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Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

had a legitimate beef--Byron Utecht was given to writing a- he was, I've forgotten just exactly who he was for in that race--but- It would have been Stevenson or [George] Peddy . It was Coke [Stevenson] . He would write a paragraph of what Johnson

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

campaign. To quote him, he said, "The Senator said, 'Maybe ,,,e ought to try to get him on our side,'" because I had been on the other side in the 1948 campaign. I had worked for Governor Coke Stevenson in his unsuccessful race for the Senate. B: Yes

Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the nominees of the Party to the LTexa~/ Secretary of State who would in turn put their names on the ballot for the election. Coke Stevenson announced that he was going to take a contest of the election to the State Democratic Executive Committee which meets

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

did he get along with Amon Carter? B: He got along real well with Mr. Carter. F: They were strong-minded men. B: They got along real well until the [Adlai) Stevenson campaign, and then Mr. Johnson had a commitment to Mr. Rayburn to introduce

: 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, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the word-vantage points in this situation. Did you have any opportunity that you remember to talk to either the Senator or to Governor Shivers about what going with Adlai Stevenson and Stevenson's views in the tidelands and so forth meant to this part
First meeting with LBJ in Washington, 1935 at Little Congress; closely associated in Democratic convention in 1952 and after; Mississippi vote for LBJ and presidential nomination in 1956; Kennedy-Kefauver race at 1956 convention; Adlai Stevenson

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

or those who are in the highest elected office that their party holds in the Congress will never buy that. For example, Barry Goldwater had no voice as a titular head of his party after he was defeated. The Stevenson people felt that Stevenson

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