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Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • convention, his possibi lities as a preside ntial or a vice ยท preside ntial nominee were remote -and not very practic al. I was not involved in that 1956 campaign. F: You anticipa ted that this was going to be a Kefauver versus Kennedy fight? P: I'm
  • for vice president; Judge Robert Hall and the Alabama delegation; Lloyd Hand and the JFK appearance before Protestant ministers in Houston; the 1960 campaign in Texas; LBJ helps Henry B. Gonzalez, brings Cantinflas to San Antonio; the special senatorial
Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • guess it was 1947. F: Yes, that'd be about right. L: Yes, 1947, I guess. that. I'd been assistant about a year and a half before Jatk Roberts was elected district judge, and Archer resigned. What'd I say the governor's name was? F: Jester? LBJ
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Civil Rights Bill of 1964; LBJ calls Pickle to commend him on his vote; Pickle votes against open housing; Pickle as "President Johnson's Congressman;" Robert Poage and Williamson County; regrets voting against open housing; LBJ, Yarborough
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the party as head of the delegatio n to the national conventio n. And then in 1960 I helped him at the time he was nominated for Vice President when President Kennedy was rtmning. F: Well, now in 1956, Governor Stevenson had not made it clear whether he
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was strong. The report he got was that when President Kennedy was ki 11 ed i.t might have been done by those connected with, or associ ated with, or in sympathy with the far right movement. Some reporter gave him that ~ LBJ Presidential Library http