and women:

as child

in college

desire to marry for money

older women; congressional wives; (“Grandma”)Kleberg; Quill's mother

in political campaigns

as teacher

see also Davis, Carol; Glass, Alice; Harbin, Estelle; Leonard, Kitty Clyde Ross

Johnson, Luci Baines (LBJ's daughter)

Johnson, Lynda Bird (LBJ's daughter)

Johnson, Margaret (LBJ's cousin)

Johnson, Rebekah (LBJ's sister)：

on LBJ

on Johnson City

as researcher at Library of Congress

takes LBJ's teaching job in Houston

Johnson, Rebekah Baines (LBJ's mother)：

childhood

college education

courtship

health

literary and cultural interests

as volunteer teacher

marriage (1907)

neighbors' opinions of

newspaper work

in poverty

relationships, to:

father

husband

(Lady Bird) Johnson

LBJ: his care; as child; during college n.; correspondent; his education

Johnson clan

rural women

and rural life; housework; loneliness

Johnson, Sam Ealy, Jr. (LBJ's father)：

associates and friends

Bunton strain in

character and personality:

ambition

as dreamer, idealist, romantic

friendliness

helping others

honesty and integrity

persuasiveness

practical joking

as reveler

temper

unpragmatic, impractical

childhood

conversational style

courtship

death and funeral (Oct. 1937)

education of

as farmer

financial losses/ruin

as game warden

and German-Americans

health

as legislator:

(1905-08)

(1918-23)

marriage (1907)

physical appearance

clothes, hat, boots

political ideas and positions

influence on LBJ

Populist principles

role of govemment

popularity of

real estate business

relationships, to:

(Mabel) Chapman

his children

(Lady Bird) Johnson

LBJ, see LBJ: and father

(Sam Houston) Johnson

wife

reputation as drinker

as road foreman

speech (1937) for LBJ's congressional candidacy

as teacher

Johnson, Sam Houston (LBJ's brother)：

LBJ gets him job at Federal Land Bank

recollections, of:

father

Johnson, Sam Houston (cont'd.)

LBJ: and campus politics; childhood; and father's watch; on sexual prowess

mother

as secretary to Kleberg

Johnson, Samuel Ealy (LBJ's grandfather)：

on Buda farm

on cattle business with Tom

economie ruin of

as intellectual

and LBJ's birth

land deals

moves into Hill Country

old age of

on Pedemales farm

politics of, as idealistic

as Populist candidate for Legislature(1892)

religious ideas of

Johnson, Tom (LBJ's great-uncle)

in cattle business with Sam

economie ruin of

death (1877)

gift to Sam and Eliza

land deals

Johnson, Tom (LBJ's uncle)

farming on Pedernales with Sam

and LBJ

on Sam Ealy, Jr., as businessman

and Sam Ealy, Jr.'s children

Johnson, Wayne

Johnson City, Tex.：

description:

(1913)

(1920's)

growing up in

LBJ and:

his desire to escape from

his implied identification with founding family

visits: (1932); (1937)

lack of activities

recollections of

religion and morality of

turns on Sam Johnson

see also Hill Country of Texas; rural life

Johnson family strain:

and Bunton strain

extravagance

impracticality

interest in ideas, abstractions

pride

temper

Johnston, Alva

Jones, Jesse

Jones, Luther E. (“L. E.”)：

as asst. congressional secretary

with high school debate team

and LBJ

and appeal of 1948 senatorial election

correspondence

on LBJ:

congressional campaign (1937)

as congressional secretary

as Maverick campaigner

at NYA

senatorial campaign (1941)

on (Roy) Miller

Jones, Marvin

Kaiser, Henry

Keach, Carroll

on LBJ, in congressional campaign (1937)

as LBJ's chauffeur:

in congressional campaign (1937)

at NYA

in senatorial campaign (1941)

Keale, Kate Bunton (LBJ's aunt)

Kearns, Doris

Kellam, Jesse

and LBJ

with NYA

as acting director

LBJ proposes, as permanent director

Kelley, Augustine B.

Kelly, Ed

Kelly, George B.

Kendall, George Wilkins

Kennedy, Mylton (“Babe”), i53

Kennedy, Vann

Key, V. O., Jr.

Kilday, Paul and Owen

Kinard, DeWitt

King Ranch, Texas

Kintner, Robert (and Alsop, J.), on FDR:

and Garner

and LBJ's senatorial race (1941)

Kittrell, William (Bill)

on LBJ:

“on no barricades,”

as “wonder kid,”

and LBJ's 1941 campaign financing

Kleberg, Alice Gertrudis King

Kleberg, Richard Mifflin:

and AAA

career

challenged for re-election (1932)

and Corpus Christi Naval Air Station

elected to Congress

hires LBJ as secretary

and LBJ:

as his congressional secretary, see LBJ:

as congressional secretary

as Congressman

mail of

and patronage power

proposed as ambassador to Mexico

Knight, Col. W. T

Knispel, Barney

Koeniger, Fritz

Krause, Arthur K.

