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...change in House leadership caused by the death of Speaker Sam Rayburn is another complicating factor. With Mister Sam gone, much of his power is bound to be claimed by the House committee chairmen, whose patriarchal views and parochial interests generally reflect conservative tendencies. Virginia Democrat How ard Smith, chairman of the Rules Committee, is certain to stand in the way of Administration programs. Missouri's Clarence Cannon, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, last week announced, even before he knew what was in Kennedy's budget, that he intended...
...House, Albert voted along generally liberal lines, except on civil rights issues, served as an effective member of the Agriculture Committee. Although he had earned a reputation back home in Oklahoma as a skillful stump speaker, he has addressed the House only where necessary. Speaker Sam Rayburn. whose Fourth Texas District is just across the Red River from Albert's, took a fatherly, neighborly interest in Albert. In 1955. when the Democrats regained control of the House, Rayburn and John McCormack pored over the delegation lists for a majority whip. They got only as far as Oklahoma...
Under the careful coaching of Rayburn and McCormack, Carl Albert became one of the House's most accomplished nose-counters. Last year, when the White House developed a bad case of jitters over the chances of the depressed areas bill, and began to talk of compromises, Albert surveyed the situation and reported that the bill could be passed without major changes. It was. But when Albert told Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman that the Administration's farm program would have to be rewritten to get through the House, Freeman ignored the advice, and suffered a humiliating House defeat...
Albert's style of leadership is low-pressure. He deplores the sort of backroom bloodletting that has sometimes spattered the records of quick-drawing majority leaders of the past. He approves the Rayburn technique of giving members a loose rein when it comes to difficult votes. "If you whip them into line every time," he says, "by the session's third vote you're through. If you can't win them by persuasion you can't win them at all." On the other hand, Albert is tough enough to demand votes when the outcome...
...heart attack; in Washington. A party wheelhorse in Indiana and Stevenson backer before taking the national chairmanship over Harry Truman's bitter opposition, he provoked Southern Democrats with open criticism of their civil rights stand, attacked Lyndon Johnson and the late Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn for "moving too slowly toward a positive legislative program," had his last good scrap in 1960 when Truman accused him of trying to rig the Democratic Convention for Kennedy...