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  • Subject > Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961 (remove)
  • Date > 1969-05-27 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Ernest May, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Petty in the first primary. George Petty was a class- mate of mine, and a very dear friend from Houston. And I did campaign a little, very ineffectively, for George. Mc: And that was the race that Johnson had with Coke Stevenson? M: Yes, that's
  • Biographical information; Judge Frank Culver; Sam Rayburn; LBJ; George Petty; Coke Stevenson; Dan Moody; Carter vs. Tomlinson; FDR and the New Deal
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