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Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • delegates and things of that nature . I came back to the Massachusetts suite . John McCormack was sitting in there with old Sam Rayburn, the Speaker of the House, and Wright Patman, the Texas congressman . I was very friendly with all three of them
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • vigorous young man. M: Did you know Sam Rayburn before you knew-- H: No. I met Sam Rayburn through Lyndon Johnson and the others live mentioned. M: Did you just meet him socially or casually? H: Well, at first it is a little hard to remember
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • How Hoyt met LBJ; Hoyt’s role as domestic director of the Office of War Information; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s persuasive techniques; staying the night at the White House visiting with LBJ; LBJ’s public relations; 1960 election; Hoyt’s appointment
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the Senate--and at the time when Sam Rayburn was Speaker. Do you recall what you knew or had heard of Lyndon Johnson when you first came into Congress? A: Yes. I did not know him, of course, but I knew of him. I knew of him by reputation and having read
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; early impressions of LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ and foreign policy in the Eisenhower Administration; LBJ as majority leader; the 1960 election; the JFK legislative program; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Sam Rayburn as the Democratic nominee for President, and I wasn't getting very far with that operation. Mc Which year was this? M: This was the 1952 convention when Stevenson was first nominated. Mc '52? M: '52, yes. And because of this lack
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Advisory Committee, [of] which I was a member . Lyndon Johnson had never participated in the National Advisory Committee . I think he always thought it was rather an encroachment upon-­ F: He and Sam Rayburn both, B : He and Sam Rayburn both felt
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • relationships were close from the very first. F: Without getting unduly partisan, at least Democratic partisans have always claimed that in a sense Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rayburn were two chief lieutenants of President Eisenhower on the Hill. Did you ever hear