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...Nothing. But absenteeism was not the bill's only problem. Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen last week outlined to G.O.P. Senators a clutch of amendments, including one to make compliance with the public-accommodations section voluntary for a year. Several liberal Senators promptly indicated that they might vote against a diluted bill. Cried Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse: "There cannot be any justification of any compromise in a civil rights bill that gives to the Negroes of this country less than complete deliverance under the Constitution of the U.S. If that is the type of bill that is presented...
Javits strongly disagreed with the recent proposals of Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-III.) to modify certain parts of the present bill, the section dealing with fair employment practices in particular. Javits applauded Dirksen's decision, however, to bring his proposals before the Republican Conference of the Senate before introducing them on the floor. "I have hopes that before he proposes his amendments he will have taken the sting out of them," Javits said...
...whip, who also offered urgent arguments for the bill. "This issue," said Kuchel, "should not be a partisan fight. It should be, and is, an American fight." But some powerful Republicans do have doubts about certain parts of the bill, a fact attested next day by G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois. Dirksen said he had received "very substantial encouragement" from the Senate Republican Policy Committee for a dozen changes, most of them technical, in the bill's fair-employment and union-membership provisions. Dirksen also indicated that he had found some support for his idea of an amendment...
This was bad news to the Democratic leadership. They desperately need Republican votes to impose cloture, and to get those votes they may have to accept Dirksen's amendments. Yet they fear that to do this would be to set off an avalanche of amendment attempts that would, at worst, gut the bill and, at best, protract the battle indefinitely. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said he thought the debate might even last through the national nominating conventions and into the fall...
...G.O.P. STRATEGY. "The key is Dirksen," says Mansfield, "with Hick-enlooper and Aiken." Besides Dirksen, he was referring to Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper as a Midwesterner with influence over other rural conservatives, and Vermont's George Aiken as a leader of Northeastern moderates. Among them, these three could almost certainly swing enough Republican votes to put cloture across. Dirksen is in a tough spot. Though he was his old, congenial self last week, traipsing up to the press galleries and sitting crosslegged on a table to chat with newsmen, he is under heavy fire from civil rights groups...