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Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Public Utility Holding Company act, or bill, which we were trying to get through. There was a very famous fight led in the House by the then Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, who was Sam Rayburn. by Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; early recollections of LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with FDR; LBJ’s interests; LBJ’s 1941 campaign; LBJ’s relationship with Sam Rayburn; Maury Maverick; 1948 race; Walter Winchell episode; counsel to Democratic Policy Committee
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and they got along just wonderfully well . So Mr . Rayburn says, "Now, Fish, don't you ever get tied up that close ." I said, "No, sir, Mr . Speaker . I'm married, but I ain't gonna get that married ." F: I presume now Sam Rayburn had the same affection
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • How he came to Washington; LBJ and Little Congress; LBJ as House doorman when Secretary to Congressman Kelberg; “Fishbait” as Miller’s nickname; dedication of the Sam Rayburn Library in Bonham, Texas; Sam Rayburn and his relationship with LBJ; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the third time I'd lived there. We had a crop failure, went to Bonham for one winter, then went to most of my junior year in high school in Bonham, which is Sam Rayburn's home town, and then back to Gober where I finished school in 1945. But Gober is very
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Texas Legislature; Texas campaigns; John Conally; Sam Rayburn; bid for SWTSC Presidency; Office of Education; Civil Rights; Board of Foreign Scholarships
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • against Allan. So I drove all What had hap- pened is that [Sam] Rayburn had put Lyndon's name in kind of against his own--without telling him too much about it. So Lyndon was put in the position there of running not as [just] the favorite son
  • See all online interviews with Sam Houston Johnson
  • Johnson, Sam Houston
  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -­ I -­ 9 B: When Sam Rayburn called a press conference and announced that he thought Lyndon Baines Johnson should be the next president of the United States, and in effect put Lyndon in the race for the presidential nomination. G: Why was Byron
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Formation of Loyal Democrats and Dixiecrats; Harris County Democrats; Frankie Randolph; struggle for party control; Sam Rayburn; Johnson's role; precinct organization; race issue; committeeman/committeewoman controversy; 1956 Democratic National
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was that great friend of Sam Rayburn, Bill--I was trying to think of his name the other day, Bill-G: Kittrell. R: Kittrell, yes. He did the same thing; he got his money from all the big oil companies but he was out cutting their throats most of the time. G
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Walter Winchell incident; minimum wage bill; LBJ’s Dies Committee vote; John Nance Garner episode; Alvin Wirtz; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s work on the 1940 Congressional campaigns; Appropriations Committee appointment; race for the Senate in 1941; the I
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • vigorous young man. M: Did you know Sam Rayburn before you knew-- H: No. I met Sam Rayburn through Lyndon Johnson and the others live mentioned. M: Did you just meet him socially or casually? H: Well, at first it is a little hard to remember
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • How Hoyt met LBJ; Hoyt’s role as domestic director of the Office of War Information; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s persuasive techniques; staying the night at the White House visiting with LBJ; LBJ’s public relations; 1960 election; Hoyt’s appointment
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Eisenhower in 1952. The issue was whether the Democratic Party was going to support the nominee in 1956 or not. And I suppose Johnson and [Sam] Rayburn, it was a challenge to them. They had to rescue the party from the Shivers turncoats, from the Democrats
  • Allan Shivers and Democrats for Eisenhower in 1952; the role of LBJ and Sam Rayburn in the 1956 Texas State Democratic Convention; Paul Butler and the Democratic Advisory Committee; party at Dewey Bradford's house; how LBJ won county and precinct
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , some. But Mr. Johnson always won with a big majority of the votes. I don't remember how many votes Buck Taylor got but my recollection is it wasn't many. G: Now there was also some opposition to Sam Rayburn in his district, and I have a note
  • LBJ's growing popularity throughout the state of Texas in the 1940s; work in LBJ's congressional office; LBJ's 1944 congressional opponent, Buck Taylor; efforts by oil men to defeat Sam Rayburn; Lynda Bird Johnson's birth and her name; LBJ's love
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for Dick Kleberg? this off on him?" G: Why do you wish Anyhow that was it. Well, you know, some people have suggested that Sam Rayburn was influential in getting that. Booth Mooney says that in his book [LBJ: An Irreverent Chronicle]. Do you know
  • See all online interviews with Sam Houston Johnson
  • Johnson, Sam Houston
  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • talking about the 1952 campaign. Let me ask you to go into some details on the whole question of Sam Rayburn and Allan Shivers in the confusion, I guess we could say for want of a better word, of what sort of commitments the Rayburn group felt
  • ' representation of the Texas Democratic Party at the national convention in 1952; Sam Rayburn's involvement in the Democratic National Convention in 1952; LBJ's role between Rayburn and Shivers in 1952; Wright Morrow's desire to be the Texas spokesman
