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Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wilson -- I -- 11 Fish works out to be Sam Houston [Johnson's] ex[-wife]. Mary Snish, I didn't know who that was. Mary Fish, And old Mr. Perry was kind of being vague and dropping names and you never heard of them, and so I

Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. In the years 1945 to 1951, no woman expected to join Sam Rayburn's private luncheons at the Capitol. On the other hand, Mary Norton held her own in the House of Representatives. She was the equal of any man and better than most when she shepherded through
Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961

Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was pursuing this end of questioning. To see if you knew of any of the early ties and associations. But to continue on, during the 1956 Democratic Convention, you described in your previous interview Sam Rayburn's intervention on behalf of Paul Butler
First newspaper interview with LBJ in 1933; LBJ’s relationship with FDR and Rayburn; Carl Vinson; Clark Clifford; 1924, 1956 and 1968 Democratic conventions; LBJ’s techniques; civil rights legislation; Home Rule for D.C.; LBJ’s relationship

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

wanted Sam Rayburn to walk down the aisle with him when he was sworn in, because Sam Rayburn was his father's old friend. They had been deskmates back when Mr. Sam Johnson was in the Texas House of Representatives and so was Mr. Rayburn. In any case, I
and the friends he made there, such as Carl Vinson and Warren Magnuson; LBJ's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, his declining health, and death; LBJ's time in his district when Congress wasn't in session; LBJ's role in his family after his father's death; Sam Ealy

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. allover: But this was like Pressures were coming in from from clubs, from the Rotary, from the Elks, from allover the country. As I think I told you before, when Bob went to see Sam Rayburn at the beginning of 1958, he practically threw up his LBJ

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Of course, Sam Rayburn, the Speaker, was an old friend. F: Yes. H: And Lyndon Johnson was an old friend. Both of them were for the first two years minority leaders and then for the last six the majority leaders. Throughout that whole eight-year

Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

when that passed by I think one vote or so, and he was working on it. C: No. I do not. plea for that. I remember Sam Rayburn's activity. Sam made a strong I do not recall anything about Lyndon Johnson in that connection. G: Were you able to get

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, they were intensely practical, pragmatic politicians. Two very unusual men. Rayburn, over in the House, was a man with tremendous stature, tremendous integrity, courage, honor. political perspicacity. But I, frankly, never thought too much of his He
Reedy’s role as policy advisor while LBJ was Senator; airline machinists’ strike of 1966; influencing LBJ’s decisions; writing memos to LBJ; Richard Russell; Eugene Millikin; Sam Rayburn; what makes a good Senator; Millard Tyding’s loss to Joseph

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 2 (II), 2/28/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to challenge Allan Shivers for control of the Democratic machinery. Sam Rayburn more or less drafted him by saying, "I nominate Lyndon Johnson as a favorite son and chairman of the delegation." Were you 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. F: No, but I mean your public career does. T: Well, I guess that's part of it. The President's father was a member of the House. I remember Mr. Sam Johnson, and it may be that I did see Mr. Johnson's family, including the President, when he
Sam Ealy Johnson; getting to know LBJ when LBJ was NYA Administrator; LBJ’s involvement with local (Austin) issues as a senator; how LBJ helped Thornberry as a junior congressman; Rayburn’s 'Board of Education' sessions; the 1952 and 1956

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. That story I'll get to But I strongly suspect that Sam Rayburn and some of the Texas delegation may have importuned Mrs. Roosevelt or President Roosevelt to have Aubrey get hold of Lyndon and offer him the job as NYA director of Texas, but I do not know

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of. You're not supposed to do that. Well, Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Baines Johnson, both from the Lone Star State, said, "Ah, ha. He've trapped that old coot in a political faux pas that is just without parallel. ll them where to cut it. as ~peaker, So

Oral history transcript, Carl Vinson, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1970, by Frank Deaver (Item)

the legislation through that he wanted, he wouldn't abandon it; he would keep on until he reached an agreement with the House or Senate. D: And, of course, he and Sam Rayburn were very effective working together in this area. V: Oh, yes, very effective
Views on LBJ's Congressional days; LBJ and Rayburn; Lady Bird's effect on LBJ's career; LBJ's setting up naval facilities in Texas; Vinson's leaving Congress

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with himself. What the hell the bill was I don't know. G: Did he trust Nixon? R: No, he didn't ever like him. I don't think he disliked him as much as Sam Rayburn did, but he didn't like him. I don't know anybody who liked him. G: Now, Johnson

