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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • knew Lyndon Johnson, and they were for us, but they couldn't help us in the Texas campaign. Now the state reporters, with the exception of one man, Charlie Boatner of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, were all for Coke. They represented these other
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • contacting me here in Austin. most of the time, Mexico, you see. See, Mr. Kleberg was gone And Conrad Wirth, the top man of the National Park Service, was going to be in Fort Worth. They wanted, these men, the mayor, president of the chamber of commerce
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I'd been working. My sister lived in Fort Worth and I got a cab and went out there and had coffee. About that time the phone rang and it was Mother and [she] said, ItWell, Sam Houston, I just wanted to tell you Lyndon just called me. 1t Here
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wasn't one and had a full understanding of the great worth of that particular staff member. He would even go so far as to invent complimentary remarks about the employee's work which he attributed to his brother. He was as skilled as LBJ at laying
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Austin under Mr. [Jesse] Kellam." Memphis, you see. I used to be Mr. Kellam's boss in I had eleven states and Kellam was one of them. That's when I gave him a screwing. G: No, I don't believe you did. J: Well, it's worth telling anyhow. I told you
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • themselves the Black Stars. I'm LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • duty or I'm going to put up my uniform, throw it away, go back to Congress. [Inaudible] I can help Roosevelt more in Congress than I can out here with these this damn movie stars." don't know. See, that's the part about Lyndon Johnson that people