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TIL that all Senators and senior members of the House, are assigned a one-room hideaway as private office. These rooms are not listed in any directory and doors are marked only by a room number. In 1945, Harry Truman learned of FDR's death while having cocktails in Sam Rayburn's hideaway.

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