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  • and was into folklore. I was very much under the influence of J. Frank Dobie and Roy Bedichek, who was a great Texas naturalist. Dobie and Bedichek and a wonderful man named Mody Boatwright, who was a professor of English at the university at the time, and Dr. Walter
  • Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT PICKLE -- I -- 4 Mr. Johnson's campaign. I think John and L. E. Jones and Warren Cunningham and.a few
  • . But in the meantime, we were waiting and hoping that we would be seated. There was Mayor Tom Miller of Austin, and there was Creekmore Fath, and Fagan Dickson out of Austin, and Walter Hall of Dickinson--he was a very prominent banker, and still is, and a very dear
  • in Texas who had been the principal opposition to Coke Stevenson, Minnie Fischer Cunningham and some other woman and somehow they figured in this; I couldn't tell you how. But we went into the Ferguson country, who were Jim Ferguson loyalists--deep East
  • they had to say and then talk about it with some of his newspaper friends . seems to me that Walter Lippmann was one he read frequently . say that he always agreed with Walter Lippmann . It I can't I kind of got the impression that he felt that Walter
  • point than any other time I've ever seen him. Because you know this is a fairly impressive list, Martin Agronsky, Popham, Walter Mansell, Paul Scott-­ who's a real nut; that's a little bit harsh, he's quite fanatical-­ Bill Stringer, Ray Brooks, Ray
  • group of which r/linnie Fisher Cunningham of l'Jalker County was the leader. And we have never ceased to operate in an organized fashion since then. So that when Mr. Rayburn found himself in need of a campaign organization after the 1952 convention
  • . I don't remember too many of the southern' One, the most obvious I think, was Frank Vanderlinden who represented a whole group of southern papers. servative, as were they~ He was quite con- norris Cunningham of the i4emphis can't remember which
  • Warren Cunningham also play a role here? S: Warren played a role, but it was not, at least insofar as I'm concerned, a major role. middle fifties. the arena. Then of course Lloyd had moved down here in the And Bentsen was a Johnson supporter
  • , immediate family and assistants that came to my office in the spring of 1948, and said, "Well, the Congressman's decided to run . He and Walter Jenkins and somebody else and I were sitting down, and we discussed it and he has decided to run ." he was going
  • : Yes, although he would never have let any difference with Yarborough be displayed openly. He saw him as a rival because his people were troublemakers. They were always troublemakers for Johnson. The Frankie Randolphs and Minnie Fisher Cunninghams
  • belonged to, like the Texas Exes banquet. I remember Warren Cunningham took me to that. He was one of the crowd of young men around there who were just sort of waiting, who knew they would be leaving for the service in a few months. It was a whole time
  • been urged by others to get a new deputy. There was a general feeling that they ought to have a sort of a new leaf in Sai gon. G: Who had been his deputy before you? T: A man named Cunningham. I'm not suggesting there was anything unsatis
  • a message They'd had quite a communications problem there at the Hilton with our national BPW president on microphones and things, so I guess I was thinking maybe that Sally Cunningham was on some kind of thing, so I didn't move very fast LBJ