Master of the Senate (232 page)

Johnson’s strategy:
Newsweek
, Oct. 31;
CSM
, Oct. 18, Nov. 7;
HP
, Nov. 13. See notes for Chapter 35 (“Convention”).
“If his”:
Corcoran ms., Corcoran Papers, quoted in Dallek,
Lone Star
, p. 491.

Johnson’s reaction:
Reedy OH VIII, and see notes for Chapter 33.
Instead:
Rather OH.
Press conference:
“A Social Visit,”
Time
, Oct. 10;
AA-S, NYHT, NYT
, Sept. 30;
H P
, Oct. 2; Reedy OH VIII.
“Pointedly”:
NYT
, Oct. 18.
“I’m not”:
Martin,
Adlai Stevenson
, p. 211.
Johnson and Rayburn:
Corcoran, Rowe interviews.
“He spoke”:
Rowe to Johnson, Oct. 26, LBJA SN.
“Lyndon will be”:
Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, p. 426.

“Political capital”:
Reedy to Johnson, Oct. 19, Box 3, PPMF.
Polls:
SA News
, Dec. 9.
“Backing”:
Fleeson,
WS
, Oct. 31.
“Outside of”:
HC
, Oct. 2.
“Reasonable”:
H P
, Nov. 13, attached to Johnson to Rowe, Oct. 28, LBJA SN.
“Here”:
New Republic
, Oct. 18.
“Some of”:
NYT
, Oct. 18.

“Unjustified”:
Reedy interview. After a visit to Rayburn, Corcoran wrote that “Sam was disturbed by the way he thought the William White story might upset the calculations of convenience on which the State Chairman—favorite son—plans had been built” (Corcoran to Mrs. Johnson and Johnson, Nov. 10, Corcoran Papers).
Joseph Kennedy episode:
Dallek, pp. 490, 491; Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds
, pp. 780–81; Johnson,
Vantage Point
, p. 3.
“He never”; “malaria-ridden”:
Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds
, p. 780.

“I am sure”:
Cain to Corcoran, Nov. 14, Corcoran Papers.
“Lyndon”:
Cain to Johnson, Nov. 19, Corcoran Papers.
“Back”:
Reedy to Johnson, Box 3, PPMF.
“A Program with a heart”:
AA-S, NYT
, Nov. 22;
Baltimore Sun
, Nov. 23;
WP
, Nov. 25;
WS
, Nov. 27. A glowing description of the Whitney event is in Rather to Corcoran, Nov. 27, Corcoran Papers.
“It looks”:
Nichols to Johnson, Nov. 23, Box 566, JSP.

“Is talking”:
Albright,
WP
, Nov. 27.
“The Democrats”:
FWS-T
, Aug. 24.
Met:
Hughes’ representative was Noah Dietrich, one of his top aides. Reedy OH VIII; “Chronology,” 1955, LBJL; Clark, Connally interviews.
Kefauver visit:
Abilene Reporter News, DT-H
, Nov. 24.
Taking steps:
Pearson,
WP
, Oct. 19.
“I’d like”:
Johnson to Stevenson, Nov. 22, Box 566, JSP.

“Lyndon Johnson Day”:
San Marcos Record
, Nov. 25; Whiteside interview.
Who had cut out:
Caro,
Path
, pp. 197, 198.
“I knew”:
Carol Davis and Lyndon Johnson are discussed in Caro, pp. 161, 172–73, 205, 294.

“With his feet”:
Providence Bulletin
, Dec. 13.
Doctors’ report:
NYT
, Dec. 15.

“Every time”:
Johnson, quoted in Flora Schreiber, “Lyndon B. Johnson: Courageous Man of Action,”
Family Weekly
, Feb. 2, 1964.
“Could scarcely”; “whatever”; “sensed”:
Montgomery, pp. 54, 55.
“Of course”; “I
never”:
Reedy OH VIII.
“They weren’t:
Rather OH.
“Some of”:
Flora Schreiber, “Lyndon B. Johnson: Courageous Man of Action,”
Family Weekly
, Feb. 2, 1964.

Laugh:
Montgomery, pp. 58–61.

“Let’s each”:
Flora Schreiber, “Lyndon B. Johnson: Courageous Man of Action,”
Family Weekly
, Feb. 2, 1964.
“Lyndon has”:
Rowe to Lady Bird, Nov. 8; Lady Bird to Rowe, Nov. 26, LBJA SN.
Changing her excuse; “rediscovering”:
Lady Bird Johnson, “Can You Prevent a Heart Attack?”
This Week
, Feb. 12, 1956.
“I firmly”:
Irwin Ross,
NYP
, March 28, 1957.

