Master of the Senate (225 page)

“One by one”:
Manchester,
American Caesar
, p. 673.
“The glamour”:
Time
, May 21, 1951.

“Capitol corridors”:
Time
, June 11, 1951.
“The dramatic”:
Time
, June 4, 1951.
“Hey, Mac”:
Manchester,
American Caesar
, p. 683.
Only twenty thousand:
Time
, June 25, 1951.

“Can only”:
Goldsmith,
Colleagues
, p. 26.
Essentially:
Fite, pp. 262–64; Galloway,
Legislative Process
, pp. 156–57.
“Without”; “at its best”:
White,
Citadel
, pp. 251, 246.
“Power and prestige”:
Shaffer,
On and Off the Floor
, p. 208.
“Firmness, fairness”:
Life
, March 24, 1952.
Johnson had suggested:
Reedy,
U.S Senate
, p. 14;Reedy interview.
“Preeminent”:
Reedy, p. 15.
“George, please”:
Reedy OH IV, p. 7.
“By 1951”:
Reedy OH IV, pp. 1, 2.
“Russell has soberly”:
“Washington Report—Staff,” “Politics,” p. 5, undated, signed Levison, MP.

“Without reference”; “Never before,” “unless I want to”: “simply”;
Schlesinger,
Imperial Presidency
, pp. 135–38.
“I don’t ask”:
Donovan,
Tumultuous Years
, p. 323.
“Great debate:”
Donovan, pp. 321–25; Josephy,
Congress
, pp. 379–80; Manchester,
Glory and the Dream
, pp. 556–58; Schlesinger, pp. 137–40.
Eisenhower’s testimony:
Manchester, p. 557.
“What this foggy”:
Galloway,
Legislative Process
, p. 173.
“The effect”:
“Has Congress Broken Down?”
For-tune
, Feb. 1952.

Years of investigation:
Robert Albright,
W P
, Oct. 21, 1951.
“Scarcely got discussed”:
Fortune
, Feb. 1952.
“Completed less”:
WS
, July 6, 1952.
“Almost as many”:
“Gallery Glimpses,”
W P
, May 18, 1952.
“Congress is”:
Fortune
, Feb. 1952.
“Many”; “Now that”:
Galloway,
Legislative Process
, pp. 583, 581.
Absenteeism worse:
WP
, June 1, 1952. Senators were remarking on it on the floor. On May 15, 1952, for example, Hubert Humphrey said, “This place looks like an apartment house which has just been vacated” (
CR
, 82/2, p. 5240).
Medical facilities bill:
W P
, Oct. 21, 1950.
“Never say die”:
Pearson,
WP
, March 27, 1952.

“Lies in”; “have delayed”:
Galloway,
Legislative Process
, p. 583.
“Would be cutting”:
Monroney, quoted in
Fortune
, Feb. 1952.
“The Senate”:
Morse,
CR
, 82/2, p. 9080.

“Blind rush”:
Cordon,
CR
, 82/2, pp. 9253–54.
A “relic”:
Galloway,
Legislative Process
, p. 584.
“The decay”; Twenty-nine countries; “obsolescence”:
Galloway, pp. 584, 581.

McFarland’s first press conference
: Darby to Bermingham, Jan. 6, 1951, MP.
“I just try”:
W P
, Dec. 3, 1950.
“That’s all right”:
Blair Moody, “A Reporter-Senator Reports on the Senate,”
NYT Magazine
, Aug. 5, 1951.
“There are not”:
White,
Citadel
, p. 106.
“A nigra mayor”:
“Has Congress Broken Down?”
Fortune
, Feb. 1952.
“Simply ineffectual”; “no leader at all”:
For example,
Time
, July 9, 1951.
“We’ll be here”:
WS
, Aug. 22, 1951.
First voice:
Reedy interview.
“Congress is taking”:
W P
, Sept. 30, 1951.

“‘Lying Down Johnson’”:
Pearson,
W P
, July 23, 1951.

McFarland often
: Bibolet, Cole, Easley, Reedy interviews.

