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Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- delegates and things of that nature . I came back to the Massachusetts suite . John McCormack was sitting in there with old Sam Rayburn, the Speaker of the House, and Wright Patman, the Texas congressman . I was very friendly with all three of them
- vigorous young man. M: Did you know Sam Rayburn before you knew-- H: No. I met Sam Rayburn through Lyndon Johnson and the others live mentioned. M: Did you just meet him socially or casually? H: Well, at first it is a little hard to remember
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- How Hoyt met LBJ; Hoyt’s role as domestic director of the Office of War Information; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s persuasive techniques; staying the night at the White House visiting with LBJ; LBJ’s public relations; 1960 election; Hoyt’s appointment
- 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
- Democratic vote in favor of censure. G: Before we turned on the tape you also mentioned 1952 and Sam Rayburn's role in that in the Stevenson campaign. D: That's right. Lyndon did not take very much of a forward position in the Adlai Stevenson campaign
- reputation before you met him. E: Mostly I knew about him through Sam Rayburn. Sam Rayburn, as you know or probably know, was a native Tennessean, and he used to come back to Roane County up in East Tennessee occasionally. Back in those days I
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- Sam Rayburn and LBJ; Senator Kerr; LBJ for President in 1956; Earle Clements; Senator from Kentucky; Wallace from Alabama; JFK; Al Gore; Frank Clement of Tennessee; Estes Kefauver; civil rights; Governor Faubus of Arkansas; Fulbright; Lester Maddox
- on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 Kennedy had, which developed the name "the Irish Mafia" for his supporters that were up on the Hill. I thought that Lyndon Johnson, when he was in the Senate, and Sam Rayburn
- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; LBJ’s techniques; opinion of LBJ’s political stance; LBJ-Rayburn liaison; LBJ’s ego and the transition to national politician; LBJ as VP; operation of Congress after LBJ and Rayburn; JFK-LBJ transition
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- to the Senate--and at the time when Sam Rayburn was Speaker. Do you recall what you knew or had heard of Lyndon Johnson when you first came into Congress? A: Yes. I did not know him, of course, but I knew of him. I knew of him by reputation and having read
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- Biographical information; early impressions of LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ and foreign policy in the Eisenhower Administration; LBJ as majority leader; the 1960 election; the JFK legislative program; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Mr. Johnson as a protégé of some of the older hands in the House like Carl Vinson and Sam Rayburn. Was that apparent in those days? H: Of course, that carried over, you know. Hell, after he went over to the Senate we used to have those meetings
- . 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
- . 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, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- : 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
- the people who worked for him, and I'm sure he was an inspirational figure to Johnson. There were many others. I think when you interviewed my husband, he talked about Alvin Wirtz, who was such a figure, and later Sam Rayburn, of course. MG
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- First meeting with LBJ; NYA; Aubrey Williams; Congressional support for LBJ; Dillard Lasseter; John Carson; political apprenticeship of LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; Sam Rayburn; Abe Fortas; Helen Douglas; father figure to LBJ; Texas sort of expansiveness
- Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -2- I think he was unusually close to the late Speaker Sam Rayburn. One might say that Sam Rayburn, the late Speaker, sort of looked
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- ? B: I do . Not as much as he did Rayburn, but he certainly did pay him the same respect . and I think he felt I don't think he went to him with as many things, that he had more access to Rayburn than he did to Russell, that Russell, while a great
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- Head Start; domestic program; War on Poverty; contrast between John Connally and LBJ types; LBJ's frustrating life as VP; sale of Weslaco radio and TV station; death of Sam Rayburn; LBJ's problems with the press; LBJ's temper; Walter Jenkins; Bobby
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- : Was it noticeable then that he had several mentors like Sam Rayburn and Senator Alvin Wirtz? W: I have only really learned about Wirtz much later. And when I was with Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson, I never really saw that Sam Rayburn was his mentor. I always
- sponsors were in Texas, they'd get on my back rather than Aubrey's, when they learned of the dismissal." I w ant you to go up," he said, "to see Sam Rayburn on Monday morning. Ask him what we ought to do in Texas." I said, "Yes, sir." LBJ Presidential
- 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
- Connally has not helped me in politics because, sure, it has Helped me, and I'll admit this. As did Lyndon Johnson's friendship with Franklin Roosevelt help him in his first campaign; as did Lyndon Johnson's friendship with Sam Rayburn help him get
- esoteric areas and my academic background stood me in very good stead. As a matter of fact, Speaker Rayburn and some of the leaders used me more as a staff man rather than a freshman Congressman. F: Staff man who can vote. B: That's right. Mr. Sam
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
- describe Hr. Johnson's relationship with Hr. Rayburn during this period? F: I know that only by hearsay and casual observations, but the combined image of the two was that they had a very close relationship and that the President still consulted Mr
