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- assassination. It was one of
the greatest stories she ever covered,
she declared, "a,
- to Mr. Rayburn about it. He
thought Kennedy was going to ask me to run with him, and
he said, "Don't get caught in that trap. Don't accept." 1
had told him that I had no plans and no expectation. So I
told Kennedy that Rayburn was against it, and he said
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Foundation to honor the late D. B.
Hardeman, former aide to Speaker
Sam Rayburn and noted authority on
the history and operation of the
Congress.
Members of the committee are:
Donald C. Bacon, coeditor of the
Encyclopedia o/ rhe United States
Congress; Dr
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Former Speaker of the Hom1cCarl Albert
The discussions of the 1950s, led by D. B. Hardeman
(left) and Ralph Huitt, revolved around Majority
Leader Lyndon Johnson and Speaker of the House
Sam Rayburn, who dominated national politics in that
period
- of Congress
of Hardeman Book Collection
By Michael L. Gillette
D. B. Hardeman, a former aide to Speaker Sam Rayburn in
lhe 1950s, has given his 9,000 volume book collection to the
LBJ Library. Considered one of the most extensive private
collections
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and Terry Sullivan, Government Department.) The Hardeman
prize is named for the late aide to Speaker Sam Rayburn, who left
a bequest to the Library. (For other mention of the Hardeman
bequest, see page 7.)
Professor Oshinsky\ book. A Conspiracy So Immense
- and under its bright
beam with nighttime lights. Early on.
I bumped into Mr. Sam Rayburn one
evening who said: "Isn't it the most
beautiful sight in the world?"
When Pearl Harbor came, the
lights brieny went out. I knew then
that when they came on again
- under dis
cussion, Connally brought up Caro ·s
charge from his earlier book, 1he
Path to Power, that Johnson
"betrayed" Speaker Sam Rayburn
by refusing to join Rayburn ·sand the
Texas delegation's support of John
Nance Garner's bid for the presiden
cy
- D.B. Harde
man wrote a biography of Sam Ray
burn titled Rayburn: A Bioxraphy,
and Lawrence Wr,ight (right),
whose In The New World is a mov
ing portmit of a young man's matu
rity in the 1960s.
The Library invited al,) the presi
dential candidates
- , will
participate. D. B. I lardeman was a
long-time aide to Speaker Sam
Rayburn and a serious historian of
Congress. He donated his extensive
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collection of rare books on Congress
to the LBJ Library and the funds to
award a prize each year for the best
book
- -1992 period, is the seventh winner of the Library's D.B. Hardeman Prize.
Funded by the LBJ Foundation, and named for the late aide to Speaker Sam
Rayburn, the $2,000 prize is awarded biannually to encourage scholarly
research on the Congress
- for Justice:
The Passion and Politics of Phillip
Burton.
The $1,000 award was created
from a bequest left to the Library in
1981 by D. B. Hardeman, long-time
aide to Speaker of the House Sam
Rayburn and, later, House Majority
Whip Hale Boggs. Hardeman wanted
- Faulkner, President, University of Texas al Austin
October 20
An Evening with "Mr. Speaker, Sam Rayburn."
November 3
An Evening with Ambassador William vanden Heuvel
December 7
An Evening of Cowboy Poetry and Music
LBJ State and National Parks Coming
- came from the late
D. B. Hardeman of Texas, who
served as an aide to and biographer
of Sam Rayburn, the longtime
speaker of the U.S. House of Repre
sentatives. In a bequest to the LBJ
Library following his death in 1981,
Hardeman gave his personal
- will be an
nouncedat the Library April I. 1992.
The prize. funded by a grant from
the Foundation, is named in honor of
the late D. 8. Hardeman, aide to
Speaker Sam Rayburn and noted
au,thorityon the U.S. Congress, who
donated h-is extensive collection
- on the Congress and
long-time assistant to Sam Rayburn,
left a bequest to the LBJ Foundation to
further the study of the national legis
lature. Since that time, the Foundation
has awarded the D. B. Hardeman Prize
for books on a congressional topic to
twelve
- to criticize in Washington
today, especially the state of polit
ical discourse. Mr. Ford recalled
that when he first came to the
House in 1949, Speaker Sam
Rayburn gathered all the freshmen
representatives for a talk. One of
the things he said, and which Mr
- the LBJ Foundation that Hard man, \\ ho died
December 3, 1981, and was a long-time aide to the late
House Speaker Sam Rayburn and long-time friend of
the J ohnsons, h d made provision in his will for acer
tain percentage of his estate to go
- and published in the pa. t two years.
The award was named for D. B. Hardeman of San
Antomo, aid to the late House Speaker Sam Rayburn, in
acknowledgment of r. Hardeman' gift t th Library of
ver I 0,000 books on Congress. It covers the entire span of
merican
- boo· on the
Congre'>s published in the two-year period.
The award, carrying a prize of $ 1500, is '1amcd ior the
late D. B. Hardeman,
ong-lime aide to Speaker Sam
Rayburn and then House Majority Whip Hale Boggs, v.ho
Sundquist
gave his entire
- for the
competition. The wmner will be announced at the LBJ Library
April 1, 1986.
The prize, funded by a grant from the LBJ Foundation, is
named in honor of the late D. B. Hardeman. aide to Speaker
Sam Rayburn and noted authority on the U.S. Congress.
The original
- to the Foundation. amounted to S83.000.
Mrs. Roberts· is the second bequest to come to the Library under the terms
ot a will in recent year~. The first was from D. B. Hardeman. who died in
1982. having served as aide to both Speaker Sam Rayburn and Congressman
Hale
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University Press.
The prize is awarded every second
year for the best book on the Con
gress published during that period.
It is named for the late aide to
Speaker Sam Rayburn. Mr. Harde
man left his extensive coflection of
books on the Congress
- . Nor should the papers of the two unsuc
cessful Democratic presi ential candidates of this period,
Adlai tevenson and Hubert Hum hrey, be ignored - nor the
papers of Sam Rayburn. Robert Wagner, Paul Douglas, and
scores of other important party figures
- /of
Joe McCarth),
The $1500 prize, named for the late aide to Sam Rayburn and
Hale Boggs. 1s funded from a bequest made to lhe Library by Mr.
Hardeman, who him elf was recognized as an authority on the
Congress.
Previous winners of the prize are Richard
- to the Library. One recent acquisition is
a 1903 photograph of Sam Rayburn's graduating class from
East Texas Normal College in Commerce, Texas. These
photographs are placed in the photo archives and are used
by researchers and as display material
A recent
- in Congress. Speaker Sam
Rayburn took Congressman Johnson
under his wing. LBJ w· s a court
favorite of Franklin Roosevelt's.
And formidable Georgia Senator
Richard
u sell first made LBJ
minority leader and then majority
leader of the Senate.
Harry Truman did
- as a public man ... This carnpu , then,
set Lyndon Baines Johnson on a course that was t have
dramatic impact on the life f every American ... "
ALLEN SCHICK RECEIVES
SECOND HARDEMAN AWARD
The late D. B. Hardeman, long-time aide to Speaker
Rayburn
