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Oral history transcript, Elliot Richardson, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

going in the Senate and the House, under the leadership of Rayburn and Johnson, that pretty well worked with him on progressive legislation. Is that a Democratic boast, or was that a general Eisenhower Administration feeling that, particularly in HEW, he

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

--and it passed the House just; oh, I don't know, a week or so before we finally got ours to the floor--we heard that Mr. Rayburn had said that he didn't want any more damned joint committees. So, Mr. McCormack got up and offered a committee amendment to strike

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Fantastic. How did Johnson deal with someone as conservative as Judge [Howard] Smith on the Rules Committee? D: I guess he'd call him. by then. No, he didn't have Rayburn. McCormack was the speaker. Rayburn was dead Of course, the old Judge had

Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was equally close to Speaker Rayburn, LBJ 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 5

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the guy from here, what's his name? G: John Henry Faulk? J: But that was much later. He didn't know John Henry Faulk then. He had some interest in it, but it was after the fact. G: Rayburn offered his compromise on the tidelands issue that spring

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

said, this country couldn't have but one President. If this government was to function, the Congress would have to offer cooperation to the President. I think that the Johnson-Rayburn team in those years demonstrated that with this kind

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

H: I don't know of any relationship that they had. G: How about Richard Russell? What was Johnson's attitude toward Russell? H: I think everybody knows that Richard Russell was the mentor of Johnson in the Senate, just as Rayburn

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 3 (III), 9/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and [Walter] George in the Senate and Rayburn and others in the House that he began to depend on them as much if not more than on the Republicans. I believe you will find that the vast majority of the Democrats supported Eisenhower's foreign policy and tried

Oral history transcript, Harris Melasky, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

trouble after that. Mc: Were you involved in any way in the 1956 fight in the Democratic Party in which Johnson and Rayburn opposed Allan Shivers for control of the party? M: No, I wasn't at that. I think I went to one of the state conventions, but I

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on John Connally as secretary of the navy? V: My memory is that Speaker Rayburn had told Senator Kennedy that the two most promising, talented Texans that he would recommend for appointments in the administration were John Connally and George McGee. I

Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Senator Johnson and Congressman Rayburn, didn't think much of the committee, didn't support it. other senators did join, I've forgotten which ones. Some of the I could find out who they were; it's in the record. M: Yes. H: I remember Adali Stevenson

Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

[For interviews 1 and 2] Sparkman and LBJ's careers in the House of Representatives; the Selective Service extension bill in 1941; FDR's handling of the PWA and WPA; LBJ's relationship with FDR and Rayburn; economic problems in the South; LBJ

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, was the epitome of everything that America is not. And I think, you know, you bring up this question of Howard Smith. Mr. Rayburn had to get along with him. with Mr. Rayburn about him. I didn't agree I would have told him to go to hell and to LBJ

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think probably because the depletion allowance was very important to the independents, not so important to the majors. Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rayburn had almost--! started to say single-handedly, I guess I better say double-handedly--kept any legislation

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

frequently go to Rayburn's little office, the Board of Education? AG: Oh, yes. MG: Tell me how routine that was; tell me how often he went and when would he go, and would he leave from there or would he come back to his own office? LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to stay with us and yield to Speaker Rayburn, who might nominate President Johnson at that convention. At Los Angeles we did anything that\"Ias necessary, meeting people, driving them around, messenger, \'Jhat have you. Mc: Was that a fairly frantic

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Rayburn because that committee was a House committee. F: Right. Let me ask you a personal question. Now you're a successful . businessman and you move in a businessman's circle; have businessmen ever sort of looked on you as a, oh, I don't know

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the convention, and then I made my interests known--a visit with Speaker Rayburn and other people. I'm not sure I visited with Mr. Johnson--I may have. I remember seeing him at my uncle's, Bob Clark, house one afternoon, one 2 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

, Homer Thornberry, was in Congress. So they--Senator and Mrs. Johnson could not have been nicer. In fact, they had a little party in their home for us, and I remember that Senator Russell was there, and Speaker Rayburn was there, and, you know

