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Folder, "Hull, Cordell [1940]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 10 (Item)

for Senate control. Rayburn might handle the Senate, but his stature is not that of Hull, any more Barkley than is that of Ji.mmy Byrnes. Both are vital, looking at btt; both are pygmies, looking at Hull. With Hull you have a Senate chief in peace or war

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

Folder, "Hunt, H. L.," Name Files, WHCF, Box H-474 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the Senate? B: Well, no, he had frequent contacts with Mr . Rayburn and I think that was a mutual respect and necessary to leadership . should have been so . Naturally, it I mean aside from those two personalities . don't believe that ever before or since

Folder, "February 29, 1968," President’s Appointment File [Diary Backup], Box 91 (Item)

asked the President whether he had accepted questions. The President replied that he had con sidered doing this but decided it would be wiser not to. He recalled that Mr. Rayburn used to say that there are basically two ways of handling people. One

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of power in America. The truth of the matter the Senate wasn't; the statehouses were. I think Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rayburn, having grown up as products of the Washington scene, misjudged it worse even than people like me. Their environment was solely

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 1 a (I), 10/22/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the friendship grew out of another friend- ship of my father's. I suppose his closest friend in Washington was Speaker Rayburn of Texas, and of course Speaker Rayburn and the President were very close friends too. B: I would assume that friendship began

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Rayburn was because Mr. Rayburn felt that he had been given a co11111itment from Truman that he would sign it. G: Did Mr. Johnson think that Truman would sign it also? J: Only because Mr. Rayburn had assured him he would. He might have passed

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

you possible hope to take it for ward when the Speaker, as influential as he was, had taken a firm antiposition. B: Did you think of going back to Mr. Johnson to see if he could use any in:luence with Mr. Rayburn? F: No. I really didn't

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

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, but I have always been reasonably active in the Democratic party. F: Were you at the State convention in 1956 when it sort of boiled down to a contest between Johnson and Rayburn on the one hand, and Allan Shivers on the other, as to who would control

Oral history transcript, Elliot Richardson, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

going in the Senate and the House, under the leadership of Rayburn and Johnson, that pretty well worked with him on progressive legislation. Is that a Democratic boast, or was that a general Eisenhower Administration feeling that, particularly in HEW, he

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

--and it passed the House just; oh, I don't know, a week or so before we finally got ours to the floor--we heard that Mr. Rayburn had said that he didn't want any more damned joint committees. So, Mr. McCormack got up and offered a committee amendment to strike

Folder title list, Personal Papers, Papers of Robert A. Wallace (Item)

://catalog.archives.gov Folder Title Unmarked Folders: Senate Cmte. On Govt. Operations on S. 561 Rayburn Medal Presentation – Bonham, Texas – March 18, 1966 Unmarked: Statement before House Govt. Operations SubCmte. and House Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs Marine

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Fantastic. How did Johnson deal with someone as conservative as Judge [Howard] Smith on the Rules Committee? D: I guess he'd call him. by then. No, he didn't have Rayburn. McCormack was the speaker. Rayburn was dead Of course, the old Judge had

Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was equally close to Speaker Rayburn, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the guy from here, what's his name? G: John Henry Faulk? J: But that was much later. He didn't know John Henry Faulk then. He had some interest in it, but it was after the fact. G: Rayburn offered his compromise on the tidelands issue that spring

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

said, this country couldn't have but one President. If this government was to function, the Congress would have to offer cooperation to the President. I think that the Johnson-Rayburn team in those years demonstrated that with this kind

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

H: I don't know of any relationship that they had. G: How about Richard Russell? What was Johnson's attitude toward Russell? H: I think everybody knows that Richard Russell was the mentor of Johnson in the Senate, just as Rayburn

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 3 (III), 9/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and [Walter] George in the Senate and Rayburn and others in the House that he began to depend on them as much if not more than on the Republicans. I believe you will find that the vast majority of the Democrats supported Eisenhower's foreign policy and tried

Folder, "July 24, 1967 - 11:15 a.m. Detroit Riots - Clark, McNamara, Christopher, Fortas, Wilkins, Doar," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

