Word: rayburnisms
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...emotional impact of Harry Truman's hurrah for Harriman had worn off, and it was time for the doughty old man to get down to the hard, cold business of politicking. His first serious move was to invite House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to dinner in his Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel suite to enlist their aid for Ave. With high hopes that a convivial evening and some earnest talk would do the job, Truman produced a bottle of bourbon and, in the long-established spirit of Capitol Hill, proposed that the three "strike a blow...
...summoning House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Minority Leader Joe Martin, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Minority Leader William Knowland and foreign relations leaders in both houses, the President sought no commitments. He had no immediate plan to call a special session of Congress during its pre-election recess. Instead, the group had been assembled to hear the issues discussed by John Foster Dulles before he flew to London for this week's Suez conference, and to get some idea of how grave the situation...
Texas (56) : All for Favorite Son Lyndon Johnson. But Lyndon is the boy to release the delegation at the right moment (Permanent Chairman Sam Rayburn of Texas will surely recognize the Lone Star standard at its first wave) and perhaps win credit for putting Stevenson over the top on the first ballot...
...into the night the House of Representatives shook with spirited, if unmelodious, yodels of Aloha Oe and the Whiffenpoof Song. From Dwight Eisenhower came a final message conveying "my best wishes to Mr. Sam." Said Speaker Sam Rayburn of the Texas-born President: "I long ago told him that he was my most distinguished constituent." On the Senate side, Ohio Republican George Bender was in mid-sentence when Florida Democrat Spessard Holland reminded the Senate that it was time to adjourn. Responded Vice President Richard Nixon : "The point of order is well taken." He banged down his gavel...
Rare Drama. The House leaders struggled desperately against the onslaught. Majority Leader John McCormack, Sam Rayburn and Joe Martin (who read a 380-word letter from the President pleading for the foreign-aid program) all spoke earnestly-and futilely. Then Dick Richards, serving the last of his 23 years in the House (he is retiring this year), arose to defend his committee's cuts. It was a moment of rare House drama: the policy of an able, hard-working committee chairman had been repudiated by his leaders, who were also his dear friends. Sam Rayburn and Joe Martin, said...