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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . What's his heritage? Who Because heri- He became famous, of course, on account of his grandfather and the King Ranch. But I guess the reason he got connected with Lyndon--what success he owed should go, I say, to my father in this regard. and live
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • brother trusted you to handle the money? J: Yes. Well, you have to consider this, go back to it, Martin Dies had run in the first campaign in 1941, and he lost because he couldn't get the money. This time he wanted to run, but he couldn't get
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , That's one of the reasons I wrote You see, Rayburn went for Garner for president. See, Roy Miller, the lobbyist for Andrew Mellon, the Texas Gulf Sulphur Company and all that, he used to work for the King Ranch. him, the most powerful man in Texas
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Johnson -- VI -- 19 G: Really? J: And she's sweet as can be to me. She's more sociably inclined; she wanted to go to New York to see the King of Spain when he came over, you know. More social life. up with that. And when I lived
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • General who was heading up our campaign in Maryland; King I think was his name. The purpose of having the Baltimore County Democratic Chairman--he was in Florida vacationing but we had him flown in to talk with me. We had a big dinner in a restaurant