Word: filibusterer
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But some people just cannot swallow the idea of coercing a worker to join a union-and one of 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...
For example, in the last Congress, liberals used traditional conservative tricks--which did not work particularly well for the conservatives in that Congress--against the conservatives. Two examples of this are such traditional liberal objects of attack-- Committee obstruction and the filibuster.
A second example is the filibuster. In the same Congress in which conservative use of this device against its traditional target, civil rights, was dealt a death blow by the urgency and overwhelming popularity of the issue, liberals found the procedure of invaluable use. A highly conservative measure directed against...
Of course, there has been no complete shift. The threat of filibuster hanging over the voting rights bill has forced the administration to rely on Dirksen and such conservative influences of his as defeat of the poll tax amendment. And conservatives will still be able to use the devices they...
Test Case. For three weeks, the bill crawled along in the Senate while the leaders and the Northern liberals waged an embarrassing battle over the issue. The spectacle was hugely enjoyed by Southerners, themselves too weak and divided to mount their own filibuster. Last week Dirksen, Mansfield and Katzenbach provided...