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Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of platform that he drew such national attention to. At that time I was Democratic national committeeman from Arkansas. I went on the national committee and was a Roosevelt man very early. I was the youngest member of the national committee. hadn't reached
; Community Relations Service; Roy Wilkins; Pope Paul; Southern Committee on Political Ethics, 1967-1968.

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Combs--and I did not run against him, though some people suggested it as a possibility . I rather liked him and he was a moderate Democrat, and a Johnson supporter and a friend of Johnson's, so in 1950 I did not run, but rather supported Combs

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

will then be placed in the Library, to be administered by the people at the National Archives incidentally, and this will be used as Mr. Beckworth wishes. B: Thank you. That's very fine. M: This is an interview with Mr. Lindley Beckworth. outside of Gladewater
Home congressional office facilities; family background; father's county school superintendent campaign; 1928 Democratic convention in Houston; college education data; 1936 race for state representative; introduction to LBJ in 1936; 1938 campaign

the fact that Mr. Johnson did have a conservative base in his home state, and was also attempting to become a more national Democrat as majority leader •. Was this really causing much of a problem for him and his staff to disassociate themselves from
; 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, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh BASKIN -- I -- 4 B: The t1a.y one when they overthrew the Shivers-dominated State Democratic Executive Committee
First contacts with LBJ in 1953 in Texas campaigning; Johnson's role in Texas state politics in 1956; Sam Rayburn's selection of LBJ as favorite son in 1956; DOT (Democrats of Texas); contacts with LBJ in Senate; LBJ-Ralph Yarborough as senators

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

on the Democratic committee we had to set up after Shivers and his group went off, I called Rayburn in Austin--oh, yes, he was down there and I called him because Bert Andrews had broken,his story about our man from the National Committee who was down there being
Committee; Gerry Siegel; LBJ’s staff members; Sam Rayburn; 1956 fight between Shivers and LBJ; Byron Skelton; Mrs. Loyd Bentsen; Mrs. Frankie Randolph; The Lyndon Johnson Story; LBJ had to work for the 1960 campaign; convention politics; H.L. Hunt’s

Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: NANCY DICKERSON INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Her office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 D: When I left Wisconsin, I went to Washington and the one place I wanted to work \'/as the Senate Fore,ign Relations Committee. I guess

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the Hous e when he was on the N: ~\ayy He never gave up. Watchdog Committee:? Well, he ?:.::: me to work on it. I was supposed to be a go-between between r.ci:::: and the investigators. for awhile. We worked down in the Navy It was understood
became staunch friends; Navy Watchdog Committee; LBJ never expressed a preference for a candidate before a primary.

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