Word: rayburnisms
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...plane before the welcoming committee arrived. And then there was added bustle: Lady Bird had not been expected (there are only six bedrooms in the Kennedy house, and present or invited - besides Jack - were Jackie, the new baby, Daughter Caroline, and Joe and Rose Kennedy). Next, gruff old Sam Rayburn, the "Speakah," as the Kennedys called him, flew in from Bonham, Texas in the Kennedy family plane...
...years of running for elective office, resourceful Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 78, should have perfected every possible defense against babies who try to reciprocate his professional affections. But last week in his home town of Bonham, Texas, Mister Sam, a childless bachelor of long standing, met a politician's minor Waterloo in eight-month-old Marty Grove, son of a Dallas reporter. Coming out of a clinch, Rayburn forgot to duck...
President Kennedy will have a solid Democratic phalanx in the House of Representatives. The old Democratic majority (283-154) may have slipped slightly by the time the last absentee ballots are counted, but it will still be wide enough to assure Speaker Sam Rayburn (unopposed in his 25th House campaign) of another two years as the presiding officer of the lower house. Republicans lost a few seats in New Jersey and New York, held their inroads in the South, reclaimed five seats in Indiana, racked up a net gain of at least 15 seats. But the House in 1961 will...
...throat-cutting politicians. They give Kennedy advice, he listens attentively, blots up their words, and then makes his own decision. "Nobody tells Jack what to do," growls Joe Kennedy, "unless he wants to be told." Jack moves swiftly to consolidate his leadership. Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn were as withering in their criticism of Kennedy before the conventions as Dick Nixon has been since the campaign heated up. Yet Kennedy swiftly and diplomatically won their allegiance, and now they march with-but a step behind-Jack Kennedy. He is the absolute boss of the Democratic Party...
...hacked to pieces by a disciplined coalition of Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats. Dick Nixon would not have to explain away any awkward presidential vetoes during his campaign, because President Eisenhower had not had to use his veto.* Although on adjourning Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn pointed with customary pride, they could not camouflage the failure...