Krock, Arthur

Ku Klux Klan

Kyle, Henry

labor unions:

(Herman) Brown on

Gamer and

LBJ and

and political campaign of 1940

contributions

La Guardia, Fiorello

Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte

Lambert, Jessie

Land Bank, see Federal Land Bank

Landis, James M.

Lanham, Fritz

Lary, Camm

Lash, Joseph P.

Latimer, Gene:

health

with high school debate team

and LBJ

congressional campaign (1937)

as congressional secretary

as Congressman

correspondence

fïnancial dependence

on LBJ as congressional secretary

on (Roy) Miller

Lavery, James F.

Lawson, William J.

Leavy, Charles H.

Lechner, W. W.

Lee, Evelyn

Lee, Ray E.

appointment as Austin postmaster(1939)

in LBJ's congressional campaign (1937)

LeHand, Missy

Leinsdorf, Erich, leisure and amusements in rural life

Leonard, Kitty Clyde Ross

Lesinski, John

Leuchtenberg, William E.

Lewis, John L.

Lewis, Ruth

liberalisai:

of Allred

(A. L.) Davis and

of LBJ

in Congress

and FDR

in Texas; see also Roosevelt, F. D.: LBJ's political allegiance to

of Maverick

of Rayburn

see also Populism and Populists

Linden, W. C.

Lindig, Mrs. Christian

Lindley, Betty and Ernest K.

Little Congress

LBJ as Speaker of

LBJ loses power over (1935)

lobbyist(s)：

LBJ considers career as

and Public Utilities Act (1935)

and Texas Legislature

and senatorial election (1941) results

Wirtz as

see also Kittrell, William (Bill); Miller, Roy

Long, Huey:

Every Man a King

LBJ invites to address Little Congress

Longlea estate, Virginia

Looney, Everett L.

Louis, Alex

Low, Sam D. W.

Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA)

fees paid to Wirtz

and Hamilton Dam [later: Buchanan Dam]

and Marshall Ford Dam

RFC bonds for

Lucas, Wingate, on LBJ:

and fellow Congressmen

in Little Congress, passim

his senatorial campaign (1941)

and Texas congressional delegation

Lund, Wendell

machine, political, see organization/machine, political

MacMillan, E. J.

Macune, Charles W.

Maddox, Cecil

Magnolia Petroleum Company (“the Magnolia”)

contributions to LBJ's congressional campaign (1937)

Wirtz as lobbyist for

Magnuson, Warren:

congressional campaign (1940)

on Naval Affairs Committee with LBJ

Mahon, George H.

Manchester, William

Mann, Gerald C.：

career

physical appearance

and Rayburn

and FDR

in senatorial campaign (1941) vs. LBJ

financial aspects

Mansfield, Joseph Jefferson

Marsh, Charles E.：

career and character

and congressional campaign funds(1940)

and (Alice) Glass

and LBJ

political campaigns: congressional(1937); senatorial (1941) n.

on LBJ and New Deal

as oilman

and FDR

see also Austin American-Statesman

Marshall, Sarah Tinsley: and LBJ

Marshall Ford Dam

appropriations for:

first

second

authorization (congressional) for

Brown & Root's profits on

“high dam” (enlargement)

LBJ and:

his compromise with H. Brown on

and his congressional campaign (1937)

his efforts on behalf of, passim

FDR and

Wirtz and

Martin, Clarence

Martin, David

Martin, Tom

Maverick, Maury

Browns' financial assistance to, 586 and n.

as champion of liberal causes

congressional seat:

campaign for (1934)

loses (1938)

and Garner

and LBJ

in 1934 campaign

as Mayor of San Antonio n.

and FDR

and San Antonio “City Machine,”

May, Andrew J.

May, George M.

McCormack, John

LBJ's thank-you letter to (Nov. 1940)

McCraw, William (Bill)

McFarlane, W. D.

Mclntyre, Marvin

and LBJ

and Rayburn

McKay, Seth

McKnight, Felix R.

McLaughlin, Charles F.

McNary-Haugen Bill

Melasky, Harris n.

