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Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Committee, which took over-~ Oh, I was also on the Immigration and Naturalization [Committee], and that went over to Judiciary under reorganization. So I went with it to the Judiciary Committee. M: Now you mentioned Sam Rayburn promoting Lyndon Johnson

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 Kennedy had, which developed the name "the Irish Mafia" for his supporters that were up on the Hill. I thought that Lyndon Johnson, when he was in the Senate, and Sam Rayburn
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; LBJ’s techniques; opinion of LBJ’s political stance; LBJ-Rayburn liaison; LBJ’s ego and the transition to national politician; LBJ as VP; operation of Congress after LBJ and Rayburn; JFK-LBJ transition

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, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: Apparently, he was quite popular and respected among the members. Mc: Whom did you see as his close friends? F: His closest friends, I would say, from my viewpoint, were Sam Rayburn and Wright Patman. I'm sure there were others; he was quite friendly

INTERVIEWEE: EVERETT COLLIER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Collier's office in Houston, Texas. {Tape 1 of 2, Side 1} G: Why don't we begin with your school days at Sam Houston High School, your recollections of Lyndon Johnson as a teacher
How Collier met LBJ at Sam Houston High School; Cliff Carter; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

me ask you if you ever got a chance to observe LBJ's association with Sam Rayburn? RG: Well, it was obvious that they worked closely together and were good friends. But being on the Republican side I don't think I really gained much insight

, in certain areas. I think basically the question was that Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson, too, took the more traditional view of what the role of Congress should be--that it should react to a presidential program, but the executive really had

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Rayburn because that committee was a House committee. F: Right. Let me ask you a personal question. Now you're a successful . businessman and you move in a businessman's circle; have businessmen ever sort of looked on you as a, oh, I don't know

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