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No, she was for Johnson, but she had invited me. It was really a Johnson rally. I knew Johnson well as Majority Leader and he had urged me to support him for the Presidency, but I told him that I had long been a friend of Stevenson and that Stevenson would certainly be deeply offended if I supported anyone else, and whereas I was for him for the Senate, as he was running again for the Senate, that I had to support Stevenson for the Presidency. In any case, I was invited and went to this huge party. Lyndon was walking around surrounded by his secretaries and, it seemed to me, someone who was bringing him constant information or maybe even a man with a walkie-talkie--in this huge sort of morning cocktail party and reception!

After this I went to my seats in the Convention Hall in the Coliseum and we found that all of Stevenson's supporters were badly placed, in very bad locations. We attributed this to Mr. Paul Butler's hostility towards Stevenson and his friendliness to Kennody. We were so far away we couldn't see or hear, sort of under the rafters. However, I did stay in my seat long enough to see a fantastic demonstration for Stevenson. It seems that the people from the Stevenson office across the street gave out a certain number of Stevenson seats, and the people they gave them to came out of the Hall, got passes, and gave their tickets to other Stevenson supporters, who came in with the same tickets. So, the Stevenson supporters multiplied themselves many times through this device. But nobody had told me to do this, so I