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by Jules Witcover


  2. Ibid., 27–28.

  3. Ibid., 195.

  4. Ibid., 22.

  5. Ibid., 36.

  6. Irving G. Williams, The Rise of the Vice Presidency, 98.

  7. Thomas, Thomas Riley Marshall, 53–55.

  8. McCombs, Making Woodrow Wilson President, 136–77.

  9. Thomas, Thomas Riley Marshall, 133–34.

  10. Ibid., 141.

  11. Williams, The Rise of the Vice Presidency, 104.

  12. Thomas, Thomas Riley Marshall, 144.

  13. Bennett, He Almost Changed the World, 211.

  14. Ibid., 200.

  15. Thomas, Thomas Riley Marshall, 157–58.

  16. Ibid., 175.

  17. J. M. Cooper Jr., Woodrow Wilson, 339–41.

  18. Ibid.

  19. Ibid., 234.

  20. Williams, The Rise of the Vice Presidency, 106.

  21. Bennett, He Almost Changed the World, 208.

  22. Ibid., 217.

  23. Cooper, Woodrow Wilson, 356.

  24. Bennett, He Almost Changed the World, 217.

  25. Ibid., 218.

  26. Thomas, Thomas Riley Marshall, 230–31.

  27. Ibid., 178.

  28. Ibid., 179; Ferrell, The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge, 18.

  29. Williams, The Rise of the Vice Presidency, 108; Bennett, He Almost Changed the World, 235–36.

  30. Thomas, Thomas Riley Marshall, 182.

  31. Bennett, He Almost Changed the World, 249.

  32. Ibid., 251.

  33. Thomas, Thomas Riley Marshall, 223.

  34. Ibid., 204.

  35. Bennett, He Almost Changed the World, 276.

  36. Ibid., 278.

  37. Ibid., 279.

  38. Ibid., 280.

  39. Levin, Edith and Woodrow, 340.

  40. Thomas, Thomas Riley Marshall, 224–25; Gene Smith, When the Cheering Stopped, 136.

  41. Bennett, He Almost Changed the World, 281.

  42. Witcover, Crapshoot, 64.

  43. Thomas, Thomas Riley Marshall, 211.

  44. Witcover, Crapshoot, 62.

  45. Marshall, Recollections of Thomas R. Marshall, Vice President and Hoosier Philosopher, 368.

  46. Levin, Edith and Woodrow, 342.

  47. Ibid., 351.

  48. Smith, When the Cheering Stopped, 124; Bennett, He Almost Changed the World, 296–97.

  49. Bennett, He Almost Changed the World, 303.

  29. CALVIN COOLIDGE

  1. McKee, Coolidge, Wit and Wisdom, v.

  2. Ibid., 43.

  3. Ibid., 121.

  4. Coolidge, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, 145.

  5. McCoy, “The Election of 1924,” 2358.

  6. Ferrell, The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge, 15.

  7. Ibid., 16.

  8. Ibid., 14.

  9. Irving G. Williams, The Rise of the Vice Presidency, 118–19.

  10. Ferrell, The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge, 4.

  11. Coolidge, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, 17.

  12. Ibid., 93.

  13. Ferrell, The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge, 10.

  14. Gilbert, The Tormented President, 82–83.

  15. William Allen White, A Puritan in Babylon, 151.

  16. Ibid., 156.

  17. Fuess, Calvin Coolidge, 217; White, A Puritan in Babylon, 158.

  18. Sobel, Coolidge, 141.

  19. Ibid., 142.

  20. Ibid., 143.

  21. Ibid., 144.

  22. Ferrell, The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge, 15.

  23. McCoy, Calvin Coolidge, 125.

  24. Gilbert, The Tormented President, 105.

  25. McCoy, “The Election of 1924,” 2376.

  26. Williams, The Rise of the Vice Presidency, 121.

  27. Gilbert, The Tormented President, 106.

  28. Ibid., 107.

  29. Coolidge, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, 159.

  30. Ferrell, The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge, 18.

  31. Coolidge, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, 161.

  32. Ferrell, The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge, 18.

  33. Coolidge, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, 173–76.

  34. Fuess, Calvin Coolidge, 311.

  35. Williams, The Rise of the Vice Presidency, 126.

  36. White, A Puritan in Babylon, 345.

  30. CHARLES G. DAWES

  1. Timmons, Portrait of an American, 3–4.

  2. Ibid., 9–10.

