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  • in the election of Wilso~--one week; and the next week in Baltimore which nominated Wilson over Champ Clark after 47-48 ballots, a deadlock. I came here from that convention, got a job on the Washington Post on the 4th of July and went to work here on the 4th
  • never obtain a majority, in part due to the fact that the IIImmortal Forty," as the Texas delegation at that convention was called, headed by [Senator Tom -Connally and] Colonel E. M~ House, held out for Wilson and finally brought about the nomination
  • Party in 1956? P: In 1956? No, I wasn't in on that. (Laughter) I've heard enough about it. M: Sounds almost as if you're ,happy you weren't. P: I sure am. That was a trauma. (Laughter) Judge Wilson, who died here last Friday night
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Long -- II -- 10 and Bill Drake, and Will Wilson, and Mayor Miller were all
  • and a very conservative county, its Republicanism dating from the Woodrow Wilson days when Mr . Wilson took us into war against the Fatherland, and the county is mainly of German settlers who came over here in the seventies, my father was able to make
  • rapidly what all you did up to the time that you came to Washington and the Interstate Commerce Commission. D: I was born in Stockdale, Texas, in Wilson County just east of San Antonio; lived on a farm until I was eighteen or twenty years old. I became
  • throughout the year of 1957 prior to Russia's Sputnik, and I couldn't understand why Secretary [Charles] Wilson was just barely keeping the von Braun unit alive out of his contingency funds, why they couldn't let him go. Well, of course, things changed