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Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • friendly to labor than not. I imagine they had some talks--if not he, perhaps his brother Sam Houston would have talked to some of them. B: Actually, I suppose the real question is how Governor Stevenson got the AF of L? M: That really is, and I don't
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Committee; Gerry Siegel; LBJ’s staff members; Sam Rayburn; 1956 fight between Shivers and LBJ; Byron Skelton; Mrs. Loyd Bentsen; Mrs. Frankie Randolph; The Lyndon Johnson Story; LBJ had to work for the 1960 campaign; convention politics; H.L. Hunt’s
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is an interview with Congressman Wright Patman in his office at 2328 Sam Rayburn Building, Washington, D.C., on August 11, 1972. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. P: Lyndon Johnson
  • LBJ’s civil rights interest; Sam E. Johnson; Ku Klux Klan issue in Texas legislature; farm to market roads; LBJ as secretary to Dick Kleberg; rural electrification; Russell Chaney; NYA; discussion with Rayburn regarding LBJ running for Senate
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the House when I came there in 1945, and I wouldn't say that we were close together in those three years. I knew him. He was active and aggressive, and he had a peculiar entre to Rayburn that I never had until I later came back to the Senate. I knew him
Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . The relations between Johnson and Sam Rayburn is something we might talk about in the course of this because it is not too well recognized--it has been kind of journalesed--but it was in that connection that Lyndon Johnson was able to be extremely helpful to TVA
  • LBJ-Rayburn relationship; LBJ as legislator; the 1960 Democratic convention in Los Angeles; LBJ and his domestic programs evaluated; LBJ and the watchdog committee for the AEC; LBJ's visit to Iran and his influence on the Shah; LBJ asks Lilienthal
Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • time that they were away from us, so that one I remember quite vividly. G: Of course, LBJ went to the Senate. I was going to ask you if you ever had an opportunity to observe the relationship between Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn. B: Most
  • Boggs' earliest memories of the Johnsons in 1941; LBJ's World War II military service; LBJ's 1948 Senate election; socializing with the Johnsons and Sam Rayburn; Boggs' and Rayburn's interaction during the 1960 presidential campaign kick-off; how
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Bob Eckhardt always credited Mr. Rayburn with killing big city liberal organization. I've forgotten how Bob perceived that. But at any rate, I know when I married Bob he was very anti-Lyndon Johnson. G: Was it a result of the 1956 [fight]? E: Yes
  • Why LBJ hired Eckhardt; Allan Shivers; Sam Rayburn; downplaying LBJ’s heart attack in 1955; how Eckhardt’s opinion of LBJ improved; the Southern Manifesto; LBJ’s public vs. private opinions.
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 5 (V), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • it in there. I remember that. G: In October I have a note that Speaker [Sam] Rayburn went into the hospital, I guess with his final illness. He was in Dallas, and LBJ went up to see him. Did you see the Speaker on any of those trips? W: No. I went to his
  • in Washington, D.C.; Hurricane Carla in September 1961; Bashir Ahmad, the camel driver; Cantinflas' visit to the Ranch; Sam Rayburn's death and funeral; Tommy Taylor's heart attack; LBJ's resentment of the Eastern/Harvard establishment; LBJ's lack of contentment
Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • all those people when they were mixed with so many other people. M: Did he seem to be good friends with Sam Rayburn? C: Why, of course. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • through various other channels, but I would say it's definitely a minority of the membership that systematically cultivates broad friendships. F: Was Congressman Johnson known as Sam Rayburn's boy in those days, or did that come after he moved
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; LBJ’s philosophy on leaks; Sam Rayburn; John Rankin insulting to all; Eisenhower appointed Hays to TVA in 1959; Fair Employment Practices Commission; Fulbright; Faubus and Arkansas Central High School fiasco; "Southern
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . At that time Mr . It was his bill . Rayburn was very much interested in the bill . They were his constituents, and he felt that the oil industry was important to the state of Texas . I was opposing the legislation as a representative of organized labor
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about this Newsweek piece. First of al 1 > the substance of course is that Mr. Johnson had to come to Sam Rayburn's rescue because Rayburn was aging and evidently not able to stay on top of things> according to the article. Do you recall instances
  • Recollections from 1955 on legislative matters; Price Daniel; Drew Pearson; interstate highway bill; Quemoy and Matsu; Styles Bridges; the Capehart Amendment; minimum wage; McCarthy Amendment on Geneva talks; Rayburn and LBJ; purchase of stations
Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the very great Sam Rayburn . of all times . Mr . Rayburn was one of my very favorite people Actually I would say that one of the main reasons that I was asked originally to become the secretary of the Democratic National Committee is because of my
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; admiration of Rayburn; women in South for VP Johnson; Paul Butler; Democratic Advisory Councilom 1948, 1960, 1968 campaigns and conventions; Southern train trip; Mrs. Johnson as a campaigner
