Word: rayburns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Powell accepted the conditions instantly but threatened to challenge the fine in court. He was not unprepared for the result. Claiming quarters in the marbled Rayburn House Office Building five days before the vote, he ordered them redecorated. Sounding quite like the old Adam, he said happily of his new office: "It's identical to the one I had before. Only this is bigger, and I have a garbage disposal...
...crony he certainly is; yet this assessment could prove to be unfair. A protegé of Sam Rayburn's, the late Speaker of the House, and of Johnson's, Thornberry had an indifferent record during his first years in Congress, but eventually established himself as a man of moderately liberal views, responsive to the needs of an urban America. In 41 years on the bench, most recently as a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (covering most of the Deep South and the Panama Canal Zone), he consistently fought segregation...
...bills in 1956 and 1957, after Johnson became Vice President, his record grew notably liberal. In the House, he supported John F. Kennedy on 95% of all legislation in 1961 and, as a member of the conservative Rules Committee, helped spring many important Administration measures. Honoring a promise to Rayburn, Kennedy repaid that loyalty in 1963 with a judgeship in the Western Texas Federal District Court. Two years later, Johnson elevated Thornberry to the Circuit Court and had him sworn in on the front porch of the L.B.J. ranch...
Manifold Malapropisms. As Republican minority leader in a period of Democratic ascendancy, Martin kept the faith-pliantly. His malapropisms were manifold and celebrated: guided missiles became "gilded muscles"; Republican programs had "headlights" instead of highlights; his friendly archrival became "the gentleman from Rayburn, Mr. Texas." Joe Martin and Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn were synonymous with the House for two generations of Americans. Once, when Rayburn was asked to campaign against Martin in Massachusetts, the Texan responded brusquely: "Speak against Joe? Hell, if I lived up there, I'd vote...
...rest of the Magnificent Seven includes Robert E. Lee, 55, an ex-FBI man; James Wadsworth, 62, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Robert T. Hartley, 58, nephew of the late Speaker Sam Rayburn; and Lee Loevinger, 54, a former Justice Department trustbuster who barely conceals his contempt for television ("the literature of the illiterate") or for the FCC itself. "I think," he once told a congressional committee, "that there is grave danger that the commission is going to be so busy trying to repress yesterday's technological advances that we will still be working on them...