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- of John McCormack or Sam Rayburn who were right on top of the situation. B: Do you recall any specific legislative fights in those days to illustrate how Rayburn and Johnson worked together? order. H: I know that's a tall Skip it if it's too vague
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- Sam Rayburn; LBJ and Rayburn; "Board of Education;" U.S. Congress; Landrum-Griffin Labor Reform Bill; 1960 election
- recall, by a single vote. G: Do you recall how the fight went? S: He was supporting it. G: Yes, I had heard that Sam Rayburn had him be the floor leader for that bill. S: Do you remember that? I don't believe that's correct. Is that accurate
- [For interviews 1 and 2] Sparkman and LBJ's careers in the House of Representatives; the Selective Service extension bill in 1941; FDR's handling of the PWA and WPA; LBJ's relationship with FDR and Rayburn; economic problems in the South; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- delegates and things of that nature . I came back to the Massachusetts suite . John McCormack was sitting in there with old Sam Rayburn, the Speaker of the House, and Wright Patman, the Texas congressman . I was very friendly with all three of them
- vigorous young man. M: Did you know Sam Rayburn before you knew-- H: No. I met Sam Rayburn through Lyndon Johnson and the others live mentioned. M: Did you just meet him socially or casually? H: Well, at first it is a little hard to remember
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- How Hoyt met LBJ; Hoyt’s role as domestic director of the Office of War Information; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s persuasive techniques; staying the night at the White House visiting with LBJ; LBJ’s public relations; 1960 election; Hoyt’s appointment
- friendly to labor than not. I imagine they had some talks--if not he, perhaps his brother Sam Houston would have talked to some of them. B: Actually, I suppose the real question is how Governor Stevenson got the AF of L? M: That really is, and I don't
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- Committee; Gerry Siegel; LBJ’s staff members; Sam Rayburn; 1956 fight between Shivers and LBJ; Byron Skelton; Mrs. Loyd Bentsen; Mrs. Frankie Randolph; The Lyndon Johnson Story; LBJ had to work for the 1960 campaign; convention politics; H.L. Hunt’s
- was the youngest administrator in America . I also met him many times through our mutual friend Sam Rayburn who had served in the Texas Legislature with his father [Sam Ealy Johnson] . The roadside parks and the other improvements that we see today gracing our
- Johnson as a senator ; he considered him one of his side kicks . I think they were brought closer together, probably, through Sam Rayburn . That's why it seemed like they tied in, because they were very close . F: What was Senator Kerr's connection
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- Early involvement with Senator Robert Kerr; first contact with LBJ; Sam Rayburn and Kerr; managing Kerr campaigns; Kerr's early interest in LBJ for president; LBJ's work for Oklahoma; organizing Oklahoma for LBJ; 1960 Democratic National Convention
- in that way . Sam was more of the behind-the-scenes operator and I couldn't say- I never saw Rebecca really working at a meeting--Rebecca did her work as I could tell with the more organized groups like the Women's Clubs--the B&PW women, and things
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- to be a very great friend of Speaker Sam Rayburn and President Truman and that he would support the Democratic Party in whatever it undertook. B: Was Mr. Rayburn directly involved in the campaign too? S: Behind the scenes. Of course, he was for Lyndon
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- First meeting LBJ in 1948; certification of the election; vote contest; Allan Shivers; Sam Rayburn; Governor Stevenson’s campaign in Texas; Democratic Organizing Committee; Rayburn’s influence in Texas Party; Democratic Advisory Council; 1956
- there was occupied by Mr. Truman; then Speaker Sam Rayburn was there. But Robert L. Clark had taken a suite for Senator Johnson in the Baker Hotel just across the street. dinner in the suite, as I recall. We had arranged to have In addition to Mr. Clark, Mary
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- to the Senate--and at the time when Sam Rayburn was Speaker. Do you recall what you knew or had heard of Lyndon Johnson when you first came into Congress? A: Yes. I did not know him, of course, but I knew of him. I knew of him by reputation and having read
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- Biographical information; early impressions of LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ and foreign policy in the Eisenhower Administration; LBJ as majority leader; the 1960 election; the JFK legislative program; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- that I wasn't to shift off of Mr . Johnson any more and I was to stay exclusively on his campaign . F: You don't know why the change? B: Later I found out that he felt my stories were more objective toward his endeavors than were those of Sam Kinch
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- : While in Congress, did Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn seem to work closely together? T: Oh, very much so. M: Between the Senate and the House? T: Yes. And Sam Rayburn had more influence over Lyndon Johnson than any man I ever knew. Sam could
- Biographical information; 1933 meeting with LBJ in Washington; LBJ’s relationship with Rayburn; LBJ’s relationship with Congress as President; 1965 hospital closing fight; Mrs. Thompson’s donation of $1 million to UT Medical School at Galveston; LBJ
