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WAYNE LYMAN MORSE, 58, third-term Senator from Oregon, onetime law professor, longtime political migrant who has been in turn a Progressive, Republican (until late '52), Independent and Democrat; credited with one of the Senate's keenest forensic minds; famed on Capitol Hill for windiness (he once orated nonstop for 22 hr. 26 min.), unpredictability, ferocity in debate, and a capacity for nursing grudges...
Torrent of Abuse. With such a lopsided committee endorsement. Senate confirmation seemed likely to be routine. Then, day before the confirmation vote, Wayne Morse took the Senate floor, orated for 32 hours-through some 20,000 words-against Clare Luce. Commented Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush when it was over: "I doubt there has ever been a more severe and bitter attack upon an individual who has been nominated by a President for a high post in the service of this Government." Samples of the Morse attack...
...record to indicate to me that Mrs. Luce is qualified to be a diplomat . . . The role for which I believe she is well qualified is that of political hatchetman; she does very well at making inflammatory and demagogic political speeches; she and her husband contribute heavily to the Republican coffers. And for this she is being rewarded with an ambassadorship...
...ANGELES HERALD-EXPRESS: Senator Morse objects-to anyone criticizing him, but he is free to criticize everyone. Wayne Morse, ex-Republican, now Democrat, can dish it out with a shovel, but he cannot take it with a teaspoon...
...Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson saw opportunity: REA was one of those rare issues where Democrats of the South would likely stick together with other Democrats around the compass. They decided they could muster the necessary two-thirds vote to override the veto and doubly defeat the President. Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and Ike's other lieutenants in the Senate were in glum agreement; with the help of six farm-bloc minded Republicans (Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. South Dakota's Francis Case and Karl Mundt, North Dakota's Milton Young and "Wild Bill" Langer, Nebraska...