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...Texas rasped the reply of House Speaker Sam Rayburn: It would be "a mistake" for House leadership to "work with any committee outside the House of Representatives." A brief three days later drawled the final word from Senate Ma jority Leader Lyndon Johnson: "The necessity of dealing with an additional committee not created by federal law before taking action would only cause delays and confusion...
...other words, Sam Rayburn, 74, and Lyndon Johnson, 48, are running the Democratic Party in the U.S. Congress...
Johnson and Sam Rayburn have declined to serve on the "20-man" Democratic Advisory Committee and the eight persons who already have accepted posts include only three legislators, Senators Humphrey and Kefauver and Congresswoman Edith Green of Oregon. Consequently, Paul Butler's hope that powerful members of Congress would join seems to have been overly optimistic, if not naive, for in intent and organization the group was both an insult and a threat to Johnson, Rayburn...
...declining to join, however, the conservatives have considerably clarified the situation, for the committee and for the liberals in the Senate. Were Johnson and Rayburn to serve on the committee, they could easily keep it from reaching any constructive positions by dilatory and factious tactics. Now the committee can serve as an important pressure group. True, Stevenson, Truman and Mrs. Roosevelt have neither votes nor patronage to dispense, but their views have considerable influence on uncommitted Democrats. With an effective research staff they could form a useful liberal voice of national prestige, with the wide respect that Americans for Democratic...
...Mennen Williams. Another nominee: Lyndon Johnson, who already is fending off a clamor for a change in the Senate rules to forestall filibustering (TIME, Dec. 3). Parrying Ziffren's invitation, Johnson tentatively agreed to serve, postponed final decision until he caucused with House Speaker and Fellow Texan Sam Rayburn to assay Ziffren's strength...