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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from jail of Frank ("Cheech") Livorsi, an eastern Mafia leader, because of the mobster's ill health. Another is looking into the roles of Sweig and Voloshen in a contractor's efforts to add $5,000,000 to the $11 million cost of a garage under the Rayburn House Office Building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: The Voloshen Connection | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...Congress has traditionally acted on the principle that slack is beautiful. And the fact is that during nearly 40 years dominated for the most part by activist, innovative Presidents, Congress grew accustomed to reacting to executive initiatives rather than originating major legislation. During the relatively quiescent Eisenhower years, Sam Rayburn in the House and Lyndon Johnson in the Senate provided strong party leadership, giving the opposition Democrats a measure of cohesion and guidance. Speaker John McCormack and Senate Leader Mike Mansfield offer no comparable direction today. Illinois Democrat Roman Pucinski complains: "The Speaker never intended to be the party leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: CONGRESS: THE LONG, SLACK SEASON | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...congressional committees are also scrutinizing the industry. The inquiry is likely to be more intense than in the past, since many of oil's longtime friends in high places have departed. Lyndon Johnson has retired; former House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senator Robert Kerr are dead. Louisiana's Rus sell Long is left to defend the industry against such Senate reformers as Edward Kennedy, Edmund Muskie, Philip Hart and William Proxmire. Oilmen have mobilized their own forces in a desperate battle to protect their interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil: Battle Over Special Privilege | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...responsible for his party's loss in the 1954 congressional elections. Never again was he to have a Republican Congress. He conceived of the President's role as only one of a team running the country. For the last six years of Eisenhower's tenure, Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn, the Democratic congressional leaders, helped to shape his domestic policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: EISENHOWER: SOLDIER OF PEACE | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...first concern is with itself. Its impact on the world outside is scattered, usually punitive, petty. It looks after its own, and its own interests bear no particular relation to those of the nation. It is moribund, inward-looking, private. Its heroes are its defenders--men like Sam Rayburn, Carl Hayden, and Lyndon Johnson. On Tuesday night one of its heroes came back, back where he belonged

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: Going Home | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

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