NOTES
“After that”: Horace Busby interview.
“Fees … that I could write on a blackboard”: Stevenson, quoted in DMN, Aug. 5, 1951. Asked him to run: DMN, Aug. 5, 1951; HC, Sept. 14, 1952. “I would not want”: Stevenson, quoted in DMN, April 22, 1952. Stacks of mail: DMN, Aug. 5, 1951; HC, Sept. 14, 1952. A “gifted speaker”: Marguerite Stevenson, quoted in Wyatt and Shelton, p. 167.
“Took a bride”: Junction Eagle, quoted in Wyatt and Shelton, p. 100.
Telephone installed: For example, Frank X. Tolbert, “After 40 Years, Ex-Governor Finally Puts in a Telephone,” DMN, undated clipping.
“At 71”: Tolbert, DMN, Aug. 16, 1959. Building the garage: Wyatt and Shelton, p. 102.
“Well, of course”: San Angelo Standard-Times, 1964.
“After spending”: DMN, Aug. 16, 1959. “You sense”: The reporter’s description of his day with Coke, Teeney and Jane, printed in HC, Apr. 6, 1969, is the basis for this scene.
18. Three Rings
NOTES
Swearing-in: AA-S, DMN, El Paso Herald-Post, HC, Jan. 4, 1949. Winked; three rings: AA-S, Jan. 12, 1949 (by Margaret Mayer).
A Note on Sources:
Learning About Coke Stevenson
Great Western drilling on ranch: Among the entries relating to this drilling in a journal kept by Marguerite Stevenson is one for May 10, 1977: “Great Western Drilling Company located … two drilling locations—one NW of horse trap fence in Telegraph Pasture & the other in Survey 13, NW of E. Mill. I watched them stake the first location.”
Oil leases on Stevenson ranch for over six decades: The first lease was signed by the Sinclair Gulf Oil Co. on Nov. 21, 1919, recorded Jan. 26, 1920. The next lease was signed with Stevenson by the Lewis Gas Products Co. on Dec. 1, 1927 (Index to Deeds, Direct A to Z, Second Series from Jan. 1, 1920, to Dec. 31, 1937, Kimble County, Texas, p. 249). Other leases were taken by W. E. Sultenfuss on Oct. 27, 1950, and the Ohio Oil Co. on Aug. 8 and Sept. 20, 1954 (Index to Deeds, Third Series from Jan. 1, 1938, to Dec. 31, 1955, p. 249); F. R. Perkins on Nov. 9, 1959; Dave Elder, Oct. 1, 1968; Wayne Petroleum Co., June 1, 1972 (Oil & Gas Records A to Z Direct, Jan. 1957 [to date], Vol. 6, p. 657, Deed Records of Kimble County, Texas). (Wayne assigned lease to Great Western Petroleum Co., Sept. 16, 1974; Great Western assigned 35½% interest in lease to Davoil, Inc., Dec. 8, 1976.) $4,483 check: Mrs. Marguerite Stevenson interview.
Magnolia lease: Deed Records of Kimble County, Texas, Direct Index from Jan. 1, 1938, to Dec. 31, 1955, Deed Record, Volume 44, pp. 358–66.
$19,571: The amount is shown by the federal documentary stamps attached to the lease; by Stevenson’s income tax return—Internal Revenue Service Form 1040—for 1939, p. 2; by his handwritten tabulation of “Income—1939” found with the return; and by Stevenson’s monthly bank statement for May, 1939, from the Charles Schreiner Bank of Kerrville. (Carbon copies in author’s possession.) Stevenson’s tax returns for the ten years covered by the lease and his handwritten tabulations of yearly income show only one other entry for oil-connected income: $647 from an unspecified “oil lease” in 1948. I could find no record showing what this refers to, but it was apparently the amount paid by another oil company for a very brief lease on another tract of land on the ranch (Stevenson, Jr., interview). Sixteen leases: Ramsey Randolph to Caro, undated, “On May 10, 1939, Coke R. Stevenson and wife, Fay Stevenson …”; Ernest Boyett, Coke Stevenson, Jr., interviews. Lottie Bolt Ranch lease: Ibid., Ramsey Randolph interview. “The Humble lease”; “pretty low”; consistent: Ramsey Randolph interview. And see p. 210 of this book.
