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Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , or what were you doing? W: Well, I was trying to help him get elected every way I could. G: You said you loaned him your airplane. W: Yes, he used my plane when he needed it. It was available to him. One time, he was trying to get Coke Stevenson
  • campaigns, including an offer to shear Coke Stevenson's goats so Stevenson would be available to debate LBJ; a watch LBJ gave to Winters; Winters' involvement in LBJ's land purchase near Johnson City; LBJ as a rancher; LBJ's lack of popularity in Gillespie