KENNEDY BOWS TO RAYBURN POWER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200130153-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 153
• Publication Date: July 3, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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The Washington Merry-Go-Round
Monday, July 3,1961 1O
Kennedy Bows to Rayburn Power
By Drew Pearson I amount of cash promised to took quite a beating in the
buy 500 tractors to fulfill a election.
President Kennedy last week pledge Fidel Castro has re- There are all sorts of ways
f a c e d a decision beween neged on. Why not use that to make the 500 tractors, which
a flat campaign pledge hb money to show up Castro for Castro spurned, plough friend-
Specifically, SU?K,
influ e n c e of
I
Speaker Sam"
Rayburn. He ?. tip= 5~ tractors and deliver
thom freshly painted and
naa to cnoose; draped in the Stars and
one or the oth-,?`?
er. Stripes, :t?, 4tl? r.,I edS coon
The tug-of- tries _i~LLatiu Anteri s, a
I war revolved!'' reminder that the gnat datarid-
Iarounu LAIC ay
like Hit-
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pointmcnt of jug dictator of Cuba,
!an all and gas ter, puts machinery ahead of
eral Power ?'earson Tractors are even more
Commission. Speaker Ray needed in other Latin coun-
burn wanted Laurence J. tries than in Cuba-rand far
O'Connor of Texas, a former more deserved. The gifts could
stone Oil Corporation, , ap- I in La
pointed to the current va-
cancy."
Faced with this demand,
Kennedy ignored his cam-
paign pledge, appointed
O'Connor.
Republicans are delighted.
In the first place, O'Connor is
an Eisenhower appointee. Ike
put him in charge of oil im-
ports in the Interior Depart-
thent. Second, Republicans
are getting ready to focus at-
tention on Kennedy's close
friendship with Charles
Wrightsm?an, former President
of the Standard Oil Company
of Kansas, whom the Presi-
dent visits frequently over
weekends in Palm Beach.
GOP strategists are waiting
for the right 'time to accuse
JFK of being soft on oil be-
cause of personal friendships
and despite campaign pledges.
Tractors for Friendship
The Tractors for Freedom
committee now has a certain
tely hoping JFK will let him
tay on the job until?tate-.this;
ed..:to move intg its palatial
30-millio"'?ddffar headquarters;:
n Virginia. J
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