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  • 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 INTERVIEW II DATE: April 14, 1976
  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • think you ought to do more research, particularly you, Dan"--Dan Rather. caused a lot of this without checking. cheeks. "You know, you Tears rolled down Dan's II I was sitting there at the time. Then we came back and landed at Andrews Air Force
  • tell him, "A lot of other people, though, don't feel the same way that you do, at 1east I hope they don It, II and turn it off 1ike that. I had a fellow one time, an electrician came up here to put all the electrical work in the thing for me. He
  • was living at first but he died back in 1932, 1933, something like that--Dick K1eberg ' s father. So then Daddy told Lyndon, "Well, the best thing to do, Lyndon, is to get rid of her. here. II I'll get her a job with the Railroad Commission Daddy
  • mother. Somebody'd holler, IISam , I want you to She's ni nety-four and I m seventy-two. II I don't I remember either one of them, because a lot of people I don't--I left here when I was just fourteen. Of course, it's all I think in Mother's book
  • a couple of men there, said, "Well, we heard you left Washington with Sam Houston." John said, II I don't know what the he 11 you' re talk i ng about. II didn't see me get off. They They left and then a friend picked me up in a LBJ Presidential Library
  • all around. Then someone from Houston, say Neiman-Marcus, you'd have to entertain them. I know, because you invited me! Hell, And you spent your own money! II did, because he was wealthy, his wife was, you see. He IIS0 you were public relations
  • one day Charlie Maurine Ray, who was Charlie's secretary at that time and later she became secretary to Governor [John] Connally, came over to the Washington Club trying to find her boss. "Well, here it comes ,II I said. "Now, Charlie, what you
  • on out there. Then I told him it was a group of neighbors that came out there to meet him, and he said, come?" II Well , Mr. J. Edgar Hoover is his neighbor. Did he I said, "No, he's out of town, but I just let one of his aides go upstairs