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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 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • gone over that--very well. He did not attribute the coolness so much to Truman as he did to some of the staff, and particularly Clark Clifford. I'm digressing from your question, but even when I got here, I asked him--this was in March of 1948--why
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a press conference. Now these were all his own traps. We were not having anything to do with it--there were people in and around the Johnson campaign, the only one I identified with it myself from what I saw was Bob Clark, Tom Clark's brother. They picked
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • been killed in an airplane crash in St. Louis--I believe it was St. Louis, anyway it was in the Mississippi River--Tom Clark's brother, and this had haunted him quite a lot. And it affected his feelings about flying for a number of years. He finally