Means of Ascent (107 page)

Connally, Tom,
2.1
,
7.1
,
12.1
,
17.1

conservatism, conservatives:

FCC probe pushed by

LBJ and,
1.1
; 124–5; pretense,
5.1
,
6.1
,
12.1
,
12.2

of Peddy and East Texas,
9.1
,
11.1
,
12.1

of Stevenson,
itr.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
12.1
,
17.1
,
17.2

Texan,
itr.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1
,
12.2
; East Texas,
9.1
,
11.3
,
12.3
; and O’Daniel,
12.4
; in 1948 election,
11.4
,
11.5
,
12.5
,
12.6
,
12.7
,
14.1
; reactionaries,
12.8

contractors and subcontractors, influence-wielding with,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
14.1
;
see also
federal contractors

Coral Sea, battle of

Corcoran, Thomas G.,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
12.1

influence at FCC,
6.1
,
6.2

and LBJ’s 1948 campaign,
11.1
,
12.1
,
15.1
,
15.2

on retainer at Brown & Root,
1.1
,
1.2

Corpus Christi, Tex.,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1
,
13.1
,
16.1

Corpus Christi Caller-Times
,
9.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
14.1
,
14.2

Corregidor, battle of

Corrigan, Pat
,
n
.

corruption:

LBJ accused of, in 1946 campaign

O’Daniel accused of

road construction kickbacks

in Texas politics and government,
8.1
,
14.1
; Salas on,
16.1
; “Valley” politics,
9.1
; voting fraud in Valley,
9.2
,
9.3
,
11.1
,
13.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
14.4
,
16.2

court injunctions, use in 1948 election dispute:

by LBJ,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
,
15.4
,
16.1

by Stevenson,
15.1
,
15.2
;
see also
Federal District Court

cowboy tradition

Reunion

Stevenson as embodiment of,
itr.1
,
11.1

Cox, Eugene

Cox, Hugh

Cox Committee

Credibility Gap, LBJ’s,
itr.1
,
3.1

about war service

Crooker, John,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
,
15.4

Daily Texan
,
4.1

Dallas, Tex.,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
13.1

1948 runoff primary results,
14.1
,
14.2

1948 State Democratic Convention

delegates,
14.1
,
14.2

Dallas County, Tex.,
14.1
,
15.1
,
15.2

Dallas News
,
2.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
16.1
,
17.1

1948 election coverage,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
11.4
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
14.1

Dallas Times-Herald
,
12.1
,
12.2

Daniels, Jonathan,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
15.1

Davidson, Bill

Davidson, Judge T. Whitfield,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
,
15.4
,
15.5
,
15.6
,
15.7
,
16.1

appeal of his injunction,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
,
15.4
,
15.5

Davis, Carol

Davis, Cyclone

Deason, Willard,
2.1
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2

DeMille, Cecil B.

democracy:

political power and elections in,
itr.1

role of favoritism and influence in,
itr.1
,
8.1
,
14.1

Stevenson’s belief in,
itr.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
14.1

Democratic Congressional Campaign

Committee (DCCC),
1.1
,
5.1
,
7.1

LBJ’s 1940 fund-raising for,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
5.1
,
7.1

Democratic National Committee (DNC)

Pauley’s 1942 fund-raising for

Democratic Party:

House minority in 1947/48

fund-raising

Senate minority in 1953/54

Texas: Jim Wells County Committee,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
14.4
,
14.5
,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
; Loyalists vs. States Righters,
14.6
,
14.7
,
15.4
; primaries,
see
primary system in Texas; reform members,
11.1
,
13.1
,
14.8
,
14.9
,
14.10
,
14.11
; State Convention of 1948,
14.12
,
14.13
,
14.14
,
14.15
,
15.5
,
15.6
; State Committee (and Executive Committee),
14.16
,
14.17
,
14.18
,
14.19
,
15.7
,
15.8
,
16.1
; ballot line for Senate in 1948,
15.9
,
15.10
,
15.11

Dempsey, William J.

departments of federal government,
see
U.S. Department of Justice
;
U.S. Department of the Interior

Deschler, Lewis,
1.1
,
7.1
n
.

