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Back in mid-July. House Speaker Sam Rayburn bluntly told President Kennedy that any school-aid bill this session was "dead as slavery." But the President insisted that his congressional leaders keep trying to turn up some compromise-almost any compromise-that would satisfy the House, where the issue of aid to public schools was roiled by religious rancor and segregationist distrust. Last week President Kennedy learned the hard way that Rayburn had been right. In the Administration's second major legislative defeat of the week, the House voted down a diluted school bill by the humiliating margin...
...House allow committee chairmen to try to bring bills directly to the floor on "Calendar Wednesday" without going through the roadblocking Rules Committee. But up stood Louisiana's conservative F. Edward Hebert, a Catholic, to challenge Powell's attempt to put the bill before the House. Rayburn promptly ordered a roll-call vote on the issue, commented sourly: "This subject has been around long enough...
...school bill went down to a crushing defeat; the House-Senate foreign aid program came seriously compromised out of the committee room. And so, with the last major business of the session cleared away, tired, taut House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 79, agreed to rest his ailing back (TIME, Sept. 1). Last week, with his niece Jane Bartley in tow, Rayburn packed up and flew off for an indefinite rest at his home in Bonham, Texas, leaving behind a promise to return in case any legislative trouble arises...
...years as House majority leader, Democrat John McCormack of Massachusetts was for mally elected as Speaker pro tern. Since there is little legislation pending that is likely to demand Mr. Sam's presence, McCormack will run the House until it adjourns toward the end of September. If Rayburn's health were to cause his resignation this session, McCormack would be the automatic choice of the House to succeed the venerable Texan-and a favorite to take permanent possession of the Speaker's gavel in the next Congress...
Inevitably, there was already some speculation about a successor if Rayburn were physically unable to carry on as Speaker. Among the most likely possibilities: Majority Leader John McCormack of Massachusetts; Missouri's Richard Boiling, a Rayburn protégé and a key liberal member of the House Rules Committee; Alabama's Albert Rains, a progressive Southerner; and Pennsylvania's Francis ("Tad") Walter, chairman of the Un-American Activities Committee and a conservative Northerner who commands respect for his parliamentary abilities...