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Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Busby's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: I arrived in Washington on the afternoon of March 16 [1948] and met with the Congressman [Johnson] for the first time about seven o'clock that night. When I was at the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --I mean to the metropolitan area's--what's the name of the organization for administrators? Public administration group. And lo and behold, here was Bradley as chairman of the whole thing and it was maybe the third time they'd called on him
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • from that point forward until he went to the Senate, he had virtually no further friendly contact from the Truman White House. In 1946 Truman had several times included him on Potomac cruises on the yacht Williamsburg. I mean, Truman knew him--we've
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • start with this, that at the time that I was presented with the decision or the opportunity to come with him, I was told then by Paul Bolton--I think this may be in the script--that he had not made up his mind about continuing in politics, not just
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • printed it, and what needed to be pointed out that wasn't pointed out was, one-- G: Johnson didn't own The Elms. B: --there was six feet of snow on the ground at that time. You weren't going to be sitting out at a garden table talking about
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is probably too strong a word, but there developed this thing of using this time to go around and meet people or meet with groups, present himself as a senator, because he didn't necessarily feel all that much like a senator. He had always held the office
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Gillette PLACE: Kozy Korner Cafe, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 B: At the time of the first primary's results--I have no recollection at all of the number of votes cast in the first primary or the percentage distribution, except that Coke
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