Word: rayburns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Retirement for Rayburn...
...classicists, whether he knew or not, was House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who three years ago pushed through the proposal to "correct" the perspective by moving the east front wall 32½ ft. forward. To end the crumbling, he wanted a new façade of longlasting marble, and he rubbed his hands at the thought of additional space for congressional offices, a new restaurant, a tourist-free corridor. Cost for the overhaul: $17 million...
...sent Congress a total of 15 major messages, better than one a week. Yet not much has come out of all the activity. Kennedy won a battle to break the conservative grip on the House Rules Committee by a skimpy five votes, and only then because Speaker Sam Rayburn had staked his personal prestige on the outcome. The President suffered a widely advertised defeat when the House, by a one-vote margin, rejected his proposed $1.25-an-hour minimum wage. Such key Kennedy-backed measures as aid to education and medical care for the aged face hard going and possible...
Honor bonus). But last month the intercession of President Jack Kennedy and Attorney General Bobby Kennedy eased an Internal Revenue compromise claim of $25,000, and House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who was born only 50 miles from York's Tennessee mountain home, kicked off a campaign to raise the cash. With Mister Sam and Bob Kennedy contributing $1,000 apiece, and other fund raisers (among them: Cinemactor Gary Cooper, who starred in the 1941 film biography that brought about the veteran's tax bind) pitching in, the drive shot over the top last week. Sergeant York will...
...have been wrong by a wider margin than any other group that has ever attempted to influence American life"), the Bill of Rights ("used to create a big bill of wrongs"), Dallas' own Southern Methodist University ("periodically host to pinkos"), and two noted native sons: House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Vice President Lyndon Johnson...