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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1987-03-03 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • for the Senate in 1948? Did he talk to you about that decision? That was when he ran against Coke Stevenson. W: He talked to everybody about that. G: He did? Did he have trouble making up his mind, do you think? W: Well, he knew it was going to be a tough
  • A.W. Moursund's 1946 district attorney campaign; the death of Mrs. Johnson's Aunt Effie Pattillo; LBJ supporting Dwight Eisenhower in the 1948 presidential election; LBJ's 1948 U.S. Senate campaign against Coke Stevenson; Winters' offer to shear
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for it. 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