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Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT W. INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Murphey's office, Nacogdoches, Texas f~URPHEY Tape 1 of 1 G: All right, Mr. Murphey, would you begin by telling us what your association was with Governor Coke Stevenson? M: I
  • Stevenson, Coke R. (Coke Robert), 1888-1975
  • Relationship with Coke Stevenson; Stevenson’s background; Stevenson’s 1938 campaign for lieutenant governor; campaigns for governor; Stevenson and the Fergusons; W. Lee O’Daniel and his relationship with the Stevensons; Homer Rainey; Stevenson’s
Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , there wasn't any doubt in my mind that two-hundred vote deal was just a false deal. (Laughter) As a matter of fact, I was pretty active in [Coke] Stevenson's campaign during that summer and all the way through. I had served in the legislature in the House under
  • Roberts' career in the Texas state legislature and work on the Democratic executive committee investigating alleged voting irregularities in Jim Wells County in 1948; Roberts' relationship with Coke Stevenson and serving under him on the Texas
Oral history transcript, Josh H. Groce, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was in World War II and actually didn't even know Coke Stevenson. He was governor most of that time. I'm trying to connect up the--this has been forty years ago, and it's very difficult for me to place things. I kept thinking that here's something, but that led
  • defeating Coke Stevenson in the Democratic primary race; efforts to find a federal judge who would be more favorable to Coke Stevenson's civil rights; the Fort Worth hearing with Judge Whitfield Davidson; Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black's ruling on the 1948
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in the campaign in 1948 when Coke Stevenson, at that time former-Governor Coke Stevenson, announced for the Senate race on New Year's day, 1948, it is my recollection that he did not say anything at all about Taft-Hartley. And at that time when he announced, W
  • LBJ's opinion of the Taft-Hartley legislation, Coke Stevenson's campaign methods, Dr. Homer Rainey?s dismissal and resulting University of Texas student demonstration, LBJ's campaign strategy involving the Ferguson family and small town visits, how
Oral history transcript, B. F. "Tom" Donald, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • something was wrong, he didn't want to have anything to do with it. Brownlee kicked up a stink and told me there was going to be a federal investigation. Coke Stevenson and company came into the bank to see the voting records. They entered the bank
  • Biographical information; Donald's duties in Jim Wells County during the 1948 Democratic U.S. Senate primary; Coke Stevenson's efforts to see the voting records; suspicions regarding the final 200 names on the Jim Wills County voting/poll list
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with AP and who had gotten me into the AP by recommending me, Mac Roy Rasor, he drew Coke Stevenson, I drew LBJ . G: Did you literally draw them? � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • with LBJ; San Antonio leaders; advance work; oil support; Lady Bird Johnson; LBJ and Coke Stevenson; the Taft-Hartley issue; LBJ's treatment of staff; women in campaign; spending nights at Dillman Street at time of the election; impressions of frenzied
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: EMMA LONG INTERVIEWER: Christie L. Bourgeois PLACE: Mrs. Long's residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 B: I'd like to start today talking about the 1948 campaign Coke Stevenson and LBJ were in. LBJ won by a controversial eighty-seven
  • 1948 election that certified LBJ as candidate over Coke Stevenson; Stevenson's suit in state courts and efforts to unseat LBJ in the Senate; election fraud in Texas; Henry Wallace; Stuart Long's letters to LBJ while Senator; LBJ's move from left
Oral history transcript, Ernest May, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Petty in the first primary. George Petty was a class- mate of mine, and a very dear friend from Houston. And I did campaign a little, very ineffectively, for George. Mc: And that was the race that Johnson had with Coke Stevenson? M: Yes, that's
  • Biographical information; Judge Frank Culver; Sam Rayburn; LBJ; George Petty; Coke Stevenson; Dan Moody; Carter vs. Tomlinson; FDR and the New Deal
Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CALLAN GRAHAM INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Graham, very briefly sketch where you came from and how you ended up working with Coke Stevenson. CG: I have lived in Junction, Texas
  • Biographical information; investigation of the returns in Jim Wells County of the run-off between Coke Stevenson and LBJ; Stevenson’s campaign style; Stevenson as governor; political machine in South Texas (Parr Machine); Manuel Ramon, County Judge
Oral history transcript, Helen and Seth W. Dorbandt, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • liberal. She was a Johnson woman, in other words. I call that liberal, I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. G: Well, in those days when you compared Coke Stevenson and LBJ certainly Johnson appeared to be the liberal, certainly. HD: Yes. 1 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT W. MURPHEY INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Murphey's office, Nacogdoches, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Why did Governor [Coke] Stevenson prefer Ten High? M: Well, you're getting into the Governor's personal habits now
  • Stevenson, Coke R. (Coke Robert), 1888-1975
  • Stevenson’s personal habits; Stevenson’s humor; Stevenson’s interest in his ranch and hunting; Stevenson’s opinion of FDR; Murphey’s later involvement in political affairs; comparison of LBJ and Stevenson as ranchers.
