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133 "high, forbidding...": LBJ, Vantage Point (New York, 1971), p. 13.

134 "Lady Bird would...": Sam Houston Johnson, My Brother Lyndon (New York, 1969), p. 108.

134 "Concession, Patience...": LBJ, n.d. notes, desk P38, Box 1, Handwriting File, LBJ Lib.

134 "show horses,": Erv Duggin in Merle Miller, Lyndon (New York, 1980), pp. 418-419.

134 "was like comparing...": Hubert Humphrey in Ibid., p. 421.

135 "I am suddenly...": LaBJ, A White House Diary (New York, 1970), p. 17.

135 "been a partner...": "Biography of Mrs. LBJ," Box 60, LBJ Liz-S.

135 "I will try...": "Mrs. Johnson's Press Releases - 1964," 8 Dec. 1963, Box 73, LBJ-Liz S.

135 "dazzling...": Time, 28 Aug. 1964, p. 20.

135 "You don't sell...": American Heritage, Dec. 1964, p. 13.

135 "I've got...": GH, Mar. 1964, p. 37.

135 "voluptuous," SatEP, 8 Feb. 1964, p. 24.

135 "pretty as...": LaBJ to Ellen Cooper, 13 Mar. 1961, Mrs. Ellen Cooper MSS, LBJ Lib.

135 "their mouths...": C. David Heymann, A Woman Named Jackie (New York, 1989), p. 407.

135 "sandwiched in...": LaBJ, Diary, p. 69; LaBJ speech, 28 Oct. 1970, p. 3, Box 88 , Harry Middleton MSS, LBJ Lib.

135 "to give my...": ABC, "A Conversation with the First Lady," 23 Aug. 1964, MP 494, LBJ AV.

135 "to tell him...": Clark M. Clifford OH, p. 29.

135 "Lady Bird brought...": LBJ, Vantage, p. 299.

135 "there next to...": Joseph Califano, The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson (New York, 1991), p. 28.

136 "Johnson would...": McPherson quoted in Myra MacPherson, The Power Lovers (New York, 1975), p. 184.

136 "It thrills me...": Coronet, Feb. 1966, p. 18.

136 "a big political...": CBS, "The New President: LBJ," 23 Nov. 1963, MP 521, LBJ AV.

136 "I think...": CBS, "The First Lady at Home," 12 Aug. 1964, MP475, LBJ AV.

136 "I find...": ABC, "The View from the White House with Claudia Taylor Johnson," 27 Dec. 1968, WHCA 2949, LBJ AV.

136 "a sturdy political...": Jack Valenti, A Very Human President (New York, 1975), p. 39.

136 "let's save...": Nwswk, 28 Dec. 1964, p. 12.

136 "Unfortunately, plans...": LaBJ to Brooke Astor, 28 Oct. 1965, Box 83, LBJ WHSoc-A.

136 "the most wonderful...": LBJ to Mr. Dee J. Kelly, 28 Oct. 1964, Box 2, Ex TR 1, LBJ WHCF.

136 "my dearest...": LBJ to David Dubinsky, 28 Oct. 1964, Box 2, Ex TR 1.

136 "great political...": LBJ to Charles S. Robb, 28 Oct. 1968, LBJ Ref.

136 comic book: Lyndon B. Johnson (New York, 1964), Box 10, Ex FG1 LBJ WHCF.

136 "an elusive private...": Nwswk, 28 Dec. 1964, p. 12.

136 "working partnership,": McCall's, Feb. 1964, p. 4.

136 "a woman who...": Nwswk, 28 Dec. 1964, p. 14.

136 "marriage, like...": Ibid.

136 "I'm not...": Time, 28 Aug. 1964, p. 21.

137 "he-men,": Liz OH, 5:12.

137 "Oh, he makes...": Betty Hughes OH, 1:58.

137 "Mrs. Johnson has...": Liz OH, 5:8-9.

137 "I don't...": Liz Speech, 15 Apr. 1965, Box 1, Office Files of the President, LBJ Lib.

137 "the greatest...": Liz OH, 3:45.

137 "SCHEDULE STIRS...": USNWR, 27 Jan. 1964, p. 16.

137 "I wanted...": Richard Goodwin, Remembering America (Boston, 1988), p. 271.

137 "The bet we...": LaBJ, Diary, p. 156.

137 "tea poisoning,": Ibid. p. 138.

137 "Mrs. Johnson didn't...": Liz OH, 2:33.

137 "problem that...": Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York, 1963), p. 11.

137 "egalitarian marriage,": Sheila Rothman, Woman's Proper Place (New York, 1975), p. 6; Steven Mintz and Susan Kellong, Domestic Revolutions (New York, 1988), p. xvi.

138 "Chief purpose...": SatEP, 22-29 Dec. 1962, pp. 27-28, 32. See also William Henry Chafe, The American Woman (New York, 1972), p. 231.

138 "natural woman...": LaBJ Speech, 25 Feb. 1966, Box 60, LBJ Liz-S.

138 Southern belles: Anne Firor Scott, The Southern Lady (Chicago, 1970); Eugene D. Genovese, "Toward a Kinder and Gentler America," Carol Blesser, In Joy and In Sorrow (New York:, 1991), pp. 125-134.

138 "a wife...": LaBJ Speech, 9 June 1964, pp. 1-3, Box 73, LBJ Liz-S.

138 "If given...": LaBJ Speech, 24 June 1964, pp. 3, 4, Box 73, LBJ Liz-S.

138 "JFK, with...": Eric Goldman, The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, (New York, 1969), p. 11.

138 "unabashedly in...": LBJ in Miller, Lyndon, p. 545.

138 "A woman's place...": SatEP, 1964, P. L1.

139 "extra careful...": Ibid.

139 "prowomen feeling,": Katie Louchheim in Miller, Lyndon, p. 547.

139 "The great untapped...": Luci Baines Johnson in Ibid., p. 544.

139 "In a day...": LBJ to Alice Brown, 17 Jan. 1965, Box 12, LBJ SN.

139 "the harem,": George Reedy, Memoir (New York, 1982), p. 36.

139 "more women...": Robert Dallek, Lone Star Rising (New York, 1982), p. 189.

139 "Move over...": MacPherson, Power Lovers, p. 185.

139 "You have...": People, 2 Feb. 1987, p. 35.

139 "In the Lyndon...": Reedy, Memoir, p. 31.

140 "I infiltrate,": Goldman, Tragedy, 357.

140 "In a few...": LBJ, Vantage, pp. 98, 94-95.

140 "I was not...": LBJ. Vantage, pp. 95, 97.

140 "Your 'war...": Mrs. Charles Muehlstein to LBJ, 16 May 1964, Box 64, Ex PP5/LaBJ LBJ WHCF.

140 she traveled...: "Fact Sheet on Mrs. Johnson's Travels...," c. 1964, Box 73, LBJ Liz-S.

140 "The hustings...": NYDN, 9 Aug. 1964, p. L1.

140 "serenity...": "First Lady at Home."

140 "a sounding board...": "Conversations with the First Lady."

141 President's film...: "LBJ: Campaign Special," 1964, MP648 LBJ AV.

141 "When I...": Mrs. William Howard Gardener to LBJ, 12 Aug. 1964, Box 64, Ex PP5/LaBJ.

141 "Mrs. Johnson represents...": Douglass Cater to LBJ, 18 Aug. 1964, Box 62, Ex PP5/LaBJ.

141 "a link between...": Weekly Digest, 6 Sept. 1964, 48:10 in PP5/LaBJ, 9/1/64-9/20/64.

141 "early sun-ups...": "Handy Facts on the Johnson Ladies" in Box 88, Harry Middleton MSS, LBJ Lib.

141 "subdued,": Horace Busby to Liz, 2 Oct. 1964, Box 18, Horace BusbyMSS, LBJ Lib.

141 "They didn't want...": Bess Abell OH, p. 13.

141 With 55...: D. Elaine Sellers, "It's All Smiles Aboard 'Special," clipping, Story of the Lady Bird Special, p. 2, Box 2, TR1/LaBJ.

141 "I am fond...": Whistle Stop, 13 Oct. 1964, Box 12, LBJ Liz-S.

141 "We are...": Liz, Ruffles and Flourishes (College State, TX, 1993), pp. 154-155.

142 "It's a new...": New Orleans States-Item, clipping, Lady Bird Special, p. 5.

