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...Rayburn's aides marshaled the Democratic troops. Telephones jangled all over Capitol Hill. Every Democrat was polled, cajoled, threatened. Majority Leader John McCormack paraded the fence sitters up and down the corridors, arguing endlessly. Alabama's Rains took a nose count, thought he smelled victory. "I tell you those Democrats are really burning," said Republican Whip Les Arends. "They are really putting the heat...
...equally impassioned. Here, he said, were two philosophies-"the philosophy of the dollar and . . . the philosophy of human values." Minutes later, the House rejected the Herlong bill, 203 to 177. Charlie Halleck lost only six or seven of the voting Republicans, but such was the effectiveness of the Rayburn-McCormack effort that Southern Democrats did not cross over in nearly enough numbers...
...dinner in the home of Oklahoma's Senator Mike Monroney on Washington's 32nd Street. It was an amiable, comfortable evening, with little serious political shop talk. But as it neared an end, one Democratic patriarch turned to the patriarchal guest of honor. Said House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 77, to Harry Truman: "Let me drop you downtown." From that offer came a political compact, soon whispered among Democratic professionals, that, with a wild scramble for the Democratic presidential nomination in prospect for next year, could become one of the most important political developments...
Three Down. In their talk, Truman and Rayburn ran down the list of top Democratic potentials. They agreed that, besides Symington and Johnson, there were only three serious challengers. And they agreed on the reasons for eliminating the three...
MASSACHUSETTS' Senator Jack Kennedy, front runner in all the polls, is (in the Truman-Rayburn view) too young (42), with the massive additional handicap of being a Roman Catholic. But Truman and Rayburn agreed that Kennedy is a top prospect for second spot on any ticket...