Sam Rayburn statue in front of the Sam Rayburn Library in Bonham, Texas

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Sam Rayburn's library includes a replica of his Speaker's office in Washington, D.C., his personal library and many other items from his long career.

Mr. Rayburn speaking in later years about the Rural Electrification Act said, "When free enterprise had the opportunity to electrify farm homes - after fifty years they had electrified 3 percent. Today after the Democrats put in that "socialistic' thing called REA, more than 90 percent of the rural homes in Texas have electricity." | Source: Photo: Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2015630031/
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Photo: Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2015630031/
Quote: H.G. Dulaney and Edward Hake Phillips, eds., Speak, Mr. Speaker (Bonham, Texas: Sam Rayburn Foundation, 1978), 358.
"Sam Rayburn statue in front of the Sam Rayburn Library in Bonham, Texas " appears in: Sam Rayburn and Rural Electrification