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Manifold Malapropisms. As Republican minority leader in a period of Democratic ascendancy, Martin kept the faith-pliantly. His malapropisms were manifold and celebrated: guided missiles became "gilded muscles"; Republican programs had "headlights" instead of highlights; his friendly archrival became "the gentleman from Rayburn, Mr. Texas." Joe Martin and Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn were synonymous with the House for two generations of Americans. Once, when Rayburn was asked to campaign against Martin in Massachusetts, the Texan responded brusquely: "Speak against Joe? Hell, if I lived up there, I'd vote...
...rest of the Magnificent Seven includes Robert E. Lee, 55, an ex-FBI man; James Wadsworth, 62, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Robert T. Hartley, 58, nephew of the late Speaker Sam Rayburn; and Lee Loevinger, 54, a former Justice Department trustbuster who barely conceals his contempt for television ("the literature of the illiterate") or for the FCC itself. "I think," he once told a congressional committee, "that there is grave danger that the commission is going to be so busy trying to repress yesterday's technological advances that we will still be working on them...
...Lincoln's rear view-highly partisan, not to say catty and rather naive-Johnson comes off as a shambling, loudmouthed oaf from Texas. As she tells it, his cronies (Bobby Baker, Walter Jenkins, Joe Alsop, Sam Rayburn) maneuvered him into the vice-presidency but his legendary prowess at senatorial politics was a fraud. Mrs. Lincoln even claims that President Kennedy came to rely on Bob Kerr and Mike Mansfield when his programs were stalled on Capitol Hill, believing that Johnson hung around talking instead of getting legislation moving...
...began his speech, with an ovation still ringing in his ears, Johnson recalled what the late House Speaker Sam Rayburn had once told him: "The Congress always extends a very warm welcome to the President-as he comes in." From now on, the welcome is likely to be a good deal cooler...
Garner was no mere usher for the New Deal. He was its midwife, using his years of Capitol Hill experience to ram much of F.D.R.'s program through Congress in the famous "first 100 days." Just as fellow Texans Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson would do later, Garner operated behind the scenes. Through the first two F.D.R. terms he stayed hitched to Roosevelt, whom he called "Cap'n." A lifelong foe of Eastern banking interests, he had been a major force in forging a graduated income tax, guaranteeing bank deposits, and baiting big business. Garner worked loyally for Roosevelt...