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Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : In 1956 you had that horse race between young John Kennedy and Estes Kefauver for the vice presidency, and Johnson shook a lot of people by taking Texas for Kennedy instead of for Kefauver. Were you privy at all to his thinking or strategy in this, or do
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • you can see how they would have that added feeling of poignant grief, that their own state had to be embarrassed about it. So this is something that those of us in the Kennedy and the Johnson officia l family would like to seal off. Did you come