Word: fishbait
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There was the familiar cry from Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller: "Mistah Speak-ah! The President of the United States!" There was the rush of applause, the flutter of outstretched arms in the aisle as Lyndon Johnson wove his way toward the rostrum, the predictable burst of foolishness from the Speaker, from whom tradition demands an excessive introduction: ". . . great pleasure . . . highest privilege . . . distinguished, personal honor-of presenting to you the President of the United States...
...great walnut doors of the U.S. House of Representatives swung wide, and Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller announced in his drawlingest Mississippi delivery the arrival of a distinguished member. Through the door came a tall, gaunt man with a shock of white hair, rimless glasses and a thin-lipped smile. The House rose in welcome, and Massachusetts' Representative John William McCormack made his way slowly down the center aisle. His peers had just elected him the 45th Speaker of the House...
...rows behind them were 128 members of the House and Senate, Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark of Texas, and hundreds of other dignitaries from all over the U.S. At the door of the church, William ("Fishbait") Miller, longtime chief doorkeeper of the House, greeted the distinguished mourners and quietly ushered them to their seats. Out front, an overflow crowd of the friends and neighbors of Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn waited in the street...
Other businessmen talked of renting a boat for a weekend "fishing trip with the boys," stocking the boat with girls as well as fishbait. By Monday morning, said one fishing host of his client, "you know he'll do anything to help...
Striding three paces forward from the swinging central doors of the House of Representatives chamber, Doorkeeper William M. ("Fishbait") Miller sucked breath and bellowed the call that has been his prerogative for eight congressional sessions. Cried Mississippian Miller: "Mistuh Speakuh, the President of the United States!" A packed chamber's applause pealed out as Dwight Eisenhower, following Doorkeeper Miller and followed himself by an escort of four Senators and two Representatives, made his smiling way down the aisle to the House well...