Word: ev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more battle-ready than Generalissimo Dirksen, 69. After months of threatening what he calls "extended debate" to block repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's celebrated section 14(b), Ev's hour had come. Dirksen, who on most days is about as soigné as Margaret Rutherford, even subjugated his mutinous curls, donned a neatly pressed blue suit, and had a shoeshine in honor of the occasion. An occasion it certainly was, presaging as it did one of the few defeats dealt Lyndon Johnson by the prodigiously productive 89th Congress...
...them is Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen. A formidable foe when his dander is up, Dirksen recently went to the White House and, in a now famous confrontation, told Johnson that out of intense personal conviction he was immovably opposed to repeal of 14(b). Indeed, said Ev, he hoped to keep the Senate from voting on the bill through "extended debate"-a Dirksenism for filibuster. "My God," said the President, "you wouldn't do that to me." Replied Ev: "We're not only going to do it, but I am spearheading...
Last week, asked on TV when he thought Congress would adjourn, Ev replied: "I could say, 'Get your Thanksgiving turkey now,' or 'Buy the trimmings for your Christmas tree.' We have some vitality and if 14(b) is going to be dished up, I can assure you that there is going to be an extended discussion." In his office are some 3,000 newspaper editorials opposing repeal, and, says Ev, "every one will be read into the Congressional Record." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has planned no round-the-clock, filibuster-busting sessions. "At some point...
Lyndon's Turn. But when the showdown came, the committee was deadlocked once again, with Dodd and Javits both opposing Dirksen. "For Christ's sake, Tommy!" exploded Ev. "You said you'd give me your vote." A doublecross? "He just misunderstood me," said Dodd. "These things happen." As for promising committee action on the immigration bill, shrugged Dirksen, "that was just general conversation." In any case, Dirksen forced a one-week postponement of the immigration bill as a point of personal privilege, and Ev's allies talked darkly of demanding full-blown hearings that might well...
...TIME, Aug. 13), had cleared the House, 318 to 95, and was awaiting routine consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee. There was just one item to be disposed of first: Dirksen's proposed constitutional amendment on state legislative reapportionment. The issue has become a passion with Ev, who has been trying for nearly a year now to modify the Supreme Court's ruling that both houses of state legislatures must be apportioned solely on the basis of population. In an earlier version, Dirksen's amendment ran into an eight-to-eight deadlock in the Judiciary Committee July...