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Speaker Sam Rayburn has long opposed any additional seats, feeling that the House is big enough, would become cumbersome and unmanageable if it got any bigger. But with pressure from many an old friend who might lose a seat, Mister Sam is wavering. He asked Oklahoma's Carl Albert, the Democratic whip, to make a quiet investigation and some recommendations. Then Rayburn let it be known that for the time being he would take a neutralist position. He still has misgivings, believes that the Chelf bill might open the door to further growing pains. "First thing you know...
...foreign affairs. Since taking office, his soft words have been used more often than his stick: day after day, congressional leaders have dropped by the White House for chats-and exposure to the effortless Kennedy charm. But he threw the full weight of his prestige behind House Speaker Sam Rayburn in the fight over the Rules Committee, personally calling up important Congressmen to get their support. On his order, most of his Cabinet members lobbied too. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall was caught red-handed threatening cuts in big public projects in retribution for anti-Rayburn votes. Somewhat nervously, Udall telephoned...
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...
...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...