Word: filibusterer
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On the half-deserted floor of the Senate one night last week, a group of Senators huddled tightly around the lanky person of the human calculating machine known as Lyndon Baines Johnson. Some of them glanced up as North Carolina's jolly Sam Ervin went by. Chuckled old Judge...
Refugees. In many respects the filibuster (or "sustained educational campaign," as one Southerner put it) was as hollow as Southern hopes; civil rights legislation-whether it carries the imprint of the Administration, or Northern Democrats or both-is inevitable in this session, and the Southerners, from Georgia's fiercely...
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...
Flesh & the Spirit. Between carcassing on the cots and caucusing in the corridors, the civil rights coalition ended up the first week's filibuster with baggy eyes and saggy spirits. Purred rumpled Ev Dirksen: "The flesh rides herd on the spirit. Soon I must lie down and let Morpheus...
Before inviting Morpheus home for the night. Ev Dirksen. Lyndon Johnson & Co. had much more to do. Dick Russell's determined Southerners seemed prepared to filibuster for at least another week; they had already broken the 1954 high mark (of 85 hr. 23 min.) by rattling off about 1...