CHAPTER ONE
1. Al Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, vi–vii.
2. Ibid., vii.
3. Evelyn M. Carrington, Women in Early Texas, xx.
4. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, v.
5. Ibid., 77.
6. Ibid., 55.
7. Patricia Lasher and Beverly Bentley, Texas Women—Interviews and Images, 74.
8. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 11.
9. Ibid., 55.
10. Ibid., 10.
11. Women were granted the right to vote in the 1918 Texas primary elections.
12. Lasher and Bentley, Texas Women, 74.
13. “Hobby, William Pettus,” Handbook of Texas Online.
14. Lasher and Bentley, Texas Women, 74.
15. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 56.
CHAPTER TWO
1. David McComb interview, July 11, 1969.
2. Bill Hobby and Saralee Tiede, How Things Really Work, 14.
3. McComb interview.
4. Ibid.
1. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 57.
2. Ibid.
3. Marguerite Johnston, Houston: The Unknown City, 1836–1946, 286.
4. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 57.
5. McComb interview.
6. Mrs. T. H. Norman, “Lady of Killeen,” 3.
7. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 56.
8. Michelle Koidin, “Friends, Dignitaries Laud Oveta Culp Hobby,” Austin American-Statesman, August 19, 1995.
9. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ricewrc/00038/rice-00038.html
10. McComb interview, 2.
11. Barron, “Oveta Culp Hobby.”
12. James Anthony Clark and Weldon Hart, The Tactful Texan, 171.
13. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ricewrc/00038/rice-00038.html
14. McComb interview.
15. Barron, “Oveta Culp Hobby.”
16. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ricewrc/00038/rice-00038.html
17. Ann Fears Crawford and Crystal Sasse Ragsdale, Women in Texas, 276.
18. Koidin, “Friends, Dignitaries.”
19. McComb interview, 26.
20. Marguerite Johnson Barnes, “KPRC note.”
21. McComb interview, 5.
22. Johnston, Houston, 336.
CHAPTER FOUR
1. Johnston, Houston, 337.
2. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, vi.
3. Ann Fears Crawford and Crystal Sasse Ragsdale, Women in Texas, 276.
4. Johnston, Houston, 337.
5. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 11.
6. Johnston, Houston, 337.
7. Ibid.
8. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/HH/fho86.html
9. Mattie E. Treadwell, United States Army in World War II Special Studies: The Women’s Army Corps, 28.
10. Ibid., 29.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., 30.
14. Ibid., 45.
CHAPTER FIVE
1. http://www.commandposts.com/2012/05/May-15–1942-formation-of-the-womens-auxiliary-army-corps/oveta-culp-hobby/
2. “WAAC: U.S. Women Troop to Enlist in Army’s First All-Female Force,” Life, June 8, 1942, 26.
3. Treadwell, United States Army, 50.
4. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fho86
5. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fho86
6. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fho86
7. Treadwell, United States Army, 6.
8. Treadwell, United States Army, 51.
9. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fho86
10. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fho86
11. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fho86
12. You can view the full address here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxML6I2JGbo.
13. Johnston, 1991:338.
14. Ron Tyler, Janice Pinney, and Colleen Kain, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting at Corpus Christi, 108.
15. Sylvia J. Bugbee, ed., An Officer and a Lady, 33–34.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid., 40.
18. Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember, 262.
19. Bugbee, Officer and a Lady, 53.
20. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 3.
21. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fho86
CHAPTER SIX
1. Treadwell, United States Army, 106.
2. Ibid., 119.
3. Ibid.
4. Johnston, Houston, 340.
5. Bugbee, Officer and a Lady, 129–130.
6. Ibid.
7. Elizabeth W. Fernea and Marilyn P. Duncan, eds., Texas Women in Politics, 21.
8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8QKsTKRYSO.
9. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1682.html.
10. http://www.magiclink.com/web/lostheroines/webdoc5.htm.
11. Johnston, Houston, 339.
12. Bugbee, Officer and a Lady, 146.
13. Johnston, Houston, 340.
14. Ibid., 339–340.
15. Bugbee, Officer and a Lady, 183, 185.
16. Lasher and Bentley, Texas Women, 76.
17. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 58.
18. Lasher and Bentley, Texas Women, 76.
CHAPTER SEVEN
1. Martha Cole, “First WAC Head Now Busy Publisher.”
2. Don E. Carleton, Red Scare: Right-Wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and Their Legacy in Texas, 84–85.
3. Ibid., 87.
4. Ibid., 86–87.
5. Ibid., 229.
6. McComb interview, 13–14.
7. Ibid., 7.
8. Carleton, Red Scare, 230.
9. “Lady in Command,” Time, May 4, 1953.
10. Private email to author from Bill Hobby, Jr., February 17, 2013.
11. “Mrs. Hobby Now Wields Quieter Form of Clout,” Victoria Advocate, May 15, 1988.
12. “Oveta Culp Hobby’s New Job,” Business Week, May 16, 1953.
13. “Lady in Command.”
