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Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it is now. T: That was still burned indelibly. F: That's what I wondered. Did people run to you with stories of mistreatment? T: Oh yes, they did. And I might note that my co-chairman of Democrats for Tower at that time was Coke Stevenson
Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • knew for a long time or something, but it was on a completely different level. We never got into politics or-- G: Did he talk about his opponent, Coke Stevenson? C: No. The only thing I would hear was what he would be telling the people. No, I
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • and Shivers had the big fight? L: About his 67 votes? B: Oh, no. L: That was against Coke Stevenson in 1948. Yes, I was confusing that with--and that was a big fight in the credentials committee, whether or not he would be certified. I remember that one
Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • election, when he ran in '48 against Coke Stevenson? N: I would just as soon not talk about that one. G: That was a close one. N: That was when Duval County got involved in that. G: I think what they made up in Duval County they probably had lost
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ever see or have any contact with Mr. Johnson's He's supposed to have a very strong, very violent temper. He got mad at me once in the campaign of 1948 when he defeated Coke Stevenson. He didn't like a story I wrote. I told him I was going to write
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , the floor leader of the loyal Democrats supporting Lyndon Johnson, called me at Nashville the day before and said he wanted me to come down and vote. He thought it was going to be a close vote, and he knew that I had already complained about [Coke
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and it's possible that he may have talked with you at some time about his decision to run against Pappy O'Daniel in 1941 and then again, his decision to run, against Coke Stevenson in 1948. K: About the only firm recollection I have in connection
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • don't want to stop you. This, of course, was the victory--the famous 87-vote victory--over Coke Stevenson? C: Right. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in '4l? B: Well, he made a run in '41 against "Pappy" O'Daniel [W. Lee O'Daniel). W: '41, yes. B: Then he ran again in '48 and lost to Coke Stevenson. W: Well, I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a little finagling going on down Pappy counted
Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into your own ~enatorial years. That is you were attorney general in that disputed contest between Lyndon Johnson and Coke Stevenson in 1948, the one which Johnson eventually won by eighty-seven votes. D: I was ~torney general at the time. LBJ
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with whom he had any close, personal association. G: Now let me ask you about Johnson's 1948 Senate race when he ran against Coke Stevenson. L: All right. G: What was your role in that? L: I probably supported him more actively than I should have
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • rather longingly at the senatorship from Texas and decided to become a candidate, and then did win. I think that race was between he and Coke Stevenson, as I recall. W: I believe it was, Senator. D: It went off by a rather narrow margin, but he won
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : In October, November, maybe a little bit of December that year, he was back a year after having been elected senator. He, I think, had been accepted in the state entirely as the senator. Coke Stevenson was bitching around, I guess, about it, and some two
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the voting patterns. What had hap- pened, I was told--I didn't actually see it I don't believe, I may have seen it--that we had intercepted a telegram from Coke Stevenson, who was W. Lee O'Daniel's campaign manager, that went out Sunday to various key
Oral history transcript, Cecil D. Redford, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • you get involved in any of the rest of his campaigns? R: When he ran in 1948, I was, after having gotten out of the Army, an employee of the firm here in Corpus Christi, and all but one of my employers were for [Coke] Stevenson. But I voted
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that it would be wise for him to go in, that he had made up his mind that he was going in, and he was going to announce it the next day. Yes, I remember that very well. F: Did you have any particular special interest in his running for the Senate against Coke
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . that was. He ran against somebody It's been so long ago I have even forgotten who But Johnson won it; he got a lot of votes against him, but he won it easily from whoever the Republican was. That wasn't even the campaign. Coke Stevenson. The campaign
Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , you decide which is the one that you want. I must say that Coke Stevenson had served with me in the legislature--I had served with him. I was on the opposite side of everything that he wanted to do and actually it wasn't very difficult for me to decide
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jenkins -- XI 25 worked for Coke Stevenson in the [1948] Senate campaign, bitterly strongly against Mr. Johnson. I had to have a PR man in my campaign, and he was the only one that lived
