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Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , to cover the legislature and continued on covering the Governor's Office. My bureau chief, who was Bill Carter--he was from New York--did not know much about Texas politics. He had been sent down to take over and spruce up the bureau and so he let me write
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Busby -- VIII -- 15 Villard, a very nice man, descended from the Villards in New York, who
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . (Interruption) The press, I think I mentioned these other names; Marshall McNeil, Sarah McClendon, Les Carpenter, I guess Walter Hornaday, who was the correspondent of the Dallas Morning News, and the Houston Post had someone here, Robert Johnson. I think
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Busby -- VII -- 6 resigned from the federal bench in New York to take it, as a matter of fact. And A. [Arthur] B. Culvahouse, who is the outgoing general counsel at the White
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • so new and young at the thing, you know, obviously Johnson had a good bit to do in Texas without coming up here. As it turned out, it was one of life's first and great lessons about politics. The fact that things shifted to Washington really made
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the editors of the conservative publications that were not sympathetic to Johnson anyway were not present at this thing--the Dallas [Morning] News was not there; maybe one editor was, but not the top people. They were dissatisfied by and large. They did
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Well, I see now what it was, some kind of multi-state group. So Oveta Culp Hobby, publisher of the Houston Post, intervened with the program committee and invited him out there to speak. It wasn't a dinner. He was speaking in a relatively small room
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was older by a good bit than I was. But the Governor--we met in 1946 and he talked to me a lot about the Rainey campaign, and I was very flattered. So in 1947 I was at that point working at the State Capitol in the International News Service Bureau
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)