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

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

figured he would or I wouldn't have gone to the trouble of writing it. Well, Cecil Burney, a young attorney from Corpus Christi who was an aide to Jim Rowe, who \'Ias chairman of the Johnson-Humphrey conmittee--that s on the seventh floor of the Watergate

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

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

a forty-thousand, fortyfive thousand-[dollarJ job. But he was working in my position. He came to \Jashington as a young boy and he wanted a job, and Walter Jenkins didn't have a place for him. Then he put his application in with Congressman Clark

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

them all He said, "Senators, the reason I got you down here, we've got to repeal the Embargo Act. We've got to serve notice on Hitler that we can, if we want to, come to the aid of Great Britain, France and Poland and others. We've got to do

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

on out there. Then I told him it was a group of neighbors that came out there to meet him, and he said, come?" II Well , Mr. J. Edgar Hoover is his neighbor. Did he I said, "No, he's out of town, but I just let one of his aides go upstairs