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...President Eisenhower got word that Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is aggressively dissatisfied with the answers the committee is getting from the Pentagon on U.S. defense policy. "Say, tell me about Dick Russell," said Ike to an aide. "I thought he was a friend of mine. What's the matter with him? Why is he sore at us?" Answered the astonished aide: "Why, Mr. President, you can't expect him to be very happy over the Little Rock situation and use of Federal troops." "Golly," said...
...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...
...appropriate that Georgia's Senator Richard Brevard Russell pronounced virtually the last words in the week that smashed the civil rights bill. For courtly Dick Russell had also had the first important words in the civil rights debate. In the interval the words, thoughts and plans of this extraordinarily influential Senator had been echoed, magnified, repeated, debated in both houses of Congress, at the White House, in presidential press conferences, on radio, TV, and in newspaper editorials across the land. When the time came for his resolute Southern rearguard to do battle against the first civil rights bill since...
Presidential Break. Senator Russell had assigned himself the most exacting and perhaps the most surprising role of all: any harsh words that had to be spoken would be spoken not by Georgia's cowlicked Talmadge, not by Mississippi's Racist Jim Eastland, but by Richard Brevard Russell himself. It was understood without words that a diatribe from a Talmadge or an Eastland would predictably get lost, as usual, in the Senate swirl; but if it came from reasonable, respected Dick Russell, a sharp blast would be heard with respectful attention. One day last month Dick Russell...
...Richard Brevard Russell of Georgia, quiet, able, dedicated defender of the old cause, knows this too. "You're just fighting a delaying action," a philosophical friend in Georgia once observed. "I know," said Dick Russell. "But I am trying to delay it-ten years if I'm not lucky, 200 years if I am." But Dick Russell does not really trust to luck in fighting his Senate campaigns. He believes, as he told his Southern colleagues at their secret caucus, in fighting a "case on the merits." And over the long pull, Dick Russell does not have much...