“Most people”; “Bobby didn’t”:
McPherson OH II, pp. 14, 15.
“True believers”:
McPherson,
Political Education
, p. 25.
“A great counter”:
Rowe, Fortas, quoted in Caro,
Path
, p. 455.
“What the fuck”; McCarran:
Busby interview. And see Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, p. 45.
White House learned:
Jenkins, Reedy interviews.
May-bank’s appointment:
Ben Bagdikian and Don Oberdorfer, “Bobby Was the Boy to See,”
SEP
, Dec. 3, 1963.
In the drugstore; “homesick”:
Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, p. 22.
“So”:
“The Silent Witness,”
Time
, March 9, 1964.
“Brought”; [learned]:
Baker, pp. 29, 30. The other quotes from Baker are from pp. 32, 55, 34, 37.
“Made the Senate”:
SEP
, Dec. 7, 1963.
“Made it”:
Evans Thomas,
The Man to See
, p. 182.
“Fascinating”:
Baker, p. 45.
“Unabashed”:
Time
, March 9, 1964.
“A bootlicker”:
Thomas, p. 182.
“He would”:
Rowe,
Bobby Baker Story
, p. 19.
“His voice”:
Rowe, p. 19.
“A son”:
Evans and Novak, p. 68.

“The men”:
Evans and Novak,
LBJ: Exercise
, p. 69.
Truman had no confidence in Lucas’ counts:
Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, p. 314.
“No prying”; “where”:
Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, pp. 38–39, 34.
“Whenever”:
Bibolet interview.

Scheduling:
Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, p. 318.
“He wanted”:
Bibolet interview.
Persuaded Bridges; May 1 Calendar Call:
CR
, 82/2, pp. 4647–649.
Word got around:
Bibolet interview.

Pairing:
Henry H. Gilfry,
Precedents-Decisions
, Vol. II, pp. 188–89; Floyd M. Riddick, rev. and ed. Alan S. Frumin,
Senate Procedure
, pp. 968–70; Floyd M. Riddick,
United States Congress
, pp. 298–301; Alfred Steinberg, “Shepherds of Capitol Hill,”
Nation’s Business
, Jan. 1952, who wrote: “In a general pairing, both members are absent. But in a live pair, which is a gentleman’s agreement between whips, a member of one party promises not to vote on a bill even though he will be present, but to permit himself to be paired off with an absent member of the other party who would have voted the opposite to him”; Baker, Ritchie interviews.
“A voluntary”:
Riddick,
Senate Procedure
, pp. 777–78.
“When accused”:
Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, p. 55.
Not “strategic”:
Bibolet interview.
Skeeter might forget:
Bibolet, Reedy interviews.

Maneuvering over foreign aid:
“Slicing the Bundle,”
Newsweek
, June 9, 1952; Bibolet interview.
“We’ve already”:
NYHT
, May 29, 1952.
“Unless”:
NYT
, June 1, 1952.
“Heavy absenteeism”:
NYHT
, May 28, 1952.
“Sensing”:
Newsweek
, June 9, 1952.
“Nothing less”:
NYT
, May 29, 1952.
“Then you”:
NYT
, May 27, 1952.
Russell’s efforts:
WP
, Oct. 21, 1952.
Johnson’s maneuvering; “If Magnuson”:
Bibolet interview.
Statements before the vote:
CR
, 82/2, p. 6098.
“I am”:
NYHT
, May 29.
Welker-McCarthy exchange:
Newsweek
, June 9, 1952.
“By adroit”:
WP
, June 1, 1952.

“I do understand”:
McPherson, p. 450.

Betrayal of Rayburn:
Caro,
Path
, Chapter 30.
Exclusion:
Caro, pp. 754–57.
On his first day back:
Caro, pp. 757–63.
Calling twenty:
Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, p. 409.
“I don’t”:
Bolling interview.
“The Chair”:
Hardeman and Bacon,
Rayburn
, p. 342.

Jenkins’ assignment:
Jenkins, Reedy interviews.
“Tell Lyndon”:
Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, p. 281.
“I’ve got”:
Rowe interview.
“Every time”; “Beloved”:
Bolling interview.
“In that room”; descriptions of Johnson-Rayburn relationship, Harding and of the Board of Education:
Caro,
Path
, Chapters 18, 30, 36; Bolling, Connally, Corcoran, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Dulaney, Hardeman, Holton, Izac, Mahon, McFarlane, Miller, Oltorf, Rayden, Elizabeth Rowe, James H. Rowe interviews.
“It was never”:
Oltorf interview.
“Deferential”:
Hardeman interview.

“Lyndon couldn’t”; “that was”; “vaulting”:
Bolling interview.
“He understood”:
Ramsey Clark interview.

