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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the article about 1952, how it got started on that. I discussed with you about his taking the lead then and going on radio. G: Actively campaigning for [Adlai] Stevenson. J: Actively campaigning for Stevenson. Now, I don't know whether you've got his
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that Senator Johnson was campaigning actively for Governor [Adlai] Stevenson, or that he was just sort of giving party lip service? K: This is a little difficult to know, what motivates a man. I had felt at least that Senator Johnson was keeping his party
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Stevenson or Johnson at the Hotel Adolphus? OM: No, I was here in Washington on both of those occasions. VM: Dale, let me interrupt you. On the time that Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson were there, we were getting ready for their visit to Corpus Christi
  • ; campaigning in Texas; Ladies for Lyndon; the whistle-stop campaign; how they responded to opposition while campaigning; LBJ as VP; incidents at the Adolphus Hotel with LBJ and Adlai Stevenson; Bruce Alger; the time following the assassination; how
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to show you how he operated. I was on a trip around the world, on leave, when he appointed me to this post as ambassador to the United Nations, and I was in Rome when Stevenson died, and I was Ambassador. in Beirut when Goldberg was made the Then when I
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • selected in 1960, large state primaries. We bluffed it out reasonably well with the threat of going in. There was strong Adlai Stevenson support in California at that time. We did the best we could, making the deal. I won't pursue that further because I've
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and get the right kind of an ascot tie, et cetera, et cetera. Was Adlai Stevenson on that trip? I think so. G: Yes. R: I'm pretty sure he was, because there was a woman diplomat on it, too. Adlai, the gentleman, gave up his bed to her. There were two
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XXVI -- 23 cruel, mimicry. God, what a mimic he was. You ought to see him mimicking Bobby Kennedy. G: Really? R: Oh, it was mean. G: Was it? R: Or Adlai Stevenson, when he
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • became a candidate for president and Humphrey became a candidate for president and Johnson became a candidate for president, and I can't remember all of them-- F: [Adlai] Stevenson was in it that year. 2 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was a long, tough, and hard fight, where Ambassador [Adlai] Stevenson was, who was an alleged 1iberal and did not see what, to me, was the profound i m p o r t a n c e o f having a black in a ranking ambassadorial level there. Mainly working with President
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 12 Farmers for Kennedy-Johnson, Farmers for Stevenson-Sparkman, Farmers for Stevenson-Kefauver . I guess it was my suggestion as much as others, but I felt
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember any others? L: There were others and I don't remember, but Okie is very available. Now, there was one other incident I remember. Bill Moyers ripped a flash off the teletype that Adlai Stevenson had dropped dead in London. At that time
Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . It did not enter into my own decision. TG: When was this proposal made? I associate it with Adlai Stevenson. AG: No, it was made before, and then typical of Lyndon--now I can call him Lyndon, he's dead; I always called him Mr. President although I
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • served in that position during the years of 1951 and 1952. They were the Majority Leader and the Majority Whip. In 1952 in an election with Eisenhower and Stevenson, we became the minority by two votes, 49 to 47, and Ernest McFarland served those two
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Stevenson's possible renomination. Were you involved in that? C: No, I mentioned I took practically no part at all in the '52 campaign, and I think even less in '56. I believe I went to both those conventions just in order to keep in touch, to see old
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , particularly during your time, I suppose, the one which involved U Thant and Adlai Stevenson. B: I never thought there was anything in it, but I never, to be honest with you, went back and checked all the cables and whatnot, because I really assumed that what
Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson when we had invited him to come to Arizona as a speaker in the Adlai Stevenson campaign, and had had some association with him at the national Democratic conventions when I was a delegate from Arizona. But after that time, I had no real close
Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • --and Adlai Stevenson's when he was governor, Director of Finance and Chief Economist and then he came back. 1954. I worked there until I went back to California in I opened a one-man mortgage brokerage firm and spent a year-- M: This was the Bankers
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that if Senator Russell could not get the nomination maybe another Southerner like Senator Johnson [would be chosen] as the vice presidential nominee? T: No, I don't recall. Of course, as it wound up, you know, Adlai Stevenson got the nomination
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of 1956, in the preconvention campaign when Adlai Stevenson was chosen a second time? H: No, I tried to help Adlai out in Arizona. F: There was a little bit of a boom for Mr. Johnson at that time that never really got started; particularly
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • because we were on the platform together. He was nominating Mr. [Adlai] Stevenson and I was seconding it, and I urged him then to run for the vice-presidential nomination. He demurred, but in the next twenty-four hours he did agree and we were able
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • incident that seems absolutely unreasonable and absurd, but it had some beneficial effect after. F: You were an honorary chairman for Adlai Stevenson's campaign, the second term. H: Yes. F: Did you work much with Johnson in that campaign, or not? H
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Stabilization Board and other means, and his reputation was superb. I said, "Arthur, I understand thoroughly." I'm sure that there was an association with Adlai Stevenson, and that political world was something I didn't know too much about but respected, so I
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Post critical--I think it was a piece about Stevenson--"It's very hard to make new friends when you're President." God knows that's true. So I think each president brings with him a recollection of some reporters who he liked or he thought LBJ
Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • remember thiS, he went to Laredo in 1956, I believe, when Adlai Stevenson who was the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. And I remember this very distinctly, that he took a young man to Laredo and introduced him to those assembled. He
Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . We finally arrived at a plan which we turned over to the President in 1962--Kennedy was following this closely . One of -my close friends was Adlai Stevenson, who was, I remember, in the � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , which was nice. G: But it was kind of funny. Did Eleanor Roosevelt ever try to persuade LBJ to promote more liberal legislation? P: I don t know. G: I know that she was very close to Adlai Stevenson, and he was not. I I don t know. I Did she
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /loh/oh WILSON -- I -- 16 W: Oh, only to deny that he had any intention of doing it, and [to say] that if he did it, then held have a chance. At that stage, Adlai Stevenson--at least he said he [Johnson] thought--had the edge. But this changed
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , from essentially either window-dressing for the campaign--"See how many intellectuals I got to sign my advertisement?"--which Kennedy had developed, I think, initially with the response to the effort of the popularity of Stevenson on the campus. It had
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did want to be vice president. Sam wanted to be the veep worse than hell because I've told you that four years before when we had the Adlai Stevenson business and Sam went in to ask Adlai to make Lyndon the vice president and he came back
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • we a l l thought that i f there was going to be any opposition it probably \'1as go i ng to be Stuart Symington ~1ho woul d be difficu lt. But in 1960 then \~e did become concerned. Quite obvious ly he was supporting Adlai Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • them was simply this: "I do not want Lyndon Johnson lynched in these newspapers simply because he's from Texas. Now, you remember what happened with Stevenson and the guy from Alabama"--what was his name--the vice presidential candidate from Alabama
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • no idea." Arthur Goldberg said, "I would assume that the President is going to announce the Adlai Stevenson Scholarship Program." Something told me that Arthur wasn't right. But, in any event, we got back to the Ranch. I've had no conversation
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was unbelievable it turned out that way. Why did the executive committee turn down Hubert's recommendation of Welsh? I never understood why. I remember a time when Adlai Stevenson supposedly was titular head. I guess titular head doesn't mean much. Fritz Mondale
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • known mob-type scenes in Texas were the demonstrations against Adlai Stevenson and Lyndon
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • campaigning. And consequently to get any credibility at all, he has to point to a past record that backs up what he's saying. I always thought that one of the worst mistakes that Adlai Stevenson made in 1956 was to introduce the concept of abolishing