Biographical information; first meeting LBJ in the 1930s when he was state director of the NYA; LBJ's decision to run for the Senate; 1952 split in Texas Democratic Party (Shivers' “legal delegation” seated at the 1952 national convention); Texas governor's race with W. Lee O'Daniel, William McCraw and Ernest O. Thompson; W. Lee O'Daniel; Senator Alvin Wirtz; Tom Miller; women in the Texas Democratic Party; fraud in 1940s elections; 1956 governor's race between Beauford Jester and Homer Rainey; conservatism of Texas newspapers in the 1940s.
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