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- Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961x
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- Engelhard’s family history; marriage to Fritz Mannheimer; leaving France for Spain to avoid testifying against Mr. Daladier and Mr. Reynaud; conditions and traveling during World War II; fleeing to Argentina and later returning to Europe; moving…
- (With occasional comments by his wife, Jim Grant Bolling) Biographical information; Sam Rayburn; Bolling
- First association with LBJ; recollections of James V. Allred; support of FDR; memories of Roy Miller; LBJ’s aptitude for acquiring information; views on LBJ; 1941 race; recollections of George Parr; circumstances of Lyle’s election to Congress…
- His work on the Johnson-Stevenson case; Leland Olds; the way LBJ became Majority Leader; the Filibuster Rule; Johnson’s and Sam Rayburn’s relationship; the Civil Rights Acts and LBJ’s involvement with them; LBJ’s role in the McCarthy period…
- Biographical information; teaching career; candidacy for Congress; support of JFK; Wayne Morse; impression of LBJ as a Senator; education legislation; federal aid to education; opinion of Sam Rayburn; parochial school question; Adam Clayton Powell…
- First meeting LBJ in 1948; certification of the election; vote contest; Allan Shivers; Sam Rayburn; Governor Stevenson’s campaign in Texas; Democratic Organizing Committee; Rayburn’s influence in Texas Party; Democratic Advisory Council; 1956…
- First meeting with LBJ; NYA; Aubrey Williams; Congressional support for LBJ; Dillard Lasseter; John Carson; political apprenticeship of LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; Sam Rayburn; Abe Fortas; Helen Douglas; father figure to LBJ; Texas sort of expansiveness and…
- LBJ's interests in Sputnik and civil rights; activities at the LBJ Ranch the night of the Sputnik launch; Corcoran's relationship with FDR; the 1936 Minimum Wage Bill; Corcoran's preference for a career in law rather than politics;…
- Observations from 1939-1940 on LBJ’s staff members and Alvin Wirtz; Bascom Giles; Maury Maverick; Sam Rayburn; Carl Vinson; Charles Marsh; FDR; Jesse Jones; George Brown; related issues and events
- State legislature and law school background; job for LBJ in his 1941 campaign; early days as a U.S. Congressman and as a part of a minority party;