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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson -- II -- 3 and all of that, and they wanted O'Daniel out of Texas as governor, that was it. They wanted to make Coke stevenson, who was then lieu- tenant governor, governor. It wasn't that Governor Ferguson disliked my brother or anything; he
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was pretty close to John--and he would say, "Well, Sam, I have just received some information that Ed Clark is coming out of Coke Stevenson's headquarters. He's been in there an hour, talking to Governor Stevenson." Because Ed Clark had been for Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [didJ, was closer to him than Lyndon is because I knew him way back there. So I called him up and I said, "Governor, I just tal ked to Lyndon, and he said for you to go ahead and cast your vote for [AdlaiJ Stevenson, that he had it without a doubt. He
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and the newspaperman, Henry Reese, who owned the paper there--I don't know anything about it; I know he fought us [and was later for] Coke Stevenson, but that doesn't make any difference. Anyhow, we all went to Fort Worth. Before I left, though, I went to the doctor
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I was. Nobody knew what was going to happen, because legally we had certified copies of the vote. That's legally. All right, you're confused. You're for Coke [Stevenson], there's been no question about it, but you don't LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the article about 1952, how it got started on that. I discussed with you about his taking the lead then and going on radio. G: Actively campaigning for [Adlai] Stevenson. J: Actively campaigning for Stevenson. Now, I don't know whether you've got his
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on Churchill, he was a brilliant man. job. It's no But that was his [Inaudible] caused directly of course from that, too much of that. Now when Eisenhower became president, in the election of 1952, of course as you know, we supported Adlai Stevenson