Wells drilled for decades: Ownership Map of Kimble County, Texas, 1972, in County Courthouse; Stevenson, Jr., Boyett interviews. Income tax returns: Carbon copies of Stevenson’s returns for every year between 1927 and 1950—Internal Revenue Service Form 1040—are in the author’s possession, as are Stevenson’s own handwritten tabulations of income and expenses for many of those years, tabulations which evidently formed the basis for the returns. $13,139: IRS Form 1040—“United States Individual Income Tax Return—1942—Coke Stevenson.”
Estate and will: Dept. of the Treasury—Internal Revenue Service—Form 706, “United States Estate Tax Return—Coke R. Stevenson (Decedent)”; “Account Adjustment”—Document Locator N. 74647–348–00103–7, Jan. 23, 1978; Dean E. Morrow, Acting Director, Internal Revenue Service Center—Southwest Region, to Marguerite K. Stevenson, executor, Jan. 5, 1978; “In Re: Estate of Coke R. Stevenson, Deceased, No. 1170, In the County Court of Kimble County, Texas, Sitting in Matters Probate, Oct. 21, 1975 Application for Probate of Will and for Letters Testamentary, July 7th, 1975”; “Last Will and Testament—Know all men by these presents: That I, Coke R. Stevenson, a resident of Kimble County …,” Dec. 3, 1974, filed July 7, 1975, Maxine Hancock, County Clerk. (And attached documents. Copies of all in author’s possession.)
Money in Mrs. Stevenson’s own name: “CRS-MS Financial Status, June 28, 1975,” compiled by Mrs. Stevenson.
“As I have said before”: Stevenson, quoted in DMN, July 27, 1948. “I know of no changes”: Stevenson, quoted in DMN, July 21, 1948.
Index
Abilene Reporter-News, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Acero, Enriqueta
“active campaigners”, 12.1, 12.2
see also “missionaries”
Adams, Harry Lee, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 15.1
advertising:
on KTCB, in return for government favors, 6.1, 6.2
in political campaigns: newspapers, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3; radio, itr.1, 9.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7
Ainsworth, W. W., 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1
Alabama, racial crisis in, itr.1–xvii, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4
Alamo, battle of
Alice, Tex., 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 16.1
1948 primary voting in
1948 runoff election in, 13.1; County Democratic Committee enjoined from recount and correction, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 15.1
Stevenson’s investigating team in, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 15.1
vote-fraud probe by Federal Master-in-Chancery, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Alice News, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
Allred, James V., 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 8.1, 15.1, 15.2 passim, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6
American Federation of Labor (AFL), 7.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
American General Insurance Company
American Legion
Anderson, Jack, 6.1, 12.1
Anderson, Robert B., 6.1, 6.2
Anderson, Lt. Col. Samuel, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
anti-lynching bill (1947), 7.1, 10.1
anti-unionism, in Texas, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
anti-war movement, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3
AP (Associated Press), 3.1, 5.1, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2, 15.1
Salas interview, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Archer, Judge Roy, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 16.1
Arnold, Fortas and Porter
Arnold, Thurman, 7.1, 15.1
Atomic Energy Commission
Austin, Tex., 1.1, 6.1
Air Force Base, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
LBJ’s land purchase in
LBJ’s 1948 campaigning in, 11.1, 12.1
radio stations, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Stevenson in, 8.1, 11.1, 12.1
Austin American-Statesman, 2.1, 7.1, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1, 18.1
Austin Tribune, 6.1
Australia (LBJ’s wartime mission in), 2.1, 3.1, 3.2
ballot box
irregularities, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 13.1
morality of, 12.1, 15.1, 16.1
1984 probe by Masters-in-Chancery, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1
stuffing of, 1.1, 9.1, 9.2, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
vs. voting machine, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
see also Box 13
Baren, Cpl. Harry, 3.1, 3.2
Barker, J. W., 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Barr, James E., 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Barron, Jo
hn
Bataan Peninsula, 2.1, 2.2
Bay of Pigs episode
Beaumont Enterprise, 1.1, 12.1
“Beer, Inc.”
