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Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • election returns showed the contest for the United States Senate between Governor Coke Stevenson and Congressman Lyndon Johnson was very close and even in doubt, this created a great deal of interest and attention on the part of the executive committee
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • announced. G: What about in 1948? Did you help him then when he ran against Coke Stevenson? P: Oh, yes. I supported Lyndon. I don't mean that I was ever any big factor in any of those things, but I mean that I was openly for him. After all, I I liked
Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • election, when he ran in '48 against Coke Stevenson? N: I would just as soon not talk about that one. G: That was a close one. N: That was when Duval County got involved in that. G: I think what they made up in Duval County they probably had lost
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : Before we get off the subject, there was some talk of the fact that certainly Mr. Johnson would have been more preferable to the Truman Administration than Coke Stevenson would have been. And, of course, the case did go to the Supreme Court. J: Yes. M
  • ; Coke Stevenson; involvement in Washington litigation while LBJ was Senator; the Leland Olds case and the Texas oil industry; Allan Shivers, Adlai Stevenson and Sam Rayburn in the 1952 election; getting the Adlai E. Stevenson/John J. Sparkman Democratic
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the border in Arkansas I did observe from an outsider looking in, that the political factions at that time headed by Coke Stevenson as the other faction, and the Rayburn forces which was Lyndon Johnson's group, as to their successes. They were steeped
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ; and it seemed to me weeks before we knew the outcome. only a couple of days. rIm sure it was But first one return would come in, and former Governor Stevenson would be ahead; the next return would come in, and Congressman Johnson would be ahead