“Our … problem”:
Anderson to Johnson, June 12; Johnson to Anderson, June 16, 1958, “Papers of the Democratic Leader,” Box 365, JSP.
“You put”:
Nichols to Johnson, April 30, 1956, Masters, Box 56, JSP.
“I want”:
Johnson to Ellender, March 28, 1958, Box 366, JSP.

“These $200 droplets”:
Johnson to Rayburn, Oct. 10, 1942, Box 52, LBJA CF.
“We didn’t know”:
Brown interview.

Wild’s testimony:
“In the United States District Court for the District of Columbia,” Securities and Exchange Commission vs. Gulf Oil Corporation, Claude C. Wild Jr., Civil Action No. 75–0324, April 26, 1978, pp. 8, 9, 28.
“Hundreds”; “envelopes”:
Wild interview.

Not the largest:
Clark, Connally, Corcoran interviews. Also Herring, Hopkins, Jenkins, Herman Jones, Kilgore, Lucas, Miller, Oltorf, Rowe, Stehling, Woods, Woodward, Young interviews.
“I handled”:
Connally interview.
“I knew”:
Clark interview.

“I have”:
“Resumé of telephone conversations—George Brown,” Jan. 5, 1960, SPF, “WJ Special,” Box 262, JSP.
“Ed Clark tells me”:
Jenkins to Woodward, Jan. 11, 1960, SPF, “WJ Special,” Box 262, JSP.
“How could”:
Clark interview. “
All we knew”:
Corcoran interview.
“I’d go get it”:
Connally interview.
Unions’ cash:
Corcoran, Hopkins, Rowe, Young interviews.
“Because”; neither … trusted”; other Clark, Wild quotes:
Clark, Wild interviews. And in his own book, Baker says that Wild “once told” Senator Kerr “that I had a bad reputation and was a crook.” (Baker recounts that he protested to Kerr that “I’ve never had a nickel’s worth of dealings with the man,” and Kerr then said, “Well, maybe you and Claude ought to get to know each other a little better. He’s got $5,000 that Gulf Oil wants to deliver to [a senator], and I want you to go with him to make the delivery.” Baker says, “I did so,” and he and Wild “walked together to the Old Senate Office Building, where he surrendered the cash” to the senator.) (Baker, with King,
Wheeling and Dealing
, p. 113) When Connally was asked to whom the money was handed, he refused to reply.
“Official bagman”:
Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, p. 51.
Baker’s conviction:
NYT, WP
, Jan. 30, 1967. An account of Baker’s trial is in Thomas,
The Man to See
, pp. 182, 184, 214–224.
“He has $500”:
Roberts to Connally, Aug. 14, Box 59, JSP.

“Asked me”:
Kilgore interview.
“I personally carried”:
Mooney,
LBJ
, pp. 127–28.

“Never enough”; “How much”:
Clark, Wild interviews.
The Davis contributions:
Clark interview.
“We called them”:
Connally
interview. He said he would make up different lists for different amounts that Johnson wanted to raise: “If he needed fifty thousand, I’d give him ten people who would give him five thousand each, if he reminded them what he had done for them. If he needed a hundred (thousand) …” The only list the author could find in the Johnson Library, however, dealt with smaller amounts, ranging from $2,500 down to $500. (“Dear Lyndon, Enclosed is the list…. Regards, John. p.s. Keep my comments on these people confidential”; Connally to Johnson, undated but found in Box 63, Senate Political Files for 1956.) The quotations are all from that list.
“Let me see”:
“Telephone conversation between Lyndon Johnson and Dudley Doughty, Beeville, Jan. 25, 1960,” SPF, “WJ Special,” Box 262, JSP.

Two Convention incidents:
Mooney,
LBJ
p. 134; Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, pp. 85–86.

$5,000 to Bridges:
Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, p. 86.
Blakeley contribution:
Kilgore interview.

Clements contribution:
Clark interview.
“We can’t”:
D. W. Gilmore to Johnson, undated, SPF, Box 173.
“I gave him”:
Brown, quoted in Selig Harrison, “Lyndon Johnson’s World,”
New Republic
, June 13, 1960.
“Well, I remember”:
Symington interview.
Ten thousand; “‘Well, I’ve got’”:
Stehling interview.
“Roosevelt would”:
Clark interview.