Word: filibusterer
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Humphrey, Javits & Co. would like nothing better than a cloture rule allowing the Senate to cut off debate by a simple majority vote. Against that, Georgia's Richard Russell, strategic leader of the filibuster forces, and Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, even while admitting last week that a change in...
Nor did he say much about his biggest headache: civil rights. Already Illinois' liberal Democrat Paul Douglas and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey had teamed up with Republican Liberals Jacob Javits of New York and Cliff Case of New Jersey to poll all senatorial candidates on a plan to...
"Everybody likes to give money," says Chatô. "Brazilians like big things, and everybody knows I'm doing big things for Brazil." Few of his countrymen dare or care to quibble; one Brazilian industrialist who balked found himself labeled in Chatô's press as "a bandit, looter...
All they sought to do was to form a club to "present the Socialist point of view, establish a forum to discuss, debate, and propagate these views, and to disseminate Socialist information." All the Republicans, of both the Young and Eisenhower denominations, sought to do was frustrate these aims through...
At 4:11 a.m. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson moved for adjournment; Vice President Nixon, presiding, brought down his gavel-and the jangling of the Senate call bells noisily marked the end of the 85th Congress. But before the bells clanged, there had been the usual maddening, last-minute fumbling blocks...