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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

from NYA [National Youth Administration] days, where he'd been on Lyndon's board of advisers, and his pretty, perky little wife. Everybody in town was there, probably a quorum of the Senate, Senators [Estes] Kefauver and Kerr with their wives, Dick
television; attending the Kentucky Derby; Carl Estes and Longview, Texas; a Senate ladies trip to Delaware and Winterthur; funerals for Wesley West's mother and Mary Rather's brother and sister-in-law; Mary Rather as a member of LBJ's staff; Senator Harry

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Now the thing of it is, Lyndon's first vote in the delegation was for [Albert] Gore, I believe, and of course he was eliminated. and Jack Kennedy. So it became a run-off between [Estes] Kefauver Lyndon took the floor. Understand, Lyndon's box

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to the Kennedy Administration to have any Admin~tration. contact with Mr. Johnson back in your news career or in private career? D: Only vaguely in my news career. However, in 1955 and 1956, I was on Capitol Hill associated with Senator Estes Kefauver
Biographical information; first association with LBJ; Estes Kefauver; Douglas Dillon; Pierce Salinger; Joseph Laitin; Horace Busby; George Reedy; Henry Fowler; Bill Moyers; Bob McCloskey; Frederick Deming; George Christian; relations with the White

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Administration as an assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture . One thing that comes up immediately after the first year there in March 1962, the breaking of the Billie Sol Estes affair . Bi : Were you involved in that? I was, as most of the people were
; 1960, 1964 and 1968 elections; Billie Sol Estes case; Senator Yarborough; John Bagwell; Red Jacobs; Jim Ralph; Bill Clair; Birney Brenner; Orville Freeman; Rural Americans for Johnson-Humphrey; Citizens for Johnson-Humphrey; McCarthy's Children's

Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there . It can be done if it has to be done . F: Did you go to the 1956 convention? M: F: I've been to all of them ever since I've been up here . G'ere you surprised when Johnson threw Texas support to Kennedy for vice president over Estes Kefauver . M

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

DATE: August 1994 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Harry Middleton PLACE: Martha's Vineyard Tape 1 of 2, Side 2 M: This is side one, Lady Bird Johnson oral history interview [covering] 1957. J: I can talk about [Estes] Kefauver

Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)

it related to Harry Truman becoming president; LBJ's 1956 victory over Allan Shivers for control of the Texas delegation to the Democratic National Convention; U.S. Senator Bill Blakely; LBJ's use of district managers to organize his campaigns; Estes

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the country, New Deal Democrats--[Estes] Kefauver in Tennessee, Johnson in Texas, there were several more--were winning upset victories in primaries in that summer. Kefauver defeated the incumbent Democratic senator from Memphis, [Kenneth] McKeller, who

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

along in years then, although he was lively as a cricket. Lister Hill was another one of the southerners that, although he considered himself more liberal than Johnson, which I guess he was, he could usually be depended upon. G: Estes Kefauver? f'vI

Folder, "Political Notes [1947]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 29 (Item)

t tor the Senate. However , I em very anxious for him to run tor Governor , serve two terms, and then take MoKella r ' s place in the u. s. Senate. Personally, I am for Estes Kefauver tor Stewart' s place . If we could get Browning and Kefauver t o t

Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that convention from Now, did you go to the national convention? the standpoint of the Texas delegation. S: Well, of course, Johnson had firm control of it by that time. The only thing I recall is going with Kennedy as opposed to [Estes] Kefauver for vice

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

then knew him in 1956. You see, most of the southern delegations wound up in the, you might say, run-off contest at the convention voting for Senator Kennedy against Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. I believe that Alabama gave a majority of its votes

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

knew to be Senator Johnson's tremendous skills as a negotiator, as a bargainer, as a manager or manipulator, if you will, in the Senate .a.t the time that he was mnjority leader. You will recall the desire of Estes Kefauver to be a member of the Senate

Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a jackass or two." And they printed it. (Laughter) It was somebody who had individually criticized me. G: Was the question of Price Daniels' willingness to support the Stevenson-[Estes] Kefauver ticket an issue during this convention? S: I don't recall
convention rather than the September convention; accusations that Shivers and Sandlin manipulated hotel accommodations to put liberal groups in Dallas while the convention was in Fort Worth; Price Daniel's support for the Adlai Stevenson-Estes Kefauver ticket

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

its high drama and just the drumbeat. I wouldn't have missed them for anything. Lyndon's work on his committee was reaching a crescendo. He was having hearings around over the country. [Estes] Kefauver and [John] Stennis and Senator [Lester] Hunt were

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

all went out to the compound on Saturday morning before leaving and we went to Otis Air Base, got on our Continental--I think it was a prop jet, maybe--to fly to Nashville. We flew to Nashville and he made a speech on behalf of Estes Kefauver. But all

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 3 (III), 11/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

senator had in fact. AG: What do you think about this? Well, there again that was someone that came in new and suddenly wanted to be a big star. I don't think you ever had that criticism before with the Dick Russells, the Bob Kerrs, the [Estes

Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

/loh/oh PACE -- r -- 2 Lyndon Johnson, Estes Kefauver, and de Lesseps f·10rri son. ~·1: He was a pretty good prophet. P: Of the four, only de Lesseps r·10rrison failed to become prominent on the national scene, and that was because of the local

