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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the two men got on fairly well earlier. R: Sort of off and on, Joe. It was a peculiar relationship. McCarthy seconded the Johnson nomination in 1960, although when the Stevenson candidacy looked like it might be a reality Gene switched real quick

Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

than it polled in 1952, and everybody assumed that was the year of record voting--the year Eisenhower beat Stevenson. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

time stayed on there. Then shortly after Ambassador Goldberg was appointed to the United Nations to take Adlai Stevenson's place--I think that Ambassador Goldberg had been told that he could, more or less, select his own delegation and he asked me if I

Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Commission jobs, were in a way political appointments. One went to Kefauver's A.A. [administrative assistant], that was the trade commission job, and the other went to Newton Minow, Adlai Stevenson's friend and partner. But in my case, as I say, I had

Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. My recollection is that Mayor Daley did not join the Kennedy effort until Los Angeles. David Lawrence and Bill Green still were concerned. Pat Brown was off again, on again. He had an Adlai Stevenson situation in California. We weren't locked

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was as we were going down Main Street, he remarked, "They won't let anybody get within ten feet of him today"--meaning Kennedy--"because of the Adlai Stevenson thing." F: Yes. R: Stevenson had been spat upon in Dallas a couple. of weeks b~fore.This

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of a job from Adlai Stevenson. In a sense it was a sound-out; you're always getting non-offers that may or may not materialize. People wonder if you are interested. I must confess that a non-offer from Adlai was one of the most gracious things you've ever

Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Gammon -- I -- 21 on foreign trips, I sensed, and I think he felt there was a real risk that Blair, as a Stevenson man, would not--might somehow mousetrap

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for the nominee. Was there any chance at all of him actually beating Stevenson out of the candidacy? E: No, and I think everyone knew that. The Tennessee delegation at this particular convention in Chicago was seated just behind the Texas delegation, and so

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

personal interest, but I could not prove that at all. We had great difficulty with this because it had been used on famous people--on Senator Taft, had been used on some high staff person with Adlai Stevenson, and so on. The difficulty with the whole

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

; and it seemed to me weeks before we knew the outcome. only a couple of days. rIm sure it was But first one return would come in, and former Governor Stevenson would be ahead; the next return would come in, and Congressman Johnson would be ahead

Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

weeks. We had to live off the land and find our transportation and eat at county chairmen's homes and stuff like that, and hitchhike from one place to another. paign. I worked with Adlai Stevenson during that cam- The second campaign I worked

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

; and we spent money. But the advisory council met, and met, and We hired a man who had an office and who was named executive director. Adlai Stevenson, I remember "distinctly suspected their motives. He and I would ride back and forth to the meetings

Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

family with lots of money. Nor was it the Adlai Stevenson kind of an aristocrat, which is a different version of the Eastern. But the pride of land, the pride of place, talk about "My granddaddy cleared this place, and the name of it's Johnson City

Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the nomination? M: In 1956? B: Yes, sir. That's when Mr. Stevenson threw the convention open, and Mr. Johnson was in the running. M: I thought the contest then was between the late President John F. Kennedy and ex-Senator (Estes) Kefauver. LBJ

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of that? K: My own interpretation of it is that Arthur wanted the U.N. job, to be in the shoes of Adlai Stevenson. That he, at the time, had felt he had had the career, the glamour, and the opportunities of service on the Supreme Court and that this got him

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at the time, and that is that he had been everything. He had been a cabinet member, he had been a judge in the highest court, and here was an opportunity to step into the shoes of a great man, Adlai Stevenson, and become an ambassador at a time when the U.N

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

relationship between any speaker and any audience. Short speeches are usually the best speeches, but not always. Adlai Stevenson and Winston Churchill, Jack Kennedy, you can think of hun dreds of public speakers if you really put your mind to it--and think

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

said, "Look. All I want is fair play. Let him"-you know. G: What did they do with Sparkman? M: Oh, they killed him. What happened is that--I guess it was Adlai. Was it Adlai and Sparkman? G: Yes. M: Yes. Stevenson and Sparkman. The Pittsburgh

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

convention, the one that picked Adlai Stevenson for the second time and nominated Estes Kefauver? M: Yes, I was there. F: Do you have any light to throw on why Texas abandoned Kefauver and went for Kennedy? M: I was not really in on a lot

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

liberal viewpoints . I'm trying to think who the other contenders were . F: There were primarily Stuart Symington and John F . Kennedy, and some believed that Adlai Stevenson might come back for kind of a run on it, and Hubert Humphrey . B: I don't

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on Churchill, he was a brilliant man. job. It's no But that was his [Inaudible] caused directly of course from that, too much of that. Now when Eisenhower became president, in the election of 1952, of course as you know, we supported Adlai Stevenson

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Roche -- I -- 2 were all holding hands with Adlai Stevenson, James MacGregor Burns, and I, I guess, and Sam Beer of Harvard perhaps and three or four other people were the sort of Kennedy cadre. I never had the slightest

Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -4- with Mrs. Johnson. It was a smallish group. I remember we came over with Adlai Stevenson, who had been at the concert with us. And I remem- ber the President was dancing

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, Paul Butler, Adlai Stevenson, I think Joe Rauh, and some others--and considered from their point of view what would happen if they joined it, you would get a terrifically divisive force going so far as their leadership in the Congress

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

accepted, the ambassadorship to Brazil, I went with Adlai Stevenson on his tour of South America in early June. In the middle of that tour I was telephoned by President Kennedy to ask whether I would take the assistant secretaryship, and I begged off