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: Apparently, he was quite popular and respected among the members. Mc: Whom did you see as his close friends? F: His closest friends, I would say, from my viewpoint, were Sam Rayburn and Wright Patman. I'm sure there were others; he was quite friendly

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

no question about that. I noticed that in your [outline]. That Rules [Committee] fight was the first one where he decided he was going to take them on. He [Kennedy] did take on Judge [Howard] Smith and he got Rayburn sort of behind him. Rayburn gave him a hand
; Sam Rayburn and Judge Howard Smith; Barr's relationship with Sam Rayburn; bond interest rates; time Barr spent with the Senate and House; Harry Byrd, Sr.; Robert Kerr; funding the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT); backdoor spending; Social

Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. The Majority Leader, Sam Rayburn, made a very impassioned speech in favor of the bill. believe that actually the vote was on a recommittal. I If the opponents of a bill don't want it to pass, they recommit it to committee which means that it's practically
Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
; relationship between Sam Rayburn and LBJ; Maury Maverick; minimum wage; LBJ’s friendship with FDR; securing appropriations; airline franchise; Naval Affairs Committee; Erich Leinsdorf; Huey Long; Dick Kleberg; war in Europe; other Washington experiences.

Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

congressmen that Sam Rayburn would have into his office at the Board of Education. M: I was not in there very often. no. I used to eat at the Texas table some, and once in a while Sam was there. But I never considered myself one of the Board of Education

Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White (Item)

if the policy is debatable, why do you think you have so much different view than these Democratic fellows have had? D: Well, I go back to the Eisenhower days when Lyndon Johnson was the leader of the Senate and Sam Rayburn of Texas was the speaker

Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and Daddy and Speaker Rayburn came in and Daddy said~ IIWell now, Mr. Sam, we're just not going to be able to have two parties this year. We're just going to only be able to have one, and the children just aren't going to be able to have a party

Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the train. He traveled with Congressman Bob Poage of Waco a number of times, and also with Speaker Sam Rayburn. I believe it \'las at Denison~ Texas, somewhere along in there, where the train conductor would hold the train, waiting for Mr. Sam to get
Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
Biographical information; NYA; Alvin Wirtz; advisory boards; roadside parks; NYA projects; Sam Rayburn; Congress; Eleanor Roosevelt; FDR; WPA; regional and district organization; Lady Bird

Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn in that situation, Rayburn apparently supporting Garner and Johnson supporting your father? R: No, not in that situation. Years later, of course, when I was elected to Congress in 1954, I remember the Speaker asking me how
convention in Los Angeles; LBJ's campaign enthusiasm; Sam Yorty's involvement in the 1964 presidential election; Roosevelt's role in defeating the Bolton Amendment; Adam Clayton Powell as chair of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and the work

Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a private TV. F: That was that "give them hell" campaign. C: Yes. So Sam Rayburn and myself flew down to El Paso and got on the train when Mr. Truman came in from New Mexico, and we rode with him across the state. When we got to San Antonio, Mr
Biographical information; Court Packing Bill; first meeting with LBJ, 1937-1938; appointed by FDR to the Department of Justice, Criminal Division; supported Rayburn for VP in 1944; court backlog; FDR's support of LBJ; transfer to Antitrust Division

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

did understand the tremendous power- -they understand it now- -that they had in this Congress with Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rayburn. did appreciate it. They never I have been to Tyler, Texas when the oil people booed Sam Rayburn. They never, never did

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: In the earlier years, he seems to have had a number of mentors and· political sponsors. Alvin Wirtz. R: I guess one was Sam Rayburn and another was Did you know Senator Wirtz? Oh yes, I just loved him. captive liberal. He was always the liberal, the sort
Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
Rowe’s upbringing; working for the United Mine Workers; early social interaction with LBJ; Maury Maverick; how Jim Rowe came to work for LBJ; LBJ’s mentee relationships with Sam Rayburn and Alvin Wirtz; how LBJ hellped Jim Rowe get into the Navy

Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

relationship with people like Sam Fore? W: No, other than that Fore was an old friend, a publisher in Texas who had helped him. He was fond of Fore and appreciated what he had done. He had a closer association with Maury Maverick when Maury

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

appeal to a cross section of the membership. I got that idea from Sam Rayburn, of course. G: Historians are always, I guess, going to wonder about your own process of supporting the bill from I guess the time it was first introduced in 1961- M: No, I
; Vietnam spending; 1963-1964 tax cut; JFK, LBJ, and taxes; Sam Rayburn and the expansion of the Rules Committee in the House; Howard Smith; 1961 highway bill and a billboard control amendment; Trade Expansion Act; Mills’ relationship with JFK; public

