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...service of the Confederacy (the famed Emancipation Proclamation came 17 months later). To sign the voting rights bill, President Johnson used 50 pens, squiggling a tiny portion of his signature with each. He handed the first pen to Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the second to Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, the third to New York's Senator Robert Kennedy...
...Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse, who thinks the U.S. has no business in Viet Nam (said Morse, in a Senate speech last week: "I have been asked by more people than I would have thought possible if there is not grounds for impeachment of the President"), and Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, who has professed himself willing to follow wherever the Democratic President may lead militarily in Viet...
...presidential elections; the other abolished poll taxes in federal elections. Last month, Congress sent to the states for ratification what is potentially the 25th Amendment, dealing with presidential disability and succession. Last week the Senate debated an other proposed amendment that has wide support. Sponsored by Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, it would soften the Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote ruling as applied to state legislatures...
...Prepared, in the Senate, for a tough fight over a proposed constitutional amendment that would counteract the Supreme Court's ruling that both houses of state legislatures must be apportioned strictly on a population basis. Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen has been battling for an amendment to allow one house to be apportioned on factors other than population, such as counties. Last week Dirksen prevented a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee because the best he could have got was an eight-eight tie-which would have prevented a favorable report to the floor. After declaring...
...Republican Everett Dirksen, these were outlandish ideas. "I should not like to be around to enjoy the furor," said Dirksen, "if the Vice President undertook, for venal purposes or motivations of his own, to pursue that kind of course . . . The people of this country will have something to say about that. They would not exactly run him out on a rail, but his whole political future, such as it might be, would come to an end at that point." In the end, the amendment's critics failed to get any changes in the language agreed to by the House...