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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 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Gerald Mann, that was attorney general, a popular attorney general, too. So he decided to run, and then Lyndon did. Well, election night it showed Lyndon 5000 ahead of O'Daniel. The papers there, which are in the Library, show where they conceded
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in, Daddy called every sheriff in every county up till he got to E1 Paso. But they traveled by night and slept in the daytime until they got out of Texas. Then of course he ended up--started out picking peaches and working with the other boys, you know
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? Because Eisenhower had a good smile, [was] very diplomatic, and believed in carrying out orders. Winston Churchill was trying to get us involved, to get us to help invade Africa. Every time he'd come to Washington to see * Mr. Johnson's readings
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , maybe grandchildren sometime. See what I mean? No soap. I was going to obligate it to me someway maybe, off the record. No, it isn't either. You've read it [the speech]? G: Yes. J: What do you think about it? G: I think it's a good speech. J
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to have known anything about Dick K1eberg, except what he read about in elections. As far as Lyndon having anything to do with Dick K1eberg ' s original election, he did not, because he was teaching school. All right, then Daddy called him to meet him
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Charlie a bad deal, Brownell?" "Damn right I do. Yes." need," backing from Homer, you see. Lyndon said, "Well, that's all I The reason I brought it up, I'd convinced him on the plane, then I brought it up that night. All right. Then the next night
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he wasn't, that's So then he got up and said that Lyndon Johnson was one of the greatest senators. You have all that as a matter of record in the Library, because they made a big book out of it, easy for you to check and read. LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] Saltonstall, a Republican, and I forget the other one, as far as that's concerned. But of course that was during the Truman Administration, the Korean War. But you didn't read much publicity about the Preparedness Subcommittee. The reason I'm making
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and John Connally, but you probably have read that they had been bitter enemies for some time. G: No. J: Never heard about it? They were. Ed Clark, to go back into hi s history, he comes from East Texas, and when Jimmie Allred was attorney general