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Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the battle. This was when Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson, Paul Kilday here in San Antonio, who is a member of Congress, and others got together and tried to put the Democratic Party together again. It was a shambles. There was no organization

Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

; there was politics in my old home of Kaufman. I remember some of that as a boy growing up. I was in Sam Rayburn's district, and Mr. Rayburn was very popular, and we had local politics there. When I got down here this county, Jim Wells County, had for years been

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for the campaign of 1960? S: One, I had written Mr. Rayburn immediately after the convention. F: Did you know him? S: I knew him fairly well. Northeast part of White Rock. Sort of a silk stocking area. I felt like he and I were good friends. He had

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the seventies somewhere along there--but they included a lot of very conservative people, very conservative. G: Rayburn announced that he wouldn't serve as chairman of the Democratic [National] Convention. R: Yes. G: Do you recall why? R: I think
; LBJ announces; the Addison's Disease story; national convention in Los Angeles’ LBJ accepts the VP nomination; Rayburn and Nixon; Connally and LBJ; RFK; Acapulco trip; LBJ’s contribution to the ticket; the Jewish vote; the Adolphus Hotel incident

Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to be placed by historians and critics in the hands of the Democratic delegation in Congress, particularly under the leadership of Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn. P: What's your opinion on this? I agree with that viewpoint. I think that Mr. Rayburn

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the other four? V: I'm sure he named his wife, his mother, Senator Wirtz, I think Speaker Rayburn probably was there and I'm not sure about the fifth right now, I might think of it in a few minutes. I had for a long time, as a lot of college girls do

Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

me ask you if you ever got a chance to observe LBJ's association with Sam Rayburn? RG: Well, it was obvious that they worked closely together and were good friends. But being on the Republican side I don't think I really gained much insight

Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Speaker Rayburn's library. he was there, and he was another one of my beloved friends. Well, If there ever was anybody that I admired from head to foot, it was Mr. Sam Rayburn. Of course, he was in Congress when I was one of the hirelings up there. F
Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
reservations about LBJ's heath as running mate; first civil rights act; LBJ's accessibility; a "democratic" man; LBJ's 1960 campaign visit to Mississippi; visit to LBJ at the ranch in 1960; friendship with Sam Rayburn; contacts with JFK; 1964 visit with LBJ

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

that for a long time Speaker Sam Rayburn did think he was good enough to be and did hope that he would be. And the same about John Connally. Although John would get mighty put out with him when he, John, though Lyndon was right up within shooting distance

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Waldron -- I -- 22 G: Really. Well, I've gotten two differerit theories on this. One, that Sam Rayburn was in favor of it to begin with, the idea that he felt anyone whose name had been placed in nomination before the convention for president had

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on there? Now, we have on tape already the effort to hold the Texas delegati on and the Shivers versus Rayburn-Johnson fight. But Johnson was kind of a dark, dark horse there. P: Yes, he was, though he had won the May delegati on ffght to go to the national
LBJ-Rayburn-Price Daniel relationship; details of the 1960 convention in Los Angeles, especially concerning the Texas delegation; poor accommodations for the delegation; the JFK organization in 1960; Texas delegation reacts to LBJ nomination

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Sam Rayburn was quoted as saying one time that he was glad that LBJ got the Ranch because now he could talk about something besides politics. Did this become a favorite subject with him? J: Oh, absolutely. He wanted everybody he knew to come see

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that was, carrying by one vote. I understand that President Johnson was the floor leader on that, working with Speaker [Sam] Rayburn. 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

at that time who is now deceased. But President Johnson and Speaker Sam Rayburn got together with some of the other people in the back room and with Shivers, and he promised to support the Democratic nominee, regardless. But he worded a proposition that didn't

Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and it would have been where it would do the most good. I don't know. G: You don't recall any contact then with Sam Rayburn or--? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

routine and lunch at the Senate Dining Room. That was my beat. We had a dinner at our house with Speaker [Sam] Rayburn and Wesley West and Sid Richardson, and Jesse Kellam, and Herman and George Brown, who brought Olga Weiss. And John Connally. 2 LBJ
television and, later, color television; Sam Houston Johnson and alcoholism.

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was not popular; O'Brien's and JFK's relationships with Bryce Harlow and Dwight Eisenhower; congressmen using the navy or air force for travel and Sam Rayburn's opposition to these junkets; providing transportation to bring members of Congress back to Washington D

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

died, why, then Lyndon was a member of Congress, then it didn't--I mean it was kind of a downstep. He was closer to Roosevelt than Rayburn was. was closer to Truman than Lyndon was and so forth. wanted from President Truman. Now, Rayburn But he got
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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Education and Labor Committee? G: Yes. Sam Rayburn was the speaker of the House, and education really has always been I think my first love. [Inaudible]. K: That was one of your platforms in your election campaign? G: Yes, I talked quite a little bit
Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
Biographical information; teaching career; candidacy for Congress; support of JFK; Wayne Morse; impression of LBJ as a Senator; education legislation; federal aid to education; opinion of Sam Rayburn; parochial school question; Adam Clayton Powell

