Master of the Senate (229 page)

“Privately”; “The great”:
Alsop and Alsop,
NYHT
, Feb. 1.
“Looking for an excuse”; “The General Manager”:
Time
, June 22.

Mooney “interview”:
Mooney,
LBJ
, p. 13.
Would be easy:
Reedy,
U.S. Senate
, pp. 104, 105.
“Had actually”:
Reedy OH V, p. 5; OH VI, p. 6.

“A wonderful”:
Hardeman and Bacon,
Rayburn
, p. 377.
“I told”:
Rayburn to Hall, April 2, quoted in Hardeman and Bacon, p. 378.
“Any jackass”:
DMN
, Jan. 3.

“Old-fashioned”:
Evans and Novak,
LBJ: Exercise
, p. 170.

Hour after hour; “cheap and partisan”:
Reedy,
U.S. Senate
, p. 104.
“To announce”:
Reedy OH V, p. 4.
“I have”:
FWS-T
, Jan. 3.
“Americans everywhere”:
“Minutes of Meeting—Democratic Policy Committee, Feb. 3, 1953,” Box 364, JSP.

“Resurgent”:
Richard Rovere,
The New Yorker
, Feb. 14.
“The form”:
Ambrose, p. 66.
“It should”:
Shaffer,
On and Off
, p. 63.
“Republican senators”:
DDE Diary, Feb. 7, Box 3; April 1, Box 4, DDEL.
“The adoption”:
Shaffer, p. 67.
“Would not”:
Ambrose, pp. 65–67.

Allies were planning:
Ambrose, p. 67;
NYT
, Feb. 24.
“President Eisenhower’s”:
NYT
, Feb. 24.
“It would”:
LLM, Supplementary Notes, March 2, Box 1, DDEL.
“How can we”:
“Memorandum of Telephone Conversation—Secretary Dulles calling Senator Johnson,” March 3, Notes and Transcripts of Johnson Conversations—1953.”
“I really”; “forget”:
Ambrose, p. 67.
“The picture”:
Reedy,
U.S. Senate
, p. 79.

“I reject”:
MacNeil,
Dirksen
, p. 114.
“Nominations passed over”:
“Executive Calendar,”
CR
, 83/1, various dates.
McCarran, McCarthy attacks:
Ambrose, pp. 59–61; MacNeil, pp. 113–14;Patterson,
Mr. Republican
, pp. 595–96.
“I have known”; “Confident”:
Eisenhower, quoted in Ambrose, p. 60.
“There was”:
Taft, quoted in White,
Taft Story
, p. 237.

“High-water”:
Reedy,
U.S. Senate
, p. 80.
“As if”:
This remark is generally attributed to the
NYHT
’s television critic John Crosby.
Introduction of S.J. Res. 1:
CR
, 83/1, pp. 156, 160–61.

Conservatives’ fear:
Ambrose, p. 68; Brownell,
Advising Ike
, pp. 264–65.
“A complex”:
Ambrose, p. 154; Tananbaum,
Bricker Amendment
, p. 91.
“Making it”:
Minnich, LMS, Jan. 11, 1954, DDEL.
“Stupid”:
Hagerty,
Diary
, p. 7 (Jan. 14, 1954).
Touched:
Ambrose, p. 68.
“Many”:
NYT
, Feb. 6, 17, 1954.

“An incredible”; “no hope”:
Reedy,
U.S. Senate
, p. 82. Neil MacNeil says, “It was plain that there were enough votes in the Senate to approve the Bricker amendment” (MacNeil,
Dirksen
, p. 117).
“In all”:
Reedy, quoted in Miller,
Lyndon
, p. 158.
“The worst”:
Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, p. 90.
“A slap”:
Evans and Novak, p. 76.
“Probably”:
DDE Diary, Phone Calls, Jan. 28, 1954, Box 5, DDEL.

“Bricker seems”:
Hagerty, p. 8 (Feb. 8, 1954).
“People
for
it”:
DDE Diary, Phone Calls, Box 5, DDEL.
“There was”:
Ambrose, p. 69.
“A secret”:
Manchester,
Glory
, p. 674.
Reported it out:
Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, p. 359.
“Lyndon Johnson”:
Dulles to Eisenhower, DDE Diary, June 25, Box 5, DDEL.
“Unalterable”:
NYT
, Jan. 31, 1954.
“Insured that”:
MacNeil, p. 118.

