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...tense, closed-door session with Judge Smith, Rayburn attempted to work out a compromise: to add three new members to the Rules Committee (two Democrats, including one Southerner, and one Republican). Smith flatly rejected the offer, and Mister Sam thereupon decided to join the rebels. The next morning he summoned a group of top Democrats to his private office and broke the news: he would lead the fight to oust Colmer, whom he is said to regard as "an inferior...
...News of Rayburn's commitment soon leaked out. When Missouri's Clarence Cannon got the word, he turned purple. "Unconscionable!" he shouted, and rushed off to the Speaker's Room to object: "A dangerous precedent!"* Cannon, a powerful, conservative man, brought welcome support to the Smith-Colmer forces: as chairman of the Appropriations Committee, he holds over each member the dreadful threat of excluding this or that congressional district from federal pork-barrel projects. Sitting quietly on an equally big pork barrel was another Judge Smith ally, Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the Armed Services...
...floor of the House-before they could oust Colmer. (One big question: If Colmer was to be purged, what should the House do about the other three senior Mississippians who supported the maverick electors?) In all three arenas, they seemed certain of victory-especially with Sam Rayburn applying his whiplash...
...prospect of winning the battle loomed the specter of losing a costlier war. If the Southerners were sufficiently aroused, they could very well cut the Kennedy legislative program to ribbons from their vantage point of committee chairmanships, leaving Sam Rayburn leading a truncated, unworkable party. With that possibility in mind, Arkansas' Wilbur Mills deliberately delayed calling a meeting of the Committee on Committees, and coolheaded Democrats sought to bring Rayburn and Smith together again to work out some sort of face-saving compromise. "Here are two old men, mad at each other and too proud to pick...
...years that a candidate for the presidency announced the result of an election in which he was defeated,"* he said. "Those who lose accept the verdict and support those who win." Nixon thereupon offered his "heartfelt best wishes" to Kennedy and Johnson. When he had finished, House Speaker Sam Rayburn applauded, told Nixon it was the first speech he had ever applauded during his tenure as House Speaker. The Congress and the galleries exploded with the kind of ovation that belongs to a good loser who makes a gracious gesture...