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Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • area? I was down in Weatherford about that time and I remember that Lyndon was looked upon as almost horribly liberal to lots of people, much more so than he actually was. Whereas Coke Stevenson, you know, represented the kind of quiet pipe-smoking
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • might as well run against Johnson." G: But Dudley Dougherty did have the backing of Coke Stevenson and Dan Moody. H: Oh, yes. They were all friends, as I recall. Let's see, what else in 1954? When the Democrats regained control of the Senate after
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of more power, they began to have a more tolerant attitude. G: But Rayburn had the same problem, didn't he? J: Oh, you bet he did! People were already making their intentions known about the Senate race. Former Governor Coke Stevenson had announced
Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • speak about you see Coke Stevenson's dour face. He's listening intently to Lyndon with his pipe gripped in his teeth. He was the lieutenant governor. The governor was "Pass the Biscuits, Pappy" O'Daniel. 14 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • maintaining your voting residence here in San Antonio? H: Of course, I've always maintained my voting residence here. P: Did you have any opinions on that 1948 Senatorial campaign with Coke Stevenson? H: I was depending on the newspapers for my
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • telling me they were withdrawing from the church that I served as pastor. It later developed, when I shared some of the names with people, they'd all been just devoted followers of Coke Stevenson. So there was a group in Texas that could never really
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • have been somewhat more active in 1948. I remember in 1948 I spent a couple of days--that was when he was running against Coke Stevenson--I spent a couple of days in Kerr County, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . He had never been for Johnson as senator, you know. I don't In fact, when I was working for Coke Stevenson in 1948, Hunt gave us a contribution. The reasons he gave for changing his mind about Johnson were two: one that he was strong and could
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • if I can bring some up, because there must be some good stories that ,;,.could illustrate that. F: Were you in-,-olved in the Coke Stevenson Senatorial campaign? N: Yes. F: 'What do you :--::::nember about that? N: Three hou:-;; :o:~~e-;J
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • close at all during the 1948 contest in which he came to the Senate, this one in which he nicknamed himself Landslide Lyndon? The one against Coke Stevenson? P: By that time, the Hatch Act was in the law, and I couldn't take any active part without
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • the commission up. The commission labored very hard for fifteen or sixteen months, and we expected [Adlai] Stevenson to be elected and that we would be able to continue with the thing, and we were cut off very suddenly so I had to do a massive amount of writing
  • ; Gorman's work with Mary Lasker; Gorman's work as a speechwriter for Lister Hill, Adlai Stevenson, and other politicians; LBJ's early lack of interest in health issues; writing speeches for JFK on the issue of aging; Mary Lasker's work to establish
Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the congressional race the first time, I always thought he'd be president. M: Is that right? TF: I really did, I mean, you could just tell. That time he ran for the Senate, you know Coke Stevenson nearly won the Senate race overall of them. Lyndon barely made
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson meet Mr. Berlin, the president of the Hearst Corporation, and got him to recommend that the San Antonio Light support Johnson for the Senate in '48, which they did. F: Did you ever meet Coke Stevenson, his opponent? \01: No. F: When it c~e
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson of being a tool of the oil industry . Anyone who knows Johnson well, anyone who knows of the 1948 election, knows that the oil industry did everything in the world to beat him . Coke Stevenson was their candidate . They also put another oil
Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . It was a campaign in which Mr . Johnson was regarded as being more liberal than Coke Stevenson . Texas at that time was particularly a conservative state . of votes is well-known . The margin I did not have anything particularly to do � � � � LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XVIII -- 8 Robert Taylor, Jack Dempsey, Nancy Gates, Governor [Coke
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , he ran in 1948, you know, in that very tight race for the Senate against Coke Stevenson. G: Yes. Did you help in any way in this? I did everything I could and I'll tell you a little bit about what I know about it. One day after the second
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • Governor Shivers went to Illinois to see Governor Adlai Stevenson, who was the Democratic nominee, and asked him if he would be willing to support the Texas title of ownership--it was even--the matter was in Congress at the time. Stevenson said no, he
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was on it the rest of the convention because there was a lot of interest in him then, and I ended up handling all his business there. There was the Harriman versus Stevenson business, and Dad was already getting interest from people. And then Kennedy had his close
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • His father had been a strong supporter of Mr. Dudley Tarleton had been a strong supporter of Mr. Johnson's, his uncle, I believe [he was] his uncle. G: Do you think that other people were behind Dougherty's candidacy? J: I think Coke Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • I got to Seattle that he had been beaten--had been counted out. F: What did you do in the '48 campaign? C: Well, Mr. Truman-- F: That was the one against Coke Stevenson and was, of course, a national election year too. C: Well, my
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , the Dallas News and other principal papers throughout the state ran big double trucks of him and his life and his family and so forth. Then we began to hear uneasy reports about a meeting that was held in the Driskill Hotel between Jim Ferguson, Coke
Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Did you participate in the campaign of 1948--that Senatorial campaign against Coke Stevenson? H: No. As a matter of fact, I did not. F: Where you concerned professionally at all with the results of the campaign? H: The contest or the-- ? Well
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the border in Arkansas I did observe from an outsider looking in, that the political factions at that time headed by Coke Stevenson as the other faction, and the Rayburn forces which was Lyndon Johnson's group, as to their successes. They were steeped
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • conceded the election to Johnson, there were more votes came in than there were registered voters in two or three counties, and they happened to be counties where Coke Stevenson had a tremendous influence. So he wanted to be governor, and his proposition
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • associated with Coke Stevenson, didn't he? S: I think he admired him very much. mean a political connection? I don't think there was any--you LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • votes." Then later on when he beat Coke Stevenson, Johnny Crooker, Sr., an attorney in Houston that had backed him so strongly, had a party for him at the Sam Houston Hotel on the second floor, and there was a big banquet room. invited me up there from
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , I'Wa it a mi nute. " Then he sa i d, "The boss says he'll buy you". lunch if you'll eat hamburgers." I said, "Fine, I'll come up." So we ate hamburgers and cokes at the desk and talked about our chjldren. He bugged me, why wasn't I back now
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I was. Nobody knew what was going to happen, because legally we had certified copies of the vote. That's legally. All right, you're confused. You're for Coke [Stevenson], there's been no question about it, but you don't LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HUGHES -- I -- 14 Governor John Connally and Nellie Connally, or Adlai Stevenson or some other great figure in history standing
Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of some others now." thought t h a t Lyndon had won and he had not. At t h a t time he Of course when Coke Stevenson l o s t by 87 v o tes, I used to c a l l him old Landslide Lyndon. M: How did he r e a c t to th a t ? H: He j u s t laughed. What
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • be represented by Mr. Johnson, in the Senate. They either knew him or knew about him, and felt that he was a real Roosevelt Democrat who would make a constructive contribution. B: Were they that enthusiastic about Mr. Johnson, or were they more opposed to Coke
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)