The Passage of Power (134 page)

Swooped across Texas:
See “The Flying Windmill” chapter in Caro,
Means.
Over Hells Canyon itself:
See the “Hells Canyon” chapter in Caro,
Master.
Strange lines:
BS,
May 31, 1960.
He told ranchers:
WES,
May 30, 1960.
“Needs a champion”
:
BS,
May 31, 1960.

Theodore White linked:
White,
Making 1960,
p. 134.

“He has”
:
WES,
May 30, 1960. When reporter William H. Blair of the
NYT
asked a person in the audience, Would you vote for a Southerner, he replied, “I didn’t think of him that way when he was speaking.”
NYT,
Dec. 15, 1959.
Lieutenant governor:
In fact, Drevlov endorsed him.
DT-H,
May 29, 1960.
“There’s no”
:
DT-H,
May 30, 1960.
“A lion”
:
Fleeson,
BG,
June 2, 1960.

“And Symington next”
:
“Telephone Conversation between Jim Rowe and Walter Jenkins,” June 23, 1960,“Transcripts of Telephone Calls—June 1960, OFWJ, Series 2, Box 1.
Mansfield finally:
Rowe interview.
“Don’t
come”
:
Rowe OH II, p. 15; Rowe interview.

A favorite:
For Johnson’s championing of Church in the Senate, see Caro,
Master,
pp. 859–61, 905–7, 970–75, 988–89.
“To help me”
:
Caro,
Master,
p. 989.
Kennedy offer:
Ashby and Gramer,
Fighting the Odds,
pp. 124–26. Kennedy’s Idaho contact, Robert Wallace,
had passed the word to Kennedy that Church “is running for keynoter.”
“The little sonofabitch”
:
Busby OH, JFKL; Busby interview. Church did indeed deliver the keynote address at the Convention.

“Simply couldn’t”
:
HP,
May 29, 1960.

“You and I”
:
“Private Memo,” May 26, 1960, Notebook 3, Box 1, Krock Papers, Mudd Library, Princeton University.

31,250:
NYT
, July 3, 1960.
“Successful”
:
NYT, WP,
June 5, 1960.
Arizona and Colorado:
NYT,
June 19, 26, 1960. So completely did Kennedy’s forces in Colorado control that state’s declaration that Former Senator Ed Johnson was not even allowed to be a member of it.

“Kennedy has got”
:
Rowe OH II.
“Now listen, Adlai”
:
Morgan interview.
“And how!”
:
“Private Memo,” May 26, 1960, Notebook 3, Box 1, Krock
Papers, LBJL, Princeton University.

Some … had been promised:
WSJ,
July 1, 1960; Evans and Novak,
LBJ,
p. 263.

“Too raw”
;
“Sam was just”
:
Bolling interview; Evans and Novak,
LBJ,
p. 265.
Without warning; longtime:
NYT, WP, BS,
June 30, 1960.
Rayburn’s
“word”
;
“The theory”
:
NYT,
June 30, 1960.
“Audacious,”
“blatant”
:
Evans and Novak,
LBJ,
p. 264.

Had indeed been speculation;
“engineered”
:
NYT,
July 1, 1960.
“The bandwagon”
:
El Paso Times,
May 20, 1960.

He had:
Hoff interview.

“The boy”
:
“During the entire conversation” in which Johnson tried to persuade Tip O’Neill to support his candidacy, “he never once mentioned Jack Kennedy by name. It was always ‘the boy’ ” (O’Neill with Novak,
Man of the House,
p. 181). In other conversations, it was “Young Jack.”
Steele to Johnson, July 8,
1960, SP. “Toward Kennedy he is contemptuous,” Steele reported.
“Sonny Boy”, “Johnny”
:
Time,
April 25, 1960; Steinberg,
Sam Rayburn,
p. 522; Dallek,
Lone Star,
p. 569.
“He’s a nice”
:
DT-H,
May 31, 1960. Or “a fine, attractive young man,” as in
WP,
May, 30, 1960.
“Young Jack”
:
Time,
July 18, 1960.
“Jack was out”
:
Time,
July 18, 1960. Steele to Harry Johnston, July 8, 1960, SP, quoted in Dallek,
Lone Star,
p. 572. “I cannot be absent when public business is at stake. Those who have engaged in active campaigning since January have missed hundreds of votes. This I could not do.… Someone has to tend the store” (
Time,
July 18, 1960).
“Likes to”
:
WES,
May 27, 1960.
“Have you heard?”
:
Judd OH, HSTL. The remark “shocked me,” Judd says. “It was one of the most insulting remarks I ever heard. But that was Lyndon’s gutsy way. He thought he was going to mow Kennedy down.”
“Small
cracks”
:
Sidey, quoted in Miller,
Lyndon,
p. 241.
“All of the enmity”
:
Lisagor OH, JFKL, quoted in Miller,
Lyndon,
p. 241. In his OH, Lisagor added, “There were a lot of things he said about Kennedy which revealed some basic feelings.… I told Bobby all these things. I don’t think I left out a single word, four-letter
or otherwise, whereupon Bobby simply turned to the window … and said, ‘I knew he hated Jack, but I didn’t know how much.’ ”
“A ‘little scrawny’ ”
:
Lisagor OH. And see Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 205, and Reston Jr.,
The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally,
p. 189.
“It is amazing”
:
Robert G. Spivack, “Watch on the Potomac,”
Chicago Daily Defender,
June 27, 1960.

