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Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Mr. Rayburn finally got it down to the point where the question was who was going to run the House; was it going to be Howard Smith or was it going to be Sam Rayburn? He finally got it down to that issue, and when it got down to that issue, Mr
  • Biographical information; Holton's early jobs in Sam Rayburn's office, the House Office Building, and the Washington, D.C., police department; Rayburn's 1956 support for LBJ as favorite son presidential candidate and chairman of the Texas delegation
Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)
  • . Gillette and Dave McNeely PLACE: Mr. Boyd's office, McKinney, Texas Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 M: --ran across Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn and kind of begin it from the ground up. One thing that was interesting to me, which I hadn't known until we got up
  • Boyd's political career, starting in the 1930s; how Boyd came to work for Sam Rayburn; LBJ's 1948 U.S. Senate election; the 1948 Texas Democratic Convention in Fort Worth and Coke Stevenson's defeat in the primary; Sam Rayburn's relationship
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of John McCormack or Sam Rayburn who were right on top of the situation. B: Do you recall any specific legislative fights in those days to illustrate how Rayburn and Johnson worked together? order. H: I know that's a tall Skip it if it's too vague
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Sam Rayburn; LBJ and Rayburn; "Board of Education;" U.S. Congress; Landrum-Griffin Labor Reform Bill; 1960 election
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • came back I told him that we had I didn't know what to do about it. Aubrey said, I'm busy. I'm leaving town. I've got to catch that train. You go to Sam Rayburn and see what his advice is.' I went to see Mr. Rayburn, and Mr. Rayburn said, 'Yes, I
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • LBJ and the NYA in 1935; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; political philosophies; Griffin-Landrum Bill; Ralph Yarborough; Allan Shivers; LBJ & JFK; Rayburn and the Kennedys
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for me to answer.I think he did. I don't think he understood it as well as Sam Rayburn did, but I don't think anyone else did either. B: In the meetings that you would have to coordinate Senate and House leadership when Mr. Rayburn was Speaker and Mr
  • [For interview 1 and 2] Biographical information; Rayburn-Johnson relationship; early signs of leadership in the House; meetings to coordinate Senate and House leadership; 1956 and 1960 conventions; role of Democratic Advisory Council; 1957 Civil
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with Sam Rayburn with two or three different people, but I don't think they were recorded. They were just oral and manually taken down. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • ; Barkley; Rayburn-Johnson conversation regarding the Democratic nomination for president; LBJ's working relationship with Eisenhower; Rayburn; Civil Rights Act; Federal aid to education; Gerald Ford
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was at a two-day seminar in East Texas University with reference to Sam Rayburn. One of the people the're was the head of the history department LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Working for the NYA during the depression and meeting LBJ; LBJ’s powerful leadership of the NYA; Sam Rayburn’s and Alvin Wirtz’s relationships with, and influence over, LBJ; LBJ’s parents; the influential circle of people that worked throughout
Oral history transcript, Jessie (Mrs.) Hatcher, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • . I: Do you recall any particular stories that he told you about anyone? About Sam Rayburn or the President? H: Oh, Sam Rayburn. Sam Rayburn was his second daddy. But, I can tell you when Sam Rayburn used to come to see Lyndon's father. Lyndon
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on national politics. I was organization manager for the state of Texas in the Adlai Stevenson campaign in 1952. Then in 1953 and 1954, I worked part-time for the Democratic National Committee under Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell and Speaker Sam Rayburn
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; birth; education; legislative service and experience; military service; writing and editorship; political activities (Adlai Stevenson campaign); Sam Rayburn; Hale Boggs; biography of Sam Rayburn; teaching; relationship
Oral history transcript, Lloyd Bentsen, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Shivers started again with his attack on Johnson. I remember calling, and Johnson finally wouldn't answer the phone and didn't want to come down and get in a fight. I recall calling Sam Rayburn and saying, "If he won't come down and defend himself
  • Election to Congress in 1948; Sam Rayburn; Homer Thornberry; Johnson-Rayburn relationship; early relationship with LBJ; Drew Pearson; support of LBJ over Shivers in 1956; selection of Mrs. Bentsen as committeewoman; Secretary for the Committee
Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Lyndon of course was good at and had been involved in all of his life. It was the sort of politics that Sam Rayburn had grown up with, and Rayburn was probably the most liberal advocate of it that became nationally prominent, or liberal product
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Organization of Democratic Advisory Council; Sam Rayburn; LBJ and labor; the black community; Brown and Root; Harris County Democrats; Frankie Randolph; precinct organization; 1956 State Democratic Convention; committeeman/committeewoman controversy
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Rayburn was anxious for him to head that delegation. So, we felt with great optimism that with the help of LBJ and Sam Rayburn we had the means to have the Democratic Executive Committee take the liberal road, and we also felt that once that was done
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , but I have Because when I first came to the House I was not "in" with Mr . Rayburn as I was very soon thereafter . I have no memory of meeting him, although I'm sure I must have . M: You became fairly quickly a regular in the so-called Board
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • (With occasional comments by his wife, Jim Grant Bolling) Biographical information; Sam Rayburn; Bolling
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and supporter. M: What about his relationship with Mr. Sam in those years? Did you have a chance to see them together much? H: Yes, their association was quite close in the House of Representatives, and it was there Mr. Rayburn recognized Mr. Johnson's
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ in Congress; LBJ’s chief motivation and goals; 1943 and 1948 elections; Sam Rayburn; Charlie Murphy; oil/gas industry; Bob Kerr; Natural Gas Act of 1938; Senator Francis Case; Area Basin decision
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on tidelands worked out by Speaker Sam Rayburn with President Truman had been effectuated and had not been killed by influential people and officials of Texas. The compromise agreement missed was since the states have oil and gas conservation departments
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Meeting LBJ in 1937 and early interactions; John Connally; Jimmy Allred; Alvin Wirtz; George and Herman Brown; Sam Rayburn's influence on LBJ’s decision-making; roles of Allan Shivers and John Connally in the Democratic convention of 1956; Parten’s
Oral history transcript, Ernest May, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • connection with Sam Rayburn? M: No, sir. Mc: What kind of connection have you had with Lyndon Johnson? M: Oh, none. I knew him, but that's all. I met Mr. Johnson a long time ago. I voted against him and for him, and that's about it. Mc: Did you
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; Judge Frank Culver; Sam Rayburn; LBJ; George Petty; Coke Stevenson; Dan Moody; Carter vs. Tomlinson; FDR and the New Deal
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • this is something that you want checked. R: I would. I would like very much to have this checked out. I don’t remember where I first heard it. But I have for a long time lived with this information that when young Sam Rayburn was elected to the Texas Legislature
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • with his mother; description of Mrs. Johnson; Mrs. Johnson’s view of family’s economic status as opposed to LBJ’s opinions; Roberts’ impressions of the Johnson family; relationship between Johnson’s father, Sam Ealy Johnson, and Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Judge R.E. Thomason, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • . Lyndon’s greatest and most important advisor when in the House was Sam Rayburn who took a great liking to both Lyndon and Lady Bird who were nearly always present at Sam’s popular Sunday Night parties held in his apartment. Sam, as Speaker, had an extra
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; Sam Johnson; W.R. Poage; Ike Culp; Oveta Culp Hobby; LBJ as secretary to Congressman Kleberg;
Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Committee, which took over-~ Oh, I was also on the Immigration and Naturalization [Committee], and that went over to Judiciary under reorganization. So I went with it to the Judiciary Committee. M: Now you mentioned Sam Rayburn promoting Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • his duties were such that he was constantly on the move. He went to the Speaker and had the Speaker talk to the Secretary of War, and I was ordered home through the Secretary's intervention. At that time, I had not met Sam Rayburn and did not know
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • and the defeat of Kleberg; LBJ and Sam Rayburn; “Board of Education;” LBJ’s 1948 Senate race and the resulting controversy; LBJ, Rayburn and oil and gas support; Sid Richardson; the Leland Olds controversy.
