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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about that one time. Did you? I was the top man in Ivlemphis. a regional director, but he traveled all the time. I had Anyhow, Lyndon had the best NYA office in the United States when he was director, and Jesse Kellam was his assistant. Jesse took
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the United States government start this, have open hearings on the CIA and the FBI and disclose all of our secrets to Russia? Like the Watergate thing. behind closed doors? The way down. Why couldn't they hold those hearings l~atergate destroyed America
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • when he felt like it, called them a bunch of damn Ku Kluxers. but Daddy never lost an election, you see. G: So really there were good times. Anyhow, So-- Were there also bad times, say, years when the crops were bad, where farm prices were bad
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it come from Brownsville. II See, 90 per cent of the traffic that came in from South America came in through Mexico, and it figured out that if it all goes to Brownsville it's going to end up East in New York. So Braniff didn't want another airline
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the provisions of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code, and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, we, Alfred and Peggy Staehely of Austin, Texas, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all our rights, title
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is a former newspaper reporter for the Dallas News, Chicago Tribune, but at that time he was working for the United States Information Agency. He said, "That's all right." Of course, that Saturday, July 2, he called me about at noon, about one o'clock
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • dictated a letter announcing for re-election to Congress; then he dictated another one announcing for the United States Senate. That was sent forward to KTBC to mimeograph for the five o'clock press conference. The telephone rang--we had a suite
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • beginning. out in longhand and gave it to the secretary to type up. I wrote it I said, IILyndon, I remember that when he [John Kennedy] was first elected to the United States Senate when he defeated [Henry Cabot] Lodge, and you were running