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  • INTERVIEWEE: CALLAN GRAHAM INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Graham, very briefly sketch where you came from and how you ended up working with Coke Stevenson. CG: I have lived in Junction, Texas
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  • Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • you came out of his class, then you were a member of this chewing tobacco club. I never made it. (Laughter) G: LBJ was also on the debate team, is that correct? W: He wasn't the main debater. There were two fellows. a preacher named Graham
  • on radio--we didn't have television in those days--selling his flour and how to lead them all in prayer. He got a tremendous following and, my God, ran for governor. I was up in Graham one day, talking about Pappy O'Daniel. I drove into town. It had one
  • of a Swiss university . sales manager for the Ace Zipper Fastener Company . He's been He's been sales manager for some other gadget concern ." And I wired back and said, "My first assistant, Mr . Harry Graham [?] is a graduate of Harvard University . He's
  • , substantially the same thing that--who was this fellow from the Washington pUblisherJ--his version was correct. ~ [Philip Graham, John Kennedy came to see Lyndon and asked him to run and all this talk, well, anyway-B: That fellow at the Washington Post, Mr
  • : Did you serve on the debating team with him? D: No, I couldn't make it. He made it; his debating partner was a fellow named Elmer Graham; it was a good team, and it was a little too much competition for me. F: Were you involved in any
  • the convention to an end without a riot and a split in the party. So I guess that's how it happened. behind the door. I'm not sure what went on But anyhow, I think Rayburn engineered it. G: Did you know Phil Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post? M