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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

reporters with us. They knew that Adlai was going to be with Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn. It looked like Eisenhower was very, very seriously ill, and it was a matter of great importance that the three leading Democrats were going to be together. F

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 22 that way. He didn't do it just for the fun of it; he would launch out on his own. F: Did you ever go to any of those Board of Education meetings? S: No, no, not much. F: That Sam Rayburn held? S: No, no, I didn't

Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with Nixon because it would help him [Johnson]. F: He'd be in a position when he called the White House that he could go on over and talk about it. G: That's right. F: Did you have any relationship with Sam Rayburn? LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh COOK -- I -- 5 patron and the other being the protégé really wasn't much involved. B: Was the relationship between Mr. Johnson and Speaker Sam Rayburn also obvious

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

get the feeling--I presume you knew Sam Rayburn fairly well-that in his later years Speaker Rayburn may have been a little jealous of the success of his protégé? W: Jealous of Johnson's progress? F: Success, yes. W: Quite the contrary. He

Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was then in the leadership. I came to know Sam Rayburn very well, and asked his advice on important problems. F: Right. M: But we always got along very well. Then, in those days, the members got one two-room office in any of the buildings, except on the fifth floor

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Kennedy-F: Did you get the impression he'd placed too much faith in the power of the Senate? H: That, and I think he also placed too much faith in the power of his old friend, the House Speaker, Sam Rayburn, and a few of the key Democrats throughout

long enough to hear this interview, and his name was John Burns, who presently is governor of Hawaii, but his term will expire January 3, 1975. He has terminal cancer. Speaker Rayburn was a fantastic person when i t came to determining the character

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

--and it passed the House just; oh, I don't know, a week or so before we finally got ours to the floor--we heard that Mr. Rayburn had said that he didn't want any more damned joint committees. So, Mr. McCormack got up and offered a committee amendment to strike

about that. Maybe someone else who was there [knows]. There must be a record of it. G: There is some indication that he was going to meet with Rayburn that Saturday before the speech and that he was going to fly to Mexico. Also, [there's] the question

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