Word: rayburn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anymore. Such is the power of her personal geometry that Reno towers above the countless new arrivals to the city. The last time such a crop of eager young technocrats arrived to take over the capital, Sam Rayburn surveyed the bushy-tailed crowd and told Lyndon Johnson, "Well, Lyndon, they may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for sheriff...
...chief's age -- at 72, he is old enough to be the grandfather of some of Clinton's younger aides -- and experience. Bentsen began attending insiders' meetings more than 40 years ago; as a young Congressman, he sat in on some "board of education" gatherings at which "Mr. Sam" Rayburn and House colleagues shaped legislative strategy over belts of bourbon...
...race by a wide margin, went to Omaha anyway to lend moral support. But House Speaker Tom Foley had deftly defused the incipient uprising by flying to Los Angeles, Atlanta and Chicago to schmooze with freshman Democrats. For them, the best advice may still be that of Sam Rayburn, the Speaker when Foley first got to Washington 31 years ago: "To get along, go along...
...they were right. The scene of Vice President Truman, on the day Roosevelt died in 1945, getting the fateful summons from the White House while drinking bourbon in Speaker Sam Rayburn's hideaway has been colorfully retold many times, most notably in Truman's own folksy memoirs and Robert Donovan's delightfully readable two-volume history of the Truman years. What McCullough provides -- as he did for Teddy Roosevelt in Mornings on Horseback and for the Panama Canal in The Path Between the Seas -- is a sense of historic sweep. The onset of the cold war, the Marshall Plan...
...White House he soothed the sulking Democrats of Capitol Hill. They still smarted over the fact that he had interrupted their party's long grip on the presidency. He won Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson to his side as often as not. One evening after plying L.B.J. with Scotch, Ike pointed to his own chair in the Oval Office and said, "Senator, someday you should be in that chair." Johnson roared back to his office in the Capitol wearing that tribute like a battle ribbon...