142 "You've put...": See 31 Dec. 1964, Box 4, Handwriting file.

142 "Lady Bird...": Charleston Post-Courier, 27 Sept. 1990, p. 3, LBJ Ref.

142 "chivalry is not...": Scooter Miller in Miller, Lyndon, p. 483.

142 "one of the...": LaBJ to GG Cromwell, 31 Oct. 1964, Box 1329, LBJ WHSoc-A.

142 "packed the bag...": LaBJ to Barbara McAden, Lady Bird Special, p. 7.

142 "warrior,": David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed (New York, 1989), p. 676.

142 the eight-year-old: Dallek, Lone Star, p. 37.

142 "There was nothing...": Doris Kearns, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (New York, 1977), p. 26.

143 The first night: Ibid., p. 76.

143 "it was high...": Henry Hirshberg OH, p. 8.

143 "For Bird...": Goldman, Tragedy, p. 344

143 "I see something...": LBJ to LaBJ, in "A National Tribute to Lady Bird Johnson On the Occasion of her Sixty-Fifth Birthday," 11 Dec. 1977, pp. 4,5, LBJ Lib.

143 "richest man...": Robert A. Caro, The Years of LBJ: the Path to Power (New York: 1991), p. 294.

143 most likely...: Ibid., p. 297.

144 "holier, more...": Sara Josephine Hale, "Empire Woman," in Mary Beth Norton, Major Problems in American Women's History (Lexington, MA, 1989, p. 114. See also Patricia Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest (New York, 1987, 1988) pp. 48,53; Carl Degler, At Odds (New York, 1980), pp. 47-49.

144 "looked like...": Virginia Durr OH, p. 10.

144 "She's as purty...": USNWR, 2 Dec. 1963, p. 16.

144 "the family nurse...": LaBJ to Mrs. M.R. Curtis, 12 Dec. 1963, Box 1621, LBJ WHSoc-A.

144 "give way...": Durr OH, p. 10.

144 "undoubtedly the most...": LaBJ interview with Blake Clark for Reader's Digest, c. summer, 1963, p. 6, Box 60, LBJ Liz-S.

144 "My father...": Ibid., p. 3.

144 "feudal": LaBJ interview with Clark, p. 9.

144 "for every...": LaBJ interview with Henry Brandon, for NYTM, Aug., 1967 in Box 60 LBJ Liz-S.

144 "she wanted...": Eugenia Lassater in Time, 28 Aug. 1964, p. 22.

144 "people in...": LaBJ interview with Clark p. 13.

144 "repulsive": LaBJ in Miller, Lyndon, p. 44.

144 "excessively thin...": LaBJ interview with Clark, p. 11.

144 "I just knew...": NYTM, 10 Sept. 1967, p. 49.

145 "I've always...": LBJ interview with Blake Clark for Reader's Digest, 3 July 1963, p. 1, Box 60, LBJ Liz-S.

145 "And he told...": LaBJ in Miller, Lyndon, p. 62.

145 "Hmmm. You've...": LaBJ interview with Clark, p. 13.

145 "his ears...": Emily Crow Selden OH, 2:7.

145 "We either...": LaBJ interview with Clark, p. 16.

145 "I hope...": Dan Quill OH, pp. 4-5, 10, 30. See also Hirshberg OH, p. 7, 10.

145 "the prettiest girl...": Goldman, Tragedy, p. 345.

145 "than my own...": LaBJ to Melvin and Anita Winters, 23 Jan. 1959, Melvin Winters MSS, LBJ Lib.

145 "Bird... are you...": Kearns, LBJ, p. 88.

145 "Mein Herr,": Woman's Day, Dec. 1967, p. 89.

146 "Why, darlin'...": Mary Hardesty in Miller, Lyndon, p. 433.

146 "emotional and affectionate": LBJ to George Brown, 27 Apr. 1947, Box 12, LBJ SN.

146 "She's the greatest,": Woman's Day, Dec. 1967, p. 89.

146 "Never shall I...": LBJ to LaBJ, 17 Aug. 1935 in "Tribute," p. 8.

146 "beehive,": LaBJ interview with Clark, p. 20.

146 "called my Daddy,": Ibid, pp. 21-22.

146 "I kept that...": Caro, Path, p. 408.