Mexican-Americans, LBJ and:

in Cotulla (1928-29)

in Maverick campaign (1934)

vote-buying in Texas (1941)

Miller, Dale

Miller, William “Fishbait”：

on LBJ and Rayburn

and Rayburn

Miller, Roy

and Corpus Christi Naval Air Station

financial dealings threatened with exposure (1940)

and LBJ

political campaigns: congressional(1937); senatorial (1941)

Miller, Tom:

in congressional campaign (1937) vs.LBJ

in LBJ's senatorial campaign (1941)

and presidential campaign (1940)

and P WA grants to Austin

Mills, Randolph T.

Mitchell, Arthur

Moley, Raymond S.：

on Gamer

and securities-regulation legislation

money and politics:

for campaigns, political:

for advertising

amounts spent for: LBJ's 1937

campaign; LBJ's 1941

campaign; Texas statewide campaign

(Herman) Brown's financial support for LBJ, 592 and n.

from businessmen

congressional (1940)

Corcoran and

danger of centralized distribution

Election Day expenses

Garner's (1940, presidential)

Hopkins' (1941, senatorial)

Ickes and

IRS investigation of

LBJ's (1937, congressional)

LBJ's (1941, senatorial) n.; disguising of sources; investigated by 1RS; sources of

from labor unions

from oil interests; for congressional campaigns(1940); Humble Oil Co.; for LBJ's campaigns; Magnolia Oil Co.; Richardson; (C.)Roeser

power derived from dispensing of funds

for radio time

FDR's (1940, presidential), 592 and n.

Rowe on

vote-buying

construction contracts, federal

labor unions and

lobbyists

Texas legislators' salaries

utilities and

money in rural areas

Monteith, Edgar

Montgomery, “Professor Bob,” n.

Moody, Dan

moral and religious attitudes, rural

on drink

on thrift

Moreell, Vice Adm. Ben

Morgan, Ernest

recollections of LBJ:

in congressional campaign (1937)

at NYA

Morgenthau, Henry, Jr.：

and 1RS investigation of 1941 campaign funds

on ofl depletion allowance

mortgages of farms

foreclosures on

refinancing of

LBJ's plan for I4th District farmers

Moses, Robert

Munsey Building, Washington, D.C.

Murchison, Clint W.

Murphy, Francis T.

Muscle Shoals Dam, Alabama

Myers, I. W.

Nalle, Ewell

National Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union, see Farmers Alliance

National Youth Administration (NYA)

background and establishment of

LBJ proposes bill, to merge with CGC(1941)

in Texas:

administrative challenges

Freshman College Centers

LBJ as director (1935-37)

National Youth Administration

(NYA) (cont'd.)

political usefulness of, to LBJ

Resident Training Centers

staffing of

student-aid program

success of

work projects of

Neff, Pat M.：

Battle for Peace (speeches)

and Blue Sky Law

LBJ speech for (July 1930)

Negroes (blacks)：

(Herman) Brown on

LBJ and n., 407 and n.

Netterville, Mrs. V. S.

Neutrality Act: Congress refuses to alter(1939)

New Deal

acts (federal)：

Corrupt Practices

Emergency Relief Appropriation (1933)

Fletcher-Rayburn (Securities Act, 1933)

Fletcher-Rayburn (Securities Exchange Act, 1934)

Hatch (1939)

Neutrality

Public Utilities Holding Company(1935)

Selective Service

agencies and programs:

Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)

Bureau of Reclamation

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Commodity Credit Corporation

Farm Credit Administration

Federal Housing Administration (FHA)

Federal Land Bank

Federal Power Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Homeowners Loan Corporation (HOLC)

Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) 382

National Youth Administration (NYA)

Public Works Administration (PWA)

Range Conservation Program

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

Rural Electrification Administration (REA)

Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

see also bureaucracy, federal

(Herman) Brown on

and businessmen

court-packing plan

and farmers

Garner on

Garner-FDR feud over

LBJ avoids public position on

insiders of, top echelon

LBJ and:

attitude changes, from support to opposition

in congressional campaign (1937)

as congressional secretary

as Congressman

gets grants from programs; takes credit for

in senatorial campaign (1941)

and Wirtz

see also patronage jobs; and specifie New Deal programs

legislation

“lieutenants” of

Rayburn and

youth programs

see also specifie New Deal programs

newspapers:

delivered daily to Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr.

LBJ and, as congressional secretary

political campaign advertising in

in rural Texas, 681 and rural isolation

see also LBJ: and press and publicity; and specifie newspapers

New York Herald Tribune: on control of Congress (1940)

New York Times:

on Congress staying in session (1940)

on Garner

on Rayburn

Nichols, Tom W.

98th meridian

Nolle, Alfred H.

Norris, George W.：

and congressional elections (1940)

and rural electrification

NYA, see National Youth Administration

O'Connor, James F.