14. Carleton, Red Scare, 231.
15. Ibid., 245.
CHAPTER EIGHT
1. McComb interview, 18.
2. Michael A. Oldstone, Viruses, Plagues, and History, 108–109.
3. McComb interview, 21.
4. Letter from Barry Goldwater, June 6, 1955.
5. Marguerite Johnston, undated interview.
6. Joan Braden, Just Enough Rope: An Intimate Memoir, 60–61.
7. Barron, “Oveta Culp Hobby.”
8. Judith Serrin, “Advice to Cabinet Women,” 3C.
9. Letter to Oveta dated August 5, 1955 from the Assistant to the President, Washington, D.C. [Fondren archives].
10. Michael Shannon, “They Built Houston.”
CHAPTER NINE
1. Barron, “Oveta Culp Hobby.”
2. Tyler et al., Proceedings, 108.
3. Kay Bailey Hutchison, American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country, 251.
4. Lyndon B. Johnson, “Message to Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby on the Death of Former Governor William P. Hobby of Texas.”
5. Killeen Daily Herald, January 19, 1986.
6. Braden, Just Enough Rope, 66–67.
7. Hurt, “Last of the Great Ladies,” 148.
8. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 40.
9. “Indicted” means having formally charged or accused someone of a serious crime; “inducted” means having admitted someone to an organization.
10. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 44.
11. Private email to author from Bill Hobby Jr., February 17, 2013.
12. Koidin, “Friends, Dignitaries.”
13. Lasher and Bentley, Texas Women, 79.
14. Associated Press Biographical Sketch, “Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby.”
15. Lasher and Bentley, Texas Women, 79.
16. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 9.
17. Laura Beckworth, in an interview with the author, 2009.
18. Telegram to William P. Hobby Jr., August 18, 1995.
19. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 48.
CHAPTER TEN
1. C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite: New Edition, xx.
2. Lasher and Bentley, Texas Women, 76.
3. McComb interview, 20.
4. McComb interview, 11–12.
TIME LINE
1. Koidin, “Friends, Dignitaries.”
2. Barron, “Oveta Culp Hobby.”
3. Crawford and Ragsdale, Women in Texas.
4. Barron, “Oveta Culp Hobby.”
5. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 57.
6. Barron, “Oveta Culp Hobby.”
7. Fernea and Duncan, eds., Texas Women in Politics, 20.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Barron, “Oveta Culp Hobby.”
11. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 57.
12. Fernea and Duncan, eds., Texas Women in Politics, 20.
13. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 57.
14. Barron, “Oveta Culp Hobby”; Crawford and Ragsdale, Women in Texas, 274.
15. Fernea and Duncan, eds., Texas Women in Politics, 20.
16. Koidin, “Friends, Dignitaries.”
17. Barron, “Oveta Culp Hobby”; Crawford and Ragsdale, Women in Texas, 274–275.
18. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 57.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Johnston, Houston, 286.
22. Koidin, “Friends, Dignitaries.”
23. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 57.
24. Barron, “Oveta Culp Hobby.”
25. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 57.
26. Oveta Culp Hobby Papers, Woodson Research Center.
27. Johnston, Houston, 303–304.
28. Oveta Culp Hobby Papers, Woodson Research Center.
29. Barron, “Oveta Culp Hobby.”
30. Oveta Culp Hobby Papers, Woodson Research Center.
31. Koidin, “Friends, Dignitaries.”
32. Crawford and Ragsdale, Women in Texas, 276.
33. Oveta Culp Hobby Papers, Woodson Research Center.
34. Koidin, “Friends, Dignitaries.”
35. Crawford and Ragsdale, Women in Texas, 274.
36. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Training_and_Service_Act_of_1940.
37. Crawford and Ragsdale, Women in Texas, 274.
38. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 57.
39. Johnston, Houston, 363.
40. Ibid., 336.
41. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 57.
42. Crawford and Ragsdale, Women in Texas, 277.
43. Ibid.
44. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 57.
45. Crawford and Ragsdale, Women in Texas, 277.
46. Bugbee, ed., Officer and a Lady, 40.
47. Roosevelt, This I Remember, 262.
48. Crawford and Ragsdale, Women in Texas, 277.
49. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 57.
50. Ibid.
51. Messa, “Hobby Family Foundation.”
52. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 47.
53. Crawford and Ragsdale, Women in Texas, 277.
54. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 58.
55. Ibid., 5.
56. Johnston, Houston, 393.
57. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 16.
58. Crawford and Ragsdale, Women in Texas, 278.
59. Ibid., 279.
60. Ibid.
61. Ibid., 280.
62. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 38.
63. Crawford and Ragsdale, Women in Texas, 280.
64. Koidin, “Friends, Dignitaries.”
65. Crawford and Ragsdale, Women in Texas, 280–281.
66. Koidin, “Friends, Dignitaries.”
67. Hobby and Catto, Oveta Culp Hobby, vi.
68. Fernea and Duncan, eds., Texas Women in Politics, 22.
69. Crawford and Ragsdale, Women in Texas, 281.
70. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 6.
71. Crawford and Ragsdale, Women in Texas, 281.
72. Fernea and Duncan, eds., Texas Women in Politics, 22.
73. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 31.
74. Crawford and Ragsdale, Women in Texas, 281.
75. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 37.
76. Crawford and Ragsdale, Women in Texas, 281.
77. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 41.
78. Koidin, “Friends, Dignitaries.”
79. Ibid.
80. Shire, Oveta Culp Hobby, 60.
81. Ibid.