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...country is tired of this bill, and the Senate is tired of this bill," said Republican Leader Everett Dirksen to a colleague as the civil rights debate dragged toward the end of its second month. "All the political juice has been squeezed out of it." In the Senate, that once formidable bastion of Southern filibuster and fury, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader Dirksen had decided on a course of power and performance. Moving with sure control, they worked to get roadblocks out of the way of the substantial civil rights bill sent over from the House (TIME, April...
...Senators had rushed Kefauver's amendment through committee on a one-vote margin. (In the confusion, Colorado Democrat John Carroll voted with the Southerners to his subsequent chagrin, and Wisconsin Republican Alex Wiley could not be found to vote at all.) But on the Senate floor the Johnson-Dirksen team rallied their forces, smashed the amendment by a decisive 69-to-22 vote...
...truth was that the civil righters themselves could not get together. Everett Dirksen's original bill (really a civil rights amendment tacked to a relatively unimportant bill) had for its core the Justice Department's Federal Referee Plan, which would provide Negroes with a safe, bully-proof opportunity to register and vote in local and national elections (see box}. Civil righters-both Republican and Democratic-agreed in principle, but they disagreed heatedly on how the principle ought to work. Flurries of amendments poured onto the floor and out of caucuses; amendments were followed with amendments to other...
Flesh & the Spirit. Between carcassing on the cots and caucusing in the corridors, the civil rights coalition ended up the first week's filibuster with baggy eyes and saggy spirits. Purred rumpled Ev Dirksen: "The flesh rides herd on the spirit. Soon I must lie down and let Morpheus embrace...
Before inviting Morpheus home for the night. Ev Dirksen. Lyndon Johnson & Co. had much more to do. Dick Russell's determined Southerners seemed prepared to filibuster for at least another week; they had already broken the 1954 high mark (of 85 hr. 23 min.) by rattling off about 1,000,000 words in no less than 125 hr. 31 min. And Lyndon Johnson, working furiously day and night to create a unified front and a workable bill, had to continue laboring within a complex framework made more difficult by his own presidential ambitions and by his desire to help...