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Bolling had been a protege of Speaker Sam Rayburn, and as such a spokesman for the establishment with which the DSG was frequently at odds. At the same time, however, Bolling, as a convinced liberal, took part in Study Group activities. DSG leaders have remarked that Bolling would come to meetings, but usually maintaining the condescending manner of one enjoying a favored relationship with the Speaker...
...After Rayburn's death, Bolling tried to remain in the establishment by running for the majority leader's position but withdrew when it became obvious that he would be beaten by Carl Albert. Realizing that he would no longer occupy a favored position with the establishment, Bolling turned more unreservedly to reform and the DSG. This was a reflection either of luck or an instinct for power that originally led Bolling into Rayburn's inner group, for reform and liberalism are becoming more powerful and fashionable--the DSG now has over 100 members...
Albert's technique was low pressure and easygoing. "You get criticized for not cracking the whip," he says, "but it doesn't make sense, for example, to make enemies that will lose you the farm bill to get the poverty bill, when you can get both." When Rayburn died in 1961 and John McCormack became Speaker, Carl Albert easily won the majority leader...
...architecture is frozen music, as Goethe said, then the latest addition to the Capitol Hill skyline is a resounding clinker. The Rayburn House Office Building, otherwise known as the new New House Office Building to distinguish it from the old New House Office Building, and the old Old House Office Building, was formally opened for business. Lady Bird Johnson last week dedicated a somewhat idealized, larger-and leaner-than-life bronze statue of the late Mr. Sam in the main-stair hall. Said Representative Wright Patman, recalling his fellow Texan: "This edifice is made, like Rayburn's toughly achieved...
...cost is a matter of some dispute. When Speaker Rayburn proposed the building in 1955, he requested an appropriation of $2,000,000, plus "such additional sums as may be necessary." By the time the architects, builders and congressional members of the building commission were through with it-three years behind schedule-the "additional sums" came to more than $86 million...