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  • ; Johnsons out on Potomac with Texas guests; Lady Bird and Bob Poage talk about trees in Texas; Lady Bird reminisces about the days of Sam Rayburn
  • -1992 period, is the seventh winner of the Library's D.B. Hardeman Prize. Funded by the LBJ Foundation, and named for the late aide to Speaker Sam Rayburn, the $2,000 prize is awarded biannually to encourage scholarly research on the Congress
  • for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton. The $1,000 award was created from a bequest left to the Library in 1981 by D. B. Hardeman, long-time aide to Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn and, later, House Majority Whip Hale Boggs. Hardeman wanted
  • Faulkner, President, University of Texas al Austin October 20 An Evening with "Mr. Speaker, Sam Rayburn." November 3 An Evening with Ambassador William vanden Heuvel December 7 An Evening of Cowboy Poetry and Music LBJ State and National Parks Coming
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh . PICKLE ·-- III -- 23 governor, he had to be the main spokesman. It was also at that time that Governor Daniel had a general agreement with Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senator Johnson
  • Wirtz and Sam Rayburn, I suppose-I don't know who all the other people were who LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • 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
  • Advisory Committee, [of] which I was a member . Lyndon Johnson had never participated in the National Advisory Committee . I think he always thought it was rather an encroachment upon-­ F: He and Sam Rayburn both, B : He and Sam Rayburn both felt
  • that Wright Patman was going to escort him up or introduce him. I think it turned out that way, but I think mayoe Sam Rayburn may have been on the outskirts of that little ceremony, too. I think he was. I didn't go up to his swearing-in. He indicated
  • LBJ’s susceptibility to illness at various times; State Senator Alvin Wirtz; Ku Klux Klan in Texas; receivership of LCRA in Texas; Wirtz as assistant secretary of Interior Department; his expertise on Texas water law; Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ’s trip
  • you recall during this period meeting Speaker Rayburn? T: I don't remember when I first met him. I'm sure it must have been that first year I was up here because he was in the Johnson home quite frequently. P: How would you describe him? T
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • ; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s mother and brother; Lynda and Luci’s relationship with their family; religion and the Johnsons; the Johnson treatment and Mary McGrory; the Vice-Presidential period; Asia trip with LBJ; Taylor’s work in the Presidential years
  • regarding his son's activities I wouldn't be aware of, and there was never any reference to Mr. Kennedy in any discussions about our programs. G: Okay, in 1962 you had a change in leadership in the House with Sam Rayburn's death, and 1 LBJ Presidential
  • O'Brien's discussion with Joseph Kennedy about the New Frontier program; leadership in the House of Representatives before and after Sam Rayburn's death; the Trade Expansion Act of 1962; a private-sector public-relations operation led by Howard
  • . Fortunately, many that were elected in that year are still with us. F: Could you use Johnson to go out and help you raise money? S: No, I never did that. I remember he did come to a fund-raising affair with Sam Rayburn in New York once, for the purpose
  • they could if they wa nted to. lesson. But •:e learned a great He realized 1·1here the power was in the United States , and it does not lie 1·1ith the Congress or the senators. Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn were just as convinced that that's where
  • Biographical information; LBJ's relationship with JFK; LBJ's Presidential aspirations; 1960 Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with RFK; labor; 1960 campaign; Rayburn; LBJ as VP; access to JFK; Bobby Baker case; Connally-Yarborough conflict
  • DATE: November 15, 1981 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 1 J: The first of the year, as I have said, was always a series of celebrations of Speaker Sam Rayburn's
  • there was a banquet in Austin for Sam Rayburn. Did you go to that that you recall? W: Yes. I went to that. G: About sixteen hundred people. Where was that? W: I don't even know. Seems to me like it was around the Capitol up there at first. G: Yes. One thing
  • appreciative and most cooperative. And Mr. Rayburn came and talked. got here. It was very cute when he This thing was televised, and all this, that and the other. And when he got here, the Speaker says, "I'm not going to say anything. I don't have any
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; interest in politics; meeting LBJ in 1946; characterization of LBJ as a professional politician; campaigning for LBJ; 1958 dinner honoring LBJ as a successful leader in the Senate; Sam Rayburn; Elkin's fundraising
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 24 very kind to me. He helped elect me to the Congress. He got me started right with Speaker Rayburn, he got me
  • 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
  • of a surprise, really, because of the rivalry, and we also knew that LBJ didn't cherish the number-two spot. F: Right. T: Later he told the story so many times, about Sam Rayburn urging him not to take it, and the next day urging him to take it, and Johnson
  • to Washington . He and Sam [Rayburn] would both come and they would talk about legislation . Of course, they'd get in their own political licks, but they'd do it indirectly . F: They'd explain more or less the status of bills and the possibility . B
