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Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

looking ahead like he was going to be there forever. I'm told, and the way he used to tell it, when he first came back in February, 1912--[Sam] Rayburn came in March of 1913. Remind me to tell you a story about 4 LBJ Presidential Library http
relationship with LBJ; Hayden's support for foreign aid; how committee assignments were made; concerns that Sam Rayburn's death would interfere with an Arizona fund raiser for Hayden with JFK and LBJ in attendance; LBJ's and Richard Russell's presence

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-nine year old congressmen are not experts in very much, Joe, and it was a very interesting time in that Sam Rayburn was very friendly to me and very helpful to me, very kind F: Had you known Mr . Sam earlier? B: No . F: You met him when you got
Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961

Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was really happening when Lyndon went to the Senate was Lyndon had come--I don't like to say under the influence of, but just a&. he was c~r.Je u~der the influence of Mr. Roosevelt when he . to Congress, he was under the influence of Mr. Rayburn when he
Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
LBJ’s association with President Roosevelt; LBJ as a New Dealer compared to Maury Maverick as a populist; LBJ turning to Sam Rayburn for advice and support; LBJ urging Poage to run against O’Daniel for a Senate seat; the 1948 election; Poage’s

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 11, 24 January 1978," LBJ Library (Item)

. 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

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

story though. E: Oh, well, it's the truth. G: Anything else on LBJ and his associations with the other members of the Texas delegation, Sam Rayburn for example? E: Well, my impression is that they developed a lot over the years. I don't think
Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

/oh Pickle -- VII -- 2 red." And so they did. And one of the first few friends--I say first friends out there, among the first--must have been, Sam Rayburn. I visited that Hornaday ranch in the 1960s--1961, 1962. When I was on the Texas Employment
, Richard Ray, Sam Rayburn, Junior Bill Reed, Ann Richards, Dan Rostenkowski, Darrell Royal, Frank Royal, Bill Sarpalius, Jim Scheuer, Peter Seur, Bob and Helen Sikes, Mark Siljander, Mabel Smith, Charles Sparenberg, Russell Sparenberg, Richard Start

Folder, "Political Notes [1948]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 30 (Item)

over east, middle, and west Tennessee and the chances .are even. Jl!ISSISSIPPI: Former Jl;dge Clayton and present Circuit County Judge Jabits will both run against Rankin. No opposition in fight to Jim Eastland for Senate. Sam Lumkin, the present

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 16, 15 May 1979," LBJ Library (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on that? R: Johnson, with his usual political genius, always said that Rayburn was tops, as he proved the opposite. "Anythi ng for Mr. Sam. He was always the boss. II But that wasn't in fact true, and we might as well come to that right now. Take
Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
His work on the Johnson-Stevenson case; Leland Olds; the way LBJ became Majority Leader; the Filibuster Rule; Johnson’s and Sam Rayburn’s relationship; the Civil Rights Acts and LBJ’s involvement with them; LBJ’s role in the McCarthy period; Rauh’s

Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

" 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

Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think he had been there about one term before, I'm not sure which. Does it show here? G: He was elected in 1937. C: Oh, then he had been there several years. G: Did you regard him as a protégé of Sam Rayburn at that point? C: I think

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

: Juanita Roberts, the Pres i dent's secretary, has suggested that I try to run down among the President's old friends this matter: It is her opinion that the stories are all wrong which state that Sam Rayburn was a kind of political father
Met LBJ as a student at a political meeting in Blanco, TX; Hopkins campaigned for Democratic party nomination to the Senate from 19th District, TX; Sam Johnson as a friend and supporter; Alvin Wirtz; Richard Kleberg's election to Congress, 1931; LBJ

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1952" (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that. FDR had promised somebody that held name another person, and I believe Sam Rayburn turned that around and got the job for LBJ. G: Is that the way LBJ told the story? I mean, did he accredit Rayburn with the appointment? W: I don't know that I ever

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Mr. Johnson as a protégé of some of the older hands in the House like Carl Vinson and Sam Rayburn. Was that apparent in those days? H: Of course, that carried over, you know. Hell, after he went over to the Senate we used to have those meetings