  3. Ibid., 24–25.

  4. Ibid., 26.

  5. Ibid., 28.

  6. Ibid., 54–55.

  7. Ibid., 56.

  8. Ibid., 65.

  9. Dawes, Notes as Vice President, 1928–1929, 108.

  10. Ibid., 183.

  11. Ibid., 195.

  12. Timmons, Portrait of an American, 201.

  13. Ibid., 202.

  14. Sobel, Coolidge, 291.

  15. Leach, That Man Dawes, 192.

  16. William Allen White, A Puritan in Babylon, 301.

  17. Sobel, Coolidge, 303.

  18. Ferrell, The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge, 59.

  19. Gilbert, The Tormented President, 176.

  20. Ibid., 176–77.

  21. Ibid., 177.

  22. Ibid., 136–39.

  23. Sobel, Coolidge, 322–23; Timmons, Portrait of an American, 247.

  24. White, A Puritan in Babylon, 322.

  25. Ibid., 323.

  26. Gilbert, The Tormented President, 179.

  27. Dawes, Notes as Vice President, 1928–1929, 255.

  28. Ibid., 299, 304, 316.

  29. Ibid., 3–5.

  31. CHARLES CURTIS

  1. Ewy, Charles Curtis of Kansas, 5–9.

  2. Unrau, Mixed-Bloods and Tribal Dissolution, 65.

  3. Ibid., 45–49.

  4. Seitz, From Kaw Teepee to Capitol, 18–19.

  5. Ewy, Charles Curtis of Kansas, 9–10, 76.

  6. Unrau, Mixed-Bloods and Tribal Dissolution, 72–74.

  7. Ibid., 82.

  8. Ewy, Charles Curtis of Kansas, 12.

  9. Seitz, From Kaw Teepee to Capitol, 147–48.

  10. Unrau, Mixed-Bloods and Tribal Dissolution, 85.

  11. Ewy, Charles Curtis of Kansas, 14–15.

  12. Ibid., 19; Seitz, From Kaw Teepee to Capitol, 161–62.

  13. Unrau, Mixed-Bloods and Tribal Dissolution, 103.

  14. Ibid., 172–73.

  15. Ewy, Charles Curtis of Kansas, 23.

  16. Ibid., 30–31.

  17. Ibid., 37.

  18. Hatfield, Vice Presidents of the United States, 379.

  19. Fausold, The Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover, 84–85; Ewy, Charles Curtis of Kansas, 48–49.

  20. Hatfield, Vice Presidents of the United States, 380–81.

  21. Ibid., 381.

  22. Ewy, Charles Curtis of Kansas, 57.

  32. JOHN NANCE GARNER

  1. Timmons, Garner of Texas, 1–5; Fisher, Cactus Jack, 2–3.

  2. James, Mr. Garner of Texas, 12–17.

  3. Timmons, Garner of Texas, 17.

  4. Fisher, Cactus Jack, 11–12.

  5. Ibid.; Irving G. Williams, The Rise of the Vice Presidency, 153–54.

  6. Fisher, Cactus Jack, 15.

  7. Ibid., 31.

  8. Timmons, Garner of Texas, 42; James, Mr. Garner of Texas, 70.

  9. Fisher, Cactus Jack, 68.

  10. Timmons, Garner of Texas, 120–24.

  11. James, Mr. Garner of Texas, 113.

  12. Timmons, Garner of Texas, 137.

  13. James, Mr. Garner of Texas, 126–27.

  14. Timmons, Garner of Texas, 154.

  15. Ibid., 157.

  16. Ibid., 160.

  17. Brands, TR, 247.

  18. Fisher, Cactus Jack, 93; Timmons, Garner of Texas, 165.

  19. Timmons, Garner of Texas, 168.

  20. Fisher, Cactus Jack, 96.

  21. Ibid.

  22. Timmons, Garner of Texas, 177.

  23. Fisher, Cac
tus Jack, 101.

  24. Ibid., 111.

  25. Timmons, Garner of Texas, 178–79.

  26. Fisher, Cactus Jack, 114.

  27. Ibid., 118.

  28. Williams, The Rise of the Vice Presidency, 162.

  29. Ibid., 160.

  30. Ibid., 160–61.

  31. Fisher, Cactus Jack, 128.

  32. Timmons, Garner of Texas, 216.

  33. Ibid., 216–17.

  34. Fisher, Cactus Jack, 131.

  35. Williams, The Rise of the Vice Presidency, 165; Farley, Jim Farley’s Story, 84.

  36. Ibid., 165–66.

  37. Timmons, Garner of Texas, 222–23.

  38. Farley, Jim Farley’s Story, 84.

  39. Blum et al., The National Experience, 712–13.

  40. Timmons, Garner of Texas, 234.

  41. Ibid., 139.

  42. Fisher, Cactus Jack, 143.

  43. Ibid.

  44. Ibid., 143.

  45. Ibid., 145.

  46. Timmons, Garner of Texas, 267.

  47. Nathan Miller, FDR, 450.

  48. Fisher, Cactus Jack, 150.

  49. Timmons, Garner of Texas, 278.

  33. HENRY A. WALLACE

  1. Irving G. Williams, The Rise of the Vice Presidency, 177–78.

  2. Lord, The Wallaces of Iowa, 1–6.

  3. Ibid., 10.

  4. Ibid., 150.

  5. Ibid., 159.

  6. Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, 49.