Dewey, Thomas

Dibrell, Kellis,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3

Dies, Martin

Dies Committee

Dimmit County, Tex.,
13.1
,
13.2

Dominican Republic,
itr.1

Donald, B. F. (Tom),
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
15.1
,
15.2

Dorbrandt, Mrs. Seth

Douglas, Helen Gahagan,
1.1
,
5.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

Douglas, William O.,
1.1
,
1.2

draft,
itr.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
7.1

Drake, William

Drewry, Patrick Henry

Dubinsky, David

DuBose, Cliff,
15.1
,
15.2
,
16.1

Duckworth, Allen,
11.1
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
14.1

Dugger, Ronnie,
3.1
,
16.1

“Duke of Duval”,
see
Parr, George

Durr, Clifford,
1.1
,
1.2
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4

Durr, Virginia,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
6.1

Duval County, Tex.,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
13.1
,
14.1

1948 first primary results

1948 runoff results,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
16.1
; fraud and “corrections” of,
13.4
,
13.5
,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
,
15.4
,
15.5
,
16.2
; evidence gathered by Stevenson,
14.4
,
15.6
; fraud probe by Master-in-Chancery,
15.7
,
15.8
,
15.9
,
15.10
,
16.3

Eagle, R. M.

Early, Stephen

Easley, Lewis T. (“Tex”)

Eckhardt, Robert,
14.1
,
14.2

education:

federal aid to

racial discrimination in,
itr.1

Eightieth (“do-nothing”) Congress

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
7.1

election law,
11.1
,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3

elections and election campaigns,
itr.1

buying of votes,
1.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
11.1
,
12.1
,
13.1
,
13.2

LBJ in,
see
Johnson, Lyndon Baines: elections and political campaigns;
Texas election for U.S. Senate in 1948

1940 congressional,
1.1
,
5.1

1942 congressional,
5.1
,
7.1

1948 presidential,
itr.1
,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3

1948 senatorial in Texas, as watershed in politics,
itr.1
,
9.1
,
11.1
,
17.1
;
see also
Texas election for U.S. Senate in 1948

1964 presidential,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
16.1

stealing of,
1.1
,
8.1
,
9.1
; by LBJ,
itr.1
,
1.2
,
8.2
,
9.2
,
12.1
,
13.1
,
14.1
,
16.1

Stevenson in,
see
Stevenson, Coke Robert, elections and political campaigns;
Texas election for U.S. Senate in 1948

see also
campaign financing
;
campaigning
;
campaign spending
;
Texas elections
;
votes (and voting)

electricity, rural, LBJ’s work for,
itr.1
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
7.1
,
11.1
,
11.2

electronics, political use of,
itr.1
,
9.1

see also
radio

Elliot, Mary

Elliot, William

El Paso Times
,
12.1

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

employment, desegregation of,
itr.1
,
7.1

English, Virginia Wilke

Escobar, Ignacio (“Nachito”)

Essex
, U.S.S.,
5.1

Estes, Carl

ethnic (bloc) vote, in Texas,
9.1
,
11.1
,
12.1
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
14.1
,
14.2

buying of,
9.1
,
11.1
,
13.1
,
13.2

“corrected” counts of, in 1948,
13.1
,
14.1
,
14.2

Evangelista, Albert A.

Evans (Robert) and Novak (Stewart)
,

Fair Deal,
7.1
,
11.1

Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC),
7.1
,
10.1

Farmer, James

farmers, LBJ’s 1948 campaign promises to

farm-to-market roads,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1

favoritism, political,
2.1
,
2.2
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1

advertising on KTBC,
6.1
,
6.2

awarding of federal contracts,
1.1
,
4.1
,
6.1

effect on democratic government

suspected of LBJ by Stevenson

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

in civil rights battles in South

investigation of 1948 Texas vote fraud

Federal Communications Commission (FCC),
6.1
,
6.2

Cox Committee investigation of

handling of KTBC applications,
6.1
,
6.2

and LBJ,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5

and network affiliates vs. independent stations

“Order 79”

susceptibility to congressional pressures

federal contracts, federal contractors,
7.1
,
7.2

advertising on KTBC by

Brown & Root,
1.1
,
4.1
,
9.1
,
12.1
,
12.2

political contributions by,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
5.1
,
9.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3

see also
contractors and subcontractors

Federal District Court, Stevenson’s action against LBJ in,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
,
15.4
,
16.1