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...time secretary and cook. He doted on hunting, fishing, poker and pungent Mexican cigars, loved his sour-mash bourbon and glorified convivial nipping as "striking a blow for liberty." Many a blow was struck with congressional leaders of both parties and with his protégés, Sam Rayburn and Wilbur Mills. In those backroom meetings of what he called the "Board of Education," Garner usually got his way, and Rayburn continued them as Speaker. Above all, Cactus Jack kept his word, which he characteristically called "staying hitched...
...implications of modern design. When President Kennedy took office in Washington, for example, it had been very near to half a century since the Federal government had constructed in Washington a building that was contemporary to its time, and the House of Representatives was soon to begin the Rayburn Building, perhaps the most alarming and unavoidable sign of the declining vitality of American government that we have yet witnessed. And this is the point: good or bad architecture is not an option. It is as fundamntal a sign of the competence of government as will be found. Men who build...
...John Rayburn made a good move to get into good scoring position, and then, as Coach Bill McCurdy ran alongside screaming encouragement, Denney and Sulloway surged forward...
...solve their troubles with the Government-most concern welfare and Social Security payments-Harlem's residents are appealing to state and city agencies. Only rarely do they write to the luxurious four-room suite that Powell used to occupy in the new Rayburn House Office Building n Washington. Two secretaries, a tiny remnant of the staff that Powell once commanded as a Congressman and chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, remain in the office to answer mail...
...million has been spent or authorized for Capitol Hill construction. And yet he admits that it was done piecemeal without a comprehensive master plan. Under Stewart, who is not an architect but has had some experience as a landscape contractor, the East Front of the Capitol was extended, the Rayburn House Office Building was built, remodeling was undertaken, and parking garages were built. Currently plans amounting to $109 million have been approved for an extension of the Capitol's West Front and for a third Library of Congress annex. In every case, a small, rotating group of architects--mostly friends...