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Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • right, sir. Now, some general questions just to set the background. Did you have any knowledge of Mr. Johnson before his 1955 heart attack? H: Only indirectly. Of course, at that time I was in Washington. The President was majority 1 LBJ
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • they were traveling in Dallas. And Johnson was ever so grateful and kept talking about Rufus and how heroic he had been. He also was looking at TV, sipping orange juice. He would occasionally look up at a photograph of Sam Rayburn that was on the wall
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the Johnson family continued during those years. B: Yes. My personal relationship continued throughout the time he was president. I felt not only that I served as his physician, especially in any matter related remotely to his heart, but that our
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . G: So you satisfied yourself that what he was suffering was angina. H: It was angina, but at that point Dr. North and the others that were treating him there were doing all that was known to do at that point in time. G: Right. H: And after
  • Trip to the Ranch in February 1970 to evaluate LBJ’s angina; 1972 heart attack in Charlottesville; moving LBJ back to the ranch; LBJ’s return to smoking; changes in treatment for heart attack patients from LBJ’s time to 1995; personal impressions
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attack in 1955 goes like this. He came out to see me at Emory University Hospital in the fall of 1955. He was doing quite well. At that time Dr. Paul White was one of the leading cardiologists in the world, and it had been my pleasure to have worked
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 4 (IV), 2/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that time. Of course, Vice President Johnson met with the leader, whose last name was Leopold Sedar, who was, as I recall it, a poet before he became a politician. But it was to participate in the celebration of the birth of that country. Vice President