The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act (58 page)

 
    
68
Report on the Civil Rights Act of 1963, November 20, 1963, box 462, Emanuel Celler Papers, Library of Congress.

 
    
69
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 6, box 1, part 1, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Papers, Library of Congress.

 
    
70
Statement by Senator Dirksen, Joint Senate-House Republican Leadership, November 21, 1963. Civil Rights 1963–1964, Everett M. Dirksen Papers, Dirksen Congressional Center.

Chapter 5: “Let Us Continue”

 
    
1
Mann,
Walls of Jericho
, 381;
Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson: The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power, November 1963–January 1964
, 2005a, 129.

 
    
2
Mann,
Walls of Jericho
, 160.

 
    
3
Goldsmith,
Richard B. Russell
, 103.

 
    
4
Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson: The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power, November 1963–January 1964
, 2005a, 120, 138, and 161–62.

 
    
5
Humphrey,
Education
, 265.

 
    
6
Ibid.

 
    
7
George Reedy interview with Michael L. Gillette, October 27, 1982, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.

 
    
8
New York Times
, November 28, 1963, 20.

 
    
9
Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, November 27, 1963,
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963–64
, vol. 1, entry 11, 8–10; Schlesinger,
Journals
, 210.

 
    
10
Caro,
Lyndon Johnson: Passage
, 432.

 
    
11
President’s Thanksgiving Day Address to the Nation, November 28, 1963. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25999, accessed June 4, 2013.

 
    
12
New York Times
, November 28, 1963, 1; letter from Arnold Aronson to Lyndon Johnson, November 27, 1963, box 67, LE HU 2, White House Central Files, Lyndon B. Johnson Library; Mann,
Walls of Jericho
, 384.

 
    
13
Joseph Rauh interview with Paige Mulhollan, August 8, 1969, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.

 
    
14
Washington Post
, July 5, 1964, E7; Rauh interview.

 
    
15
Rauh interview;
Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson: The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power, November 1963–January 1964
, 2005a, 386.

 
    
16
Loevy,
To End All Segregation
, 98–99.

 
    
17
Memo No. 18, December 1963, box 37, part 1, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Papers, Library of Congress;
Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report
, December 6, 1963, 2129; “Deschler’s Precedents,” vol. 5, 3207–15, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-HPREC-DESCHLERS-V5/html/GPO-HPREC-DESCHLERS-V5-1-2.htm, accessed September 29, 2013.

 
    
18
Larry O’Brien interview with Michael Gillette, December 5, 1985, Lyndon B. Johnson Library;
Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report
, December 6, 1963, 2118.

 
    
19
Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson: The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power, November 1963–January 1964
, 2005a, 263, 300–301.

 
    
20
Ibid.

 
    
21
Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson: The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power, November 1963–January 1964
, 2005b, 151; Scheele,
Charlie Halleck
, 231.

 
    
22
Whalen and Whalen,
Longest Debate
, 79; Larry O’Brien interview with Michael Gillette, December 5, 1985, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.

 
    
23
Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson: The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power, November 1963–January 1964
, 2005a, 143–44 and 278–81.

 
    
24
Memo from Roy Wilkins to all NAACP branches, November 20, 1963, box 25, NAACP Papers, Library of Congress; Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Newsletter, December 16, 1963, box 37, part 1, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Papers, Library of Congress.

 
    
25
Shesol,
Mutual Contempt
, 161; Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy
, 673–74.

 
    
26
Caro,
Lyndon Johnson: Passage
, 489–91.

 
    
27
Ibid.

 
    
28
National Review
, September 24, 1963, 231–36.

 
    
29
Letter from John Satterfield to William Loeb, December 3, 1963, box 17, David B. Filvaroff and Raymond E. Wolfinger Civil Rights Act Papers, University of Buffalo Library.

 
    
30
New York Times
, December 12, 1963, 40.

 
    
31
Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report
, December 13, 1963, 2150; Loevy,
To End All Segregation
, 94;
New York Times
, December 12, 1963, 40.

