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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
- See all online interviews with Callan Graham
- Graham, Callan
- Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
- Callan Graham
- 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
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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