146 "a nightmare,": Woman's Day, Dec. 1967, p. 94.

146 "larger than...": Elizabeth Rowe OH, 1:14.

146 "I was always...": Kearns, LBJ, p. 83.

146 "I remember Alice...": Caro, Path, p. 490.

146 "I could never...": Ibid., p. 492.

147 "I felt terribly...": Kearns, LBJ, p. 98.

147 "fondly...": "The Home Movies of LaBJ, HM 3 1941 Senate Campaign p. 5, LBJ Lib; LaBJ interview with Clark, p. 23.

147 "THis was a sadness": Woman's Day, Dec. 1967, p. 95.

147 "business school...": LaBJ to Reese Lockett, 5 Feb. 1942, Box 74, LBJA.

147 "LBJ. To be...": See "Alice Glass" LBJ Ref.

147 "scared": LaBJ interview with Clark, p. 24.

147 "First you use...": LBJ to LaBJ, in "Tribute," p. 12.

147 "strange new...": LaBJ to Jerry Winkle, 15 Apr. 1942, Box 37, House of Representatives MSS, LBJ Lib.

147 "two of the...": LaBJ to George Brown, 26 Mar. 1942, Box 12, LBJ SN.

147 "Lyndon-Johnson quitting...": LaBJ to Mrs. E.M. Cape, 3 Mar 1942, Box 14, LBJ SN.

148 "More and more...": LaBJ to A.J. Wirtz, 13 Mar. 1942, Box 37, Subject Files, LBJA.

148 "you certainly...": Jane Ickes to LaBJ, c. Mar. 1942, Box 74, Subject Files, LBJA.

148 "the best damn...": Jim [Blundell?] to My Dear Friends... 27 Apr. 1942, Box 37, House of Representatives MSS.

148 "If Bird keeps...": Jim [Blundell] to LBJ, [c. spring, 1942], p. 2, Box 37, House of Representatives MSS.

148 "What changes...": LaBJ to L.E. Jones 4 May 1942, Box 74, Subject Files, LBJA.

148 "the grandest day...": LaBJ to Ben Crider, 16 July 1942, Box 16, LBJ SN.

148 "We'll see...": Robert Caro, The Years of LBJ: Means of Ascent, (New York, 1990), pp. 69-70.

148 World War II...": Susan M. Harmann, The Homefront and Beyond (Boston, 1982), pp. 23-24; D'Ann Cambell, Women at War With America (Boston, 1984), pp. 236-237.

148 "one of the...": LaBJ interview with Clark, pp. 25-26.

148 "He told her...": Woman's Day, Dec. 1967, p. 95.

148 "Every woman...": Ibid.

148 "full time": LaBJ in WSJ, 23 Mar. 1964, p. 1.

148 "running the...": LBJ to JC Kellam, 25 June 1943, Box 22, LBJ SN.

149 "She's any man's...": Lewis L. Gould, LaBJ and the Environment (Lawrence, KS, 1988), p. 20.

149 "can't do...": Caro, Means of Ascent, p. 299.

149 "the most wonderful...": Dallek, Lone Star, p. 326.

149 "All I could...": Time, 28 Aug. 1964, p. 22.

149 "an efficient woman...": Life, 25 June 1956, p. 121.

149 "to compartmentalize...": Bess Abell in Miller, Lyndon, pp. 430-431.

149 "With all...": Reader's Digest, Nov. 1963, p. 5.

150 "de-privileged,": National Observer, 24 Apr. 1967, p. 14.

150 "worst feature": "New President."

150 "Lyndon said..." LaBJ to J.J. Pickle, 4 Aug. 1955, Box 30, LBJ SN.

150 "home base": "First Lady at Home."

150 "Thank God...": Rowe OH, 2:20.

150 "little scrawny...": Dallek, Lone Star, p. 572.

150 "traded a career...": Press Release, Citizens for Johnson National Committee, c. 1960, LBJ Ref.

150 "I'm not deeply...": Austin American Statesman, 3 Apr. 1960, pp. 1, 4.

150 "major crisis...": LBJ interview with Clark, pp. 5-6.

150 "the Hill...": "Conversation with the First Lady."

151 "would sit...": JBK OH, pp. 12-13.

151 "Lady Bird carried...": Time, 24 Aug. 1964, p. 23.

