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- " the National Youth
Administration?
F:
That's right.
And he ran in a special election to succeed Congress-
man [James P.] Buchanan.
P:
Yes.
I must have met him before that, but thereafter--
F:
Were you fairly close to Sam Rayburn in those days who
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- Interaction with LBJ, Sam Rayburn, and other politicians; LBJ’s senate race and maneuver to get on Texas ballot; conflict with oil industry because LBJ did not support mandatory oil increase; supporting Kennedy; Nixon’s Supreme Court argument; LBJ’s
- an honest
record.
One of them was Senator [Sam] Ervin from North Carolina.
That's understandable because of a good many North Carolina ties
that I have.
And one of them was Senator Ed Muskie, whom I hardlY
knew before that time.
I don't think
- 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
- there that day, his
brothers and sisters, including his sister from Fredericksburg that
later died, I believe.
Well, Sam Johnson wasn't there, I don't
believe, and Mrs. Johnson had not got home.
Washington, Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson.
She was still in
But anyway
- 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
