Word: rayburnisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Again as in all proper tragedies, there are choruses to sound the alarum on the McNamara Rostow-Bundys, including old Senate Majority Leader Sam Rayburn ("I'd feel a whole lot better about them if just one of them had run for sheriff once"). There was also plenty of handwriting on the walls. As early as 1954, General Matthew Ridgway had drawn up a report indicating that if the U.S. wanted to follow France into Indochina the price would be between 500,000 and 1,000,000 men tied down to a prolonged guerrilla...
...surplus Hill police made sure that student lobbyists crossed Constitution Ave. between the white lines. One policeman threatened to arrest a Radcliffe student for leaning against a Rayburn Building wall while waiting for the visitors' cafeteria to open...
...LUNCHTIME on Capitol Hill. As four men strode out of the elevator in the Rayburn Building, they passed several members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Lobby resting from a morning's lobbying efforts...
...problem of the War is one of disbelief as well as of political expediency; it is difficult for officials to be affected by the facts even when they have access to them. Vietnam is a world away from Washington. After all the Rayburn Building, with its marble fountains, steamrooms, and bronze eagles, cost three times as much as the entire North Vietnamese electrical system
Sometimes after nightfall when Johnson gets mellow, he can remember every sight and sound of that day in 1941 when Sam Rayburn got the draft extended by a single vote, how the Speaker gaveled the House adjourned and jumped out of his chair when he saw a couple of opposing Congressmen coming up the aisle to vote...