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  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: GOVERNOR PAT BROWN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ DATE: F: More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • See all online interviews with Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960 campaign; Cheryl Chessman case; National Advisory Committee; Democratic candidates; 1962 campaign against Richard Nixon; Cuban crisis; Rumford Housing bill; Jess Unruh; Western Governors
  • Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown
  • --there was talk of Pat Brown, there was talk of Hershel Loveless, of Freeman, there was talk of [Governor Frank] Docking from Kansas, I believe it was, and there were so many that had been rumored that they would be Vice President on the Kennedy ticket. out who
  • 1,200,000 against Goldwater . That was even twice the victory that Jack Kennedy had had himself against Nixon . I first met Lyndon Johnson when I got elected to Congress, and Mr . McCormack brought me down to the Board of Education that old Sam had . G: Who
  • and 1960, when names of Democratic President candidates were mentioned, that Mr. Johnson's name was always conspicuous. M: What was your assessment of the 1960 election, since it was such a close race between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon? A: Of course
  • is not meant to be critical. F: True. A senator who is a defeated is no senator at all then. E: Certainly. F: Getting to be Vice President freed Mr. Johnson from Texas. You went in '59 with Vice President Nixon to USSR and to Poland. So far as you know
  • wash him, and then I'd shave him, and then I'd spank him," and everybody was whooping and hollering. It was a terrific performance, and he was relatively effective, I think. Tennessee finally, over the religious issue, did go for Nixon, but I think