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Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • morning, finally Wednesday afternoon, the following week, enough counties reported changes in votes to where [W. Lee] O'Daniel then got ahead by 1311 votes. This was after a meeting Saturday evening in the Driskill Hotel between Coke Stevenson, Pappy
  • of the Federal Communications Commission; Tommy Corcoran and competition for KTBC in Austin; KVET programming; financing in 1948 campaign; LBJ campaign having better organization than that of Coke Stevenson; Ed Lloyd; Archer Parr; Connally’s mistake in 1941
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview S-1 (I), 3/26/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • ; there is plenty there that can speak for itself, and plenty of positive there that speaks for itself. But he is so inclined to beat on him unmercifully. M: He blew up Governor Coke Stevenson as a saint, which is absurd. D: There was a review of his book
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-I, 3/30/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • forgive the other guy for wanting the presidency in a way that endangers your own hopes; [Adlai?] Stevenson, Kennedy. Kennedy kept trying to help: you want to talk to Arthur [Goldberg?] about that. He did more than a man could be asked to do to try to make
Oral history transcript, Livingston Biddle, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1989, by Louann Temple (Item)
  • of the first chairman? B: Yes. He certainly was. He knew Roger Stevens very well and Roger, as you know, had been the finance chairman for Adlai Stevenson in his campaigns. So Pell and Roger knew each other way back in time and were good friends all the way
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • Stevenson would not acknowledge him as a person of consequence. LC: Well, attention spans are shorter; elections are more difficult. I don't think presidential libraries have much to do with that. But I don't know, maybe you find that in the-- DC
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • it. I decided I might as well find out now if it is safe for a man and a wife to walk the streets of Dallas, and so Lady Bird and I went ahead. They did the same thing later to Adlai Stevenson. I never wanted to go to Dallas in 1960 and things didn't get