President Roosevelt calling congressmen out of military service during World War II; Mildred Moody; Connally's naval career; Daniel Moody; Alvin Wirtz; the Johnsons' business properties in Austin in the 1940's; Hardy Hollers; the Dillman Street home LBJ bought from Charlie Marsh in Austin; Judge Ireland Graves studying the Johnsons's finances; LBJ's 1946 campaign; Austin's Woolridge Park; why Connally was so supportive of LBJ; LBJ's relationships with people who helped him; Connally's radio station KVET; Coke Stevenson; LBJ using a helicopter to campaign in 1948; monitoring the 1948 election returns; LBJ's kidney stones; Paul Porter; legal action surrounding the 1948 election and box 13 incident; the Democratic Executive Committee vote of 1948.
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Citation
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 29, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-connallyj-19691128-2-04-05