Word: mccormack
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...Democratic Congress could get things moving again? Part of the answer lies with the Democratic leadership on the Hill. Senate Leader Mike Mansfield is a fine gentlemanly fellow-maybe too much so for the hard political demands of his job. As for the House leaders-Speaker John McCormack. Carl Albert and Whip Hale Boggs&$151;they have yet to prove that they can even count noses before the vote comes...
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman set up his own lobbying headquarters in House Speaker John McCormack's office, drew from one wavering Southerner a reluctant tribute: "He's the most persuasive man I've ever listened to." Illinois' Congressman Leslie C. Arends, the Republican whip, charged that Freeman, "by propaganda, by pressure, by political promises, by patronage and by projects, has been clubbing through Congress a bill that will enable him to club the farmer to his bidding." New York's Democratic Congressman Otis Pike complained in a newsletter to his Long Island constituents that...
That was one vote that Teddy Kennedy presumably lost in his effort to win endorsement by Massachusetts Democrats convening in Springfield last week. But he won enough to force Attorney General Edward McCormack Jr. to concede midway through the first ballot when trailing 691-360. Just a few weeks ago, Eddie figured he was well ahead. Both through his own record as a regular Massachusetts Democrat and as House Speaker John McCormack's nephew, Eddie commanded the loyalties of the state's party pros. But those pros proved loyal only up to the point where they came into...
Real Shaked. Even before the balloting began, the McCormack men could see defeat in the offing. Eddie's dad, "Knocko" McCormack, sat sadly in the Cheddar Cheese Room, an eatery in the bowels of Springfield's Sheraton-Kimball Hotel, and spoke darkly about the Kennedy lieutenants. "They're cold, they're cold," said old Knocko. "I got here at 12:30 last night, and I got in the elevator with an old friend from Northampton. He's been in the American Legion with me for years, and I say, 'Hello...
Soon after McCormack had withdrawn his name and vowed a primary fight, a cordon of police escorted Ted and Joan Kennedy to the platform. Kennedy called the convention's decision "a free voice, a clear voice, and a true voice" and asserted that "the Democrats will choose in the primary as you representatives have chosen here...