O'Daniel, Wilbert Lee:

career

as Governor of Texas

gubernatorial campaign (1938)

pension plan issue

physical appearance

in senatorial race (1941) vs. LBJ

and “Beer, Inc.,”

LBJ's tactics against

vote-buying and changing

O'Donnell, Lucille

oil depletion allowance

oil inter ests in Texas:

and Blue Sky Bill

Brown, Herman

and East Texas pool

Frost, Jack

Humble Oil & Refining Co.

independents (wildcatters) and “new money,”

and Rayburn

and LBJ, 617 and n.

Lechner, W. W.

Magnolia Petroleum Co.

majors and “old money,”

and Rayburn

Marsh, Charles E.

Murchison, Clint W.

phony oil stocks

political campaign contributions

to congressional campaigns (1940)

to LBJ's congressional campaign (1937)

to LBJ's senatorial campaign (1941)

Richardson, Sid, passim

Roeser, Charles F.

Standard Oil Co.

Underwood, Arch

Wirtz as lobbyist for

Olmsted, Frederick Law

Oltorf, Frank C.：

on (Alice) Glass

on LBJ:

and (Herman) Brown

and Rayburn

O’Neal, Emmet

organization/machine, political:

LBJ's

in congressional campaign (1937)

“network” created in Texas

NYA as

planting men loyal to him

in senatorial campaign (1941)

San Antonio's “City Machine”：

LBJ's allegiance with (1941)

and Maverick

in South Texas

Ortiz, Juan

Oursler, Fulton

outhouses and plumbing

Overacker, Louise

Parr, George, passim

Parrish, Michael E.: Securities Regulation and the New Deal

Parsons, Claude V.

Patillo, Effie

Patman, Wright

fails to enter 1941 senatorial race

LBJ and:

as impediment to LBJ's ambition

on New Deal

on LBJ

and father

on (Sam Ealy) Johnson, Jr.

his conversational style

and Rayburn

as spokesman for national causes

and Texas Legislature

patronage jobs

credited to LBJ

LBJ secures for friends

Rayburn and

in redistricted areas

Patton, Nat (“Cousin Nat”)

Payne, William Howard: on LBJ and Little Congress

Pearl Harbor, attack on (Dec. 1941)

Pearsall, Tex.: LBJ as teacher in (1930)

Pearson, Drew:

and (R. S.) Allen:

on Democratie Congressional Campaign Committee

on Garner

on LBJ: as Democrats' hero of 1940; as FDR's protege

interview with Rayburn (1954)

on 1RS investigation of 1941 campaign funds

Pedagog (San Marcos yearbook)：

mocksLBJ

selection of editor (May 1930)

Pedernales Electric Co-operative (PEC)：

installs electrical lines in Hill Country (1938-39)

effect on FDR

and REA loan, passim

People's Party (“Populists”)

and Hill Country support for FDR

and (Sam Ealy) Johnson, Jr.'s politics

see also Farmers Alliance; Progressives

Pepper, Claude

Perry, Arthur

Petrie, Kenneth M.

Petsch, Alfred P. C.

Philosophical Society of Texas

Pickle, J. J. (Jake)

Poage, Robert

political machine, see organization/machine, political

political parties, see Democratie Party; People's Party; Populism and Populists; Progressives; Republican Party

political philosophy:

conservatism:

of Garner

of Hopkins

of LBJ

of Kleberg

of Miller

of Texas campaign contributors

Texas Regulars

liberalism:

of Allred

(A.L.) Davis and

of LBJ

of Maverick

of Rayburn

see also political parties

politics:

and money, see money and politics

and organizations, see beer and liquor inter ests in Texas; LBJ: political

aptitude and interest: transforming organization into political force; labor unions; lobbyists; oil interests in Texas; utilities, public

poils, public-opinion:

Belden

in LBJ's congressional campaign (1937)

in LBJ's senatorial campaign (1941)

in presidential campaign (1940)

Populism and Populists:

antecedents of

“farm bloc” and New Deal legislation

(Sam Ealy) Johnson, Jr., and

People's Party

and Rayburn, in Texas

and Hill Country support for FDR

tax bills proposed by (1933)

see also Bailey, Joseph Weldon;

Farmers Alliance; Progressives

poverty:

of Hill Country settlers

LBJ's and Herman Brown's, as common ground

of Johnson family, shortage of food

rural

and New Deal

political impact of

pragmatism and practicality:

in Bunton strain

of LBJ

of rural life

predictions about LBJ's future, see LBJ: predictions of failure; LBJ: predictions of success

President of the United States:

