Word: rayburnisms
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...move, Lady Bird carried a color picture of the late House Speaker Sam Rayburn in her limousine, while Daughter Lucy Baines, 16, brought the two Johnson beagles, Him and Her, in a white convertible. The Elms is up for sale (asking price: over $250,000), and Lady Bird visits her old home regularly, often spies knickknacks that she suddenly decides she must have at the White House...
First, the Speaker is the product of partisan politics and seniority, which are not necessarily linked to his political ability. True enough, there have been great Speakers like Henry Clay and Sam Rayburn, but by far the majority, including McCormack, have been mediocre. Because most Speakers become acclimated to the slow procedural process of House activity, they simply do not have the energy and initiative required of a President. Besides, the House's seniority system makes the Speaker too old to endure the pressures and demands of the Presidency. Speakers are chosen for reasons other than being men of Presidential...
This was no humble Harry Truman, nervously starting his speech to the Congress before he had been introduced by the Speaker ("Wait a minute, Harry," interrupted Sam Rayburn on that April morning in 1945). Neither was it a young, buoyantly hopeful Jack Kennedy, though many of the familiar chiastic constructions had been put into the address by Kennedy Speechwriter Ted Sorensen. This was Lyndon B. John son of Texas, appearing for the first time as Chief Executive before Congress and, even while stressing the theme of continuity in U.S. Government, making it eminently clear that he meant...
...also became the particular protege of family friend and fellow Texan Sam Rayburn, who got President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to appoint Johnson director of the National Youth Administration for Texas. Lyndon used his position as a springboard to a successful campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives. He was then 29, and except for seven months in the Navy, he has held national elective office ever since...
...million federal project that will create Texas' largest fresh water lake has been known as McGee Bend Dam since 1956. Now, with the presidential signing of a congressional bill, its name becomes the Sam Rayburn Dam, honoring the late House Speaker who "devotedly and ably served this nation in the Congress for 50 years...