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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and the [Baltimore] Democratic County Chairman, who was in Florida but he flew up for this meeting. Then we ha~ in the Senate Senator [Joseph] Tydings, who was going to support Bobby Kennedy, and [Thomas] D'Alesandro, the mayor of Baltimore, that was going
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • brother's insistence that Kennedy had his eyes fixed on 1960 and already had started a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lyndon's fault--in other words, he did so many brilliant, wonderful things on his own. Nobody could have passed Medicare, nobody could have passed the civil rights bill, when Daddy was dead, and no one could have done that. Kennedy couldn't do
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he laid off [Joseph] McCarthy, who was chairman of the Government [Operations] Investigating Committee, and that brought a lot of unfavorable comment from Drew Pearson as "Lying-down Lyndon." Because Pearson was urging Lyndon to attack McCarthy
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- IV -- 6 ivliller was on the Rivers and Harbors [Committee], he worked for Congressman [Joseph