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Proud Day. A few minutes later in the House, Speaker Sam Rayburn, a bachelor, stepped forward and said: "It is a proud day for the United States of America to receive and to do honor to one of the outstanding women of all the earth...
Same day, the House Democratic caucus produced similar results. Bald, tough Speaker Sam Rayburn spoke a piece: Hereafter Congress would exercise a more potent and compelling voice in Government. But the Speaker carefully excluded the President from any criticism...
...Rayburn Reelected. Next day the House reinstalled Sam Rayburn as Speaker (the vote: 217-10-206). Joe Martin made a little speech congratulating the Speaker. Said he: "The last Congress might well be called the War Congress, but this Congress will be the Victory Congress. . . . [We are going] to see this war to a successful, decisive and early end. As leader of the opposition we pledge our earnest and untiring efforts to that...
...Speaker Rayburn's reply struck the keynote of the session...
...Another birthday, Sam Rayburn's, was celebrated at a White House surprise party for the Speaker on Wednesday. Rayburn was 61, just 24 days older than the President...