Cook on Investigating Subcommittee:
Caro,
Master,
pp. 312–13, and “Out of the Crowd” chapter.
Going to Brough:
“Telephone Conversation between Don Cook and Walter Jenkins,” Tuesday, July 5, 1960, 12:40 P.M.
By the next day:
“Arthur C. Perry—Telephone Call of Don Cook from New York,” July 6, 1960. Both from “Transcripts of Telephone
Conversations—July 1960,” Box 1, Series 2, OFWJ, LBJL.
Johnson took a role:
Telephoning Dr. Gerald Labiner in Dallek,
Unfinished,
p. 261.
Johnson decided:
Connally interview.
Connally, Edwards press conference:
AA-S, BS, NYT, LAT, WES, WPT,
July 5, 6, 1960.
Seizing on the fact:
Burns,
John Kennedy
(p. 159), explains that “While Kennedy’s adrenal insufficiency might well be diagnosed by some doctors as a mild case of Addison’s disease, it was not diagnosed as the classic type of Addison’s disease, which is due to tuberculosis.” Travell says this was “a true summary of the facts” (Travell,
Office
Hours,
p. 328).
“Does not now”
:
BS, NYT, WP,
July 5, 1960.
Sorensen went further:
He said flatly that “He is not on cortisone.” Asked what other drug he might be using, Sorensen replied: “I don’t know that he is on anything—any more than you and I are on” (
NYT,
July 5, 1960).
De Sapio … had:
“Charlie Kress, 10:50 A.M., “Transcripts of Telephone Conversations—July 1960,” Box
1, Series 2, OFWJ, LBJL.
“Johnson should disavow”
:
BS, NYT, LAT, WES, WPT,
July 7, 1960. Evans and Novak,
LBJ,
p. 272.

“Before the”
:
WES,
July 6, 1960.
Johnson’s announcement:
NYT, WES, WP,
July 6, 1960.
Voice suddenly broke:
“His voice quavered unexpectedly when he came to the point,” McGrory wrote (
WES,
July 6, 1960).
“I had never”
:
Busby interview. Mooney wrote that “The senator … I thought seemed slightly ill at ease” (Mooney,
LBJ,
p.129).

Last visit to White House:
Mazo OH, Columbia University, quoted in Dallek,
Unfinished,
p. 261. Also see Evans and Novak,
LBJ,
p. 261.
“He got mad”
:
Herring interview.
“Top-level”
:
NYT,
July 9, 1960.
NAACP rally:
LAT, NYT, WES, WP,
July 11, 1960.
All that weekend:
BS, LAT, NYHT, NYP, NYT, WES, WP,
July 9–11, 1960.
Prendergast delivered:
NYT,
July 10, 1960.
Docking and Loveless:
NYT,
July 10, 1960.
MOVE TO KENNEDY
:
NYT,
July 10, 1960.
JOHNSON SEEMS
:
LAT,
July 9, 1960.

