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Across the aisle, the Democrats' "Mr. Sam" struck the same note as his old friend Joe Martin. Said Ex-Speaker Rayburn: "If we could . . . help prepare those who stand with us so that they could resist, even though it took $5 billion . . . every year for the next ten years, if we could thus prevent a war . . . it would be the greatest investment the people of the United States ever made...
Lyndon's career got firm support from powerful old Sam Rayburn, a great friend of Lyndon's daddy when both were in the Texas legislature. Rayburn got Johnson appointed director of the National Youth Administration for Texas. Johnson went west again, took on the job with a combination of idealism, enthusiasm and his uncanny ability to organize and operate. He soon had between 15,000 and 20,000 young men hard at work on projects such as playgrounds and highway roadside parks. All told, he turned in a good job and built himself a political foundation...
...historic limits. As the bill became law, one of Ike's cardinal campaign promises became fact. He swung around from his desk with a broad grin for the assembled group of Congressmen and Senators-mostly Southern and mostly Democrats-and asked where "Mr. Sam" was. Texas' Sam Rayburn stepped forward, shook hands warmly, and whispered something in the presidential ear which left Ike roaring...
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Misty-eyed Democrats, pouring in to say goodbye, found Harry Truman's White House office oddly naked last week. Down from the walls had come the portraits of Simón Bolivar and Ben Franklin, the etchings of early aircraft, the framed photographs of Sam Rayburn and Alben Barkley. Gone from the presidential desk were the familiar knickknacks-a piece of rock from the highest mountain in North America (Mt. McKinley: 20,270 ft.), the donkeys, and the desk photos. Said Harry Truman with rueful jocularity: "If I'd known how much packing I'd have...