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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that, and then when at home, they moved him home, we gave him--I guess the first week in August, I don't know, something like that, that's when I called J. Edgar Hoover who lived across the street and all of his neighbors there to meet the ambulance when they brought
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- X -- 8 lawyer, to get him named federal district attorney. Well, Charlie would see me, show me a clipping where Jack Porter was conferring with [Herbert] Brownell about this federal job
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attorney. So then Herbert Brownell decided that he would fire Charlie Herring. I called Charlie [inaudible] Jack Porter, who was the Republican national committeeman [inaudible] Lyndon's appointment and told Brownell that he had to name someone else
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • truthful, he served up under Hoover, because Hoover was president in 1931 and 1932. So he saw the Bonus Marchers, you know. Of course Kleberg had always been a great friend of Garner's, because up until they redistricted, Kleberg County used