Belden poll, 11.1
Feb. 1948
May 1948, 10.1, 11.1
June 1948, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Aug. 1948, and n.
Bell Helicopter Corporation, 11.1, 11.2
Bellinger, Valmo
Benavides, Ernesto
Bench, Lieut. Willis G.
Benefield, J. H.
Benjamin, David
Bergstrom Air Force Base, 6.1, 7.1
Biddle, Francis
Big and Little Inch Pipelines (Brown & Root)
Birdwell, Sherman
Birmingham, Ala.
Black, Justice Hugo L., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 15.1
and LBJ’s appeal of injunction, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5
Black, Josephine
blacks:
distrust of LBJ’s commitment
Stevenson and
vote in 1948 Texas runoff election, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
voter registration in South
voting rights, itr.1, itr.2, 7.1
see also civil rights movement
“bloc vote”, Texas, 9.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 14.2
see also ethnic vote
Blundell, James
“Board of Education” (in House of Representatives), 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Boatner, Charles, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
Boehringer, Eugenia
Bolling, Richard
Bolton, Paul, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Bowie, Jim
Box 13 (ballot box), 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
LBJ’s steps to prevent opening of, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1
nationwide attention on, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
“Box 13” (Salas manuscript)
Boyett, Ernest, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 17.1
Braswell, Sam, Jr.
Bravo, Manuel, 9.1, 15.1
Bridges, Harry
Broeter, Judge Lorenz, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Brooks, Marietta, 12.1, 12.2
Brooks, Pierce
Brooks County, Tex., 9.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2
Brown, George, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 14.1, 14.2
as IRS target, 1.1, 12.1
and KTBC purchase by LBJ, 6.1, 6.2
and LBJ’s 1948 Senate race, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2
on LBJ
Brown, Herman, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1, 8.1, 11.1, 14.1, 15.1
contributions to 1941 LBJ campaign, 1.1, 9.1, 9.2
as IRS target, 1.1, 12.1
and KTBC advertising, 6.1, 6.2
and LBJ’s 1948 Senate race, 7.1, 9.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2; financial support, 9.2, 12.1, 12.2
Brown, H. S. (Hank)
Brown & Root, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 13.1, 15.1
federal contracts for, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 6.1, 9.1
financial contributions through LBJ to DCCC
financial support to LBJ, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1, 12.2
influence, 8.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1
as IRS target, 1.1, 12.1
state contracts for
wartime problems
Brown County, Tex., 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
Brownlee, B. M., 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1
Brownsville Herald, 13.1
Buck, Raymond
Bunton family strain
bureaucracy, Stevenson’s distaste for, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Bureau of Naval Personnel, 2.1, 5.1
Burnett, J. M. (Mac), 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Busby, Horace, itr.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 12.1, 17.1, 18.1
in LBJ’s 1948 campaign, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 11.9, 11.10, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1
businessmen, Texan:
campaign contributions to LBJ’s 1948 race, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
LBJ’s pitch to
1948 campaign mailings targeted to
and Stevenson, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 17.1
Butt, H. E.,
Cain, Dr. James, 10.1
Calvert, Robert, 14.1, 14.2
Cameron County, Tex., 9.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
campaign financing:
cash, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1, 12.2
conservative businesses as source of, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3; see also Brown & Root
federal contractors’ money, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
fraud and illegalities, 1.1, 12.1
labor money, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
LBJ’s campaigns, 1.1, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1; in 1948, 9.3, 9.4, 11.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8; questioned by Stevenson, 12.9, 12.10, 12.11
1940 fund-raising by LBJ, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1, 7.1
1942 fund-raising by Pauley
oil interest money, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2
Stevenson’s, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
Texas largesse, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2
campaigning:
bands, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1
buying of votes, 1.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
cost of, see campaign financing; campaign spending
frontier style, itr.1, itr.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
handbills and flyers, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1
negative campaigning and personal attacks: LBJ’s use of, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2; rejected by Stevenson, 12.3
