g THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, MM MKDFORU MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON '
McCormack Shocked by Suggestions That He Retire As Speaker
I Truman Olijpcls
Mr. Truman said the old law
in effect gave him the right to
; pick his potential successor,
stored to the top of the list.
Mr. Truman's answer to this
i was that House members are
i closer to the people, being elect
ed every two years, and that
, anyway there was a better
j chance that the House would
normally be of the same polit
. ical faith as the President.
The election of a Republican
30th Congress displeased him
mightily. But it didn't change
his mind about the need for a
new succession law of the kind
potential replacement instead of
Democratic Speaker Sam Uay
burn. I Congress Acts
to lei the House elect a younger
speaker, just in case something
happens lo Johnson.
Everybody has recalled that
Mr. Johnson once nearly died
of a heart attack. However his
doctors now say he whipped that
completely and is in perfect
health.
Mr. Johnson and McCormack,
just in case, have agreed on
procedure that McCormack
Richard M. Nixon, after Mr.
Eisenhower suffered a bad heart
attack. Presidents Kennedy and
Johnson had also accepted the
plan.
The agreement calls for Mc
Cormack in some circumstan
ces to make a finding that Mr.
Johnson was unable to function,
and to step in as acting presi
dent until the President de
clared himself able again.
The agreement, although bet-
has tried unsuccessfully to an
j swer.
One thing is clear. If McCor
i mack ever took office as acting
1 president, as provided by law,
! he would have to quit Congress.
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since the cabinet appointments
were his, and that he did not
think this was right.
"I do not believe that in a
democracy this power should
rest with the chief executive,"
he told Congress then.
As for the choice between the
speaker and the Senate's top
elected official, Mr. Truman
I The 80th Congress, unlike the
1 79th, gave Mr. Truman what he
wanted.
Now some members of Con
! grcss, and some editors and
! other observers, are not so sure
j the lawmakers did ihe right
thing. Sen. Hugh Scott, R-Pa.,'
has proposed that Congress re
study the problem. A couple of
newspapers have suggested edi
! torially that McCormack is too
i old lo be President and ought
Then if Mr. Johnson were re
stored to health and reclaimed
his office, McCormack would be
out in the cold.
McCormack, of course, isn't
concerned about this.
He is considerably grieved
that anyone would suggest that
under these or any other cir
cumstances he might want to
get out from under the load.
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I would follow in event the Presi
'dent became temporarily dis-
abled. It is the same procedure
set up by President Eisen
i hower and his vice president,
i ter than nothing, raises ques
tions not about succession but
. about presidential inability
I which the Congress frequently
j disappointed some Senators
he had asked for, even though
now Republican Speaker Joseph
W. Martin, Jr., would be his
when he failed to suggest that
the president pro tern be re-
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HE WOULD SUCCEED-This is a 1963 photo of President Lyndon
B. Johnson and House Speaker John McCormack, R-Mass., who
would become president under the present law if anything should
happen to President Johnson. A new House speaker would be
elected to be next In line of succession. (UPI)
By FRANK ELEAZER
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen.
Carl Haydcn, 86, president pro
tern of the Senate and a fixture
on Capitol Hill for almost 52
years, can quit worrying about
the possibility he could he asked
Slain Policeman's
Widow Injured
PARIS, Tex. (UPI) - Mrs.
J. D. Tippit, whose husband
was killed by President Ken
nedy's accused assassin, was In
jured Wednesday during a
Christmas trip to visit her hus
band's family.
She received a small cut and
a bruise on her head when the
car she was driving collided
with another car as she was
turning into a service station.
Police Sgt. Steve Dockery said
Mrs. Tippil required a stitch
for her head wound, but thai
her three children were not hurl
in the accident.
The driver of the other car,
22-year-old Dclbcrt Miller of
Paris, was uninjured in the
wreck.
Mrs. Tippil and her children
were driving to Clarksville, Tex.
to visit the Edgar Tippits, her
slain husband s parents.
Dockery said about $400 dam
age was done to the Tippit car,
and that $50 damage was done
to the Miller vehicle. He said
Mrs. Tippit's father-in-law drove
from Clarksville and took the
family to his home. Dickery
said the accident was still un
der investigation.
Court Records
AlKlirilllO MI'NH'IPAI. l OIHIT
wary hltftm Hninnmi, Ittthirr In
yield rich! of why. ia.V susririiilril
tn Attend driver Improvement
trhnnl.
