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Meanwhile, the HRLU, YDCHR, and HYRC are proceeding with their plans to campaign for the passage of the Mansfield-Dirksen civil rights bill, including door-to-door distributions and dining room tables...
...President, his family and his Administration. "We're being brainwashed with Administration propaganda," says one Capitol Hill Republican. They worry about the ideological differences between the party's middle-roaders and right-wingers. They are distressed by the image of their congressional floor leaders, Senator Everett Dirksen and Representative Charles Halleck. who appear on TV in what is known as "the Ev and Charlie show.'' Says a G.O.P. Congressman: "There's Dirksen with his fuzzy hair and Halleck with his big red nose." Most of all, Washington's Republicans are troubled by their difficulty...
...campaign to win support for the Mansfield-Dirksen voting rights bill will begin at the University on Monday. Sponsored by the Liberal Union and the Young Democrats, the drive will encourage age students to write their senators and representatives on behalf of the legislation...
...Mansfield-Dirksen Bill, which is supported by the Kennedy Administration, provides that a sixth-grade education will be sufficient to satisfy any state literacy test in federal elections...
...counterattack. Representative Bob Wilson, chairman of the House Republican Campaign Committee, fired off a telegram to the White House, suggesting that Robert Weaver be named to succeed Abraham Ribicoff, who plans to resign as Health, Education and Welfare Secretary to run for the Senate. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen gleefully assured a press conference that if Weaver were named to the HEW post, "not a single Republican vote" would be cast against...