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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Woodrow Wilson, you know, started the League of Nations, but it So then I called Lyndon. what I asked you to do?" I said, IILyndon, why didn't you do He said, "Goddamn it, I did." "There's nothing on the news." then. It was big He said, "Well, that's
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Burleson, Lockhart. He knew my father from way back. Woodrow Wilson. He was postmaster general under So Daddy goes and gets Burleson to endorse Lyndon: "Always send a young man to Congress so he can grow and grow and grow." Lyndon never heard of Burleson
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • constituted the balance of power there, Wayne Morse on the left and Strom Thurmond on the right, and that he had to hold onto those two to keep his majority intact. I just wondered if you had any thoughts on [it]. Let me ask you about Charles Wilson