  7. Ibid., 53–55.

  8. Ibid., 90–91.

  9. Ibid., 78.

  10. Ibid., 107–8; Lord, The Wallaces of Iowa, 324.

  11. Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, 113.

  12. Witcover, Crapshoot, 77.

  13. Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, 160.

  14. White and Maze, Henry A. Wallace, 105–6.

  15. Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, 176.

  16. Ibid., 210.

  17. Farley, 254.

  18. Tully, FDR, My Boss, xxx.

  19. Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, 220.

  20. Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, 215.

  21. Ibid., 216; Nathan Miller, FDR, 452.

  22. Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, 218.

  23. Ibid., 222.

  24. Ibid., 223.

  25. Brands, TR, 574.

  26. Ibid., 266–68.

  27. Ibid., 270.

  28. Lord, The Wallaces of Iowa, 496–514; Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, 309–10.

  29. Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, 310.

  30. Flynn, You’re the Boss, 181.

  31. Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, 349.

  32. Ibid., 351.

  33. Ibid., 351–52; Brands, TR, 768–69.

  34. Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, 352.

  35. Witcover, Crapshoot, 96.

  36. Ibid.

  37. Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, 362.

  38. Ibid., 367.

  39. Ibid., 369.

  40. Ibid., 373.

  34. HARRY S. TRUMAN

  1. Daniels, The Man of Independence, 49–50.

  2. Ibid., 51–52; McCullough, Truman, 42.

  3. Truman, The Autobiography of Harry S. Truman, 52–53.

  4. McCullough, Truman, 119–33.

  5. Daniels, The Man of Independence, 103–4; Richard Lawrence Miller, Truman, 112, 149–50.

  6. McCullough, Truman, 159–65.

  7. Merle Miller, Plain Speaking, 159–63.

  8. McCullough, Truman, 160.

  9. Ibid., 184–85.

  10. Hamby, Man of the People, 233; McCullough, Truman, 204.

  11. Hamby, Man of the People, 233–47.

  12. Ibid., 263.

  13. Hamby, Man of the People, 233.

  14. Allen, Presidents Who Have Known Me, 122.

  15. Flynn, You’re the Boss, 180.

  16. Ibid., 181.

  17. Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, 348.

  18. McCullough, Truman, 300–301.

  19. Witcover, Crapshoot, 87.

  20. Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, 348–49.

  21. Ibid., 349.

  22. Byrnes, All in One Lifetime, 222.

  23. Miller, Plain Speaking, 175.

  24. Byrnes, All in One Lifetime, 226.

  25. Miller, Plain Speaking, 192–93.

  26. McCullough, Truman, 306; Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, 353.

  27. Tully, FDR, My Boss, 276–77.

  28. Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, 353.