LBJ and:

ambition to be

predictions he will be: by (Chuck)Henderson; by LBJ, I71; by FDR

tells Cotulla class that anyone can be

landslide elections of, and overconfidence n.

press and publicity:

LBJ and:

in congressional campaign (1937); after victory

on congressional re-election (1938)

as Congressman

on Garner and patronage power

for Little Congress

on FDR-Garner battle

in senatorial campaign (1941)

poils, see poils, public-opinion

Rayburn and

see also newspapers; radio

Price, Lucy Johnson (LBJ's aunt)

“professional son,” LBJ as

with Evans

with Marsh

with Rayburn

with FDR

with Wirtz

Progressives: and farm legislation

Prohibition

see also drinking, rural attitudes toward

Public Utilities Holding Company Act (1935)

Public Works Administration (PWA)：

creation of (1933)

LBJ gets grants from

and Marshall Ford Dam

public works programs, see Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC); National Youth Administration (NYA); Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Puis, Edward

Quill, Dan:

appointed San Antonio postmaster

and LBJ

in senatorial campaign (1941)

on LBJ, in congressional campaign (1937)

on vote-buying in San Antonio

Quill, Eloise

Quin, C. K.

radio:

and political campaigns:

1937, LBJ's congressional

1940: congressional; presidential

1941, LBJ's senatorial

and rural isolation

railroads:

and cattle business

and farmers

Rayburn and, regulation of, transients on, Rainey, Henry, ranchers, see cattle-raising; farmers,

ranchers; farming, ranching, in Hill Country

Rancho Rambouillet, Randolph, Jennings, Range Conservation program: and Hill Country of Texas, Rankin, John E., rape by Indians, and n.

Rather, Mary, Rayburn, Metze Jones, Rayburn, Sam Taliaferro, character and personality:

ambition, “expert on human beings,”, integrity;

financial, loyalty as friend, political aptitude, rigidity, taciturnity, temper, in Congress:

his “Board of Education,”

as chairman of Interstate Commerce Committee

as champion of national issues

early years (1912-40), first elected (1912), lack of interest in federal contrats

longevity of tenure, as Majority Leader, and Marshall Ford Dam, and REA Act (1936), and Selective Service Act extension (1941)

as Speaker: power of; selection as (Sept. 1940); threatened by potential Democratie losses(1940)

early life of

elections and political campaigns:

congressional (1940)

presidential (1939-40); telegrams concerning Garner

expertise in procedure

final illness

and LBJ

Rayburn, Sam Taliaferro (cont'd.)

and “Board of Education,”

fïrst meeting

and LBJ's appointment to Democratie Congressional Campaign Committee

and LBJ's appointment as Texas NYA director

and LBJ's attempttoget Appropriations Committee assignment

and LBJ's bending of unwritten congressional raies, and LBJ's senatorial campaign (1941)

and Marshall Ford high dam

and New Deal “lieutenants,”

resolution of support for Garner(1939)

telegrams on Garner (1940)

and Texas delegation

loneliness of

marriage

and New Deal “lieutenants,”

and oil interests

physical appearance

power of:

in Congress

as Speaker of House

as Speaker of Texas Legislature

in Texas, statewide

and publicity

and railroads

relationships, to:

Bailey, Joseph Weldon

children

Gardner, Sam

Garner, John Nance n.

Johnson, Claudia (Lady Bird)

LBJ, see Rayburn, S. T.: and LBJ

Johnson, Sam Ealy, Jr.

Mann, Gerald

Patman, Wright

FDR, 589 and n.

Richardson, Sid

Wilson, Woodrow

and securities regulation

social life

on tariffs and reform of

in Texas Legislature (1906-12)

campaign and election (1906)

as Speaker

“To get along, go along,”

and utilities

Rayburn-Fletcher Act (1935)

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)：

bonds for LCRA

creation of

and Marshall Ford Dam

Record, James

Redford, Emmette

relief, public:

federal

by private agencies

in South Texas

remonitization

Republican Party (GOP)：

campaign funds, compared to Democrats'

and oil money

Raybum's hatred of

strength in Congress, compared to Democrats':

(1918-30)

(1931)

(1936-40)

(1940)

and utilities lobby

Rich, Robert F., 466 and n.

Richards, Horace

Richardson, Sid

contributions, to:

1940 congressional campaigns

1941 LBJ senatorial campaign

and Marsh

and Rayburn

Ridgway, R. Bouna

Riegle, Donald

Rivers and Harbors Committee, see U.S. Congress. House of Representatives. Rivers and Harbors Committee

roads, in Hill Country:

description:

(1913)

(1937)

and isolation of area

LBJ's work on

and (Sam Ealy) Johnson, Jr.

new, from WPA grants

for transporting farm produce to market

LBJ's commitment to issue

Roberts, Ray

Robinson, Joseph T.