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • until he was running Kleberg's whole shebang for him--his whole campaign. And he made our house his stopping place, back and forth to Corpus Christi. He'd and everything. Of course, Sam Rayburn was his friend and stop~and they'd discuss things
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  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; political contacts with Kleberg and then LBJ; LBJ as teacher of Carroll Keach, L.E. Jones and Gene Latimer and taking them to Washington; Sam Rayburn; Mr. Fore
  • Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb
  • Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall, by a single vote. G: Do you recall how the fight went? S: He was supporting it. G: Yes, I had heard that Sam Rayburn had him be the floor leader for that bill. S: Do you remember that? I don't believe that's correct. Is that accurate
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Sparkman and LBJ's careers in the House of Representatives; the Selective Service extension bill in 1941; FDR's handling of the PWA and WPA; LBJ's relationship with FDR and Rayburn; economic problems in the South; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • delegates and things of that nature . I came back to the Massachusetts suite . John McCormack was sitting in there with old Sam Rayburn, the Speaker of the House, and Wright Patman, the Texas congressman . I was very friendly with all three of them
Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to describe the first time you met Sam Rayburn. B: Well, the first time I met Sam Rayburn was in the campaign of 1932 when Roosevelt was running and John Nance Garner was running as his vice presidential candidate. Of course, the Busches and myself were very
  • How Buford met LBJ; how Buford went to work for Anheuser-Busch; support for Franklin Roosevelt and how Buford met Sam Rayburn; LBJ's conservatism in the early 1940s; Anheuser-Busch business relations with KTBC; a Washington D.C. party the Johnsons
Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that a man that's raised in the country is secretive about his personal affai rs, except to hi s very close fri ends. That \'Jas true of Sam Rayburn, although Rayburn recogni zed the differences between personal affairs and public affairs. It seemed to me
  • ;’ Ted Dealy; Bobby Baker, LBJ’s right hand man; Sam Houston Johnson; eastern press; Ralph Yarborough; retiring in 1958.
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Public Utility Holding Company act, or bill, which we were trying to get through. There was a very famous fight led in the House by the then Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, who was Sam Rayburn. by Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; early recollections of LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with FDR; LBJ’s interests; LBJ’s 1941 campaign; LBJ’s relationship with Sam Rayburn; Maury Maverick; 1948 race; Walter Winchell episode; counsel to Democratic Policy Committee
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and they got along just wonderfully well . So Mr . Rayburn says, "Now, Fish, don't you ever get tied up that close ." I said, "No, sir, Mr . Speaker . I'm married, but I ain't gonna get that married ." F: I presume now Sam Rayburn had the same affection
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • How he came to Washington; LBJ and Little Congress; LBJ as House doorman when Secretary to Congressman Kelberg; “Fishbait” as Miller’s nickname; dedication of the Sam Rayburn Library in Bonham, Texas; Sam Rayburn and his relationship with LBJ; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the third time I'd lived there. We had a crop failure, went to Bonham for one winter, then went to most of my junior year in high school in Bonham, which is Sam Rayburn's home town, and then back to Gober where I finished school in 1945. But Gober is very
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Texas Legislature; Texas campaigns; John Conally; Sam Rayburn; bid for SWTSC Presidency; Office of Education; Civil Rights; Board of Foreign Scholarships
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • against Allan. So I drove all What had hap- pened is that [Sam] Rayburn had put Lyndon's name in kind of against his own--without telling him too much about it. So Lyndon was put in the position there of running not as [just] the favorite son
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  • Johnson, Sam Houston
  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -­ I -­ 9 B: When Sam Rayburn called a press conference and announced that he thought Lyndon Baines Johnson should be the next president of the United States, and in effect put Lyndon in the race for the presidential nomination. G: Why was Byron
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Formation of Loyal Democrats and Dixiecrats; Harris County Democrats; Frankie Randolph; struggle for party control; Sam Rayburn; Johnson's role; precinct organization; race issue; committeeman/committeewoman controversy; 1956 Democratic National
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was that great friend of Sam Rayburn, Bill--I was trying to think of his name the other day, Bill-G: Kittrell. R: Kittrell, yes. He did the same thing; he got his money from all the big oil companies but he was out cutting their throats most of the time. G
