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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to know about it because Lyndon talked pretty freely on the telephone. He didn't say, "Get out, Sam Houston." So that's what you call--well, it'd be called nothing but a double agent. Coke Stevenson is thinking Ed was supporting him and actually he
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • dictated a letter announcing for re-election to Congress; then he dictated another one announcing for the United States Senate. That was sent forward to KTBC to mimeograph for the five o'clock press conference. The telephone rang--we had a suite
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- III -- 18 on the telephone with Texas politicians to ensure that any brush fires springing up down there would be promptly extinguished. He dictated cogent, succinct memos to LBJ about political
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • accepting the nomination of his party, I went to the telephone to call Ivlama to see if she was listening. Lyndon through; he'd accepted, you know. hangers-on [with] him, crowding him. In a few minutes here come He had a bunch of these Hell, I don't know
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ]." I had no qualms about that. They didn't say, "We want a copy of your manuscript." I had talked to them. So the next day was Washingtonls Birthday. I called the main office of Time[-Life] to try to get [Bob] Luce's home telephone number; I didn't
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on talking over the phone to anybody except Dudley Dougherty's private telephone. I want his private number, where nobody wi 11 be on there except me and hi m. ~ So he got that and then he came to me and said, "Well, what do you want to feed him?" ~I
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)