Johnson’s broadcast:
“Address by Senator Lyndon B. Johnson … For Release to Monday AM’s, Sept. 14, 1953,” Statements, Box 13, JSP.
Down on the ranch:
Rather, Reedy interviews.
Johnson’s thinking:
Reedy interview and OH; Steele interview; Siegel OH; Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, pp. 90–91; Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, pp. 358–60; Tananbaum, pp. 145–46; “Senator Johnson Discusses Bricker Amendment,” Sept. 14, Statements, Box 13, JSP; Reedy to Johnson, Jan. 21, 1954; Siegel to Johnson, Jan. 23, 26, 28, 29, 30, 1954, Box 374, JSP.

“We’ve got”:
Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, p. 91.
“To get”:
Humphrey OH II, p. 16.
Two memoranda:
Siegel to Johnson, both Jan. 23, 26, 1954, Box 374, JSP.
“Just a quick”:
Siegel OH.
George amendment:
NYT
, Jan. 28, 1954.
“Sounded”:
Reedy,
U.S. Senate
, p. 83. Johnson further flattered George by making it appear as if he was the leader of the fight. When he and Russell met reporters during the fight, he said, “We’re standing with Walter” (
NYT
, Jan. 30, 1954),
“Within”:
NYT
, Jan. 28, 1954.

“DDE Diary,” Phone calls:
Eisenhower to Smith, Jan. 27, 1954, Box 5, DDEL.
“Broadly”; Bricker’s speech:
NYT, WP
, Jan. 29.
“Republicans”:
Telephone call from Smith, Jan. 28, 1954.
“Were reluctant”:
Tananbaum, p. 150.
“Pretty soon”:
DDE Diary, Phone Calls, Eisenhower to Brownell, Jan. 29, Box 5, DDEL.
“Couldn’t:”
DDE Diary, Phone Calls, “Conversation with Atty. Gen. Brownell,” Feb. 3, 1954, Box 5, DDEL.
“So tired”:
Hagerty, pp. 13, 14 (Feb. 1, 2, 1954).
“The fight was”; “Different philosophies”; “the headlines”:
NYT
, Jan. 31, 1954.

GOP liaison men:
DDEP, OF 116-H-4, DDEL; Harlow, Holt interviews; Tananbaum, p. 174.
42 to 50:
NYT, WP
, Feb. 26, 1954. And see DDE Diary, Jan. 18, 1954, Box 4.

“Passed the word”:
Newsweek
, Feb. 15, 1954.
Tried to prepare:
Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, pp. 90, 91; Tananbaum, pp. 179, 188–89; Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, p. 359; Harlow, Reedy, Rogers interviews. William S. White would later report that Jackson and Magnuson first voted for the George Amendment as a substitute and then, “out of respect” for George, switched and voted against it (
NYT
, Feb. 27, 1954).
“Continued”:
Tananbaum, p. 174.
“Mr. President”:
Know-land,
CR
, 83/2, pp. 2371–372.
“If we are not”: “Vote! Vote! Vote!”:
CR
, 83/2, pp. 2373–375;
Time
, March 8, 1954.
“Mark”; saluted:
George, quoted in
Time
, March 8;
CR
, 83/2, pp. 2373–374.

Switching:
NYHT, NYT, WP, WS
, Feb. 27.
Kilgore’s vote:
Maddox,
Kilgore
, p. 317;
Time, Newsweek
, March 8, 1954. Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
(p. 91), says he was ill.
Time
says he “had been resting on a couch in his office all afternoon.” Others, including Tananbaum (pp. 179–80) and Holt (interview), say the reason he was resting was alcohol.
“Stall”; “How am I”:
Time
, March 8, 1954. The
CR
(83/2, p. 2373) has a different version of Magnuson’s statement.

“Wanted major”:
Ambrose, pp. 65, 66.

Told Brown, Richardson:
Clark interview.
“We had”:
Johnson to Clark, March 3, 1954, Box 15, LBJA SN (folder 4 of 4).

“The most”:
Robert Sherrill, “The Trajectory of a Bumbler,”
NYT Book Review
, p. 11, June 5, 1983.
“A fraud”:
Byrd,
The Senate
, p. 571.
“From the”:
Byrd, p. 573.
Johnson was asked:
White, quoted in Miller,
Lyndon
, p. 163; McCulloch, Rauh, Rowe interviews.
“Something”:
Rowe interview. In his OH, White says he told Johnson, “You really must do something about this damned fellow.”

“I’m for”:
Malone, quoted in Sidey, “The Presidency,”
Life
, April 29, 1966.
Asset; “Keep talking”:
Patterson,
Mr. Republican
, p. 446.
“There was”:
NYT
, Jan. 7, 1951.

