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- : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh F: He didn't look on Lyndon Johnson as a threat to his continuation? H: No, no. He all felt toward the end that Stevenson was going to be renominated. F: Renominated. H: And we didn't think
- see, this was 1957, 1958, 1959. occasionally. Yes, I used to see him Since I had been so vehement about his not really running in 1956 and saying he couldn't make it and Stevenson couldn't, I did urge him a number of times to get organized for 1960
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
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- radio stations; 1941 senate race (defeated by W. Lee O'Daniel); 1946 race against Hardy Hollers; LBJ's habit of developing friends from people who had been opponents; 1948 senate race against Stevenson; Birdwell's lifetime friendship with LBJ and his
- don't think it would have developed. I think his domestic program had achieved a certain amount of acceptability and agreement between all the groups and, therefore, internal stability and peace. I campaigned for Stevenson, and let me tell you
- Biographical information; American G.I. Forum; discrimination; reinterment of Felix Longoria; meetings with LBJ; campaigning for Stevenson with LBJ; LBJ’s decision not to run; 1960 campaign; Mexican-American organizations; ambassador to U.N
- you." And I said, "Well, he won't help me, but let's look at it this way. I don't think Jack Kennedy can lose this district by as much as Adlai Stevenson did in 1956 even if he tried." And as I recall it, Adlai Stevenson lost the district in 1956
- feelings. And his feelings were opposed to Adlai Stevenson, period, and ardently supportive of [Dwight] Eisenhower as I remember. And Lyndon, who believed that, as he would express it, from the court house to White House, on balance, adding it all together
- , on the fitness of Eisenhower versus [Adlai] Stevenson for the presidency. Although Stevenson was a close friend of Mike's, and no Cowles would vote for a Democrat, I did ask if it would offend him if I spoke for Eisenhower against his friend. "Not at all - if you
- ~. R",yburn came into Ne,.] Orleans, where the national c~mmittee roeeti~g when this we.';; was held, and wanted to withhold any decision. ~ossible But he supported Paul Butler who was then elected with the SUp?0rt of Rayburn and Stevenson. B
- would do would be to go around and politick on his own. For instance, I'll give you the memorandum he gave to Teddy White. As you will see, he goes to see either Adlai Stevenson, or Johnson, or Kennedy suggesting things. And then he would test one
- convention which first named Stevenson that you had that problem of the FEPC [Fair Employment Practices Commission] plank and your compromise on that, that the Labor Department would act by persuasion instead of compulsion in developing the FEPC. Did you ever
- for Johnson for the presidential nomination? J: No . I would say that there were a few for Stevenson ; that Freeman led the group, and I was in on the decision-making process there when the decision went to go for Kennedy on the part of Freeman
- activities in New York, I debated at the various reform Democratic clubs for Kennedy against both [Adlai] Stevenson and Johnson and [Hubert] Humphrey and [Stuart] Symington, who was also a candidate at that time. You've got to remember now, there were about
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- and George Smathers, whom I think we called El Greaso. George was a suavely good-looking guy from Florida. I always thought there was something really tacky about him. Stu Symington was really hot, too. Of course, the hottest was Adlai Stevenson. (Laughter
- , there was a lateral entry by Adlai Stevenson, as I recall, which was not a very practical thing. But in any event, it appeared that one of those three senatorial candidates would be nominated. Stevenson was at my house in Atlanta for a dinner one night, and I'd
- recall, the anti- Johnson forces who were at the convention were for Stevenson. I remember Mrs. [Frankie] Randolph and Bob Eckhardt and Ronnie Dugger and that crowd were for Stevenson, not for Kennedy. I ran into some people in the hotel who were
- : That was an extremely difficult election, as you know. A crucial election. F: In reality the election that determined whether he would be President, did it not? H: Oh, yes. Very definitely. Governor Stevenson was much better known than Congressman Johnson
- ahead of the wolves, so to speak. We We couldn't pay our bills, we didn't have any money, it was hard to get. The public seemed to think that Governor stevenson was going to win the campaign and money was a difficult thing to raise in those days
- more than just persuasion. Pretty soon in that atmosphere you were where you see a man going from delegation to delegation, you don't think very highly of him. I think I was most impressed at that convention with the ineptitude of the Stevenson people
