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  • Hon. Claud e Desautels Hon. McGeorg e Bund y Hon. Georg e Bal l - - Unde rr Secy Secy,, o f Stat State e Hon. Richar d Goodwi n To th e Offic Officee followe followe dd bb y Under Sec yy Ball , Secy McNamar a Carl Carl Rowa Rowan n Hon Adlai Stevenson
  • huma n understanding g o on. " (se e diary supplemen t fo r remainde r o f statement ) The President the n asked th e guest s t o -". < -\^ t o stan d wit h m e i n a momen t of silent tribut e t o Adlai Stevenson. " The luncheon proceeded an d th e
  • 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
  • was at the University at that time. I voted for him, but that was all I did that year. F: Were you active in state politics in 1952 at the time that Adlai Stevenson was nominated the first time? S: Very slightly. running myself. I had had a very tough race
  • ; attack on LBJ and Lady Bird at the Adolphus Hotel; Adlai Stevenson; Position of U.S. Attorney; Reception for VP LBJ at the Adolphus Hotel; planning for JFK-LBJ trip to Dallas; November 22, 1963; Bill Alexander wanted to file a complaint on Oswald’s behalf
  • /loh/oh -16- In 1948, that's the one he won by 87 votes, we had to run against the incumbent, the Governor Stevenson. The polls showed him to have 75 per cent when Johnson started, and he was 100,000 or 75,000 [ahead], some large figure like
  • walk in the hotel, into the front entrance, the main entrance of the hotel, that he'd have to go the back way. Obviously, I think he saw the political capital to be gained by walking through that crowd. I think a few weeks earlier Adlai Stevenson had
  • to my father-in-law, "What did you do?" He said, "We made it a mandatory buy." (Laughter) G: Let's talk about [Adlai] Stevenson's death for a moment. Any insights on the relationship between Stevenson and LBJ? C: No. G: Did he discuss his
  • dinner in Washington. Speakers include Truman, Stevenson, Rayburn, LBJ, Mansfield, and Gov. James T. Blair of Missouri. Democratic fund-raising activities are increasing while Republicans are backing away from a controversial $100,000 fund raised
  • spokesman we have from now until So, the chairman of the Foreign Relations January 20. Committee, Mr. Fullbright; the Democratic nominee of 1952 and 1956, Governor Stevenson; of the House of Representatives, the Speaker Mr. RqbU1"l'land myself
  • . Johnson at the ranch 10:3 3aPresident to mjdr's office asking for additional pictures to send to Clayton Stribling ~10:34aPresident to Cabinet Room to sign the pictures and talk to La Faye Davis Susan Stevenson 10:44a President 10:50a t to mansion
  • --I--10 think, by Mr. O'Danie1 when Mr. Sheppard died, and then he was successful in the next campaign when he ran against Mr. Stevenson. PB: Yes. That was in 1948. PS: Yes sir. PB: After that campaign there was a considerable flurry
  • to beg him, I guess, and then they came back and like Stevenson had just done it. He and Price Daniel both did it, and I thought it was hypocrisy of the worst kind and just outright misrepresentation. If you can think of any other mean words, I'll give
  • by the way. I really don't--it just stands out in my mind that John had it figured out that that's the way it was going to work out. G: Of course, [Adlai] Stevenson did get the nomination right away, then threw the vice presidential nomination open
  • of MacArthur? W: No, I don't. G: Let me just clear up something you said in your last interview. You said that he supported Eisenhower over [Adlai] Stevenson, and I'm wondering if you meant that he felt personally favorable, or if he actually privately
  • of the school; Sputnik and LBJ's interest in space; LBJ's cousin, Oriole Bailey; Jack and Mary Margaret Valenti's courtship; John F. Kennedy's 1956 visit to Texas and the LBJ Ranch while campaigning for Adlai Stevenson; Christmas family tradition, including
  • Stevenson was LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Corcoran -- I -- 20
  • and not putting [Adlai] Stevenson on the Democratic ticket in the general election. And he just [could not] agree to that. It finally came to the point to where he took the platform, took the stage, and asked the delegates not to pass that. The resolution was made
  • convention rather than the September convention; accusations that Shivers and Sandlin manipulated hotel accommodations to put liberal groups in Dallas while the convention was in Fort Worth; Price Daniel's support for the Adlai Stevenson-Estes Kefauver ticket
  • . And-- M: Was she--I'm sorry-- J: And I think we made one more trip to Mayo that year. Lord, we were--Lyndon was dogged with so many things. But this time they told him his condition was excellent. Shivers was saying that he could not support a Stevenson
