In the Baltimore Room of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel last week, the 18-member Arrangements Committee tiptoed through the motions of picking the top officers for the Aug. 24 Democratic Convention in Atlantic City. National Committee Chairman John Bailey ran the meetingbut there was the Big Chairman Up Yonder in the White House, and it was he who really called the shots. Periodically Bailey loped off to a telephone in the next room to give Lyndon Johnson running reports on how well his committee was rubber-stamping Lyndon's directions.
With Johnson's "approval," the committee named House Speaker John Mc-Cormack, 72, as permanent chairman of the...
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