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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1971-03-19 (remove)

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  • to be governor. S: Well, I got into politics a long time before 1968. F: Yes, sir. S: My first venture into politics was in 1932, when I felt not an obligation, but felt that I wanted to help the Democratic candidate for governor at the time who was Henry
  • no problems with them. F: Of course, Johnson and Rayburn both were in a sense swimming upstream in their home state. M: Right. I think Governor Stevenson knew in his heart that you couldn't beat Eisenhower in 1956. There were some of us, including me