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  • against Allan. So I drove all What had hap- pened is that [Sam] Rayburn had put Lyndon's name in kind of against his own--without telling him too much about it. So Lyndon was put in the position there of running not as [just] the favorite son
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • for Dick Kleberg? this off on him?" G: Why do you wish Anyhow that was it. Well, you know, some people have suggested that Sam Rayburn was influential in getting that. Booth Mooney says that in his book [LBJ: An Irreverent Chronicle]. Do you know
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • was talking to him one day. Bill White, you He said, "Sam, did you ever notice any jealousy on Rayburn's part toward Lyndon?" yes. I knew it all the time." See, Rayburn owed his job to Lyndon; Lyndon didn't owe him a damn thing. my book. I said, "Hell
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • , Lyndon became majority leader and everything went to him. But Eisenhower couldn't buy toilet paper without Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn's approval since 1955. They could hardly get enough there when Taft was in. But here's what I'm getting
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Alamo Hotel, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 3 J: Well, I'll probably discuss Lyndon's boyhood, as I see him. to understand that he was born on the Ranch. and Josefa, were born up
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • , 1976 INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERV IEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Alamo Hotel, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: Well, here's what happened on that. G: This is a speech that he made on July 6, 1946. J: Yes. You'd have to go back
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Johnson's residence, Johnson City, Texas Tape 1 of 3 J: Now, this is going to be something repetitious, but I was trying to think of some of the things that I hadn't said
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Johnson's residence, Johnson City, Texas Tape 1 of 4 G: I believe you were going to start with the 1948 campaign, your recollections of that. J: All right. Here's
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • died, why, then Lyndon was a member of Congress, then it didn't--I mean it was kind of a downstep. He was closer to Roosevelt than Rayburn was. was closer to Truman than Lyndon was and so forth. wanted from President Truman. Now, Rayburn But he got
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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