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...that Speaker Sam Rayburn, permanent chairman of the last three Democratic National Conventions, will not accept that honorific spot again at next July's convention in Los Angeles. The chairman, Mister Sam feels, should be conspicuously neutral, and Rayburn's own all-out support of Fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson's presidential ambitions rules...
...economic system, and to make a sound U.S. economic system the keystone of a free-world economic policy based on growing prosperity through freer trade. The drive was the President's own. But the man behind the drive was a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), mild-mannered Texan with a lingering touch of the prairies in his soft twang: Robert Bernerd Anderson, 49, Secretary of the Treasury and the strong man of Dwight Eisenhower's Cabinet...
Cold-eyed Earle Clements, again the strongman in Kentucky politics and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's handyman on the national scene, won the power to pick Johnson-for-President delegates for most of the state's 31 convention votes. If Texan Johnson's bandwagon bogs down, Clements' men are convinced that they will be swung over to Missouri's Stuart Symington. But such plans may run into intraparty fire from Lieutenant Governor Wilson Wyatt, who may wind up fighting for a chance to split off some of the votes for Old Friend Stevenson...
...shooting matches from Massachusetts to Florida over the next weeks. Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey scored an unexpected bull's-eye with the United Auto Workers in Atlantic City, pushed on to Denver. In Dallas, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who customarily presides over the Democratic Convention, nominated fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson for his presidential candidate. Illinois' Adlai Stevenson held court with visiting politicos but maintained an inscrutable silence at his Libertyville home. California's Governor
...into the newly created space agency," "a consistent policy for Latin America"). He got off to a fast start on a quicker-than-the-eye maneuver to limit slightly the Senate's filibuster Rule 22, hoppered his own civil rights bill as a necessary prerequisite for any ambitious Texan seeking to prove that he is a Westerner, not a Southerner...