Word: rayburnisms
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...smarmy at the next major stop: assistant to Texas Congressman Dick Kleberg. In Washington he cheated his way to victory in another election (for leadership of a group of legislative aides) and carefully cultivated the crowned heads of Congress. Chief among them was House Minority Leader (later Speaker) Sam Rayburn, a fellow Texan who became his beloved mentor, and whom Johnson eventually betrayed in a competition to become Franklin D. Roosevelt's chief operative in Texas. "Lyndon had one of the most incredible capacities for dealing with older men," recalls F.D.R. Brain Truster Tommy Corcoran, whose boss was among...
...gain eminence: those cashstuffed envelopes. Caro says that Johnson took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the newly prosperous oil and construction interests of Texas and channeled the money into Democratic congressional campaigns. "The new power he possessed did not derive from Roosevelt's friendship, or from Rayburn's," writes Caro. "His power was simply the power of money...
...gold curtained room in the Rayburn building on Capital Hill, NASFAA President Dallas Martin gave the lobbyists one more round of tips last night, reviewing the argument against the cuts and warning students that "these people are getting hit for every issue you can think...
House Majority Leader James Wright studied the three Presidents with a bit of Texas melancholia. Twenty years earlier he had gone to a small Baptist church in Bonham to say a farewell to a great American, Sam Rayburn. On that day, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson had shared a cramped pew. Wright had never forgotten the moment, and thought he would never see anything like it again. But here before him was a similar scene. Nixon came to Wright's seat and shook his hand. Then he reached back into that crammed cerebrum and recalled...
Lobbyists and a few journalists knew their power, but Cannon and his moles went largely undisturbed while the great legislative whales like Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson talked high policy about testing hydrogen bombs, shooting for the moon or passing voting rights legislation...