“Her greatest achievement”:
Sidey, “The Second Toughest Job,”
Time
, Jan. 14, 1985.
“Politics was”:
Lady Bird OH, RBRL.
“Somebody”:
Steele interview.
“Deliver”:
Ross,
NYP
, March 28, 1957.
“If ever”:
Mooney, p. 236.
“That’s enough”; coattail; Scotch:
Mooney, pp. 236, 241, 244.
“Right behind you”:
Tames interview.
“Don’t let”:
Steele, Feb. 22, 1965, SP.

“Next to us”:
Rowe, Corcoran interviews.
“He enjoyed”:
Reedy,
Johnson
, p. 52; Reedy interview.
“Loved
people
”:
Lady Bird Johnson, quoted in
People
, Feb. 2, 1987.

“I felt”; “He became”:
Jenkins OH.
“Never seen”:
BeLieu interview.
“Now he
had
”:
Connally interview.

All dates are 1956 unless otherwise noted.

Opening day:
Baltimore Sun, NYHT, NYT, WP
, Jan. 4.
“Everlasting”:
“Minutes of Meeting—Democratic Policy Committee,” Jan. 5, Box 364, JSP, Reedy interview.
Press Club:
NYT, WS
, Jan. 4.

Rowe’s memorandum:
McCullough,
Truman
, pp. 590–92; Reedy OH IX, p. 71; Reedy, Rowe interviews.

“I wish”:
Rowe interview.

“Napping”:
Scott OH.

“Very, very”:
Smathers OH.

“All know”:
Paul Douglas, “The Case for the Consumer of Natural Gas,”
Georgetown Law Review
, June 1956, p. 573.
Taken the stance:
Elizabeth Sanders,
Regulation of Natural Gas
, pp. 83 ff; Walter Goodman, “Piping Hot Air to the Consumer,”
New Republic
, June 27.
During those:
Edgar Kemler, “Democratic Giveaway: The Natural Gas Bill,”
The Nation
, Feb. 4.
FPC reversal:
Richard Smith, “The Unnatural Problems of Natural Gas,”
Fortune
, Sept. 1959. Each one-cent increase for the price of a thousand cubic feet of natural gas would,
Fortune
estimated, “pour some $70 million a year into the producers’ pockets.”
Superior oil:
W-SJ
, Dec. 22, 1955;
NYT
, Feb. 22.
Texas Eastern:
Standard & Poor’s Corp.,
Standard Corporate Descriptions, 1949–1956;
Clark interview.

Michigan and Wisconsin vs. FPC:
Richard Smith, “The Unnatural Problems of Natural Gas,”
Fortune
, Sept. 1959.
Two committees:
WP
, Aug. 8.
Funds collected by Maston Nixon:
“The Oil Lobby,”
New Republic
, Sept. 24.
Distributed by:
Clark, Connally, Herring, Wild interviews.
“Once the lines”; “to eliminate”:
Walter Goodman, “Piping Hot Air to the Consumer,”
New Republic
, June 27.
Southerners split; had been intending:
Joseph and Stewart Alsop,
WP
, Dec. 12; McPherson,
Political Education
, p. 89.
“Lyndon was”; “transcended”:
Oltorf interview.
Estimates:
Walter Goodman, “Piping Hot Air to the Consumer,”
New Republic
, June 27, 1955.

Stakes:
Paul Douglas, “The Case for the Consumer of Natural Gas,”
Georgetown Law Reviews
, June 1956, p. 585.
“Very frankly”:
“Minutes—Democratic Policy Committee,” July 26, 28, 1955,” Box 364, JSP.
“I wanted”:
“Minutes,” Jan. 5, 1956, Box 364, JSP.

“They sent”:
Oltorf interview.
Mayflower scene:
Connally, Dale Miller, Wild interviews.
Humble paying Clark:
Clark interview.
Patman was informed:
“The question has been raised…,” undated statement but obviously 1961, G 242, 1 of 3, Drew Pearson Papers; Wild interview.
“I remember”:
Miller interview.
“For twenty years”:
Caro,
Path
, pp. 269–73.
“You know”:
Wild interview.

“At whoever’s”:
Brammer interview.
Allowed them to use:
Crawford and Keever,
Connally
, p. 62; Brammer, Clark, Connally, Jenkins, Miller, Wild interviews.
“He would call”:
Clark interview.
“Harder”; Bridges at Huntlands:
Oltorf interview.
“I was asked”:
Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, p. 86.
Patman’s in New Hampshire:
NYT
, March 8.
“The reason”:
Connally interview.
Rubbed together:
Clark interview.
Patman sent Neff:
NYT
, Feb. 12.
“I was”:
Wild interview.
“He got”:
Oltorf interview.
Enough to win:
Wild interview.

