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In terms of dux, Lyndon Baines Johnson’s position was closer to Arthur’s than Truman’s. Both took office after the assassination of younger men who had captured the imagination of the public. As vice presidents both were added to the ticket despite objections. Both were implicated with the death of their predecessor in the public’s mind.
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Notes
Lyndon B. Johnson, The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963–1969. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971), p. 19.
See, for example, Irving Bernstein, Guns for Butter: The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson (New York: Oxford University Pres, 1995); Brian VanDeMark, Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Doris Kearns, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (New York: Harper and Row, 1976), pp. 252–53.
Ibid., p. 172.
Robert Dallek, Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 37.
Robert A. Caro extensively reviews Johnson’s homage strategies in the Senate. Master of the Senate (New York: Knopf, 2002).
For Johnson’s wartime shift, see Robert Dallek, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1908–1960 (New York: Oxford University Press,1991), pp. 253–54.
Randall B. Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition (New York: Free Press, 2006), p. 326.
Ibid.
Paul R. Henggeler, In His Steps: Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy Mystique (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1991), p. 29.
On JFK’s disdain for the local politician in his state, see Kenneth P. O’Donnell, “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye”: Memories of John F. Kennedy (Boston: Little, Brown, 1972), pp. 59–60.
Merle Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography (New York: Putnam, 1980), p. 256.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), p. 48.
Ralph G. Martin, Henry and Clare (New York: Putnam, 1991), p. 362.
Merle Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography (New York; Putnam’s, 1960), p. 273.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (Houghton Mifflin, 1965), p. 704.
Robert Dallek, Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 21.
Ben Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy (New York: Norton, 1975), p. 226.
Eric Goldman, The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson (New York: Knopf, 1969), p. 93.
George Reedy, Lyndon B. Johnson: A Memoir (New York: Andrews and McMeel, 1982), p. 55.
O’Brien Oral History; O’Donnell OH, LBJ Library. Also see, Patrick Anderson, The Presidents’ Men (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), p. 299.
William E. Leuchtenburg, In the Shadow of FDR (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983), p. 63.
Max Holland, The Kennedy Assassination Tapes (New York: Knopf, 2004), pp. 2987–98.
Richard Reeves, President Kennedy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993).
Goodwin makes this point. Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, p. 293.
Ibid., p. 333.
Ibid., p. 343.
Henggeler, In His Steps: Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy Mystique, p. 209.
Horace Busby, The Thirty-First of March (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), pp. 194, 196.
Vaughn Davis Bornet, The Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1983), p. 303. Also see Dallek, Flawed Giant, p. 528. Dallek suggests that LBJ anticipated a draft at the convention (p. 572).
Kenneth O’Reilly, Nixon’s Piano: Presidents and Racial Politics from
Washington to Clinton (New York: Free Press, 1995), p. 256.
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Abbott, P. (2008). Lyndon Baines Johnson “For millions of Americans I was still illegitimate, a naked man with no presidential covering, a pretender to the throne, an illegal usurper”. In: Accidental Presidents. The Evolving American Presidency Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230613034_8
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