“The single major”
;
“Everything depends”
:
Joseph Alsop, “Matter of Fact,”
WP
, July 8, 1960. On the eve of the Convention, the
NYT
reported that “On one issue, Sen. Kennedy’s brother and Sen. Johnson’s campaign manager were in
agreement. This was that the results of the Pennsylvania caucus on Monday would be significant” (
NYT,
July 7, 1960).
“If we could have”
:
Connally interview. Johnson himself, in an interview with John Steele, said, “If Dave goes for me, I can make it; if he goes for Kennedy my chances are about washed up” (Steele to Johnson, July 8, 1960, SP).
“Telephone Conversation between Bobby Baker and Walter Jenkins,” July 6, 1960, in which Baker says, “Will say again, Pennsylvania is the key to the situation”; Special Files–Assassination, Box 1). Chicago Mayor Dick Daley was to say flatly that “Without him [Lawrence], John Kennedy would not have carried the ’60 convention” (Donaghy,
Keystone Democrat: David Lawrence Remembered,
p. 136).

“Solely”
:
Weber,
Don’t Call Me Boss: David Lawrence, Pittsburgh’s Renaissance Mayor,
p. 36.
1958 governorship race:
Thomas McCloskey interview with Donaghy, June 28, 1974, p. 3, Michael P. Weber Papers, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh.
1959 Sunday mass;
“just can’t
:
Donaghy,
Keystone Democrat,
p. 130.
“I figured”
:
Weber,
Don’t Call Me Boss,
p. 360.
He was afraid:
“Any chance I would have of getting a majority in both houses of the [Pennsylvania] General Assembly would go skimmering if Kennedy was the head of the ticket.” Donaghy interviews with David Lawrence, July 16, 1973, p. 5, Thomas McCloskey, June 28, 1974, p. 3, Weber Papers.
“What he
wanted”
:
Hemenway interview.
“I could”
:
Weber,
Don’t Call Me Boss,
p. 360.
“An almost youthful”
:
Weber,
Don’t Call Me Boss,
p. 360.
“Though I don’t think”
:
Donaghy interview with Gerald Lawrence, Part I, July 16, 1973, p. 5, Weber Papers.
“I was very”
:
Weber,
Don’t Call Me Boss,
p. 360.

“Why would you want”
:
Donaghy,
Keystone Democrat,
p. 129.
“We were all”
:
Rose Kennedy, quoted in Donaghy,
Keystone Democrat,
pp. 370–71. Also: “Joe Kennedy was furious about it. He used to say terrible things because Dave
wouldn’t do it.” (Mathew McCloskey interview with Donaghy, Nov. 2, 1970, p. 3, Weber Papers.)

His ally was; Hopkins had been discussing:
Lewis to Kennedy, July 8, 1960, Personal Papers of Welly Hopkins, LBJL. Hopkins interview, OH. Mary to Johnson, July 7, 1960; Mary [Rather] to Johnson, undated, but from the context, that weekend, “Memoranda—DNC—LA, July 11–15, 1960,” LBJL.

Daley inviting Lawrence:
Weber,
Don’t Call Me Boss,
p. 363.
“With the man he had championed”
:
Weber,
Don’t Call Me Boss,
p. 363.
“You’ll have eighty-five percent”
;
“If the party wants me”
:
Hemenway interview.
“Do what”
:
Thomas B. Morgan, “Madly for Adlai,”
American Heritage,
Aug.–Sept. 1984; Weber,
Don’t Call Me Boss,
p. 363; Garth, Hemenway interviews.
“Governor, are you sure”
:
Wirtz, quoted in Morgan, “Madly,” and in Weber,
Don’t Call Me Boss,
p. 363.
“Adlai could have said”
:
Morgan, “Madly”; Weber,
Don’t Call Me Boss,
p. 363.
“There was some reason”
:
Hopkins interview, OH.

Pennsylvania Caucus:
NYT, WP,
July 12, 1960.
“I am not a naïve”
:
WP,
July 12, 1960.
4 1/2:
NYT,
July 12, 1960.
“I don’t see how”
:
Rowe OH II.

Had sent a telegram; Johnson’s reply:
“Telegrams from Sen. J. F. Kennedy to Sen. LBJ,” Box 3, “Special File on Lyndon B. Johnson’s Campaigns,” Kennedy to Johnson, Johnson to Kennedy, July 12, “July 12, 1960—Transcript of recorded remarks of Debate—Sen. Kennedy and Sen. Johnson, Democratic Convention, Biltmore Hotel,” July 12, 1960, Box 39, Statements of Lyndon Baines Johnson, LBJL.
“I want”
:
Hoff interview.
Connally, Reedy and Busby:
Connally, Reedy, Busby interviews.
“One major error”
:
Connally interview; Evans and Novak,
LBJ,
p. 273.