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  • . As a matter of fact, I didn't act as promptly as my intuition indicated, but I felt early that it was his time to move, even though he would have to run against a very popular governor, Coke Stevenson. I felt that Coke Stevenson was vulnerable in many respects
  • there with the Democratic National Convention of that year of which the potential contenders were John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and there was even a movement for Adlai Stevenson continuing in that year. Could we begin by your telling me what your activities were about
  • - -there were some votes for Adlai Stevenson, and the rest were for John F. Kennedy. So as the convention went on, as you know, Kennedy for President on the first ballot. we nominated John F. The next morning we were having a breakfast of all our