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Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , not related to the state senator, who went on to become Speaker Sam Rayburn's private secretary and confidante; Alex Louis, who left us to join the Joe Belden public opinion sampling poll in Texas and then became an independent in that field; Bill Gardner
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was the relationship between Mr. [Sam] Rayburn in the House and Senator Johnson? R: That was virtually a father and son relationship--an extremely close relation­ ship; and during the years that I have known Senator Johnson, I would say he had more respect--in fact
Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Once, I especially remember, when I was speaker of the House he came down with Speaker Sam Rayburn when Mr. Rayburn made a speech to the House. I guess that's the first time I really did get to visit very much with thenCongressman Johnson. F
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , because they had to protect their flank back in Texas. The 27.5 per cent depletion, Rayburn and Johnson, by their selection of people to be on the committees, nobody ever touched depletion as long as Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn were in the Congress. I
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • anybody else--name Sam Rayburn, name Barkley, name Jimmy Byrnes, name McNutt, name Jesse Jones, or anyone. There are any number of outstanding men in the party that I urged him to nominate. And I told him that in my judgment Wallace was a mystic, and I
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Birdwell, I believe the Birdwell acquaintance with the Johnsons goes back before the days, even of Lyndon Johnson on this earth, or Sherman Birdwell . B: That's right . F: How did that come about? B: Mr . Sam Johnson, who was Lyndon Johnson's father
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Hill the next year. practice has been more or less abandoned. But even that [We] might have a congress- man two successive years--somebody off the Hill. There's no real pattern now. F: I see. Did Mr. Sam [Rayburn] entertain much? OM: No, I
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; how they came to Washington; meeting the Johnsons; Dick Kleberg; Texas State Society; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s early influence in Washington; gaining support for LBJ in Dallas; 1960 convention; women’s tea party tours
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , but . . . Yes, you've also mentioned Sam Rayburn and apparently Rayburn and Johnson worked closely together. Have you ever had occasion to see them working together on political matters? HM: Well, in election matters here in the state, not on matters
Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Connally has not helped me in politics because, sure, it has Helped me, and I'll admit this. As did Lyndon Johnson's friendship with Franklin Roosevelt help him in his first campaign; as did Lyndon Johnson's friendship with Sam Rayburn help him get
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to one of the most glittering things, up to that time, that I had experienced in Washington. It was a big dinner given in honor of the Speaker and Miss Lou [Rayburn's sister] at the home of a hostess with a capital H, a Mrs. Denegra [?], who had a house
  • II; attending a dinner honoring Sam Rayburn and his sister, Miss Lou; the State of the Union address in 1941; listening to Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats; LBJ's exposure to culture and music by the Marshes; LBJ's desire
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to me about things to do. First and foremost, keep up with the Texas delegation, pay calls on them, ask their advice, and at the head of the list, always in capital letters, the Speaker, Mr. Sam Rayburn. This I did with great pleasure every now
  • the installation; efforts to get an abattoir in Austin; Lady Bird Johnson visiting the British Embassy and Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes on behalf of constituents; visiting Sam Rayburn for advice; living arrangements while LBJ was away during the war; Lady
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not talk about. One is that the Shivers faction apparently was considering whether or not to allow Sam Rayburn to go to the convention as a delegate. J: Do you recall that? Yes. 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • had been circulating that only three or four of the Texas congressmen were going to vote for it. Senator Johnson thought it would be a reflection on the Speaker--Speaker Sam Rayburn~~and it would be a reflection on him, if Texas did not support
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , it was straight Democrat. Too, Alger and Sam Rayburn didn't get along. As a matter of fact, Mr. Sam despised Bruce, and so they just didn't get along. And they were friendly enough to me when I first came there. They were apparently willing to look me over anyway
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to it. One of the things I always looked forward to most was going to dinner at Speaker Sam Rayburn's. His bachelor apartment was in the Anchorage, about the third floor up and one ascended in a tiny elevator, or walked. It was very simple, somewhat spartan
  • Visiting the home of Evalyn Walsh McLean and socializing in 1941; Lady Bird's participation in a 75th Club luncheon honoring Eleanor Roosevelt; riding in Sam Rayburn's car; diversity in the 10th District; Lady Bird Johnson using her movie camera
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • esoteric areas and my academic background stood me in very good stead. As a matter of fact, Speaker Rayburn and some of the leaders used me more as a staff man rather than a freshman Congressman. F: Staff man who can vote. B: That's right. Mr. Sam
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • in fact set up a separate, almost an ad hoc Congressional Campaign Committee, and we went downtown and took offices in the Munsey Building, and raised our own money. D: Now, raised your own money, wasn't a lot of that money raised by Sam Rayburn? C
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • describe Hr. Johnson's relationship with Hr. Rayburn during this period? F: I know that only by hearsay and casual observations, but the combined image of the two was that they had a very close relationship and that the President still consulted Mr
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; 1960 convention; LBJ’s acceptance of VP nomination; Lady Bird campaigning in North Carolina; civil rights legislation; religious issue; Senate luncheon; LBJ’s trips
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • . That's a tradition which was started under Sam Rayburn. We would have lunch each Wednesday in what they called the Speaker's Dining Room, and Sam Rayburn started it and it still goes on. It went on as long as I was there and it goes on now. Now before I
Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • you have any contact with Mr. Johnson during the years between then and the time he became vice president or the late fifties, or when he was vice president for that matter? P: None of any substance. I was quite close to Mr. Sam Rayburn, and LBJ
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • without a word of debate; it was never even mentioned in the Senate debate. Apparently nobody even paid any attention to it. It got to the House and Speaker [Sam] Rayburn didn't like it at all. Neither did Howard Smith [D.-Va.], the head of the Rules 7
  • Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s 1964 campaign speech in New Orleans; Johnson treatment; immense capacity to judge people; Johnson-Rayburn relationship; first signs of Presidential ambition; LBJ’s relationship with oil and gas industries; relationship
Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would like a Speaker to be. F: He didn't seem to have that kind of gutsiness that Sam Rayburn had, for instance. W: Nobody had. Sam Rayburn was one of the most remarkable men I ever met, and I only met him in his dying months. F: But I think you
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and not taken seriously at all. The first statehood bill was entered July 2 l ~ 1 9 4 5 , and the measure found some attraction only in Washington but no action was taken. This was in 1950. Time and time again he visited with Sam Rayburn> not only about
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Sam Rayburn as the Democratic nominee for President, and I wasn't getting very far with that operation. Mc Which year was this? M: This was the 1952 convention when Stevenson was first nominated. Mc '52? M: '52, yes. And because of this lack
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was not navy. G: Yes. Did you ever have an opportunity to see him with Sam Rayburn and observe their relationship? B: Oh, yes. G: What were they like together? B: Very close, very close. G: Would you elaborate and just describe any times that you were
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; LBJ's Naval Commission; Naval Affairs Committee; LBJ military service overseas; LBJ and Sam Rayburn; LBJ and Forrestal; LBJ and John Connally; Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy; LBJ investigations of Navy Department
Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a committee-- And they made arrangements with Sam Rayburn who-- arrangements with him that our names should be put into nomination. And one woman, a very naive, dear little woman, I've forgotten what state she came from, but anyway, she told me afterwards
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Johnson's residence, Johnson City, Texas Tape 1 of 3 J: Now, this is going to be something repetitious, but I was trying to think of some of the things that I hadn't said
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  • Johnson, Sam Houston
  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • we contrast what's happening on the Hill now [is that] we at that time had great congressional leadership, LBJ in the Senate and Rayburn in the House. The Congress functioned. I don't mean necessarily ideologically, but when the time came when
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bill, the most important thing I did. I was also on the redistricting committee and protected Sam Rayburn. I found that. there was a large emotional, physical and financial cost to campaigning for statewide office, but I had been brought up under
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • given for Speaker Sam Rayburn, whose birthday was about January the sixth. The most important one was always Scooter Miller's and Dale's, which usually took place at the Women's Democratic Club. However, we began having one for the children
  • Johnson's work for LBJ; Beagle getting loose; how the Johnsons named their dogs; birthday parties for Sam Rayburn and his interest in including the children; Lady Bird Johnson's experience with, and view of, spanking; the American Heart Association's
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the Confederate Army. I've always admired Texas and felt close to Texas, and in the House had many things in common with the Texas delegation. I felt very close .... M· What did you think about Sam Rayburn? with him. You must have worked some LBJ
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; LBJ; heart attack; LBJ’s capacity for friendship; FDR New Deal program; support for LBJ in 1960; Sam Rayburn; lobbyist; Bobby Baker; JFK’s New Frontier program; civil rights; education; Vietnam; civilian control of military
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • forth. organization~ council~ When I helped the operating techniques, After that I worked regularly with the advisory council until the convention in 1960., My recollection is that Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn were invited to join
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Brief contacts with Senator Johnson during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations; Democratic Advisory Council establishment and opposition by LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Paul Butler; LBJ’s effectiveness as Senate majority
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • beginning it was my understanding, whither I got it from Lyndon or someone else that was in a position to know, that she had played a rather important role in getting his appointment . Sam Rayburn, I know, had a lot to do with it, and Sam Rayburn was very
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you recall that? That one was really rather funny. I didn't know about it, but Holmes Alexander and Sam Houston [Johnson] were very good friends. He'd already filed the copy, by the way. And Sam said, "Look, Holmes, George Reedy has been awful
  • and the prospects of the Presidency; omnibus labor bill; Texas liberals; Hawaii and Alaska; Sam Rayburn
Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • prominent citizen of Texas, and throughout your career you have been actively interested in Texas politics. This of course has been a very fascinating era that has produced some outstanding national leaders, notably John Garner, Sam Rayburn and Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , once. He was a close friend of Sam Rayburn's, and anybody that was a close friend of Sam Rayburn's was already important. I mean, even if Lyndon Johnson didn't have ability, or had no particular leadership qualities, he would have been important simply
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • those who bucked it. Lyndon, with the Speaker [Sam Rayburn] and Wright Patman, are the main three that I remember that put together on a shoestring an organization and covered as much ground as they could. Eisenhower made a statement on one of his swings