Joan Mellen - Faustian Bargains: Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the Robber Baron Culture of Texas

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M R. J AGGERS IN C HARLES D ICKENS G REAT E XPECTATIONS

August 27, 1908: Birth of Lyndon Baines Johnson in rural Stonewall, Texas, on the Pedernales River.

May 16, 1912: Birth of Josefa Johnson, younger sister of Lyndon Baines Johnson and future lover of Mac Wallace and John Douglas Kinser.

October 15, 1921: Birth of Malcolm Everett (Mac) Wallace in Mount Pleasant, Texas.

January 10, 1925: Birth of Billie Sol Estes in Abilene, Texas.

1925: The Wallace family moves to Dallas. Five surviving children are born between 1925 and 1938.

November 12, 1928: Birth of Robert Gene (Bobby) Baker in Pickens County, South Carolina.

1932: Lyndon Johnson moves to Washington, D.C., where he has been hired as secretary to newly elected U.S. congressman Richard M. Kleberg.

Fall 1934: Mac Wallace enters Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas.

1937: Lyndon Baines Johnson is elected to serve the remainder of the term of Congressman James P. Buchanan.

April 1938: Mac Wallace injures his lumbar spine playing quarterback for Woodrow Wilson High School and requires spinal surgery.

June 2, 1939: Mac Wallace graduates from Woodrow Wilson High School.

November 3, 1939: Mac Wallace enlists in the U.S. Marine Corps at New Orleans as a private.

June 27, 1940: Stationed in Hawaii, Mac Wallace reinjures his back in a fall on the USS Lexington.

August 28, 1940: Mac Wallace is discharged from the Marine Corps. His medical discharge is dated September 25, 1940.

February 1, 1941: Mac Wallace enrolls at the University of Texas at Austin.

1941: Lyndon Johnson runs for the United States Senate but is defeated by Pappy Pass the Biscuits ODaniel, despite the support of Herman and George Brown of Brown & Root.

December 13, 1941: Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Mac Wallace attempts to re-enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps.

September 1943: Mac Wallace and Nora Ann Carroll meet at a University of Texas mixer.

194344: Mac Wallace at the University of Texas: bookkeeper of the Cactus, UT yearbook; member of the University Ex-Servicemens Association; member of the Tejas Club, a non-Greek fraternity for students without financial resources; member of the Cowboys.

194344: Mac Wallace and Nora Ann Carroll an item.

April 1944: Mac Wallace is elected president of the student body of the University of Texas and takes office on May 1, 1944.

July 26, 1944: Visit of Lyndon Johnson to the University of Texas campus. The event has been put together by Mac Wallace as student body president.

October 12, 1944: University of Texas President Homer Price Rainey enumerates sixteen attempts by the Board of Regents to limit academic freedom.

November 1, 1944: President Rainey is fired by the Board of Regents of the University of Texas.

November 24, 1944: Mac Wallace leads peaceful demonstrations in support of the reinstatement of Homer Rainey. The FBI field office at San Antonio conducts an investigation of Wallaces political beliefs and loyalty to the United States.

December 1944: Nora Ann Carroll chooses future neurologist Ted Cary over Mac Wallace to be her husband.

1944: With Lyndon Johnsons surreptitious assistance, Richard M. Kleberg is defeated in his bid for re-election by Lyndon Johnson friend John E. Lyle.

1944: Courtesy of the good offices of the president of the student body, Mac Wallace, Lyndon Johnson addresses the students.

February 1945: Nora Ann Carroll graduates from the University of Texas at Austin.

March 8, 1945: Mac Wallace resigns as president of the student body of the University of Texas and moves to New York City without graduating.

September 1945January 1946: Mac Wallace studies for a masters degree at the New School for Social Research. October 1945: Mac Wallace takes a job as a research assistant at the National City Bank.

January 1946: Mac Wallace resigns from the National City Bank and returns to Texas to work on Homer Raineys gubernatorial campaign.

September 1946: Mac Wallace enters the University of Texas masters program in economics, having been awarded a graduate assistantship.

1947: On June 2, 1947, Mac Wallace graduates from the University of Texas with a bachelors degree in business administration and a major in economics.

Mid-June 1947: Mac Wallace meets Mary Andre Dubose Barton.

July 4, 1947: Mac Wallace marries Mary Andre.

August 1947: Mac Wallace is awarded a masters degree in economics from the University of Texas.

September 1947: Mac Wallace enters the Ph.D. program at Columbia University in New York while teaching philosophy at the downtown Brooklyn campus of Long Island University.

October 1947: Mary Andre becomes pregnant.

1948: Lyndon Baines Johnson steals the Texas election to the United States Senate defeating former governor Coke Stevenson.

Spring 1948: Mac Wallace withdraws from Columbia University but teaches as a part-time tutor at City College. He signs on nights as an itinerant longshoreman on the New York docks to earn extra money. Mac Wallace and Nora Ann Carroll are reunited in New York City.

June 26, 1948: Birth of Michael Alvin Wallace.

June 29, 1948: Mary Andre files for divorce from Mac Wallace.

August 24, 1948: Mary Andre withdraws her divorce petition.

Academic Year 194849: Mac Wallace is an assistant professor at North Carolina State College at Raleigh.

September 19, 1949: With the assistance of Lyndon Johnson and Cliff Carter, Mac Wallace is employed at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Finance Department, as an agricultural economist. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife, Andre, and toddler son, Michael.