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Walter Winchell incident; minimum wage bill; LBJ’s Dies Committee vote; John Nance Garner episode; Alvin Wirtz; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s work on the 1940 Congressional campaigns; Appropriations Committee appointment; race for the Senate in 1941; the I
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • vigorous young man. M: Did you know Sam Rayburn before you knew-- H: No. I met Sam Rayburn through Lyndon Johnson and the others live mentioned. M: Did you just meet him socially or casually? H: Well, at first it is a little hard to remember
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • How Hoyt met LBJ; Hoyt’s role as domestic director of the Office of War Information; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s persuasive techniques; staying the night at the White House visiting with LBJ; LBJ’s public relations; 1960 election; Hoyt’s appointment
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Eisenhower in 1952. The issue was whether the Democratic Party was going to support the nominee in 1956 or not. And I suppose Johnson and [Sam] Rayburn, it was a challenge to them. They had to rescue the party from the Shivers turncoats, from the Democrats
  • Allan Shivers and Democrats for Eisenhower in 1952; the role of LBJ and Sam Rayburn in the 1956 Texas State Democratic Convention; Paul Butler and the Democratic Advisory Committee; party at Dewey Bradford's house; how LBJ won county and precinct
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , some. But Mr. Johnson always won with a big majority of the votes. I don't remember how many votes Buck Taylor got but my recollection is it wasn't many. G: Now there was also some opposition to Sam Rayburn in his district, and I have a note
  • LBJ's growing popularity throughout the state of Texas in the 1940s; work in LBJ's congressional office; LBJ's 1944 congressional opponent, Buck Taylor; efforts by oil men to defeat Sam Rayburn; Lynda Bird Johnson's birth and her name; LBJ's love
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for Dick Kleberg? this off on him?" G: Why do you wish Anyhow that was it. Well, you know, some people have suggested that Sam Rayburn was influential in getting that. Booth Mooney says that in his book [LBJ: An Irreverent Chronicle]. Do you know
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  • Johnson, Sam Houston
  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • talking about the 1952 campaign. Let me ask you to go into some details on the whole question of Sam Rayburn and Allan Shivers in the confusion, I guess we could say for want of a better word, of what sort of commitments the Rayburn group felt
  • ' representation of the Texas Democratic Party at the national convention in 1952; Sam Rayburn's involvement in the Democratic National Convention in 1952; LBJ's role between Rayburn and Shivers in 1952; Wright Morrow's desire to be the Texas spokesman
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to you that you're not going to win this election unless you take Johnson on for vice president." F: This is long before Los Angeles? C: This is in Los Angeles, after the vote on Lyndon. I had gone earlier to Sam Rayburn--I was out in Los Angeles
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • ; Corcoran's work for LBJ at the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles; Corcoran's efforts to convince Sam Rayburn that LBJ should accept the vice presidential nomination in 1960; Mike Mansfield as Senator Majority Leader; Jim Landis; Ambassador
Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • than he did from representatives of the major companies? N: Yes. I don't think he was too popular with the oil industry. As far as I know, he had very little support from the oil industry. Although actually, Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn almost
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • ; Wilmer St. John Garwood's election to the Texas Supreme Court; LBJ's 1948 election to the U.S. Senate; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; the relationship between LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Nash's nomination as an alternate delegate to the United Nations
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • kind of advice exactly does he give to a young Congressman about your relationships with the district and so on? W: Well, very constructive. He'd always followed that admonition that Sam Rayburn did, that a member of Congress has two constituencies
  • First acquaintance with LBJ; 1940 election to Congress; Rayburn’s advice to freshmen Congressmen; LBJ’s relationship with Rayburn; golf game with LBJ; poker game; deer hunting; horse racing; 1941 extension of draft; war naval career; LBJ’s 1948
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • good luck. The first good luck was that the drawing of the Securities and Exchange Commission Act came under Congressman Sam Rayburn, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission. As was so often the case in American history, the provisional becomes