.
Bad news:
Atlanta Journal
, July 13.

“They thought”:
Connally interview.
“Surprise”:
Roy V. Harris OH, RBRL.
“Senator Lyndon”:
AC
, July 25.
“In one day”:
Anne O’Hara McCormick,
NYT
, July 22, quoted in Manchester,
Glory
, p. 622.

“Things began”:
Vandiver OH.

A “visceral”:
Goldsmith,
Colleagues
, p. 30.
“It’s one”:
Reedy OH IV, p. 34.
Began to complain; “excellent”:
Goldsmith, p. 30.
From this time on:
Darden interview.
“Energy”:
Lady Bird Johnson OH, RBRL, pp. 11, 14.
“Something”:
Shaffer, p. 207.
“Bitterness”:
Reedy OH IV, p. 35.
“Querulous”:
Reedy interview.

“He worked”:
Russell, “Georgia Giant,” 1970 unedited version, Reel No. 19, p. 25.

“Soberly predicted”:
“Washington Report—Staff,” p. 5, undated but with 1952 memos, MP.
“Became aware”; “as an
instrument”:
Reedy interview.
“Made no bones”:
Reedy OH V, p. 11.
“Hope that”:
Goldsmith, p. 65.
Because “Johnson”:
Talmadge,
AC
, Feb. 20, 1959.
“Gave me”; “Master and Servant”; “None”:
Talmadge interview.
“Bosom friend”:
Stennis interview, April 21, 1971, quoted in Stephen B. Farrow, “Richard Russell and Lyndon Johnson,” unpublished senior thesis, University of Tennessee, 1979, p. 34.
“You’re just fighting”; “I know”:
“The Rearguard Commander,”
Time
, Aug. 12, 1957;
NYT
, Jan. 22, 1971.
“Was very determined”:
Reedy OH VIII, p. 100.

Including, notably:
For a discussion of Johnson’s role in the 1952 presidential campaign, see Dugger, pp. 376–77, 471; Martin,
Adlai Stevenson of Illinois
, pp. 652, 682, 734; Miller,
Lyndon
, p. 153; Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, pp. 328–31.

“When McFarland lost”:
Ralph Huitt, quoted in Miller, p. 154.
“Well, thank you”:
O’Brien,
No Final Victories
, pp. 36–37.
“I’ll do”; “must have”; set one:
Evans and Novak,
LBJ: Exercise
, p. 51.
“All you’ve”:
Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, pp. 60–61; Dugger, p. 379.
“I very frankly”:
Stennis OH.
“I was strong”:
Hoey to Russell, Nov. 14, VI, Personal Political 1951–1954, RBRL.

To every:
McConaughy to Beshoar, June 10, 1953, SP; MacNeil, Steele interviews.
Russell replied:
“I have no desire to serve as leader of either the majority or the minority in the Senate. I think Lyndon is entitled to a promotion, and he will do a good job” (Russell to Hoey, Nov. 12, VI. Personal Political 1951–1954, RBRL).
“Saw L. Johnson”:
Nov. 10, “Winder Materials—Calendars, 1952,” RBRL.
“A number”:
NYT
, Nov. 11.
“Practically”:
McConaughy to Beshoar, Nov. 12, MP.
By November 10:
Evans and Novak, p. 54.
A majority:
McConaughy to Beshoar, June 10, 1953, SP.

He had in mind:
Johnson’s thinking is explained in Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, p. 61; Evans and Novak, p. 54; and in Reedy and Rowe interviews.
To Hayden:
Bibolet, Reedy, Rowe interviews. Bibolet’s boss, McFarland, wired Johnson, “Talked to Carl. All OK and he will call you …,” McFarland to Johnson, Nov. 8, Box 117, LBJA SF.
“A good”:
Rowe to Johnson, Jan. 12, 1953. On the same date, he wrote Joe Kennedy, “I think Lyndon did very well for Jack on the committee assignments, and I hope you do” (Rowe to Kennedy and Landis, Nov. 12, 1953, Box 32, LBJA SN).
“I want”:
Kennedy to Johnson, Nov. 13, Box 117, LBJA SF.

McCarran’s problem, possible solution:
Murray Marder, “Modern Marbury,”
WP
, Jan. 1, 1953; Chalmers Roberts, “Political David,”
WP
, Jan. 4, 1953; “(McCarran),” wire service bulletin, Dec. 29, in Pearson Papers, Box F 162.
McCarran asked; Johnson said; McCarran agreed:
Truman to Johnson, Jan. 13, 1953, Box 8, WHFN; Jenkins, Reedy, Rowe interviews.

Lists; Winder:
VI, political E, Special Name Lyndon Johnson, RBRL; Boxes 116, 117, LBJA SF.
Explanation of lists:
Jenkins, Reedy, Rowe interviews.

Jenkins snatched:
Jenkins interview.
“Happy”:
“Statement of United States Senator Theodore Francis Green, Nov. 12, 1952,” Box 117, LBJA SF.
“At the direction”; “THANKS”:
Higgins to Johnson, Nov. 12; Johnson to Green, Nov. 13, Box 117, LBJA SF.
“Identified”:
NYT
, Nov. 13.
“Senator Clements”:
Jenkins to Johnson, Nov. 12, Box 117, LBJA SF.

“Suggests”:
NYT
, Nov. 16.
“Upset”:
Humphrey,
Education
, p. 163.
“Worried”:
McConaughey to Beshoar, June 10, 1953, SP.
“Knife you”:
Jenkins to Johnson, Nov. 13, Box 117, LBJA SN.