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Henderson and Sam Houston [JohnsonJ. of no pressure to fire him. But I know But he would put up with from Herb, because Herbert Henderson gave a talent that he really needed at the time. G: Was he primarily a speech writer? J: He was primarily a speech
Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
Observations from 1939-1940 on LBJ’s staff members and Alvin Wirtz; Bascom Giles; Maury Maverick; Sam Rayburn; Carl Vinson; Charles Marsh; FDR; Jesse Jones; George Brown; related issues and events

Oral history transcript, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh cent of his life in Johnson City nor fifty nor even twenty-five. So I always felt and I still do feel that he made himself with the help of--I give a great deal of credit to Sam Rayburn, and of course he was a great believer in Franklin
' debate teams; LBJ's ambition; teachers in the Johnson City High School; LBJ as a student; students in the class; LBJ's friends; funerals and cemeteries in the early days; the Johnson family; prohibition and women's suffrage; Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ's rise

Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 and Sam Rayburn, and the Eugene Worleys were at our house in the country in 1941. B: During those days, sir, did you and .Mr

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

delegation. After he released it, I became enthusiastic for--Through Lyndon's approach to Sam Rayburn, who was then the head of the Speaker's Bureau for the National Committee in New York, I went out to New Mexico and made a series of speeches
Early personal history in Texas; Justice Department experience; Texas Legislature service; Mine Workers International Union background; LBJ and John L. Lewis; first contacts with LBJ; recollection of Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ’s job with Kleburg and NYA

Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

no question about it, and particularly about the depletion allowance. The tidelands I believe was hot at that time. And how the Congress worked, and how he and Sam Rayburn and others had saved the oil industry. It was a constant fight to cut the depletion

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

is how active then-Vice President Johnson was in Congress. You were still with Mr. Rayburn and after his death in 1961, with Mr. Boggs during these years. Could you tell whether or not Lyndon Johnson was still using any of his expertise in Congress

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, were Sam [D. W.] Low down in Houston, J. Ed Johnson in Brownwood, I believe, and Ed Clark in Austin, and of course Ray Lee and Stuart Long, also in Austin. Lyndon appointed Ray Lee to an interesting position that took him to Austria--rather, he got him
the Texas home of Sam Rayburn; LBJ's friendships with people in the newspaper industry; LBJ seeking treatment for a skin disorder he got during World War II; Sid Richardson's home on St. Joseph's Island designed by O'Neil Ford; Christmas at LBJ's mother

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. The [A. W.] Moursunds and he [Melvin] Winters came up from Johnson City. And we had them out to the house, and Lyndon gave a party for the men down at the Capitol, and a luncheon where he invited the Speaker [Sam Rayburn], and Vice President [Alben] Barkley

Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

: While in Congress, did Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn seem to work closely together? T: Oh, very much so. M: Between the Senate and the House? T: Yes. And Sam Rayburn had more influence over Lyndon Johnson than any man I ever knew. Sam could
Biographical information; 1933 meeting with LBJ in Washington; LBJ’s relationship with Rayburn; LBJ’s relationship with Congress as President; 1965 hospital closing fight; Mrs. Thompson’s donation of $1 million to UT Medical School at Galveston; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to stop Kennedy or to draft Johnson and various activities like that? A: I don't recall any activities along that line. I know that Sam Rayburn was for Johnson and Bob Kerr from my state was leading the Oklahoma delegation for Johnson. But I don't

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall--it was just below Kennedy's--and Sam Rayburn was there and others. It was a matter of some time elapsing and I believe that there was, during that period, [the feeling that] no, he won't accept. Sam Rayburn was absolutely adamant that he
with Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn; head-counting to insure passage of administration-backed legislation; Vice President LBJ's loss of influence in the Senate; comparing JFK's and LBJ's persuasion and leadership skills; evenings on the Sequoia; the use

Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Alvin and Sam Rayburn. They both sort of treated him like a son. Lyndon always said "Yes, sir" and "No, sir" to Alvin. MLG: Did he call him Senator Wirtz? VFD: Yes, Senator Wirtz. He had been a state senator. extremely attractive man. He

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Alamo Hotel, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 3 J: Well, I'll probably discuss Lyndon's boyhood, as I see him. to understand that he was born on the Ranch. and Josefa, were born up
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