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Deep in the Heart. When Sam Rayburn made the decision that molded his life he was a barefoot boy chopping cotton on his father's 40-acre farm, near Bonham, Tex. As befits a U.S. politician, Sam was born in a log cabin, the eighth of eleven children. His father had fought in the Civil War, settled in Tennessee, moved to Texas when Sam was five...
...soaked up Texas history (Bonham was named for a heroic messenger of the Alamo); he also followed contemporary politics. His hero, and the hero of many another Texan at the turn of the century, was Joseph Weldon Bailey, a towering, rugged character, a mighty orator, a political reformer who rose to be Democratic leader in Congress, then graduated to the Senate. Sam Rayburn likes to recall the day when, as a ten-year-old boy, he got permission to saddle up his father's mare and ride twelve miles to town to peep breathlessly through a flap...
...Rancher at Home. Thousands know Sam Rayburn of Washington, the shy, hardworking, orderly minded man who has a kind word for the lowliest of Capitol employes. Very few know Sam Rayburn, the rancher, the Squire of Bonham, the North Texas cattleman...
...Reyburn home in Bonham is a big white house with twelve rooms, four 20-ft. white columns in front, four sleeping porches, 14 rocking chairs and almost as many couches, and a Brobdingnagian butane gas stove in the kitchen. The farm has 150 acres; there are 208 more acres on a neighboring farm, and 917 on the Rayburn cattle ranch 13 miles away. Sam's brothers, Tom and Jim, run the farm and ranch; his sister Lucinda, known to all as Miss Lou, is the mistress of the house...
...dinners of fried chicken or steak, great slices of cold tomatoes and sliced Bermuda onions, cornbread and homemade jelly, and homemade ice cream cranked out in an old-fashioned freezer by Bobby, the colored cook. The steaks are from Rayburn cattle, straight from the frozen-food locker in Bonham...