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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the situation. In 1941 Senator Morris Sheppard died and my brother ran for the vacancy. At that time the law said that the governor could name a successor up until an election was held and then the high man--it didn't take a majority, you see--would
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and John Connally, but you probably have read that they had been bitter enemies for some time. G: No. J: Never heard about it? They were. Ed Clark, to go back into hi s history, he comes from East Texas, and when Jimmie Allred was attorney general
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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