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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Alamo Hotel, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 3 J: Well, I'll probably discuss Lyndon's boyhood, as I see him. to understand that he was born on the Ranch. and Josefa, were born up
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , somewhat more elaborate rooms than prior majority leaders had had. I'm sure he was majority leader at that time. In any event, I like the picture. (Interruption) M: While we're looking at pictures, is this a picture of Sam Rayburn up here? 12 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • friend after all, Sam Rayburn. And with Speaker Rayburn and then-Senator Johnson, his protégé, there were occasions that we had an opportunity to meet the President at that time. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • subject me to this?" G: Did he sing while he was there? J: I am pretty sure he sang "Back in the Saddle Again," one small song perhaps at each one of those rallies. G: He was originally from Sam Rayburn's district, wasn't he? From a little Texas town
  • led on horseback with Lynda; Henry Wallace; LBJ's hospitalization for a bronchial infection; Aunt Effie Pattillo's worsening health; Sam Rayburn becoming minority leader; Stuart Symington and Paul Porter; KTBC's success; Stuart Long; LBJ aging; where
Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • been fair to the Speaker. B: Your first year both Mr. Rayburn and Nr. Johnson were still in Congress. Did you see anything of them? M: I saw Mr. Johnson only after the convention. I had never talked with him in person, but after the nominating
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ and Speaker Sam Rayburn; relationship between the White House staff and Monahan in the Speaker’s office; LBJ and JFK’s Administrations; liaison functions; JFK’s relationship with McCormack; Larry O’Brien
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • these times, of course, I made friends with Luci and Lynda and the family. Sam Houston, Mr. Johnson's brother, was a frequent visitor. Mr. Sam Rayburn, of course, was by. Many people were by to see Mr. Johnson. B: Including Mr. Johnson's mother, I believe
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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 (Item)
  • ? 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, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • between the Johnson-Rayburn loyalist wing on one hand and the ShiversD: Now I knew Sam Rayburn a lot better in those days than I did Lyndon in those first days. I remember a very dramatic confrontation at a party Lyndon Johnson gave. Elmer Davis
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Sam Rayburn controlled the Democratic House and Senate, and Eisenhower 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
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • that Speaker Sam Rayburn finally decided was a no-good so-and-so, I could not come to like. And McCarthy said--I cannot quote him, but the implication was very strong that General George Marshall was a traitor, and he'd said something pretty similar about
  • ; Arthur Godfrey's farm; Sam Houston Johnson's broken leg and his wife, Mary; LBJ's relationships with Bill Moyers and Sam Houston Johnson; Sam Houston Johnson's book My Brother Lyndon; LBJ's relationship with Senator John Pastore; the 1957 Civil Rights
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Maverick maybe helped him some. I think Maury I think maybe Sam Rayburn, I'm not sure, and maybe old Senator [Tom] Connally. Anyhow, being a political appoint- ment I'm sure he had the endorsement of Senator Connally. close friend with a fellow named
  • of the Young Democrats; Sam Fore, editor of Floresville Chronicle ; Deason assists LBJ in setting up state NYA program; sources of LBJ's appointment; early employees: L. E. Jones, Marie Lindau, Deason, and Sherman Birdwell; organization of state NYA; living
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • think this is a teasing matter. And I said, '~ell, I want you to do it." of course, I'll be glad to" and I did. In fact, when Kennedy and Johnson came to Dallas jointly, we had arranged for them to speak at the Municipal Auditorium. Mr. Sam Rayburn
  • Biographical information; family history; Sam Houston; Sam Johnson’s speech to Texas House of Representatives regarding Ku Klux Klan; Congressman Kleberg; Bob Phinney; Col. Ernest O. Thompson; LBJ’s use of a helicopter in 1948 campaign; labor’s
Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • me, "I always enjoy coming here, eating your meals," or something like that. G: What were Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn like together? W: Brother, there was the most admirable thing I know of. amazing how close they were, almost like father
  • , Thurgood Marshall; LBJ on civil rights; LBJ and MLK; LBJ as an employer; cooking for the Johnsons; Sam Rayburn teases Wright; LBJ-Rayburn relationship; Wright fails to relay a phone call to LBJ; LBJ's working and sleeping habits; LBJ would phone
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , Sam Rayburn--he and old Harold got along wonderful together. They were both crotchety with each other, but on a good friendly basis, it was a good friendly relationship there. Sam supported bills he never thought held support, and he had a majority
Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • from the very beginning. F: The one big influence in Johnson's life that I missed was Sam Rayburn, whom you must have come to know qui te well . A: Oh, yes. I couldn't be said to have been an inner-room worker with Speaker Rayburn, but I
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • leaders because it had to do with the control of the Democratic Party. was. That's what that issue Just to simplify it, Governor Allan Shivers was leading the forces of the "conservative group" and Mr. Rayburn and Senator Johnson were 1eadi ng
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : 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
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 2/26/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and that his feeling was that it would be futile to try. G: Why do you think then he ultimately did make the race? V: I remember vaguely hearing him say—I believe that he said that it was the Speaker's [Sam Rayburn] view and his view that there should
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in honor of President Eisenhower, I got Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn to give him a calf, and we had the live calf on the stage of the Statler Hotel. But both Mr. Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson were so uruCh a part of the national scene-­ F: Tell me
