Discover Our Collections


  • Time Period > Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-) (remove)
  • Contributor > Johnson, Sam Houston (remove)

6 results

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and the [Baltimore] Democratic County Chairman, who was in Florida but he flew up for this meeting. Then we ha~ in the Senate Senator [Joseph] Tydings, who was going to support Bobby Kennedy, and [Thomas] D'Alesandro, the mayor of Baltimore, that was going
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that year. Eisenhower called for [Robert] Taft, who was the Republican [Senate] leader at the time, and Lyndon was minority leader, Democrat. they went in for a conference. And so Well, this hasn't been told yet, but I heard directly from Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lyndon's fault--in other words, he did so many brilliant, wonderful things on his own. Nobody could have passed Medicare, nobody could have passed the civil rights bill, when Daddy was dead, and no one could have done that. Kennedy couldn't do
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , he I guess was dealing initially with Senator [Robert] Taft and that was Senator Taft's last year. He had cancer and died. How did he work with Senator [William] Knowland as opposed to Taft? J: I've already told you that. Didn't I tell you about
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)