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Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • came back I told him that we had I didn't know what to do about it. Aubrey said, I'm busy. I'm leaving town. I've got to catch that train. You go to Sam Rayburn and see what his advice is.' I went to see Mr. Rayburn, and Mr. Rayburn said, 'Yes, I
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • LBJ and the NYA in 1935; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; political philosophies; Griffin-Landrum Bill; Ralph Yarborough; Allan Shivers; LBJ & JFK; Rayburn and the Kennedys
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was at a two-day seminar in East Texas University with reference to Sam Rayburn. One of the people the're was the head of the history department LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Working for the NYA during the depression and meeting LBJ; LBJ’s powerful leadership of the NYA; Sam Rayburn’s and Alvin Wirtz’s relationships with, and influence over, LBJ; LBJ’s parents; the influential circle of people that worked throughout
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, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • excited about Roosevelt, wasn’t he? K: Oh, yes! G: Do you recall any of these things he said? K: No, but he did probably felt about FDR as he did toward Sam Rayburn. I have heard him comment many times on him. G: Incidentally, on Sam Rayburn, you
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • : Juanita Roberts, the Pres i dent's secretary, has suggested that I try to run down among the President's old friends this matter: It is her opinion that the stories are all wrong which state that Sam Rayburn was a kind of political father
  • Met LBJ as a student at a political meeting in Blanco, TX; Hopkins campaigned for Democratic party nomination to the Senate from 19th District, TX; Sam Johnson as a friend and supporter; Alvin Wirtz; Richard Kleberg's election to Congress, 1931; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . F: No, but I mean your public career does. T: Well, I guess that's part of it. The President's father was a member of the House. I remember Mr. Sam Johnson, and it may be that I did see Mr. Johnson's family, including the President, when he
  • Sam Ealy Johnson; getting to know LBJ when LBJ was NYA Administrator; LBJ’s involvement with local (Austin) issues as a senator; how LBJ helped Thornberry as a junior congressman; Rayburn’s 'Board of Education' sessions; the 1952 and 1956
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the train. He traveled with Congressman Bob Poage of Waco a number of times, and also with Speaker Sam Rayburn. I believe it \'las at Denison~ Texas, somewhere along in there, where the train conductor would hold the train, waiting for Mr. Sam to get
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; NYA; Alvin Wirtz; advisory boards; roadside parks; NYA projects; Sam Rayburn; Congress; Eleanor Roosevelt; FDR; WPA; regional and district organization; Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • delegation. After he released it, I became enthusiastic for--Through Lyndon's approach to Sam Rayburn, who was then the head of the Speaker's Bureau for the National Committee in New York, I went out to New Mexico and made a series of speeches
  • Early personal history in Texas; Justice Department experience; Texas Legislature service; Mine Workers International Union background; LBJ and John L. Lewis; first contacts with LBJ; recollection of Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ’s job with Kleburg and NYA
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the people who worked for him, and I'm sure he was an inspirational figure to Johnson. There were many others. I think when you interviewed my husband, he talked about Alvin Wirtz, who was such a figure, and later Sam Rayburn, of course. MG
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • First meeting with LBJ; NYA; Aubrey Williams; Congressional support for LBJ; Dillard Lasseter; John Carson; political apprenticeship of LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; Sam Rayburn; Abe Fortas; Helen Douglas; father figure to LBJ; Texas sort of expansiveness
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was, and it was part of his greatness. Added to that, of course, was the association of Sam Rayburn--one of the truly greats, I think, of my thirty years in Congress. Sam always had an instinct of trying to feel out people that he felt would be interested in liberal
  • Biographical information; association with LBJ; Rayburn; Board of Education meetings; impression of LBJ; political reputation and closest associates; relationships of LBJ with FDR, Eisenhower and Truman; NYA; wartime price control legislation
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Office building, and the new House Office building and that was before the Sam Rayburn Office building was built. was a very modern building. And this Mr. Kleberg had been in that building from the very beginning, which was unusual for a freshman
  • Biographical information; LBJ’s two years as teacher and debate coach at Sam Houston High School, Houston; LBJ’s role as Congressman Kleberg’s secretary; life in Washington for underpaid federal workers; Dodge Hotel; Little Congress and LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • sponsors were in Texas, they'd get on my back rather than Aubrey's, when they learned of the dismissal." I w ant you to go up," he said, "to see Sam Rayburn on Monday morning. Ask him what we ought to do in Texas." I said, "Yes, sir." LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Birdwell, I believe the Birdwell acquaintance with the Johnsons goes back before the days, even of Lyndon Johnson on this earth, or Sherman Birdwell . B: That's right . F: How did that come about? B: Mr . Sam Johnson, who was Lyndon Johnson's father
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • beginning it was my understanding, whither I got it from Lyndon or someone else that was in a position to know, that she had played a rather important role in getting his appointment . Sam Rayburn, I know, had a lot to do with it, and Sam Rayburn was very
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • in the House was an episode that occurred in 1938. Lyndon, of course, got to be very close to Sam Rayburn. You mentioned the court packing plan, which dominated the session in '3i and '38. That was all in the Senate. This incident was after that plan
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Wright Patman was going to escort him up or introduce him. I think it turned out that way, but I think mayoe Sam Rayburn may have been on the outskirts of that little ceremony, too. I think he was. I didn't go up to his swearing-in. He indicated
  • LBJ’s susceptibility to illness at various times; State Senator Alvin Wirtz; Ku Klux Klan in Texas; receivership of LCRA in Texas; Wirtz as assistant secretary of Interior Department; his expertise on Texas water law; Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ’s trip
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • at that time who is now deceased. But President Johnson and Speaker Sam Rayburn got together with some of the other people in the back room and with Shivers, and he promised to support the Democratic nominee, regardless. But he worded a proposition that didn't
Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and it would have been where it would do the most good. I don't know. G: You don't recall any contact then with Sam Rayburn or--? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • opening came, Mr. Johnson went and asked for the position. Others feel that it came either through Rayburn or Garner or somebody who was looking for the right man. Do you know anything about this? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • when I remember telling him socially, even after the program was over, about lunch and who Lyndon brought to meet me as his guest. G: Who was that, may I ask? K: Well, Sam Rayburn was one, and a couple of younger men. any fuss about it. He didn't
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • He studied, and even way back then Sam Rayburn and a lot of these old boys were advising him on the side. run into that several times. Now I I remember I went with LBJ down to Brownwood one time, Abilene one time. Then those newspaper owners
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • know; I was not around and he never really discussed it with me. I've heard stories that Sam Rayburn recommended him; I've heard stories that Tom Connally recommended him; and I've heard stories that Maury Maverick recommended him. And I would guess
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
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, 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