Word: rayburnisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...married a Texas model, Beryl Ann; they have three children. Mustered out as a major at 24, Bentsen was elected the youngest county judge in Texas. In 1948, he ran successfully for the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the youngest member. He impressed a fellow Texan, Speaker Sam Rayburn, who included Bentsen in his after-hours bourbon-and-strategy sessions. Even so, Bentsen did not make much of a mark in the House-with the exception of a speech he now regrets. During the Korean War, he urged that atomic bombs be dropped on the North Koreans unless they withdrew...
...eclipsed by Breslin's concentration on O'Neill. Breslin respects their effort, and describes in detail their persistence, coordination and sheer stamina. Rodino worked so hard that when at one point the workload of the committee became almost unbearable, "girls coming to a Xerox machine in the Rayburn Building at two in the morning found Peter Rodino, in shirtsleeves, running the machine himself...
...Congressman may have arrived after a successful career elsewhere, but he must still undergo a humbling apprenticeship. Anxious to make his mark among his jostling peers, he will have ingested Sam Rayburn's advice that to get along, go along; perhaps he has also learned from John Nance Garner that "you can't know everything well. Learn one subject thoroughly." In a place where talk is cheap and oratory poor, his fellow legislators will judge him by whether he has "done his homework" well-and that phrase accurately registers the tedium involved. Going along, getting along, he becomes...
...bald look, rather passé in politics since the days of Dwight Eisenhower and Speaker Sam Rayburn, has again become topical now that Jerry Ford is Head of State. During his recent senatorial campaign, for example, Utah Republican Senator Jake Garn plastered his state with billboards reading: "Garn-candid. Garn-decisive. Garn-aware. Garn-bald." He won by 25,000 votes. When some of his constituents suggested that he wear a toupee, California's Democratic Senator Alan Cranston replied: "If I went to all that trouble to cover up my head, editorial writers might theorize that I was covering...
...tough answers, is marred mainly by Host Art Fleming's incessant administration of extreme unctiousness. Match Game 74, daytime's top-rated show, has hokey-jokey questions (What did the cannibal say when he finished off Euell Gibbons?) but is graced by the relaxed presence of Gene Rayburn, the most palatable of the hosts...