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...Congress had no intention of surrendering its power to write farm legislation. When Freeman refused to believe that obvious fact of political life, House Agriculture Chairman Harold Cooley called a caucus of committee Democrats to tell the Secretary to his face that they would not vote for his bill. "It was obvious," says one House leader, "that there were from seven to nine committee Democrats who wouldn't go along, and all the Republicans were against the bill." When Freeman still talked of victory, Cooley patiently took him around to see Speaker Sam Rayburn, who once more spelled...
Once assured of the nomination of the college caucus, practically a guarantee of election by the General Council, Phillips' forces moved quickly to fill up all remaining posts with loyal delegates...
With Phillips smiling broadly and "very satisfied with the results," the "ABC" forces of Alberg, Barber, and Bruce K. Chapman '62 retired dejectedly to discuss strategy. Earlier in the day Barber had promised to fight Phillips on the Council floor, regardless of the action in the caucus...
...crucial test today will be in the Caucus at 6 p.m. in Harkness , where Barber and Phillips will the chairmanship nomination. convention meets at 8 p.m. in Lecture Hall to decide the issue
...since he had supported the independent presidential-elector slate in Mississippi rather than Kennedy-Johnson". Rayburn vacillated between the purge and his three-new-member plan, a less drastic break with House traditions and Southern feelings. His mind once made up on committee packing, he announced a "binding" Democratic caucus, a rare device by which a two-thirds vote can bind all members of the party to vote for a particular proposal. Again Mister Sam wavered, decided that a binding caucus would injure Southern feelings too deeply, and that he could win without it anyway...