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Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, Time Magazine Cover

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Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, Time Magazine Cover/tiles/collection/1/14129.xml
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, Time Magazine Cover/tiles/collection/1/14130.xml
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, Time Magazine Cover/tiles/collection/1/14131.xml
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, Time Magazine Cover/tiles/collection/1/14132.xml
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Date

1961-02-10

Publisher

Time, Inc.

Dimensions

11 × 8 1/4 in. (27.9 × 21 cm)

Accession Number

2008.182.000

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

On the cover of Time magazine in 1961, a somber Speaker Sam Rayburn set his outsized gavel to rest. The story inside vividly recounted Rayburn’s battle to break the Rules Committee’s stranglehold on legislation. It was “a dark victory” for Rayburn, exposing intraparty divisions. By the end of the year, Rayburn died, and this rare late portrait photograph served as Tom Lea’s model for his monumental 1969 portrait, made for display in the new Rayburn House Office Building.

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