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- 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
- for him? S: I don't know. I think in the Coke Stevenson campaign that Dallas was\. more conservatively oriented than Mr. Johnson was. But I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
- that the paper kind of decided-- F: That's when Sellers ran against Rainey and Coke Stevenson. K: Not, it wasn't against Stevenson--Jester. F: Jester, right. K: In fact, they were all trying to get Coke to put in a word for them. F: That's right. K
- one other aspect of my personal involvement How did you get into it? with things that involved Lyndon Johnson . I was acquainted with, and I followed his history, you know, back to the Coke Stevenson days when Coke Stevenson and Lyndon Johnson were
- the nominees of the Party to the LTexa~/ Secretary of State who would in turn put their names on the ballot for the election. Coke Stevenson announced that he was going to take a contest of the election to the State Democratic Executive Committee which meets
- ://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
- Coke Stevenson who was a pretty popular man? M: Well, there again, it is hard to recapture those things. In those days Congress was more deliberate, easygoing, folksy type of place, and you talked with your colleagues about practically everything
- , the floor leader of the loyal Democrats supporting Lyndon Johnson, called me at Nashville the day before and said he wanted me to come down and vote. He thought it was going to be a close vote, and he knew that I had already complained about [Coke
- , 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
- episode contributed to the interest. F: You're thinking about the Senate race against Coke Stevenson. I was thinking about when he ran for Congressman Buchanan's old seat. P: No, there wasn't much at that time because Lyndon wasn't known except
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- : 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- . 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
- , 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
- : 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
- to California, attended the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford Law School in the forties. 0: Right. B: Law practice in San Mateo, active in politics in California. You had important positions in the Stevenson campaign there in '56 and in Pat
- Biographical information; Stevenson campaign; Pat Brown campaign; Washington in 1959-1960; Statler Hotel party to impress Dutton; LBJ, Rayburn Bobby Baker all for California votes; Brown on “Meet the Press” in 1959 said LBJ was too conservative
- a relationship . I had also been at the National Committee and at least knew the people in the National Committee and knew a lot of the people that were associated with the Stevenson campaign in 1952 . So the fact--not because I was any thing special but just
- 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
- 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
- recall, the anti- Johnson forces who were at the convention were for Stevenson. I remember Mrs. [Frankie] Randolph and Bob Eckhardt and Ronnie Dugger and that crowd were for Stevenson, not for Kennedy. I ran into some people in the hotel who were
- ticket for Governor Stevenson and Sparkman, and Governor Stevenson and Senator Kefauver. F: Were you a delegate to either of the conventions? T: Yes, I was a delegate, I believe, to the Chicago convention, which renominated Stevenson. F: So you
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- did not work in the state headquarters for the election ofMr. [Adlai] Stevenson, in 1956 I did. He and Mr. Rayburn were--I want to say co-chairmen; I've forgotten the exact title. But he and Speaker Rayburn did head up the campaign for the election
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- apprehensive about Senator Kennedy than she was about Senator Johnson. f/[: For what reason, or did she give -? vI: If you'll remember, she opposed Senator Kennedy from the outset. She was for Adlai Stevenson. his father; She was fearful of the influence
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
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- Texas politics? 0: Yes . I know he was warned before not to go by Senator Fulbright, by Adlai Stevenson, by Bobby, to whom they had given messages . he got really upset . I know Vice President Johnson came to our hotel room in Houston the night
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh WICKER -- I -- 3 Lyndon Johnson for president in 1960. But I remember, at that time, I was very much for the renomination of Adlai Stevenson. F: Yes. W: And I remember arguing frequently with Silliman, who, as you know
- in the last twenty-five years. I remember when Adlai Stevenson died, there wasn't much time between the time we got word that he died and Lyndon Johnson saying, "I want to go on television, live, with a statement about Adlai Stevenson." And I remember Dick
- 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
- 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
- to overstate my national I began \vorking in national campaigns, as I recall, in 1956, involvement. being head of the Speakers' Bureau in Southern California for Adlai Stevenson. I had a role in John Kennedy's campaign in 1960, and a minor role
- Stevenson or Johnson at the Hotel Adolphus? OM: No, I was here in Washington on both of those occasions. VM: Dale, let me interrupt you. On the time that Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson were there, we were getting ready for their visit to Corpus Christi
- ; campaigning in Texas; Ladies for Lyndon; the whistle-stop campaign; how they responded to opposition while campaigning; LBJ as VP; incidents at the Adolphus Hotel with LBJ and Adlai Stevenson; Bruce Alger; the time following the assassination; how
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
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- was a long, tough, and hard fight, where Ambassador [Adlai] Stevenson was, who was an alleged 1iberal and did not see what, to me, was the profound i m p o r t a n c e o f having a black in a ranking ambassadorial level there. Mainly working with President
- 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 12 Farmers for Kennedy-Johnson, Farmers for Stevenson-Sparkman, Farmers for Stevenson-Kefauver . I guess it was my suggestion as much as others, but I felt
- 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, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- we a l l thought that i f there was going to be any opposition it probably \'1as go i ng to be Stuart Symington ~1ho woul d be difficu lt. But in 1960 then \~e did become concerned. Quite obvious ly he was supporting Adlai Stevenson
- was as we were going down Main Street, he remarked, "They won't let anybody get within ten feet of him today"--meaning Kennedy--"because of the Adlai Stevenson thing." F: Yes. R: Stevenson had been spat upon in Dallas a couple. of weeks b~fore.This