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- Biographical information; first association with LBJ; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; 1960 convention; LBJ’s acceptance of VP nomination; Lady Bird campaigning in North Carolina; civil rights legislation; religious issue; Senate luncheon; LBJ’s trips
- you have any contact with Mr. Johnson during the years between then and the time he became vice president or the late fifties, or when he was vice president for that matter? P: None of any substance. I was quite close to Mr. Sam Rayburn, and LBJ
- and not taken seriously at all. The first statehood bill was entered July 2 l ~ 1 9 4 5 , and the measure found some attraction only in Washington but no action was taken. This was in 1950. Time and time again he visited with Sam Rayburn> not only about
- Sam Rayburn as the Democratic nominee for President, and I wasn't getting very far with that operation. Mc Which year was this? M: This was the 1952 convention when Stevenson was first nominated. Mc '52? M: '52, yes. And because of this lack
- we contrast what's happening on the Hill now [is that] we at that time had great congressional leadership, LBJ in the Senate and Rayburn in the House. The Congress functioned. I don't mean necessarily ideologically, but when the time came when
- 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
- in the House delegation, in those days Brooks Hays, who was a leader in the House side. All the Arkansas people, particularly Brooks Hays and Wilbur Mills, were very close to Sam Rayburn, whom I knew very well. They were .part of Mr. Sam's orbit and that made
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- INTERVIEWEE: EVERETT COLLIER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Collier's office in Houston, Texas. {Tape 1 of 2, Side 1} G: Why don't we begin with your school days at Sam Houston High School, your recollections of Lyndon Johnson as a teacher
- How Collier met LBJ at Sam Houston High School; Cliff Carter; LBJ
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- are you taking all of this? It doesn't mean anything to you." He said, "Sam wants it." That's all he ever said. Well, you know, that just says a whole lot. And that was Sam Rayburn's pet. He wanted the east front of the Capitol. But I thought that puts
- sense. He stuck to it and that's the way it was. Of course I was very grateful to him. He wrote a letter to Sam Ray- burn which I wish r could get hold of. r presided over the meeting, and the first day we got into a squabble about adoption of rules
- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; NATO Parliamentarians Committee; LBJ’s praise of Hays; collaboration of Rayburn and LBJ in shaping legislation in the House; committed JFK delegate in 1960; LBJ as VP; friendship with President a political
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- Advisory Committee, [of] which I was a member . Lyndon Johnson had never participated in the National Advisory Committee . I think he always thought it was rather an encroachment upon- F: He and Sam Rayburn both, B : He and Sam Rayburn both felt
- . Fortunately, many that were elected in that year are still with us. F: Could you use Johnson to go out and help you raise money? S: No, I never did that. I remember he did come to a fund-raising affair with Sam Rayburn in New York once, for the purpose
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- they could if they wa nted to. lesson. But •:e learned a great He realized 1·1here the power was in the United States , and it does not lie 1·1ith the Congress or the senators. Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn were just as convinced that that's where
- Biographical information; LBJ's relationship with JFK; LBJ's Presidential aspirations; 1960 Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with RFK; labor; 1960 campaign; Rayburn; LBJ as VP; access to JFK; Bobby Baker case; Connally-Yarborough conflict
- . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 24 very kind to me. He helped elect me to the Congress. He got me started right with Speaker Rayburn, he got me
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
- Education and Labor Committee? G: Yes. Sam Rayburn was the speaker of the House, and education really has always been I think my first love. [Inaudible]. K: That was one of your platforms in your election campaign? G: Yes, I talked quite a little bit
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- Biographical information; teaching career; candidacy for Congress; support of JFK; Wayne Morse; impression of LBJ as a Senator; education legislation; federal aid to education; opinion of Sam Rayburn; parochial school question; Adam Clayton Powell
- and had only come to Washington about twice, and in the middle of the dinner Senator Johnson and Sam Rayburn shml/ed up. live got a picture at home of me between them, which is a choice thing to keep. S: Yes, indeed. Pretty hot romancing. for--? D
- Biographical information; Stevenson campaign; Pat Brown campaign; Washington in 1959-1960; Statler Hotel party to impress Dutton; LBJ, Rayburn Bobby Baker all for California votes; Brown on “Meet the Press” in 1959 said LBJ was too conservative
- that question, he wrote back to me that he had run because Sam Rayburn had said that if he didn't run, Dick Nixon would become president of the United States, and Dick ~ixon was the man who had called Harry Truman a traitor and the Democratic party the party
- 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
- about him in those days? H: I don't recall anything special. You have to realize that he had two fellow Texans who occupied very prominent positions there. was John Nance Garner and the other was Sam Rayburn. One Naturally they would overshadow
- histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -8recommend the veto." He got on the phone and he got hold of Mr. Rayburn; and he said, "Sam, you heard what your fellows are trying to do to this AID Bill?" I don't think Mr. Rayburn had heard about
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , in certain areas. I think basically the question was that Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson, too, took the more traditional view of what the role of Congress should be--that it should react to a presidential program, but the executive really had