Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Martin, who is not even certain that he has any Negroes in his district ("I've seen one or two of them on the streets in Attleboro, but I can't say I can recall the names of any of them"), was determined to place a Republican stamp on what then stood as a Democratic bill. Said Martin...
Strong Kidneys. Martin persuaded the four Republican members of the Rules Committee to hold out against the Senate bill, set New York's Republican Representative Kenneth Keating to working out a party position on the bill with Acting Attorney General Bill Rogers. Then Joe Martin, who ordinarily confers a dozen or so times a day with his old friend Sam Rayburn, announced that he was not on "talking terms" with "Mr. Rayburn...
...Rayburn consulted with Northern liberal Democrats, who warned him that the Republican plan would be politically difficult for them to oppose. Late one afternoon, Rayburn went over to the other side of the Capitol for a heart-to-heart talk with Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson. They agreed that some sort of civil rights bill had to be passed at this session; otherwise, the party-splitting issue would return to plague the Democrats in Election Year, 1958. Next morning Lyndon went to work to find out just what kind of a jury trial compromise could get past the Senate...
Call from a Cadillac. Next morning, on his way to the Capitol, Johnson called Republican Senate Leader Bill Knowland on the ship-to-shore radiophone in his Cadillac limousine. "Sounds like you're in Texas," said Knowland. Replied Johnson, thinking of the congressional adjournment that would come soon after a civil rights agreement: "That's where I'm going to be-if you agree with what I want to talk about...
...defense, the N.A.A.C.P. finally moved to shore up the strong-bill position of House Republican Leader Joe Martin. Wired N.A.A.C.P. Washington Director Clarence Mitchell to Martin: "Your efforts to obtain passage of a civil rights bill in the House have been and still are of great value and are deeply appreciated . . . We have never felt that the Senate bill was sufficiently strong...