Oral history transcript, Wroe Owens, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the Littlefield Building on the eighth floor, my offices. The adjacent wing was occupied by a law firm, Critz, Kuykendall, Bauknight, Mann, and Stevenson, and that was Pierce Stevenson, Coke's brother. Bauknight, particularly, was a good friend of mine
  • How Owens got involved in the 1948 Texas Democratic Senate primary investigation; what Owens learned in questioning people in Jim Wells County for the investigation; Owens' relationship with Coke Stevenson; Owens' relationship with the Johnson
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Stevenson's people, of course, came forward--[they] didn't advance it in a greatly serious way, but they did advance the idea--"Why go to the expense of a second primary when it is so obvious that Coke is going to win?" because of the vote that had gone
  • George E.B. Peddy's role in Stevenson vs. LBJ second primary, Stevenson's and LBJ's activities leading up to second primary, black voters, working with Alex Louis and D.B. Hardeman, waiting for votes to be tallied, votes being thrown out.
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • some money, lectures and may go into politics. Sam's a good friend of mine. G: You must have had considerable strength in East 0: I ran well in East Texas just by working and Coke Stevenson had his sympathizers. Texas~ too. I picked up the support
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • agairttW. Lee 0 1 than it . . .would have been against Coke because Coke.was a-­ F: · He [O'Daniel] had not been an effective senator by mostpeople 1 s · judgment. No, no ... Here was Coke Stevenson who had he1d the governorship duri rig I · tb.e
  • Wheeler-dealer charges; Gene Autry; 1948 Senate campaign; helicopter; Coke Stevenson; George Parr; State Democratic Executive Committee, 1948.
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson -- II -- 3 and all of that, and they wanted O'Daniel out of Texas as governor, that was it. They wanted to make Coke stevenson, who was then lieu- tenant governor, governor. It wasn't that Governor Ferguson disliked my brother or anything; he
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Stevenson, a close friend of the Fergusons, and really put into the speaker's office by the Fergusons. Mrs. Ferguson had been elected governor in 1932, and in 1933 she and her husband, Jim Ferguson, strongly supported Coke for speaker, and he was elected
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had a legitimate beef--Byron Utecht was given to writing a-­ he was, I've forgotten just exactly who he was for in that race--but-­ It would have been Stevenson or [George] Peddy . It was Coke [Stevenson] . He would write a paragraph of what Johnson
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and the Belden re-survey after the election seemed to bear this out, what happened--now, this is my feeling about it--Jim Ferguson didn't give a damn about O'Daniel, he had a great contempt for him, but he wanted Coke Stevenson, who was then lieutenant governor
  • Biographical information; birth; education; legislative service and experience; military service; writing and editorship; political activities (Adlai Stevenson campaign); Sam Rayburn; Hale Boggs; biography of Sam Rayburn; teaching; relationship
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and a housing shortage. Isn't it amazing how problems surface and then go under and then surface again, rise again? Several things happened that were sort of good luck for us. Coke Stevenson decided to go to Washington to learn about foreign policy. He devoted
  • Campaign strategies for the second 1948 primary against Coke Stevenson; voter support from the 10th District throughout LBJ's political career; Stevenson's weaknesses; political organization among women in Texas; seeking the votes of George Peddy
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Was there a certain strategy in the campaign dealing with the George Peddy candidacy? Peddy was a Houston lawyer and presumably had a large urban base. J: Yes. I think always it was that Lyndon figured that he was not the chief contender, that Coke Stevenson
  • ; how the campaign stops and speeches were planned; LBJ's ability to mimic Coke Stevenson; press coverage of LBJ's campaign; LBJ's strengths and advantages over Coke Stevenson; Mrs. Johnson's life as a political wife; cities and towns LBJ visited in June
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Vandenberg, but I rather think it was. I know it was in some air force issues, and I think maybe it was this one. He was around a good deal and became friendly. G: Okay. Now the Senate race heated up early. [Coke] Stevenson announced I guess very
Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , Coke Stevenson told me one time about ten years ago that he was very close to George Parr. P: At one time, that's correct, sir. F: And that he and George had a disagreement, which he didn't go into it. And that George told him, "You're going
  • between George Parr and Coke Stevenson over a judgeship; how the Parrs gained political power in South Texas in the early 1900s; the elder Archer Parr's political friends; how George Parr rose to political power and wealth; George Parr's imprisonment
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by asking you about rumors during the campaign that Sam Rayburn was actually supporting or at least favored Coke Stevenson. J: I don't think we ever believed any such thing. There were some rumors, but I'm pretty sure nobody close to President Johnson
Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)
  • . M: How about then when Lyndon ran in 1948, in the election in which he finally made it to the Senate, were you involved in that, I presume? B: Yes, as a delegate to the state convention. Now, during the time--that was the Coke Stevenson election I
  • Boyd's political career, starting in the 1930s; how Boyd came to work for Sam Rayburn; LBJ's 1948 U.S. Senate election; the 1948 Texas Democratic Convention in Fort Worth and Coke Stevenson's defeat in the primary; Sam Rayburn's relationship
