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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, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : 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