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...liberals, Tennessee's Albert Gore, urged that the power of appointing members of Senate Democratic policymaking committees be taken out of Johnson's hands. In fact, for a few fleeting, fanciful days, the dissident liberals thought that at long last they might even have Texan Johnson on the skids...
...skirmish as the Senate's four presidential hopefuls-Texas' Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, Massachusetts' John F. Kennedy, Minnesota's Humphrey, Missouri's Stuart Symington-work for advantage. The scramble reaches even to the House, where Speaker Sam Rayburn is openly committed to Fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson's candidacy...
...Canny Willie Shoemaker, 28. the little (103 Ibs.) Texan that horses love to run for, booted home four winners at Santa Anita on the last day of 1959 to bring his total victories to 347, topping the nation's jockeys for an unprecedented fifth year...
...months Senator Lyndon Johnson has galloped relentlessly and restlessly around his native Texas, officially campaigning only to retain his aisle seat in the Senate. But "Johnson for President" clubs have sprouted in his tracks like mushrooms in a meadow. This week Johnson, already proclaimed a candidate by Fellow Texan Sam Rayburn, let his true love show, saddled up for a fast political shivaree in four nearby states. Quipped a Dallas wag: "He's just campaigning for re-election in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Arizona...
...Texans Three. One big reason for Robert Anderson's success as Treasury Secretary is that, in vivid contrast with his outspoken, impatient predecessor, he stays on good terms with the Democratic majority on Capitol Hill. In this he has an accident of geography going for him: Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn are both Texans. Rayburn, an old and trusted friend, was the first man to hear about Texan Anderson's painful decision in 1952 to bolt the Democrats and vote for Eisenhower. Anderson keeps in close touch with the leaders, tells them...