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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

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 72, June 2000," LBJ Library (Item)

to criticize in Washington today, especially the state of polit ical discourse. Mr. Ford recalled that when he first came to the House in 1949, Speaker Sam Rayburn gathered all the freshmen representatives for a talk. One of the things he said, and which Mr

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

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

president. I had covered the 1960 Democratic convention so I knew something about the negotiations that went on between Sam Rayburn and Bobby [Kennedy] for Johnson to go on the ticket. G: Tell me your insights there. D: Well, as I said, I didn't know

Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with Nixon because it would help him [Johnson]. F: He'd be in a position when he called the White House that he could go on over and talk about it. G: That's right. F: Did you have any relationship with Sam Rayburn? LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

about him in those days? H: I don't recall anything special. You have to realize that he had two fellow Texans who occupied very prominent positions there. was John Nance Garner and the other was Sam Rayburn. One Naturally they would overshadow

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: When we did get the headquarters opened, Lyndon B. Johnson for President, Harris County Headquarters, 1501 Texas Avenue, by this time Speaker [Sam] Rayburn and Governor [Price] Daniel had agreed to serve as Texas' honorary co-chairmen and the two Harris

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1962" (Item)

room for unveiling of Sam Rayburn commemorative stamp. Meets with Mr. Kappel, Lloyd Miller’s boss. 5 p.m., goes to WH for off-the-record NSC meeting on disarmament. 7/31 WH leadership breakfast meeting. LBJ opens Senate, has an appt. with McGeorge

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1948" (Item)

Speaker Rayburn’s 66th birthday. He receives a standing ovation from the House during a tribute speech by Congressman Halleck of Indiana. President Truman is an unannounced guest at a private luncheon at the Capitol honoring Rayburn. 1/7 Truman delivers

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. G: But wasn't he elected again later on? J: I don't think so. G: Is that right? J: I don't think so. second daddy. to me." problem~ how did he keep getting elected? Now Lyndon always talked about Sam Rayburn being a Lyndon \'lOuld talk
Sam Ealy Johnson; political campaigns; LBJ Ranch; LBJ and Catholicism; TV station KTBC

Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -8recommend the veto." He got on the phone and he got hold of Mr. Rayburn; and he said, "Sam, you heard what your fellows are trying to do to this AID Bill?" I don't think Mr. Rayburn had heard about

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

funny thing. I was standing near Sam Rayburn on the floor. When the voice vote was over, Collins) the permanent chairman; hesitated. He was standing there and he hesitated to call the vote. The reason why he could legitimately hesitate

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

if you'll just tell Ine. you're her sister. And he said, "I I won't tell anybody that 11 I said, "But I'm not. II F: I see. He was on the trail of something. N: And, of course, I think a lot of the Congressmen would meet with Speaker Rayburn
Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
LBJ’s teaching days in Cotulla; office in Johnson City; Mrs. Nichols’ marriage; Pat Moreland; Russell Brown; Phil Nichols; answering of correspondence; LCRA electricity project; FDR and LBJ; Sam Rayburn’s “Board of Education;” Hardy Hollers campaign

Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in Congress, got very angry with him and stayed angry until he died, as a matter of fact. B: On what basis? M: He just wouldn't support any of the legislation the NAACP was after. Walter White chalked it up to his great admiration for Sam Rayburn. He

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)

Congresses, beginning in 1957. Can you talk about what that was like for you? M: Well it seemed to me that, in terms of the political situation, that [Dwight] Eisenhower and Sam Rayburn, the speaker of the house, and Lyndon Johnson, the majority leader

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

would arise that involved the Justice Department. I was used as a general utility man. It seems to me that I remember at one stage in those early months that either President Johnson said it himself or he may have quoted Mr. Sam Rayburn that "you should

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Johnson as I would any important Congressman or Senator, as I got to know Sam Rayburn and other people who were important and interested in various things . On the Civil Aeronautics Board, I met him a few times, but he had very little direct interest

Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Territo -- I -- 14 file. T: Yes, absolutely. A: So that's how some of those files go back to 1937. T: Like the copy of the--well, there's a letter from Lyndon Johnson to Sam Rayburn remembering when he walked him down the aisle

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

not heed my words about waiting for the release until he contacted them, because I remember one of them, quote, "was out hunting." I'm pretty sure it was Lyndon Johnson; I don't think it would have been Sam Rayburn. But anyway, it was put out

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