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Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 Kennedy had, which developed the name "the Irish Mafia" for his supporters that were up on the Hill. I thought that Lyndon Johnson, when he was in the Senate, and Sam Rayburn
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; LBJ’s techniques; opinion of LBJ’s political stance; LBJ-Rayburn liaison; LBJ’s ego and the transition to national politician; LBJ as VP; operation of Congress after LBJ and Rayburn; JFK-LBJ transition
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : Apparently, he was quite popular and respected among the members. Mc: Whom did you see as his close friends? F: His closest friends, I would say, from my viewpoint, were Sam Rayburn and Wright Patman. I'm sure there were others; he was quite friendly
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: EVERETT COLLIER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Collier's office in Houston, Texas. {Tape 1 of 2, Side 1} G: Why don't we begin with your school days at Sam Houston High School, your recollections of Lyndon Johnson as a teacher
  • How Collier met LBJ at Sam Houston High School; Cliff Carter; LBJ
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in certain areas. I think basically the question was that Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson, too, took the more traditional view of what the role of Congress should be--that it should react to a presidential program, but the executive really had
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Rayburn because that committee was a House committee. F: Right. Let me ask you a personal question. Now you're a successful . businessman and you move in a businessman's circle; have businessmen ever sort of looked on you as a, oh, I don't know