Word: brevard
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...achieving the decision, Senate Democratic leadership skillfully gutted the first civil rights bill to approach congressional approval in 82 years. It was a triumph-of a sort-for the strategy laid down weeks earlier by the commander of the Southern Democratic rearguard, Georgia's Senator Richard Brevard Russell (see below). No one claimed that the debate had not been full or the tactics fair (the South argued redundantly but on the points at issue), or that the net bill did not mark some slight progress. But by the same token, no one could argue that the verdict...
Into the continuing Senate debate on civil rights came a powerful, persuasive, familiar third force. For a fortnight the session's bitterest battle had raged between polar opposites-Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell and his determined Southerners, Senate Republican Leader William Fife Knowland and his coalition of Republicans and Democratic liberals. Last week, with the pressures carefully remeasured, the crosscurrents analyzed, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson calculated that it was time to come out of the wings and exercise his superb cloakroom skill in the name of moderation. Johnson's goal: enactment of a compromise civil rights bill...
Carrying out the careful strategy laid down by Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, Southern Senators were busily infiltrating Northern lines with Old South courtesy, sowing confusion with legalisms, and arguing more in sorrow than in anger against the Administration's civil rights bill. But somehow Virginia's old warrior, Harry Flood Byrd, failed to get the word. One day last week he rose up in the Senate in fine old-fashioned Southern style to attack the civil rights bill head...
...details will, of course, have to be worked out by the legislative arm." South Carolina's Olin Johnston was flatly against the whole plan. "I am supporting the President," drawled Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, thought that he could support the military warning to the Communists, was not so sure about granting what he called "virtually an unlimited policy of foreign...
When the bill for the extra Air Force $1.1 billion got to the Senate floor, Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Brevard Russell took the occasion to shoot off a rocket of his own. Charlie Wilson's vanity and arrogance, blasted a quivering Dick Russell, "have been excelled only by his lack of understanding of the genius of American Government. I say it is dangerous to have a man so completely inept and unequipped for this responsible position occupy the office of Secretary of Defense." When Russell sat down, not a Republican rose to defend Wilson. Then, as most...