Word: filibusterer
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Candy Coating. Across the Senate aisle from Knowland sat a man who shrewdly sensed the fence sitters' quandary. And Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, who had staked out a role for himself as compromiser, set about trying to get passed the kind of jury-trial amendment that Dick Russell...
Into the continuing Senate debate on civil rights came a powerful, persuasive, familiar third force. For a fortnight the session's bitterest battle had raged between polar opposites-Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell and his determined Southerners, Senate Republican Leader William Fife Knowland and his coalition of Republicans...
With the House firmly on record on civil rights, Senate backers were ready with a strategy for taking the Administration bill directly to the Senate floor, thus bypassing the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Mississippi's James O. Eastland, and his Senate civil-rights bill guaranteeing trial by jury. Even...
For the past 29 years "attending physician" to Congress, Dr. George Calver, 69, summed up the greatest heart-tiring hazards to his 531 charges: 1) constituents who ply their Congressman or Senator with heavy dinners, 2) Washington hostesses who stuff him with rich viands, 3) filibustering. Of the last hazard...
Filibuster leader was San Antonio's Henry Gonzalez, 41, the first Texan of Mexican parentage to be elected to the state senate since 1892. Alternating with Laredo's Abraham Kazen Jr., 38, Freshman Senator Gonzalez (who perfected his speech as a child by practicing with pebbles in his...