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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Subject > Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961 (remove)

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  • -- At this time who would you consider the leaders of the liberal-labor group? S: Mrs. R. D. Randolph of Houston, who later became national committeewoman, was one of them; and Kathleen Voigt of San Antonio; LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • and somebody else lost. H: McFarland lost. And the Senator from Illinois, Scott Lucas. Scott Lucas lost in that election and that opened the way up for him. [Lyndon] Scott Lucas was the Majority Leader of the Senate until Mr. Dirksen, I believe it was, beat
  • favorite. G: Did she refer to Sir Walter Scott at all? R: I don’t recall that she did. G: Some of the accounts mention that the room to the right in the Johnson City home was filled with books -- R: I can imagine this was true. She wrote
  • between Johnson and Scott Lucas is this. When Scott Lucas wanted to talk to me, some secretary would call up and say, 'Senator Humphrey, can you come around this afternoon to Senator Lucas' office at such-and-such-atime?' When Lyndon Johnson wanted
  • six and a half years there and I learned everybody's name and where they were from and where they worked, and one time-- F: That's the postmaster here in the House . M: Yes . Mr . [Finis E .] Scott was the postmaster, from Tennessee