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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, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • that Speaker Sam Rayburn finally decided was a no-good so-and-so, I could not come to like. And McCarthy said--I cannot quote him, but the implication was very strong that General George Marshall was a traitor, and he'd said something pretty similar about
  • ; Arthur Godfrey's farm; Sam Houston Johnson's broken leg and his wife, Mary; LBJ's relationships with Bill Moyers and Sam Houston Johnson; Sam Houston Johnson's book My Brother Lyndon; LBJ's relationship with Senator John Pastore; the 1957 Civil Rights
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • given for Speaker Sam Rayburn, whose birthday was about January the sixth. The most important one was always Scooter Miller's and Dale's, which usually took place at the Women's Democratic Club. However, we began having one for the children
  • Johnson's work for LBJ; Beagle getting loose; how the Johnsons named their dogs; birthday parties for Sam Rayburn and his interest in including the children; Lady Bird Johnson's experience with, and view of, spanking; the American Heart Association's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • that for a long time Speaker Sam Rayburn did think he was good enough to be and did hope that he would be. And the same about John Connally. Although John would get mighty put out with him when he, John, though Lyndon was right up within shooting distance