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...enlisted in the Army as a private, emerging five years later a lieutenant colonel. Then, adopting the slogan FROM THE CABIN IN THE COTTON TO THE CAPITOL, he won election to Congress from Oklahoma's "Little Dixie" district, which borders on the late Speaker Sam Rayburn's district in Texas. Albert entered the House in 1947, the same year as freshmen Representatives John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon...
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) is sponsoring today's seminar in the Gold Room of the Rayburn Office Building. Berger is expected to concentrate on the question of whether the president or vice-president can be indicted while still in office...
...guess there were between 25 and 30 boys killed, and they were buried in three different places. I was present and helped bury many of them but not all of them . . . On the first one at Sam Rayburn [Reservoir] I helped bury him, and then the next one we took to Sam Rayburn. When we got there, Dean and Wayne found that the first one had come to the surface and either a foot or a hand was above the ground. When they buried this one the second time, they put some type of rock sheet...
Henley and Brooks led police to a second grave site near Sam Rayburn Reservoir, 150 miles northeast of Houston. In a wooded area, four more badly decayed corpses were found in a shallow grave. The two youths next led deputies to still a third burial site at High Island, a tiny beach town on the Gulf Coast, where two victims were unearthed, bringing the total thus...
...degree of insult apparently depends on the speaker, year and tone of voice. Inouye himself tells of the time he decided to introduce himself to House Speaker Sam Rayburn. Said Rayburn: "I know who you are. How many one-armed Japs do you think we have in the House...