Word: mccormack
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Speaker Rayburn's incurable illness gave inevitable rise to the question of his successor. The odds-on choice: Massachusetts' Representative John McCormack, 69, a craggy Bostonian who has been Democratic floor leader for 17 years, longer than any other man, and who served as Speaker pro tern during Rayburn's absence in the closing weeks of the past session...
...McCormack's floor leadership gives him a big leg up on the Speaker's job. With only one exception in the last half a century, Speakers have been succeeded by floor leaders. *McCormack commands the respect of other Democratic professionals. When Pennsylvania's Representative William Green, who bosses the Democratic organization in Philadelphia, was approached by an anti-McCormack man, the answer was flat: "I'm for McCormack...
Massachusetts Attorney General Edward J. McCormack also blames the voter. In a short discussion after the WHRB Radio Forum yesterday, McCormack emphasized that when the moral standards of the community are low, the political standards will approximate them. The speeder who hands the arresting officer a $5 bill folded in his license is the same man who protests at corruption in government, McCormack said. Where Richardson places primary blame on the Massachusetts political structure, McCormack is more realistic...
...This is a government of laws, not of men" he quoted. Because the Commonwealth can prosecute only according to the existing statute concerning outright bribes, it has little jurisdiction in the realm of political ethics. McCormack felt that a code of ethics, such as the one presently under consideration by a special state committee, might be more to the point. If political evil were clearly and legally defined, McCormack predicted, there surely would be less corruption. Graft could no longer be genial...
J.F.K. Report (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The New Frontier, discussed by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Senators Mike Mansfield and Everett Dirksen, Representatives John McCormack and Charles Halleck and news commentators...