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  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -11- And then along came Mr. Eisenhower who was elected in 1952. The Senate was Republican at that time, I believe, and the Democrats needed somebody. M: A couple of big democrats, McFarland
  • of his leadership, he had to be. He was leader in the Senate mostly during the time that President Eisenhower, a Republican, was in the White House. And I think, and I'm sure you'd find many sources more reliable than I in that regard, as I recall
  • then. Oh, he would give you a tip on something if you'd run into him, but he had come that far along in his leadership that he had to treat everybody fairly, treat everybody the same. M: What did you think of his cooperation with Eisenhower? T: He
  • as a Congressman; McCarthy hearings; LBJ’s cooperation with Eisenhower; rating LBJ as a Senator and Majority Leader; Timmons’ Conventions Record; Democratic and Republican conventions; LBJ and 1960 campaign; Barry Goldwater; “Trial Balloons;” LBJ’s high standing
  • control of that Convention pretty well until they let Doss Hardin get hold of the loud speaker. I'm just not sure which Convention that was. No, this Convention I'm thinking about didn't go for Eisenhower. The Amarillo Convention went for Eisenhower. F
  • nominees. There shouldn't be any hocus pocus about putting Eisenhower on there as the Democratic nominee and putting them on as some kind of independents or something. M: Did Mr. Johnson's activity in the Leland Olds case as he was reappointed
  • the contact. We had some other people. there. I think Charlie Woodson from Brownwood was Charlie and I were always good Democrats together, [for] almost everything, including during the Eisenhower race. Even though I had served under Eisenhower, we worked
  • was a kid, pretty near. He had been head of the House of Representatives. G: I understand that in 1954, President Eisenhower nominated you as an alternate delegate to the U.N. Do you know why you were selected? N: Yes. They tried to balance
  • was going to be on the tidelands, and then announced Texas could not support him. But Johnson stayed with the Stevenson camp and the regular Democratic machinery. The result of that election, of course, was Eisenhower's victory and a Republican victory