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...Burns's strategy paid off. Alaska's victory softened almost all further opposition; even Sam Rayburn, long opposed to Hawaiian statehood, decided to go along. And even Virginia's stubborn Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith had seen the handwriting on the bill, decided that he could not prevent its movement to the floor (TIME, March 16). Added to that was the momentum of the Senate's victory, planned by Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who had even won over some Southern defectors (although not such diehards as Virginia's Harry Byrd, Mississippi's Jim Eastland...
...column escort. Diplomatic element: the U.S. was ready for Big Four foreign ministers' talks at Geneva (probable date: May 11), after that for a parley at the summit (probable location: Geneva). Next morning the President called in congressional leaders-Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and House Minority Leader Charles Halleck-gave a total briefing. Said Speaker Rayburn afterward: "The upshot of it is that we are united. We don't have any political parties when it comes to this. We think with the President that we must remain...
...unified; we don't have any parties in this thing," Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.) said. "A common and unified posture," Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois added...
...question-and-answer show filmed in Washington and telecast in Madison, Proxmire attacked Johnson and much that is sacred to him: 1) the control of Congress by the two Texans, Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn (''When you get these two men together with the power of making committee assignments, you see the obsequious bowing, scraping Senators and Congressmen around them"); 2) the oil depletion allowance ("a terrific tax handout and giveaway"); 3) Johnson's talents for civil rights compromise ("Effective civil rights legislation is impossible"). Then Proxmire, a Harvard Business School graduate ('40), blamed Johnson...
...Reed was a direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden and, in the Puritan tradition, a self-reliant conservative. Elected to the House in 1918, he was undefeated in 21 consecutive biennial elections, was topped in seniority only by Carl Vinson of Georgia (1914) and Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas (1913). As chairman of Ways and Means when the Republicans took over in 1953. Reed made headlines when he promptly opposed the Eisenhower Administration's plan for a six-months' extension of excess profits taxes. In a rare move, House Republican leadership bypassed Reed's committee. Commented...