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

at Stonewall. You have My two sisters, Rebekah I was conceived on the Ranch and born January 31 right after we moved to Johnson City in November 1913. So I used to kid Lyndon all the time that more people came by to see my home than they did his. G: Your

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

, and to Lyndon, which she wasn't, that by working it that way, you'd--well, like this dedication of the Boyhood Home here. Charlie Boatner asked me to make the arrangements for her. At first she didn't want to have anything to do with it. So I decided to skip

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

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- II -- 4 Now here comes the next [election]. war and all that. Of course, Lyndon went to You've got enough about him and [Douglas] MacArthur and all that there. But here comes 1947. We were working on 1948, you

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

in Gonzales. there at Welly Hopkins' home on a Su nday. We met Daddy and Mother and I drove and had Sunday dinner with him down to Corpus Christi and met Roy Miller and then K1eberg. was all over with. in. And that was all there was to it. It The next

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

there, that Roosevelt had said he'd take Bill Douglas or Harry Truman and they switched the names. They said they'd take Harry Truman and if you can't get Harry Truman, well, they'll take Bill Douglas. When Lyndon got [to be] chairman of this committee, Truman

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

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- X -- 18 representative, period, and with a letter to Churchill, with a letter to Stalin, and with a letter to [Douglas] MacArthur. me right before he left. Then he called He'd taken some shots and he was sick, and he

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

that, and then when at home, they moved him home, we gave him--I guess the first week in August, I don't know, something like that, that's when I called J. Edgar Hoover who lived across the street and all of his neighbors there to meet the ambulance when they brought

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

Moody, unless I can think of someone else. [Quoting LBJ's speech], "Good to be home"--I' ve used this expression many times; I picked it up from Lyndon. air again," you know. home. I use that in some of my talks. It takes me back. I'm so glad to hear

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

home. Lyndon picked up about two dozen hamburgers, we had a couple of Scotches, and I brought it up my way. I said, "You know, Lyndon, I want to tell you that Charlie Herring had a call last month for his resignation." "Yes. All right." I said

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

--and ride home with him, and he would say, "You know, that Jack Kennedy's a fine boy. He even told me that he would vote for this if it became necessary even if it would be against the interests of his own state." And I said, IIAnd you told him to go ahead