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...House scheduled a vote this week on what Speaker Sam Rayburn calls "the Bow thing," a resolution, fostered by Ohio Republican Frank T. Bow, calling upon the Administration to scrap its status-of-forces agreements (TIME, June 17) with foreign countries. Ohio's Bow, who has made a career out of attacking status-of-forces pacts, got his resolution through the House Foreign Affairs Committee by an 18-to-8 vote, and will very likely get it through the full House. But the Senate, asking a dim view of House meddling with the Senate's business of treaties...
...Wane. Toward week's end "Judge" Smith's balm began to wear off. Attempting to toss out the bill on a technicality, Smith was firmly overruled by House Speaker Sam Rayburn. Better still, unofficial nose counts by whips of both parties found all but about 40 of the 200 Republicans and more than half the 234 Democrats still prepared to vote down the jury-trial amendment. But as debate continued toward this week's crucial voting, a new wedge was driven in the pro-civil-rights ranks. The driver: no less an advocate than Harlem...
Politics. A longtime Democrat and friend of Texas Democratic politicos (including Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn), Anderson backed Ike in 1952, switched his registration to Republican in 1956. In general outlook, Anderson could well serve as a model Eisenhower Republican. George Humphrey, who became an Anderson friend and admirer through Cabinet contacts, recommended him as the best man for the Treasury...
...Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Montana's Mike Mansfield: "For the first time in years the foreign-aid program has been presented in a form that looks manage able and salable." Minnesota's Fair-Dealing Hubert Humphrey was "delighted" with the message. House Speaker Sam Rayburn (who had brushed off Ike's State of the Union message last January as "one of those kind-of-usual things") called it "great," volunteered that he was going to back "a very generous appropriation" for foreign aid. Indiana Republican Homer Capehart, who has voted against foreign...
...program," wrote Freeman, "is of utmost importance to insure our safety and to promote the prospects for peace in the U.S. and the world." Governor Freeman was not the only Democratic leader upset by the budget-slashing direction of the 85th Congress under Texas Democrats Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn. In nearly every state outside the South, top Democrats viewed with anguish and anger the party record being written by the 85th Congress. Reason: the Johnson-Rayburn emphasis on budget cutting means hacking away at programs for which the national Democratic Party has long stood...