Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congressman may have arrived after a successful career elsewhere, but he must still undergo a humbling apprenticeship. Anxious to make his mark among his jostling peers, he will have ingested Sam Rayburn's advice that to get along, go along; perhaps he has also learned from John Nance Garner that "you can't know everything well. Learn one subject thoroughly." In a place where talk is cheap and oratory poor, his fellow legislators will judge him by whether he has "done his homework" well-and that phrase accurately registers the tedium involved. Going along, getting along, he becomes...
...fate of the institute, the Phillips Research Foundation, Lincoln Open University (which suspended operations Jan. 3) and the Lowthers now depends on audits and investigations by the IRS and the Illinois attorney general. For his part, Sam Gould can only say, "The whole thing is embarrassing...
...Sam believes that the very fact that there are so few Indians here now gives Harvard the chance to develop a really good Indian program eventually. "You can start from scratch," he says. "People are more open to ideas here. Back home, you've got a lot of rednecks who think they already know everything about Indians...
What Harvard has to learn, as Sam sees it, is that "you can't treat an application from an Indian simply as any other application, or even as any other minority application. The same goals simply don't apply. For instance, all this business of a professional career as the end of your existence--you know, you make a lot of money and you have a sweet life--Indians don't see that as the ultimate good. Their ideal is to make a contribution to the community. Of course, that's not true in every case--you have some people...
...doesn't feel out of touch with things that are going on back home--something that Jim Sam sees as a problem for Indian students--because his father, a Paiute Indian and the executive director of the Nevada Indian Affairs Commission, keeps him well informed. "He's given me a million books to read," Morres says...