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Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , openly so, and that we wouldn't be sort of second cousins or something in the organization. G: What was Rayburn's role in this group? S: We looked to Rayburn all the time for support, because, of all the other things that you can say about Rayburn, he
  • Contact with LBJ in the 1940s; Democratic Advisory Council; Rayburn's role; Ralph Yarborough; 1956 state and national Democratic conventions and labor; CIO and Texas politics; Frankie Randolph; Texas Observer; committeeman/committeewoman controversy
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • there was occupied by Mr. Truman; then Speaker Sam Rayburn was there. But Robert L. Clark had taken a suite for Senator Johnson in the Baker Hotel just across the street. dinner in the suite, as I recall. We had arranged to have In addition to Mr. Clark, Mary
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Winters -- IV -- 27 W: [Inaudible] G: In October Sam Rayburn announced that there was going to be an LBJ for President drive. This is in October of 1959. W
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • be failing to take the jump if he didn't. So the year began as it always began, with Scooter Miller's party, birthday party for the Speaker [Sam Rayburn], sometime in the first week or two. It was--just a minute maybe better scratch that. M: I have
  • arguments with LBJ regarding the cost of electricity and the need for parks in Austin; Edgar (E. H.) Perry; Lynda and Luci at Camp Mystic; Lynda and Luci's work as adults in public service; Allan Shivers; Sam Rayburn and his sister, Miss Lou; the 1956
Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • but what Sam Rayburn was a strong speaker [of the House] and leader. accorded him. That, I think, is universally It was also common knowledge that Lyndon was--I don't know whether allied is the word, but he didn't make many moves without consulting Sam
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to that he had recommended massive cuts in agricultural aid. away with the low-cost REA loans. He wanted to do Now, boy, when you start talking about REA loans, if you wanted to raise Lyndon Johnson's hackles and Sam Rayburn's--because the REA
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • this was the year of the Shivers versus Johnson-Rayburn contest. B: Yes, I did, I covered the state convention. F: Now this is the May one or the governor's one in September? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • First contacts with LBJ in 1953 in Texas campaigning; Johnson's role in Texas state politics in 1956; Sam Rayburn's selection of LBJ as favorite son in 1956; DOT (Democrats of Texas); contacts with LBJ in Senate; LBJ-Ralph Yarborough as senators
Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 Kennedy had, which developed the name "the Irish Mafia" for his supporters that were up on the Hill. I thought that Lyndon Johnson, when he was in the Senate, and Sam Rayburn
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; LBJ’s techniques; opinion of LBJ’s political stance; LBJ-Rayburn liaison; LBJ’s ego and the transition to national politician; LBJ as VP; operation of Congress after LBJ and Rayburn; JFK-LBJ transition
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Senator often, and I knew that they were close, but I did not put it in that relationship. I put them more on the status of being political equals and confidants rather than a mentor-apprentice relationship. G: What was his relationship with Sam Rayburn
  • with Alvin Wirtz; the relationship between LBJ and Sam Rayburn
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Senator Wadsworth? s: Yes. They were close, Rayburn and Wadsworth. Sam. He was one hell of a man. I'm going to have to leave you now. I was devoted to Mr. If you want to come back rid be glad to talk with you some more. F: All right. s: F: I I
Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • between him and the President--President Roosevelt. We also noticed--in answer to your first question--that there was a close relationship between Mr. Johnson and Sam Rayburn. There is always a wonderful esprit de corps between the Texans who
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • no great trouble in Chicago that year, in going along then with the nominees? W: No, not at all. Of course, Lyndon Johnson was the leader of the delegation; Sam Rayburn was its grand vizier. They worked together, LBJ Presidential Library http
  • The 1948 campaign; elected to Congress in 1954; first meeting LBJ in 1947; LBJ and the McCarthy censure; LBJ and the Texas delegation; LBJ, Rayburn, and the Civil Rights Bill of 1957; helping LBJ with legislation in the House; Vice President LBJ
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • It ,.;ras more a. foot-dragging I knew that even when we met with the President, it ev~d2~t where he stood. B: Did this actt.ally affect the state of-the control program? D: I think it did. At that time we had Sam Rayburn as Speaker. wasn't very
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; Senator McFarland; Sam Rayburn; relationship between Truman and Senator Johnson; Paul Butler; 1956, 1960 and 1964 conventions and campaigns; JFK; Jim Rowe; Hubert Humphrey; Abe Ribicoff; RFK; LBJ as Vice President; DNC; 3
Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of them, and J. Frank Dobie and all of them were furious at Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn for trafficking with, trading out with the enemy as it were. I guess that's the year that Miss [Frankie] Randolph got it, wasn't it? G: Yes. F: You see my
  • and arranging to work for him in Texas; Faulk’s activities during the McCarthy period; Faulk emceeing Washington D.C. events; Sam Rayburn; Richard Nixon; O.P. “Bob” Bobbitt; a supposed lawsuit against Texas Broadcasting Corporation; dispute with LBJ regarding
Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • G: Did you go with him in the fall of 1955 when he made that speech at Whitney, Texas? H: No. G: He also attended something at Fort Worth for Sam Rayburn. I am just wondering if you saw any of these maiden political--? H: No. Those of us
  • with Stuart Symington, Richard Russell, and Hubert Humphrey; meeting and marrying LBJ's brother, Sam Houston Johnson; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; efforts to lift LBJ's spirits following his heart attack; Haselton's and Sam Houston Johnson's work for LBJ during
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was then being considered, as he has been in many other conventions, for high national office. I made it a point to see Mr. Johnson out of pure curiousity as I did also of Speaker Sam Rayburn. During the war we [442 RCT] spent much time with the 36th Division
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Biographical information; first meeting LBJ and Sam Rayburn at the 1956 Democratic convention in Chicago; made an honorary Texan; LBJ and statehood for Hawaii; LBJ and the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the Senate--and at the time when Sam Rayburn was Speaker. Do you recall what you knew or had heard of Lyndon Johnson when you first came into Congress? A: Yes. I did not know him, of course, but I knew of him. I knew of him by reputation and having read
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; early impressions of LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ and foreign policy in the Eisenhower Administration; LBJ as majority leader; the 1960 election; the JFK legislative program; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . That doesn't include military construction and some other items. But Lyndon Johnson was totally absorbed in poli~ics. Other, people liked to talk about their bridge games, their golf games, this, that or the other, but people like Lyndon Johnson and Sam
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • How he met LBJ in 1935; LBJ’s ambitions and absorption with politics; LBJ as a new Congressman and loss of the Appropriations Committee appointment to Albert Thomas; Sam Rayburn and the Board of Education; rural electrification; Civil Rights Act
Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the next ensuing primary but fortunately made it all right. I did what I thought was right and largely my fears were allayed as to my own political security as a result of my conversation with Lyndon Johnson and Speaker Sam Rayburn. B: You were re
Oral history transcript, Ernest W. McFarland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Senate, myself; and the Majority Leader of the House, and Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House. He said, 'rvTell, I understand there's some objection to my sending Dr. Jessup's name up. I don't like it." Then he turned and looked at me, and he says
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that I wasn't to shift off of Mr . Johnson any more and I was to stay exclusively on his campaign . F: You don't know why the change? B: Later I found out that he felt my stories were more objective toward his endeavors than were those of Sam Kinch
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
Oral history transcript, Jerry Voorhis, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with Sam Rayburn in the House. V: Is that true? Well, he did. Sam Rayburn was of course the speaker. Not when Lyndon Johnson was first elected, though, I think Bankhead was still speaker then, but by 1940, by the early forties, he had been succeeded
  • First meeting LBJ; impressions of LBJ as a Congressman and Senator; LBJ's relationship with FDR and Rayburn; rural electrification; defeated in 1946 Senate race against Nixon; Cooperative League; meeting Lady Bird; assessment of LBJ's performance
Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • looking ahead like he was going to be there forever. I'm told, and the way he used to tell it, when he first came back in February, 1912--[Sam] Rayburn came in March of 1913. Remind me to tell you a story about 4 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • relationship with LBJ; Hayden's support for foreign aid; how committee assignments were made; concerns that Sam Rayburn's death would interfere with an Arizona fund raiser for Hayden with JFK and LBJ in attendance; LBJ's and Richard Russell's presence
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -nine year old congressmen are not experts in very much, Joe, and it was a very interesting time in that Sam Rayburn was very friendly to me and very helpful to me, very kind F: Had you known Mr . Sam earlier? B: No . F: You met him when you got
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was really happening when Lyndon went to the Senate was Lyndon had come--I don't like to say under the influence of, but just a&. he was c~r.Je u~der the influence of Mr. Roosevelt when he . to Congress, he was under the influence of Mr. Rayburn when he
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • LBJ’s association with President Roosevelt; LBJ as a New Dealer compared to Maury Maverick as a populist; LBJ turning to Sam Rayburn for advice and support; LBJ urging Poage to run against O’Daniel for a Senate seat; the 1948 election; Poage’s
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • story though. E: Oh, well, it's the truth. G: Anything else on LBJ and his associations with the other members of the Texas delegation, Sam Rayburn for example? E: Well, my impression is that they developed a lot over the years. I don't think
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • /oh Pickle -- VII -- 2 red." And so they did. And one of the first few friends--I say first friends out there, among the first--must have been, Sam Rayburn. I visited that Hornaday ranch in the 1960s--1961, 1962. When I was on the Texas Employment
