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...called, shouted "nay," then turned to a colleague and asked just what it was he had voted against. In all, 115 amendments were voted on between cloture and the final vote, and only one of any great substance was approved. That was the package written by Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and approved by Democratic Senate and Administration leaders...
...Republican platforms and declarations of principle have long been strong for civil rights. In the House of Representatives, Republican Leader Charles Halleck had gone down the line for the bill, and 138 out of 172 voting Republicans approved it. In the Senate, G.O.P. Leader Dirksen was the main architect of amending the bill into its final form, and Barry was one of a mere six Republican Senators who finally voted against...
...civil rights bill by voting yes on final passage. Your views on the subject to date are opposed to the traditional Republican philosophy of equal opportunity for all, and it is of great importance to our party that you now change your views. Other Republican Senators, especially Senator Dirksen, have worked hard and long with great statesmanship to bring about effective civil rights legislation...
...once, Ev Dirksen was speechless. Leaving the first powwow of Illinois' Republican Convention delegates in suburban Chicago last week, he plowed head down through a crowd of newsmen, got into a car and drove off without saying a word...
...Even so, Dirksen was far from ready to accept what he thought was a bad bill?and the shouts of professional civil rights men bothered him hardly at all. "If the day ever comes," he said, "when, under pressure or as a result of picketing or other devices, I shall be pushed from the rock where I must stand to render an independent judgment, my justification in public life will have come...