Word: rayburns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House Speaker Sam Rayburn formally announced that for the first time in twelve years he will not handle the gavel as permanent chairman of this year's Democratic Convention. Instead, Rayburn plans to work for "the candidate of my choice": Fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson. Top choice to succeed Rayburn as permanent chairman: Louisiana's Representative Hale Boggs...
...Democrat with only seven years of House service, it is a good idea to get on the good side of Sam Rayburn, and one way to get on Mister Sam's good side is to support Johnson for President. But for New York's Representative Victor Anfuso, backing Johnson presented difficulties : Anfuso is a liberal from Brooklyn, where Middle-Road Southerner Johnson's name is less than a liberal byword. Anfuso solved his problem in a speech in the House urging Johnson toward "greater service on behalf of our nation"-and proceeding to credit Johnson with "placing...
Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn will not let TV men cover House hearings, and bars them from his own press conferences. For space reasons, Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty keeps TV cameras out of regular briefings in his crowded office, but when he has a visitor he wants to "sponsor"-as the White House press corps puts it-he sets up a special show for TV. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson grants TV newsmen only a brief audience after his regular press conference, insists that they submit their questions in advance and explodes if they try to ring...
...Palais Schaumburg office, der Alte got congratulations and gifts, sipped German wine and, as one admiring newsman neatly put it, stood through four hours of the celebration "straight as the No. 1." In Washington, both sides of the House of Representatives gushingly vied to pay tribute to Speaker Sam Rayburn, turning 78 and rolling into his 47th year in Congress, his 15th as Speaker. Before taking the annual flattery with a practiced shrug, Mr. Sam observed: "I've never been sick in my life. I never did feel bad. I feel good now. If I keep feeling like...
...many a cloakroom plot and fierce skirmish as the Senate's four presidential hopefuls-Texas' Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, Massachusetts' John F. Kennedy, Minnesota's Humphrey, Missouri's Stuart Symington-work for advantage. The scramble reaches even to the House, where Speaker Sam Rayburn is openly committed to Fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson's candidacy...