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Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • television, and so you didn't deliberately, like today's advance men do, book a small room so you can get an overflow. But the people were coming on different, they were purposeful. Money was coming in much better. Now the net of what I'm saying is that while
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to bear if you were a close associate of his. He was seeking something from people by that. I never quite settled on what it was that he sought by that kind of self-pity, but he sought it. G: Was it genuine self-pity or was he just trying to make you
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Stevenson's people, of course, came forward--[they] didn't advance it in a greatly serious way, but they did advance the idea--"Why go to the expense of a second primary when it is so obvious that Coke is going to win?" because of the vote that had gone
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? I'd really like to know. He just walked away from it, I'm sure. Of course, you know Bobby stayed on a time at Justice. I don't know whether Hackett went to his Senate office or not. The suspicion of the people I've talked to yesterday and today
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Busby -- V -- 5 about blacks and used the term blacks, it was a wrestling match. Because brought up as I was, being taught you could say colored people, but in my family if I had called
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or three of his people in Austin, but there wasn't any sense among the movers and doers that Johnson shouldn't be senator. Frankly, most of them, I think, were glad that he was. And so in a roundabout sort of way, there developed this effort. Effort
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in reaction to that episode. It was as though Richard Nixon, as though the people--what was this--? B: Caracas. B: Caracas. That the mobs, the masses in Caracas had somehow or another been inflamed by this person Richard Nixon. It was an unreasoning thing
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , contemporaries, district attorneys, people like that. They were all of that generation that had fought World War II as young officers. They were tired of what Coke Stevenson represented in the state as well as in the nation. They were fighting the establishment