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: No, he didn't like Adlai. F: I know. H: Oh, Adlai just wasn't his kind of man. Did he ever express to you why? I was at the convention sitting among the delegates. I was very friendly with Sam Rayburn who was really Lyndon's mentor and almost

Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

have a one or two [seat] majority. In any event, we had a big majority after the 1956 election. So Johnson really controlled the Congress. Every afternoon at five o'clock he would go over and have a drink with Sam Rayburn and make me or somebody go
LBJ's 1955 heart attack at George Brown's home and his health before the heart attack; LBJ's recovery from the heart attack; why LBJ was an effective Senate majority leader; LBJ's relationships with President Dwight Eisenhower and Sam Rayburn

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was booming and going. G: One of the issues that came up soon after the election was the extension of the Selective Service Act. Any recollections of Sam Rayburn's role and Lyndon Johnson's role in getting that--? 2 LBJ Presidential Library http
; Colonel Sam Anderson; author Robert Caro's writings about LBJ; Sam Rayburn's campaign to call congressmen who were serving in the military back to Congress; LBJ's schedule after returning from war and his work on the House Naval Affairs Committee; Weber's

Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but there was a dinner party going to be [held the next night]. Mr. Sam [Rayburn] was coming that night and Willard I think was living there then, wasn't he? G: Yes. E: He was back from the war and he was living at the house. G: This is Bill Deason? LBJ

Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

first meet Lyndon Johnson? To When did you first come to know him? Y: As best as I can recall, I first met him when I was a member of the United States Congress. That was between 1950 and 1954. Of course Sam Rayburn of Texas took quite a liking

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it, but there I raised so much hell he finally let me alone. When Sam [Rayburn] was dying--the reason why I'll never forget it is I just got a glimpse of Rayburn through the door when Johnson went in to see him. And it was a horrible sight. I did not recognize
of management skills; LBJ visiting Sam Rayburn before his death and Reedy's involvement in LBJ's statement following Rayburn's death; high regard for Rayburn throughout Washington, D.C.; LBJ arranging for Mexican comedian Cantinflas to visit the San Antonio

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of my own trade. It has often been said that Mr. Johnson in those days was also a protégé B: of people like Sam Rayburn and Carl Vinson. Was this relationship obvious, too? K: Not at that time. He'd just come into Congress, but as the years went
First meeting with LBJ; LBJ’s relationship to Rayburn; Carl Vinson and FDR; LBJ in the House; Lady Bird; Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s relationship with Humphrey, Truman, Eisenhower and the Kennedy’s; LBJ’s opinion of career military people; 1956

Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wilson -- I -- 11 Fish works out to be Sam Houston [Johnson's] ex[-wife]. Mary Snish, I didn't know who that was. Mary Fish, And old Mr. Perry was kind of being vague and dropping names and you never heard of them, and so I

Folder, "Corr: Carter, Amon," House of Representatives Papers of Lyndon Johnson, Box 142 (Item)

, Washington, D. C. Dear Lyndon: Enclosed, herewith, is a copy of a letter which I sent to Sam Rayburn. Although I realize that Mr. Rayburn is not responsible for the chaotic conditions and injustices now existing in the oil business, I did want both of you

Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. In the years 1945 to 1951, no woman expected to join Sam Rayburn's private luncheons at the Capitol. On the other hand, Mary Norton held her own in the House of Representatives. She was the equal of any man and better than most when she shepherded through
Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961

Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was pursuing this end of questioning. To see if you knew of any of the early ties and associations. But to continue on, during the 1956 Democratic Convention, you described in your previous interview Sam Rayburn's intervention on behalf of Paul Butler
First newspaper interview with LBJ in 1933; LBJ’s relationship with FDR and Rayburn; Carl Vinson; Clark Clifford; 1924, 1956 and 1968 Democratic conventions; LBJ’s techniques; civil rights legislation; Home Rule for D.C.; LBJ’s relationship

