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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 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • guidance on what he wrote, but whether to go in or go out, so that's where this all came from. My point in reestablishing that--I know that the article says it was on Sunday night that I did it, and I just didn't think even when I read the article that I
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and that, by damn, he was going to call them back in session and stick it to them. When I heard that on the radio, Truman's acceptance speech--I think we were in Tyler that night, something like that--and my heart sank. G: Is that right? B: Well, he called
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the day that he was leaving or the day before he was leaving--he nearly always flew in the daytime, he didn't like to fly at night. As an aside, I was rather startled when I was in the office, never having been around an office like this before, where
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Busby -- III -- 5 Johnson would jump him every once in a while about this image, because--again, I may be repeating myself--in 1944 when the University of Texas Board of Regents dismissed as president Dr. Homer Rainey, the night
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I guess it was an Olympia. And he said, "Busby." He just kind of gestured and I knew that he meant for me to read his lead. He said, "Senator John F. Kennedy, at his Hyannis Port home on Cape Cod, Saturday morning accepted the sword of Texas Senator
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the material I gave you on my first night, my first meeting with him up here, in which he said, "You ought to know how I feel about everything." And he toured the world and talked a lot about the prospects of war, which was on everybody's mind, all that sort