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Witnesses at the inauguration of President Truman included the Secretaries of State, Commerce, War, the Navy, the Treasury, Labor, the Interior, and Agriculture, in addition to Admiral King, Admiral Leahy, Fred M. Vinson, Senator Rayburn, House Majority Leader McCormack, and Minority Leader Martin...
...bill lay in the Rules Committee for five days, was finally shoehorned out onto the floor by Speaker Sam Rayburn. It squeaked through its first test (a resolution to make the bill in order) by ten votes (202-to-192). The anti-Wallace men tried again: a motion to recommit the bill. It was beaten by eight votes (204-to-196), and the opposition folded. House Republicans, who regard Wallace as an economic madman or worse, and Southern Democrats, who feel the same way, then joined the pro-Wallace-men. The George bill was passed...
...House, to nobody's surprise, reinstalled stocky Sam Rayburn as Speaker. The voters had given him 31 more Democrats (total: 243) than he had wound up the 78th Congress with; the Republicans were down 22 seats to an even...
...Rayburn did not have too much to say. He spoke briefly, plainly, and the House, for once, kept still and listened. Reminding the members that America's young manhood was making "terrible sacrifices" overseas, he admonished his colleagues: "Let us not act here today, tomorrow, or throughout the coming years in any fashion so that any returning soldier may have reason to think that we have not, while he was offering the supreme sacrifice . . . done our full, our total duty...
Gathering for the first time on Jan. 6, 1943, the 78th Congress set sail on a high tide of optimism. Minority Leader Joe Martin, congratulating Speaker Sam Rayburn on his reelection, had cried: "This . . . will be a Victory Congress. ..." History will determine just how much the 78th had to do with the ultimate U.S. victory. But during the past two years, a soberer-than-average Congress had: 1) asserted its independence of the Chief Executive; 2) financed the war with whopping appropriations; 3) made a fitful start on reconversion plans. More specifically, the 78th, neither the best nor the worst...