national recognition in, 143
as N.Y. police commissioner, 51, 133, 136–43
in N.Y. State Assembly, 21–24, 34–38, 55, 124–26
onset of, 22–24, 33–38
pledge of independence in, 34–35
political style of, 35–37, 255–56, 288
in post-presidency attempt to re-enter politics, 353–55
Progressive reform agenda of, 29, 33, 36, 126, 133–43, 153, 155, 244–45, 354
in subordinate position, 143–48
as vice president, 51, 64, 157–59, 206–7, 244
Roosevelt, Theodore, presidency, 55, 279
aftermath of, 345–46, 353–57
assumed after McKinley’s assassination, xvi, 52, 159, 207, 243, 252, 307, 353
cabinet of, 243
defining leadership issues of, see Great Coal Strike (1902)
first run for, 23, 353
increased executive power in, 265–67, 271–72
onset of, 243–44
progressive agenda of, 244–45, 272, 292
public support cultivated by, 255–56
trolley crash injury and convalescence of, 256–58, 260, 263–64, 269, 270
trust-busting in, 253–56, 272
Roosevelt, Theodore, Sr. “Thee,” 22, 35, 131, 134, 251
Civil War service avoided by, 148–49
death of, 29–31, 125
as devoted father, 24–25, 27, 31, 47, 49
idolized by TR, 28–30, 32–33, 36
Root, Elihu, 35, 70, 259, 265, 267–69
Rosenman, Sam, 47, 67, 166, 176, 178–79, 281, 296, 360
Rough Riders, 150–54, 302, 355
Rowe, Elizabeth, 94
Rowe, Jim, 93–94, 200
Ruby, Jack, 306
Rural Electrification Administration (REA), 91–92
Russell, Richard, 194–96, 203, 321–22, 325–26, 335, 347
Rutledge, Ann, 100
Sagamore Hill, 145, 252, 353
saloons, saloonkeepers:
N.Y. Sunday closing law for, 140–42
political influence of, 34
Sam Houston High School, 77–80, 83, 165, 182, 185, 189, 336
San Antonio, Tex., 82, 150, 291, 350
Sanchez, Manuel, 76
Sangamon County, 13–14, 19, 102, 367
Sangamon River, 10, 12, 108
San Juan Hill, 152–53
Sargent, Frank, 259, 270
Schlesinger, Arthur, 206, 283, 297
Schofield, John M., 266
school desegregation, 203
secession, 110, 211–12
secrecy, 330
in LBJ’s Vietnam policy, 341–42
Securities and Exchange Act, 304
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 303–4
Selma, Ala., civil rights march from, 332–35
Senate, U.S., 29, 58, 63
AL’s loss of election to, 116–18, 121, 123
banking bill passed by, 303
civil rights bill (1957) debated and passed in, 203–5
civil rights bill (1964) debated and passed in, 322–26
Committee on Rules and Administration of, 196
Finance Committee of, 308, 313
“golden age of,” 193
LBJ’s appeal to young and old in, 196
LBJ’s dynamics of power in, 193–97
LBJ’s election to and tenure in, 191–99, 202–5
LBJ’s loss of election to, xv, 182–86
LBJ’s tax bill passed in, 316
use of filibuster in, 202, 203, 313, 322–3225
whip and leader roles in, 195–204, 206
Sewall, Bill, 32, 125, 128, 148, 272
Seward, Fred, 231
Seward, William Henry, 104, 119–22, 193, 212, 217, 220, 222, 223–24, 231
Shakespeare, William, plays of, 229
Sheehan, “Blue-Eyed” Billy, 58–59, 63
Shenandoah, Pa., strike violence in, 242–53
Sheppard, Morris, 183
Sherman Antitrust Act, 253–54, 261
Sherwood, Robert, 274, 304, 362
slavery:
AL’s evolving opposition to, xvi, xviii, 17, 103–4, 110–23, 213–16
AL’s leadership defined by, xvi, xviii, 116, 211–42
containment of, 114–15, 120
diverse sentiments in AL’s cabinet on, 213–22
elemental components of, 112
legislation upholding, 120
opposition to, see abolitionism, abolitionists; emancipation
in territories, 103–4, 110–11, 120
violence and, 19
Smathers, George, 313
Smith, Al:
gubernatorial run of, 165
presidential nominations of, 169–71, 174–75
Smith, Caleb, 217, 219, 222, 224
Smith, Howard, 318–20, 324
Snell, Bertrand, 286
Social Security, 201
Soldier’s Home, as AL’s refuge, 215, 220, 236, 250
