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FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY {J5
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1964 - 10:00 a. m.
REWLARKS BY MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON
DEDICATION OF SAM RAYBURN STATUE
RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Mr. Speaker, friends and admirers of Sam Rayburn:
The fir
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Dedication of Sam Rayburn Statue, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC, 1/6/1965"
- leaves Washington for Austin by
train with Rayburn
CTJ is vice president of UT Ex-Students Association in Washington, D.C.
07/2024
12/28
Sam Houston Johnson weds Albertine Summers.
12/31
LBJ is en route back to Washington, after visiting Johnson City
-
The Johnsons spend Christmas of 1949 in Texas, having dinner and the tree at
Mrs. Sam Johnson’s home and stockings at 1901 Dillman Street.
January
1/3
Congress convenes; Sam Rayburn is sworn in as Speaker of the House.
1/4
President Truman delivers the State
- is 48 Democrats, 47
Republicans, 1 Independent (Wayne Morse). Morse votes with the Democrats to
organize the Senate, giving the Democrats a 49-47 majority. The party ratio in
the House is 231 Democrats to 203 Republicans; Sam Rayburn is once again
- of Constitutional Principles,”
criticizing the Supreme Court desegregation decision and pledging lawful means
to overturn it. (Another “manifesto” is issued on 7/13 by 83 southern
representatives attacking the civil rights bill.)
LBJ and Sam Rayburn did not sign
- 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
-
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
- assassination. It was one of
the greatest stories she ever covered,
she declared, "a,
- ,
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
- 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
- House of Representatives in Austin; afterwards, LBJ held
meeting with O’Daniel, sounded out his intentions; O’Daniel tells him he will not
run; O’Daniel announces he is naming Sam Houston’s last surviving son, General
Andrew Jackson Houston, as interim
- . In the House, Charles Halleck defeats Joseph Martin for
minority leader. Martin had served as the Republican leader since 1939. Rayburn is
re-elected speaker.
The Senate consists of 64 Democrats and 34 Republicans, including 2 senators from
the new state
- to Mr. Rayburn about it. He
thought Kennedy was going to ask me to run with him, and
he said, "Don't get caught in that trap. Don't accept." 1
had told him that I had no plans and no expectation. So I
told Kennedy that Rayburn was against it, and he said
- would not permit budget limitations to block a request for all the
military funds he personally feels necessary to gain full parity with USSR.
News report says that while LBJ is advocating high level bipartisan approach to
missile program, Rayburn
- Building.
January
Johnsons return to Washington the first week in January.
1/4
Roy Hofheinz visits KTBC.
1/6
Congress convenes. LBJ is present at a birthday party for Sam Rayburn, who
receives hat from FDR.
1/20
Letter: LBJ appointed chairman
- or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or
restore internal peace and security.”
10/19
Governor Robert Kerr of Oklahoma speaks at a Democratic rally in Wichita Falls.
Sam Rayburn, Allred, LBJ, Myron Blalock, W.H. Kittrell, Lindley Beckworth
-
Foundation to honor the late D. B.
Hardeman, former aide to Speaker
Sam Rayburn and noted authority on
the history and operation of the
Congress.
Members of the committee are:
Donald C. Bacon, coeditor of the
Encyclopedia o/ rhe United States
Congress; Dr
- of which they had not been able
to locate. I still have the pain too. . . . I still think I will go to Mayo Clinic but do
not know just when.”
3/25
A banquet is held in Austin honoring Sam Rayburn; 1600 attend.
Sam Low writes LBJ regarding tentative plans
- conference in New York with Sam
Rayburn.
8/20
LBJ apparently flies to Houston Wesley West’s plane.
8/21
LBJ flies to Tyler en route in Quitman, where he addresses the Old Settlers
Reunion.
8/26
LBJ addresses a joint meeting of Lion and Rotary Clubs
- to
fellow Democrats outlining a plan for party strategy. Under this plan, which has
the support of Sam Rayburn and Hubert Humphrey, the Democrats would not
oppose the Eisenhower Administration but would wait for the Republicans to
feud among themselves. Two
- Hannegan,
Arthur Bagby, Ed Clark, Albert Jackson, William Kittrell, Arch Underwood, Sam
Rayburn, Representatives Pickett, Combs and Lyle.,
1/23
LBJ went to see Grace Tully to tell her that the Federal Judge in Austin had died
and to remind her of Alvin
- .
Former Speaker of the Hom1cCarl Albert
The discussions of the 1950s, led by D. B. Hardeman
(left) and Ralph Huitt, revolved around Majority
Leader Lyndon Johnson and Speaker of the House
Sam Rayburn, who dominated national politics in that
period
- of Congress
of Hardeman Book Collection
By Michael L. Gillette
D. B. Hardeman, a former aide to Speaker Sam Rayburn in
lhe 1950s, has given his 9,000 volume book collection to the
LBJ Library. Considered one of the most extensive private
collections
- to the Interior Department have been
abandoned. The transfer had been recommended by the Hoover Commission on
Reorganization of the Executive Branch.
4/25
Mrs. Bob Bartley hosts a tea for Miss Lou Rayburn.
Fagan Dickson, executive director of the Loyal Democrats
- ) and LBJ dine with Speaker Rayburn; they discuss Miss
Lou’s arrival in latter part of January.
1/19
LBJ writes Bess Beeman: “Bird has been very depressed over this [Aunt Effie’s
death] although we all realized it was better for her to go than to continue
- only to
look around us to see the evi aences of this spi r itj the massive
McGee Ben Dam and reservoir dedicated to our beloved Sam Rayburn,
the i mproved ports and waterways , the advances in hurri cane
protection .
I am proud that my husband as your
- to table the
motion.
1/4
Democratic Advisory Committee holds its initial meeting. Although LBJ and Rayburn
have declined to serve on the DAC, two senators, Kefauver and Humphrey, are
members.
During debate on Anderson’s motion on Rule 22, Nixon offers
- ;
and Terry Sullivan, Government Department.) The Hardeman
prize is named for the late aide to Speaker Sam Rayburn, who left
a bequest to the Library. (For other mention of the Hardeman
bequest, see page 7.)
Professor Oshinsky\ book. A Conspiracy So Immense
- 1945
12/26/45
LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) goes to Austin intending to spend only ten days, part of
which he spends in Dallas with Speaker Rayburn.
January
1/8
Stag party honoring Sam Rayburn is scheduled at summer cabin on the shores of
Lake Texoma. LBJ
- 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
- 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
- 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
- , will
participate. D. B. I lardeman was a
long-time aide to Speaker Sam
Rayburn and a serious historian of
Congress. He donated his extensive
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collection of rare books on Congress
to the LBJ Library and the funds to
award a prize each year for the best
book
- of the Democratic conference. LBJ
meets with Slatterly and asks her to return the letter to Douglas because a
meeting of the conference has already been called for 1/12.
1/11
LBJ attends a meeting at the White House for congressional leaders.
1/12
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
- 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
