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Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that Governor Coke Stevenson was going to run. So Mr. Johnson had a very, very tough decision to make, and he had talked, I am sure, to a great many people. I know he did. F: Do you think he was basically negative toward running when he came down, as Sam
  • station KVET; Coke Stevenson; LBJ using a helicopter to campaign in 1948; monitoring the 1948 election returns; LBJ's kidney stones; Paul Porter; legal action surrounding the 1948 election and box 13 incident; the Democratic Executive Committee vote
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • morning, finally Wednesday afternoon, the following week, enough counties reported changes in votes to where [W. Lee] O'Daniel then got ahead by 1311 votes. This was after a meeting Saturday evening in the Driskill Hotel between Coke Stevenson, Pappy
  • 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
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , the Dallas News and other principal papers throughout the state ran big double trucks of him and his life and his family and so forth. Then we began to hear uneasy reports about a meeting that was held in the Driskill Hotel between Jim Ferguson, Coke