JFK and, 40, 47–49, 53–55, 62
extent of, 4, 54, 314
opportunity theory and, 49, 90, 149, 224, 256, 298, 308, 312–14
payroll tax and, 278
white families and, 48, 54
see also War on Poverty
Powell, Adam Clayton, 145, 147
Powers, David, xiii, 29
presidential election of 1960, xi, 14, 22, 32
presidential election of 1964, 77
LBJ’s campaign in, 61, 95–117, 128, 130, 131
LBJ’s campaign ads in, 104–6, 107
LBJ’s victory in, 117, 123, 125, 130, 146, 156, 229, 266, 284
presidential election of 1968, 283–85, 298–305
Great Society and, 302–3
LBJ in, 6, 282, 284–86, 288–92
LBJ’s withdrawal from, 291–92, 295, 302
McCarthy in, 286–90, 292–94, 298
Nixon in, 283, 284, 289, 290, 292, 295, 299–305
RFK in, 284, 286–90, 292–93
Vietnam War and, 285–94, 298–301
Wallace in, 289, 298–302, 304
press, 125–33, 205
press conferences, 129, 130, 274
Public Broadcasting Act (1967), 202–3
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 203
Public Health Service, 152, 160, 179, 181
Public Interest, 255
Quayle, Oliver, 106
Quintana, Leroy, 213
Racial Isolation in the Public Schools, 261
racism:
scientific, 193–95
see also civil rights
Rainey, Homer P., 20
Rauh, Joe, 73, 111
Rayburn, Sam, 113–14
Reagan, Ronald, 4, 163, 250–55, 284
Reed, Stanley, 80
Reedy, George, xv, 4, 18, 26–28, 38, 60, 64, 66–70, 95, 140, 156, 167, 201, 204, 276, 318
background of, 26–27, 319
Busby and, 129
LBJ’s relationship with, 27–28, 127, 129, 268, 318
Moyers and, 67, 126, 129, 140
as press secretary, 4, 27, 114, 125–33, 266, 272
Valenti and, 129, 266
Vietnam War and, 214
weight and health problems of, 27, 126
Reedy, Lillian, 60
Reeves, Rosser, 104
Reilly, John, 227
Remington, Frederic, 125
Reporter, 136
Republican National Committee, 106, 116
Republican National Convention (1964), 100–101
Republican Party, Republicans, 14, 45, 72, 144, 186, 187, 219, 243, 261–62, 282, 283–85, 303, 315
domestic policy approach of, 279
frontlash and, 106–9, 113, 114, 117
health care and, 154–55, 157, 161
in presidential elections, 99
southern, 75
Reston, James, 12–13, 65
Reuther, Victor, 72
Reuther, Walter, 42, 111, 285
Reynolds, John, 96
Ribicoff, Abraham, 294–95
Richmond, Julius, 91, 93
Riesman, David, 44
riots, 106, 127, 237, 240, 245, 271–72, 281, 284, 290
commodity vs. community, 239–40
in Detroit, 237, 271
in Newark, 237, 240, 278
in Washington, D.C., 292
in Watts, 236–37, 240, 253
Roberts, Charles, 17, 25, 26, 65–66, 125, 128, 130, 133, 138, 151, 152
Roberts, Juanita, 64
Roche, James, 284
Rockefeller, Nelson, 100–101, 284, 289, 290
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 2, 5, 21, 30, 33, 40, 42, 43, 45, 55, 66–67, 98–100, 107, 114, 117, 124, 141, 154, 179, 183, 186, 270, 297, 308, 315
Joseph Kennedy and, 226–27
LBJ and, 2, 6, 13, 30, 66, 141, 183
New Deal of, see New Deal
Rowe and, 31, 33
World War II and, 209
Roosevelt, Theodore, 63, 67, 147
Rosenberg, Alex, 294
Rosenman, Sam, 33
Rostow, Walt, 275, 291
Rovere, Richard, 45
Rowe, Elizabeth, 31, 32
Rowe, James, 19, 27, 30–32, 33, 85, 104, 108, 115, 141–42, 186, 269, 284, 290
background of, 30–31
LBJ’s relationship with, 31–32
Rubin, Jerry, 293
Ruckelshaus, William, 310
Rules Committee, 14, 71, 185
Rusk, Dean, 234, 291
Russell, Richard Brevard, 13, 70, 72, 174
Ryan, William Fitts, 171
Safire, William, 308
Salinger, Pierre, 18, 36–37, 114, 126, 128, 129
JFK and, xiv, xv, 36–37, 129
LBJ’s relationship with, 37
Samuelson, Robert J., 3
Sanders, Carl, 112, 168
Sarnoff, David, 219
Savio, Mario, 245–46
Scammon, Richard, 98–99, 106, 283, 284
Scheuer, James, 221
Schine, G. David, 134
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 37, 40, 63, 204, 205, 234, 275
schools, see education and schools
Schultze, Charles, 80, 85, 142–43, 217–19, 221–22
Schwerner, Michael, 110, 111, 112
