Word: filibusterer
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It was all over but the voting. Late that afternoon Martin, Rayburn, Johnson and Knowland held a joint press conference, announced their agreement on the 45-day, $300 compromise of a compromise of a compromise. With that lineup of congressional leadership behind it, not even the outside chance of a...
Meanwhile, the Senate got ready to pass its handiwork this week by a generous vote. It was left to Georgia's Dick Russell to administer the coup de grâce in grand style. The South, said he after a post-victory caucus, had decided not to filibuster against...
Russell took his accustomed seat at the head of the table, opened the discussion and did most of the talking. Softly in his Southern cadence he outlined dangers to the South in the new situation. No one was better qualified to assess it: in his 24 years in the Senate...
This time the tactics that had worked in the past might not work again, he said. The Solid South was weakening; Tennessee and Texas no longer regularly attended Southern caucuses, and the South's senatorial dependables were down from 22 to 18. It was clear that the dependables might...
This time President Eisenhower was proposing the legislation, Republican Senate Leader Knowland was in the forefront, and Vice President Nixon was turning on the heat behind the scenes. Therefore, argued Russell, the Southerners should not try to smother the civil rights bill of 1957 with words; instead, they should first...