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McCormack has served as House Speaker since 1962 when he succeeded Sam Rayburn. Since then he has come under increasingly sharp fire from House liberals for his defense of the war in Vietnam and his conservative stance of defense spending...
...came down by car a few hours later than most with no real idea what I was supposed to do or how I was supposed to do it. After walking around lost, Marty and I found our way to Rayburn-one of three buildings where Congressmen work. We went in, and in the cafeteria, a Harvard person told us to go talk to our Congressmen and tell them how unhappy we are with the Asian policy the country is following...
...from jail of Frank ("Cheech") Livorsi, an eastern Mafia leader, because of the mobster's ill health. Another is looking into the roles of Sweig and Voloshen in a contractor's efforts to add $5,000,000 to the $11 million cost of a garage under the Rayburn House Office Building...
...Congress has traditionally acted on the principle that slack is beautiful. And the fact is that during nearly 40 years dominated for the most part by activist, innovative Presidents, Congress grew accustomed to reacting to executive initiatives rather than originating major legislation. During the relatively quiescent Eisenhower years, Sam Rayburn in the House and Lyndon Johnson in the Senate provided strong party leadership, giving the opposition Democrats a measure of cohesion and guidance. Speaker John McCormack and Senate Leader Mike Mansfield offer no comparable direction today. Illinois Democrat Roman Pucinski complains: "The Speaker never intended to be the party leader...
...congressional committees are also scrutinizing the industry. The inquiry is likely to be more intense than in the past, since many of oil's longtime friends in high places have departed. Lyndon Johnson has retired; former House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senator Robert Kerr are dead. Louisiana's Rus sell Long is left to defend the industry against such Senate reformers as Edward Kennedy, Edmund Muskie, Philip Hart and William Proxmire. Oilmen have mobilized their own forces in a desperate battle to protect their interests...