User:Woodshed/Charles E. Marsh/Dallek

Marsh's character

 * "staunch liberal" (129)

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 * 1937 - six-weekcampaign for Texas's 10th congressional district
 * "Lyndon's harmonicas" (quote in original)
 * Two Austin papers (American and Statesman) gave LBJ no formal endorsement, but:
 * extensive coverage
 * printed full text of all his speeches

169

 * Marsh asked LBJ to help with Erich Leinsdorf situation (spring 1938)
 * was "eager to please" Marsh b/c of newspaper coverage

189

 * "Marsh was a super wealthy man whose holdings incldued newspapers in twenty-seven cities across the United States, west Texas oil wells, Austin's streetcar franchise, the controlling interest in a major Austin bank, and large tracts of Austin real estate."
 * townhouse and office at Mayflower Hotel in D.C.
 * 860-acre estate in Culpepper, Va. - "Longlea"

190

 * sold LBJ a 19-acre Austin tract of land for a pittance
 * LBJ ingratiated himself to Marsh, soliciting advice and deferring to his opinions, "making him feel as if he were a political insider"
 * Alice "excited by his youthfulness" and "extraordinary dynamism" in beginning affair
 * "Marsh was furious when he found out." -Dallek

191-192

 * LBJ financial problems, Marsh offer of oil land, $750k-$1M in value in 1940, could use oil proceeds to pay debts/live
 * (192) LBJ turned it down, believing being that becoming a rich oil man would kill his political career (his district, 10th, was pro-New Deal and anti-business populism was common in Texas statewide)
 * ed: not a particularly robust telling of this anecdote

201

 * urged Fentress to support Democratic House campaign coffers

207

 * '41 special election Senate seat (Morris Sheppard)
 * April 11, 1941, Marsh, Harold Young of Wallace's staff (CM's bro-in-law, per Culver/Hyde) and Wirtz laid plans for the run

213-214

 * May 2014: federal investigation, LBJ is sick, O'Daniel enters the race
 * Marsh, Connally and others helped "retool" the campaign during this period, helping his poll numbers before he got out of hospital May 23.

216

 * "B&R funded" according to LBJ

229 - ###DECLINE OF MARSH INFLUENCE?###

 * Marsh tried to convince LBJ he could run for just $25k in 1942, but LBJ was unconvinced. Connally advised LBJ supporters could not "go all out" for him again, money-wise or other-wise.

234
While in House, upon entering military in 1942, Marsh thought LBJ could run for Senate while in service, but was in minority among LBJ advisers. LBJ decided just to hold on to House seat (using Lady Bird as liaison). Related Lady Bird

235
w/r/t service, Marsh pushed LBJ to get out of the U.S. and into war zone quickly, then back again.

247

 * LBJ/Lady Bird considered starting/buying a newspaper, but Marsh (didn't want competition) and the asking price killed the deal

254
Marsh comments on possible FDR purposes behind critical LBJ speech in 1942

257
LBJ's role as head of a Naval Affairs subcommittee investigating the efficiency of the war effort, especially w/r/t staffing and labor, let Marsh and other "committed New Dealers" to accuse him of a rightward lean, esp. anti-labor and a later-reversed bill that denied pay to three men ID'd by the Dies committee

More

 * Ronnie Dugger, The Politician, WMCL, 973.923 JOHNSON DUGGER, 253-54
 * Robert Sherrill, The Accidental President, WMCL, 973.923 SHERRILL
 * Barr McClellan, Blood, money & power : how LBJ killed JFK, WMCL, 973.922 MCCLELLA 2003
 * Paul Conkin, Big Daddy from the Pedernales : Lyndon Baines Johnson, WMCL, 973.923 CONKIN, 97-99
 * Michael L. Gillette, Lady Bird Johnson: An oral history, WMCL, 973.923 JOHNSON 2012
 * Randall B. Woods, LBJ: Architect of American ambition, WESTWACO, Biography - JOHNSON 2006
 * Nancy Dickerson, Among those present, BAYLORMOODY, PN4874.D44 A33
 * Culver/Hyde, American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace, BAYLORMOODY, E748.W23 C85 2000
 * Caro, Path to Power, ch. 25
 * Orlando Sentinel, Jan. 1, 1965

Limited

 * Ronald Steel, Walter Lippmann and the American century, BAYLORMOODY, PN4874.L45 S8, pg. 389
 * Emily Crow Selden OH
 * The establishment in Texas politics : the primitive years, 1938-1957, WMCL
 * Choosing Truman: The Democratic Convention of 1944, BAYLORMOODY, E812 .F47 1994

Dahl

 * Sturrock, Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl, WMCL, 823.914 DAHL 2010
 * Shearer, Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life, MCC,
 * Dahl, Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (dedicated to Marsh?)

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