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Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

is nominated; and I'm sure you are on record on your opposition to Stevenson. But I'd be very interested in any relationship you had with regard to 1952 as it affected the Johnson-Rayburn leadership, because they did announce for Stevenson-which gave us

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

between Mr . Rayburn and Mr . Johnson as the Congressional leaders and the National Committee over policy and the direction of the Democratic party . That came later I think, really . Because, see, at that time in 1952 still, the President

Lyndon Johnson's 1954 Desk Diary I, beginning 3/3/1954 (Item)

Subcommittee - S 525 - Natural Gas Bill. Texas Delegation Luncheon Speaker's Dining Room (Closed) Meeting) To honor Hon. Wright Patman on his 25th Anniv. of Cong. service. Raleigh Mull, Railroad Man of Year to be Mr. Rayburn's guest. Interstate and Foreign

Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in leadership on Mr. Rayburn's death.Did that make much difference in the operation of the House? Bo: No, because Mr. Rayburn had been--his illness had been incapacitating him, and his team just moved in--John McCormack, Carl Albert, and myself.The last year
[For interview 1 and 2] Biographical information; Rayburn-Johnson relationship; early signs of leadership in the House; meetings to coordinate Senate and House leadership; 1956 and 1960 conventions; role of Democratic Advisory Council; 1957 Civil

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. In that you ran, of course, into Speaker Rayburn and I rather gather he wasn't too keen on the Democratic Study Group. U: Well, looking back, of course, I enjoyed a very good relationship with Speaker Rayburn. He was in his later years then and of course he
Biographical information; Rayburn; JFK; 1960 Democratic campaign; LBJ’s vice presidency; Lady Bird; Interior; Job Corps; RFK and LBJ

Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and people didn't understand that . did Rayburn have caucuses . They never had caucuses because the Democratic Party was so divided . on anything in a caucus . Neither You wouldn't have had any unified position All you would have had was division

Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was under Mr . Rayburn . I had known both Mr . Rayburn and Mr. Johnson from the early thirties . While we had had different political allegiances in some respects and I was ser ving as a Republican under a Republican president, there was an absolute

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

long enough to hear this interview, and his name was John Burns, who presently is governor of Hawaii, but his term will expire January 3, 1975. He has terminal cancer. Speaker Rayburn was a fantastic person when i t came to determining the character

President's Daily Diary entry, 10/25/1967 (Item)

Sprague King and Holifield are to be feted at a reception in the Rayburn Building at 5:30p today, To jahaHH^colonnade for pictures w/ above sponsored by Los Angeles Board of Superviso King joined the House, Aug. 25, 1942. Holifield on Jan. 3, 1943. King

President's Daily Diary entry, 9/29/1966 (Item)

Servi Grant Shrum , Director, Natl 4-H Club Foundation, Washington, D. C. Secy Freeman requested this appt as a climax to National DHH 4-H Week. To MW's room to stand and talk to MW briefly Congressman Joseph Resnick RECORD and Rayburn Hesse

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/8/1965 (Item)

e SA M RAYBURN DA M in Jasper, Texa s Room To Ova l Offic e w / JV , an d MW Lee Whit e Charles Vera Glase r Mohr re NY Times women's Washington Correspondent appointments To Cabine t Roo m t o meet wit h Secretary Rusk , Secretar y McNamara

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1939" (Item)

with FDR for 30 minutes, shows President photos of dams. 7/27 John L. Lewis attacks John Nance Garner as “a. labor-baiting, poker-playing, whiskey-drinking, evil old man.” Garner calls Rayburn, demands Texas delegation pass resolution absolving him

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as a leader in the debate or anything like that. G: My impression is on the tidelands that he and Rayburn were more will ing to- (Interrupt ion} Were he and Rayburn more inclined to compromise on the tidelands issue than, say, Price Daniel? J: Yes, I

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

thing to worry about. What finally evolved from that meeting though was an agreement that we were to go over to see Speaker Rayburn and to get an agreement from Rayburn to adjourn the Congress on a date certain--I've forgotten now just what

Senate Daily Diary entry, 7/13/1960 (Item)

, or sadness or dejection on his part. Quite the contrary, he seemed at all times during the evening gay, relaxed and possibly relieved when it was all over with. Not long after the third session of the convention had concluded for the night, Speaker Rayburn

Folder, "Hull, Cordell [1940]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 10 (Item)

for Senate control. Rayburn might handle the Senate, but his stature is not that of Hull, any more Barkley than is that of Ji.mmy Byrnes. Both are vital, looking at btt; both are pygmies, looking at Hull. With Hull you have a Senate chief in peace or war

Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the Young Democratic movement in Texas at that time. It was real prolific. Mr. Johnson took quite an interest in it, Mr. Rayburn took quite an interest in young Democrats, and several other state politicians were interested in it. Mc: That was my first

Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the Senate? B: Well, no, he had frequent contacts with Mr . Rayburn and I think that was a mutual respect and necessary to leadership . should have been so . Naturally, it I mean aside from those two personalities . don't believe that ever before or since

Folder, "February 29, 1968," President’s Appointment File [Diary Backup], Box 91 (Item)

asked the President whether he had accepted questions. The President replied that he had con sidered doing this but decided it would be wiser not to. He recalled that Mr. Rayburn used to say that there are basically two ways of handling people. One

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 1 a (I), 10/22/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Rayburn was because Mr. Rayburn felt that he had been given a co11111itment from Truman that he would sign it. G: Did Mr. Johnson think that Truman would sign it also? J: Only because Mr. Rayburn had assured him he would. He might have passed

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

you possible hope to take it for ward when the Speaker, as influential as he was, had taken a firm antiposition. B: Did you think of going back to Mr. Johnson to see if he could use any in:luence with Mr. Rayburn? F: No. I really didn't

Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Drought I think asked me to go to his office and meet Mr. Kleberg. In that office I met a tall, lanky young fellow named Lyndon Johnson who was his clerk. people. I met several other I met Mr. Rayburn and various others on that particular occasion

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, but I have always been reasonably active in the Democratic party. F: Were you at the State convention in 1956 when it sort of boiled down to a contest between Johnson and Rayburn on the one hand, and Allan Shivers on the other, as to who would control

Oral history transcript, Elliot Richardson, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

going in the Senate and the House, under the leadership of Rayburn and Johnson, that pretty well worked with him on progressive legislation. Is that a Democratic boast, or was that a general Eisenhower Administration feeling that, particularly in HEW, he

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

--and it passed the House just; oh, I don't know, a week or so before we finally got ours to the floor--we heard that Mr. Rayburn had said that he didn't want any more damned joint committees. So, Mr. McCormack got up and offered a committee amendment to strike

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Fantastic. How did Johnson deal with someone as conservative as Judge [Howard] Smith on the Rules Committee? D: I guess he'd call him. by then. No, he didn't have Rayburn. McCormack was the speaker. Rayburn was dead Of course, the old Judge had

Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the guy from here, what's his name? G: John Henry Faulk? J: But that was much later. He didn't know John Henry Faulk then. He had some interest in it, but it was after the fact. G: Rayburn offered his compromise on the tidelands issue that spring

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

said, this country couldn't have but one President. If this government was to function, the Congress would have to offer cooperation to the President. I think that the Johnson-Rayburn team in those years demonstrated that with this kind

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

H: I don't know of any relationship that they had. G: How about Richard Russell? What was Johnson's attitude toward Russell? H: I think everybody knows that Richard Russell was the mentor of Johnson in the Senate, just as Rayburn

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 3 (III), 9/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and [Walter] George in the Senate and Rayburn and others in the House that he began to depend on them as much if not more than on the Republicans. I believe you will find that the vast majority of the Democrats supported Eisenhower's foreign policy and tried

Folder, "July 24, 1967 - 11:15 a.m. Detroit Riots - Clark, McNamara, Christopher, Fortas, Wilkins, Doar," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

.· The President read aloud excerpts of an article entitled "Rayburn assails Roosevelt critics." The President then went to the AP and UPI Ticker machines and read the wire copy on the Detroit riots. The President then went to his signing desk with Marvin Watson

Folder, "July 24, 1967 - 10 p.m. Detroit crisis - President's activities from 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

Christian. The Presiden t was reading the J une 22, 1943, issue of the New York Tin-ies concerning President Roose v elt 1 s actions in Detroit. The Presid~nt read aloud excerpts of. an articl e entitled 1 'Rayburn assails Roosevelt critics. 11 The President

Oral history transcript, Harris Melasky, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

trouble after that. Mc: Were you involved in any way in the 1956 fight in the Democratic Party in which Johnson and Rayburn opposed Allan Shivers for control of the party? M: No, I wasn't at that. I think I went to one of the state conventions, but I

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on John Connally as secretary of the navy? V: My memory is that Speaker Rayburn had told Senator Kennedy that the two most promising, talented Texans that he would recommend for appointments in the administration were John Connally and George McGee. I

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 25, 7 May 1982," LBJ Library (Item)

as a public man ... This carnpu , then, set Lyndon Baines Johnson on a course that was t have dramatic impact on the life f every American ... " ALLEN SCHICK RECEIVES SECOND HARDEMAN AWARD The late D. B. Hardeman, long-time aide to Speaker Rayburn

Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Senator Johnson and Congressman Rayburn, didn't think much of the committee, didn't support it. other senators did join, I've forgotten which ones. Some of the I could find out who they were; it's in the record. M: Yes. H: I remember Adali Stevenson

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