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  • 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
  • . 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
  • to California, attended the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford Law School in the forties. 0: Right. B: Law practice in San Mateo, active in politics in California. You had important positions in the Stevenson campaign there in '56 and in Pat
  • Biographical information; Stevenson campaign; Pat Brown campaign; Washington in 1959-1960; Statler Hotel party to impress Dutton; LBJ, Rayburn Bobby Baker all for California votes; Brown on “Meet the Press” in 1959 said LBJ was too conservative
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh WICKER -- I -- 3 Lyndon Johnson for president in 1960. But I remember, at that time, I was very much for the renomination of Adlai Stevenson. F: Yes. W: And I remember arguing frequently with Silliman, who, as you know
  • in the last twenty-five years. I remember when Adlai Stevenson died, there wasn't much time between the time we got word that he died and Lyndon Johnson saying, "I want to go on television, live, with a statement about Adlai Stevenson." And I remember Dick
  • 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
  • we a l l thought that i f there was going to be any opposition it probably \'1as go i ng to be Stuart Symington ~1ho woul d be difficu lt. But in 1960 then \~e did become concerned. Quite obvious ly he was supporting Adlai Stevenson
  • was as we were going down Main Street, he remarked, "They won't let anybody get within ten feet of him today"--meaning Kennedy--"because of the Adlai Stevenson thing." F: Yes. R: Stevenson had been spat upon in Dallas a couple. of weeks b~fore.This
  • the nomination? M: In 1956? B: Yes, sir. That's when Mr. Stevenson threw the convention open, and Mr. Johnson was in the running. M: I thought the contest then was between the late President John F. Kennedy and ex-Senator (Estes) Kefauver. LBJ