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Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had a legitimate beef--Byron Utecht was given to writing a-­ he was, I've forgotten just exactly who he was for in that race--but-­ It would have been Stevenson or [George] Peddy . It was Coke [Stevenson] . He would write a paragraph of what Johnson
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • campaign. To quote him, he said, "The Senator said, 'Maybe ,,,e ought to try to get him on our side,'" because I had been on the other side in the 1948 campaign. I had worked for Governor Coke Stevenson in his unsuccessful race for the Senate. B: Yes
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for him? S: I don't know. I think in the Coke Stevenson campaign that Dallas was\. more conservatively oriented than Mr. Johnson was. But I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • could not specifically point out what it was. F: Colonel Thompson got in touch with you to handle the northern area of the campaign against Coke Stevenson? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • support of Stevenson; General Mark Clark; 1948 and 1954 campaigns; 1960 campaign; President’s club; assessment of LBJ; reserve cutbacks.
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the nominees of the Party to the LTexa~/ Secretary of State who would in turn put their names on the ballot for the election. Coke Stevenson announced that he was going to take a contest of the election to the State Democratic Executive Committee which meets
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • or reported . become Coke Stevenson, who was then lieutenant governor and would governor if O'Daniel was elected because he [O'Daniel] was at that time the governor of Texas, was a strong supporter of O'Daniel, and the strength that he was able to deliver
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , we ought to contest that evil result over there in East Texas ." You remember Coke Stevenson was trying to get to be governor by shoving O'Daniel upstairs to the Senate . And so all of the East Texas maneuvering in those days-- the evil areas
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did he get along with Amon Carter? B: He got along real well with Mr. Carter. F: They were strong-minded men. B: They got along real well until the [Adlai) Stevenson campaign, and then Mr. Johnson had a commitment to Mr. Rayburn to introduce
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ever see or have any contact with Mr. Johnson's He's supposed to have a very strong, very violent temper. He got mad at me once in the campaign of 1948 when he defeated Coke Stevenson. He didn't like a story I wrote. I told him I was going to write
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , the floor leader of the loyal Democrats supporting Lyndon Johnson, called me at Nashville the day before and said he wanted me to come down and vote. He thought it was going to be a close vote, and he knew that I had already complained about [Coke
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Did you participa te at all in his campaign in 1948 against Coke Stevenson ? No, I did not participa te in the campaign at that time at all. M: F: Were you active in the campaign of 1960? M: Yes, I was active in the campaign of 1960, and I
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
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • telling me they were withdrawing from the church that I served as pastor. It later developed, when I shared some of the names with people, they'd all been just devoted followers of Coke Stevenson. So there was a group in Texas that could never really
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • McSweeny. Senator, I'd like to begin our discussion this morning centering around 1960. And I'd like to ask you first since I am already aware that you were one of the principal backers in the "Draft Stevenson" movement if you can tell M: me a little
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • said last time something about the exploitation that the Johnson people were clearly making of the Stevenson people in the campaign for that nomination. R: I think that's right, but I'd like to go back a little if I may on the '60 campaign
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in California, and in '56 we were all for Adlai Stevenson at that time. In ' 6 0 , of course, it was hectic goings on. F: Let's talk a little bit about 1960, and the build-up to that convention. At the breakfast at Johnson's home, who was it--just you and Mrs
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the South is concerned. I liked Symington. I liked him. I liked Paul Douglas, And I perhaps liked somebody else--I can't remember any other candidates at the moment of that time. F: Stevenson was still around. S: I had about done all I could do
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the word-vantage points in this situation. Did you have any opportunity that you remember to talk to either the Senator or to Governor Shivers about what going with Adlai Stevenson and Stevenson's views in the tidelands and so forth meant to this part
  • First meeting with LBJ in Washington, 1935 at Little Congress; closely associated in Democratic convention in 1952 and after; Mississippi vote for LBJ and presidential nomination in 1956; Kennedy-Kefauver race at 1956 convention; Adlai Stevenson
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the nomination without consulting with me, without talking to me. I asked that it not be--. But In fact, I asked that it be withdrawn and they complied. M: I see. In 1952, then when you were nominated for the Vice Presidency with Mr. Stevenson, apparently
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and the election was certified by the proper authorities in Texas. JBF: You weren't called upon for any role in the '48 e1ection--advisory or otherwise? F: No. And frankly I haven't been called in very often since. When Governor Stevenson ran against General
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the Senate, which indeed he would have done. F: Had you worked with Senator Kennedy at this time? L: No. I didn't know Senator Kennedy well at all, and I was a friend of Adlai Stevenson's. I was for Stevenson, although Stevenson was not very clearly
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • or those who are in the highest elected office that their party holds in the Congress will never buy that. For example, Barry Goldwater had no voice as a titular head of his party after he was defeated. The Stevenson people felt that Stevenson
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • see, this was 1957, 1958, 1959. occasionally. Yes, I used to see him Since I had been so vehement about his not really running in 1956 and saying he couldn't make it and Stevenson couldn't, I did urge him a number of times to get organized for 1960
Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • don't think it would have developed. I think his domestic program had achieved a certain amount of acceptability and agreement between all the groups and, therefore, internal stability and peace. I campaigned for Stevenson, and let me tell you
  • Biographical information; American G.I. Forum; discrimination; reinterment of Felix Longoria; meetings with LBJ; campaigning for Stevenson with LBJ; LBJ’s decision not to run; 1960 campaign; Mexican-American organizations; ambassador to U.N
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would do would be to go around and politick on his own. For instance, I'll give you the memorandum he gave to Teddy White. As you will see, he goes to see either Adlai Stevenson, or Johnson, or Kennedy suggesting things. And then he would test one
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • recall, the anti- Johnson forces who were at the convention were for Stevenson. I remember Mrs. [Frankie] Randolph and Bob Eckhardt and Ronnie Dugger and that crowd were for Stevenson, not for Kennedy. I ran into some people in the hotel who were
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : That was an extremely difficult election, as you know. A crucial election. F: In reality the election that determined whether he would be President, did it not? H: Oh, yes. Very definitely. Governor Stevenson was much better known than Congressman Johnson
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the vice presidency. supporter, too. I believed in Adlai Stevenson. I was a big Stevenson He, I think, has had a profound influence on my life and thinking. The first I saw of Jack Kennedy was up at that convention. I was the governor at that time
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Texas politics? 0: Yes . I know he was warned before not to go by Senator Fulbright, by Adlai Stevenson, by Bobby, to whom they had given messages . he got really upset . I know Vice President Johnson came to our hotel room in Houston the night
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • some happenings in Dallas that would-as you remember, the Adlai Stevenson incident, and then I think I mentioned in the previous tape that I was present for this very unfortunate happening in the Adolphus Hotel lobby. So I would sCo/ those things
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • because we were on the platform together. He was nominating Mr. [Adlai] Stevenson and I was seconding it, and I urged him then to run for the vice-presidential nomination. He demurred, but in the next twenty-four hours he did agree and we were able
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • weeks. We had to live off the land and find our transportation and eat at county chairmen's homes and stuff like that, and hitchhike from one place to another. paign. I worked with Adlai Stevenson during that cam- The second campaign I worked