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...soft to turn down, and eventually a $172,000 bill in taxes and interest from the Internal Revenue Service, which he never could pay. After ten years of litigation, IRS settled for $25,000, which was paid in a fund drive directed by the late House Speaker Sam Rayburn...
...Lyndon jetted once more to Atlantic City, motored to the white stucco ocean-front villa that he and his family had taken over for the week from Hess Rosenbloom, brother of the owner of the Baltimore Colts. He entered Convention Hall after the eulogies of John F. Kennedy, Sam Rayburn and Eleanor Roosevelt had ended. As he sat down in the presidential box overlooking the speaker's rostrum, Lyndon was the absolute monarch of the place, and he looked it-hands on his knees, elbows akimbo, face impassive...
Time was when top officers of national political conventions were picked because of their position of integral power within the party structure. For example, the permanent chairman has often been the party leader in the U.S. House of Representatives-Democrat Sam Rayburn or Republicans Joe Martin and Charlie Halleck. But such senior party citizens have a tendency toward bald heads, bulb noses, or gravel voices-and none of these come over well on television. The fashion nowadays is to select younger, better-looking men to project the party's image. Thus, the Republican National Committee last week named Oregon...
...Millions remember him mostly from the televised sessions of Democratic National Conventions. He was the hunched-over little hobgoblin who always seemed to be whispering parliamentary advice into the ear of Permanent Chairman Sam Rayburn. He had a big splotchy nose, squinty eyes and a mouth that always made it appear as though he had just eaten a peck of green persimmons. He wore black shoes, black socks, a black suit and a black tie. He was grumpy as all get-out, and he seemed to take a perverse pride in being unpopular...
...firm is prime contractor for the $82.9 million Rayburn House Office Building. McCloskey also worked on the new $24 million east-front face on the U.S. Capitol and on the $4 million Senate underground monorail system, and he is sole contractor for the huge $12.6 million "Federal Office Building...