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  • against Coke Stevenson in 1948 and a closer winner in the State Democratic Executive Committee. Did you have anything at all to do with getting him legally certified , that is, in the litigatio n that followed? That was really left to Alvin Wirtz
  • for Democrats;" the "Port Arthur story" hurts Yarborough; LBJ-Yarborough relationship
  • of the Congressional Campaign Committee. J: My first contact with Lyndon Johnson was in a wire that I received from him after having been nominated on the Democratic ticket for Congress from the Second District of Washington. The wire advised that I was to receive
  • movement all along to get-­ F: Were you doing anything? P: No. Except that I was then serving as executive director of the St ate Democratic Executive Committee under Governor Daniel. Then Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn had a general
  • election of 1960; John Tower elected; LBJ-Pickle relationship in the vice-presidential years; LBJ's generosity; Ed Lyles; "Dollars for Democrats;" Homer Thornberry and Pickle; Gene Fondren, Charles Herring, and Pickle reach agreement on running for Congress
  • Lady Bird writes about jobs she is doing around the house. She says she feels out of touch with what's happening in the world and comments on how LBJ is right in the middle of all the action. She expresses her love for LBJ and says "I'd rather see
  • and smelling the evergreens and yet this year all eyes are ahead- - that is the way the action points. looks and clinging are out. Nostalgia and backward Nevertheless I had le ft them up, I liked them, so there i t is. I t was deliberately an early party
  • s e r v a t i o n - b e a u t i f i c a t i o n p r o g r a m . I t o l d him i t w o u l d j u s t d e p e n d on the f o l k s b a c k h o m e l i k e h i m , a n d to b a c k i t w i t h e d ito ria ls and action. - . /■---------S o m e o n e