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Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , everybody else said, "Sir." G: Why was this? Was he a commanding figure physically? B: Big man, great big man. Very droll, very witty, most of the time. Sometimes it wasn't so funny. But he had the confidence of political men more than almost anybody
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • climbed the pole." And it was a fatalistic sort of laugh and comment, because he was being fatalistic about the fact that he had probably ended his career. He said, "Do you think we're going to make it?" And I said, "No, sir. I don't think that's
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of a southwestern or western state--"is the loss of our best young people. Our best ones graduate and go East and they don't come home." Of course [Wilbur Joseph] Cash or some several southern writers have quantified that, that there were fifteen million southerners
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Busby -- IV -- 17 so numerous. They weren't just a handful by any means. Adam Clayton Powell came to Austin in 1946, stayed at the home
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was his home. Some of his friends felt immediately, friends in the press, this was an unusual way for Coke Stevenson, and an unusual way for a governor, to conduct himself. When he came back finally, two or three days later, they asked him about it and he
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the meeting went on until the end of the day. I had barely gotten home. I'm not even sure I got home, [the] President of the United States [was] calling me. "Well, I just don't know what to do when you betray me." And of course I had no idea at that moment
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that, but a lot of bombings were going on up there of these black homes or maybe a church; I don't remember a church, but maybe something like that that went on. 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