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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Subject > Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . As I've said, I have been teaching since I was 19, and I feel that this is a great way to serve humanity. So after I made the race for Lt. Gov. and led the primary by 87,000 votes over Preston Smith (later Governor), he defeated me something like 46,000
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the sober side of the city will assert itself and that we won't have that contingent ferment. F: Our Governor Preston Smith is not altogether noted for deep wisdom, but we had a ceremony there that I attended about a month ago in which the French had named
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the governor controlled it. I noticed the other day, and I know for a fact that he hasn't always been a great friend of Smith's, the present governor of Texas-B: Preston Smith. E: Yes. I noticed the other day he made a statement of what a great man Preston
  • McPherson; George Reedy; Lee White; LBJ as VP under JFK; John Connally; Preston Smith; Bobby Baker; Lady Bird Special, 1964; NSC 1965; escalation in Vietnam; Tonkin Gulf Resolution; dissenting group in the White House; John Stennis; LBJ's decision not to run