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...enjoyed his power on the Rules Committee. There his vote, along with those of Chairman Howard Smith, the courtly Virginia judge, and the four Republican members, could and often did produce a 6-6 deadlock that blocked far-out Democratic-sponsored welfare legislation (a tactic often acceptable to the Rayburn-Johnson congressional leadership to avoid embarrassing votes...
...touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage. (In the heat of the anti-Colmer drive last week, Judge Smith threatened reprisal against Powell. Said he: "We will see whether whites and Negroes are treated the same around here.") But Speaker Sam Rayburn, after huddling in Palm Beach with President-elect Kennedy, decided that this year something had to be done about the Rules Committee - and that he was the only man who could do anything effective...
Beaming Dome. Focal point of all the bustle, and of the inauguration itself, is Capitol Hill. Chandeliers were being polished. The old Senate Office Building gleamed after a scrubdown. The $10 million whim of House Speaker Sam Rayburn -the two-year job of moving the Capitol's east front 32½ feet forward-was a gleaming reality (although the new inte rior space will be useless until another $3,000,000 is sunk in remodeling). The outdoor platform where Kennedy will take the oath of office was in readiness, facing a jungle gym of stands for the press (more...
...hoped Caroline would do as well with all her locks as he had done with no hair. Caroline seemed satisfied with that, and then sought out Lyndon Johnson to discover whether the master political craftsman knew how to make sand pies. Disappointingly, he didn't. One morning Sam Rayburn also tried his hand at fishing off the Palm Beach seawall with little Joe Kennedy, Bobby's son, caught eight fish to Joe's seven. As if that had not been enough of a challenge, Sam Rayburn also had to sleep next to the nursery; the baby, remarked...
Observing the proprieties, the fellows put on their neckties before confronting waiting newsmen with word of the serious business of the day. Sam Rayburn made it clear that he still considered himself the man in charge of the House. Despite big campaign promises of legislation for teachers' salaries, the emphasis, he said, would be on school construction-period. Vice President Johnson came away with two new assignments: chairmanship of the National Aeronautics and Space Council, which will set U.S. space exploration goals for both military and civilian agencies, and chairmanship of the Committee on Government Contract Compliance, aimed...