  • , Richard Ray, Sam Rayburn, Junior Bill Reed, Ann Richards, Dan Rostenkowski, Darrell Royal, Frank Royal, Bill Sarpalius, Jim Scheuer, Peter Seur, Bob and Helen Sikes, Mark Siljander, Mabel Smith, Charles Sparenberg, Russell Sparenberg, Richard Start
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on that? R: Johnson, with his usual political genius, always said that Rayburn was tops, as he proved the opposite. "Anythi ng for Mr. Sam. He was always the boss. II But that wasn't in fact true, and we might as well come to that right now. Take
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • His work on the Johnson-Stevenson case; Leland Olds; the way LBJ became Majority Leader; the Filibuster Rule; Johnson’s and Sam Rayburn’s relationship; the Civil Rights Acts and LBJ’s involvement with them; LBJ’s role in the McCarthy period; Rauh’s
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • " the National Youth Administration? F: That's right. And he ran in a special election to succeed Congress- man [James P.] Buchanan. P: Yes. I must have met him before that, but thereafter-- F: Were you fairly close to Sam Rayburn in those days who
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Interaction with LBJ, Sam Rayburn, and other politicians; LBJ’s senate race and maneuver to get on Texas ballot; conflict with oil industry because LBJ did not support mandatory oil increase; supporting Kennedy; Nixon’s Supreme Court argument; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think he had been there about one term before, I'm not sure which. Does it show here? G: He was elected in 1937. C: Oh, then he had been there several years. G: Did you regard him as a protégé of Sam Rayburn at that point? C: I think
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • : Juanita Roberts, the Pres i dent's secretary, has suggested that I try to run down among the President's old friends this matter: It is her opinion that the stories are all wrong which state that Sam Rayburn was a kind of political father
  • Met LBJ as a student at a political meeting in Blanco, TX; Hopkins campaigned for Democratic party nomination to the Senate from 19th District, TX; Sam Johnson as a friend and supporter; Alvin Wirtz; Richard Kleberg's election to Congress, 1931; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that. FDR had promised somebody that held name another person, and I believe Sam Rayburn turned that around and got the job for LBJ. G: Is that the way LBJ told the story? I mean, did he accredit Rayburn with the appointment? W: I don't know that I ever
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Mr. Johnson as a protégé of some of the older hands in the House like Carl Vinson and Sam Rayburn. Was that apparent in those days? H: Of course, that carried over, you know. Hell, after he went over to the Senate we used to have those meetings
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : No, he didn't like Adlai. F: I know. H: Oh, Adlai just wasn't his kind of man. Did he ever express to you why? I was at the convention sitting among the delegates. I was very friendly with Sam Rayburn who was really Lyndon's mentor and almost
Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • have a one or two [seat] majority. In any event, we had a big majority after the 1956 election. So Johnson really controlled the Congress. Every afternoon at five o'clock he would go over and have a drink with Sam Rayburn and make me or somebody go
  • LBJ's 1955 heart attack at George Brown's home and his health before the heart attack; LBJ's recovery from the heart attack; why LBJ was an effective Senate majority leader; LBJ's relationships with President Dwight Eisenhower and Sam Rayburn
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was booming and going. G: One of the issues that came up soon after the election was the extension of the Selective Service Act. Any recollections of Sam Rayburn's role and Lyndon Johnson's role in getting that--? 2 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • ; Colonel Sam Anderson; author Robert Caro's writings about LBJ; Sam Rayburn's campaign to call congressmen who were serving in the military back to Congress; LBJ's schedule after returning from war and his work on the House Naval Affairs Committee; Weber's
Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but there was a dinner party going to be [held the next night]. Mr. Sam [Rayburn] was coming that night and Willard I think was living there then, wasn't he? G: Yes. E: He was back from the war and he was living at the house. G: This is Bill Deason? LBJ
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • first meet Lyndon Johnson? To When did you first come to know him? Y: As best as I can recall, I first met him when I was a member of the United States Congress. That was between 1950 and 1954. Of course Sam Rayburn of Texas took quite a liking
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it, but there I raised so much hell he finally let me alone. When Sam [Rayburn] was dying--the reason why I'll never forget it is I just got a glimpse of Rayburn through the door when Johnson went in to see him. And it was a horrible sight. I did not recognize
  • of management skills; LBJ visiting Sam Rayburn before his death and Reedy's involvement in LBJ's statement following Rayburn's death; high regard for Rayburn throughout Washington, D.C.; LBJ arranging for Mexican comedian Cantinflas to visit the San Antonio
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of my own trade. It has often been said that Mr. Johnson in those days was also a protégé B: of people like Sam Rayburn and Carl Vinson. Was this relationship obvious, too? K: Not at that time. He'd just come into Congress, but as the years went
  • First meeting with LBJ; LBJ’s relationship to Rayburn; Carl Vinson and FDR; LBJ in the House; Lady Bird; Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s relationship with Humphrey, Truman, Eisenhower and the Kennedy’s; LBJ’s opinion of career military people; 1956