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Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Not at that time, no. Senator Wirtz was from Seguin, but he was not a factor in my life at that time. In the latter part of 1935 or 1936 I was in the University, and through Mr. Sam Fore, who was the publisher of the Floresville Chronicle-Journal, I applied
Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Only in the most pleasant way. I saw the Congressman and Mrs. Johnson many times while I was there. Indeed, they were very kind. And, of course, you know the close relationship that existed between Speaker Sam Rayburn and-- M: Yes. 3 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . (Interruption) G: [Do you want to] talk about the Texas delegation? J: Yes. It was a very strong, cohesive delegation that Lyndon worked with. The Speaker [Sam Rayburn] was always the head man. I'm not sure; I think he was already speaker by 5 LBJ
  • Johnson's time spent sight-seeing and attending events at the Congressional Club or the 75th Club; visiting Bill White in New York City; Sam Rayburn, Wright Patman, Nat Patton, and other Texans in Washington, D.C.; visits with Aunt Effie Pattillo; summer
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : That's right. Sam Houston [Johnson] has a pretty full report on that in his book--of that meeting. I was not at the meeting. G: But can you collaborate what he said? M: Yes, I think that's the way it happened all right. I did see Shivers at some
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • sponsors were in Texas, they'd get on my back rather than Aubrey's, when they learned of the dismissal." I w ant you to go up," he said, "to see Sam Rayburn on Monday morning. Ask him what we ought to do in Texas." I said, "Yes, sir." LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and I don't recall the incident, but there was some occasion that I had to go over and talk to him about something. We met and I liked him very much. F: Did you get to know Mr. Sam [Rayburn] pretty well? P: Yes. 2 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Pucinski's political career; Pucinski's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ's support for Pucinski in a 1972 Senate race against Charles Percy; allegations of misconduct against Charles Robb in Vietnam; a trip to Chicago with Vice President Johnson
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Sam Rayburn, who was a very able fellow, figured that the best solution was [having Johnson on the ticket], and he, being respected by everybody, was in a position to do it. I think he worked out the agreement as a sure-fire way to bring
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn at these gatherings? You mentioned the dinner before. W: Father and son. Father and a son of whom he was very proud, who might have given him some trouble from time to time, but basically he was very proud of him. G
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • 1946 campaign; 1948 Senate campaign and the Fort Worth Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; social gatherings at the Johnsons' Washington home; LBJ and the press; 1954 Senate campaign
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • reporters with us. They knew that Adlai was going to be with Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn. It looked like Eisenhower was very, very seriously ill, and it was a matter of great importance that the three leading Democrats were going to be together. F
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , not related to the state senator, who went on to become Speaker Sam Rayburn's private secretary and confidante; Alex Louis, who left us to join the Joe Belden public opinion sampling poll in Texas and then became an independent in that field; Bill Gardner
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was the relationship between Mr. [Sam] Rayburn in the House and Senator Johnson? R: That was virtually a father and son relationship--an extremely close relation­ ship; and during the years that I have known Senator Johnson, I would say he had more respect--in fact
Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Once, I especially remember, when I was speaker of the House he came down with Speaker Sam Rayburn when Mr. Rayburn made a speech to the House. I guess that's the first time I really did get to visit very much with thenCongressman Johnson. F
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , because they had to protect their flank back in Texas. The 27.5 per cent depletion, Rayburn and Johnson, by their selection of people to be on the committees, nobody ever touched depletion as long as Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn were in the Congress. I
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • anybody else--name Sam Rayburn, name Barkley, name Jimmy Byrnes, name McNutt, name Jesse Jones, or anyone. There are any number of outstanding men in the party that I urged him to nominate. And I told him that in my judgment Wallace was a mystic, and I
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Birdwell, I believe the Birdwell acquaintance with the Johnsons goes back before the days, even of Lyndon Johnson on this earth, or Sherman Birdwell . B: That's right . F: How did that come about? B: Mr . Sam Johnson, who was Lyndon Johnson's father
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 49, 1 April 1991," LBJ Library (Item)
  • and under its bright beam with nighttime lights. Early on. I bumped into Mr. Sam Rayburn one evening who said: "Isn't it the most beautiful sight in the world?" When Pearl Harbor came, the lights brieny went out. I knew then that when they came on again
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Hill the next year. practice has been more or less abandoned. But even that [We] might have a congress- man two successive years--somebody off the Hill. There's no real pattern now. F: I see. Did Mr. Sam [Rayburn] entertain much? OM: No, I
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; how they came to Washington; meeting the Johnsons; Dick Kleberg; Texas State Society; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s early influence in Washington; gaining support for LBJ in Dallas; 1960 convention; women’s tea party tours
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , but . . . Yes, you've also mentioned Sam Rayburn and apparently Rayburn and Johnson worked closely together. Have you ever had occasion to see them working together on political matters? HM: Well, in election matters here in the state, not on matters
Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Connally has not helped me in politics because, sure, it has Helped me, and I'll admit this. As did Lyndon Johnson's friendship with Franklin Roosevelt help him in his first campaign; as did Lyndon Johnson's friendship with Sam Rayburn help him get
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to one of the most glittering things, up to that time, that I had experienced in Washington. It was a big dinner given in honor of the Speaker and Miss Lou [Rayburn's sister] at the home of a hostess with a capital H, a Mrs. Denegra [?], who had a house
