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Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to you that you're not going to win this election unless you take Johnson on for vice president." F: This is long before Los Angeles? C: This is in Los Angeles, after the vote on Lyndon. I had gone earlier to Sam Rayburn--I was out in Los Angeles
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • ; Corcoran's work for LBJ at the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles; Corcoran's efforts to convince Sam Rayburn that LBJ should accept the vice presidential nomination in 1960; Mike Mansfield as Senator Majority Leader; Jim Landis; Ambassador
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • are you taking all of this? It doesn't mean anything to you." He said, "Sam wants it." That's all he ever said. Well, you know, that just says a whole lot. And that was Sam Rayburn's pet. He wanted the east front of the Capitol. But I thought that puts
Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • controversy? J: Yes. Lyndon Johnson, for his growing conservatism on domestic matters after his earlier New Deal years, always stood in the tradition of Sam Rayburn and others in support of public power. He was very good on this and he was a tremendous
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