Dennis Nntilr Chsni'ler. vlnln
llnn n hnslc rule. (25, iiisnemlerl
(I)ISI.
Larry Ross Chentum, violation
of basic rule, Via, suspended
(DISl.
William MU-lmel Cnx. violation
eif basic rule. 910. suspended
IDISl.
Kred Jamen Knusl. violation of
basic rule JIO. suspended iOISi.
Gwendolyn Jackson, violation of
basic rule. SUV suspended (l)ISI
Sue Kileen Kaey. violation of
basic rule, MS. suspended IDISl
Stephen GcorKe Lewis, violation
of basic rule. $10. suspended illlSl
Step Arne Lovenborg, violation
of basic rule.
Michael J.eonard Mavfleld. no
operator's license, $.1, suspended,
work In park.
Rose Louis MonlaR. Improper
elt turn. 110.
David Lee Mllchell. failure lo
obtain Oregon operator's license.
I2.V
Gary Arlhur Nlederoiever viola
tion of basic rule. Jin. suspended
mist.
Orvte Glendnn Pelltjnhn, Impro
per lelt turn. Silt
Mary Kllrn IMankcuhorn,
Dlred operator's license.
John Michael Peter Snwlcr. dis
obeyed liaflic signal, till, sus
pended I DISi
Vlrstnla Lynn Teeter, violation
of basic rule. M'.V suspended 1 1)1 Si
Wayne Nebraska l'rnvcll. dis
obeyed Irallic signal. SIO
Mary Kalbryn Walsh, violation
nt basic rule, SIO
Lonnte Rex Wallers, violation
Of basic rule. SAO. suspended illlsi
Ursa Robinson Weston, dis
obeyed tralflc slRnal. HO. sus
pended, woik In park
Victor Don WIrbiiiIou, Improper
lane usace and spinning tires, IIP.
suspended (DISl.
John Karl Yoaklev. lotatton ol
basic rule, $11). suspended I DISl.
ex-
to move lo the While House.
bo can all the younger Cabi
net members who stand behind
Haydcn in the long presidential
line of succession set up in its
wisdom by Congress in l!H7,
when President Harry S. Tru
man fell uneasy without a pub
licly elected backup man in the
vacant vice president's spot.
The fact Is that if Lyndon B.
Johnson should flio or become
disabled between now and the
end of the term he is filling out
(or the slain President Kenne
dy, the job would fall to the
speaker of the House, currently
Rep. John W. McCormack, D
Mass. Under no likely set of circum
stances could it ever go furth
er.
McCormack will be 72 on Dec.
21. He is shocked at suggestions
he might, or should as one
New England paper proposed
editorially step aside from
the No. 1 spot in the line nl
succession he now holds in ac
cordance with the 1947 law.
McCormack said two weeks
ago he slill supports the 1!M7
law, as he did when it was en
acted, not because I m m It
but because 1 foci it's Hie best
way of solving the problem."
A review of Ihe succession law
is a mutter for Countess to
explore if it wishes, he said, but
"I don't want to pursue the
matter further because It con
cerns a thought that I don t
even want to entertain."
If anything should happen to
Johnson, McCormack stands
ready to take over the presi
dency. He already is being
briefed, as would a new vice
president, on the awesome bur
dens that could fall to him.
Bui suppose he should suc
ceed Johnson and himself fall
by the wayside before the end
of the current presidential
lei'm'.' Would not the presidency
then go to llnvdcn, or I lie sec
retary of stale, or some oilier
official on down Ihe line'.' i
No, It would not,
By thai time the House would ,
have elected a new speaker.
And he would be first in the i
new line of succession.
It was Mr. Trillium himself,
an old Senate mini, who
suggested (his House-oriented
approach lo the problem of as
suring an orderly continuation
of government it both president
and vice president died or he
came unable lo serve.
From 17(12 to nun; the Senate
president pro tempore had stood
No 1 in the line of succession, i
In lllllll the law was changed to
put the Secretary of Slate on
top of Ihe list, with other falsi-
net members slaiuhng behind
him in order of rank.
When Mr. Tinman succeeded
the late president Franklin 1).
Roosevelt, he faced mote than
three years in office with no vice
president and no oilier elected
official In serve at his side j
Among his first acts was lo ak
the Democratic Tilth Congress
to chance this: to out the soeak-
I er at the top of the succession
I list with the Senate provident '
pro lem as Ihe No 2 man j
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