Oral history transcript, W. True Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

official. So we get to the point where Kennedy was very interested, of course, in the support of Johnson and Rayburn and the supporters that Johnson had. it didn't look like he might be going to get that. And The elevators at that hotel were so packed

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: The fight was a direct confrontation between the Shivers' conservatives and the Rayburn-Johnson moderates, was it not? H: Yes. The moderates combined with the liberals to control the convention, and I think that Mrs. Randolph's appointment

Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/oh 14 particularly of the Federal Building. M: I don't think there's any question that Dallas was paying a terrible price for Alger in many ways. I know that Mr. Johnson as the Senate Majority Leader and I know that Congressman Rayburn, and even

Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they? M: No, they didn't. I don't remember that Rayburn was in the room right at that time, but he'd issued a statement, a strong statement, against Johnson accepting it. But it was an historic thing because of the events that came later. That's what

Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. Johnson's philosophy, along with Hr. Rayburn's; was to deal through the traditional political established people and their delegations. And in incident after incident I think that I saw where prior work and prior planning and a lot of prior money spending

Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the hospital and going to a room across the hall from Mr. Taylor's room. Didn't Mr. Rayburn want Lyndon to announce for the presidency, and we listened to it over the television. G: That is correct. P: Lyndon didn't want it. He wasn't ready for it; neither

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

was over . PB : And you were awarded the . . . GB : Well, we were awarded the E for each year for 1943, 1944 . There was one time we launched eight ships in one day and we had Speaker Rayburn and Secretary Knox- and all the other people

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

as t,,.) h--j,%,v that a -ppointment came 3,ume of his old friendi liave a feelinrg that the President liked tm- NYA project so much that be vv-(-nt t~.3 his fricads, like Mr. Carner azd NA':, Rayburn, zmd said, I would like to do this . (ATers said

Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

to--and especially Mr. Rayburn--would introduce him to President Roosevelt, and I think the President could see well, here is a young man that's going places, that has vision. Also, I think that naturally he--and Congressman Johnson would agree with President

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Advisory group in the late 'SO's there ever get just absolutely frustrated with Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rayburn? F: I don't recall any great frustratiQns. There was concern that--they resented--really the initiators of the tension, I think, were Johnson 4

Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

officially begin his campaign until after the Senate adjourned that year, and thereby destroyed any chance that he would actually have of getting the nomination. But at any rate, Cliff and Speaker Rayburn and others, members of the Texas delegation

Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

haven't had any leadership like that for a long time. F: Right. I often thought what he would have done if he had had a legislative team when he was president like Rayburn and Johnson to carry the ball over in Congress for him. S: It would have been

Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

with the White House or the Congress, directly. B: I was wondering if the question of controls on the products like beef had come up, and Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rayburn had gotten involved in it. M: No, I think everybody else literally, with no intent

Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about that. Maybe someone else who was there [knows]. There must be a record of it. G: There is some indication that he was going to meet with Rayburn that Saturday before the speech and that he was going to fly to Mexico. Also, [there's] the question

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Republican side, through my years here, say that Mr. Rayburn and r~r. Johnson were two of a kind. that once they gave you a commitment, they stood by their word. So at least you knew that he wasn't going to turn or change his mind on you. But I think

Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Convention. F: This was the one where Rayburn and Johnson came down and L: They were down in 1958, too. trouble on that Convention. No, we didn't have too much No, there wasn't much trouble on seating, and of course, you know, the Johnson forces had

Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh WILSON -- I -- 15 Rayburn and Johnson in front of his desk with their hat in their hand~ bowed over. And Eisenhower is saying, "You may tell the men that they can keep their horses and plows." He really

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

beautiful Spanish. They'd had a dinner that night at which they'd had such things as water chestnuts wrapped in bacon and chicken livers. I forget how he translated that into Spanish, but he did. G: Truman, Rayburn and [Robert] Anderson were there. R