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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- X -- 2 G: You may have, but I'm not sure. J: Well, let me tell this, because it kind of fits in. Barry Bishop used to work for the Dallas Morning News in Mexico--that's a Republican paper, you
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the race to Lyndon Johnson, the Dallas Morning News. Then as the votes LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was asking Maury who he should hire to handle his stuff in NYA. And he recom- mended Herbert Henderson, you know. G: Oh, really? J: Yes, we were having breakfast that morning. Lyndon had Bill White. Bill had forgotten this until I reminded him
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I However, way back there several months ago, I wrote a memorandum recommending that he not run and I got no reaction from him at that time." So anyhow I left and I went into Lyndon's bedroom the morning of April 1, and he was playing
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was congressman. Well, I was there; I guess I was as close as anybody to Lyndon, because when he'd get off his helicopter flight I'd be at his apartment the next morning at seven o'clock, bringing him the paper, talking. So John and I would talk quite a bit--I
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is a former newspaper reporter for the Dallas News, Chicago Tribune, but at that time he was working for the United States Information Agency. He said, "That's all right." Of course, that Saturday, July 2, he called me about at noon, about one o'clock
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • again. Even got mad at me for bring- I think that her boy [Phillip Bobbitt] wants to write her memoirs or something. G: Is that why you think she won't do it? J: She hasn't done anything yet. She's given out statements in New York, she's given
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , [William] Langer and some of the others who might vote with him on certain things. J: Do you have any recollections here? Oh, of course, of course. Now, you take it up in New Hampshire. We never had a Democratic senator from there, but he [Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Well, yes, but the point of it is she wrote for several papers. She wrote for the Dallas News, San Antonio Express, Austin American, before she met Daddy. G: Is that right? J: Then Daddy married her shortly after her father died. Daddy
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • why he would say such a thing, that 1 hadn't said that he got kicked in the head by a horse, it was Clare Booth Luce. didn't call him crazy, it was Clare Booth Luce." part in that news release, you see. to approve it. I I had to put that I didn't