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

' meeting in Chicago. He checked the time element [?]. The Secret Service wasn't prepared; the press hadn't been informed, and he didn't know he was going to do it till just that morning. So LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

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

was a little older than I was, but we were in the same class. Then after John came Harold, who committed suicide after a few associations, he had busted up with A. W., who at that time, in the early days, he was just a little kid. Anyhow, I won't bring up

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

O'Dwyer. So I said, "Well, how would you like to go to Mexico as his press associate, first secretary of the embassy?" "Yes." I picked up the phone, called Ralph Hill [?] in the State Department, and I got him a job, just like that. That was under

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

to make Lyndon had called a press conference at five o'clock. At that meeting were Senator Wirtz, John Connally, Jesse Kellam, Claude Wild, and myself. meeting. I think that was all that were in that Lyndon started it off. The first thing he did, he

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

was there, too? J: Bill White. Lyndon wanted Bill White--he was working for the Associated Press--to be his deputy, to help. take it. Bill, of course, didn't Maury Maverick told Lyndon, "Why did you wish this job off on your little brother, working

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

isn't [inaudible]. All this stuff about I know the man. Now, he was a politician and shrewd, but he did not have to tell the press and the world what he intended to do and have his enemies destroy it before he got started. So a lot of the members

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

have any support from any of them. Of course, the Independent Petroleum Association, I worked for them so I ought to know about them. I was assistant to the counsel with Independent Petroleum. G: Wasn't there sort of a competition between

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

is the same as a Cadillac now. Oaddy couldn't drive it, Mama couldn't, but they had to have a boy to drive it. His name is Guy Ames [?J. He drove Mama. you can call it a chauffeur if you want to. newspaper, you see. In other words, Also ran the press

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

Corpus [Christi] to come up and then I planted five questions. I did this in the Sheriff's campaign when he opened it a few months ago. G: In which campaign? J: Sheriff [Raymond] Frank. He's a good friend of mine. He had a press conference so I

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

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- VIII -- 14 J: Well, I wrote an article, a press release, for the weekly papers I didn't think Lyndon would sign. He [Morse] came down here