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I sat in some backyard sessions on that, too, and some of his friends
advised him that it would be too difficult; said Coke Stevenson had been
a very popular Governor and Coke had already announced that he was running
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the interest.
F:
You're thinking about the Senate race against Coke Stevenson.
I was
thinking about when he ran for Congressman Buchanan's old seat.
P:
No, there wasn't much at that time because Lyndon wasn't known except
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close at all during the 1948 contest in which he came to the Senate,
this one in which he nicknamed himself Landslide Lyndon?
The one
against Coke Stevenson?
P:
By that time, the Hatch Act was in the law, and I couldn't take any
active part without
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ticket for Governor Stevenson and Sparkman, and Governor Stevenson and
Senator Kefauver.
F:
Were you a delegate to either of the conventions?
T:
Yes, I was a delegate, I believe, to the Chicago convention, which renominated Stevenson.
F:
So you