151 "to help...": Gould, Lady Bird, pp. 12-13.

151 "Uncle Cornpone,": Kearns, LBJ, p. 171.

151 "more about...": SatEP, 8 Feb. 1964, p. 20.

151 "an wonderful man..": NYTM, 15 Dec. 1963, 6:73.

151 "I married...": ABC, "The View from the White House with LaBJ," 27 Dec. 1968, 2949 LBJ AV.

151 "Lyndon saw...": Reader's Digest, Nov. 1963, p. 2.

151 "bullied, shoved...": San Antonio Express, 25 Apr. 1983, 1C.

151 "millions upon...": Kearns, LBJ, p. 219.

152 "before the aura...": Wilbur J. Cohen in Miller, Lyndon, p.497.

152 "more of each": LaBJ interview with Drew Pearson and Sybille Friedman, 16 Nov. 1967, Box 60, LBJ Liz-S.

152 "pillow talk": Califano, Triumph, p. 235.

152 "I came very...": Lewis Gould, "Lady Bird Johnson and Beautification" in Robert A. Divine, ed., The Johnson Years, Volume Two (Lawrence, KS: 1987), p. 172.

152 "In her quiet...": Miller, Lyndon, p. 432.

152 "Sometimes I'd like...": Coronet, Feb, 1966, p. 18.

152 "shake hands...": Liz OH, 3:43.

152 "she wanted...": Abell OH, p. 2.

152 "power...": Califano, Triumph (New York, 1991), p. 85.

152 "If I take...": LaBJ, Diary, p. 255.

153 "Next time...": Ibid., p. 299.

153 "bad physical...": Gould, Lady Bird, p. 2.

153 "Beauty is...": Address of LaBJ, 1 Oct. 1965, p. 2, Box 60, LBJ Liz-S.

153 "environmental quality,": Sharon Francis OH, 2:58.

153 "New Conservation": Vaughn Davis Bornet, The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson (Lawrence, KS, 19830. p. 138.

153 "a combination...": Address of LaBJ, 1 Oct. 1965, p. 2.

153 "Getting on...": "Tribute," p. 23; LaBJ, Diary, p. 233.

154 "revitalize parks...": Report to the President for the First Lady's Committee for a More Beautiful Capital," Box 22, LBJ WHSoc-B.

154 "A conversation between...": Emily Post, Emily Post's Etiquette (New York: 1965), p. 40.

154 "Lady Bird's business":Bornet, LBJ, p. 136.

154 "Laurance Rockefeller...": NYT, 3 July 1967, p. 1.

154 "to produce...": Address of LBJ, 25 May 1965, p. 1, Box 79, Bill Moyers MSS, LBJ Lib.

154 "the beautification expert...": Address of LBJ, 8 May 1967 in Doug Cater, Memos for the President: "National Youth Administration," Box 326, Fred Panzer MSS, LBJ Lib.

154 Johnson commanded...: LBJ to Luther Hodges, 21 Jan. 1965, Box 5, Handwriting File.

154 The major...: LAT, 13 Sept. 1965, pp. 2, 6.

154 "Why that's Lady...": WasP, 7 Oct. 1965, G11.

155 "If we don't...": Francis OH, p. 5.

155 "continued on her...": LAT, 13 Sept. 1965, 2:6.

155 "No one...": Liz to LaBJ, 4 Oct. 1965, Box 14, LBJ WHSoc-B.

155 "This remarkably tenacious...": John L. Sweeney in Miller, Lyndon, p. 430.

155 "one of the...": ChiT, 22 Sept. 1965, p. L1.

155 Congressman Robert Dole...: U.S. Congress, 89th cong, 1st sess., 7 Oct. 1965, CR, 3:26306.

155 "when one chooses...": WasP, 8 Oct. 1965.

155 "It is a...": Bornet, LBJ, p. 142.

155 "Impeach Lady Bird": Gould, Lady Bird, p. 165.

155 "conservation,": LBJ, Vantage, pp. 336-399.

155 "and he never...": Califano, Triumph, p. 85.

156 "A visit...": ABC, "A Visit to Washington with Mrs. LBJ on Behalf of a More Beautiful America," 25 Nov. 1965, MP 1052, LBJ AV.