Sorenson, Theodore, 312–13
South:
AL’s outreach to, 120
antebellum, 26
civil rights opposition in, 194, 203, 332–34
economic stagnation in, 203
segregation entrenched in, 21, 311, 317–18, 325, 326, 332–35
South America, TR’s trip to, 354, 356
Southwest Texas State Teachers College, San Marcos, 73–74, 79, 84
Souvestre, Marie, 54
Spanish-American War, 295
TR’s Army service in, 148–54, 251, 355
TR’s naval preparation for, 132, 143, 145–48
Speed, Joshua, 99–101, 112, 241
Spotsylvania, battle of, 238
Springer, Elizabeth, 315–16
Springfield, Ill., 15, 100, 112, 122, 235
Square Deal, xviii, 245, 255, 272
Stalin, Joseph, 361
stamp collecting, 46–48, 81
Stanton, Edwin, 217–19, 221, 223, 226, 365, 367
State Department, U.S., 212, 223
state troops, 265, 333
Steagall, Henry, 286
Steffens, Lincoln, 137–38, 141
Stennis, John, 317
Stevenson, Adlai, 202, 205
Stevenson, Coke, 192–93
stock market, 36, 40–41, 169, 246, 259
government vs., 253–55
indefinite suspension of, 276
1929 crash of, 177
plunges of, 156, 243–44
regulation of, 302–3
reopening of, 291
Stoddard, William, 17
Stone, William A., 265, 267
storytelling:
AL’s skills in, 6–7, 9, 11, 13–15, 72, 103, 108, 113, 116, 117–18, 188, 316, 368
of Depression era projects, 298–99, 301
FDR’s skills in, 92, 179, 316
LBJ’s skills in, 72–73, 78, 92, 94, 198, 316–18, 347
in leadership, 39
in release of tension, 221
TR’s skills in, 26, 32, 51, 72
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 232
Strong, George Templeton, 213, 227, 230, 239
Strong, William, 136, 138, 141
Stuart, John, 15
subordinacy, managing power in positions of, 143–48
Suckley, Margaret, 359
Sullivan, “Big Tim,” 59
Sullivan, Mark, 244
Sumner, Charles, l20
Sunday closing law, 140–42
Supreme Court, U.S., 120, 203, 254, 279, 310
Swett, Leonard, 224, 239
Taft, William Howard, 158, 353
Tammany Hall, 35, 58–59, 136–37, 141
tax bill, LBJ’s passage of, 308, 311–16, 337
Taylor, Claudia “Lady Bird,” see Johnson, Lady Bird
Taylor, Zachary, 103–5, 109
by AL, 121, 211–42
; creating unity from diversity in, 211–42, 296–99, 304
in crisis management, 258–60, 268–71
by FDR, 66–67, 164–69, 175–77, 279–84, 296–99
by LBJ, 80, 84–87, 190, 197, 307
by TR, 150–52, 258–60, 265, 268–71
television, 190, 307–8, 332–33, 342–43
tenements, 38, 54, 140
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 91, 302
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 72
Tet offensive, 342
Texas:
political corruption in, 185–86, 193
state politics in, 76–77, 192
Thayer, William Roscoe, 271–72
Thomas, Jesse, AL’s “skinning” of, 16–17
Thomas, Robert, 97
Thoreau, Henry David, 278
Toombs, Robert, 110
transactional leadership, 234–36, 240
transformational leadership:
of AL, 211–42
defined, 234–36
Tremont Temple, Boston, 104, 232
Truman, Harry, 308–9, 336, 346, 361
Trumbull, Lyman, 117, 121
trust-busting, 253–56, 272
Truth in Securities Act, 302–3
Tugwell, Rexford, 176–77
Tully, Grace, 46, 297
turnaround leadership, of FDR, 273–305
unemployment:
in Depression era, 273, 275
New Deal programs for, 294–97
unemployment insurance, 178–79, 356
United Mine Workers strike, see Great Coal Strike (1902)
United Nations, founding of, 361–62
United Steelworkers of America, 319
U.S. Steel, 253
Valenti, Jack, 308
Vietnam War:
LBJ’s lack of coherent policy for, 328, 330, 338–43
LBJ’s presidency derailed by, 330, 338–43, 346–47
opposition to, xvii, 341
violence:
in civil rights movement, 322, 332–35
federal troops in, 252–53, 261
in labor strikes, 252–53, 258, 261, 263
proslavery, 19
visionary leadership, of LBJ, 306–43
voting rights:
for African Americans, 202–4, 331–37, 341
for women, 59, 169, 356
