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...During the 1952 Democratic National Convention, Freeman fought hard and noisily to throw out the Virginia, South Carolina and Louisiana delegations over the party-loyalty resolution. Televiewers will remember him as an excited young man who stood atop his chair sputtering "point of order, point of order," while Sam Rayburn gaveled him down...
Senator Johnson and Representative Rayburn have pledged that their party will work in harmony with the President. But party discipline in this country is a myth: a real sense of responsibility, not only promises, is needed to eliminate all the political hackwork that can come from a divided government...
That night, out of Fort Worth, came a blast from the opposing camp. In a nationally televised speech, old (72) Sam Rayburn, Democratic leader of the House, said the way to save the U.S. is to elect a Democratic Congress on Nov. 2. The Republican Administration is "inept" and its Congress "as forward-looking as yesterday," he charged. He flatly predicted that the Democrats would win both the Senate and the House...
Localized Pain. Although both Rayburn and the Republicans stressed national aspects of the campaign last week, no great national issues-beyond support of Eisenhower-have yet developed to influence the battle for all the 50 crucial seats. The political pain is largely localized. Items...
...Rules Committee chairmanship, were stripped from his successor, "Uncle Joe" Cannon, in the revolt of 1910. The speakership was whittled down almost to its purely procedural functions. Since then the Speaker's powers have been gradually increasing again, with Joe Martin's (and before him, Sam Rayburn's) subtle cloakroom tactics substituting for the brazen railroading of Czar Reed...