156 "most appealing,": Mrs. Charles Draper to LBJ, 27 Nov. 1965, Box 15, LBJ Liz-A.

156 "sow some...": LaBJ, Diary, p. 298.

156 "somewhat...": Ben J. Wattenberg, The Real America, rev. ed. (New York, 1974, 1976), p. 226.

156 "exquisite edition[s]": LaBJ to Mary Lasker, 1 June 1965, Box 1340, LBJ WHSoc-A.

156 "this job allows...": LaBJ to Mr. Lankford Curtis, 9 June 1964, in Box 1980, LBJ WHSoc-A.

156 "We didn't": George Christian OH, 2:1.

156 "I tried...": Ibid., p. 4.

157 The needed...: See, for example, Bess Abell to Marvin Watson, 13 July 1965, Box 62, PP5/LaBJ; Marvin Watson to LBJ, 30 May 1967, Box 70, FG 11-8-1, LBJ WHCF.

157 "In an economy...": Liz to Marvin Watson, 19 July 1965 and 20 July 1965 in Liz, Ruffles, pp. 298-300.

157 Carpenter found: CA Sither to Marvin Watson, 15 Sept. 1967, Box 76, FG 11-8-1, WHCF.

157 prompted President...: LBJ Memorandum to the Director of the Secret Service, 7 Nov. 1968, Box 64, Ex PP5/LaBJ.

157 "With Mrs....": SFChr, 16 July 1964, p. 37.

157 "eyes-and-ears...": NYT, 1 Mar. 1964, p. 54.

157 "I don't believe...": Coronet, Feb. 1966, p. 18.

157 They proposed...: Francis OH, 4:11.

158 "eyes and ears for ...": Life, 13 Aug. 1965, p. 60.

158 "focus[sed] the interest...": WasP, 7 Nov. 1967, C6.

158 "I can report...": Walt W. Rostow to LBJ, 12 June 1967, Box 63, Ex PP5/LaBJ.

158 "how many miles...": NYT, 27 Dec. 1968, p. 16.

158 "do not consider...": Bess Abell to Arthur Waxman, 28 July 1966, Box 2128, LBJ WHSoc-A.

158 "The marriage...": Simone Poulaine to Liz Carpenter (with enclosure from Chet Haga), 4 May 1966, Box 78, PP5/Presidential Family, C.F. LBJ WHCF.

158 "Please! Each...": Mrs. R.J. Adams to LBJ and LaBJ, 22 May 1966, Box 62 LBJ Liz-A.

159 "uncelebrated middle-class...": WasP, 7 Aug. 1966, p. 1.

159 "The No. 1 story...": Liz to LBJ et al., 26 Apr. 1966, Box 78, C.F. PP5/LaBJ.

159 "We have gotten...": Liz to LBJ, 3 Aug. 1966, Box 63, Ex PP5/LaBJ.

159 "the American people...": Clark Clifford to LaBJ, 9 Aug. 1966, Box 353, LBJ WHSoc-A.

159 "She has come...": National Observer, 24 Apr. 1967, p. 1.

159 "total woman": Redbook, July 1965, pp. 12, 20.

159 "Something is lacking...": National Observer, 24 Apr. 1967, p. 1.

160 "Lady Bird was...": Goldman, Tragedy, p. 375.

160 "current of feeling...": LaBJ, Diary, p. 452.

160 "Hey, hey LBJ...": WasP, 7 Aug. 1966, p. 1.

160 "I myself...": LaBJ, Diary, p. 449.

160 "swat[ting] Lady Bird...": Time, 28 Aug. 1964, p. 21.

161 "astonishing,": Jack Valenti to LBJ and Bill Moyers, 14 July 1965, Box 11, FG WHCF.

161 "a good picture...": Liz to LBJ, 4 Dec. 1964, Box 1, LBJ Office Files of the President.

161 "ugly problem[s],": Valenti to LBJ and Moyers, 14 July 1965.

161 "quality of life,": Fred Panzer to LBJ, 18 Sept. 1967, p. 1, Box 82, PR 16 C.F. LBJ WHCF.

161 "to grow...": Address of LaBJ, 9 Oct. 1967, p. 5, Box 74, LBJ Liz-S.

161 "probably a mistake...": LaBJ, Diary, pp. 636-637.

