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Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. And that was the situation with respect to the Mansfield letter. That's totally a partisan thing, trying to stir up controversy within the Democratic hierarchy on an issue that really should have been kept private. If Mansfield didn't agree 1 LBJ Presidential Library http

. Then we had the time that the Texas Democrats wouldn't put Adlai Stevenson and Senator Sparkman--or didn·'t want to put them on the ballot as Democrats. The Texas party wanted to put them on as something else and they went to court over that. We were
; 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, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, a sort of a war man. His basic feelings, I think, are democratic to the extent that he would want to see somebody in there who was elected. G: There was a good deal of press criticism about his Dominican policy. The Republicans accused him of being

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to where it would be easy for him to sign and put some kind of marker where the name was supposed to go and things like that. The matters of vital importance, like Vietnam, or things that were happening that required prompt action would be brought to his

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was in every major civil rights action from the time it started, really. He just did everything, was in every case. [He] travelled over the country and tried cases in the South where he was so unwelcome, and therefore, among the black leaders, legally first

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