Word: rayburns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil listened as two Rayburn lieutenants were running down the list of doubtful members. On one: "The General Services Administration ought to be able to get him." On another: "The Air Force can take care of him." A third? "If you can get the Post Office to issue that special stamp for him, you've got him." And a fourth...
...Kennedy rebels wanted to purge Mississippi's William Colmer from the committee and replace him with a Rayburn man. Colmer seemed fair game since he had supported the independent presidential-elector slate in Mississippi rather than Kennedy-Johnson". Rayburn vacillated between the purge and his three-new-member plan, a less drastic break with House traditions and Southern feelings. His mind once made up on committee packing, he announced a "binding" Democratic caucus, a rare device by which a two-thirds vote can bind all members of the party to vote for a particular proposal. Again Mister Sam wavered...
Custom-Designed Pressure. Then gut-fighting Charlie Halleck swung into battle behind Judge Smith, made opposition to the Rayburn plan an official Republican stand-a position that made good tactical sense but grated on some Republicans because it aligned the G.O.P. with Southern Democrats. That confronted Rayburn with the possibility of a messy and painful defeat on the floor: he needed Republican votes to win, and Halleck's thrust forced several Republicans who would otherwise have voted for Rayburn into the Smith camp...
...backgrounded" reporters on the news that Judge Smith had been conferring with lobbyists of the National Association of Manufacturers, the Chamber of Commerce, the American Farm Bureau Federation and the American Medical Association, all of which had launched barrages of letters and telegrams urging Congressmen to vote against the Rayburn plan. The labor and civil rights lobbies rolled up their persuasive artillery behind Sam Rayburn. As a compromise, Judge Smith promised "no obstacles" to clearance of five major Kennedy bills, but Rayburn retorted that "the President may have 40." President Kennedy threw his prestige into the fight by making...
...Rayburn lieutenant in the House went to the bizarre extreme of sending a case of bourbon to a boozing pro-Smith Southerner in hopes that the man would be too drunk or too hung over to go to the Hill and vote. (The plot failed: Smith men saw to it that the man got to the Capitol to cast his no.) Cracking down on liberal Republicans who had promised to vote for the Rayburn plan, Charlie Halleck at one point grabbed a Congressman by the coat lapels and literally shook him. The man staggered away cursing Halleck...