  • ever known. And he didn't need any touting. he had the energy. He had the ability, .and As far as I know, Lyndon's been pretty well his own man. About the only man that ever influenced him at all was Sam Rayburn. F: What about Senator [Alvin
  • Acquaintance with LBJ during the Kleberg years; LBJ's ambition and energy; influence of Sam Rayburn and Alvin Wirtz; the 1941 campaign; Jim Ferguson's role in 1941; role of postmasters and country commissioners in Texas state politics; Frank Hamer
  • of the battle. This was when Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson, Paul Kilday here in San Antonio, who is a member of Congress, and others got together and tried to put the Democratic Party together again. It was a shambles. There was no organization
  • ; there was politics in my old home of Kaufman. I remember some of that as a boy growing up. I was in Sam Rayburn's district, and Mr. Rayburn was very popular, and we had local politics there. When I got down here this county, Jim Wells County, had for years been
  • for the campaign of 1960? S: One, I had written Mr. Rayburn immediately after the convention. F: Did you know him? S: I knew him fairly well. Northeast part of White Rock. Sort of a silk stocking area. I felt like he and I were good friends. He had
  • in the seventies somewhere along there--but they included a lot of very conservative people, very conservative. G: Rayburn announced that he wouldn't serve as chairman of the Democratic [National] Convention. R: Yes. G: Do you recall why? R: I think
  • ; LBJ announces; the Addison's Disease story; national convention in Los Angeles’ LBJ accepts the VP nomination; Rayburn and Nixon; Connally and LBJ; RFK; Acapulco trip; LBJ’s contribution to the ticket; the Jewish vote; the Adolphus Hotel incident
  • to be placed by historians and critics in the hands of the Democratic delegation in Congress, particularly under the leadership of Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn. P: What's your opinion on this? I agree with that viewpoint. I think that Mr. Rayburn
  • the other four? V: I'm sure he named his wife, his mother, Senator Wirtz, I think Speaker Rayburn probably was there and I'm not sure about the fifth right now, I might think of it in a few minutes. I had for a long time, as a lot of college girls do
  • me ask you if you ever got a chance to observe LBJ's association with Sam Rayburn? RG: Well, it was obvious that they worked closely together and were good friends. But being on the Republican side I don't think I really gained much insight
  • came from the late D. B. Hardeman of Texas, who served as an aide to and biographer of Sam Rayburn, the longtime speaker of the U.S. House of Repre­ sentatives. In a bequest to the LBJ Library following his death in 1981, Hardeman gave his personal
  • will be an­ nouncedat the Library April I. 1992. The prize. funded by a grant from the Foundation, is named in honor of the late D. 8. Hardeman, aide to Speaker Sam Rayburn and noted au,thorityon the U.S. Congress, who donated h-is extensive collection
  • on the Congress and long-time assistant to Sam Rayburn, left a bequest to the LBJ Foundation to further the study of the national legis­ lature. Since that time, the Foundation has awarded the D. B. Hardeman Prize for books on a congressional topic to twelve
  • Speaker Rayburn's library. he was there, and he was another one of my beloved friends. Well, If there ever was anybody that I admired from head to foot, it was Mr. Sam Rayburn. Of course, he was in Congress when I was one of the hirelings up there. F
  • 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
  • that for a long time Speaker Sam Rayburn did think he was good enough to be and did hope that he would be. And the same about John Connally. Although John would get mighty put out with him when he, John, though Lyndon was right up within shooting distance
  • Waldron -- I -- 22 G: Really. Well, I've gotten two differerit theories on this. One, that Sam Rayburn was in favor of it to begin with, the idea that he felt anyone whose name had been placed in nomination before the convention for president had
  • on there? Now, we have on tape already the effort to hold the Texas delegati on and the Shivers versus Rayburn-Johnson fight. But Johnson was kind of a dark, dark horse there. P: Yes, he was, though he had won the May delegati on ffght to go to the national
  • LBJ-Rayburn-Price Daniel relationship; details of the 1960 convention in Los Angeles, especially concerning the Texas delegation; poor accommodations for the delegation; the JFK organization in 1960; Texas delegation reacts to LBJ nomination
  • : Sam Rayburn was quoted as saying one time that he was glad that LBJ got the Ranch because now he could talk about something besides politics. Did this become a favorite subject with him? J: Oh, absolutely. He wanted everybody he knew to come see
  • that was, carrying by one vote. I understand that President Johnson was the floor leader on that, working with Speaker [Sam] Rayburn. 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • at that time who is now deceased. But President Johnson and Speaker Sam Rayburn got together with some of the other people in the back room and with Shivers, and he promised to support the Democratic nominee, regardless. But he worded a proposition that didn't
  • and it would have been where it would do the most good. I don't know. G: You don't recall any contact then with Sam Rayburn or--? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • routine and lunch at the Senate Dining Room. That was my beat. We had a dinner at our house with Speaker [Sam] Rayburn and Wesley West and Sid Richardson, and Jesse Kellam, and Herman and George Brown, who brought Olga Weiss. And John Connally. 2 LBJ
  • television and, later, color television; Sam Houston Johnson and alcoholism.