.· The President read aloud excerpts of an article entitled "Rayburn assails Roosevelt critics." The President then went to the AP and UPI Ticker machines and read the wire copy on the Detroit riots. The President then went to his signing desk with Marvin Watson

Folder, "July 24, 1967 - 10 p.m. Detroit crisis - President's activities from 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

Christian. The Presiden t was reading the J une 22, 1943, issue of the New York Tin-ies concerning President Roose v elt 1 s actions in Detroit. The Presid~nt read aloud excerpts of. an articl e entitled 1 'Rayburn assails Roosevelt critics. 11 The President

Oral history transcript, Harris Melasky, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

trouble after that. Mc: Were you involved in any way in the 1956 fight in the Democratic Party in which Johnson and Rayburn opposed Allan Shivers for control of the party? M: No, I wasn't at that. I think I went to one of the state conventions, but I

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on John Connally as secretary of the navy? V: My memory is that Speaker Rayburn had told Senator Kennedy that the two most promising, talented Texans that he would recommend for appointments in the administration were John Connally and George McGee. I

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 25, 7 May 1982," LBJ Library (Item)

as a public man ... This carnpu , then, set Lyndon Baines Johnson on a course that was t have dramatic impact on the life f every American ... " ALLEN SCHICK RECEIVES SECOND HARDEMAN AWARD The late D. B. Hardeman, long-time aide to Speaker Rayburn

Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Senator Johnson and Congressman Rayburn, didn't think much of the committee, didn't support it. other senators did join, I've forgotten which ones. Some of the I could find out who they were; it's in the record. M: Yes. H: I remember Adali Stevenson

Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

[For interviews 1 and 2] Sparkman and LBJ's careers in the House of Representatives; the Selective Service extension bill in 1941; FDR's handling of the PWA and WPA; LBJ's relationship with FDR and Rayburn; economic problems in the South; LBJ

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, was the epitome of everything that America is not. And I think, you know, you bring up this question of Howard Smith. Mr. Rayburn had to get along with him. with Mr. Rayburn about him. I didn't agree I would have told him to go to hell and to LBJ

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think probably because the depletion allowance was very important to the independents, not so important to the majors. Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rayburn had almost--! started to say single-handedly, I guess I better say double-handedly--kept any legislation

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

frequently go to Rayburn's little office, the Board of Education? AG: Oh, yes. MG: Tell me how routine that was; tell me how often he went and when would he go, and would he leave from there or would he come back to his own office? LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to stay with us and yield to Speaker Rayburn, who might nominate President Johnson at that convention. At Los Angeles we did anything that\"Ias necessary, meeting people, driving them around, messenger, \'Jhat have you. Mc: Was that a fairly frantic

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

Folder title list, Personal Papers, Papers of Arthur M. Okun (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the convention, and then I made my interests known--a visit with Speaker Rayburn and other people. I'm not sure I visited with Mr. Johnson--I may have. I remember seeing him at my uncle's, Bob Clark, house one afternoon, one 2 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

, Homer Thornberry, was in Congress. So they--Senator and Mrs. Johnson could not have been nicer. In fact, they had a little party in their home for us, and I remember that Senator Russell was there, and Speaker Rayburn was there, and, you know

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/13/1967 (Saturday) (Item)

; Johnsons and guests go to Commander John Paul Jones' house to see baby owl; bowling; early dinner; two-hour conversation; confrontation between LBJ and Dean Acheson; Speaker Rayburn's comments about Dean Acheson; donation by Phyllis Dillon

Oral history transcript, W. True Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

official. So we get to the point where Kennedy was very interested, of course, in the support of Johnson and Rayburn and the supporters that Johnson had. it didn't look like he might be going to get that. And The elevators at that hotel were so packed

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: The fight was a direct confrontation between the Shivers' conservatives and the Rayburn-Johnson moderates, was it not? H: Yes. The moderates combined with the liberals to control the convention, and I think that Mrs. Randolph's appointment

Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/oh 14 particularly of the Federal Building. M: I don't think there's any question that Dallas was paying a terrible price for Alger in many ways. I know that Mr. Johnson as the Senate Majority Leader and I know that Congressman Rayburn, and even