161 "garden club": LaBJ to Sylvia Porter, 28 Dec. 1965, Box 14, LBJ Liz-A.

161 "Education - children...": Stewart L. Udall to LaBJ, 18 Mar. 1966, Box 2016, LBJ WHSoc-A.

162 "the minds...": Mrs. Vera Dunn to LaBJ, 24 Oct. 1967, Box 159, LBJ WHSoc-A.

162 "the biggest legislative....": NYT, 3 July 1967, p. L1.

162 "a leisurely, civilized...": LaBJ, Diary, pp. 740, 764.

162 "Everyone is..." LouCJ, 6 July 1968, clipping in Box 320, Panzer MSS, LBJ Lib.

162 "Garden club...": Allan Temko in NYT, 3 July 1967, p. 8.

163 "unfortunate, ill-considered...": "Statement of President Johnson," 23 Aug. 1968, Box 15, LBJ WHSoc-B.

163 "Thank you..." Nash Castro Memo, 18 Dec. 1968, Box 3, Nash Castro MSS, LBJ Lib.

163 "the First Lady...": Califano to LaBJ, 30 Sept. 1968.

163 "gimmick,": LaBJ, Diary, p. 797.

163 "What Citizens...": Liz to LBJ and LaBJ, 26 Dec. 1967, Box 45, LBJ Liz-S.

164 "What do we...": "Remarks at First Lady's Luncheon for Women Doers," 18 Jan. 1968, pp. 6, 30, 32, Box 45, LBJ Liz-S.

164 "ready to beat...": Francis OH, 2: 37.

164 "Anybody who's...": "Remarks at Luncheon, pp. 33-34.

164 "violent...in her own...": "Telephone Calls - Carpenter's Office," 19 Jan. 1968, p. 5, Box 45, LBJ Liz-S.

164 "a stormy Thursday...": LaBJ to Mrs. Eugene Meyer, 24 Jan. 1968, Box 45, LBJ Liz-S.

164 "ears...are somewhat...": Variety, 24 Jan. 1968, p. 2.

164 "Hooray for Eartha...": "A Voter" to LBJ, Box 1305, LBJ WHSoc-A.

165 "Stop cultivating...": Mrs. Shirley Almanza to LBJ, 20 Jan. 1968, Box 1305, LBJ WHSoc-A.

165 "THE FIRST LADY...": Darlene Feldman to LBJ, 21 Jan. 1968, Box 1306, LBJ WHSoc-A.

165 "There seems...": Houston Post, Jan. 31, 1968, L1.

165 "the quality...": WasP, 21 Jan. 1968, p. L1.

165 "was typical...": News 4 Washington, "Nancy Dickerson Report," 18 Jan. 1968, WHCA #127, LBJ AV.

165 "If Mrs. Johnson...": Variety, 24 Jan. 1968, p. 71.

165 "After all...": "Lady Bird is Upset," UPI dispatch, Box 63, PP5/LaBJ.

166 "pushing against...": LaBJ, Diary, p. 689.

166 "Surely the war...": NYT, 27 Dec. 1968, p. 16.

166 "Why don't people...": Goldman, Tragedy, p. 524.

166 "There had never...": Walt Rostow to LBJ and LaBJ, 25 Dec. 1968, Box 1790, LBJ WHSoc-A.

166 "endure": LaBJ, Diary, p. 569.

166 "In all our...": LBJ, Vantage, p. 429.

166 "to de-escalate...": Public Papers of LBJ (Washington, DC, 1970, p. 470.

166 "Wasn't really...": NYT, 27 Dec. 1968, p. 16.

167 "What role...": LBJ Press Conference, 31 Mar. 1968, p. 6, Box 80, Harry Middleton MSS, LBJ Lib.

167 "action has not...": Address of LBJ, 31 Mar. 1968, President's Remarks, Alternate Draft, McPherson, 29 Mar. 1968, both in Box 274, LBJ Statements. For final draft see Public Papers of LBJ (Washington, D.C., 1970), pp. 469-470.

167 a resurgent conservatism...: See Alan Brinkley, "The Problem of American Conservatism," American Historical Review, 99 (Apr. 1994): 409-429.

167 "The speech was...": LaBJ, Diary, p. 710.