 
    
32
Kabaservice,
Rule and Ruin
, 103.

 
    
33
Caro,
Lyndon Johnson: Passage
, 496; Whalen and Whalen,
Longest Debate
, 86.

 
    
34
Loevy,
To End All Segregation
, 94–95.

 
    
35
Findlay,
Church People
, 51–52.

 
    
36
James Hamilton interview with Raymond Wolfinger, September 21, 1964, box 22, David B. Filvaroff and Raymond E. Wolfinger Civil Rights Act Papers, University of Buffalo Library; Findlay,
Church People
, 54; Kotz,
Judgment Days
, 144.

 
    
37
Findlay,
Church People
, 53.

 
    
38
New York Times
, January 12, 1964, E3; Memo Number 20, January 13, 1964, box 2, part 1, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Records, Library of Congress.

 
    
39
Baltimore
Sun
, December 6, 1963, 1.

 
    
40
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Memo No. 19, December 23, 1963, box 37, part 1, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Papers, Library of Congress; Whalen and Whalen,
Longest Debate
, 91.

 
    
41
New York Times
, January 10, 1964, 1;
New York Times Magazine
, January 12, 1964, SM13.

 
    
42
Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, January 8, 1964, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=26787, accessed June 10, 2013.

 
    
43
Mackenzie and Weisbrot,
Liberal Hour
, 56.

 
    
44
Hearing on HR 7152, Rules Committee, House of Representatives, January 9–29, 1964, 1.

 
    
45
Whalen and Whalen,
Longest Debate
, 92.

 
    
46
Hearing on HR 7152, 90.

 
    
47
Ibid., 99.

 
    
48
Ibid., 125.

 
    
49
Ibid., 211.

 
    
50
Ibid., 257; Loevy,
Civil Rights Act
, 64.

 
    
51
Hearing on HR 7152, 418, 465, and 521.

 
    
52
Caro,
Lyndon Johnson: Passage
, 475–554.

 
    
53
Garrow,
Bearing the Cross
, 310;
Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson: The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power, November 1963–January 1964
, 2005a, 618;
Chicago Tribune
, January 19, 1964, 7;
Los Angeles Times
, January 19, 1964, D15.

 
    
54
Loevy,
Civil Rights Act
, 62.

 
    
55
Los Angeles Times
, January 21, 1964, 4; Caro,
Lyndon Johnson: Passage
, 559.

 
    
56
Washington Post
, January 22, 1964, A2;
New York Times
, January 22, 1964, 19.

 
    
57
Los Angeles Times
, January 26, 1964, K4;
New York Times
, January 26, 1964, E4.

 
    
58
Chicago Tribune
, January 24, 1964, 8;
New York Times
, January 24, 1964, 1.

 
    
59
Congressional Record
, 88th Congress, 2nd Session, 1964, 110, pt. 2:1511–52.

 
    
60
Ibid.

 
    
61
Memo from William Foley to Emanuel Celler, January 28, 1963, box 465, Emanuel Celler Papers, Library of Congress; Katzenbach,
Some of It
, 138.

 
    
62
Katzenbach,
Some of It
, 137; interview with David Filvaroff by the author, November 17, 2012.

 
    
63
Filvaroff interview.

 
    
64
Notes from the DSG Files, by Raymond Wolfinger, box 23, David B. Filvaroff and Raymond E. Wolfinger Civil Rights Act Papers, University of Buffalo Library; Katzenbach,
Some of It
, 138.

 
    
65
Watson,
Lion in the Lobby
, 20;
Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report
, February 21, 1964, 365.

 
    
66
Guide to Meetings with Senators and Congressmen, Religion Action Center, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, January 31, 1964, box 2, part 1, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Records, Library of Congress.

 
    
67
Memorandum, February 11, 1964, box 37, part 1, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Papers, Library of Congress.

 
    
68
Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report
, February 7, 1964, 250;
New Republic
, February 29, 1964, 17.

 
    
69
Baltimore
Sun
, February 4, 1; Baltimore
Sun
, February 5, 1964, 1;
Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson: Toward the Great Society, February 1, 1964–May 31, 1964
, 2007, 206–7.

 
    
70
Ben Zelenko, interview with the author, April 4, 2013.