Word: rayburn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Laurel G. Rayburn '00 said she was given excellent care on one overnight stay, but was disturbed by another visit in which a doctor botched an attempt to take her pulse...
...doctor said my pulse was 45," Rayburn said in disbelief. "It was more like 65. She was wrong...
Citing a good relationship with her proctor, Rayburn added that she thought emotional needs, at least for first-years, are satisfied by "a plethora" of resources...
...this cautionary precedent, the Democrats know that if they do regain power, it will be by a margin so thin that they won't pass anything without the support of their moderates--and probably a few Republicans. "We're going to have to run the place the way Sam Rayburn ran it," says Michigan's John Dingell, one of the few House members who have been around long enough to have served under the legendary autocratic Speaker. "Rayburn thought that having too many Democrats was a source of danger and mischief." And while New York's Charles Rangel still...
...young." Instead he became National Security Adviser, transforming the job into the powerful fiefdom it has been ever since. It was a heady time as Bundy, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and others exuberantly conceived limited-war options and counterinsurgency theories. Their intellectual firepower dazzled much of Washington, though Sam Rayburn did grumble to an awed Lyndon Johnson, "I'd feel a whole lot better about them if one of them had just run for sheriff once...