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Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , primarily because, among many other things, during the war when the Dallas Times Herald was about to run out of paper, couldn't publish, Johnson showed up with Tom Gooch at the Priority War Production Board and made a pitch for them being given some paper
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • primary--because time was such a tremendous factor--began with a concentration on the big cities, after he had been up here. You had kind of a first--I remember particularly at Dallas, we went to Irving and some other places like this. It was tacit
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Stevenson gaffes? B: No. Now we didn't have any of the--we had the Dallas Times Herald, which was an old deal. We had the support of the Houston Post. G: Were the writers themselves more likely to be supportive than the publishers and editors? B
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Busby's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: I arrived in Washington on the afternoon of March 16 [1948] and met with the Congressman [Johnson] for the first time about seven o'clock that night. When I was at the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • start with this, that at the time that I was presented with the decision or the opportunity to come with him, I was told then by Paul Bolton--I think this may be in the script--that he had not made up his mind about continuing in politics, not just
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • like that. I used to listen to him on the radio. At one time we had three Democrats from Wichita Falls, he being one of them, running for governor. And then after he won in the general election-his Republican opponent, Orville Bullington, was from
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • printed it, and what needed to be pointed out that wasn't pointed out was, one-- G: Johnson didn't own The Elms. B: --there was six feet of snow on the ground at that time. You weren't going to be sitting out at a garden table talking about
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? I'd really like to know. He just walked away from it, I'm sure. Of course, you know Bobby stayed on a time at Justice. I don't know whether Hackett went to his Senate office or not. The suspicion of the people I've talked to yesterday and today