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...Senators and Representatives, only two are now close to the President. They are: South Carolina's canny, catch-as-catch-can Senator Jimmy Byrnes; Texas' steady, durable Sam Rayburn. Nebraska's Norris has slowed with age; Wisconsin's La Follette is too isolationist (and for that reason may not have the badly needed support of the White House in his race for re-election this fall). Among the so-called New Deal "militants" in the Senate (Minton, Lee, Pepper, Wagner) not one has the force & fury to attract Franklin Roosevelt. But there is another reason...
Then he and Mrs. Garner went to Union Station, the relics of 37 years of public jobholding in their trunks. Sam Rayburn said goodby, tears in his eyes. No one believed John Garner would ever come back.) In the closing moments Texas' Sam Rayburn had withdrawn Garner's name, Senator Tydings had withdrawn his own name in a statement that was like the slap of a barber's cold towel, and big Jim Farley asked to be permitted to make a statement "without interruption...
...cross. Seventeen men had been directly or indirectly promised the Vice-Presidency, or boosted for it, by some member of Hopkins & Co. These included: Cordell Hull, William B. Bankhead, James Byrnes. William O. Douglas, Robert H. Jackson, Louis Johnson, Henry A. Wallace, Culbert Olson, Lloyd C. Stark, Sam Rayburn, Jesse H. Jones. Scott Lucas. Paul V. McNutt, Charles Sawyer...
...sneering: "Willkie, the Nine-Minute Wonder," "Hopson's Choice." They gave themselves comforting reasons for his upsurge-Eastern seaboard hysteria, Wall Street propaganda, utilities propaganda-explained away the galleryites as paid Wall Street stooges, explained away the telegrams by knowing references to utility tactics in fighting the Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company...
...week's end, the call to stay in session (with temporary recesses for the G. O. P. and Democratic conventions) was too loud for the Administration to ignore. The President found it expedient to deny that he had ever bade Congress be done and be gone. Sam Rayburn and House Speaker William Bankhead, who had been preaching adjournment by June 22, also gave up. Said Mr. Bankhead, while Sam Rayburn nodded his homely old head in agreement: "I think that we might as well be candid about it. I don't think that we can adjourn as planned...