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Did you participa te at all in his campaign in 1948 against Coke Stevenson ? No, I did not participa te in the campaign at that time at all. M: F: Were you active in the campaign of 1960? M: Yes, I was active in the campaign of 1960, and I
Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -- I -- 14 alongside there; this was a particularly hot day and I believe Coke Stevenson was scheduled to have been there that day. But we landed there around noon time and it was hot. We always arranged, as soon as we'd land, I would slowly move
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • episode contributed to the interest. F: You're thinking about the Senate race against Coke Stevenson. I was thinking about when he ran for Congressman Buchanan's old seat. P: No, there wasn't much at that time because Lyndon wasn't known except
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • such narrow victories. The first time he ran for the Senate he was defeated, and then in his contest with Coke Stevenson he just [won by] 78 votes, or 87. G: Tight. B: Like the first time I met him, he just said, "I ran on a ticket totally opposed
Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . J: Did you have any difficulty with Coke Stevenson's group in this? Delay was in their favor. F: They indicated that they didn't think we were doing the right thing. J: But you didn't need their assent in this? F: Oh, no. Presumably we would
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • lead, to cut down so that it would give Ernest Thompson a chance. Well, the people who planned the strategy didn't anticipate that Pappy would just run away with the votes. He was governor at that time, and of course the Coke Stevenson people wanted
Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Well now, it was '48 when he ran again for the Senate. W: Forty-eight, yes. F: Coke Stevenson. W: Coke Stevenson. F: That's that famous 87 vote landslide. W: Yes, I met him then. And he ran against--who? . He came by the Dallas County
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • up together. vote was on, but I canlt. I wish I could remember what that I remember that Mr. Johnson and Senator Wirtz and various ones who were very active in the. . I get it mixed up with the fight with Coke Stevenson. which is sort of the same
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -off between him and former Governor Coke Stevenson. in whi ch f'llr. Johnson won by so sma 11 a vote. This is the one I worked in the Fort LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • against Coke Stevenson in 1948 and a closer winner in the State Democratic Executive Committee. Did you have anything at all to do with getting him legally certified , that is, in the litigatio n that followed? That was really left to Alvin Wirtz
Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • or help him in any way? H: Only through the paper, of course, and through telephone conversations many times when the candidate ran. Particularly the campaign that I remember was when he was running in a run-off against former Governor Coke Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INT ER VIEW ER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Nichols' residence, Washington, D. C. November 1, 1974 G: Mrs. Nichols, you have indicated that you might want to start with the 1948 campaign. N: That's right. That was when he ran against Coke
Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • an idea that some of them weren't because you could hear the--I'd hear people talking, you know, and they'd say, "Ah, Coke Stevenson's the man LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was at the time the lesser of two evils, that Coke Stevenson had certainly not done a damn thing for the working people, that Johnson had done many things in the past, had championed minimum wage and other legislation that I thought was helpful . Back in a bitter
Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , such as in the 1948 campaign when the state federation endorsed Coke [Stevenson], at which time, of course, I did not work for labor, I was a newspaperman. There were times in Democratic Party politics when labor and Johnson were not in agreement on state convention
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Melinger -- I -- 18 Coke Stevenson said about us bureaucrats?" heard it." I said, "Yes, sir, I See, Lyndon was lumping me and him together as old ex- bureaucratic buddies
Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and Coke Stevenson? P: I did not personally. involved. Alvin ~Jirtz was involved, and my father was They went to the Fort Worth Democratic convention where this thing was decided and worked together to help Lyndon in every way. Although my father
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember it. Oh, Lord! Thirteen people running for governor of Texas when [Coke] Stevenson said he wouldn't run for reelection. (Interruption) G: Let's talk about Mrs. Johnson's role in the [1946] campaign. R: Well, I was just going to say that she
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : Before we get off the subject, there was some talk of the fact that certainly Mr. Johnson would have been more preferable to the Truman Administration than Coke Stevenson would have been. And, of course, the case did go to the Supreme Court. J: Yes. M
  • ; Coke Stevenson; involvement in Washington litigation while LBJ was Senator; the Leland Olds case and the Texas oil industry; Allan Shivers, Adlai Stevenson and Sam Rayburn in the 1952 election; getting the Adlai E. Stevenson/John J. Sparkman Democratic