Roeser, Charles F.

Rogers, Byron G.

Roosevelt, Eleanor:

concern for “lost generation” of youth, 343 and n.

and LBJ's 1941 campaign

Roosevelt, Elliott

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano:

arrivai in Washington (Mar. 1932)

(Herman) Brown on, 469 and banks

and Congress

Court-packing plan

and electrification, rural

and LBJ

“deviousness,”

and farmers

and LBJ:

and Austin postmastership

and Democratie Congressional Campaign Committee

and financial support for FDR presidential campaign (1940)

and IRS investigation of 1941 campaign funds

LBJ as FDR's man in Texas: for campaign (1939-40); after 1940 elections

LBJ's entree to White House; rarity of audiences with, in early years in Congress

LBJ's reaction to FDR's death

LBJ's senatorial campaign (1941)

meetings: May 1937, first; July 1938, Texas train trip; July 1939, with Marsh; Oct.1940, with Raybum; Apr.1941, before senatorial candidacy announcement; summer 1941, after senatorial election; Jan.1944, with Wirtz; informai

personal rapport

political allegiance, see FDR: LBJ's political allegiance to

REA directorship ofïered and refused (1939)

FDR suggests LBJ may become President

FDR's response to LBJ's 1937 election

LBJ on

LBJ's political allegiance to:

in congressional election (1937)

as congressional secretary

in senatorial campaign (1941); FDR's support in

in 1940's, abandonnant of

and Marshall Ford Dam

Miller group on

and NYA

political campaign of 1939-40, passim

(Herman) Brown's financial support of, and n.

election night

Illinois primary (Apr. 1940)

in poils, v.s. Willkie

popularity: national; in Texas

Stop Roosevelt movement, passim, Third Term issue

relationships, to:

Garner: battle for presidential nomination (1939-40), passim; feud over New Deal; final Cabinet meeting; final private meeting; Garner as FDR's man in Texas

LBJ, FDR: and LBJ; FDR: LBJ's political allegiance to

losing politicians

Marsh

Raybum, 589 and n.

rural support for

and the South

Roosevelt, James:

and LBJ

and Marshall Ford Dam

Roosevelt, Theodore

Root, Dan

Roper, Elizabeth, see Clemens, Elizabeth Roper

Ross, Kitty Clyde, see Leonard, Kitty Clyde Ross

Ross, Mabel Chapman:

and LBJ's suit of daughter

refuses Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr.

Roth, Fenner

at NYA

Rountree, Payne

Rowe, Elizabeth

recollections of LBJ as young Congressman, passim

Rowe, James H. (Jim)

on campaign financing

expedites politically useful projects

and LBJ

election night (1940)

and 1RS investigation of 1941 campaign funds

as liaison between White House and LBJ's 1941 campaign

on LBJ:

ambitions of

as Congressman

financing campaigns: (1940); (1941)

and FDR

thoroughness of

and White House staff

and Rayburn

on Texas congressional delegation luncheons

on Wirtz

Rural Electrification Administration (REA)：

directorship offered to LBJ by FDR

established (May 1935)

and LBJ's senatorial campaign (1941)

loans to farmers' cooperatives

to Pedemales Electric Cooperative(1938)

REA Act (1936), debated and passed

rural life:

amusements (and lack of)

books, newspapers and reading (and lack of)

boredom, child labor

cultural deprivation

economie conditions

money/cash

purchasing power

relief, public

education

electricity, see electricity in rural areas

fear:

of debt

of electrification

of financial failure

of Indians

financial insecurity

growing up in

health and medical facilities

homes

hopelessness

isolation

and ignorance of New Deal programs

and mass communications

political impact of

and power of gossip

on Texas frontier

and leisure

loneliness

moral and religious attitudes

on drink

on thrift

outhouses and plumbing

political campaigns, see Hill Country of Texas: political campaigns in; LBJ: elections and political campaigns, 1941 (senatorial)

pragmatism of

roads:

descriptions

and isolation

LBJ's work on

(Sam Ealy) Johnson, Jr., and

new, from WP A grants

for transporting farm produce to market

thrift

women:

health of

loneliness of

at San Marcos, attitudes of

skills-training of, at Resident Training Centers

work of

work:

of farming

women's

see also farmers, ranchers; farming, ranching, in Hill Country; Hill Country of Texas

Salvation Army

Sam Houston High School, Houston, Tex.：LBJ as teacher and debate coach at

San Antonio, Tex.

becomes 20th Congressional District

“City Machine”：

LBJ's alliance with (1941)

and Maverick

postmastership

vote-buying in (1941)

San Antonio Express: poils in 1937 congressional campaign

Sanchez, Manuel

San Jacinto, battle of

San Juan (Puerto Rico) Air Base

San Marcos teachers college, see Southwest Texas State Teachers College, San Marcos, Tex.

