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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

: 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, 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, 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

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