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • something. I don't remember now what it was, but in any event, he was very strongly a partisan of Coke Stevenson, and as my publisher, old man Houston Harte of San Angelo, told me one time, he would have been glad to have spent a hundred thousand dollars
  • Background of covering news in South Texas including Duval and Jim Wells Counties; impressions of Duval County and George Parr; vote controversy in the 1948 election; leaders in the South Texas counties; investigation by the Coke Stevenson people
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that that's the way it was . It Coke Stevenson was then the lieutenant governor and Mr . Coke had a rather good following in certain circles, although it seemed doubtful that he could ever be elected governor . But it would be a fine thing, he thought
  • activities in Chile with Board of Economic Warfare; LBJ’s 1948 campaign for the Senate; the Taft-Hartley Act and LBJ’s relationship with labor forces; LBJ’s enemies in the 1940’s and 1950’s; Coke Stevenson; Clint Small; Wright Morrow; Dan Moody’ J. Evetts
Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Harbor. L: No, that wasn't the first time. F: He ran [in] 1941 against O'Daniel and he lost on that late count, Let me see. Yes, I guess it was. and then he ran again in 1948 and won on a late count. L: That was when he ran against Coke [Stevenson
  • files a perjury complaint against LBJ; Long seeks a no-bill; Dan Moody; Judge Archer; Coke Stevenson; James Allred; Lady Bird evaluated; Rebekah and Sam Ealy Johnson; the trial of Mac Wallace for the murder of Doug Kinser
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 6 (VI), 4/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • when LBJ ran against Coke Stevenson for the Senate? WW: That's when we had all the typists up in the mezzanine floor of the Stephen F. Austin [Hotel]. VW: That was 1948? Was that 1948? 1948, Wilton, is when you had already moved to Seguin-WW: Oh
  • The Woods' involvement in LBJ's 1948 Senate campaign against Coke Stevenson; organizing a women's tea in Seguin for Lady Bird Johnson and her auto accident with Marietta Moody Brooks on the way to the tea; the Weinert family's control over support
Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • elected. I'm sure he thanked a lot of other people, quite rightly. F: To what was he referring? P: Well, when he was running against Coke Stevenson, F: That's in 1948. P: Yes--Coke Stevenson, then Governor, was in the position where in Texas he
  • Biographical information; first recollections of LBJ; Charlie Marsh; early impressions of LBJ; supported LBJ in the 1948 campaign; LBJ won Senate Minority Leadership over Lister Hill; LBJ didn’t support Adlai Stevenson adequately; strained
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • supporters not want him to run for that reason? R: Not that I know of. I think everybody, his supporters, wanted him to run. No. Now let's go over it. Who all was in the race? G: Well, the principal candidates were Coke Stevenson and George Peddy. R
  • campaign; the roles of Claude Wild, John Connally, and Senator Alvin Wirtz in LBJ's campaign; LBJ's helicopter travel and how it was planned and arranged; the staff who traveled with LBJ during his helicopter trips; LBJ's imitation of Coke Stevenson; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in regard to the Senate was this: Senator W. Lee O'Daniel was still the occupant of the seat. Coke Stevenson, who had been O'Daniel's successor--when O'Daniel was elected to the Senate, Stevenson was lieutenant governor and succeeded to the governorship
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , this time with Coke Stevenson as the major opposition. There was a third candidate whose name I can't recall from Houston who polled a real good vote in the primary, first primary. Raymond Buck and I handled his campaign here. Fred Korth and Fred had some
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the primary in 19'43 between Stevenson and Johnson, or did you sit that out? 0: I did not. I asked my father how he was voting, and he said, "Il m voting for Coke Stevenson." I didn't ask him why. F: Did you know either candidate personally
  • Post-WWII background; University of Texas; family oil interests; county politics and 1948 meeting with LBJ; Johnson-Stevenson race in 1948; George Parr
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • you that I had some excellent help from many people. You see, at that time Coke Stevenson, who was Johnson's opponent, had been Governor for longer than any man had served up until that time. He had been Speaker of the House of Representatives, he
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • announced that he would not se election, and several men ran, but Lyndon Johnson and Coke Stevenson were in the runoff, and ran "neck and neck" to finish, with Johnson winning by a majority of only 87 votes. After the State Democratic Executive Committee
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was pretty close to John--and he would say, "Well, Sam, I have just received some information that Ed Clark is coming out of Coke Stevenson's headquarters. He's been in there an hour, talking to Governor Stevenson." Because Ed Clark had been for Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about the state in the Johnson City Windmill bragging about his vote for the TaftHartley Act, and criticizing Coke Stevenson for accepting organized labor's endorsement. That would be the AFL endorsement at that time, the state AFL endorsement meeting
Oral history transcript, C.E. "Curley" Doyle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the trip or later that year? G: The trip. D: No, nothing else. In 1948, when he ran for the Senate against-- G: Coke Stevenson. D: Coke Stevenson. In the first primary, he and Coke were in the run-off, and he called me up and told me that he ran
  • against Coke Stevenson.
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Representatives . Some way or other they became acquainted, and Reuther called me and asked me to support Lyndon Johnson for the Senate in his race . The American Federation of Labor state organiza- tion had endorsed Coke Stevenson . Coke had a fairly good