Speaker Sam Rayburn’s speech in Sulphur Springs, Tex. was billed as a unity rally. But everybody knew that the rally was Sam Rayburn’s way of hitting back at the New Deal-hating Dallas Morning News.

When Speaker Sam Rayburn heard what was happening in Texas he got mad and explored that talent for freehand cussing which is one of nature’s many gifts to Texans. “Not even the United States,” he told ...

Times change, norms change, politicians with different standards come and go, and it’s all for the better, except maybe not, especially when you are talking about two Democratic speakers of the U.S.