Word: rayburnisms
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...done by "businessmen, publishers, LIFE reporters and photographers." Said another: "It used to be that a fellow used to take his secretary on trips and call her his wife. Now a guy takes his wife and calls her his secretary." But one Congressman was not laughing. To Speaker Sam Rayburn, 78, whose House is like a second home, the scandal was a direct reflection on the whole of Congress. Furious over the conduct of his members, Mr. Sam ordered an accounting...
Johnson bubbled with confidence over his stepped-up campaign. So did his old Texas mentor, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who claimed that Johnson would arrive at the Los Angeles convention a month hence with "a very minimum of 500 votes" (needed to win: 761). Johnson had not noticeably taken any delegates from Jack Kennedy, whose aides are airily claiming 700 convention votes on the second ballot. Johnson's strength was still based on the 319 of the South (including Texas) and any sizable increase was likely to come from Symington forces if Symington's chances seemed clearly doomed...
...negotiate with the U.S. until a new President is elected, Nikita Khrushchev waded right into U.S. politics. His humiliation of President Eisenhower was something that no American could tolerate, and Washington's first instinctive, shocked reaction was to unite behind the President. Like good coxswains, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson did what they could to get the Democrats to pull together with the Administration. Mister Sam clamped an iron rule of silence on one-minute opening speeches, traditional sounding board in the House, and in the Senate Johnson led the rally...
While there still seemed a prospect of continuing the summit, Adlai Stevenson and Arkansas' Senator J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Johnson and Rayburn in signing a cable to Ike, urging him to "convey to Premier Khrushchev the view of the opposition party in your country that he reconsider his suggestion for a postponement of the summit conference until after the national elections in this country." All this was both good patriotism and good politics. But before the week was out, even before the President returned to Washington (to be greeted by Mister...
...venerable 78, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn is acutely sensitive to the afflictions of age. This year his brother Tom, 72, underwent surgery for cancer, lingered for several months, then died. Farmer Tom Rayburn had no money, no health insurance. Mister Sam picked up the bill which ran into many thousands. "I had the money and was glad to do it," says Rayburn. "But a lot of folks don't have the money and can't do it." Rayburn, who rarely recounts personal stories unless they make a political point, was circulating that one last week-along...