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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, 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, 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