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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • brother seemed to be very much committed to making sure that Senator [John] McClellan was there on any action that the Democrats took, and included in this. Why was this? Why was McClellan impor- tant to, let's say, the Democratic Party's action here
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as he was president. Well, that night I was in Baltimore with the ex-Governor of Maryland, a Democrat, Governor [John] Tawes, and the Democratic Speaker of the [Maryland] House [of Delegates], Marvin Mandel, who is now governor of Maryland
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that year. Eisenhower called for [Robert] Taft, who was the Republican [Senate] leader at the time, and Lyndon was minority leader, Democrat. they went in for a conference. And so Well, this hasn't been told yet, but I heard directly from Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Like, for instance, you were against me. Johnson. You were against Lyndon You're on the [State Democratic] Executive Committee. You're from Cameron, Texas. You've had your name up there. I was walking around in the lobby; nearly everybody knew who
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a professional [job]. Then my brother being chairman of the Senate Re-election Committee, we hired the firm to go into a certain state and help a Democratic senator that we wanted. Well, that's just about all that I know of, but the reason I'm saying