Lehman episode:
Alsop,
The Center
, pp. 8, 9.
“At that”:
Reedy, quoted in Miller, p. 166.
“For what he says”:
White,
Citadel
, p. 123.
“Would be forced”:
Evans and Novak,
LBJ: Exercise
, p. 81.

“Joe will go”:
Evans and Novak, p. 81.
“About how”:
Arthur Stehling, “A Country Lawyer,” unnumbered page, unpublished memoir (in author’s possession).
“He said”:
Stehling interview.
“Well, I met”:
Oltorf interview (Oltorf was present during this exchange).
“it seems”:
Evans and Novak, p. 81.
“Loudmouthed”:
Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, p. 94.

Largest:
Oshinsky,
Conspiracy
, pp. 319, 419; Gary Cartwright, “Hugh Roy Cullen’s Last Hurrah,”
Texas Monthly
, Jan. 1986; Theodore H. White, “Texas: Land of Wealth and Fear,”
The Reporter
, May 25, June 8, 1954; Edward T. Folliard, “Texas Big Dealers,”
WP
, Feb. 14–19, 1954.

“A nut”:
Clark interview.
“A screwball”:
Reedy interview; Reedy, quoted in Miller, p. 162.
“Old witch”:
Fath, quoted in Miller, p. 161.

“Bill, that’s”:
Miller, p. 163.
“to kill a snake”; “He kept”:
Miller, p. 166.

“He just”:
Humphrey OH I, p. 24.
“To realize”:
Reedy,
LBJ
, p. 106.
“Has been dragged”; “Joe has made”:
Miller, p. 166.
“God”:
Reedy OH III, p. 12.
“The Hayden episode”:
Reedy, p. 107; St. Claire interview. Also see Reedy,
U.S. Senate
, p. 143.

Russell’s signal:
Fite,
Russell
, p. 284.
“Come on”:
Humphrey, quoted in Miller, p. 170, and OH.
“Give names:
Miller, p. 170.
“Tarnished”; “hurt”:
Oshinsky, p. 321.
“The fact”:
Symington interview.
“You wait”:
Oshinsky, p. 293.
“Behind”; “I would not”:
Patterson, pp. 594, 595.

Liberals pleaded:
Byrd, p. 573; Cohen, McCulloch, Rowe, Symington interviews; Humphrey, quoted in Miller, p. 171.
Lehman asked:
Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, p. 362.
“Everybody”:
Maverick to Johnson, April 2, 1954; Johnson to Maverick, April 27, May 12, 1954, LBJA CF, Box 50.
“If I were”; Johnson told:
Evans and Novak, pp. 81, 82.
Popularity began; “Ike wants”:
Oshinsky, pp. 464, 438.
“He knew”:
SHJ, quoted in Miller, p. 168.
30 percent; “that weapon”:
Oshinsky, p. 465.
“That Maine”:
Shaffer,
On and Off
, p. 23.

On July 29:
“Minutes of Democratic Policy Committee, Room G-18, July 29, 1954,” Box 364, JSP.
He had lined up:
Baker,
Wheeling and Dealing
, p. 94.

Selecting the committee:
Evans and Novak, pp. 83–84; White,
Citadel
, pp. 127–31.
“Knowland theoretically”:
White OH.
“It had never”:
Reedy, quoted in Miller, p. 172.
Ed Johnson hated; “Essential”:
Evans and Novak, p. 84.

“Left”:
Oshinsky, p. 481.
“Contrary”:
White,
Citadel
, p. 132.
Lined up behind it:
Oshinsky, pp. 484–85, 491; Humphrey,
quoted in Miller, p. 171.
“Squiggly”:
Reedy,
Johnson
, p. 108.

“The size”; “on rather”; “We have”:
Oshinsky, p. 492.
“Whatever”:
McCulloch interview.
“Splendid”:
Douglas OH.

“Could have been”:
Oshinsky, p. 507.
“Johnson’s role”:
Dallek,
Lone Star
, p. 458.

All dates are 1955 unless otherwise noted.

Morse deal:
Drukman,
Wayne Morse
, pp. 224–25; Smith,
Tiger in the Senate
, Steinberg,
Sam Johnson’s Boy
, p. 392; White,
Citadel
, pp. 187–88; Fleeson,
WS
, Jan. 11; Pearson,
WP
, Jan. 2; Steele to Williamson, Jan. 13, SP.
“Morse never”; “I don’t know”:
Steinberg, p. 392.
“He would”:
NYT
, Jan. 11.