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T. N. Carswell.
Governor Allan Shivers,
Austin, Texas.
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October S, 1954.
If available, I’d like a copy of the address.
By the way, I have a suggestion. It has to do
with the May, 1956, conventions. We who are for you
should, without fail, make sure of our control of these
conventions. To that end, I suggest that a select commit-
tee, statewide in scope, be set up, for the sole purpose
of seeing to it that each Congressional District is put
in order, county by county and precinct by precinct, as va-
cancies occur, or may now exist. The sooner this is under-
taken, the less difficult it will be. In my view, the work
of this particular committee should be done without publi-
city, but carried on with quiet, diplomatic determination.
The goal of the course charted in 1952 lies still ahead.
It is too priceless to allow any difficulty to thwart the
effort to achieve it.
th good wishes always, I am,
Most cordially yours,
My dear Governor Shivers:
The press carried some excerpts from your New
Orleans address. Congratulations to you. I trust other
occasions, of national and sectional import, will afford
opportunity for further and fuller theme developement
and hearing. For your leadership in furthering this re-
formation the nation will be debtor as is Texas already.