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

did call himself a Republican, but he--go ahead. B: Do you recall that he and Sam Rayburn fell out over this issue, that Sam Rayburn thought he had gotten a promise from Shivers that he would support the Democratic nominee, whoever the Democratic
Texas tideland issues in the 1950s; cross-filing, which allowed Democrats to support Dwight Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election; Allan Shivers' support for Republicans; LBJ's and Sam Rayburn's devotion to the Democratic Party; John Tower's

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

opening came, Mr. Johnson went and asked for the position. Others feel that it came either through Rayburn or Garner or somebody who was looking for the right man. Do you know anything about this? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would come up and come out to see us, or we'd go down to his hotel. Miss Lou's [Rayburn] visit sparked an unusually rich round of gatherings this year. Everybody I know had a party for her. We had a dinner at our house for a small group: the Speaker
; socializing in Washington, D.C. with friends such as the Clark Cliffords, Stuart Symingtons, Tom Corcorans, and Walter Hornadays; escalation of the war in Korea; Sam Rayburn's birthday party with the children; LBJ's election as minority whip in 1951 and his

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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 Johnson -- XVIII -- 3 Mrs. [Sam] Johnson also came to visit us

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

together, and if I could have Speaker Rayburn it was always just real special, as I frequently did. And Bill Douglas--I remember one time Bill and Mildred were there, and Mr. Sam brought his date, the attractive woman Mrs. Davis, a widow. He kind
; the Johnsons' desire to have a son; James Forrestal; the 1901 Dillman Street house in Austin and its residents; a trip through South Texas with John and Nellie Connally; visiting Jim West's garage; Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fore; measuring support for a 1948 Senate

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 22 that way. He didn't do it just for the fun of it; he would launch out on his own. F: Did you ever go to any of those Board of Education meetings? S: No, no, not much. F: That Sam Rayburn held? S: No, no, I didn't

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that sparked it was more Sam Rayburn than LBJ. But I believe that was one of those things that was done just to make it very clear that the Democratic leadership was independent of Eisenhower. You know, what LBJ had really done was--I've already explained

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Persons as his liaison with the Hill. So you take a general and put him in that job, he doesn't know the sticks and the carrots of his office, where Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn had been on the Hill for twenty or more years each. They knew what

Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek (Item)

on and passed it with the help of Mr. [Sam] Rayburn. He had a close friend and Mr. Rayburn just loved Johnson. D: Did they have any kind of falling out because of the 1940 campaign? You know--well, as you told me, you were at the center of that--in 1940
and people in the oil industry; LBJ's campaigns against Hardy Hollers and Buck Taylor; the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947; how LBJ was offered a position on the House Naval Affairs Committee; attending the funeral for LBJ's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr.; Billie Sol

Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. The only one that had guts enough to come was Sam Rayburn, you know. During that Shivers stall, when Shivers were there, he'd come out for Eisenhower and everything else, and we just didn't have a damn show. We couldn't win a county convention. If we did

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

him as he was going to show up here and there and yonder. Once more as it had been in 1937, the people would talk to their counterparts. Mr. [Sam] Fore would talk to the newspapermen, and some rancher friends from the Fourteenth District would talk

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was plowing the land and that they were finding Indian arrowheads out there, he was always telling us something about the Ranch, Mr. [Sam] Rayburn nudged me and said, "I sure am glad Lyndon has got something else to talk about besides politics." (Laughter

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

deserved it, why, it was all right. G: Do you know anything about Sam Rayburn's effort to get the congressmen home who were in uniform? R: Well, logically it would be Mr. Rayburn who would take the lead to do that. I just remember talk, though

Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

4 against the bill; the opponents of Alaskan statehood would vote against the bill--thereby strengthening the opposition. You'd be combining double opposition. So our governor, John A. Burns, discussed this matter with Speaker Rayburn and Lyndon
[For interviews 1 and 2] Biographical information; first meeting LBJ and Sam Rayburn at the 1956 Democratic convention in Chicago; made an honorary Texan; LBJ and statehood for Hawaii; LBJ and the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. The reason was depletion. While Johnson had never been an out- front leader of the oil and gas people, he also knew of their financial resources and their power to destroy. As long as Rayburn and Johnson were in Washington they never touched depletion

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

by asking you about rumors during the campaign that Sam Rayburn was actually supporting or at least favored Coke Stevenson. J: I don't think we ever believed any such thing. There were some rumors, but I'm pretty sure nobody close to President Johnson

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and had only come to Washington about twice, and in the middle of the dinner Senator Johnson and Sam Rayburn shml/ed up. live got a picture at home of me between them, which is a choice thing to keep. S: Yes, indeed. Pretty hot romancing. for--? D
Biographical information; Stevenson campaign; Pat Brown campaign; Washington in 1959-1960; Statler Hotel party to impress Dutton; LBJ, Rayburn Bobby Baker all for California votes; Brown on “Meet the Press” in 1959 said LBJ was too conservative

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

who were opposed to this, as I learned subsequently. B: That would have been people like John Connally? V: John Connally and Price Daniel and, indeed, Sam Rayburn. The President tells very amusing stories about Bob Kerr, how much he was opposed

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that question, he wrote back to me that he had run because Sam Rayburn had said that if he didn't run, Dick Nixon would become president of the United States, and Dick ~ixon was the man who had called Harry Truman a traitor and the Democratic party the party

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