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1945 Press Photo Sam Rayburn successor to President

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Caption: TRUMAN WANTS SPEAKER AS SUCCESSOR-This new portrait of Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn (above), (D-Texas), was taken at his office in the Capitol here today after President Truman, Embarking on the first of a long series of plane flights, asked Congress to make the Speaker of the House his successor if anything should happen to him.

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