Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johnson's career is immeasurable. In 1931, when Lyndon Johnson came to Washington as an aide to Texas Representative Richard Kleberg, part owner of the famed King Ranch, he worked himself into a case of galloping pneumonia and collapsed. When he came to in a hospital, he found Sam Rayburn at his bedside. "Now, Lyndon," said Mister Sam, "you just take it easy and don't you worry. You need some money or anything, you just call on me." Johnson did not need the money, but recalls that "the most comforting moment in my life...
...last few weeks, Mister Sam...
Pointing out that Mister Sam's Capitol renovation will be "pushed ahead irrespective of Senate protests, without House hearings and in utter disregard of public opinion and the judgment of some of the most prominent architects in America today," the long-suffering New York Times last week exclaimed: "Sam Rayburn doesn't own the Capitol...
...dining with Adlai Stevenson and giving him some tourist tips for his coming trip to the U.S.S.R.-"I will give you my assurance that you will be welcome everywhere." He began to touch bases on Capitol Hill, calling one by one upon Democrats Lyndon Baines Johnson, Mike Mansfield, Sam Rayburn, Republicans William F. Knowland and Joe Martin, even dropping in one day last week to see Ohio's Republican Representative William H. Ayres, who had written to ask if it would be all right to show some G.O.P. ladies around the Soviet embassy. Answer: Sure. Says Menshikov about...
...subcommittee announced it would hear any Senator who appeared voluntarily, but House Speaker Sam Rayburn stopped that: "If I were a Senator, I would not come voluntarily. If a Senate committee called me, I'd tell them to go dig potatoes, deep...