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...Postscript Fiasco. Rayburn's serious troubles with the Rules Committee flared up in the 86th Congress-despite the fact that in the 1958 congressional elections the Democrats had widened their margin in the House to nearly 2 to 1, most lopsided majority since the 19303. What made the Rules Committee more troublesome than before was that Rayburn could no longer get any cooperation from the Republicans. Compromiser Joe Martin was deposed from the Republican leadership by Indiana's tough, uncompromising Charlie Halleck (and last week registered his vote against Halleck and for Rayburn). Halleck filled the Republican seats...
...Rules Committee, and so did a bill to ease restrictions on picketing of construction sites. Kennedy Democrats hoped to pass a politically profitable batch of welfare legislation at the post-convention session of Congress, but Judge Smith's Rules Committee helped Charlie Halleck's Republicans turn the postscript into a fiasco that spoiled the Democratic hopes and dented John F. Kennedy's image of leadership at the start of his tough campaign for the presidency...
...Break the Grip. The postscript session riled the frustrated young Kennedy "pragmatic liberals," and they prodded Sam Rayburn to do something about Judge Smith. By the time Congress convened again after the election, Speaker Rayburn had made up his mind that he had to break Smith's grip on the Rules Committee...
...Jimmy Roosevelt). Leathery Sam Rayburn, who became a Congressman in 1913, before Richard Boiling (or John F. Kennedy) was born, is immune to ideological itches, felt none of the liberal urge to topple Judge Smith. But Rayburn is a damn-the-infidels Democrat, and during last August's postscript session of Congress he got very sore at Smith for bottling up Kennedy's legislative program in the Rules Committee, thereby lending aid and comfort to the Republican enemy only a few months before the election. Last month, with a Democratic President about to take office, Rayburn made...
...week and announced the appointment of California Insuranceman J. Edward Day as his Postmaster General. "Having just mailed a letter from Washington to Boston and having it take eight days to get there, I am hopeful we can improve the postal service." said Kennedy. With this typically self-confident postscript, Jack Kennedy's selection of his Cabinet was complete...