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In a contest with Tennessee's Kefauver.
E:
Tennessee's Kefauver.
wouldn't go.
You know, Tennessee was all torn up and they
They had Albert Gore at that time, he was running for
vice president; Frank Clement was the governor at that time, and he
- Sam Rayburn and LBJ; Senator Kerr; LBJ for President in 1956; Earle Clements; Senator from Kentucky; Wallace from Alabama; JFK; Al Gore; Frank Clement of Tennessee; Estes Kefauver; civil rights; Governor Faubus of Arkansas; Fulbright; Lester Maddox
- . Gore withdrew.
I remember Mike Monroney rushing down the aisle
and saying to me, "Brooks, why in the world are you all not lining
up with Albert here!
Can't you do something with Arkansas? They
should be helping our friend Albert Gore." But you'll
- a caucus of the labor
delegates late the night before, and they had decided to support
Kefauver for it.
Mr. Rayburn in our first caucus recommended that we
support Albert Gore from Tennessee and carried the vote.
Mr. Rayburn
disliked Estes Kefauver
- Gore was in the House at that time and
he didn't go into the Service as an officer.
He went in the
regular way as a buck private and failed to--and deliberately so-make it known to those that he served with that he was a member of
Congress.
He just
- the Stevenson camp of Johnson as vice president?
H:
I don't think so.
B:
Kefauver was running hard for it, and so was Kennedy.
H:
And Albert Gore and Frank Clements and God knows who else!
I never heard it if there was.
Let's see, he had-I think
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But in between that you were practicing law here?
M:
Yes.
Me:
Was this all with your own law firm?
M:
Well, I began as an employee of the firm of Goree, O'dell, and Allen.
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon
- Virginia and some of the other states out of the convention in 1952. Maybe the state hadn't, but some of its leaders had.
We were very, very much opposed to Kefauver.
We voted for Gore on
the first ballot; Mississippi did and so did Texas.
Well, a lot