Word: rayburnisms
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...Ph.D. candidate, he worked as a Congressional aide. His responsibilities weren't too demanding ("If I were lucky, I would get to pour the brandy and branch water at meetings"), but he had the invaluable opportunity of sharing an office with D.B. Hardeman, an aide to Rep. Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.), then-speaker of the House...
...full answers. When questions were directed at him, even on sensitive subjects like mistreatment of the hostages, he responded politely but with only a short generalized observation that revealed almost nothing. There was no compulsion to let his innermost views gush forth. A wise Washington hand, Speaker Sam Rayburn, used to say that you don't have to explain what you don't say. Maybe Reagan heard...
Rising from the Irish section of South Boston, the eighth-grade dropout became speaker of the House in 1962 when Sam Rayburn died. He retired in 1971 at the age of 80, after serving under seven presidents...
Following the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy '40. McCormack served for 13 months as both speaker and de facto vice-president under President Lyndon B. Johnson. "Though McCormack was overshadowed by Rayburn and Johnson, he was an effective...
...main reason for this change is the erosion of the leadership in the Congress. Party leaders have lost the power to tell their troops that something is really significant and to get them to respond accordingly. The days of Sam Rayburn, Lyndon Johnson and Everett Dirksen are gone. That has adversely affected the Congress's ability to do things even in very difficult circumstances involving the national interest...