Word: dirksens
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Maneuvering the bill toward Senate passage through an obstacle course of conservative opposition and a labyrinth of parliamentary rules was a Clausewitzian tactical feat executed by a most improbable general-Minority Leader Everett Dirksen. Long opposed to open-housing legislation, Dirksen lately reversed his field and joined up with the Republican-Democratic liberal coalition (TIME, March...
...Spoiler? Last week, after a 33-day filibuster and three abortive attempts to turn off the talkathon by a two-thirds majority vote, Dirksen and the liberals finally succeeded in invoking cloture, though without a single vote to spare. With members now restricted to one hour's speaking, the Senate took up 43 separate amendments to the bill, whose open-housing clause had been tacked onto the House version by Minnesota's Walter Mondale...
...would be a strange creature indeed in this world of mutation," Dirksen intoned, "if in the face of reality he did not change his mind. I do not apologize for my conduct...
...soon as the quickly drawn compromise was ready, it seemed certain that cloture would shut off the filibuster and the bill be speedily enacted. But Dirksen had miscalculated his power to swing most of the conservative Republicans with him. Some were affronted by the haste with which he demanded cloture and a final vote. The nation's powerful and well-informed real estate lobby deluged Senators with telegrams demanding the measure's defeat...
Insurance Policy. Dirksen, for all his gifts of legerdemain, found himself without a solid two-thirds majority for cloture. Therefore he and his son-in-law, Tennessee's Senator Howard Baker, sought to mollify the conservatives by introducing new amendments, this time to weaken the open-housing section. Together, their amendments would exclude from the ban on dis crimination all single-family, owner-occupied housing-potentially 30 million units...