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Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

not to run the story. He said that Mr. Johnson would be furious with him, but we ran the story. At a much later date, after he was vice president, he told me that it was Sam Rayburn who had told Reedy and Jenkins to open this headquarters and that Senator
Biographical information; LBJ-press relationship; the campaign contributions issue; Philip Graham; Rayburn convinces LBJ to run in 1960; LBJ persuades FDR to put the REA into the Pedernales valley; JFK and leaks; Steve Early and James Hagerty; W

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, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

sense. He stuck to it and that's the way it was. Of course I was very grateful to him. He wrote a letter to Sam Ray- burn which I wish r could get hold of. r presided over the meeting, and the first day we got into a squabble about adoption of rules
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; NATO Parliamentarians Committee; LBJ’s praise of Hays; collaboration of Rayburn and LBJ in shaping legislation in the House; committed JFK delegate in 1960; LBJ as VP; friendship with President a political

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

consideration. M: I do, too. I don't know the answer to that. In 1956 he and [Sam] Rayburn said they wanted really nothing to do with the Democratic Advisory Council that had been set up, and it took me a long time--I was very disappointed. As a new fellow up

Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

that Kennedy came hi~ next time? through at the time of the assassination? C: I don't believe I did. I can't recall specifically. Now, I know that Kennedy came in to visit Sam Rayburn when ,he was here, and I handled that security there on pretty short

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/6/1965 (Wednesday) (Item)

Dedication of Sam Rayburn statue at new Rayburn House Office Building; Lady Bird gives short dedication speech; Lady Bird stops at Inaugural Committee office to thank staff ; Lady Bird works on Inauguration planning; Lady Bird starts new diet

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, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

you've got to be Sam was a very strong man, a very strong parlia m e n ta ri a n and knew h is b usin ess. M: How would you e v aluate the e f f e c t i v e n e s s of t h e i r two types o f le ad er sh ip ? H: Oh, Rayburn would have t o be f a r

Oral history transcript, Jacob Javits, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of World War II were elected on the Republican side. It resulted in the Texas dominance of the House changing to the Republicans, and Joe Martin of Massachusetts replaced Speaker [Sam] Rayburn. And so I didn't have any contact that I can remember

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

any lack of patriotism or going along with the war effort, as it was called, in a vigorous way. I don't. I do remember one happy little social occasion in that busy year, not that I was there, because this was just a stag party. Speaker Sam Rayburn's
constituents in LBJ's congressional district; a birthday party for Sam Rayburn with President Franklin Roosevelt; LBJ's opinion of big business and the Big Inch pipeline; getting the Federal Communications Commission's approval to buy radio station KTBC

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/10/1965 (Tuesday) (Item)

; Johnsons out on Potomac with Texas guests; Lady Bird and Bob Poage talk about trees in Texas; Lady Bird reminisces about the days of Sam Rayburn

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 58, 1 August 1994," LBJ Library (Item)

-1992 period, is the seventh winner of the Library's D.B. Hardeman Prize. Funded by the LBJ Foundation, and named for the late aide to Speaker Sam Rayburn, the $2,000 prize is awarded biannually to encourage scholarly research on the Congress

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 63, 1 August 1996," LBJ Library (Item)

for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton. The $1,000 award was created from a bequest left to the Library in 1981 by D. B. Hardeman, long-time aide to Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn and, later, House Majority Whip Hale Boggs. Hardeman wanted

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 71, 1 September 1999," LBJ Library (Item)

Faulkner, President, University of Texas al Austin October 20 An Evening with "Mr. Speaker, Sam Rayburn." November 3 An Evening with Ambassador William vanden Heuvel December 7 An Evening of Cowboy Poetry and Music LBJ State and National Parks Coming

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh . PICKLE ·-- III -- 23 governor, he had to be the main spokesman. It was also at that time that Governor Daniel had a general agreement with Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senator Johnson

Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston (Item)

Wirtz and Sam Rayburn, I suppose-I don't know who all the other people were who LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
[For interviews 1 and 2] Brief contacts with Senator Johnson during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations; Democratic Advisory Council establishment and opposition by LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Paul Butler; LBJ’s effectiveness as Senate majority

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, 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, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

you recall during this period meeting Speaker Rayburn? T: I don't remember when I first met him. I'm sure it must have been that first year I was up here because he was in the Johnson home quite frequently. P: How would you describe him? T
Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s mother and brother; Lynda and Luci’s relationship with their family; religion and the Johnsons; the Johnson treatment and Mary McGrory; the Vice-Presidential period; Asia trip with LBJ; Taylor’s work in the Presidential years

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

regarding his son's activities I wouldn't be aware of, and there was never any reference to Mr. Kennedy in any discussions about our programs. G: Okay, in 1962 you had a change in leadership in the House with Sam Rayburn's death, and 1 LBJ Presidential
O'Brien's discussion with Joseph Kennedy about the New Frontier program; leadership in the House of Representatives before and after Sam Rayburn's death; the Trade Expansion Act of 1962; a private-sector public-relations operation led by Howard

Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Fortunately, many that were elected in that year are still with us. F: Could you use Johnson to go out and help you raise money? S: No, I never did that. I remember he did come to a fund-raising affair with Sam Rayburn in New York once, for the purpose

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

they could if they wa nted to. lesson. But •:e learned a great He realized 1·1here the power was in the United States , and it does not lie 1·1ith the Congress or the senators. Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn were just as convinced that that's where
Biographical information; LBJ's relationship with JFK; LBJ's Presidential aspirations; 1960 Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with RFK; labor; 1960 campaign; Rayburn; LBJ as VP; access to JFK; Bobby Baker case; Connally-Yarborough conflict

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

DATE: November 15, 1981 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 1 J: The first of the year, as I have said, was always a series of celebrations of Speaker Sam Rayburn's

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

there was a banquet in Austin for Sam Rayburn. Did you go to that that you recall? W: Yes. I went to that. G: About sixteen hundred people. Where was that? W: I don't even know. Seems to me like it was around the Capitol up there at first. G: Yes. One thing

Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

appreciative and most cooperative. And Mr. Rayburn came and talked. got here. It was very cute when he This thing was televised, and all this, that and the other. And when he got here, the Speaker says, "I'm not going to say anything. I don't have any
Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
Biographical information; interest in politics; meeting LBJ in 1946; characterization of LBJ as a professional politician; campaigning for LBJ; 1958 dinner honoring LBJ as a successful leader in the Senate; Sam Rayburn; Elkin's fundraising

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 24 very kind to me. He helped elect me to the Congress. He got me started right with Speaker Rayburn, he got me
Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965

Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of a surprise, really, because of the rivalry, and we also knew that LBJ didn't cherish the number-two spot. F: Right. T: Later he told the story so many times, about Sam Rayburn urging him not to take it, and the next day urging him to take it, and Johnson

Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to Washington . He and Sam [Rayburn] would both come and they would talk about legislation . Of course, they'd get in their own political licks, but they'd do it indirectly . F: They'd explain more or less the status of bills and the possibility . B

Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

ever known. And he didn't need any touting. he had the energy. He had the ability, .and As far as I know, Lyndon's been pretty well his own man. About the only man that ever influenced him at all was Sam Rayburn. F: What about Senator [Alvin
Acquaintance with LBJ during the Kleberg years; LBJ's ambition and energy; influence of Sam Rayburn and Alvin Wirtz; the 1941 campaign; Jim Ferguson's role in 1941; role of postmasters and country commissioners in Texas state politics; Frank Hamer

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the battle. This was when Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson, Paul Kilday here in San Antonio, who is a member of Congress, and others got together and tried to put the Democratic Party together again. It was a shambles. There was no organization

Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

; there was politics in my old home of Kaufman. I remember some of that as a boy growing up. I was in Sam Rayburn's district, and Mr. Rayburn was very popular, and we had local politics there. When I got down here this county, Jim Wells County, had for years been

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for the campaign of 1960? S: One, I had written Mr. Rayburn immediately after the convention. F: Did you know him? S: I knew him fairly well. Northeast part of White Rock. Sort of a silk stocking area. I felt like he and I were good friends. He had

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the seventies somewhere along there--but they included a lot of very conservative people, very conservative. G: Rayburn announced that he wouldn't serve as chairman of the Democratic [National] Convention. R: Yes. G: Do you recall why? R: I think
; LBJ announces; the Addison's Disease story; national convention in Los Angeles’ LBJ accepts the VP nomination; Rayburn and Nixon; Connally and LBJ; RFK; Acapulco trip; LBJ’s contribution to the ticket; the Jewish vote; the Adolphus Hotel incident

Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to be placed by historians and critics in the hands of the Democratic delegation in Congress, particularly under the leadership of Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn. P: What's your opinion on this? I agree with that viewpoint. I think that Mr. Rayburn

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, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

me ask you if you ever got a chance to observe LBJ's association with Sam Rayburn? RG: Well, it was obvious that they worked closely together and were good friends. But being on the Republican side I don't think I really gained much insight

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 46, 15 January 1990," LBJ Library (Item)

came from the late D. B. Hardeman of Texas, who served as an aide to and biographer of Sam Rayburn, the longtime speaker of the U.S. House of Repre sentatives. In a bequest to the LBJ Library following his death in 1981, Hardeman gave his personal

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 50, 1 August 1991," LBJ Library (Item)

will be an nouncedat the Library April I. 1992. The prize. funded by a grant from the Foundation, is named in honor of the late D. 8. Hardeman, aide to Speaker Sam Rayburn and noted au,thorityon the U.S. Congress, who donated h-is extensive collection

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