Word: rayburns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change in House leadership caused by the death of Speaker Sam Rayburn is another complicating factor. With Mister Sam gone, much of his power is bound to be claimed by the House committee chairmen, whose patriarchal views and parochial interests generally reflect conservative tendencies. Virginia Democrat How ard Smith, chairman of the Rules Committee, is certain to stand in the way of Administration programs. Missouri's Clarence Cannon, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, last week announced, even before he knew what was in Kennedy's budget, that he intended...
...House, Albert voted along generally liberal lines, except on civil rights issues, served as an effective member of the Agriculture Committee. Although he had earned a reputation back home in Oklahoma as a skillful stump speaker, he has addressed the House only where necessary. Speaker Sam Rayburn. whose Fourth Texas District is just across the Red River from Albert's, took a fatherly, neighborly interest in Albert. In 1955. when the Democrats regained control of the House, Rayburn and John McCormack pored over the delegation lists for a majority whip. They got only as far as Oklahoma...
Under the careful coaching of Rayburn and McCormack, Carl Albert became one of the House's most accomplished nose-counters. Last year, when the White House developed a bad case of jitters over the chances of the depressed areas bill, and began to talk of compromises, Albert surveyed the situation and reported that the bill could be passed without major changes. It was. But when Albert told Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman that the Administration's farm program would have to be rewritten to get through the House, Freeman ignored the advice, and suffered a humiliating House defeat...
...first time in 49 years, the name of Sam Rayburn was missing from the ballot in Texas' Fourth Congressional District. The cotton-and-cattle-country Fourth was Mister Sam's undisputed personal fief; the Texas legislature kept it the sixth smallest in the U.S. (its population is 213,374; by comparison, a neighboring district contains 951,527 Texans) to make fence-tending easy for the aging Speaker, who died last November at 79. Six candidates, including a lone Republican, campaigned to succeed him in a special election. Nobody polled a majority, so the two who led the field...
...leaders were both Democrats-and both laid claim to having been Rayburn's personal favorite. Said State Senator Ray Roberts, 44, who once worked in Mister Sam's House office: "There is no question about how Mr. Rayburn felt about me. Mr. Rayburn used to say it all the time; everybody's heard him say, 'I've been training Ray Roberts for 20 years to go to Washington.' " Said R. C. ("Bob") Slagle Jr., 51, a lawyer and onetime Rayburn campaign manager: "I worked with Rayburn for many years. I spent many happy hours...