Word: rayburns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tried to increase the committee membership to 15 by adding three Congressmen, including two who would support the New Frontier legislative program. The House approved the plan by a vote of 217 to 212, but only after a savage battle in which the great influence of then-Speaker Sam Rayburn was the deciding factor...
...keep the name of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson out of the public record. An Agriculture Department official, said Manuel, told him that in a January 1961 attempt to get special treatment from the department, Estes had invoked the names of Johnson and the late House Speaker Sam Rayburn. But when the same official, one Carl J. Miller, publicly testified before the subcommittee, he omitted Johnson's name, mentioning only Rayburn and Texas' Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough...
...Boykin threw a testimonial party for Texas' Sam Rayburn in a Washington hotel, invited just about everybody in the phone book. Winston Churchill cabled his regrets, but 900 others came to sample a score of cases of Scotch and bourbon, along with Quebec salmon, Alabama venison, Montana elk, bear meat from the Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia turkey, and antelope from Chugwater, Wyo. Boykin's all-for-love motto was bantered about the banquet hall. Everybody had a great time, and jolly Frank was delighted to fork over...
...million House office building will not be ready for its congressional tenants until 1964, but it already has an honored name. Whisked through Congress with the sort of bipartisan speed that would have pleased him was a resolution naming the edifice after the late Sam Rayburn, the man who served longer as Speaker-17 years-than any other. By the same resolution, two nearby House office buildings will now be known after a couple of Mister Sam's Republican predecessors-one, built in 1908, for iron-willed Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, who reigned from...
...knew, he had hired 38 newsmen at handsome wages-some got as much as $200 a week-and he was publishing the Pecos Daily News. The News's first issue last August boasted an impressive page of congratulations. There was a letter from Lyndon Johnson, one from Sam Rayburn, even a nice little note from President Kennedy himself...