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When word reached Capitol Hill that the President was readying a special message urging Congress to hold down on spending, Democrats fired away. Republicans were "grabbing everywhere for an issue," growled House Speaker Sam Rayburn. It is "saddening," said Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, "that there are those who feel that they must take to the air waves because Congress is trying to work out some programs that will help people that need help. That is a peculiar motivation for panic." Congress, he rumbled, was not going to rubber-stamp "a program laid down by another branch of government...
...experts said. Meanwhile, the L.B.J. outriders traveled all over the country, feeling out delegates, talking to political leaders, studying the political weather for him. Six months ago a big Johnson-for-President headquarters had been established in a twelve-room suite in Austin by Speaker Sam Rayburn; its 14 employees and volunteer workers (including Elliott Roosevelt Jr., 23) were busy handing out campaign literature and Johnson lapel buttons (a brass cowboy hat embossed with L.B.J...
...their combined 68 years in Congress, Johnson and his staunch old ally, Speaker Sam Rayburn, have racked up a thousand political debts. The lOUs are vividly charted on a large wall map of the U.S. in the Austin headquarters of Larry Jones, a former Texas assistant attorney general, who quit his job three months ago to prepare the Johnson-for-President campaign. The map is covered with red pins in every state and cranny of the nation-each one representing a politician or politicians who can be mustered to the Johnson colors when the trumpet blows...
Wisconsin was obviously on his mind when Rayburn belittled state primaries. "Never thought much of them," he rasped. And there was a strong whiff of stop-Kennedy in his not-so-chance remarks about Bob Meyner, who has vice-presidential ambitions and 41 New Jersey delegate votes to back them up. As an Easterner and a former Roman Catholic, Meyner could never hope for a spot on Kennedy's ticket, but he might fit nicely into a double bill with Lyndon Johnson. Purred Rayburn: "We're not going around promising anything to anybody. But in my book...
...with the advice and consent of Harry Truman, had the desired effect of stiffening some Kennedy opposition. ¶ From Washington came word that Lyndon Johnson would declare his candidacy earlier than he had planned-probably after the California primaries in June. Asked if Lyndon would announce before the convention, Rayburn said: "He will at the proper time, if he follows my advice." Had he advised him yet? "Not yet, I haven...