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...somethings, who wish to legislate the controversy out of existence before the event, and the do-nothings, whose faith in the ingenuity of the Founding Fathers covers not only what these gentlemn put into th Constitution, but what they left out. This second group is headed by Sam Rayburn, whose intention to kill any disability legislation may make the present conflict somewhat academic...
...Rayburn backs up his negativism with the examples of Presidents Garfield and Wilson, who teetered back and forth between life and death for quite some time without the United States' dissolving. The modern pressures for rapid action by the Chief Executive make this argument unrealistic...
...have this decisive function. With the impeachment power already vested in Congress by the Constitution, the question of reinstating the President, once he is again physically and mentally competent, solves itself. The Administration must realize the defects of its proposal in order to present a united front againt Mr. Rayburn and gain much needed legislation...
...shades of green chiffon. Blazing the way toward a new style was Mrs. Randolph Burgess, wife of the Under Secretary of the Treasury: in place of a corsage, she sported a miniature display of the medals that she won as a WAC in World War II. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who does not hold with such flossy doings, hovered so long behind the punch bowl that a fellow finally offered him a cupful. Scotch-Drinker Mr. Sam was incredulous: "Are you serious?" he asked. This was the last chance this year to invite Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy...
...General Ernest O. Thompson of the Texas Railroad Commission, which controls the production of Texas oil. On his flanks ranged virtually every important Texan in Washington, all well aware of how bad Texas has looked recently in the eyes of the world. On one side walked House Speaker Sam Rayburn, on the other Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. Said Speaker Sam, lest anyone mistake Thompson's qualifications: "The general, in my humble opinion, knows more about oil than any man in the world...