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1. Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography, 406.

2. Reedy, interview, AC 84-40, 19; Boozer, interview, June 7, 1978, 317:1.

3. Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography, 406; Boozer, interview, June 7, 1978, 317:3; Everee Wade, interview by Konrad Kelley and Edwin C. Bearss, June 9, 1978, 322:3; Holder, "Year at a Glance."

4. Sam Houston Johnson, My Brother Lyndon, 1-5.

5. Goldman, Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, 411-12; Chafe, Unfinished Journey, 273-360.

6. Woods, interview, August 2, 1979, 359:1; Lloyd Gardner, "Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam: The Final Months," in Robert A. Divine, ed., The Johnson Years, vol. 3, LBJ at Home and Abroad (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994), 198-202; George C. Herring, "The War in Vietnam," in Robert A. Divine, ed., The Johnson Years, vol. 1, Foreign Policy, the Great Society, and the White House (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981), 27.

7. Dale Malechek and Jewell Malechek, interview by Konrad Kelley, November 27, 1979, SPMA Oral History Collection, LBJNHP, 365:8.

8. Lady Bird Johnson, White House Diary, 464-65; 590, 605-607; Holder, "Year at a Glance."

9. Rather, interview, 319:1; Woods, interview, August 2, 1979, 359:2; Dale Malechek, interview, November 22, 1978, 339:2; Ohlen Cox and Edward Maier, interview by Konrad Kelley, March 31, 1977, SPMA Oral History Collection, LBJNHP, 290:1; Richard S. "Cactus" Pryor, interview by Konrad Kelley, August 29, 1979, SPMA Oral History Collection, LBJNHP, 363:1; Boatner, interview, 356:2; Father Wunibald Schneider, interview, 242:1.

10. Juanita Roberts to Lyndon Johnson, September 14, 1964, PP 13-2/Texas, Box 96, LBJ Library, Austin; Memorandum for the Record, February 15, 1964, PP 13-2/Texas, Box 97, LBJ Library, Austin; Jack Albright to Marvin Watson, May 24, 1967, EX WH 12-1, Box 23, LBJ Library, Austin; Dale Malechek, interview, November 22, 1978, 339:2; Carpenter, Ruffles and Flourishes, 175, 184.

11. Father Wunibald Schneider, interview, 242:1; Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography, 406; Conkin, Big Daddy, 177-78.

12. "Memorandum for Mrs. Johnson, Re: Your weekend of `sharing the ranch at a pretty time of the year with people we enjoy'," March 19, 1968; "Room Arrangements for the Ranch—April 19-21"; "Menus for April 19, 20, 21," Social Files, Bess Abell, Ranch Weekend, 4/19-4/21/68, Box 25, LBJ Library, Austin.

13. "Off Record, Dinner at the LBJ Ranch, Saturday, August 3, 1968 at seven o'clock"; Mrs Lyndon B. Johnson to Mr. and Mrs. [Edward J.] Daly, July 26, 1968, Social Files, Bess Abell, Ranch Weekend, 2-8/4/68, Box 27, LBJ Library, Austin.

14. Lady Bird Johnson, White House Diary, 22-23, 329-30.

15. Boozer, interview, June 7, 1978, 317:2; Sam Houston Johnson, interview, 225:4.

16. Lady Bird Johnson, White House Diary, 415-16; Hahne and Cox, interview, 311:2.

17. Lady Bird Johnson, White House Diary, 345; Califano, Triumph and Tragedy, 284-86, 326-28.

18. Lady Bird Johnson, White House Diary, 346.

19. Califano, Triumph and Tragedy, 87-88.

20. Ibid., 88-90.

21. Ibid., 90-91; Holder, "Year at a Glance."

22. Califano, Triumph and Tragedy, 90-91; Dallek, Lone Star Rising, 473-76.

23. Califano, Triumph and Tragedy, 92.

24. Ibid., 93-94.

25. Ibid.; Lady Bird Johnson, White House Diary, 316-17; Holder, "Year at a Glance."

26. Lady Bird Johnson, White House Diary, 317; Holder, "Year at a Glance."

27. Culbert, "Lyndon Johnson and the Media," 214-17.

28. Lady Bird Johnson, White House Diary, 565-66; J. J. "Jake" Pickle, interview by Konrad Kelley, January 2, 1975, SPMA Oral History Collection, LBJNHP, 203:2; Father Wunibald Schneider, interview.

29. Lady Bird Johnson, White House Diary, 611-12.

30. Ibid., 612.

31. Frady, "Cooling Off with LBJ," 66; Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography, 511. Conkin, Big Daddy, 288, writes that "even his closest White House aides knew about the carefully guarded secret ending of his [March 31, 1968] speech only a day before he delivered it."

32. Bearss, "Historic Structure Report," 33; Lady Bird Johnson, interview by Alec Gould, John Tiff, and Edwin C. Bearss, August 12, 1978, SPMA Oral History Collection, LBJNHP; White, interview, 315:1; Lawrence Klein, interview by Konrad Kelley, Edwin C. Bearss, and Libby Huitt, May 31, 1978, SPMA Oral History Collection, LBJNHP, 310:3; Jewell Malechek, interview, June 9, 1978, 320:2.

33. Bearss, "Historic Structure Report," 33-35; White, interview.

34. Lyndon B. Johnson, Vantage Point, 174; Califano, Triumph and Tragedy, 273-76.

35. Lady Bird Johnson, White House Diary, 660-62; Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography, 514; Califano, Triumph and Tragedy, 275.

36. Lyndon B. Johnson, Vantage Point, 173-76.

37. Ibid., 177-78; Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography, 515. Not everyone shared Johnson's view of the situation. According to U.S. District Court Judge Thomas "Barefoot" Sanders, in the aftermath of the assassination "yeas and nays canceled each other out," negating any gains in support for the legislation; for more, see Steven F. Lawson, "Civil Rights," in Robert A. Divine, ed., The Johnson Years, vol. 1, Foreign Policy, the Great Society, and the White House (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981), 104-106. Lawson suggests that more study is needed before the real impact of the assassination on the subsequent passage of the legislation can be determined.

38. Lyndon B. Johnson, Vantage Point, 178-79; Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography, 515.

39. Steven F. Lawson, "Mixing Moderation with Militancy: Lyndon Johnson and African-American Leadership," in Robert A. Divine, ed., The Johnson Years, vol. 3, LBJ at Home and Abroad (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994), 83-90. For more on the transformation of King's thinking and the problems this precipitated with Johnson, see David Arrow, "From Reformer to Revolutionary," in David J. Arrow, ed., Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement (Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing, 1989), 427-36, and Adam Fairclough, To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987), 380-85.

40. Lady Bird Johnson, White House Diary, 664.

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