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the Speaker's birthday, Sam Rayburn's, which was, I think, the sixth of January and always heralded by a big party, most often given--well, there were many parties for the Speaker celebrating his birthday, but always a very important one given by Dale
  • Social events of the 1950s; Senator Theodore Francis Green; Sam Rayburn; Senator Walter George; Herbert Hoover; Lady Bird Johnson's miscarriages in 1954; the political situation in Vietnam in 1954; the Texas governor's race between Allan Shivers
Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was-- C: As you well know, Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn threw Texas votes to Kennedy on the second ballot. They went for Albert Gore the first time. Not because they were for Kennedy, but because they hated Estes Kefauver so much. I don't mean hated
  • Personal observations of LBJ and JFK before their White House years, especially LBJ in the congress; LBJ's Senate campaigns; the 1960 campaign; "Whistle Stop" campaign of Lady Bird; the Bobby Baker scandal; Rayburn-LBJ relationship; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • proceeded. B: I was not present at that convention, but I have heard that when Sam Rayburn got up to protest the taking of the furniture, somebody took the chair that he had been sitting on. K: Did you ever hear that story? No, I never heard that one; I
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • of LBJ and Sam Rayburn among Texas Democrats; federal vs. state affairs in Texas; 1956 state convention; unit rule and the two-thirds rule.
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was the youngest administrator in America . I also met him many times through our mutual friend Sam Rayburn who had served in the Texas Legislature with his father [Sam Ealy Johnson] . The roadside parks and the other improvements that we see today gracing our
Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Remember, I live in Los Angeles, and I know everybody here, so if you want to know who was below that, it was Sam Rayburn. F: You had pretty much of a straight shot, didn't you? P: Well, it didn't take as long to move from one place to the other. And so
Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • admired by me . Was it noticeable then that he had several mentors like Sam Rayburn and Senator Alvin Wirtz? W: I have only really learned about Wirtz much later . And when I was with Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson, I never really saw that Sam Rayburn
Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a regard for Mr. O'Daniel, but I don't know. He may have taken no position, I don't know. M: I have read in some of the books that there was a sort of a political struggle between your uncle and Sam Rayburn in 1940 in regard to the presidential race
Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a regard for Mr. O'Daniel, but I don't know. He may have taken no position, I don't know. M: I have read in some of the books that there was a sort of a political struggle between your uncle and Sam Rayburn in 1940 in regard to the presidential race
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the other day, I got to wondering. You asked me if I had ever been in it, and I never was in it at the time when Mr. [Sam] Rayburn and others were in there, but I think I did see it one day, just when it was empty, you know. But it was a place where some
  • The "Board of Education" room where Sam Rayburn and, later, LBJ and other members of the House met to socialize and discuss legislative strategy; Rather knowing where LBJ was at all times so she could contact him if necessary; Sam Houston Johnson's
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , headed by Sam Rayburn of Texas, in connection with the big financial bills for fiscal reform in the SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission] and the utility field which Roosevelt was pressing. I was particularly fascinated by the Texan contingent
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? Was he simpatico with Latin America? R: He was supportive, and therefore I had to assume that he was aware. I knew Mr. Sam a lot better, I became very close to him. Of course, Lyndon was very fond of Mr. Sam, and was one of hi s strong allies
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Early contacts with LBJ as a Congressman; relationship with Sam Rayburn; service under Eisenhower and Truman; LBJ’s friendship and loyalty; comments on the office of VP; LBJ’s sensitivity; the role of governors; Rockefeller’s comments on John
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • possibly the greatest asset Lyndon Johnson had with Harry Truman was Sam Rayburn; because they both were devoted to Sam Rayburn and Sam was very devoted to Lyndon and Lyndon was very devoted to Sam. But Johnson was not particularly close to Truman, a long
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was talking to him one day. Bill White, you He said, "Sam, did you ever notice any jealousy on Rayburn's part toward Lyndon?" yes. I knew it all the time." See, Rayburn owed his job to Lyndon; Lyndon didn't owe him a damn thing. my book. I said, "Hell
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: SAM E. KINCH, SR. INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Skelton; LBJ’s acceptance of VP; covered VP while in Austin; move of press from Austin to San Antonio; Eastern press; post-Presidential press conference; John Connally’s dissatisfaction for some of LBJ’s policy; off the record meetings; Sam Kinch, Jr
  • Kinch, Sam, Sr.
  • Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Sam Kinch, Sr.
