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Key passage in the civil rights legislation that has provoked the Southern filibuster is the Federal Referee Plan, devised by the Justice Department, incorporated into a House bill by Ohio Republican William McCulloch, and carried over as well to the Senate as the foremost of the Administration's proposals...
The truth was that the civil righters themselves could not get together. Everett Dirksen's original bill (really a civil rights amendment tacked to a relatively unimportant bill) had for its core the Justice Department's Federal Referee Plan, which would provide Negroes with a safe, bully-proof...
1. When a voter complains to the U.S. Attorney General that he has been denied the right to vote, the Attorney General may request a federal court to determine whether a "pattern" of discrimination exists in the locality. If the court so finds, the federal judge appoints a master in...
Too Long? A House civil rights bill built around the referee plan might in the long run prove more attractive to the Senate's Lyndon Johnson than a Senate-made bill. Reason: an original Senate bill might get tied up again in the House Rules Committee, presided over with...
The proposal, coming almost five months after the commission's recommendations, was promptly attacked as a belated Republican attempt to grab political credit on a hot election issue-especially since Rogers is Vice President Nixon's close friend and adviser. While Dixiecrats maneuvered to send Rogers' proposal...