San Marcos, Tex.: description (1920's)

San Saba massacre

schools, see education and schools

Secrest, Robert

securities, regulation of

Securities Act (1933)

Securities Exchange Act (1934)

Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)：creation of (1934)

Selective Service Act: extension of (i94i)

LBJ speaks in House for

Shannon, David A., Sharp, Lacey

Shelton, Emmett

recollections of congressional

campaign (1937)

Shelton, Polk

congressional campaign (1937) as LBJ's opponent

Sheppard, Morris

Sheridan, John E.

Sherley, Swagar

Sherwood, Robert E.

Shields, Paul and Cornelius

Smith, E. Babe

Smith, Lon

Smith, Martin F.

Snyder, J. Buell

soldiers' pensions and benefits

So Relie, Ella

soup kitchens

Southern Exchange, Dallas

Southern Mercury

South Texas

in Depression

and New Deal programs

Southwest Texas State Teachers College, San Marcos, Tex.

academie standards

campus politics

debating team

history of

LBJ at (1927-30)

LBJ visits

organizations:

Black Stars

Gaillardians

Student Council

White Stars, passim

Resident Training Center (NYA project)at

student jobs at

women at, attitudes of

see also College Star; Pedagog

Speck, H. E.

Speer, John

Standard Oil Company

Stone, Sam

Stop Roosevelt movement, passim

Stribling, Clayton, ni

Sumners, Hatton W.

Supreme Court: FDR's Court-packing plan

Sutphin, William H.

tariffs:

farmers and

Rayburn on

reform of

taxes:

Kleberg on

oil depletion allowance

on sulphur, oil, gas

and Texas Legislature

tax evasion/fraud: IRS investigation of Brown & Root (1942-44)

Taylor, Claudia, see Johnson, Claudia Alta Taylor (Lady Bird)

Taylor, Edward T.

Taylor, Thomas Jefferson (LBJ's father-in-law)：

career

and LBJ

funds for congressional campaign (1937)

and NYA

Tenerowcz, Rudolph G.

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Texans in Congress

and Garner:

on patronage jobs (1933-34)

resolution of support (1939)

and LBJ

Texas:

boosterism in

Indians in

political “machines” in

population, early

poverty of its government

power of, in Washington

presidential conventions and primaries(1939-40)

rainfall and agriculture in

seulement of

State Democratie Convention, 1940, Waco

see also Hill Country of Texas; South Texas

Texas. Congressional Districts: redistricting (May 1933)

Texas. Congressional Districts. 4th:

Rayburn as Representative

Texas. Congressional Districts, 10th:

“boxes” bought in elections

election of Representative from:

(1937); analyzed

(1938)

(1940)

geography of

LBJ's unfamiliarity with

LBJ as unknown in (1937)

liberal character of

obscurity of its Congressmen

political support for LBJ in (1937)

and FDR

Texas. Congressional Districts. I4th

and Depression

and New Deal programs

patronage jobs

Texas. Congressional Districts. 20th:

formation of (1933)

LBJ and

Texas. Legislature:

constitutional limitations on

LBJ's visits to, with father

and LCR A

and lobbyists

and Marshall Ford Dam

Rayburn as member and Speaker

redistricting by

and taxes, taxation

and utilities

Texas. Liquor Control Board

Texas. (State) Railroad Commission:

Neff on

and oil regulation

Thompson on

Texas Brewers Institute (“Beer, Inc.”)

Texas College of Art & Industries: LBJ considered for presidency of

Texas Gulf Sulphur Corporation

Texas Hill Country, see Hill Country of Texas

Texas Power & Light Company (TP& L)

as political force

and Rayburn

Texas Regulars

Thomas, Albert

Thomas, Elmer

Thomason, Ewing

Thompson, Ernest O.