Outrage:
NYT
, Jan. 27;
Nation
, Feb. 4;
New Republic
, June 27, 1955; Fleeson,
WS
, Jan. 27.
Proclaiming:
Johnson, quoted in Stokes,
WS
, Jan. 26;
NYT
, Jan. 8.

Johnson had told:
“Bob has gotten word to all our folks not to question the opponents in debate” (Jenkins to Johnson, Jan. 19, Box 268, JSP).
“That left”:
Othman,
WDN
, Jan. 25.
“For the”:
Stokes,
WS
, Jan. 26.
“The concentrated”:
Congressional Quarterly
, Feb. 7.
“In droves”:
WP
, Jan. 27.
“Never”:
Pearson,
WP
, Jan. 25. “Douglas gave a (long) speech against the gas bill,” Howard Shuman
recalls. “No one came. Johnson wouldn’t let them come” (Shuman interview).

Case’s speech:
CR
, 84/2, Feb. 3.
“
SENATOR TELLS
”:
WP
, Feb. 4.
“You are”:
Clark interview.
Vacant rooms; Connally knew:
Clark, Wild interviews.
“White-faced”:
Pearson and Anderson,
Case
, p. 142.
“Sat paralyzed”:
Reston Jr.,
Lone Star
, p. 170.
“No attempt”:
Connally with Herskowitz,
In History’s Shadow
, p. 147.

“I think”:
Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, p. 433.
“A vague”:
AP wire, PA 121 PM, Feb. 4.
“Thus far”:
NYT
, Feb. 5.
A deliberate; “a complete”; no delay; “just”:
NYT, WP
, Feb. 5, 6, 7.
“Can ill afford”:
NYT
, Feb. 7.
“Casting aside”:
NYT
, Feb. 7. An indication of how anger at Case crossed party lines is given in a memo from Jack Anderson to Drew Pearson (Feb. 15, Pearson Papers): “Postmaster General Summerfield was commenting at a cock tail party the other day…. He said that Case was like the little boy at the Sunday School picnic who spit in the lemonade. (Except he used a stronger word than spit.)”

Hennings said:
NYT
, Feb. 7.
“The whisper”:
NYT
, Feb. 19.
“On reflection”:
Russell Baker,
NYT
, March 11.
“If there”:
James Reston,
NYT
, Feb. 20.
Johnson pulled:
Reston Jr.,
Lone Star
, p. 170; White,
NYT
, Feb. 19.
Digitalis:
Childs,
WP
, Feb. 15; Pearson,
WP
, Feb. 14.
“I felt”:
Reston Jr.,
Lone Star
, p. 170.

Johnson-Knowland resolution:
“S. Res. 205, In the Senate of the United States,” in Report No. 1724,
Select Committee for Contribution Investigation
, March 29, 1956, pp. 1, 2, Box 117, LBJA SF. Krock,
NYT
, Feb. 9, 15; Pearson,
WP
, Feb. 16.
“Without known”:
NYT
, Feb. 15.
Letter:
George to Case, Feb. 7, Box 400, JSP.
“Mr. George just”:
NYT
, Feb. 9.
Johnson’s meeting with Hennings, Gore:
WP
, Feb. 16.
“Let’s go”:
WP
, Feb. 16. Also see Pearson,
Diaries
, p. 356.
Attempt to gag:
Stokes,
WS
, Feb. 9.
“IT DOESN’T PAY”:
NYT
, Feb. 9.

“Bored in”:
NYT
, Feb. 11.
Neff, Patman testimony:
Report No. 1724, pp. 3, 4;
NYT
, Feb. 12.
Ross declared:
Report No. 1724, p. 4;
NYT
, Feb. 18, 21;
Congressional Quarterly Almanac
, 1956, p. 474.
“This handful”:
Time
, Feb. 27.
“To get in contact”:
NYT
, Feb. 21, 29;
Congressional Quarterly Almanac
, 1956, p. 474.
“Had $2,500”:
NYT, WP
, March 1, 6.
“Inadvertently”:
Report No. 1724, p. 6.
The list:
Report No. 1724;
NYT, WP
, March 1.
“Substantial”:
Congressional Quarterly Almanac
, 1956, p. 473.
“He was worried”:
Mooney,
LBJ
, p. 97.