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...Senate were indeed rising all over the place, and there was plenty of o'erwhelming still to come. The Southern filibuster, aimed at blocking passage of a civil rights bill, had begun (TIME, Feb. 29). To wear it down, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen kept the Senate in round-the-clock session. In counterattack the Southerners kept their colleagues coming and going all through the night with regular quorum calls. Meanwhile Texas' Johnson was hard at work doing what comes most naturally: dealing, persuading, cajoling-all in an effort to shape a meaningful moderate...
Safe Passage. The only device that the civil rights coalition could use to halt the filibuster was the rarely invoked cloture rule by which two-thirds of those Senators present and voting can close off debate and bring the bill to a vote. But neither Republican Leader Dirksen, who was carrying the burden of the Administration's fight with backstage help from Vice President Nixon, nor Lyndon Johnson, as he sought some moderating compromise, had a solid enough agreement from combined civil rights advocates to guarantee safe passage of a bill. Johnson kept a platoon of lawyers and staff...
...muster the two-thirds vote necessary for repeal. His biggest problem, says he, is Republicans, and he has quietly passed the word to the Administration that he will not send the repealer to the Senate floor until he is assured that the Republican floor leader, Illinois' Everett Dirksen, will put up a fight to get Republican support. At week's end, Senator Dirksen was still silent on the subject...
...Republicans, for their part, drew up solidly behind President Eisenhower's defense budget. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen termed the criticism "an awful thing . . . It is a reflection on the presidency of the U.S.-the grand captain of the greatest military effort the world has ever seen." In Chicago, Vice President Nixon said: "It is time to quit selling America short. We are not a second-rate country...
Johnson then took Ike on one arm, Dirksen on the other, led them into the Chinese Room for the festivities. The President stayed and chatted for about 20 minutes-part of it in earnest conversation with Vice President Nixon and Secretary of Labor James Mitchell (subject: steel)-greeted Mrs. David McDonald, wife of the steelworkers' union boss. (Cooed Rosemary McDonald to Pat Nixon: "The settlement was our loveliest anniversary present...