  • First meeting Lady Bird; worked for Esther Van Wagoner Tufty; her wedding; presentation of calf from LBJ and Rayburn to President Eisenhower; ready access; LBJ’s willingness to share credit with local Congressmen whenever a story broke; two real
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • politics are much more complex, and he was a national figure, there was no question about that. He was and would have been a national figure even if he had never gotten anywhere near the presi­ dency, just as Sam Rayburn was a national figure without
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was, and it was part of his greatness. Added to that, of course, was the association of Sam Rayburn--one of the truly greats, I think, of my thirty years in Congress. Sam always had an instinct of trying to feel out people that he felt would be interested in liberal
  • Biographical information; association with LBJ; Rayburn; Board of Education meetings; impression of LBJ; political reputation and closest associates; relationships of LBJ with FDR, Eisenhower and Truman; NYA; wartime price control legislation
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Office building, and the new House Office building and that was before the Sam Rayburn Office building was built. was a very modern building. And this Mr. Kleberg had been in that building from the very beginning, which was unusual for a freshman
  • Biographical information; LBJ’s two years as teacher and debate coach at Sam Houston High School, Houston; LBJ’s role as Congressman Kleberg’s secretary; life in Washington for underpaid federal workers; Dodge Hotel; Little Congress and LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the convent ion, Sam Rayburn got in touch with me and [said] that he and Johnson wanted to talk to me about heading up the campaign in Texas for the Kennedy -Johnson ticket. I had been approach ed in 1956, both I I by the Democra ts and the Republi cans
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and there was one congressman, I know, and there was a man from Georgia. "We want to stop Kennedy." And I just said, "Well, what do you suggest?" F: What do I do, huh? G: He said, "Well, we want you to get us in to see Sam Rayburn." me as awfully strange
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1976 INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERV IEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Alamo Hotel, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: Well, here's what happened on that. G: This is a speech that he made on July 6, 1946. J: Yes. You'd have to go back
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • working, determined to get things done, very much under the guidance of Sam Rayburn. G: Did you ever see them together? H: Oh, yes. Yes. Mr. Sam really felt like [he had] a son-father rela- tionship with Lyndon Johnson. listen to him a great deal
Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : When did you begin to have some idea that someone named Lyndon Johnson was in the world? M: In my book--did you read my book? F: Yes. M: I said he was going to be President. Oh, I knew Lyndon and Mrs. Johnson-- as I said before, Sam Rayburn
Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • think of any finer career than to have the kind of a career that Sam Rayburn had--to devote your life to it. And I would have loved to have been so fortunate, but the voters decided otherwise. You can't have a successful career in the Congress
  • of Sam Rayburn and politicians in general; Quigley's work on the House Judiciary Committee; how Quigley became a member of a subcommittee investigating the Civil Aeronautics Board and Federal Communications Commission; the Texas table in the House Dining
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Not at that time, no. Senator Wirtz was from Seguin, but he was not a factor in my life at that time. In the latter part of 1935 or 1936 I was in the University, and through Mr. Sam Fore, who was the publisher of the Floresville Chronicle-Journal, I applied
Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Only in the most pleasant way. I saw the Congressman and Mrs. Johnson many times while I was there. Indeed, they were very kind. And, of course, you know the close relationship that existed between Speaker Sam Rayburn and-- M: Yes. 3 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . (Interruption) G: [Do you want to] talk about the Texas delegation? J: Yes. It was a very strong, cohesive delegation that Lyndon worked with. The Speaker [Sam Rayburn] was always the head man. I'm not sure; I think he was already speaker by 5 LBJ
  • Johnson's time spent sight-seeing and attending events at the Congressional Club or the 75th Club; visiting Bill White in New York City; Sam Rayburn, Wright Patman, Nat Patton, and other Texans in Washington, D.C.; visits with Aunt Effie Pattillo; summer
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : That's right. Sam Houston [Johnson] has a pretty full report on that in his book--of that meeting. I was not at the meeting. G: But can you collaborate what he said? M: Yes, I think that's the way it happened all right. I did see Shivers at some
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and I don't recall the incident, but there was some occasion that I had to go over and talk to him about something. We met and I liked him very much. F: Did you get to know Mr. Sam [Rayburn] pretty well? P: Yes. 2 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Pucinski's political career; Pucinski's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ's support for Pucinski in a 1972 Senate race against Charles Percy; allegations of misconduct against Charles Robb in Vietnam; a trip to Chicago with Vice President Johnson
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Sam Rayburn, who was a very able fellow, figured that the best solution was [having Johnson on the ticket], and he, being respected by everybody, was in a position to do it. I think he worked out the agreement as a sure-fire way to bring
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn at these gatherings? You mentioned the dinner before. W: Father and son. Father and a son of whom he was very proud, who might have given him some trouble from time to time, but basically he was very proud of him. G
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • 1946 campaign; 1948 Senate campaign and the Fort Worth Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; social gatherings at the Johnsons' Washington home; LBJ and the press; 1954 Senate campaign
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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