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...Tribune: "The President was on the right road-the high road. Adams was on the muddy one-the low road." Tut-tutted Pundit Walter Lippmann: "In the position he occupies and with the immunity which he claims, Mr. Adams should not make speeches at all." Growled House Speaker Sam Rayburn: "I see that the Republicans just about obliterated the Democratic Party . . . Does the White House think it can pass its program without Democratic votes?" But mingled with criticism there was plenty of praise, especially from the Republican pros. In one day Meade Alcorn got 18 pro-Adams telephone calls from...
...through formality to wish the Congress a happy new year on behalf of himself and Mrs. Eisenhower. In the gallery, Mamie took a bow. Still smiling and casual, the President turned to the rostrum behind him for timely birthday greetings to Vice President Nixon (45) and House Speaker Sam Rayburn (76). Then, the smiles giving way to solemnity, he turned to the business at hand: his sixth State of the Union message. When he concluded, the nation and the world had heard a speech that was unusual not merely for the vigor of the man and his words, but because...
Also, Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex.) of the House said Eisenhower seemed to be making Benson a czar over agriculture...
RECIPROCAL TRADE: Dulles and Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks said the Administration will ask a five-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act with its authorization for the President to cut tariffs by as much as 5% a year. Speaker Sam Rayburn, recalling that the Administration's 1955 request for a three-year extension had barely squeezed through the House, warned that foreign trade next year will require a herculean Administration effort...
...Said McCormack: "Sign it." Kennedy refused-the only Democrat in the Massachusetts delegation to do so. McCormack neither forgave nor forgot, especially after Kennedy beat him for control of the state Democratic Committee in a preconvention 1956 fight. At the national convention, it was McCormack who signaled to Sam Rayburn to recognize the Missouri delegation-which cast the decisive votes against Kennedy...