  • in it was a responsible and reasonable part that we appreciated. As far as U Thant's alleged initiative was concerned, it's very unfortunate that the principal witness to that transaction, Adlai Stevenson, died before we could get the 14 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • and admiring light that now shines on him, to my great pleasure. But certainly in Texas we earned a lot of vocal hostility by being for Adlai Stevenson and against Eisenhower. There was never any question of doing anything else. There was the usual--after
  • of things hadn't gone wrong, he would have been elected; in other words, if Eisenhower hadn't run obviously he would have been elected; if Stevenson hadn't come out against atomic testing, which was a very unpopular stand in Kentucky, he would have been
  • forgive the other guy for wanting the presidency in a way that endangers your own hopes; [Adlai?] Stevenson, Kennedy. Kennedy kept trying to help: you want to talk to Arthur [Goldberg?] about that. He did more than a man could be asked to do to try to make
  • approved a mear.s by which Texas De~ocrats could vote for the Republican nominee. FD: sir. That was 1952 and you recall a. rather heatec. Yes I election between the late Adlai Stevenson and then General Eisenhower and we had ..... we'd had
  • , and while this is the Japanese image of what the American is like, and it's very authentic, still at the same time they are a very decorous people, and this is a little bit shocking. And I remember another occasion, and this was when Adlai Stevenson had
  • was to me a reasonably familiar commodity. No, I wouldn't have said that. I think his style hurt him with some kinds of people, but many of them were Americans. A couple of days before Adlai Stevenson died in London, when he was involved in a British
  • with JFK, Bundy, Stevenson. 3/20 Johnsons host party for JBC at Sheraton Park Hotel. 3/21 WH leadership meeting. 3/22 Meets with Rusk and congressional leadership re: Laos at 2 p.m., reads statement to CBS radio afterwards and goes to WH at 4:30. 3
  • Tuesday n J _ (include visite d by) LD - dressed and to stateroom. down at Andrews a ir Force Base departed w/ Mrs. Johnson Judge and Mrs. A. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Mr. and Mrs. Bill Lynda Dr. Marlyn Voss Yuki Sgt. Paul Glynn mf Susan Stevenson LaFaye
  • anything 4. Told Nancy about Rufus bravery. Said it was one of the greatest things he had ever seen. And he didn't know before that time that Rufu s had that many reflexes 5. Said Ambassador Stevenson had made -- without notes -- one of the most beautiful
  • , 1964 Attached are papers which address themselves to allegations that the incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin in August, 1964, did not take place but if they did, occurred in territorial waters. 1. Ambassador Stevenson, in presenting our complaint
  • to loo k a t th e picture s take n o f him whe n h e and Mrs . Johnso n presented th e birthday cak e t o Amb. Stevenson , an d remarked tha t they wer e goo d picture s o f Mrs. Johnso n an d tha t sh e ough t to sen d the m t o th e Ambassador . He
  • the President stoo d in the middl e of the floor in mjdr's room an d visited fo r several minutes 'with Mr. Fortas about the problems in Santo Domingo , Dominican To Ova l Offic e to meet with Ambassador Stevenson ^ This is t group of key business leaders who
  • 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
  • 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
  • , Roosevelt said he did. But Byrnes can be very forthright when he wants to be. F: During the ~ifti~s, you, I know, went to the Democratic national conventions, certainly in 1952, that's when they nominated Adlai Stevenson. D: Yes, I was there. F
  • is considerably better - 2 than that of 1960. The only one I can think of that was better was the one run in 1956 by Jim Finnegan for Adlai Stevenson. There was a good, well run organization, and of course we got our brains beaten out. If today's polls
  • , President, Reed Roller Bit Company, Houston, Texas Robert S. Stevenson, President, Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. , Milwaukee, Wisc. Hudson G. Stoddard, Associate, Earl Newsom & Co., New Yor, N. Y. Fla~ger F. Tannery, President, Frito-Lay, Inc., Dallas
  • Lady Bird to New York City for premier of "The Greatest Story Ever Told;" Lady Bird visits a playground project in Harlem; Lady Bird views Bobby Lehman's art collection; Lady Bird to Ambassador Adlai Stevenson's home before show; Lady Bird