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T.".e inside slor-j of Harold
S'as.-en s abortive tiffort to start
a "dump-Nixon" mmement is so
vtjry strange
a:, id richly
comic tbal it
deerves to be
toiri in full and
in ietail. Like
any good com-r-d.,
it can be
divided i nto
!:i;,lily actable
-.cc.ies.
uraud organier of Hie drive to
renominate Vice Prei ident Nix
on. Republican National Chair
man Len Hall, telephones Nix
on's obvious strongest potential
rival. Massachusetts Gov. Christ
ian Herter about 12 days ago.
Hall says he wants Herter to
put Nixon's name in nomination
'Ht'Th 'or tne vice
Pre.-aaency and
intinoates that
President
E i s e n h o w
er Miares this
wish. Herter,
who is perhaps
not tjuite sure
fikti, t tins, cor.
ond part of
Stewart AJsop Halls state
ment, says that he 1 1 not ad
verse to the idea, but vrould like
to think it over and talk about
it with the President himself be
fore giving his decision.
Scene II: On Friday a week
a2o. tiie greatest edge.i-intn-oth-er-people
s-political- pi r Hires in
recent American historj . Harold
Stasscn. drops in to see the Pres
ident, and tells him that he
thinks an Eisenhowir-Herter
ticket would be a lot stronger
than an Eisenhower - Nixon tick
et. The President presunsably an
swers "urnm, umm."
(What the President in fact
answered is the only .part of
t he story that is still mysteri
ous. Bui he must havi? made
some sort of misleading mon-com-mital
noise, unless Harnjd Stas
sen also deserves the t;tlr of our
history's greatest poIiicU day
dreamer) SCENE III: Stassen thfjn tele
phones P.nv Herter tn an.
nounce that he has broached the
idea of an Eisenhower- IHerter
ticket to the President. Th? Pres
ident's response, declare:! Stas
sen, was decidedly encouraging.
Gov. Herter also answers ''umm,
ummm." He still wants to see
the President face-to-face and
makes plans to come to Wash
ington for that purpose immed
iately after ti.e President's re
turn from Panama.
Scene IV: Edger-in Stassen
holds his now-celebrated press
conference, proposing the dun.p
ing of Dick Nixon in favor of
Chris Herter. Total consterna
tion ensue.-, both at the White
House and at tne Republican
National committee
Tiie President's Panama trip
has been, planned, by the very
best Madison Avenue experts,
as a splendid exnioition of a
President giov. ir.g with health in
his great roie as peace-maker.
The President himself, by admit
ting that he feels lousy in Pana
ma, has caused one part of the
Madison Avenue plans to "gang
a-glea." And now here is Stas
sen. not only going after Nixon,
but also seizing the precious
spotlight at the very moment
when the damage already done
in Panama ought to be undone
by banner headlines announcing
the success of the President's
mi-sion.
SCENE V: The news of Stassen's
press conference finally
catches up with Gov. Herter on
the golf course. As soon as he
can get to a telephone, he calls
the President's Chief of Staff.
Sherman Adams. Herter ex
plains that lie had no warning
whatever of the great edger-in's
intentions, and asks what the
devil he ought to do now. More
than one conversation is needed
for Adams and Herter to decide
that Herter must now agree to
become Nixon's chief nominator.
SCENE VI: Herter then tele
phones Len Hall, to disclose that
he lias now made up his mind to
grant Hall's earlier request with
out further delay. The overjoy
ed Hall agrees with Herter on
the plan for successive state
ments an announcement by
himself that Herter will place
Nixon's name before the San
Francisco convention. and a
subsequent, confirmatory state
ment by Herter. Hall also sug
gests that Herter ought to break
the glorious news to Nixon in
person and immediately. Herter
then calls Nixon who is. not un
naturally, even more overjoyed
than his great and good friend
i Len.
That was the real end of the
comedy, although Harold Stas
! sen has been playing a sort of
: obstinate epilogue, telling overy
; one who will listen that he has
! unnamed but powerful co-con-j
spirators. boasting of unidenti
j fied but fervent support for his
I proposal, and so on and so on. If
' he had wanted to do everything
Two Men Much Alike
To Referee National
Conventions in '56
Sunday, July 29, 1956
KEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
! er s role may be in evidence in
: tiieir chairmanship of the con
1 ventior.s. Rayburn, who has been
speaker longer than any man in
I history: "My experience with
in i au
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its? iuvs-
Washington (CQi Two men
very much alike will referee the
Democratic and Republican con
ventions this year.
But the contests ahead for
each are as different in size as
their home states Texas and
Massachusetts.
Rep. Sam Rayburn iD-Tex.l,
speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives, will have to swing
his gavel hammer-fast to keep
the wide-open Democratic Na
tional Convention in order,
while the gavel wielded by his
counterpart at the Republican
Convention, Rep. Joseph W.
Martin Jr. (R-Mass.i may never
even get bruised.
Difference Is Ike
The difference, of course, will
be President Eisenhower. Bar
ring any further health setbacks,
the assembled Republican dele
gates in San Francisco auto
matically will renominate Mr.
Eisenhower for a second term on
the first ballot. But it probably
will take several battles and
ballots for the Democrats to pick
a candidate to oppose him.
Rayburn also had the tougher
time in 1951!. Besides a knock
down fight for the Presidential
nomination, he had to referee
battles over the party platform
and the seating of ex-Dixiccrats
Walter S. Hallanan of West
Virginia was in the chair while
the hottest issue at the Repub
lican 1952 convention was be
ing fought, whether to seat the
pro-Eisenhower or pro-Taft dele
gations from Louisiana. Georgia
and Texas. Martin told Con
gressional Quarterly he expects
to have "an easy time of it"
this year.