  29. Ibid., 359; McCullough, Truman, 314.

  30. McCullough, Truman, 320.

  31. Ibid., 330–31.

  32. Hamby, Man of the People, 287.

  33. McCullough, Truman, 336–37.

  34. Ibid., 337.

  35. Goodwin, No Ordinary Time, 604; McCullough, Truman, 342.

  36. McCullough, Truman, 353.

  37. Ibid., 376.

  38. Ibid., 377.

  35. ALBEN W. BARKLEY

  1. Donovan, Conflict and Crisis, 405.

  2. Barkley, That Reminds Me, 22.

  3. Ibid., 27.

  4. Ibid., 77.

  5. Ibid., 79–80.

  6. Ibid., 102.

  7. Ibid., 110–11.

  8. Ibid., 141.

  9. Ibid., 139.

  10. Ibid., 146.

  11. Polly Ann Davis, Alben W. Barkley, 17.

  12. Ibid., 30.

  13. Ibid., 101–5.

  14. Barkley, That Reminds Me, 157.

  15. Ibid., 172.

  16. Ibid., 172–73.

  17. Davis, Alben W. Barkley, 143.

  18. Barkley, That Reminds Me, 177.

  19. Ibid., 180–81.

  20. Ibid., 179.

  21. Ibid., 178–79.

  22. McCullough, Truman, 637.

  23. Barkley, That Reminds Me, 201.

  24. Ibid., 199.

  25. Davis, Alben W. Barkley, 256.

  26. Hamby, Man of the People, 450–51.

  27. Ibid., 452.

  28. Davis, Alben W. Barkley, 284–86.

  29. Barkley, That Reminds Me, 209.

  30. Ibid., 236–42; Hamby, Man of the People, 607–9.

  31. Barkley, That Reminds Me, 21.

  32. Davis, Alben W. Barkley, 314.

  36. RICHARD M. NIXON

  1. Roger Morris, Richard Milhous Nixon, 24–46.

  2. Gellman, The Contender, 11.

  3. Ibid., 20; Parment, Richard Nixon and His America, 85–88.

  4. Morris, Richard Milhous Nixon, 317–34; Gellman, The Contender, 308.

  5. Ibid., 468–69, 509–29.

  6. Mitchell, Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady, 102; Gellman, The Contender, 308.

  7. Morris, Richard Milhous Nixon, 606.

  8. Klein, Making It Perfectly Clear, 79.

  9. Ibid.; Morris, Richard Milhous Nixon, 632.

  10. Morris, Richard Milhous Nixon, 668.

  11. Ibid., 679.

  12. Ibid., 694.

  13. Ibid., 712.

  14. Ibid., 726.

  15. Ibid., 753.

  16. Nixon, Six Crises, 81.

  17. Mazo and Hess, Nixon, 102; Nixon, Six Crises, 83.

  18. Ibid., 93.

  19. Ibid., 115.

  20. Ibid., 116–17.

  21. Morris, Richard Milhous Nixon, 861–62.

  22. Nixon, RN, 161.

  23. Ibid., 164.

  24. Witcover, Crapshoot, 127.

  25. Ibid., 128.

  26. Ambrose, Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 381.

  27. Nixon, Six Crises, 160.

  28. Ibid., 164.

  29. Ambrose, Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 414–15.

  30. Ibid., 421.

  31. Ibid., 449.

  32. Ibid., 452.

  33. Nixon, Six Crises, 232–33.

  34. Ibid., 250–58.

  35. Ibid., 313–16; Ambrose, Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 551–53.

  36. Ambrose, Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 559.
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br />   37. Ibid., 558–59.

  38. Witcover, The Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 22.

  37. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

  1. Caro, The Path to Power, 6.

  2. Unger and Unger, LBJ, 3–6.

  3. Caro, The Path to Power, 74; Kearns, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, 36–37.

  4. Caro, The Path to Power, 76.

  5. Ibid., 99–103.

  6. Ibid., 124–29.

  7. Ibid., 153–60.

  8. Caro, The Path to Power, 206–12; Dugger, The Politician, 125–26.

  9. Caro, The Path to Power, 213–14; Dugger, The Politician, 127–29.

  10. Dugger, The Politician, 170.

  11. Ibid., 176–86.

  12. Ibid., 201–3.

  13. Caro, The Path to Power, 738–40.

  14. Ibid., 757.

  15. Dugger, The Politician, 239.

  16. Ibid., 242.

  17. Ibid., 244–50; Caidin and Hymoff, The Mission, 191.

  18. Dugger, The Politician, 251.

  19. Ibid., 319–32.

  20. Ibid., 294.

  21. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, 208.

  22. Ibid., 210.

  23. Evans and Novak, Lyndon B. Johnson, 303.

  24. Ibid., 298.

  25. Kearns, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, 161–62.

  26. Evans and Novak, Lyndon B. Johnson, 319–21.

  27. Merle Miller, Lyndon, 273.

  28. Ibid., 275.

  29. Ibid., 277; Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, 168.

  30. Evans and Novak, Lyndon B. Johnson, 326–27; Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, 169–72.

  31. Dallek, Lone Star Rising, 16–17.

  32. Miller, Lyndon, 287–90.

  33. Mooney, The Lyndon Johnson Story, 145.

  34. Kennedy, Thirteen Days, 30.

  35. Ibid., 110.

  36. Shesol, Mutual Contempt, 97.

  37. Leonard Baker, The Johnson Eclipse, 182.

  38. Manchester, The Death of a President, 73.

  38. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY

  1. Griffith, Humphrey, 37, 44.

  2. Ibid., 72.

  3. Ibid., 73.

  4. Ibid., 110–12.

  5. Ibid., 112–13.

  6. Ibid., 115.

  7. Solberg, Hubert Humphrey, 114–15.

  8. Griffith, Humphrey, 251–52.

  9. Ibid., 158.

  10. Humphrey, Beyond Civil Rights, 41–42.

  11. Griffith, Humphrey, 160.

  12. Humphrey, The Education of a Public Man, 188–89, 199.

  13. Solberg, Hubert Humphrey, 209.

  14. Humphrey, The Education of a Public Man, 475.

  15. Solberg, Hubert Humphrey, 210.

  16. Ibid., 276–87.

  17. Ibid., 293.

  18. McNamara, In Retrospect, 123.

 

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