Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inaugural committee threw a huge affair at the National Gallery to welcome Bess Truman, the Cabinet wives, the Kennedy and Johnson ladies, and other women of importance; the hall became a rustling sea of mink and jewel, bouffant hairdo and beaded gown. Over at the Statler-Hilton, House Speaker Sam Rayburn hosted a party for Lyndon Johnson; at the Mayflower, Young Democrats danced with anxious glances at the entrance, hoping for the arrival of Jack Kennedy. He did not show-but Brother Bobby and his wife Ethel saved the day. Hour after hour, top names turned up at parties given...
Dedication. The ceremony moved on: Lyndon Baines Johnson rose, raised his right hand and took the oath, administered, at his request, by his friend, mentor and fellow Texan, Sam Rayburn. Poet Robert Frost, his white hair fluttering in the wind, tried to read a newly written dedication to his famed poem, "The Gift Outright." But the bright sun blinded the old (86) New Englander, the wind whipped the paper in his hands, and he faltered. In the front row, Jackie Kennedy snapped up her head in concern. Lyndon Johnson leaped to shade Frost's paper with...
Saved-Up lOUs. Judge Smith's defeat was the combined work of Texas' Speaker Sam Rayburn, 79, no liberal, and Missouri's Richard Boiling, 44, leader of the House's "pragmatic liberals" (so called to distinguish them from the "bomb-throwing liberals" like California's Jimmy Roosevelt). Leathery Sam Rayburn, who became a Congressman in 1913, before Richard Boiling (or John F. Kennedy) was born, is immune to ideological itches, felt none of the liberal urge to topple Judge Smith. But Rayburn is a damn-the-infidels Democrat, and during last August's postscript...
...Friars Club of Hollywood gave a testimonial party for Gary Cooper, had everyone from Sam Goldwyn to Dean Martin and California Governor Pat Brown on hand to participate in the big salaam. Those who tried to stick to the subject very nearly drowned him in glue. "A Gary Cooper is rare, there is only one," recited Poet Audrey Hepburn, "and there will never be another under the sun." Milton Berle risked a hail of hot lead by saying: "Coop got his first Green Stamps from Polly Adler." Carl Sandburg announced that he and Sinatra had founded an organization in Cooper...
...years that a candidate for the presidency announced the result of an election in which he was defeated,"* he said. "Those who lose accept the verdict and support those who win." Nixon thereupon offered his "heartfelt best wishes" to Kennedy and Johnson. When he had finished, House Speaker Sam Rayburn applauded, told Nixon it was the first speech he had ever applauded during his tenure as House Speaker. The Congress and the galleries exploded with the kind of ovation that belongs to a good loser who makes a gracious gesture...