Schwerner, Rita, 111
science, 225
Scranton, William, 100
Secret Service, xv, xvi, xvii, 124–25, 135
Seeley, David, 179
segregation, 80, 103
see also desegregation
Selma, Ala., 188–89
Senate, U.S., 12, 15, 185–87
LBJ in, 13, 14, 17, 34, 39, 70, 71, 99, 103, 117, 129, 134, 156, 164
RFK’s campaign for, 229
Separate Peace, A (Knowles), 49
Sequoia, 143, 186–87
Sesame Street, 203–4
Shannon, William V., 147
Shelley, John, 86, 263
Shivers, Allan, 21, 22
Shriver, Eunice Kennedy, 76
Shriver, Sargent, 25, 76–79, 223–24, 260, 263
Head Start and, 89–90, 93, 223, 262–63
JFK and, 25, 76, 77
Job Corps and, 89
Moyers and, 25, 26, 77–79
resignation of, 263–64
RFK and, 77–78
War on Poverty and, 76, 78–87, 89–90, 93
Shultz, George, 311
Sidey, Hugh, 227
Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School District, 174
slavery, 138, 193, 257, 258
Slavery (Elkins), 257
Smathers, George, 15–16, 244
Smith, Howard, 14–15, 16, 71–72, 185
Smith, Merriman, 59, 131, 267
Social Security, 45, 51, 80, 102, 107, 156, 157, 159, 185, 302–3, 309
Social Security Act (1935), 154, 156, 241
Social Security Administration (SSA), 152, 160
Social Security Amendments of 1965, 157, 278
Sorensen, Ted, 20, 28, 37–38, 53, 62, 267, 288
South, 150, 164, 230
African Americans’ migration from, 97, 240
civil rights and, 12, 14, 15, 72–75, 164–66, 168, 169, 172, 174–76, 180–83, 242, 310
Democrats in, 11–14, 99, 100, 112, 279
Justice Department’s network in, 281
and presidential election of 1964, 112–14
Republicans in, 75
Soviet Union, 34, 35, 49, 100, 102
State Department, xiv,
129, 135, 234
steel crisis, 219–20
Stennis, John, 262
Stevenson, Adlai, 31, 32, 46, 112
Stevenson, Coke, 13
Stewart, William, 181
Stone, I. F., 101–2
Stoughton, Cecil, xvii–xviii
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 109, 111, 172, 189
Sugarman, Jule, 90–93, 262
Sundquist, James L., 81
“Superman” (Updike), 46
supermarkets, 46
Supreme Court, U.S., 74, 146, 237, 241, 254, 268, 295
Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, 310
Brown v. Board of Education, 145, 164–72, 257, 300
Fortas on, 269–72, 295–97
Gideon v. Wainwright, 35
Green v. County School Board of New Kent County, Virginia, 175
Taft, Robert, 144
Taft-Hartley Act, 33, 138
taxes, 219, 222, 291, 297, 298, 307
cuts in, 11, 14–16, 40, 52, 56–57, 62, 66, 82, 95, 220
negative income tax, 260–61, 308
payroll, 278
Taylor, Maxwell, 291
television, 129, 132
public, 1, 4, 202–4, 315
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 102, 107
Texas, xi–xiii, 13
Texas Businessman, 22
Thomas, Albert, xii
Thornberry, Homer, xvi, 295
Thurmond, Strom, 170
Time, 46, 56, 244, 250
Tobin, James, 225
Traffic Safety Act, 280
transportation, 302
Transportation Department, 153, 279–80
Treasury Department, xiv, 280
Truman, Harry, 12, 14, 30, 33, 55, 67, 100, 112, 124, 144, 186, 209, 211, 218, 251, 284, 296
Fair Deal of, 45, 63, 70, 157, 201, 209, 251
health care and, 154–55, 157, 158
Trump, Donald J., 312, 315–16
Udall, Stewart, 39, 202
unions, 13, 72, 155, 176, 179, 185, 285, 301, 303, 311
United Auto Workers (UAW), 72, 111, 155
United Press International (UPI), xiv, xv, 27, 116, 131, 132, 267
United States v. Jefferson County Board of Education, 175
United Steelworkers of America (USWA), 15, 71, 219–20
Unruh, Jesse, 288
Updike, John, 46
U.S. News & World Report, 57, 245
Valenti, Jack, xi, 2, 16, 26, 37, 38, 58–62, 64–69, 98, 128, 130, 132, 137–41, 204, 265–68, 275–76, 283, 316, 317, 319, 320
American Advertising Federation speech of, 266–67
Califano and, 121–22
departure of, 267–68, 281–82
on LBJ, 320
LBJ’s schedule guarded by, 61
at LBJ’s swearing-in ceremony, xvii–xviii
MPAA presidency offered to, 267
office of, 124, 125
poverty programs and, 52, 53
