| Foreword |
|
v | |
| Preface |
|
vii | |
| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS |
|
xvii | |
| PART ONE Introduction: Lyndon B. Johnson and American liberalism |
|
1 | (178) |
|
1. "The Perfect Roosevelt Man": Young Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1948 |
|
|
5 | (31) |
|
From the Hill Country to Capitol Hill |
|
|
6 | (6) |
|
|
|
12 | (9) |
|
The Best Congressman a District Ever Had |
|
|
21 | (3) |
|
Money and Politics, Texas-Sized |
|
|
24 | (12) |
|
2. Democratic Leader: Senator Johnson, 1948-1960 |
|
|
36 | (24) |
|
Shifting Right: Cold War Liberalism |
|
|
38 | (6) |
|
"E = LBJ": The Senate Leader |
|
|
44 | (5) |
|
Becoming a National Figure: The Leader and the Issues |
|
|
49 | (11) |
|
3. "Let Us Continue": LBJ and the Kennedy Legacy, 1960-1964 |
|
|
60 | (27) |
|
|
|
62 | (3) |
|
Years of Frustration: JFK and the Liberal Agenda |
|
|
65 | (4) |
|
"Let Us Continue": The Transition |
|
|
69 | (9) |
|
President in His Own Right |
|
|
78 | (9) |
|
|
|
87 | (24) |
|
|
|
88 | (4) |
|
|
|
92 | (8) |
|
The Not-So-Great Society: Implementing LBJ's Program |
|
|
100 | (5) |
|
Assessing the Great Society |
|
|
105 | (6) |
|
5. Shall We Overcome? LBJ and the Civil Rights Revolution |
|
|
111 | (22) |
|
"We Shall Overcome": The Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
|
|
114 | (4) |
|
|
|
118 | (3) |
|
A New and Bewildering Stage: Toward Affirmative Action |
|
|
121 | (8) |
|
|
|
129 | (4) |
|
6. "That Bitch of a War": LBJ and Vietnam |
|
|
133 | (34) |
|
"A Fat, Juicy Worm": The United States and Vietnam, 1945-1963 |
|
|
137 | (5) |
|
Americanizing the War, 1963-1965 |
|
|
142 | (6) |
|
|
|
148 | (4) |
|
The Credibility Gap and the Home Front |
|
|
152 | (9) |
|
|
|
161 | (6) |
|
7. Dumping Johnson: The Decline and Fall of American liberalism |
|
|
167 | (12) |
|
Guns, Butter, and Stagflation |
|
|
168 | (3) |
|
The End of the Johnson Era |
|
|
171 | (8) |
| PART TWO The Documents |
|
179 | (94) |
|
"Let Us Continue": Johnson Assumes the Presidency |
|
|
|
The Kennedy Legacy: LBJ's First Speech as President |
|
|
181 | (4) |
|
1. Lyndon B. Johnson, Address before a Joint Session of the Congress, November 27, 1963 |
|
|
181 | (4) |
|
The Warren Commission: Johnson Applies "The Treatment" to Senator Russell |
|
|
185 | (3) |
|
2. Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Russell, Phone Conversation, November 29, 1963, 8:55 p.m. |
|
|
186 | (2) |
|
Shaping the Debate: LBJ Persuades Washington Post Publisher Katherine Graham |
|
|
188 | (3) |
|
3. Lyndon B. Johnson and Katherine Graham, Phone Conversation, December 2, 1963, 11:10 a.m. |
|
|
189 | (2) |
|
Perspectives on the Great Society |
|
|
|
Launching the Great Society |
|
|
191 | (5) |
|
4. Lyndon B. Johnson, Remarks at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1964 |
|
|
192 | (4) |
|
"A Time for Choosing": A Conservative Criticizes Johnsonian liberalism |
|
|
196 | (2) |
|
5. Ronald Reagan, Address on Behalf of Senator Goldwater, October 27, 1964 |
|
|
196 | (2) |
|
A Poverty Warrior Defends the Great Society |
|
|
198 | (9) |
|
6. Joseph A. Califano Jr., How Great Was the Great Society? 1986 |
|
|
199 | (8) |
|
A Conservative Thinker Assails the Great Society |
|
|
207 | (3) |
|
7. George Gilder, From Wealth and Poverty, 1981 |
|
|
207 | (3) |
|
Poverty: The Statistical Record |
|
|
210 | (4) |
|
8. U.S. Census Bureau, Persons below Poverty Level and below 125 Percent of Poverty Level: 1959-2002 |
|
|
211 | (3) |
|
Racial Conflict and the Civil Rights Revolution |
|
|
|
'We Shall Overcome": The Voting Rights Speech |
|
|
214 | (6) |
|
9. Lyndon B. Johnson, The American Promise: Special Message to the Congress, March 15, 1965 |
|
|
215 | (5) |
|
A New Militance in Black America |
|
|
220 | (3) |
|
10. James Farmer, "We Must Be in a Position of Power": Address before the CORE National Convention, July 1, 1965 |
|
|
221 | (2) |
|
From Civil Rights to Affirmative Action |
|
|
223 | (7) |
|
11. Lyndon B. Johnson, "To Fulfill These Rights": Commencement Address at Howard University, June 4, 1965 |
|
|
223 | (7) |
|
War at Home and Abroad: Martin Luther King Jr. Opposes the Vietnam War |
|
|
230 | (6) |
|
12. Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam": Speech at Riverside Church Meeting, April 4, 1967 |
|
|
231 | (5) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
236 | (7) |
|
13. Lyndon B. Johnson, Peace without Conquest: Address at Johns Hopkins University, April 7, 1965 |
|
|
236 | (7) |
|
Johnson Agonizes over Vietnam |
|
|
243 | (6) |
|
14. Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Russell, Phone Conversation, May 27, 1964, 10:55 a.m. |
|
|
244 | (5) |
|
The Decision to Escalate: 1965 |
|
|
249 | (6) |
|
15. Jack Valenti, From A Very Human President, July 1965 |
|
|
250 | (5) |
|
We Can Win in Vietnam: Hawks Criticize LBJ's Strategy |
|
|
255 | (3) |
|
16. James Burnham, What Is the President Waiting For? June 28, 1966 |
|
|
256 | (2) |
|
The Student Left Opposes LBJ |
|
|
258 | (5) |
|
17. Paul Potter, "The Incredible War": Speech at the Washington Antiwar March, April 17, 1965 |
|
|
259 | (4) |
|
The Establishment Bows Out: Walter Cronkite Calls the War a Stalemate |
|
|
263 | (2) |
|
18. Walter Cronkite, Mired in Stalemate, February 27, 1968 |
|
|
263 | (2) |
|
|
|
|
LBJ Insists on Guns and Butter |
|
|
265 | (2) |
|
19. Lyndon B. Johnson, Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, January 12, 1966 |
|
|
266 | (1) |
|
The liberal Coalition Breaks Up |
|
|
267 | |
|
20. George C. Wallace, Speech at Madison Square Garden, October 24, 1968 |
|
|
267 | |
| APPENDIXES |
|
|
An LBJ Chronology (1908-1975) |
|
|
273 | (5) |
|
Questions for Consideration |
|
|
278 | (2) |
|
Suggestions for Further Reading |
|
|
280 | (9) |
| Index |
|
289 | |
Other versions by this Author