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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1968-09-27 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • had been circulating that only three or four of the Texas congressmen were going to vote for it. Senator Johnson thought it would be a reflection on the Speaker--Speaker Sam Rayburn~~and it would be a reflection on him, if Texas did not support
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the Confederate Army. I've always admired Texas and felt close to Texas, and in the House had many things in common with the Texas delegation. I felt very close .... M· What did you think about Sam Rayburn? with him. You must have worked some LBJ
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; LBJ; heart attack; LBJ’s capacity for friendship; FDR New Deal program; support for LBJ in 1960; Sam Rayburn; lobbyist; Bobby Baker; JFK’s New Frontier program; civil rights; education; Vietnam; civilian control of military