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Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the state and he went into the towns and shook hands around the square. It was quite maddening to Johnson, because the stories in the leading Texas newspapers, particularly the Dallas [Morning] News stories, that being the paper that most Texas politicians
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at every stop you had the press wanting to know how big the crowd was, and these little towns didn't have anybody who knew. So, by George, I went around and I counted every soul there and the Dallas [Morning] News asked me 11 LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was there and he was sitting with Allen Duckworth, back in the crowd. You know about Duckworth. G: Political writer for the [Dallas] Morning News. B: Yes. Big, big influence for a period in Texas. It partly was just Duckworth's presence. He walked into a room
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the editors of the conservative publications that were not sympathetic to Johnson anyway were not present at this thing--the Dallas [Morning] News was not there; maybe one editor was, but not the top people. They were dissatisfied by and large. They did
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the vaudeville circuit, and it was not until the next morning when I went to the Capitol to be put on the payroll and was met by these battalions of people wearing green that I came to appreciate that the Irish were one of the great sub-forces in American
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of these fellows said in effect, "Don't worry about us. We're not going do anything to hurt him about what he's done." As I recall, the Dallas News story--it could have been someone else, but the Dallas News story was the only one that--it was written by a fellow
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was pleased, proud, a little haughty that he might go down there and represent this new administration at this bridge dedication. Well, I didn't say so out loud, of course, but I said, "Like heck you will. That's a volatile situation and you're going to fall
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Busby -- VII -- 6 resigned from the federal bench in New York to take it, as a matter of fact. And A. [Arthur] B. Culvahouse, who is the outgoing general counsel at the White