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This is an interview with Congressman Wright Patman in his office at
2328 Sam Rayburn Building, Washington, D.C., on August 11, 1972.
The
interviewer is Joe B. Frantz.
P:
Lyndon Johnson
- LBJ’s civil rights interest; Sam E. Johnson; Ku Klux Klan issue in Texas legislature; farm to market roads; LBJ as secretary to Dick Kleberg; rural electrification; Russell Chaney; NYA; discussion with Rayburn regarding LBJ running for Senate
- this was the year of the Shivers versus Johnson-Rayburn
contest.
B:
Yes, I did, I covered the state convention.
F:
Now this is the May one or the governor's one in September?
LBJ Presidential Library
http://www.lbjlibrary.org
ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- First contacts with LBJ in 1953 in Texas campaigning; Johnson's role in Texas state politics in 1956; Sam Rayburn's selection of LBJ as favorite son in 1956; DOT (Democrats of Texas); contacts with LBJ in Senate; LBJ-Ralph Yarborough as senators
- get the feeling--I presume you knew Sam Rayburn fairly well-that in his later years Speaker Rayburn may have been a little jealous of
the success of his protégé?
W:
Jealous of Johnson's progress?
F:
Success, yes.
W:
Quite the contrary.
He
- Kennedy-F:
Did you get the impression he'd placed too much faith in the power of the
Senate?
H:
That, and I think he also placed too much faith in the power of his old
friend, the House Speaker, Sam Rayburn, and a few of the key Democrats
throughout
