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

for the cattlemen to take protection and all that. G: Right. J: All that stuff affected the King Ranch, you see, and the cattlemen. That was one reason. Then you take it that the general counsel for the Texas Cattle Raisers Association was none other than

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

a couple of days after that the deputy director came in, from Washington. I showed it to him. something," you know. "Well, we'll show those people He didn't like Jesse. He used to be state director for Georgia, and he had been named deputy national

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

," or something like that. Then in a few minutes, why, George Christian and I think Marvin Watson and them came in. After he took himself out, Lyndon decided that same morning, April 1, that he would accept a speaking engagement at the National Broadcasters

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

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- II -- 2 began to trickle in, that 5000 votes that he was ahead of Pappy O'Daniel began to dwindle. I was administrative assistant to the regional director of the National Youth Administration in Memphis

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

at Stonewall. You have My two sisters, Rebekah I was conceived on the Ranch and born January 31 right after we moved to Johnson City in November 1913. So I used to kid Lyndon all the time that more people came by to see my home than they did his. G: Your

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

of the press and others thought that way, trickery. Well, the fact of it is, Lyndon had sense enough to keep his mouth shut and not brag on what he was going to do, just like this--now you take some of these people who have recently . . . why should

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

there and Lyndon got up and spoke about twenty minutes about Tom Connally was senator at that time and he spoke about two minutes, just to get his name associated in. Lyndon sent that stuff down, Barry writes the story, giving the facts, you know. Well

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. A lot of people said he lost his arm on a boxcar when he jumped off or something on a freight, but I don't know. But then he married a Stribling, Mary Stribling, and Mary Stribling Moursund was our neighbor up here, the bi g brown house. It's torn

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

war contracts and all that, brought him to national attention for the [vice] presidency in 1944. So he [Lyndon] had it called Preparedness Subcommittee, later known as the Watchdog Committee. But it was a subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee

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

, and Moorhead. Everett Looney, Clark was the politician of the family, and of course most of the cases and things were representing people that had legislation pending in the state. Of course, they got along very LBJ Presidential Library http