and presidential campaign of 1964, 100, 104, 105, 107–8, 114, 130
reading of, 61
Reedy and, 129, 266
on Texas trip, xi–xiv, xvi
Watts riots and, 237
Valenti, Mary Margaret, xii, 122, 267
Vance, Cyrus, 281
Vardaman, James, 32–33
Vietnam, 122, 209–11
drugs in, 213–14
Vietnam War, 2, 122, 209–35, 244, 263, 264, 265, 268, 270, 282, 283, 284, 290–91, 306
American war crimes in, 212–13
casualties in, 235, 283
college and, 247–48
costs of, 6, 215, 217–18, 221–24, 226, 230, 278, 291, 297, 312
de-escalation and bombing halt, 231, 234, 235, 290, 291, 298–99, 303
draft and, 247–49
Great Society and, 6, 188, 224–25, 288
Gulf of Tonkin in, 210
Humphrey and, 293, 301–2
LBJ and, 1, 6, 141, 158, 209–35, 273, 282, 285, 291–92, 298–99, 301–4, 312, 320
Moyers and, 215–16, 274–75
My Lai massacre in, 212–13
Nixon and, 300, 301, 303–4
Operation Rolling Thunder in, 210–11
opposition to, 1, 215, 247, 249, 250, 287, 298
peace talks and, 234, 291–92, 301, 303–4
and presidential election of 1968, 6, 285–94, 298–301
RFK and, 230–32, 234–35, 288–89
servicemen in, 211–14, 247–50
Tet Offensive in, 287, 288–89
Vinson, Fred, 296–97
Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), 83, 249
voting rights, 5, 75, 188–92, 197, 204, 315
poll taxes and literacy tests, 13, 70, 164, 190, 191, 315
registration, 75, 85, 109, 110, 111
Voting Rights Act (1965), 1, 190–92, 236, 320
Wagner, Robert, 154
Walinsky, Adam, 288
Wallace, George, 95–98, 101, 114, 171
presidential campaign of, 289, 298–302, 304
Wallace, Mike, 294
Wallas, Graham, 63–64
Wall Street Journal, 130–31, 196, 300, 304
Walton, Bill, 123–25
War on Poverty, 16, 40–41, 47, 53–57, 72, 122, 137, 147, 153, 219–21, 223–24, 229, 279, 302
civil rights and, 54, 242
community action programs in, 50–52, 55, 81–93, 262–63, 308
Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 147–53, 167–70, 177, 183, 204, 221, 261, 262, 279, 302, 315
food programs, see food programs
funding for, 83–84
Head Start, 89–93, 223, 261–63, 302, 308, 314
Job Corps, 83, 88–89, 249
LBJ’s Howard University speech and, 258–59
negative income tax and, 260–61
New Deal and, 83, 87
Office of Economic Opportunity and, 84–91, 93
planning of, 79–84
relationship to Great Society, 2, 55
Shriver and, 76, 78–87, 89–90, 93
speech announcing, 41
use of term, 2, 53–54, 55
Warren, Earl, 164, 270, 277, 295, 297
Washington, D.C. riots, 292
Washington, George, 124, 296
Washington Post, 20, 23, 38, 71, 116, 125, 215
Washington Star, 116, 231
Wasserman, Lew, 267
Water Quality Act (1965), 202
Watson, Albert, 185
Watson, Marvin, 2, 124, 136, 138–41, 216–17, 284, 292
Watson, Russell, 115–16
Wattenberg, Ben, 298
Watts riots, 236–37, 240, 253
Weaver, Robert, 197–98
Webster, Daniel, 17
Weinberg, Sidney J., 108
Weisl, Edwin, 267
welfare, 146, 241, 242, 258, 259, 308
African Americans and, 97, 241, 242
Aid to Families with Dependent Children, 31, 241–42, 256, 278, 297–98, 308
Westmoreland, William, 214
White, Lee, 169, 184
White, Teddy, 102, 104, 123, 143
White, William, 12, 117
White House, West Wing of, 123–25, 266
Fish Room (Roosevelt Room), 123, 124, 169
Oval Office, 58, 228
White Task Force on Early Childhood Development, 261
Whitney, John Hay, 147
Wickenden, Elizabeth, 53
Wicker, Tom, 25, 265
Wilkins, Roy, 26
Williams, John Bell, 185
Willis, Benjamin, 150, 176–78
Wills, Garry, 299–300
Wilson, James Q., 255
Wilson, Woodrow, 209
Wirtz, William, 39, 51, 52, 220
Wisdom, John Minor, 174
Wofford, Harris, 77, 80
Works Progress Administration, 39–40, 66, 257
World War II, 3, 18, 26, 36, 40–43, 99, 136, 155, 195, 196, 200, 209, 211, 218, 226–27
Wright, J. Skelly, 166
Wright, Marion, 230
Yarmolinsky, Adam, 80–82, 84, 121
Yippies, 293–94
Yorty, Sam, 86
Young, Steve, 95
Young, Whitney, 26
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