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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in which Eisenhower was elected. Then along in about December was when it really began to jell. Lyndon himself hadn't decided at the time and hadn't taken any--he was there to see who was going to be the Democratic leader. He had urged [Richard] Russell
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Eisenhower's campaign and didn't think he had any serious opposition. It surprised everybody, but money can talk. Now, I don't know, I'm going to buy up a bunch of these two dollar bills because I'm getting LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and one for Grandmama and the girls, you see. In other words, if you'd come in Daddy's entrance, you could go in there and talk politics and drink and you wouldn't be bothered about your language. But if you crossed over that line, not like the David
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • when she thought I was being cussed out, even though I probably needed it at times. I said that on the David Frost show one time but I didn't go into detail. Anyhow, we got there. That's beside the point. He called me up, went over to Mr. Kleberg's
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • supported Eisenhower in 1952 that Lyndon and Price weren't very close, you see. So he [Gooch] told him he came up to get information, mainly on me at the time, but just that something was wrong. here. It seems to be that Johnson knows what we're going
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Now you pick out three or four of the biggest Republican friends that you have in Dallas and put them down. Because we'rell--see, I didn't know if it was going to be [RobertJ Taft or Eisenhower or who-- and put them down as a reference. lI You've
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was. Eisenhower was president. He didn't know one damn thing about the operation of the government. army. Let me explain to you. All of his life he had only been in the Another thing, Eisenhower was really not the man in charge of the war; General George C
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Johnson More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh VII 22 wasn't brought up until he got back and was able to lead it through. Of course, Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)