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...responsible for the Estes decisions. But he had merely been trying to be fair; after all, any U.S. citizen is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Yes, he had at one time canceled Billie Sol's cotton-allotment transactions. But then, after urgings from Texas' Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough and Representative J. T. Rutherford, Murphy suspended the cancellation in order to reconsider the legal merits of the tangled affair. Why? Well, there was the possibility that Estes may have only made an "honest mistake." This explanation did not seem to convince Republican Subcommittee Member Karl Mundt of South Dakota...
...entertainment was a filibuster, staged not by Deep Southerners−the most frequent filibusterers of recent years−but by liberal Democrats, notably Oregon's Wayne Morse and Maurine Neuberger, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver and Albert Gore, Texas' Ralph Yarborough. Some of them, over the years, had conspicuously denounced Southern filibusters against civil rights measures. Ex-Republican Morse (he quit the G.O.P. in the midst of the 1952 campaign) once called filibustering a "disgraceful and contemptible procedure," and has been one of the Senate's most vociferous advocates of rule changes to shut off filibusters, even...
...special treatment from the department, Estes had invoked the names of Johnson and the late House Speaker Sam Rayburn. But when the same official, one Carl J. Miller, publicly testified before the subcommittee, he omitted Johnson's name, mentioning only Rayburn and Texas' Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough...
Winging from town to town in a Cessna, Yarborough assailed Connally as ''a confessed lobbyist for Eastern oil and gas monopolies, nursed in the smoke-filled room and weaned on the big lie technique." One such "lie," declared Yarborough, was Connally's press-conference plea at the 1960 Democratic Convention for delegates to vote for Johnson because Jack Kennedy suffered from "a death-dealing disease." Conflicting religious rumors about Connally were widespread: 1) he had quit as President Kennedy's Navy Secretary because he is anti-Catholic; 2) he is a Catholic himself. (Connally...
Connally, traveling in a train, rolled across the 863 miles from Texarkana to El Paso, insisting at nearly every stop that Yarborough was the candidate of the Americans for Democratic Action. In Texas, that is about as damaging as calling him a Communist. Some Connally supporters did, in fact, place an ad that posed this choice: "Connally Go Ahead Versus C.I.O. Red." Neither did Connally's backers discourage the notion that Don Yarborough is kin to Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough, who has been linked to Billie Sol Estes. (Don and Ralph are not related...