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to you that you're not going to win this election unless you take Johnson on for vice president." F: This is long before Los Angeles? C: This is in Los Angeles, after the vote on Lyndon. I had gone earlier to Sam Rayburn--I was out in Los Angeles
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • ; Corcoran's work for LBJ at the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles; Corcoran's efforts to convince Sam Rayburn that LBJ should accept the vice presidential nomination in 1960; Mike Mansfield as Senator Majority Leader; Jim Landis; Ambassador
Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • than he did from representatives of the major companies? N: Yes. I don't think he was too popular with the oil industry. As far as I know, he had very little support from the oil industry. Although actually, Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn almost
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • ; Wilmer St. John Garwood's election to the Texas Supreme Court; LBJ's 1948 election to the U.S. Senate; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; the relationship between LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Nash's nomination as an alternate delegate to the United Nations
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • kind of advice exactly does he give to a young Congressman about your relationships with the district and so on? W: Well, very constructive. He'd always followed that admonition that Sam Rayburn did, that a member of Congress has two constituencies
  • First acquaintance with LBJ; 1940 election to Congress; Rayburn’s advice to freshmen Congressmen; LBJ’s relationship with Rayburn; golf game with LBJ; poker game; deer hunting; horse racing; 1941 extension of draft; war naval career; LBJ’s 1948
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • good luck. The first good luck was that the drawing of the Securities and Exchange Commission Act came under Congressman Sam Rayburn, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission. As was so often the case in American history, the provisional becomes
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • friendly to labor than not. I imagine they had some talks--if not he, perhaps his brother Sam Houston would have talked to some of them. B: Actually, I suppose the real question is how Governor Stevenson got the AF of L? M: That really is, and I don't
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Committee; Gerry Siegel; LBJ’s staff members; Sam Rayburn; 1956 fight between Shivers and LBJ; Byron Skelton; Mrs. Loyd Bentsen; Mrs. Frankie Randolph; The Lyndon Johnson Story; LBJ had to work for the 1960 campaign; convention politics; H.L. Hunt’s
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 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
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the House when I came there in 1945, and I wouldn't say that we were close together in those three years. I knew him. He was active and aggressive, and he had a peculiar entre to Rayburn that I never had until I later came back to the Senate. I knew him
Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . The relations between Johnson and Sam Rayburn is something we might talk about in the course of this because it is not too well recognized--it has been kind of journalesed--but it was in that connection that Lyndon Johnson was able to be extremely helpful to TVA
  • LBJ-Rayburn relationship; LBJ as legislator; the 1960 Democratic convention in Los Angeles; LBJ and his domestic programs evaluated; LBJ and the watchdog committee for the AEC; LBJ's visit to Iran and his influence on the Shah; LBJ asks Lilienthal
Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • time that they were away from us, so that one I remember quite vividly. G: Of course, LBJ went to the Senate. I was going to ask you if you ever had an opportunity to observe the relationship between Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn. B: Most
  • Boggs' earliest memories of the Johnsons in 1941; LBJ's World War II military service; LBJ's 1948 Senate election; socializing with the Johnsons and Sam Rayburn; Boggs' and Rayburn's interaction during the 1960 presidential campaign kick-off; how
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1951" (Item)
  • McCormack meet with Truman at 10:45 a.m. Truman had just held a meeting with General Eisenhower, who is leaving today for Europe. Luci and Lynda host a birthday party for Speaker Rayburn during the afternoon. That evening the Speaker and Miss Lou Rayburn
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/16/1964 (Saturday) (Item)
  • of the stables and the dairy barn, and the Huntland lManor house in the distance. And fin ally across to the pond - the one where Sam Rayburn used to fish. Now there is a little boat there, and Lu ci had gone out and had such fun with Beth and her agents
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Fort Worth, Texas, 10/19/1964" (Item)
  • House to the courthouse, because I believe - - like Speaker Sam ,Rayburn used to sa y - - that it is the party that cares about people . You know better than anyone else in the U.S . the experience L yndon has - - 2 4 years in the Congress, three years
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Bob Eckhardt always credited Mr. Rayburn with killing big city liberal organization. I've forgotten how Bob perceived that. But at any rate, I know when I married Bob he was very anti-Lyndon Johnson. G: Was it a result of the 1956 [fight]? E: Yes
  • Why LBJ hired Eckhardt; Allan Shivers; Sam Rayburn; downplaying LBJ’s heart attack in 1955; how Eckhardt’s opinion of LBJ improved; the Southern Manifesto; LBJ’s public vs. private opinions.
