Word: mccormack
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...your cover story on the new Speaker of the House of Representatives you state that I regard Mr. McCormack as "a hack politician...
...have never referred to Mr. McCormack as "a hack politician" and I have never considered him such. He has had a long and distinguished career in politics, and is recognized by all who know him as a highly skilled and accomplished legislator. Indeed, his unopposed election to the Speakership is testimony to the regard in which the House membership holds his abilities...
...Dick Bolling, but a majority favored Carl Albert. When Mr. Bolling withdrew from the race and the new leadership was chosen, I immediately offered my full support as a "leadership man," which I have always been. On only one major legislative question-Federal Aid to Education-have Mr. McCormack and I taken opposite views in public and this was an honest difference of position...
...Speaker McCormack sounds like a typical, mindless, party-hack Democrat with blind loyalty to party machinery, just like Harry Truman. It is fascinating to contemplate, isn't it, how different our situation might be if Truman's haberdashery shop in Kansas City hadn't folded, and if the Massachusetts legislature had been more prompt in passing the law requiring two years of high school for those admitted...
...House of Representatives and the first functioning head of the U.S. Government; he presided over the 65-member House in New York for a month before President George Washington was inaugurated. Sam Rayburn of Texas served longer as Speaker than any other man: 16 years. From Muhlenberg to McCormack. 45 have ruled as Speakers of the House (one lasted just one day). Some were great men, many were toadies and sycophants, a few were colorful despots. Among the outstanding Speakers...