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Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Gillette PLACE: Kozy Korner Cafe, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 B: In that Nicholas Lemann piece the name of a commission jumped out at me, the committee or commission on juvenile delinquency, and I thought for a moment--well, longer than
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • really be running it off because it was so certain that he would win. The Democratic Party's national convention was held in Philadelphia, the convention made famous by Humphrey's civil rights speech and the walkout of the southerners and all that sort
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there and there were some political types in the hotel business, even. I can't remember the fellow's name but he was a member of the state Democratic committee, big politician, friend of mine, friend of Johnson's. He was in the room, people like this, and Dealey
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • other prominent state officials were running for governor--they were actually running for the Democratic nomination, but that was the only race--before any of them announced. I guess he did this work in 1945 right after he had returned from the war. He
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . In the second primary, first of all, Congress. . . . You see, at the 1948 Democratic National Committee [Convention] Truman in his aggressive, feisty acceptance speech said that he was going to [be] tarring and feathering the Republican Congress
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • like that. I used to listen to him on the radio. At one time we had three Democrats from Wichita Falls, he being one of them, running for governor. And then after he won in the general election-his Republican opponent, Orville Bullington, was from
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Washingtonians there: the Chief Justice; Fred Vinson, of course the Democratic leaders in Congress, several cabinet officers from Truman's cabinet. It was a showcase audience of a kind that it was quite unusual for a congressman to command that. In those days