Oral History Interviews with Eddie Bernice Johnson, 1973 Page: 56
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Johnson:because they were collecting them--you know, this sort
of thing. But he had numerous yard signs. And thisYes, right. However, it was very shrewdly done because
a lot of his transactions were in cash. Because one
of the people who really got so worked up, one of the
Jewish attorneys, started to look into things like
that, and he said it's a lot of cash money. There were
identifiable names, but the amounts of money that they
were contributing didn't seem quite the correct amounts.
But he said there was a lot of cash money involved.
How was this money being used? Was it used to pay voters
to vote a certain way, or just to wage a high-pressure
campaign?
Well, I can't say it was to pay voters. High pressure
campaign, yes. For example, mailing. Everything you
do in a campaign is expensive. He had yard signs and
all that. He had many, many, many yard signs when I
was struggling with my first 250. He was picking them
up as fast as I could get them out. I made a joke out
of it. I said, "Someone loves my yard signs. They
disappear as fast as Stokes had them put up." I would
never say anything completely negative. I just would
call the attention to the fact that somebody loved them
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Johnson, Eddie Bernice, 1934-. Oral History Interviews with Eddie Bernice Johnson, 1973, book, {1973-08-03,1973-08-13,1973-10-02}; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2261914/m1/58/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.