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Died. The Rev. Bernard Braskamp, 79, chaplain of the House of Representatives since 1950, who invariably described his duties thus: "At the start of each day's session, I look out over the House and then I pray for the country"; of a stroke; in Washington...
Great and Noble. In front of the pulpit, the body of Mister Sam lay in a bronze casket under a mantle of deep red roses. "Whatever was great and noble in his life shall abide forever," said the Rev. Bernard Braskamp, chaplain of the House. "We are not saying farewell, only good night." Elder H. G. Ball, the Primitive Baptist Church pastor who had baptized Sam Rayburn just five years ago, intoned the eulogy. Then, while the organ played America, the Beautiful, six of Mister Sam's lifelong friends carried him away...
...preached at the Capitol on Sundays. Today their duties consist of a short prayer beginning each day's session, plus sick calls, marriages, baptisms, funerals and spiritual counsel for the legislators and their staffs. For this, Methodist Chaplain Frederick Brown Harris of the Senate and Presbyterian Chaplain Bernard Braskamp of the House are paid $8,800 a year...
...midsummer heat seared Washington, the Congress of the U.S. was overworked, jumpy, restive, turbulent, eloquent, despondent, confused. "We humbly confess," the House chaplain, Rev. Bernard Braskamp, observed in one of his daily prayers, "that in thinking of our days with their mornings and evenings, their problems and tasks, we frequently find so much that baffles and perplexes us." Overhanging the nation's busy lawmakers were two calendar clouds: 1) six weeks hence begin the presidential nominating conventions, and 2) four months hence 35 Senate and all 435 House seats are at stake in the congressional elections...
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