Word: rayburnisms
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...Austin's Commodore Perry Hotel, Adlai Stevenson spent 35 minutes closeted with senior Texas Democrat and House Speaker Sam Rayburn. That night, at the university, Stevenson's subject was "America, the Economic Colossus." Stevenson had some doubts about the colossus. Said he: "I am not a prophet of gloom. I am not a prophet of any kind whatever. Nonetheless, I groaned the other day when a leading politician said with glee, 'Everything is booming but the guns.' I wish people would take less interest in booms and more in stability-in making good conditions last...
...House held up the natural gas regulation bill for months, then passed it at the last moment by a six-vote margin. Then the House leadership was indignant because the Senate decided it had not received the bill in time to act on it this year (Speaker Sam Rayburn kept sending angry little notes to the Senate leaders about the bill...
...stood tall in the political saddle. Politically, the big state of Texas lay in his pocket. But despite the wave of Eisenhowerism, Texas remained solidly Democratic. No one understood this better than rebel Shivers, as he watched his power dissolve behind him during the post-election years. Under Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House (and single head of the Texas faithful, now that illness has removed Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson from the arena), the Democratic loyalists gathered in new vigor to nibble at Shivers' empire...
Shivers is not expected to seek another term; but he vastly enjoyed leading Texas' delegation (52 votes) to the 1952 convention, and he hopes to lead the delegation in 1956. But how? From Washington, Sam Rayburn frowned down unforgivingly on the apostate. Clearly, Shivers' salvation lay in repentance before...
Successor to Come. With a show of pious reluctance, Governor Shivers broke the sad news to Morrow: he had better resign. Morrow recalled what Shivers told him: "It's pure politics, Wright; I need Rayburn's help." Morrow stubbornly refused, and the governor hustled off to headquarters. In a Capitol Hill serving kitchen he smoked the peace pipe with Sam Rayburn and bloodless National Chairman Paul Butler. The sacrifice was coolly arranged...