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Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . 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
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : When I was a young lawyer, I was appointed law clerk to the Chief Justice of the United States, Fred Vinson, in 1951 and 1952. Then I \"ent to work for Governor Adlai Stevenson as his administrative assistant in Springfield [and] was with him during
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1955 on a visit to the Ranch; 1956 Democratic Convention; Stevenson/Kennedy campaign; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 convention and Stevenson’s hope for nomination; JFK’s consultation with Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a deal with Adlai Stevenson, who people wouldn't think would make a deal but he did, and he made a deal to deliver Michigan, New Jersey, California, and New York to Stevenson if Stevenson would throw the convention open, and that's the way Kefauver got
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh F: He didn't look on Lyndon Johnson as a threat to his continuation? H: No, no. He all felt toward the end that Stevenson was going to be renominated. F: Renominated. H: And we didn't think
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • then in the 1960 delegation was not exactly a lonely job? W: No, it wasn't at all. We only got a handful of votes--two or three and a half, something like that, but there was real sympathy. there was for Governor Stevenson. As I think the majority of the New
Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • would have been the nominee. nominee. But he wasn't, of course, and Stevenson was the And I met Lyndon Johnson two or three times at the convention; although he had been ill, he was there and was taking part in things. I thought he then would make
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that Senator Johnson was campaigning actively for Governor [Adlai] Stevenson, or that he was just sort of giving party lip service? K: This is a little difficult to know, what motivates a man. I had felt at least that Senator Johnson was keeping his party