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Oral history transcript, Frank Denius, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • .. ~ ." • Speaker Sam Raybu~played in -the .. _ . ~ L-- 2D: be~ieva, recall, Speaker Rayburn was ••.•• had a great He spoke to the .•.•• he addressed infLlence. : As I Yes, sir. one time during the convention a~ was a very devout supporter of theh cour~e
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Johnson when I was serving as law clerk for Justice [Hugo] Black on the Supreme Court. My parents were living in Washington at the time; my father was practicing law here. He had been a lifelong friend of Sam Rayburn's. B: Your father had been? W
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • morning and entered Sam Houston State Teachers College on Monday morning . I went there until July, 1933 and transferred to the University of Texas . I think you might be interested to know that I never was privi­ leged to get a degree . I have
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • for Congress; Washington visits with LBJ in 1938; FDR-LBJ relationship; legislation for terminal leave for enlisted men; Truman campaign in Texas; member of US Customs Court; Sam Rayburn-LBJ relationship; JFK assassination; agriculture and farm problems; role
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Johnson's residence, Johnson City, Texas Tape 1 of 4 G: I believe you were going to start with the 1948 campaign, your recollections of that. J: All right. Here's
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  • Johnson, Sam Houston
  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • this period, do you recall any other political heroes that he had in addition to FDR? J: No, I can't especially . G: Did he know Sam Rayburn yet? J: Oh, yes, yes . I remember he told me that Mr . Rayburn knew his father . He knew everyone of the Texas
  • of popular magazines; LBJ a voracious reader of newspapers; LBJ-FDR agreement on policy; Rayburn-LBJ relationship; LBJ and the Texas delegation; LBJ gets NYA job; roadside parks; the "Little Congress;" LBJ drafts patronage agreement for Texas delegation.
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • in the House was an episode that occurred in 1938. Lyndon, of course, got to be very close to Sam Rayburn. You mentioned the court packing plan, which dominated the session in '3i and '38. That was all in the Senate. This incident was after that plan
Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . and I think that we were helped by Sam Rayburn in that. It was to teach staff members as much as they could about Congress, because often a staff member learned as much about being a congressman as you could learn anyplace else, and that was a sort
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the House delegation, in those days Brooks Hays, who was a leader in the House side. All the Arkansas people, particularly Brooks Hays and Wilbur Mills, were very close to Sam Rayburn, whom I knew very well. They were .part of Mr. Sam's orbit and that made
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • routine of them. There were the radio correspondents and the White House correspondents and the Press Club, and then there were special friends of Speaker Sam Rayburn's. Sometimes when Lyndon would attend a stag dinner, I would invite all the women of his
  • ; Sam Houston Johnson and Josefa Johnson's health problems; LBJ's work as minority leader and support for President Eisenhower and for the newly-elected senators; LBJ's belief that Democrats should not oppose Republicans just because they are Republicans
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 3 (III), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • once I think list the people who were the most influential people in his life, and she would always be one of those. G: Who were the others? V: His wife, Senator [Alvin J.] Wirtz, Speaker Rayburn I think; the Speaker—Mrs. Sam Johnson—I can't think
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 9, 1969 INTERVIEWEE : SAM D . W . LOW INTERVIEWER : DAVID McCOMB PLACE : 2511 Inwood Drive, Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 2 M: Well, first of all, I'd like to know a little bit in your own words about your background . I know you have this paper
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  • Low, Sam
  • Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb
  • Sam Low
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: EVERETT COLLIER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Collier's office in Houston, Texas. {Tape 1 of 2, Side 1} G: Why don't we begin with your school days at Sam Houston High School, your recollections of Lyndon Johnson as a teacher
  • How Collier met LBJ at Sam Houston High School; Cliff Carter; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • deeply held conviction as he saw ~hat Then it was all about. M: How much did he lean on Mr. Sam during that period? S: I think by that time Rayburn was beginning to fail as an effective leader. Sure, a great respect and a great following