new politics of technology, itr.1, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 17.1; advance men, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6; advertising, itr.2, 9.2, 11.7, 11.8, 11.9, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4; helicopter use, itr.3, 11.10, 11.11, 11.12, 11.13, 11.14, 11.15, 11.16, 12.5; mailings, 2.1, 9.3, 11.17, 11.18, 11.19, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8, 12.9, 12.10; mikes and loudspeakers, 8.1, 11.20, 11.21; polling, itr.4, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1, 11.22, 11.23; radio, itr.5, 8.2, 8.3, 9.6, 10.2, 10.3, 11.24, 11.25, 11.26, 11.27, 11.28, 11.29, 11.30, 11.31, 11.32, 12.11, 12.12, 12.13, 12.14, 12.15, 12.16, 17.2; telephone, 11.33, 11.34, 12.17, 12.18, 12.19, 16.1
newspaper articles, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3; relative importance in old-style campaigns, 12.4
platforms and campaign promises; LBJ’s manipulation, 9.1, 11.1–11, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3; Stevenson’s view of, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 11.4
posters, 11.1, 11.2
role of “missionaries” (“travelers”), 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5
rural areas, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2; see also sub entryabove: new politics of technology, helicopter use
staffs, 11.1, 11.2
Stevenson’s style of, itr.1, itr.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1
stump speeches, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2
substance vs. image in
urban areas, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
use of repetition, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
use of ridicule, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
campaign newspapers:
Ferguson Forum, 12.1
Johnson Journal, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
O’Daniel News, 12.1
campaign spending:
average in Texas statewide races
LBJ’s 1937 congressional race
LBJ’s 1941 senatorial race, 1.1, 9.1
LBJ’s 1948 senatorial race, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 13.1, 13.2; questioned by Stevenson, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8
Stevenson’s, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
vote buying, 1.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Carpenter, Leslie, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Carpenter, Liz, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 16.1
Carpetbaggers, in Texas, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Carter, Amon, 12.1, 12.2
Carter, Cliff
CBS network, 6.1, 6.2
KTBC as affiliate of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Celler, Emmanuel
Center, Tex., 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
/> Cerda, Hector, 14.1, 15.1
Cheavens, Dave
Christian, George
Chudars, James E., 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8
Churchill, Sir Winston
Circuit Court of Appeals, Fortas’ strategy in, 15.1, 15.2
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 2.1, 5.1, 5.2
Civilian Youth Administration proposal, 2.1, 5.1
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Civil Rights Act of 1964
civil rights complaint of Stevenson, against LBJ, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
civil rights legislation:
LBJ and, itr.1-xviii, itr.2, itr.3, 7.1, 10.1
under Truman, itr.1, 7.1, 10.1
civil rights movement, itr.1
Clark, Edward A., 3.1, 4.1, 7.1, 9.1, 12.1
and KTBC advertising, 6.1, 6.2
and LBJ’s 1948 Senate race, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1; money raising and dispensing, 12.2, 12.3, 13.2; post-election calls, 13.3, 16.1; and vote dispute at State Convention, 14.1, 14.2
on Lady Bird, 4.1, 12.1; on LBJ at State Convention, 14.1; on LBJ’s giving orders, 6.1, 7.1; on LBJ’s 1948 campaign energy, 11.1; on 1948 election results, 14.2, 14.3
Clark, Robert, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1
Clark, Tom C., 1.1, 2.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Clifford, Clark
Cochran, Jacqueline
Cofer, John, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Cohen, Benjamin V., 1.1, 3.1
Coke, Richard, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Cole, Sterling
Collier’s magazine, 16.1
Collins, Hal
Communism:
LBJ on, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1; control over unions alleged, 12.2
O’Daniel’s Red-baiting
Stevenson on, 10.1, 12.1
Stevenson’s alleged ties to, 12.1, 12.2
Congress, see U.S. Congress; U.S. House of Representatives; U.S. Senate
congressional elections, see elections and political campaigns; Johnson, Lyndon Baines: elections and campaigns
congressional office of LBJ
Congressional Record, 5.1 and n., 5.2, 7.1
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 12.1, 12.2 and n., 12.3
Connally, Ida Nell Brill (Nellie), 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Connally, John B., 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 9.1, 18.1
congressional aide to LBJ, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2
Governor of Texas, 7.1, 14.1
and LBJ’s 1942 run for Senate, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
and LBJ’s 1948 campaign, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3; money raising and dispensing, 12.6, 12.7; and vote dispute at State Convention, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4
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