  • II; attending a dinner honoring Sam Rayburn and his sister, Miss Lou; the State of the Union address in 1941; listening to Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats; LBJ's exposure to culture and music by the Marshes; LBJ's desire
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to me about things to do. First and foremost, keep up with the Texas delegation, pay calls on them, ask their advice, and at the head of the list, always in capital letters, the Speaker, Mr. Sam Rayburn. This I did with great pleasure every now
  • the installation; efforts to get an abattoir in Austin; Lady Bird Johnson visiting the British Embassy and Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes on behalf of constituents; visiting Sam Rayburn for advice; living arrangements while LBJ was away during the war; Lady
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not talk about. One is that the Shivers faction apparently was considering whether or not to allow Sam Rayburn to go to the convention as a delegate. J: Do you recall that? Yes. 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • had been circulating that only three or four of the Texas congressmen were going to vote for it. Senator Johnson thought it would be a reflection on the Speaker--Speaker Sam Rayburn~~and it would be a reflection on him, if Texas did not support
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 47, 1 July 1990," LBJ Library (Item)
  • under dis­ cussion, Connally brought up Caro ·s charge from his earlier book, 1he Path to Power, that Johnson "betrayed" Speaker Sam Rayburn by refusing to join Rayburn ·sand the Texas delegation's support of John Nance Garner's bid for the presiden­ cy
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , it was straight Democrat. Too, Alger and Sam Rayburn didn't get along. As a matter of fact, Mr. Sam despised Bruce, and so they just didn't get along. And they were friendly enough to me when I first came there. They were apparently willing to look me over anyway
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to it. One of the things I always looked forward to most was going to dinner at Speaker Sam Rayburn's. His bachelor apartment was in the Anchorage, about the third floor up and one ascended in a tiny elevator, or walked. It was very simple, somewhat spartan
  • Visiting the home of Evalyn Walsh McLean and socializing in 1941; Lady Bird's participation in a 75th Club luncheon honoring Eleanor Roosevelt; riding in Sam Rayburn's car; diversity in the 10th District; Lady Bird Johnson using her movie camera
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • esoteric areas and my academic background stood me in very good stead. As a matter of fact, Speaker Rayburn and some of the leaders used me more as a staff man rather than a freshman Congressman. F: Staff man who can vote. B: That's right. Mr. Sam
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • in fact set up a separate, almost an ad hoc Congressional Campaign Committee, and we went downtown and took offices in the Munsey Building, and raised our own money. D: Now, raised your own money, wasn't a lot of that money raised by Sam Rayburn? C
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • describe Hr. Johnson's relationship with Hr. Rayburn during this period? F: I know that only by hearsay and casual observations, but the combined image of the two was that they had a very close relationship and that the President still consulted Mr
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; 1960 convention; LBJ’s acceptance of VP nomination; Lady Bird campaigning in North Carolina; civil rights legislation; religious issue; Senate luncheon; LBJ’s trips
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • . That's a tradition which was started under Sam Rayburn. We would have lunch each Wednesday in what they called the Speaker's Dining Room, and Sam Rayburn started it and it still goes on. It went on as long as I was there and it goes on now. Now before I
President's Daily Diary entry, 10/18/1968 (Item)
  • o in, h e woul d loo k a t i t an d stroke it . On e da y Speaker Raybur n said . "Wh y don't you tak e th e thin g to Mis s Harriet. She' s a n artist, an d sh e migh t lik e it. " S o Sam Rayburn gave the piec e to Speake r an d Mrs. McCormack . Th
Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • you have any contact with Mr. Johnson during the years between then and the time he became vice president or the late fifties, or when he was vice president for that matter? P: None of any substance. I was quite close to Mr. Sam Rayburn, and LBJ
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 43, 15 July 1988," LBJ Library (Item)
  • D.B. Harde­ man wrote a biography of Sam Ray­ burn titled Rayburn: A Bioxraphy, and Lawrence Wr,ight (right), whose In The New World is a mov­ ing portmit of a young man's matu­ rity in the 1960s. The Library invited al,) the presi­ dential candidates
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • without a word of debate; it was never even mentioned in the Senate debate. Apparently nobody even paid any attention to it. It got to the House and Speaker [Sam] Rayburn didn't like it at all. Neither did Howard Smith [D.-Va.], the head of the Rules 7
  • Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s 1964 campaign speech in New Orleans; Johnson treatment; immense capacity to judge people; Johnson-Rayburn relationship; first signs of Presidential ambition; LBJ’s relationship with oil and gas industries; relationship
Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would like a Speaker to be. F: He didn't seem to have that kind of gutsiness that Sam Rayburn had, for instance. W: Nobody had. Sam Rayburn was one of the most remarkable men I ever met, and I only met him in his dying months. F: But I think you
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and not taken seriously at all. The first statehood bill was entered July 2 l ~ 1 9 4 5 , and the measure found some attraction only in Washington but no action was taken. This was in 1950. Time and time again he visited with Sam Rayburn> not only about
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Sam Rayburn as the Democratic nominee for President, and I wasn't getting very far with that operation. Mc Which year was this? M: This was the 1952 convention when Stevenson was first nominated. Mc '52? M: '52, yes. And because of this lack
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was not navy. G: Yes. Did you ever have an opportunity to see him with Sam Rayburn and observe their relationship? B: Oh, yes. G: What were they like together? B: Very close, very close. G: Would you elaborate and just describe any times that you were
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; LBJ's Naval Commission; Naval Affairs Committee; LBJ military service overseas; LBJ and Sam Rayburn; LBJ and Forrestal; LBJ and John Connally; Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy; LBJ investigations of Navy Department