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Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- : Of course, in '48, he was running like mad himself for Senator. B: O r '52. 1956]. '52, that was the year that Kefauver beat me [actually that was I was the nominal head of the delegation. I was the favorite son candidate for the presidency here
- that because it prevented whatever chances the Democrats had to carry the election. And they nominated John W. Davis for President and Charles Bryan, governor of Nebraska who was a brother of William Jennings Bryan, who had run for the presidency a number
- him that I had seen a bunch of VC bodies and [had] burst into tears. And there was some stuff in the Hearst papers that I was trying to uncover an Asian Fidel Castro. It was really nasty. And meanwhile you're going out and getting your ass shot