Word: rayburns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time in his record-breaking 48 years as a member of the House of Representatives and his 17 years as its Speaker, Texan Sam Rayburn last week was obviously and admittedly ailing. Racked by lumbago, he was unable to sleep or eat, had lost 15 Ibs. and showed...
After 49 years in Congress, Senate President pro Tempore Carl Hayden, 83, now stands third in line of succession to the White House (after Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn). Last week the Arizona Democrat won an even more impressive title: first lady-pleaser of the land. Hayden's credentials, as proclaimed by a bouquet-bearing delegation from the League of Women Voters: he is the only incumbent Congressman to have voted for the 19th Amendment, which ushered in female suffrage...
...Washington welcome. Chen later addressed the National Press Club, drove to the Pentagon for a conference with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Borrowing a presidential helicopter. Chen flew to Gettysburg for a short talk with Dwight Eisenhower, hurried back to lunch with Vice President Johnson and talk with Speaker Sam Rayburn on Capitol Hill, entertained Kennedy at an eight-course Mandarin dinner. Then he flew off to Manhattan, where he made a tour of Chinatown and met with U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold. Heading home this week, after stops in Chicago and San Francisco, Chen would take with him a briefcase full...
...alternative to reapportionment problems is an increase in House membership beyond the present 435. A pair of bills offering constitutional amendments to this effect have already been introduced. But no less a leader than Speaker Sam Rayburn has decreed that the House is large enough, quietly passed word to bottle up the bills. Result is that many a Congressman, his districts gerrymandered into new voter patterns, will watch his step until Election Day. Said one California Democrat last week: "If I knew where I stood, I could vote like a statesman. Instead I've got to tiptoe down...
...could reduce the political complexities of the row between the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the powerful Rules Committee to an easily digestible cartoon. "No hard feelin's, Mr. Sam," says Chairman Howard Smith into the telephone after losing the power struggle to Speaker Sam Rayburn. Then Smith continues solicitously, as he sticks pins into a voodoo doll of Rayburn: "By the way, how are you feelin...