Conventions Old Stuff
Whatever happens at the con
ventions next month, Rayburn
and Martin will be less sur
prised than anyone else. Chair
ing conventions is old stuff for
them. Rayburn was permanent
chairman of the 1948 and 1952
Democratic conventions and
Martin of the Republican con
claves in 1940, 1944, 1948 and
1952.
This vear the millions of TV
viewers will notice that both j
chairmen are elderly Rayburn j
74. Martin 71 and probably'
will recall that both have been j
speaker of the House. But that's ;
only a start on the similarities.
Botli wee born into large and
poor families. Rayburn was the
eighth of 11 children and spent
most of his youth helping to eke
out a living on the family farm
near Winrium. Tex. Martin, a
blacksmith's son. was one of
eieht children. He grew up in
North Attleboro. Mass.. started
peddling papers when he was'
the speakership has been that ! Marlin
you cannot lead people by try
ing to drive them. Persuasion
six. ; and reason are the only ways to
After high school with S25 j lead them . . .''
in his pocket Ravburn entered j Martin: "In the final analysis,
what is now East Texas State I what resolves the great question
Teachers college. Martin at 13 1 o whether a man is a good
speaker or a great speaner is his
ability tn be fair and impartial
and to interpret the rules and
do justice to all, even if it be
tion. Samples of their speech j died with men in power who
about the opposite party during j have been fostering unprin
thc 1952 conventions: Rayburn cipled programs and unprin-
"Primarily the Republican i cipieci policies."
leadership is just 'asin' people." I (Copyright 195S.
America has been sad- ! Congressional Quarterly)
became a reporter on the North
Attleboro Evening Leader.
Elected to House
At age 24. Rayburn was elect-
it must be at times
ed to the Texas House of Renre- i adverse, as
sentatives serving there until I ,0 llis Gwn Parl.v and his own
1913 when he took his seat in convictions.
S. House of Representa-
the U
lives.
Martin at 24 became publisher
of the North Attleboro Evening
Chronicle, a daily he still owns.
Three years later at 27 Mar
tin was elected to the Massa
chusetts House of Representa
tives. He served there from
1912-14 and in the State Senate
from 1914-17. In 1924 he was
elected to the U. S. House of
Representatives, has been there
ever since.
Their political apprenticeships
forged similar philosophies on
party loyalty. Rayburn: "I am a i
Personally, botii are unassum
ing and friendly. They prefer
the "early to bed, early to rise"
maxim of the farm to the Capi
tal's gay whirl of parties. And
both are thought, of as bachelors
even though Rayburn was di
vorced after a youthful marriage
of less than six months.
While one has been speaker,
the other has been minority lead
er. The offices for holders of
those two posts are next to each
other off a rose colored corridor
leading from the entrance to
Statuary hall in the Capitol
"Mr. Sam" currently occupies
team nlaver and believe in work--! tlle slightly smaller office usual
ly occupied by the minority lead
er. As he puts it. "We're too old
to be always swapping offices."
But don't expect any of this
personal brotherhood between
"Mr. Sam" and ""Joe" to spill
over party lines at the ronven-
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possible to insure Vice President
Nixon's re-nomination, he could
have found no better way.
Herter. meanwhile, has hand
led his difficult position of the
man-in-the-middle with conspic
ous good sense. Last Spring, he
sent word to the President that
he did not want to run again
for Governor of Mass., but hop
ed to return to service in the
Eisenhower administration on
the foreign affairs front. Vice
President Nixon was the chosen
messenger, and Nixon was also
asked to persuade the president
not to press Herter to make an
other campaign for the Gov
ernorship. After this episode,
Herter seems more than ever
likely, to get what he really
wants after the election is over.
(C) 1956 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
ing within the party organiza
tion." Martin: "A policy isn't
worth the paper it's written on
if it doesn't become law and it
can't become law unless votes
make it so."
For getting and staving elect
ed, both subscribe to the face-to-face
approach. Rayburn hosts a
political USO at his two-story
frame house two miles outside
of Bonham in northern Texas
when he is home and sees the
voters in their own surround
ings as often as he can.
Patrols District
Martin patrols his 14th dis
trict with the thoroughness of a
cop on a beat. Posters announce
when he will drop in at the local
post offices "to afford an oppor
tunity for constituents to inter
view him on government busi
ness.' Martin says: "I know my
district so well that if a post
master writes in for a new can
celing machine, I probably know
whether he needs it or not."
Both have been mentioned
frequently in the past as Presi
dential timber and both .have
said they were not candidates.
Rayburn:' "To have been ele
vated to the high position (spcak-
i er of 1he House) that your fa
; vor has brought me to is a riis- !
I Unction tiiat should satisfy the .
! ambition of any man. I am the
; one man in public life who has
achieved every ambition he ever
I had."
Martin: 'T am not a candidate
and I do not expect to be a can
didate, but tiie man doesn't live
who doesn't want to be Presi
dent of the United Slates."
As it is. as House speakers
both men have held what is con
sidered the second most power
ful post in the U. S. The speaker
becomes President if both the
President and vice president die
Rayburn has been elected speak
er seven times: 1940. 1941. 1943.
1945, 1949. 1951 and 1955. On
Jan. 31. 1951. Rayburn broke
Henry Clay's 125-year-old record
of 3,056' 2 days in the speaker's
chair. Martin was elected speak
er in 1947 and 1953.
Their conception of the speak-
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