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about Hr. Johnson. Anyway, they didn't They were talking about how Sam Rayburn, the speaker, had been against Mr. Johnson taking the vice presidency. Hartin Agronsky gave that story in some detail and the other men talked. I was somewhat
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • of events of appearance of LBJ during presidential campaign and after the JFK assassination; influence of Sam Rayburn on Dickerson's career; aftermath of JFK assassination
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for political learning. This Texas state convention made [Sam] Rayburn the head and Lyndon the vice chairman. Myron Blalock from my home town of Marshall was the national committeeman. (Interruption) So from the spring on through the fall general election
  • ; Charles Marsh's offer to sell properties to the Johnsons and his efforts to increase their wealth; Charles Marsh's personality; trip to Santa Fe with Alice and Margaret Brown; Sam Rayburn becoming speaker of the House; LBJ's work on the elections
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Johnson as a senator ; he considered him one of his side­ kicks . I think they were brought closer together, probably, through Sam Rayburn . That's why it seemed like they tied in, because they were very close . F: What was Senator Kerr's connection
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Early involvement with Senator Robert Kerr; first contact with LBJ; Sam Rayburn and Kerr; managing Kerr campaigns; Kerr's early interest in LBJ for president; LBJ's work for Oklahoma; organizing Oklahoma for LBJ; 1960 Democratic National Convention
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in that way . Sam was more of the behind-the-scenes operator and I couldn't say-­ I never saw Rebecca really working at a meeting--Rebecca did her work as I could tell with the more organized groups like the Women's Clubs--the B&PW women, and things
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to be a very great friend of Speaker Sam Rayburn and President Truman and that he would support the Democratic Party in whatever it undertook. B: Was Mr. Rayburn directly involved in the campaign too? S: Behind the scenes. Of course, he was for Lyndon
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • First meeting LBJ in 1948; certification of the election; vote contest; Allan Shivers; Sam Rayburn; Governor Stevenson’s campaign in Texas; Democratic Organizing Committee; Rayburn’s influence in Texas Party; Democratic Advisory Council; 1956
Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in 1956. This was the year that Sam Rayburn, in his attempt to take the Democratic Party away LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Democratic vote in favor of censure. G: Before we turned on the tape you also mentioned 1952 and Sam Rayburn's role in that in the Stevenson campaign. D: That's right. Lyndon did not take very much of a forward position in the Adlai Stevenson campaign
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • excited about Roosevelt, wasn’t he? K: Oh, yes! G: Do you recall any of these things he said? K: No, but he did probably felt about FDR as he did toward Sam Rayburn. I have heard him comment many times on him. G: Incidentally, on Sam Rayburn, you
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • reputation before you met him. E: Mostly I knew about him through Sam Rayburn. Sam Rayburn, as you know or probably know, was a native Tennessean, and he used to come back to Roane County up in East Tennessee occasionally. Back in those days I
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Sam Rayburn and LBJ; Senator Kerr; LBJ for President in 1956; Earle Clements; Senator from Kentucky; Wallace from Alabama; JFK; Al Gore; Frank Clement of Tennessee; Estes Kefauver; civil rights; Governor Faubus of Arkansas; Fulbright; Lester Maddox
Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Sam Rayburn sitting there in front of a table and they came and carried the table away and when he got up to protest they carried his chair away. At any rate, the convention went on and was well organized from the point of view of the committee which
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • ; eviction of Fort Worth delegation; Truman; Sam Rayburn; LBJ and Texas water problem; “Burleigh’s Ditch;” Long’s relationship with LBJ; 1956 Favorite Son nomination; Sivercrats and 1956 Texas Convention; EK 13 tickets; Long’s opinion of LBJ as a man
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Lyndon became majority leader and everything went to him. But Eisenhower couldn't buy toilet paper without Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn's approval since 1955. They could hardly get enough there when Taft was in. But here's what I'm getting
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Enterprise and let Lyndon go on down to Australia, [to] join [General Douglas] MacArthur's group. I was JAG [Judge Advocate General] out there for a while. So we separated; we didn't see much of each other during the war. Sam Rayburn got a hold of Roosevelt
Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Frank Ikard -- Interview I -- 5 F: You became known as one of Mr. Sam Rayburn's closer supporters, and Mr. Sam often at least
  • under Section Seven of Trad Agreement Act; Suez Crisis; 1955-1956 oil supply shut-off by Middle East countries; Ernest O. Thompson; Price Daniel and the tidelands; LBJ, Sam Rayburn and civil rights; 1960 Democratic Convention and LBJ’s acceptance
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Harlow -- I -- 3 Sam Rayburn was majority leader and [William B.] Bankhead