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Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • anything like that is circulated through the whole bloody government. But I broke into a Texas delegation where [Sam] Rayburn and Johnson were, and got them to sign that. I hand carried it over to the White House and took it in--Jack Kennedy knew about
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
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think they were building destroyers, weren't they? G: Ships. B: No, they were small ships of some kind. But Sam Rayburn came down and Johnson came down and I think Jesse Jones was there. newspapers in Houston gave it a big spread. down from Austin
Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was the national committeeman from Pennsylvania. M· What kind of contact did you have with him in those early days? B: Most of the time it was on legislation, the City of Pittsburgh. friend Sam Rayburn, else, particularly legislation affecting He always took
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • couldn't do that in Chicago. I was going to help him on that when we got back to New York the next morning. Then when I got up the next morning, Sam Rayburn had already had his talk with Lyndon and it was set the other way, and that was that. So, yes
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , a long­ time Texas Democrat who had become an Eisenhower Republican. Anderson was very close to LBJ and other Texas Democrats, especially Sam Rayburn. Not long after I arrived at Treasury, Anderson surprised me by sending me up on a solo visit to LBJ
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Senator Johnson's closest friends, Bob Kerr and Mr. Sam, were really quite cold on the idea. I know that Senator Kerr was because he told me so. He said, "I think this is a real mistake. I think he ought not to do it." And I learned that was something
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • know; I was not around and he never really discussed it with me. I've heard stories that Sam Rayburn recommended him; I've heard stories that Tom Connally recommended him; and I've heard stories that Maury Maverick recommended him. And I would guess
Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • check with would be Senator Russell. first would be Sam Rayburn, I felt like. Probably the very Chronologically I don't know that I was that close to the inner office. I was for some months in the next office, right across the desk from Walter, when
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , as everybody in deep East Texas was. G: Or maybe if you sat in the gallery and saw the Senate or the House in session, or if it would have been in session then. J: It would not, probably, because this was 1934, and I remember hearing Sam Rayburn talk about
  • of Washington, D.C. and the sites she visited; career plans; projects Mrs. Johnson planned at her father's Brick House; how Mrs. Johnson met LBJ for the first time in Austin; LBJ's marriage proposal and their brief courtship; meeting LBJ's family; Sam Ealy
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • encouraged political activities. So I worked for Dad. I went into about twenty states for him. I didn't see Lyndon Johnson during my swing in the primaries. went to New Mexico; that was as close as I got to him. represented there by Sam Rayburn. I He
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • this Hawaiian del- egation came pouring in with [inaudible] on their shirts. Johnson said, "I've got Bobby out in the other room, and he is saying that there is just too much room for me to run," or "too much heat against me." Somebody, oh, Rayburn
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , it was Albuquerque, and Mr. Johnson, Senator Johnson at that time, was there along with Sam Rayburn, who was speaker of the House. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • stories. I think he thought Lyndon Johnson had a terribly good sense of humor, and he loved telling stories about him. I remember he said that after the election he and Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson were playing golf down in Palm Beach. Sam Rayburn
Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, W. Sterling Cole, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • s r e l a t i o n s h i p with Sam Rayburn d u r i n g t h o s e y e a r s ? C: Not t h a t I would be aware o f . anyway. They w o u l d n ' t come t o my a t t e n t i o n Everybody loved Sam Rayburn. G: Did t h e y ? C: W e l l, he
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . MG: What were his skills? G: I think that's probably pretty difficult, for me to answer anyhow. I would rank him with [J. William] Fulbright and [Everett] Dirksen, and of course, if you look at who taught him with politics, Sam Rayburn. Why
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • understand what they meant, but it was an outgrowth of his long legislative experience and analysis--working with Sam Rayburn and Bob Kerr and these other people, who always felt that you could work out some kind of a compromise or some kind of a relationship
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and had come and who was around then, J.J. Pickle and Jack Brooks and Sam Rayburn, and the things he had learned. I suppose for me being so young and wondering if at some day in my life I would be turning around and reflecting on those things, I think
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Sam [Rayburn] never had this trouble. Jack Brooks doesn't have it. John Connally never had it. John Connally gets into trouble with people who don't like his particular opinion. What hooks the President is that he is an uncannily canny man, and candor
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the Vice Presidency, that he was going to have something to say about patronage in Texas. And this is something, inci- dentally, that you--I was told that Sam Rayburn had advised him to have such an understanding, and this is why Lyndon Johnson as Vice
Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and Sam Rayburn went And he knew Lyndon Johnson. However, I don't think that he had any dealings with him at all. B: Do you know if Congressman Johnson or Senator Johnson ever came to Nississippi in connection with Senator Eastland or Senator Stennis
Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of his sincerity did you see firsthand? Well, I started paying attention to Lyndon Johnson I believe in 1948 and Speaker Sam Rayburn at the Cow Palace when they had that convention. You see, a man has a right to change his mind. We thought that Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • \'Jant me to get on that train?" Bonham where Sam Rayburn lived. get on that train. Because \'le Because vie were going up to And he said, "Hell, yes, I want you to may have another meeting up there." And LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -8- So I got back--I raised a little money for it, really, with Sam Rayburn, who I also knew. Well, I'll tell you another thing I did. When George Smathers and Frank Ikard came down
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with the Congress are in some way a favorable reflection on the capacity of Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn in the Eisenhower years. So I think that even though the presidency was held by the other party, that both of them were steadfast in working with the President
Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://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 17 in those days, Sam Rayburn, had insisted that the freeway that was planned
Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Representatives in those days was Sam Rayburn. I knew that he never accepted to go to any embassy, and he accepted to come to - my embassy for dinner and for this entertainment afterwards. The Chief Justice of the United States--I mean, normally a Chief
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • him domestically, but he wouldn't fight him on foreign affairs because he had a very traditional view of the proper role of the Presidency in foreign affairs; namely, he believed the President was responsible for them. He and Sam Rayburn, his great
Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . But, I talked to Sam Rayburn in his hotel suite at the Biltmore in Los Angeles a couple of days before the actual nomination. Though he said nothing overt, it was · quite clear that he had little hope that the President would win. He was amiable
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , of course, a lot upon Sam Rayburn, who had the respect of a lot of people that didn't think much of Johnson. Labor was one of them. We either won with labor or we lost. They, in spite of everything Sam Rayburn did and in spite of everything some of our other
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • commissioned . Secretary Knox, Mr . Speaker Rayburn, and Congressman Johnson and others were present for the commissioning of this station as I recall . And that was April 1, 1940 as I recall . M: Do you remember anything about the defeat in 1941? Do you
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the Speaker's office--Sam Rayburn was speaker--regarding the minimum wage bill. There was Carl Vinson, a senior member of the House, an important member of the House. His being there and participating in the discussion, trying to determine how you could amend