Word: rayburns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Destiny. Such was Kennedy's performance during the inauguration ceremonies that the late Sam Rayburn was moved to remark: "He's a man of destiny." Poet Robert Frost, then 86, obviously thought so, too, and his proud reading of one of his poems at the inaugural set a tone of expectation. After a few weeks in the Presidency, Kennedy told a friend: "This is a damned good job." He was fascinated by the perquisites of his office and his sudden access to the deepest secrets of government. He explored the White House, poked his head into offices, asked...
...walked from the most important office to one that doesn't amount to a hill of beans.") But this year the still spiny "Cactus Jack" gaveled down the traditional birthday shivaree that in years past has drawn such guests as Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman and the late Sam Rayburn. Said Garner: "I don't want any fuss or anybody raising a ruckus. I feel good some of the time, but I don't feel so good at other times...
...nation's great hastened to his hospital door. First on the scene was Lyndon Johnson, whom Rayburn had helped raise from a political neophyte to the vice-presidency. Then came President Kennedy, making a 3,000-mile round trip to visit at the bedside of the stern-faced Speaker he had first known when he was a freshman Congressman from Massachusetts. "They don't make them like that any more," said Kennedy. "He has the courage of ten men." Finally came Harry Truman, who on that April day in 1945 was in Rayburn's Capitol hideaway...
Already all but settled is the question of Sam Rayburn's successor as Speaker. Democrats are ready to elect Massachusetts' Representative John McCormack, 69, when they caucus in January. McCormack was Democratic majority leader during all the years of Rayburn's speakership. He acted as temporary Speaker when Rayburn went home last summer, and by House tradition, broken only once in the past half a century, the majority leader succeeds as Speaker-and one thing Mister Sam left, beyond doubt, was a legacy of respect for tradition. McCormack already has commitments from all potential rivals except Missouri...
Died. Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, 79, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for a record 49 years. Speaker for an unmatched 17 (more than twice as long as his nearest competitor, Henry Clay); of cancer; in Bonham, Texas (see THE NATION...