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...Dark Suit. In Washington, Sam Rayburn, 61, lives alone in a four-room apartment on Q Street, just off Connecticut Avenue, to which he invites friends to taste his own expertly prepared chili. When not dining at home, he usually goes to Martin's, an unobtrusive restaurant on Wisconsin Avenue, where he invariably occupies the booth next the kitchen door...
There is a chance, however, that Sam Rayburn may be asked to desert his love, as has many another strong Speaker before him. Polk was the only Speaker who advanced to the Presidency, but Clay, Elaine, Reed, Champ Clark, Jack Garner and others had Presidential or Vice Presidential ambitions. It so happens that by 1944 the South's Sam Rayburn, a solid, middle-of-the-roader, a man who can placate Congress, may be just the kind of running mate Franklin Roosevelt desires. In that case, Term IV may be Sam's first -in a different...
Deep in the Heart. When Sam Rayburn made the decision that molded his life he was a barefoot boy chopping cotton on his father's 40-acre farm, near Bonham, Tex. As befits a U.S. politician, Sam was born in a log cabin, the eighth of eleven children. His father had fought in the Civil War, settled in Tennessee, moved to Texas when Sam was five...
...Alamo); he also followed contemporary politics. His hero, and the hero of many another Texan at the turn of the century, was Joseph Weldon Bailey, a towering, rugged character, a mighty orator, a political reformer who rose to be Democratic leader in Congress, then graduated to the Senate. Sam Rayburn likes to recall the day when, as a ten-year-old boy, he got permission to saddle up his father's mare and ride twelve miles to town to peep breathlessly through a flap in the Fairgrounds tent while Joe Bailey held an audience spellbound...
...Rayburns were Hard-Shell Baptists, and poor as the dirt they worked in. Father Rayburn told his eight sons again & again: "Character is all I have to give you. Be a man." But when Sam finally left the farm for college, Father Rayburn, solemnly shaking hands with him at the station, pressed $25 into his hand. That was the total cash capital of the Rayburns...