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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, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

: 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, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

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

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

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

; and it seemed to me weeks before we knew the outcome. only a couple of days. rIm sure it was But first one return would come in, and former Governor Stevenson would be ahead; the next return would come in, and Congressman Johnson would be ahead

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