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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the race to Lyndon Johnson, the Dallas Morning News. Then as the votes LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was elected speaker [of the Little Congress], I ran and was defeated. It goes on and says what I wanted to do was to be in charge of entertainment to New York. Here's what happened. for speaker. In 1937 my name was put in the pot to run Lyndon Johnson
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is it?" "It says that the President sent three emissaries to New York to get a copy of your manuscript. It's on the front page of the Washington Post [and it'sJ by Maxine Cheshire. And it says one publisher said he couldn't print it, but he would pay five
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

liberal congressmen--well, the most liberal in Texas by far. But he ranked along with [Vito] Marcantonio of New York, kind of commie, communist. G: Of course Maury wasn't. With the tension between your brother and Mrs. Kleberg, did you have a hard time
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

again. Even got mad at me for bring- I think that her boy [Phillip Bobbitt] wants to write her memoirs or something. G: Is that why you think she won't do it? J: She hasn't done anything yet. She's given out statements in New York, she's given
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

why he would say such a thing, that 1 hadn't said that he got kicked in the head by a horse, it was Clare Booth Luce. didn't call him crazy, it was Clare Booth Luce." part in that news release, you see. to approve it. I I had to put that I didn't
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/show/loh/oh Johnson -- VI -- 19 G: Really? J: And she's sweet as can be to me. She's more sociably inclined; she wanted to go to New York to see the King of Spain when he came over, you know. More social life. up with that. And when I lived
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

down at the Derby. And then she went to New York, with the fight between the Vanderbilts and the Astors over who was going to take over society there, and she said, "I'm a Desha from Kentucky [inaudible]." She did, you see. I'm trying to say that's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- X -- 2 G: You may have, but I'm not sure. J: Well, let me tell this, because it kind of fits in. Barry Bishop used to work for the Dallas Morning News in Mexico--that's a Republican paper, you
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

him home. Hoover wasn't there, but he sent a special message he couldn't come. Robert Trout. Have you ever heard of Robert Trout? G: No. J: That news commentator. G: Oh, yes, I have. J: He called me to fi nd out what the he 11 was goi ng
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)