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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, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • something happens to you?" He said, "Well, would you take a chance if I got Sam Rayburn to say that if I didn't get you out he would?" I said, "Sure. aren't going to die in a month." I'll take a chance that both of you So he laughed, we laughed
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that President Truman was going to appoint Tom Clark attorney general and he also told me that Mr. Clark was a very gregarious, very friendly, very accommodating person, and he and Sam Rayburn-(Interruption) The Congressman told me of this impending appointment
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- I -- 11 chip, except in relation to some voting groups. One of the appointments, I think, was a result of recommendation by Speaker [Sam] Rayburn. G: That was Larry O'Connor? S: That's Larry O'Connor. And Larry O'Connor has prepared a history
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of pressure that was being built up on his flanks within the Senate, and within the national Democratic party, which was not very happy with the type of leadership that he was giving the party. He and Sam Rayburn, of course, being the two top-ranking
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • file an application. I worked on the application for some time, getting most of the infonna­ tion from Mrs. Sam Johnson, President Johnson's mother. The application 15 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of father-son relationship, respect and admiration. I don't think Lyndon Johnson made too many moves without consulting Sam Rayburn. In a way, it was too bad that this influence was removed. M: Sort of like the Walter Jenkins removal. L: That's right
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • they were traveling in Dallas. And Johnson was ever so grateful and kept talking about Rufus and how heroic he had been. He also was looking at TV, sipping orange juice. He would occasionally look up at a photograph of Sam Rayburn that was on the wall
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; it was really a fascinating period, and it was that phase of those trips that I know Senator Johnson enjoyed more than he did the poker game. F: Did Sam Rayburn come along occasionally? C: I don't ever remember his being on one of those trips. It just wasn't
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Russell's. As Johnson was a protégé of Sam Rayburn's he became, in a sense, at least a partial protégé of Russell's. Johnson went to the right well when he went to Dick Russell. They were fellow southerners. Johnson was of course a captive of his
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson in those early days, and they still are. And so I would go to their houses, and sometimes •.•• I think the first time was at their house--they were having a little party for Sam Rayburn. F: Where were they living then? T: I think
Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • today, like the Sam Rayburn Building that LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] cost millions of dollars. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on Senator Johnso" 's behal.f--and I'm talking about Congressman Rayburn and John Connally and others--I did .. not par.. ticipate in •. So that· I wouldn't pretend to really know what was done or said and thought. · But I do. know that most of us who were
Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Liason Officer in October of 1954, and stayed with him through the remainder of his term. F: As you know, Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn "er ~ loak~d upon in one sen se aV a strong right arm of President Eisenhower, and sometimes it was thought
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • home one night at which Chief Justice Warren and then--Majority Leader Johnson and Speaker Rayburn ,vere present. Speaker Rayburn and President Johnson--then Sena- tor Johnson--were advised ahead of time what the subject matter of the dinner was going
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the State Department had been guilty of leaking it for political purposes. Do you recall this controversy and LBJ's attitude toward it? J: Sure, I recall it, and I think he felt and I think Mr. Rayburn felt that the State Department had agreed
Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : But was there one you were proudest of, that you-- K: Well, I think probably this one right here, at the Sam Rayburn funeral, when you had the four presidents together. G: Okay, that's your picture? I see. K: Yes. That of course was before 1963
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of constructive opposition as Democrats rather than just an outright opposition. I presume as Mr. Johnson's power grew that you found him no 1e ss effective despite the fact that he belonged to the "out" party. H: _I would ~don w~ F: s~ that with Sam
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh E. Rowe--II--20 cigarettes. G: Sam Rayburn said one time, I understand, "Thank God Lyndon has that ranch
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but that doesn't mean that it's going to be better or more understanding of the big issues. I hate to be an apologist for the system, but I had the feeling while I was there that if the congressional fathers--for example, Sam Rayburn--came back and hovered over
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • this pain, this loss, it's good. Speaker Sam Rayburn was the very first telegram we received after the death of 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of anything specific. He used to kind of gossip but I can't remember what we gossiped about. He was just full of kind of down-home philosophy. G: Would he invite other prominent politicians to these things? Would he have Sam Rayburn or Dick Russell? E: Yes
Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • appropriation for four jobs as inspectors. I said to Mr. Terrell, "I "Jish you \-iould give one of these jobs to ~lr. "(l~, Sam Johnson, whom I've met here in the Capitol. II T kno;,: S2m. ~Ip senr~ci said, "1 will do that." iii the legi~,12t~:rc And he
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was from Tioga, Texas--and I've forgotten just how we got him. But anyway we got Gene Autry, and he agreed to come down and spend some [time campaigning]. F: That's Sam Rayburn country. C: Yes, I think that's exactly right. It was Mr. Rayburn's
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the problems was that Mr . (Sam) Rayburn (D-Texas, Speaker of the House) was the sponsor of the man that had gone out and gotten all of the endorsements . Just the other day, Mr . Swygert was reminding me of an incident when he was over to see me in my
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in it. We did have communications with Washington many, many times in connection with the tidelands issue both with Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn. Then we had litigation involving the attendance at the various state schools by Negroes and this was all
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • ; Coke Stevenson; involvement in Washington litigation while LBJ was Senator; the Leland Olds case and the Texas oil industry; Allan Shivers, Adlai Stevenson and Sam Rayburn in the 1952 election; getting the Adlai E. Stevenson/John J. Sparkman Democratic
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • then, and he and Sam [Rayburn] were the government. It's true that Eisenhower got some of the things he wanted by means of the veto, but what he got, he got because Lyndon and Sam let him have it. G: Can you recall, for example, his role in the Big Inch
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Kennedy, and I think Kennedy did for him. I think Kennedy appreciated the fact that it was perhaps Mr. Johnson and Speaker Rayburn, more than anyone else, who made it possible for him to have the dramatic, close race for the vice presidency four years
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the New Deal, although there was some age difference, and Senator Russell was in the Senate many years before Senator Johnson came. But he first met Johnson when he was a representative, perhaps with Mr. Rayburn or with someone else. So when he came over
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy ~~ XIV 13 fact that Sam Houston [Johnson
  • a constitutional two-thirds; change in the Republican Party; Knowland and Dirksen; nepotism in Congressional offices; Sam Houston Johnson; LBJ’s disinterest in the Senate; civil rights bill and related activities; committee assignments; William Proxmire; party
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to serve or--? J: No, I think Johnson was willing to serve and felt it was needed. G: The others were Sam Ervin and John Stennis, is that right? J: Yes, Ervin and all of them had a good deal of guts. G: Yes. The story is told that at one point when
Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • connection. K: That's right. They left us. There's no question about it. And of course why Johnson did not always have a hundred per cent support of the oil people I'm unable to explain, because Johnson and Sam Rayburn did nore to keep in the twenty
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It really wasn't a compromise, we just decided that this was the way we were going to do it. We were going to have Sam Rayburn and Johnson sitting in the front row of the audience, and this event was going to be telecast on statewide television. We would
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, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about the McCarthy censure in your earlier interview. S: Well then, if I've covered it, there's no reason to go over it again. There is a question that you raise here about why did Senator Johnson ; appoint Ed Johnson, John Stennis, and Sam Ervin