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Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , "[Orville] Freeman or [Stuart] Symington," but that neither one could carry any southern state. Rayburn told me the night before that he had heard they were going to ask me to run on the ticket. He said, "Don't get caught in that one." I said I had no plans
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, 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, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow (Item)
  • --Messrs. Rayburn and Johnson--and he put them on the telephone. And of course I fell into the trap, explained the whole matter to Vice President Johnson, outlined the reasons why I thought Connally was the best qualified and asked his opinion