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Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of my own trade. It has often been said that Mr. Johnson in those days was also a protégé B: of people like Sam Rayburn and Carl Vinson. Was this relationship obvious, too? K: Not at that time. He'd just come into Congress, but as the years went
  • First meeting with LBJ; LBJ’s relationship to Rayburn; Carl Vinson and FDR; LBJ in the House; Lady Bird; Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s relationship with Humphrey, Truman, Eisenhower and the Kennedy’s; LBJ’s opinion of career military people; 1956
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Johnson's philosophy, along with Hr. Rayburn's; was to deal through the traditional political established people and their delegations. And in incident after incident I think that I saw where prior work and prior planning and a lot of prior money spending