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Now in your correspondence you wrote to the state headquarters, to Warren Woodward there at [Adlai] Stevenson-[Estes] Kefauver headquarters, how difficult you thought it was going to be to do well in Bexar County against Eisenhower. Any additional

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 2 (II), 2/28/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

switched my loyalties and my allegiance. G: They also seemed to have opposed Estes Kefauver for the vice presidential nominee and even went to [Albert] Gore and to [John] Kennedy and [Hubert] Humphrey. Do you remember that, their efforts there to organize

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

earlier when Rayburn and Johnson swung the southern and border delegations to Kennedy when most people thought they would go to Kefauver or somebody else. F: Why do you think they went to Kennedy over Kefauver, since Kefauver was a Tennesseean? J: I

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

\,!ith that amendment in its final form, and I co-sponsored it along with Senator [Estes] Kefauver of Tennessee. It was a very close question in the Senate. The ardent civil rights spokesmen were contemptuous of the amendment; contending that it would

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of it was that LBJ had restricted or limited some of the Senate investigations that year. The three that she mentions were: one, he maneuvered Estes Kefauver out of the chairmanship of the subcommittee scheduled to investigate the Dixon-Yates contract. B: Do you

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

from tenant farmer to governor to Senate. Interestingly enough, his daughter I think is now somewhere in state government, and his wife was a good friend of mine. Estes Kefauver, of course, he practically belonged on the stage. Very sort of Lincolnesque
Clinton Anderson, Harry Byrd, Tom Connally, Paul Douglas, James Eastland, Allen Ellender, Allen Frears, Walter George, Theodore Francis Green, Hubert Humphrey and others; Estes Kefauver; Bob Kerr; Russell Long; Joseph McCarthy; George Malone; Wayne Morse

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

: In 1956 you had that horse race between young John Kennedy and Estes Kefauver for the vice presidency, and Johnson shook a lot of people by taking Texas for Kennedy instead of for Kefauver. Were you privy at all to his thinking or strategy in this, or do

Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

instead of Kefauver. What was your opinion of the reason for that? P: I think that probably that's something that only President Johnson could answer. My own impression is that he felt that Estes Kefauver was, to use a Texas expression, a kind

Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in As a matter of fact, I was appointed--I'm not sure whether it was 1959 or 1960; anyway, it was after my speech--to the Appropriations Committee. Kefauver [died]. I took [Estes] Kefauver's place after Now, that may have been--I'm not sure whether LBJ

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

named Carl Estes. Carl happened to be a friend of mine and purportedly was a friend of Johnson's. dangerous man to be friends with. carried my county of Gregg. But he was a somewhat In the first primary, Mr. Johnson The truth of the matter
Biographical information; initial association with LBJ; 1948 Senate campaign; Carl Estes; 1952 campaign and Texas Democrats; Texas delegation to Chicago Democratic National Convention, 1956; Lady Bird; racism and civil rights; Democratic State

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

of Mary Rather's brother and sister-in-law and Rather's efforts to care for their children; Juanita Roberts; Oklahoma Senator Bob Kerr; LBJ's view about alcohol; Averell Harriman; Estes Kefauver and his speech in Waxahachie, Texas; Christmas Eve at LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

convention, the one that picked Adlai Stevenson for the second time and nominated Estes Kefauver? M: Yes, I was there. F: Do you have any light to throw on why Texas abandoned Kefauver and went for Kennedy? M: I was not really in on a lot

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1955" (Item)

Rayburn. Stevenson, Kefauver, Fulbright, Tom Clark and Bill Kittrell also attend. Later LBJ attends a stag dinner at Clark Clifford’s for Truman. Earlier in the week Clifford had asked LBJ to attend saying that Truman had asked that LBJ be among the eight

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Another one had to do with Dixon Yates, [Estes] Kefauver wanting to investigate the Dixon-Yates contract. Also an investigation of the administration's security firings, that Olin Johnston was- R: I remember that story somewhat. splash, very little

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

if LBJ was urged to sign it? M: I don't. He simply didn't, and neither did Albert Gore, [nor did] I believe [Estes] Kefauver, someone else. And their defection from it really reduced its clout very substantially. He, I'm sure, told Dick Russell

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of raising hell with Johnson on it. Johnson and Kefauver were the only two that didn 1 t sign it. of course, Kefauver was in a better position than Johnson. get away with it. He could Kefauver had all that eastern Tennessee that didn 1 t give a danrn

Folder, "Johnson, Lyndon B. [1941-1955]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 14 (Item)

out of reach. At least four Democrats who came to the Senate for the first time with Johnson in 1948 are being touted for the same high goal : Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico, Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, Hubert Hum phrey of Minnesota and Paul

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1953" (Item)

an industrial tour of Longview as a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Estes. CTJ has been in East Texas several days visiting her father. 4/29 CTJ attends the Senate Ladies luncheon for Mrs. Eisenhower in the Senate Caucus Room. 1953 Chronology ● p. 10 of 26 07/2024

Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, in the fall before the convention, and moved up to Chicago. Then we got tangled up in the long primary fight with Estes Kefauver, which we tried to avoid and couldn't. That meant an endless campaign, beginning in Minnesota and running all the way through

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