Voting Rights Act, signing ceremony for, 336–37
voting rights bill, 331–37
Wallace, George, 333
Wallace, Henry, 282
Walsh, Thomas, 282
Ward, Artemus, 221
Warm Springs, Ga., FDR’s health resort at, 164, 171–74, 181, 188, 274, 362
Warm Springs Foundation, 282
war powers, presidential, 215–19, 265
Warren, Earl, 350
Washington, George, xviii, 144, 353
Washington Senators, quorum call during game of, 323
wealth:
consolidation of, 244, 251, 256, 272
of FDR’s family, xiv, 40, 41, 43–48, 50, 54, 58
LBJ backed by, 185
LBJ’s accumulation of, 190–91
of TR’s family, xiv, 22–23, 25–27, 31–33, 37–38, 251
Webster, Daniel, 193
Weed, Thurlow, 235
Weems, Parson, 7
Welles, Gideon, 217, 219, 221–24, 226
“We Shall Overcome,” 332, 334
Westbrook, Theodore, 36, 58
Whig Party, 11–12, 14, 15–16, 98, 102, 103, 105, 109, 117, 122, 212, 219
White House Fellowship, author’s, xvii
Whitney, Henry Clay, 9, 107, 109, 121
Whitney, Richard, 276
Wilkins, Roy, 318, 319, 324, 350
Williams, Alec “Clubber,” 138
Williams, Aubrey, 85–86
Williams, Gene, 317, 326
Williams, Helen, 317
Williams, John, 325
Wilmot, David, 103–4
Wilmot Proviso, 103–4
Wilson, Woodrow, 58–60, 64, 65, 180, 292, 354, 355
Winning of the West, The (T. Roosevelt), 127
Wirtz, Alvin, 87–88, 90, 185
women’s suffrage, 59, 169, 356
Wood, Leonard, 148–51
Woodin, William, 282, 285
Woods, Randall, 190
Wordsworth, William, 170
work-hours legislation, 37, 59, 70, 166, 271, 356
workman’s compensation, 59
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 297, 299, 302
World, 171
World War I, 48, 64, 81, 180, 355
World War II, 190, 296, 302
FDR’s leadership in, xvii, 46, 48, 63, 188, 304–5, 345, 359–63
Wright, Carroll D., 248–50, 254, 259, 266, 270
Wright, Zephyr, 317
Wright Report, 248–50, 254–55, 266, 271
Yalta Conference, 361
Young, Valentine, 34
Young, Whitney, 318
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Chapter One
Abraham Lincoln at 48, Courtesy of the Chicago History Museum
Chapter Two
Theodore Roosevelt at 23, Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Chapter Three
Franklin Roosevelt at 28, Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Chapter Four
Lyndon Johnson at 23, Courtesy of the University Archives, Texas State
Chapter Five
The Fourth Great Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Courtesy of Heather Hayes, Illinois Secretary of State’s Office
Chapter Six
Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands, Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Chapter Seven
Franklin Roosevelt swimming at Warm Springs, Courtesy of the FDR Presidential Library and Museum
Chapter Eight
Rally opening Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1941 U.S. Senate Campaign, Courtesy of the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum
Chapter Nine
A reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Chapter Ten
Strike Arbitration Commission appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt, Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Chapter Eleven
Irate customers at the closed doors of the Bank of United States, New York, Courtesy of the Associated Press
Chapter Twelve
The march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Epilogue
Abraham Lincoln, 1865, Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Theodore Roosevelt, 1918, Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Franklin Roosevelt, 1945, Courtesy of the FDR Presidential Library and Museum
Lyndon B. Johnson, 1972, Courtesy of the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum
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