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In the Spring of 1963, Harvard Young Democrats were told by Bolling that he was coming out with a bold new plan to replace the seniority system. The details of the plan would be released in a new book. The book has come out, but it, and the new plan...
The anecdotal descriptions of lobbies, press, and House personnel, are primarily valuable for random inside information and for Bolling's priceless characterizations: William Colmer's political position "is perhaps slightly to the left of Ivan the Terrible"; Adam Clayton Powell's attention span "has been variously estimated as ranging between...
Bolling emphasizes his position as an establishment, middle-of-the-road type in his descriptions of the Lanrum-Griffin, Civil Rights, and Rules fights. He tried to get pro-labor liberals to accept a moderate labor control bill. He implies that their failure to do so contributed to the eventual...
Most of Bolling's reform proposals are unrelated to the rest of the book. Proposals for stricter conflict-of-interest controls on Congressmen, for an Administrative People's Counsel like that in Sweden--he would do most of the Congressional "messenger boy" work--and for streamlined committee procedures are all...
The much-heralded replacement for the seniority system is given only a few pages at the end of the book. Bolling would have the Speaker nominate committee chairmen and members of the Ways and Means Committee (the Democrats' Committee on Committees) to be elected or rejected by the party caucus...