Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek

Title:

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek

Number of Pages:

33

Description:

Connally did not ever keep a diary or maintain a large quantity of unnecessary papers; going to work for LBJ in 1939; a typical work day; Victor "Cap" Harding; distributing money through an ad hoc Congressional Campaign Committee; joining LBJ’s 1941 Senate campaign; controversy over the outcome of the 1941 Senate election; his role in the reporting of vote totals in 1941; investigation of 1940/1941 campaign financing; Brown and Root money laundering; LBJ and Connally’s duties in the Navy in 1942 in James Forrestal’s office; Connally’s decision that LBJ should run for a House seat and not Senate while LBJ was in Australia; the Johnsons buying KTBC and FDR’s concern that conservatives were buying radio stations; Elliot Roosevelt; the political nature of the Federal Communications Commission; Tommy Corcoran and competition for KTBC in Austin; KVET programming; financing in 1948 campaign; LBJ campaign having better organization than that of Coke Stevenson; Ed Lloyd; Archer Parr; Connally’s mistake in 1941 election; Hugo Black; Fred Vinson; Leland Olds appointment.

Contributor:

Connally, John Bowden, 1917-1993

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of Oral Histories Given to the Lyndon B. Johnson Library

See Also:

See all online interviews with John B. Connally

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details