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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, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 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

Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and it's possible that he may have talked with you at some time about his decision to run against Pappy O'Daniel in 1941 and then again, his decision to run, against Coke Stevenson in 1948. K: About the only firm recollection I have in connection

: 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, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

telling me they were withdrawing from the church that I served as pastor. It later developed, when I shared some of the names with people, they'd all been just devoted followers of Coke Stevenson. So there was a group in Texas that could never really

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

if I can bring some up, because there must be some good stories that ,;,.could illustrate that. F: Were you in-,-olved in the Coke Stevenson Senatorial campaign? N: Yes. F: 'What do you :--::::nember about that? N: Three hou:-;; :o:~~e-;J

Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Johnson meet Mr. Berlin, the president of the Hearst Corporation, and got him to recommend that the San Antonio Light support Johnson for the Senate in '48, which they did. F: Did you ever meet Coke Stevenson, his opponent? \01: No. F: When it c~e

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, he ran in 1948, you know, in that very tight race for the Senate against Coke Stevenson. G: Yes. Did you help in any way in this? I did everything I could and I'll tell you a little bit about what I know about it. One day after the second

Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Did you participate in the campaign of 1948--that Senatorial campaign against Coke Stevenson? H: No. As a matter of fact, I did not. F: Where you concerned professionally at all with the results of the campaign? H: The contest or the-- ? Well

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

he had an idea of the proper relations in the public interest between an opposition-led Congress and a President of the other party. There is a document there [in the correspondence file] in which, criticizing Adlai Stevenson's contrary attitude, he

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

convention which first named Stevenson that you had that problem of the FEPC [Fair Employment Practices Commission] plank and your compromise on that, that the Labor Department would act by persuasion instead of compulsion in developing the FEPC. Did you ever

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 came rather belatedly. So there were some others that the people knew better, namely Stevenson, and Symington, and certainly

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

some happenings in Dallas that would-as you remember, the Adlai Stevenson incident, and then I think I mentioned in the previous tape that I was present for this very unfortunate happening in the Adolphus Hotel lobby. So I would sCo/ those things

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

because we were on the platform together. He was nominating Mr. [Adlai] Stevenson and I was seconding it, and I urged him then to run for the vice-presidential nomination. He demurred, but in the next twenty-four hours he did agree and we were able

Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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