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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1987-03-12 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to name Coke Stevenson to replace him. Do you recall that? W: No. I probably knew about [it], but I don't know any of the details. G: Do you have any recollections of Christmas of that year? I don't have any notes on Christmas of 1956. W: I don't
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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