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...underlining the injunctions of the Constitution and the Declaration of Inde pendence; to put solid flesh on those noble words that all men are created equal." In that statement, Scranton reflected the mainstream of national Republican thinking on civil rights as evidenced, also last week, by Senator Everett Dirksen's leadership in achieving cloture against a segregationist Democratic filibuster (see cover story...
Only 15 minutes remained before voting time. Illinois Republican Everett McKinley Dirksen, 68, the Senate's minority leader, arose slowly from his front-row desk. He was the man most were waiting to hear, not merely because he is the Senate's most practiced and professional orator but largely because he is the shrewd, patient negotiator whose efforts, perhaps more than anyone else's, had made a favorable cloture vote likely. With great deliberation Dirksen took off his tortoise-shell spectacles, revealing his sad, bloodhound eyes underlined by deep, dark pouches. In his massive left hand, its little finger flourishing...
...Time Has Come." "Mr. President," said Dirksen in that voice that turns hoarseness into authority, "it is a year ago this month that the late President Kennedy sent his civil rights bill and message to the Congress." In the gallery an elderly Negro minister craned forward and cupped an ear. Dirksen continued: "Sharp opinions have developed. Incredible allegations have been made. Extreme views have been asserted. There has been unrestrained criticism about motives." As for himself, Dirksen noted, "I have had but one purpose, and that was the enactment of a good, workable, equitable, practical bill having due regard...
...time has come," said Dirksen, "for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here." The chamber was dead-quiet. "America grows. America changes. And on the civil rights issue we must rise with the occasion. That calls for cloture and for the enactment of a civil rights bill...
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