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...part, Foley notes that the Speaker no longer has the power exercised by the legendary Sam Rayburn: "The hierarchical society is gone, in the country and in the Congress. The idea of government is to govern. There will be enough fights." Observes Mitchell: "There will be both confrontation and cooperation. There will not be confrontation for the sake of confrontation...
...House of Representatives. "In power and prestige, the Speaker can be compared only with the President and the Chief Justice of the United States," wrote Neil MacNeil in his book on the House, Forge of Democracy. "He has been the elect of the elect." That is the way Sam Rayburn, John McCormack, Carl Albert and Tip O'Neill thought and acted...
...timers remember that Estes Kefauver's Senate hideaway was littered with "dead soldiers." Harry Truman had just arrived for a bourbon or two at the "Board of Education," Speaker Sam Rayburn's daily happy hour, when he was summoned to power. Anyone who believes a fellow did not get tiddly now and then in Mr. Sam's quaint quarters lives in fantasy...
...blows as Senators ever do with fellow Republican Ted Stevens of Alaska, who favors the pay hike, during a heated exchange at a committee hearing on the subject. Some of Wright's House colleagues, the vast majority of whom want the raise, have started comparing him, unfavorably, with Sam Rayburn, another Texan who once occupied the Speaker's chair...
...Liberal lady commentator from the Washington Post walks up the White House drive carrying bright red tote bag, a souvenir from last summer's Democratic Convention. Big braying donkey is stamped on the bag's side. Reminder of late Speaker Sam Rayburn's caution: "Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it." Footnote to the above: on any given day there are three times as many jackasses in Washington as there are Democrats...