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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
- sense.
He stuck to it and that's the way it was.
Of course I was very grateful to him.
He wrote a letter to Sam Ray-
burn which I wish r could get hold of.
r presided over the meeting, and the first day we got into a
squabble about adoption of rules
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- with Nixon because it
would help him [Johnson].
F:
He'd be in a position when he called the White House that he could go on over and talk
about it.
G:
That's right.
F:
Did you have any relationship with Sam Rayburn?
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- of constructive opposition as
Democrats rather than just an outright opposition.
I presume as
Mr. Johnson's power grew that you found him no 1e ss effective
despite the fact that he belonged to the "out" party.
H:
_I would
~don
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F:
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that with Sam
