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Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is an interview with Congressman Wright Patman in his office at 2328 Sam Rayburn Building, Washington, D.C., on August 11, 1972. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. P: Lyndon Johnson
  • LBJ’s civil rights interest; Sam E. Johnson; Ku Klux Klan issue in Texas legislature; farm to market roads; LBJ as secretary to Dick Kleberg; rural electrification; Russell Chaney; NYA; discussion with Rayburn regarding LBJ running for Senate
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . 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
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • reporters with us. They knew that Adlai was going to be with Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn. It looked like Eisenhower was very, very seriously ill, and it was a matter of great importance that the three leading Democrats were going to be together. F
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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? LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • get the feeling--I presume you knew Sam Rayburn fairly well-that in his later years Speaker Rayburn may have been a little jealous of the success of his protégé? W: Jealous of Johnson's progress? F: Success, yes. W: Quite the contrary. He
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Kennedy-F: Did you get the impression he'd placed too much faith in the power of the Senate? H: That, and I think he also placed too much faith in the power of his old friend, the House Speaker, Sam Rayburn, and a few of the key Democrats throughout