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

anyhow. G: The names were switched around. J: The chairman of the Democratic National Committee was Bob Hannegan from St. Louis. all that. That's the [T. J.] Pendergast machine, you see, and I told you about the switch on that. But if you'll note

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

whoever was chairman of the Armed Services Committee--I think Dick Russell was. But anyhow, the point of it is, now, the office here in the Federal Building, Charlie Herring was federal district attorney. Porter was [Republican] national committeeman

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

today?" I told him that I went back to the hospital over there to visit some of my friends, the doctor and others. He said, "Well, I want you to go down to the Democratic [National] Committee tomorrow and start looking around and seeing what's going

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

. Like, for instance, you were against me. Johnson. You were against Lyndon You're on the [State Democratic] Executive Committee. You're from Cameron, Texas. You've had your name up there. I was walking around in the lobby; nearly everybody knew who

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

. But the main thing that was important over Kleberg's election was this: his predecessor was Wurzbach, the House. d Republican. John [Nance] Garner was minority leader of Well, when Kleberg was elected as a Democrat during a special election, that one vote

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

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- II -- 2 began to trickle in, that 5000 votes that he was ahead of Pappy O'Daniel began to dwindle. I was administrative assistant to the regional director of the National Youth Administration in Memphis

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

Committee. Key Pittman, a Democrat, was in charge of that, but he didn't have much power. There was [Arthur] Vandenberg on there, there was [William] Borah on there, and there was Gerald P. Nye on that committee, I know. Roosevelt called the men

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

a professional [job]. Then my brother being chairman of the Senate Re-election Committee, we hired the firm to go into a certain state and help a Democratic senator that we wanted. Well, that's just about all that I know of, but the reason I'm saying

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

the strings that he could back there to get Jesse a job with the superintendent of schools for the state; L. A. Woods was his name. Then when Lyndon was head of the National Youth Administration, he brought Jesse in as assistant director. What I'm trying

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

of the National Youth Administration in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson