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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
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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
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When I was a young lawyer, I was appointed law clerk to the Chief
Justice of the United States, Fred Vinson,
in 1951 and 1952.
Then
I \"ent to work for Governor Adlai Stevenson as his administrative
assistant in Springfield [and] was with him during
- Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1955 on a visit to the Ranch; 1956 Democratic Convention; Stevenson/Kennedy campaign; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 convention and Stevenson’s hope for nomination; JFK’s consultation with Stevenson
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F:
He didn't look on Lyndon Johnson as a threat to his continuation?
H:
No, no.
He all felt toward the end that Stevenson was going to be
renominated.
F:
Renominated.
H:
And we didn't think
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came rather belatedly.
So there were some others that the people knew
better, namely Stevenson, and Symington, and certainly