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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there, that Roosevelt had said he'd take Bill Douglas or Harry Truman and they switched the names. They said they'd take Harry Truman and if you can't get Harry Truman, well, they'll take Bill Douglas. When Lyndon got [to be] chairman of this committee, Truman

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. So the impression I got when I was a kid [was] that Grandmama didn't like boys, because she said Lyndon wouldn't mind her. See, that's just all it was. She'd ask him to do something and he was gone, and that's just about hi s character, too

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Dick's father was living at the time that Dick Kleberg was elected to Congress. He was elected to fill an unexpired term in 1931 at the death of Harry M. Wurzbach, who happened to be a Republican, one of the few Republicans that Texas ever [elected

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and John Connally, but you probably have read that they had been bitter enemies for some time. G: No. J: Never heard about it? They were. Ed Clark, to go back into hi s history, he comes from East Texas, and when Jimmie Allred was attorney general

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

appreciate it, but the doctor won't release me. II She said, IIWell, Dr. Vossll--he's the White House doctor that came to visit me off and on--lIsays there ' s no reason in the world why you couldn't come and take what therapy you need right here

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

see. decision as to whether to run. I went to Washington then. It was the time for him to make a This time it was different. lost in 1941 he kept hi s congress i ona 1 seat. When he In 1948 the bi g question came up, if you filed for the Senate

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/show/loh/oh Johnson -- III -- 2 Roosevelt, he would get to hurrying us up to help him. So then Roosevelt would say, "I've got a war over in the Pacific." Then he and Harry Hopkins would stay up all night drinking with Churchill. Then when he sent

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Truman, you see, 1951. So then Barry came up to me. Here's a letter that he wrote Ted Dealey that owned the Dallas Morning News. "Dear Ted: Please accept this letter notifying you that I am resigning as of this date. Josephine and I will be in Dallas

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Aubrey Williams a communist and a red, and here you're putting it right in his home town. s aid, "0 h, I did n 't know t hat. " I can't understand it." The n I s aid, "Well, the fir s t t hi ng you've got to do now is to go see the Mayor." mayor