Word: sapless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tactic--which violated House rules--of publicizing names of those Republicans who hadn't signed the discharge petition. After the bill had been emasculated by the Senate he urged liberals to accept what they could get. (Compare Senator Joseph Clark's description of the 1960 fight in Congress: The Sapless Branch: "In the end, the leadership on both sides of the aisle capitulated to the Southern Generalissimo, Richard B. Russell of Georgia...
...similar lack of clarity of analysis characterized Senator Joseph Clark's Congress: The Sapless Branch which pre-dated this by a year. Clark's history is no better than Bolling's; and he is even more prone to accept, unexamined, theories for a stronger two-party system, such as those of his close friend, James McGregor Burns...