Word: rayburns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silver rattles for John Jr. In return, Kennedy had Ayub measured for a tailor-made, gold-inlaid shotgun (a 12-gauge Winchester 21), which will be sent directly to Pakistan as soon as it is completed. At noon Ayub addressed Congress (see above), moved taciturn House Speaker Sam Rayburn to remark: "We have been in the presence of a man with iron in his backbone and brains in his head...
...vote for his bill. "It was obvious," says one House leader, "that there were from seven to nine committee Democrats who wouldn't go along, and all the Republicans were against the bill." When Freeman still talked of victory, Cooley patiently took him around to see Speaker Sam Rayburn, who once more spelled out the facts of life...
Speaker Sam Rayburn anticipates no difficulty in getting Congress' approval of the reorganization plans for other agencies, which were drafted by Mr. Landis along lines similar to that of the FCC program. The primary reason for the fight over the plans for the FCC was summed up by an anonymous Congressman: "If it were someone else who were chairman, they would not be so concerned...
...Administration aimed its biggest guns at beating down Southern Democratic opposition to the Kennedy bill. Speaker Sam Rayburn swung among Congressmen from Texas to Tennessee, telling them that a Democratic President's prestige was at stake. Other proponents dangled patronage bait, reminded doubting Democrats that Kennedy will soon be awarding 73 new federal judgeships. They also warned that any "nay" voter surely would be branded as "antilabor"-an argument that particularly moved the Democratic co-author of the Landrum-Griffin labor law, Phil Landrum, who yearns to become Governor of Georgia and would like labor's support. Stepping...
House Speaker Sam Rayburn has suddenly become conscious of his advanced age. He is 79 and his eyesight is failing badly. Mister Sam has to have his mail read to him, and he sometimes fails to recognize friends' faces (he always recognizes their voices). Close Rayburn associates report that he may be considering the possibility that this is his last term in Congress. The hottest candidates for the speakership if and when Mister Sam retires: Missouri's Richard Boiling, 44, Oklahoma's Carl Albert, 52, and Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, 51. Seldom mentioned is Democratic Floor Leader...