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 5 (V), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • it in there. I remember that. G: In October I have a note that Speaker [Sam] Rayburn went into the hospital, I guess with his final illness. He was in Dallas, and LBJ went up to see him. Did you see the Speaker on any of those trips? W: No. I went to his
  • in Washington, D.C.; Hurricane Carla in September 1961; Bashir Ahmad, the camel driver; Cantinflas' visit to the Ranch; Sam Rayburn's death and funeral; Tommy Taylor's heart attack; LBJ's resentment of the Eastern/Harvard establishment; LBJ's lack of contentment
Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • all those people when they were mixed with so many other people. M: Did he seem to be good friends with Sam Rayburn? C: Why, of course. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • through various other channels, but I would say it's definitely a minority of the membership that systematically cultivates broad friendships. F: Was Congressman Johnson known as Sam Rayburn's boy in those days, or did that come after he moved
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; LBJ’s philosophy on leaks; Sam Rayburn; John Rankin insulting to all; Eisenhower appointed Hays to TVA in 1959; Fair Employment Practices Commission; Fulbright; Faubus and Arkansas Central High School fiasco; "Southern
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . At that time Mr . It was his bill . Rayburn was very much interested in the bill . They were his constituents, and he felt that the oil industry was important to the state of Texas . I was opposing the legislation as a representative of organized labor
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 72, January 2000," LBJ Library (Item)
  • assassination. It was one of the greatest stories she ever covered, she declared, "a,
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about this Newsweek piece. First of al 1 > the substance of course is that Mr. Johnson had to come to Sam Rayburn's rescue because Rayburn was aging and evidently not able to stay on top of things> according to the article. Do you recall instances
  • Recollections from 1955 on legislative matters; Price Daniel; Drew Pearson; interstate highway bill; Quemoy and Matsu; Styles Bridges; the Capehart Amendment; minimum wage; McCarthy Amendment on Geneva talks; Rayburn and LBJ; purchase of stations
Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the very great Sam Rayburn . of all times . Mr . Rayburn was one of my very favorite people Actually I would say that one of the main reasons that I was asked originally to become the secretary of the Democratic National Committee is because of my
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; admiration of Rayburn; women in South for VP Johnson; Paul Butler; Democratic Advisory Councilom 1948, 1960, 1968 campaigns and conventions; Southern train trip; Mrs. Johnson as a campaigner
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the Speaker's birthday, Sam Rayburn's, which was, I think, the sixth of January and always heralded by a big party, most often given--well, there were many parties for the Speaker celebrating his birthday, but always a very important one given by Dale
  • Social events of the 1950s; Senator Theodore Francis Green; Sam Rayburn; Senator Walter George; Herbert Hoover; Lady Bird Johnson's miscarriages in 1954; the political situation in Vietnam in 1954; the Texas governor's race between Allan Shivers
Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was-- C: As you well know, Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn threw Texas votes to Kennedy on the second ballot. They went for Albert Gore the first time. Not because they were for Kennedy, but because they hated Estes Kefauver so much. I don't mean hated
  • Personal observations of LBJ and JFK before their White House years, especially LBJ in the congress; LBJ's Senate campaigns; the 1960 campaign; "Whistle Stop" campaign of Lady Bird; the Bobby Baker scandal; Rayburn-LBJ relationship; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • proceeded. B: I was not present at that convention, but I have heard that when Sam Rayburn got up to protest the taking of the furniture, somebody took the chair that he had been sitting on. K: Did you ever hear that story? No, I never heard that one; I
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • of LBJ and Sam Rayburn among Texas Democrats; federal vs. state affairs in Texas; 1956 state convention; unit rule and the two-thirds rule.
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1942" (Item)
  • , and Sam Houston Johnson. 4/16 LBJ arrives in Chicago by train, meets with Navy officials, re: training program at the Pier. LBJ leaves Chicago for Washington by rail. 4/17 LBJ arrives in Washington. Alternative War Activity for LBJ: Late February 2
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was the youngest administrator in America . I also met him many times through our mutual friend Sam Rayburn who had served in the Texas Legislature with his father [Sam Ealy Johnson] . The roadside parks and the other improvements that we see today gracing our
Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Remember, I live in Los Angeles, and I know everybody here, so if you want to know who was below that, it was Sam Rayburn. F: You had pretty much of a straight shot, didn't you? P: Well, it didn't take as long to move from one place to the other. And so
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Fort Smith, Arkansas, 10/27/1964" (Item)
  • folks of all you've done to provide parks, college s and water projects during your long legislative career. As a Texan, the highest compliment I can pay you -- and I do want to pay you a high compliment -- is to say you are a man of the Sam
Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • admired by me . Was it noticeable then that he had several mentors like Sam Rayburn and Senator Alvin Wirtz? W: I have only really learned about Wirtz much later . And when I was with Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson, I never really saw that Sam Rayburn
Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a regard for Mr. O'Daniel, but I don't know. He may have taken no position, I don't know. M: I have read in some of the books that there was a sort of a political struggle between your uncle and Sam Rayburn in 1940 in regard to the presidential race