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

wanted Sam Rayburn to walk down the aisle with him when he was sworn in, because Sam Rayburn was his father's old friend. They had been deskmates back when Mr. Sam Johnson was in the Texas House of Representatives and so was Mr. Rayburn. In any case, I
and the friends he made there, such as Carl Vinson and Warren Magnuson; LBJ's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, his declining health, and death; LBJ's time in his district when Congress wasn't in session; LBJ's role in his family after his father's death; Sam Ealy

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. allover: But this was like Pressures were coming in from from clubs, from the Rotary, from the Elks, from allover the country. As I think I told you before, when Bob went to see Sam Rayburn at the beginning of 1958, he practically threw up his LBJ

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Of course, Sam Rayburn, the Speaker, was an old friend. F: Yes. H: And Lyndon Johnson was an old friend. Both of them were for the first two years minority leaders and then for the last six the majority leaders. Throughout that whole eight-year

Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

when that passed by I think one vote or so, and he was working on it. C: No. I do not. plea for that. I remember Sam Rayburn's activity. Sam made a strong I do not recall anything about Lyndon Johnson in that connection. G: Were you able to get

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, they were intensely practical, pragmatic politicians. Two very unusual men. Rayburn, over in the House, was a man with tremendous stature, tremendous integrity, courage, honor. political perspicacity. But I, frankly, never thought too much of his He
Reedy’s role as policy advisor while LBJ was Senator; airline machinists’ strike of 1966; influencing LBJ’s decisions; writing memos to LBJ; Richard Russell; Eugene Millikin; Sam Rayburn; what makes a good Senator; Millard Tyding’s loss to Joseph

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 2 (II), 2/28/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to challenge Allan Shivers for control of the Democratic machinery. Sam Rayburn more or less drafted him by saying, "I nominate Lyndon Johnson as a favorite son and chairman of the delegation." Were you 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1947" (Item)

) 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

Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. F: No, but I mean your public career does. T: Well, I guess that's part of it. The President's father was a member of the House. I remember Mr. Sam Johnson, and it may be that I did see Mr. Johnson's family, including the President, when he
Sam Ealy Johnson; getting to know LBJ when LBJ was NYA Administrator; LBJ’s involvement with local (Austin) issues as a senator; how LBJ helped Thornberry as a junior congressman; Rayburn’s 'Board of Education' sessions; the 1952 and 1956

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/3/1967 (Item)

, Hon . Amb. Goldberg , an d Josep h Califan o . ' - | e Presiden t gav e Georg e Mean y a bo x o f cigar s whic h he receive d fro m e Presiden t o f Paraguay , tellin g him th e stor y tha t Speaker BMBB^^ ^ Rayburn _ d t o hav e a "deal " wit h

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. That story I'll get to But I strongly suspect that Sam Rayburn and some of the Texas delegation may have importuned Mrs. Roosevelt or President Roosevelt to have Aubrey get hold of Lyndon and offer him the job as NYA director of Texas, but I do not know

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of. You're not supposed to do that. Well, Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Baines Johnson, both from the Lone Star State, said, "Ah, ha. He've trapped that old coot in a political faux pas that is just without parallel. ll them where to cut it. as ~peaker, So

Oral history transcript, Carl Vinson, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1970, by Frank Deaver (Item)

the legislation through that he wanted, he wouldn't abandon it; he would keep on until he reached an agreement with the House or Senate. D: And, of course, he and Sam Rayburn were very effective working together in this area. V: Oh, yes, very effective
Views on LBJ's Congressional days; LBJ and Rayburn; Lady Bird's effect on LBJ's career; LBJ's setting up naval facilities in Texas; Vinson's leaving Congress

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with himself. What the hell the bill was I don't know. G: Did he trust Nixon? R: No, he didn't ever like him. I don't think he disliked him as much as Sam Rayburn did, but he didn't like him. I don't know anybody who liked him. G: Now, Johnson

President's Daily Diary entry, 6/10/1966 (Item)

Secy of Treasury for Intl Affairs True Davis, Asst Secy of Treasury ^ ^ ^HHH#y Stanley S Surrey, Asst Secy of Treasury Robert A Wallace, Asst Secy of Treasury Charles Schultze, Director, BOB Sam Hughes, Deputy Director, BOB Henry Rowen, Asst Director

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