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Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 2 (II), 2/28/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to challenge Allan Shivers for control of the Democratic machinery. Sam Rayburn more or less drafted him by saying, "I nominate Lyndon Johnson as a favorite son and chairman of the delegation." Were you 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 2/26/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and that his feeling was that it would be futile to try. G: Why do you think then he ultimately did make the race? V: I remember vaguely hearing him say—I believe that he said that it was the Speaker's [Sam Rayburn] view and his view that there should
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 3 (III), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • once I think list the people who were the most influential people in his life, and she would always be one of those. G: Who were the others? V: His wife, Senator [Alvin J.] Wirtz, Speaker Rayburn I think; the Speaker—Mrs. Sam Johnson—I can't think
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the other four? V: I'm sure he named his wife, his mother, Senator Wirtz, I think Speaker Rayburn probably was there and I'm not sure about the fifth right now, I might think of it in a few minutes. I had for a long time, as a lot of college girls do
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