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Sam Rayburn and Tip O'Neill Compared in House Power Shifts
The piece contrasts Sam Rayburn's era with Speaker Tip O'Neill noting how Rayburn faced closed doors and stiff committee resistance, while O'Neill wrangles a changed, more public process. It cites Howard Smith, Wilbur Mills, and the Landrum-Griffin Act as context, and highlights party dynamics and accountability shifts.
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Tip O’neill
Congress
Sam
Sam Rayburn
House
Massachusetts
O’neill
Rayburn
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Senate
Lyndon Johnson
Ronald Reagan
White House
Ways and Means
House Rules Committee
Howard Smith
Virginia
Landrum-Griffin
John F. Kennedy
Taft-Hartley
Smith
Graham Barden
Columbia
Wilbur Mills
O'Neill
Souerm