Word: ev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election year, when a "nay" might seem like a vote for atheism, Ev was confident that he could put the amendment over. Nor was he worried that Senate liberals might try to talk it to death. "Well, now," he said, "if anybody wants to filibuster the Lord...
...rhetorical flourishes at his command, Everett Dirksen had trumpeted his implacable opposition to the Administration's 1966 civil rights bill. Even so, when Dirksen was ushered into the President's oval office last week, Lyndon Johnson clapped a hand on his shoulder and said plaintively: "Ev, I thought you were in my corner." "Mr. President," replied the Senate minority leader, "how long has it been since I told you that I wasn't in your corner?" Then Johnson asked: "Is the door absolutely closed?" Dirksen: "Absolutely." Next year too? "If you send up another can of worms...
...Ev'rybody must get stoned...
...Illinois Senator challenged the Administration's contention that the "fair housing" clause is in line with Congress' constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce. Thundered Ev: "If you can tell me how interstate commerce is involved in selling or renting a house fixed to the soil, or where there is federal jurisdiction, I'll go out and eat the chimney off the house...
...defeated last year. Even if it had passed both houses of Congress, the amendment would still have required ratification by three-fourths of the state legislatures-and three-fourths have already completed the onerous task of reapportionment with, as yet, none of the dire consequences foreseen by Dirksen. Though Ev vowed doggedly to make a fourth try next year, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield pronounced the Dirksen amendment "a dead issue...