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Sidey’s contact with LBJ during the Senate period; his work with Time magazine covering LBJ; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s relationship with other politicians; press coverage of LBJ in the Senate years; difference between Senate
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Sam Rayburn. We saw a lot of the Johnsons in that year; we were neighbors of the John Connallys and the Waddy Bullions and the Eugene Wor1eys. Society was active. And the Texas [State] Mr. Johnson was a go-getter even then, and some evenings all
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Eventually that convention was controlled by GovernorElect Price Daniel. This only became possible after the then-Speaker Sam Rayburn and the then-Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson worked within the convention with their friends throughout the state
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • not to run the story. He said that Mr. Johnson would be furious with him, but we ran the story. At a much later date, after he was vice president, he told me that it was Sam Rayburn who had told Reedy and Jenkins to open this headquarters and that Senator
  • Biographical information; LBJ-press relationship; the campaign contributions issue; Philip Graham; Rayburn convinces LBJ to run in 1960; LBJ persuades FDR to put the REA into the Pedernales valley; JFK and leaks; Steve Early and James Hagerty; W
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • are you taking all of this? It doesn't mean anything to you." He said, "Sam wants it." That's all he ever said. Well, you know, that just says a whole lot. And that was Sam Rayburn's pet. He wanted the east front of the Capitol. But I thought that puts
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • sense. He stuck to it and that's the way it was. Of course I was very grateful to him. He wrote a letter to Sam Ray- burn which I wish r could get hold of. r presided over the meeting, and the first day we got into a squabble about adoption of rules
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; NATO Parliamentarians Committee; LBJ’s praise of Hays; collaboration of Rayburn and LBJ in shaping legislation in the House; committed JFK delegate in 1960; LBJ as VP; friendship with President a political
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • consideration. M: I do, too. I don't know the answer to that. In 1956 he and [Sam] Rayburn said they wanted really nothing to do with the Democratic Advisory Council that had been set up, and it took me a long time--I was very disappointed. As a new fellow up
Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that Kennedy came hi~ next time? through at the time of the assassination? C: I don't believe I did. I can't recall specifically. Now, I know that Kennedy came in to visit Sam Rayburn when ,he was here, and I handled that security there on pretty short
Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • controversy? J: Yes. Lyndon Johnson, for his growing conservatism on domestic matters after his earlier New Deal years, always stood in the tradition of Sam Rayburn and others in support of public power. He was very good on this and he was a tremendous
Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • you've got to be Sam was a very strong man, a very strong parlia m e n ta ri a n and knew h is b usin ess. M: How would you e v aluate the e f f e c t i v e n e s s of t h e i r two types o f le ad er sh ip ? H: Oh, Rayburn would have t o be f a r
Oral history transcript, Jacob Javits, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of World War II were elected on the Republican side. It resulted in the Texas dominance of the House changing to the Republicans, and Joe Martin of Massachusetts replaced Speaker [Sam] Rayburn. And so I didn't have any contact that I can remember
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • any lack of patriotism or going along with the war effort, as it was called, in a vigorous way. I don't. I do remember one happy little social occasion in that busy year, not that I was there, because this was just a stag party. Speaker Sam Rayburn's
  • constituents in LBJ's congressional district; a birthday party for Sam Rayburn with President Franklin Roosevelt; LBJ's opinion of big business and the Big Inch pipeline; getting the Federal Communications Commission's approval to buy radio station KTBC
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh . PICKLE ·-- III -- 23 governor, he had to be the main spokesman. It was also at that time that Governor Daniel had a general agreement with Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senator Johnson
Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston (Item)
  • Wirtz and Sam Rayburn, I suppose-I don't know who all the other people were who LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Advisory Committee, [of] which I was a member . Lyndon Johnson had never participated in the National Advisory Committee . I think he always thought it was rather an encroachment upon-­ F: He and Sam Rayburn both, B : He and Sam Rayburn both felt
