1. The transcript has been edited for clarity.
2. Sam Rayburn, the Speaker of the House and Johnson's friend and mentor.
3. LBJ had suffered a massive heart attack in 1955 that almost killed him.
4. The liberal governor of Michigan.
5. Published by Harper and Row in 1967.
6. Rural Electrification Administration.
7. LBJ's opponent in the Democratic primary.
8. At the Cortez Hotel in El Paso in June 1963.
9. LBJ's former aide who was the deputy director of the Peace Corps at the time.
10. On November 21, 1963.
11. Manchester reported in The Death of a President that JFK had lambasted Johnson for pursuing his feud with Texas senator Ralph Yarborough.
12. Sponsored by the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce at the Hotel Texas.
13. In his speech in the hotel parking lot before breakfast, Kennedy said to the crowd, "Mrs. Kennedy is organizing herself. It takes longer, but then, she looks much better than we do when she does it."
14. Lucia and Birge Alexander.
15. The Johnsons took a separate plane, Air Force Two, to Love Field, landing just in time to greet the Kennedys.
16. LBJ's Secret Service agent Rufus Youngblood.
17. Here LBJ refutes Manchester's The Death of a President, which insisted that RFK had wanted LBJ to wait to take the oath until he arrived in Washington so that JFK could return to the capital one last time as president.
18. The federal district judge who administered the oath of office.
19. Published by Simon and Schuster in 1997.
20. Because of the separation of powers doctrine.
21. The Johnson administration.
22. Charles Robb, who was leaving for duty in Vietnam.
23. Younger daughter Luci's husband, Pat Nugent.
24. LBJ refers once again to his heart attack in 1955 as well as to the fact that most Johnson men did not live past the age of 65.
25. Wilson was paralyzed after he suffered a stroke in 1919.
26. The demagogue senator from Wisconsin who was censured by the Senate for his hearings on Communist activity in the U.S.
27. The segregationist senator from Arkansas.