Word: rayburnisms
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James Howell, chief economist of The First National Bank of Boston, shrugged off the newest revelations! "Who are we kidding here? Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson did everything in the book. They just never got caught...
...accused in the Watergate scandal, none was elected to political office. Almost all were appointed by Nixon. A glance at the list of alleged conspirators recalls Sam Rayburn's grumble when he considered John F. Kennedy's best and brightest: "I'd feel a lot better about them if one of them had run for sheriff once...
Lady Bird Johnson was back in Washington, D.C., for the first time since her husband lay in state there three months ago. At the National Portrait Gallery, she unveiled a bronze bust of Sam Rayburn, the Speaker of the House for 17 years. "Lyndon always loved to think himself as "Lyndon one of the 'Speaker's think boys,' "she said. In Manhattan, Mrs. Johnson was greeted with a standing ovation by the audience of Irene, the same heavily sugared musical that got an enthusiastic minority review by Theatergoer Richard Nixon...
...Senate in 1952, O'Neill ran for Kennedy's House seat (today Massachusetts's 8th District), won it, and retains it to this day. He quickly became a member of the elite "board of education"--then an informal club of the House's most powerful leaders, including Speaker Sam Rayburn and John McCormick. He slowly began to learn the ins and outs of House leadership. Two years ago, Carl Albert picked him as majority whip, a position he held until his recent election to the post of majority leader...
...went through exhaustive consultations with Pentagon and State Department officials, down to the third levels of authority, before he committed forces to Korea. Alben Barkley, the mellow Kentuckian Senator and Vice President, was heard to rip into a Democratic colleague who kept attacking Republican leaders. Night after night Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson would go down to Eisenhower's White House breathing partisan fire, but something magic always happened when the old General uncorked the bourbon and told the Texans how much he admired them and needed them. Back on the Hill, those two passed the legislation that...