Word: rayburns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind of man." He has four rooms full of books about the Constitution in his home office back in Morganton, N.C. Before going to the Senate, he served as a superior court judge and as an associate justice on the state Supreme Court. The late House Speaker Sam Rayburn referred to Ervin as "my lawyer," consulted him on the constitutionality of pending legislation...
...Clinic" or Lyndon Johnson's princely rumpus room can be as important as any committee hearing or party caucus. Even House Speaker John McCormack, a teetotaler, has decided as a matter of legislative policy to continue the gently liquid "Board of Education" meetings held by Sam Rayburn and earlier Speakers...
...Leave "Ev and Charlie" alone. They are doing a tremendous job. They are real Republicans. So what if Ev has curly hair. And it is easy for Charlie to powder his red nose. The late Sam Rayburn was as bald as a billiard ball. I never heard any criticism of Sam. He did his job for the Democrats very well. Ev and Charlie are doing equally well for the Republicans...
Farlier, Rep. Richard Bolling (D-Mo.) told the Young Democrats that McCormack was "one of the dukes" that run the House and does not have the great personal power which the late Sam Rayburn acquired because of his long tenure...
Window in the Eye. Dr. Kaufman decided to try 5-iodo-2´-deoxyuridine (or IDU), a close chemical kin to 5-fluoro-2´-deoxyuridine (or FUDR ), one of the drugs given to House Speaker Sam Rayburn in his last illness. These chemicals were developed in the hope that cancer cells would be fooled into using them instead of normal metabolic building blocks, which they closely resemble. Dr. Kaufman reasoned that cells invaded by viruses might react the same way, and thus be saved from helping the virus to reproduce...