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Abdication Announcement. He became the superstar of films, records, TV and the casinos of Las Vegas. He took over the Rat Pack. It is said that at a Democratic conclave once, he was affectionately greeted by Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, whom he told to "take your hands off the threads, creep." He was wanted both at Kennedy campaign rallies and rackets-commission hearings. He was into the airline business, missile parts, and had a personal staff of 75. Briefly he was married again, this time to Mia Farrow, who was less than half his age. Perhaps most surprising...
Albert considers himself a populist in the tradition of Rayburn; the districts the two men represented adjoin on the Texas-Oklahoma border, and they were fast friends. Rayburn helped pick Albert as Democratic whip in 1955. To Rayburn admirers, the two small men (Rayburn was l½ in. taller) even seemed to operate alike. Said one as he watched Albert in 1962: "Look at the little fellow! Ain't that Mr. Sam?" Albert has stumbled only once in his steady climb since then; he appeared vacillating and uncertain as he chaired the chaotic 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. He had suffered...
...House to declare war on Britain despite the reluctance of President James Madison), or the arrogance of Thomas Reed (whose highhanded use of House rules made him a virtual czar in the 1890s). Albert would most like to emulate his longtime Southwestern neighbor, the late Sam Rayburn. The canny Texan was the kind of Speaker who always insisted that "I haven't served under anybody, but I have served with eight Presidents...
...just too kindly a man to shake up the place. One who senses a deeper strength in Albert is TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil, a longtime scholar and historian of the House. Says he: "I believe, after 16 years of knowing the man well, that he does have, in Rayburn's phrase, 'iron in his backbone.' He does not enter the speakership with any queasy thoughts that he is inadequate to the office. He intends to prove himself, not with any sense of personal aggrandizement or arrogance, but because he knows that he has a job that must be done...
...heavier now, and his hair is almost gone on top. But Bobby Baker's tailoring is as impeccable as it was when he learned from the great men -Burnet Maybank, Alben Barkley, Sam Rayburn. Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kerr -to dress as though you were prosperous. There is the same keen intelligence, the same up-to-the-minute knowledge of national affairs. Nor has Baker become a more humble man despite his gentle manner. He recalls that he had once planned to return to his native South Carolina and run for office: "I have no doubt that I could have...