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Lyndon's Turn. But when the showdown came, the committee was deadlocked once again, with Dodd and Javits both opposing Dirksen. "For Christ's sake, Tommy!" exploded Ev. "You said you'd give me your vote." A doublecross? "He just misunderstood me," said Dodd. "These things happen." As for promising committee action on the immigration bill, shrugged Dirksen, "that was just general conversation." In any case, Dirksen forced a one-week postponement of the immigration bill as a point of personal privilege, and Ev's allies talked darkly of demanding full-blown hearings that might well...
...minority leader," cried Everett Dirksen, "and I'll be goddamned if I'll be pushed around!" That was hardly news to the Administration, which has heaped lavish praise on the Illinois Republican for supporting Lyndon Johnson's policies on major issues such as Viet Nam and civil rights. By way of asserting himself, nonetheless, Ev last week abruptly blocked the progress of the Administration's immigration bill-which he also happens to support...
...Deal? The bill, eliminating the national origins quota system that went into effect in 1929 (TIME, Aug. 13), had cleared the House, 318 to 95, and was awaiting routine consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee. There was just one item to be disposed of first: Dirksen's proposed constitutional amendment on state legislative reapportionment. The issue has become a passion with Ev, who has been trying for nearly a year now to modify the Supreme Court's ruling that both houses of state legislatures must be apportioned solely on the basis of population. In an earlier version, Dirksen...
This time, Dirksen was reasonably confident that he had the votes. He counted Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd for sure and possibly New York Republican Jacob Javits as well. If Dirksen thought he had a deal, so did the Senate's liberals who understood that they could get their immigration bill cleared as soon as a vote-any vote-had been taken on reapportionment...
...that wasn't all; Dirksen ruled out further dilution of his much modified amendment. "I've been pitching long enough," said he. "Now I want to be on the catching end." All of which, at week's end, moved the decision into the Administration dugout, where Manager Lyndon Johnson was searching for a consensus...