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...clothed in righteousness is a match for all the hosts of error," said Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, perched on a table, to reporters. "And I am pursuing sinners who insist on persisting in their error...
...Dirksen's tabletop press conference came as the Senate was approaching a climactic vote on his year-long crusade to modify the 1964 Supreme Court ruling that both branches of state legislatures must be reapportioned strictly according to population. Dirksen proposed a constitutional amendment permitting the voters of each state to decide if they wanted one of their legislative branches set up on a basis other than population. For approval by the Senate, Dirksen needed a two-thirds majority of Senators present and voting -and he now knew he was going to fall a few short. Said...
...Give Him Hell." For one thing, Vice President Hubert Humphrey had been busily lining up votes against Dirksen-even though Dirksen thought...
President Johnson's promise that the Administration would not take a position either for or against his amendment. Two weeks ago, Dirksen called on Johnson, demanded to know why Humphrey was working against him. Blandly, the President claimed he had been unaware of the Vice President's activities until he read about them in the papers. Snorted Dirksen: "Well, then, call him up and give him hell...
Whether Johnson did or not is un known. But by that time it was probably too late for Dirksen's purposes. Unable to get an approving vote from the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was forced to a crippling admission of weakness by presenting his proposal to the Senate in the form of a substitute for a resolution providing for a "National American Legion Baseball Week...