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Wright Patman was going to escort him up or introduce him. I think it turned out that way, but I think mayoe Sam Rayburn may have been on the outskirts of that little ceremony, too. I think he was. I didn't go up to his swearing-in. He indicated
  • LBJ’s susceptibility to illness at various times; State Senator Alvin Wirtz; Ku Klux Klan in Texas; receivership of LCRA in Texas; Wirtz as assistant secretary of Interior Department; his expertise on Texas water law; Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ’s trip
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • you recall during this period meeting Speaker Rayburn? T: I don't remember when I first met him. I'm sure it must have been that first year I was up here because he was in the Johnson home quite frequently. P: How would you describe him? T
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • ; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s mother and brother; Lynda and Luci’s relationship with their family; religion and the Johnsons; the Johnson treatment and Mary McGrory; the Vice-Presidential period; Asia trip with LBJ; Taylor’s work in the Presidential years
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • regarding his son's activities I wouldn't be aware of, and there was never any reference to Mr. Kennedy in any discussions about our programs. G: Okay, in 1962 you had a change in leadership in the House with Sam Rayburn's death, and 1 LBJ Presidential
  • O'Brien's discussion with Joseph Kennedy about the New Frontier program; leadership in the House of Representatives before and after Sam Rayburn's death; the Trade Expansion Act of 1962; a private-sector public-relations operation led by Howard
Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Fortunately, many that were elected in that year are still with us. F: Could you use Johnson to go out and help you raise money? S: No, I never did that. I remember he did come to a fund-raising affair with Sam Rayburn in New York once, for the purpose
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • they could if they wa nted to. lesson. But •:e learned a great He realized 1·1here the power was in the United States , and it does not lie 1·1ith the Congress or the senators. Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn were just as convinced that that's where
  • Biographical information; LBJ's relationship with JFK; LBJ's Presidential aspirations; 1960 Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with RFK; labor; 1960 campaign; Rayburn; LBJ as VP; access to JFK; Bobby Baker case; Connally-Yarborough conflict
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • DATE: November 15, 1981 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 1 J: The first of the year, as I have said, was always a series of celebrations of Speaker Sam Rayburn's
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • there was a banquet in Austin for Sam Rayburn. Did you go to that that you recall? W: Yes. I went to that. G: About sixteen hundred people. Where was that? W: I don't even know. Seems to me like it was around the Capitol up there at first. G: Yes. One thing
Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • appreciative and most cooperative. And Mr. Rayburn came and talked. got here. It was very cute when he This thing was televised, and all this, that and the other. And when he got here, the Speaker says, "I'm not going to say anything. I don't have any
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; interest in politics; meeting LBJ in 1946; characterization of LBJ as a professional politician; campaigning for LBJ; 1958 dinner honoring LBJ as a successful leader in the Senate; Sam Rayburn; Elkin's fundraising
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 24 very kind to me. He helped elect me to the Congress. He got me started right with Speaker Rayburn, he got me
  • 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, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of a surprise, really, because of the rivalry, and we also knew that LBJ didn't cherish the number-two spot. F: Right. T: Later he told the story so many times, about Sam Rayburn urging him not to take it, and the next day urging him to take it, and Johnson
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Washington . He and Sam [Rayburn] would both come and they would talk about legislation . Of course, they'd get in their own political licks, but they'd do it indirectly . F: They'd explain more or less the status of bills and the possibility . B
Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ever known. And he didn't need any touting. he had the energy. He had the ability, .and As far as I know, Lyndon's been pretty well his own man. About the only man that ever influenced him at all was Sam Rayburn. F: What about Senator [Alvin
  • Acquaintance with LBJ during the Kleberg years; LBJ's ambition and energy; influence of Sam Rayburn and Alvin Wirtz; the 1941 campaign; Jim Ferguson's role in 1941; role of postmasters and country commissioners in Texas state politics; Frank Hamer