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Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • named Bill Rives, who later became their sports editor, very nice, attractive fellow who may be the one I'm thinking about, but I'm not sure--R-I-V-E-S. But Bill Rives' story said 16 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and then he voted to override Truman's veto. Were there two votes on overriding veto? Did they pass it twice? G: I'm not sure. B: I guess not. There's some duality in there somewhere that I've forgotten about. But anyway, he voted to override the veto
  • LBJ's opinion of the Taft-Hartley legislation, Coke Stevenson's campaign methods, Dr. Homer Rainey?s dismissal and resulting University of Texas student demonstration, LBJ's campaign strategy involving the Ferguson family and small town visits, how
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • believe in." "You're turning your back on Roosevelt," is what he meant. "You're abandoning him." See, all this was still very much under the influence of the fact that Roosevelt was gone and Truman was in no way considered an adequate replacement. He said
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . In the second primary, first of all, Congress. . . . You see, at the 1948 Democratic National Committee [Convention] Truman in his aggressive, feisty acceptance speech said that he was going to [be] tarring and feathering the Republican Congress
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Washingtonians there: the Chief Justice; Fred Vinson, of course the Democratic leaders in Congress, several cabinet officers from Truman's cabinet. It was a showcase audience of a kind that it was quite unusual for a congressman to command that. In those days