- think this is a teasing matter. And I said, '~ell, I want you to do it." of course, I'll be glad to" and I did. In fact, when Kennedy and Johnson came to Dallas jointly, we had arranged for them to speak at the Municipal Auditorium. Mr. Sam Rayburn
- Biographical information; family history; Sam Houston; Sam Johnson’s speech to Texas House of Representatives regarding Ku Klux Klan; Congressman Kleberg; Bob Phinney; Col. Ernest O. Thompson; LBJ’s use of a helicopter in 1948 campaign; labor’s
- the convent ion, Sam Rayburn got in touch with me and [said] that he and Johnson wanted to talk to me about heading up the campaign in Texas for the Kennedy -Johnson ticket. I had been approach ed in 1956, both I I by the Democra ts and the Republi cans
- : When did you begin to have some idea that someone named Lyndon Johnson was in the world? M: In my book--did you read my book? F: Yes. M: I said he was going to be President. Oh, I knew Lyndon and Mrs. Johnson-- as I said before, Sam Rayburn
- Sam Rayburn, who was a very able fellow, figured that the best solution was [having Johnson on the ticket], and he, being respected by everybody, was in a position to do it. I think he worked out the agreement as a sure-fire way to bring
- anybody else--name Sam Rayburn, name Barkley, name Jimmy Byrnes, name McNutt, name Jesse Jones, or anyone. There are any number of outstanding men in the party that I urged him to nominate. And I told him that in my judgment Wallace was a mystic, and I
- Sam Rayburn as the Democratic nominee for President, and I wasn't getting very far with that operation. Mc Which year was this? M: This was the 1952 convention when Stevenson was first nominated. Mc '52? M: '52, yes. And because of this lack
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- 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
- 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
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- 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
- who were opposed to this, as I learned subsequently. B: That would have been people like John Connally? V: John Connally and Price Daniel and, indeed, Sam Rayburn. The President tells very amusing stories about Bob Kerr, how much he was opposed
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- funny thing. I was standing near Sam Rayburn on the floor. When the voice vote was over, Collins) the permanent chairman; hesitated. He was standing there and he hesitated to call the vote. The reason why he could legitimately hesitate
- relationships were close from the very first. F: Without getting unduly partisan, at least Democratic partisans have always claimed that in a sense Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rayburn were two chief lieutenants of President Eisenhower on the Hill. Did you ever hear
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- in it. We did have communications with Washington many, many times in connection with the tidelands issue both with Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn. Then we had litigation involving the attendance at the various state schools by Negroes and this was all
- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
- ; Coke Stevenson; involvement in Washington litigation while LBJ was Senator; the Leland Olds case and the Texas oil industry; Allan Shivers, Adlai Stevenson and Sam Rayburn in the 1952 election; getting the Adlai E. Stevenson/John J. Sparkman Democratic
- this Hawaiian del- egation came pouring in with [inaudible] on their shirts. Johnson said, "I've got Bobby out in the other room, and he is saying that there is just too much room for me to run," or "too much heat against me." Somebody, oh, Rayburn
- the Vice Presidency, that he was going to have something to say about patronage in Texas. And this is something, inci- dentally, that you--I was told that Sam Rayburn had advised him to have such an understanding, and this is why Lyndon Johnson as Vice
- commissioned . Secretary Knox, Mr . Speaker Rayburn, and Congressman Johnson and others were present for the commissioning of this station as I recall . And that was April 1, 1940 as I recall . M: Do you remember anything about the defeat in 1941? Do you
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- have seen more or less begin, mature to some very great political careers, and also come to an end in their political careers. and Mr. Johnson. Of course, I'm speaking of Mr. Garner, Mr. Rayburn, Would you tell me if over this time you drew any
- of power in America. The truth of the matter the Senate wasn't; the statehouses were. I think Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rayburn, having grown up as products of the Washington scene, misjudged it worse even than people like me. Their environment was solely
- the friendship grew out of another friend- ship of my father's. I suppose his closest friend in Washington was Speaker Rayburn of Texas, and of course Speaker Rayburn and the President were very close friends too. B: I would assume that friendship began
- was equally close to Speaker Rayburn, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5
- [For interviews 1 and 2] Sparkman and LBJ's careers in the House of Representatives; the Selective Service extension bill in 1941; FDR's handling of the PWA and WPA; LBJ's relationship with FDR and Rayburn; economic problems in the South; LBJ
- to stay with us and yield to Speaker Rayburn, who might nominate President Johnson at that convention. At Los Angeles we did anything that\"Ias necessary, meeting people, driving them around, messenger, \'Jhat have you. Mc: Was that a fairly frantic
- : The fight was a direct confrontation between the Shivers' conservatives and the Rayburn-Johnson moderates, was it not? H: Yes. The moderates combined with the liberals to control the convention, and I think that Mrs. Randolph's appointment