Biographical information; early association with LBJ; the Dodge Hotel; the Capitol and Capitol staffs; summer of 1935 in Austin; LBJ’s plans to run for Congress; LBJ and other staff members; the Little Congress; Bob Jackson and Arthur Perry; friction between LBJ and Senator Connally; LBJ and FDR; Parker’s move to Denver and return to Washington; Senator Connally and FDR; issuing press releases; circumstances of Connally’s support of LBJ in the 1942 Senate race; Connally and the appointment of Jimmy Allred to a federal judgeship; 1940 Democratic National Convention; Henry Wallace; favor to Parker when LBJ was in the White House.
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Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 29, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-parkere-19790827-1-85-56