- for a post-war development plan for South Vietnam; Lilienthal's skepticism on Vietnam quelled; effect of pacification programs; advising JFK on foreign aid; William Fulbright; Walt Rostow; James Rowe; HHH; RFK; Adlai Stevenson; Eleanor Roosevelt; Nguyen Cao
- to say that what he said ,vas wrong, but I think that one of Lyndon Johnson's dreams was to become President of the United States. F: Did you go to the Chicago Convention in '56? That's the one in which Stevenson was chosen the second time. M: Yes
- didn't see him to lobby. F: In 1956 at the convention there seems to have been a very faint hope that the convention might deadlock between Stevenson and Harriman and that Johnson might be offered as a compromise candidate. Were you aware of that? P
- to be working for the United States Government as a congressman. You know Eisenhower was the supreme commander of all Allied Forces in World War II, so it wasn't bad having him as president. And we had this brilliant Adlai Stevenson challenging him as well
- to interest an outstanding figure to that job--after all, it was [Adlai] Stevenson who preceded Goldberg--presidents had a tendency to define the job in broader and more important terms than the reality. The implication being that that individual was free
- , and it was, of course, before the convention in L.A., and we had a straw vote. F: But he wasn't running. T: No, he was running--well, he allegedly wasn't running, but it was between Johnson, Kennedy, Humphrey--I don't know who else was on that. F: Stevenson
- , Buford. W: Buford Stevenson. 14 LBJ Presidential Library http://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
- : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HAYS -- II -- 13 in June. Mr. Stevenson said, "Yes, I' 11 go," so we went togeth er to Hot Springs to the convention. In introducing him, among other things , I said, "I would be very happy 11 --now
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 2 (II), 12/6/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- in my campaign. Some of them were divided between Eisenhower and Stevenson. G: Had the AMA in Kentucky told you before the vote that if you didn't vote their way on it, that they would oppose you? C: Oh, no. No. They're smarter than that. They're
- early enough. F: I see. You missed on that timing. Well, now then, your frontrunners, of course, were primarily Stevenson and Harriman, and you had that eternal LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
- ticket for Governor Stevenson and Sparkman, and Governor Stevenson and Senator Kefauver. F: Were you a delegate to either of the conventions? T: Yes, I was a delegate, I believe, to the Chicago convention, which renominated Stevenson. F: So you
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- , which kept us busy. The next real contact that I remember was in the campaign of 1960 when I was working for Senator Symington. It was Symington and Johnson and somebody else, who were hoping to be [nominated]. I forget. M: [Adlai] Stevenson. Z
- on the ticket and felt very, very strongly that Mr. Kennedy needed him. I remember a number of things. My mother, of course, was for Adlai Stevenson, and she was bitterly, really bitterly disappointed because she wasn't very happy with President Kennedy's
- minimum wage; the work of congressional liaisons under Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and LBJ; the expansion of the Rules Committee; Roosevelt's trip with LBJ to Adlai Stevenson's funeral; Roosevelt leaving Congress to work with Ambassador
- on the vice presidency. supporter, too. I believed in Adlai Stevenson. I was a big Stevenson He, I think, has had a profound influence on my life and thinking. The first I saw of Jack Kennedy was up at that convention. I was the governor at that time
- with him. I'm not really prepared to say how extensive that was, but I remember this standing out at that time even though it was fairly well understood that the nominee was going to be Mr. [Adlai] Stevenson. Now I suppose bringing it on up to 1960
- Pamphlet that has the pictures and the resume for every person running for office. I had supported [Adlai] Stevenson in 1952 and 1956. Stevenson, I think, was one of the most outstanding, if not the most outstanding political individuals with whom I ever
- ever conceive of--Freeman nominated Kennedy, Gene McCarthy nominated Adlai Stevenson, and Hubert sat there hoping somehow he would be the one. You know, it was all havoc! And we voted for Humphrey, who wasn't even a candidate for the office of president
- . F: Was Adlai Stevenson ever considered? C: No. I never can recall one single instance that indicated that any consideration was being given to that at all. It may have happened when I wasn't there, but it sure never happened when I was there. F
- on stetson hats. So he came back, and he said, "See, Cater, I told you I could beat your price." My dad said, "Well, that's not a Stetson hat." to be a John B." Stevenson." He said, "Oh, yes, it is. My dad looked at it and he said, "It's John B. So he