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There is nothing quite like a fullblown civil rights debate to bring into focus the grievous problems of leadership in the Senate-particularly when a Democratic majority is in command. As Minority Leader Everett Dirksen mellifluously puts it, there are "100 diverse personalities in the U.S. Senate. O great God, what an amazing and dissonant 100 personalities they are! What an amazing thing it is somehow to harmonize them. What...
Administration and Senate leadership to accept his suggestions. ∙THE OPPONENTS' STRATEGY. The Democratic opponents of the civil rights bill realize that it will eventually be passed, and they are concentrating their energies on gutting a few key sections. With G.O.P. leaders like Dirksen talking about softening the public accommodations provision, Richard Russell has shifted his fire elsewhere. "The public accommodations section, severe as it is, is not the worst provision of this bill," he says. "There are at least two that I think are much more damaging to our system and would cause a much more violent reaction...
...Last Ditch. When the bells clanged at noon last week, summoning the Senators, the atmosphere in the gold and mahogany Chamber was deceptively relaxed. Mansfield chatted quietly with a knot of reporters. Republican Leader Dirksen huddled with his lieutenants on the other side of the aisle, occasionally padding across the Chamber's carpeted floor to fling a bearlike arm around a colleague's shoulders and whisper a few honeyed words into...
...which now confront the nation and, hence, this Senate. We Senators would be well advised to search, not in the Senate rules book, but in the Golden Rule for the semblance of an adequate answer." "Hope for the Republic." Mansfield also made a special plea to Republican Leader Everett Dirksen. Said he: "I appeal to the distinguished minority leader, whose patriotism has always taken precedence over his partisanship, to join with me-and I know he will-in finding the Senate's best possible contribution at this time to the resolution of this grave national issue." The South...
Small chance. For one thing, Republican Senate leaders like Illinois' Everett Dirksen have already announced themselves as opposed to the bill's public accommodations section. For another, the bill, when it arrives from the House this week, would ordinarily be sent first to the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi Democrat James Eastland. If left up to Eastland, the measure would stay in committee forever. Therefore plans have been made to "meet the bill at the Senate door" and, with the help of some complex and unusual parliamentary strategy, bypass Eastland's committee. But not even that...