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But then at the 1952 convention--it was held, I believe, as I recall, in Amarillo, and
it almost got out of hand. There were some there who did not want Adlai Stevenson--and
now again I'm talking about the September convention. We had already been to the national
- Adlai Stevenson in 1952; Rayburn's misunderstanding that Shivers' attendance at the Chicago convention was a commitment to support any Democratic candidate; LBJ choosing Sandlin to speak for him in Travis County rather than Mayor Tom Miller or Emma Long
- and not putting [Adlai] Stevenson on the Democratic
ticket in the general election. And he just [could not] agree to that. It finally came to the
point to where he took the platform, took the stage, and asked the delegates not to pass that.
The resolution was made
- convention rather than the September convention; accusations that Shivers and Sandlin manipulated hotel accommodations to put liberal groups in Dallas while the convention was in Fort Worth; Price Daniel's support for the Adlai Stevenson-Estes Kefauver ticket