Thompson, Huston

Time magazine:

on Garner

on Hoover

on LBJ:

senatorial campaign

senatorial candidacy

on presidential campaign (1940)

Timmons, Bascom

transients and hoboes

Truth-in-Securities Bill (1933)

Tucker, Ray, Tully, Grace

and LBJ

“Umble, the,” see Humble Oil & Refining Company

Underwood, Arch

unemployment

unions, see labor unions

United Mine Workers (UMW)

U.S. Congress:

campaign for (1940)

Coolidge and

court-packing controversy

and Depression

Hoover and

power in

FDR and

Texans' power in

workings of:

committee System

LBJ and

seniority System

U.S. Congress. House of Representatives:

Democratie/Republican control of:

(1918-30)

(1931)

(1936-40)

(1940)

LBJ in, see LBJ: in Congress

longevity of tenure of Texans in

national issues and legislation undertaken by members

relationship to constituents

secretaries [later: Administrative Aides]

seniority System

U.S. Congress. House of Representatives.Appropriations Committee

LBJ attempts to be appointed to (1938)

U.S. Congress. House of Representatives.Naval Affairs Committee, n.

chairmanship of

hearings on Corpus Christi Naval Station

LBJ on

and LBJ's bill (1943) on absenteeism in war plants

U.S. Congress. House of Representatives.

Rivers and Harbors Committee

and Marshall Ford Dam

U.S. Congress. House of Representatives.

Committee on Un-American

Activities

U.S. Constitution:

and court-packing plan

Garner on

utilities, public:

as political force in Texas

Rayburn and

regulation of

and rural electrification

Van Zandt, James

veterans

bonus issue

Bonus Marchers

Vinson, Cari (“the Admirai”)

Vinson, Fred M.

Votaw, David F.

votes, buying of:

in congressional campaigns (1940)

by LBJ

and Rayburn

in senatorial election (1941)

votes, changing of: in senatorial election (1941)

Waite, Davis H. (“Bloody Bridles”)

Wallace, Henry

commends LBJ to FDR for REA post

LBJ thank-you letter to (1940)

on Rayburn and FDR

Waller, Edwin, III

Washington, D.C.：

entree to, LBJ's

for businessmen

LBJ learns about

Washington Post :

on Democratie Convention of 1940

on LBJ's 1937 election to Congress

on Rayburn and Garner

Watson, Edwin M. (“Pa”)

Webb, Walter Prescott

Weedin, Harfield

Weisl, Edwin

Welhausen School, Cotulla, Tex.: LBJ at (1928-29)

Werner, E. C., passim

westward movement

dreams of settlers

Indians and

Texas boosterism

Wheeler, Burton Kendall

Wheeler-Rayburn Act (1935)

White, Theodore H.

White, William Allen

White, William S.

White House:

LBJ's entree to

rarity of audiences, early in congressional career

see also FDR: and LBJ: meetings

staff, and LBJ

Whiteside, Vernon

recollections of LBJ in college

and White Stars

White Stars (San Marcos secret organization), passim

in Hopkins political campaign

LBJ finds jobs for members

White Stars (cont'd.)

LBJ's membership as political liability

Whitten, Marthabelle

Wickenden, Elizabeth

Wild, Claud

and LBJ congressional campaign (1937)

wildcatters (oilmen)

and East Texas pool

Frost, Jack

Lechner, W. W.

Murchison, Clint W.

political campaign contributions

to congressional campaigns (1940)

to LBJ's congressional campaign (1937)

to LBJ's senatorial campaign (1941)

and Rayburn

Richardson, Sid, passim,628

Roeser, Charles F.

Underwood, Arch

Willkie, Wendell

Wilson, Woodrow: and Rayburn

Wirtz, Alvin J.

appointed Undersecretary of the Interior

resigns (1941)

and Hamilton [later: Buchanan] Dam

and 1RS investigation of Brown & Root (1942-44)

and LBJ

senatorial campaign (1941)

and LCR A projects:

his fees from

RFC bonds for

and Marshall Ford, Dam

and LBJ's congressional campaign (1937)

nicknamed “Senator,”

and FDR presidential campaign (1940)

Witt, Edgar women in Hill Country:

health

loneliness

at San Marcos, attitudes of

skills-training at Resident Training Centers

thriftiness

work

Woods, Wilton, and n.,

Woolf, W. H.

Woolsey, W. A.

work, in rural areas

of children

of farming

of women

see also Depression: and jobs;

patronage jobs: unemployment

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

World War I:

anti-German hysteria of

draft, military

veterans

bonus issue

Bonus Marchers

pensions of

World War II:

LBJ and

and LBJ-Rayburn relationship

LBJ's naval service in

prelude to, and Congress

and FDR's popularity

Wynne, Todde L.

Young, Harold H.

on LBJ:

as liberal

reluctance to take stand on Garner

in LBJ's senatorial campaign (1941)

Young, Mary Louise, see Glass, Mary Louise

Young, Roland

youth of America:

and Depression

education for

jobs for

as “lost generation,”

see also National Youth Administration (NYA)