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...patently could no longer be used to keep Negroes from registering. Nonetheless, in a state that has found endless ways to defy federal authority on racial issues, the new voting law is a signal victory for Governor Paul B. Johnson. Though he won office two years ago on a segregationist platform, Johnson has since tried to lead his state along a more moderate path...
Pungent Prose. Almost as startling as Dirksen's solo was a speech by Majority Whip Russell Long, who rose to attack another amendment that would have granted Governors the right to veto community-action programs only. Giving the South's segregationist Governors such lopsided veto power over anti-poverty programs, said Louisiana's Long, would expose them to unbearable pressures from "the Ku Klux Klan on one side" and "the Negro crowd" on the other. Long also charged that Northern Republican Governors such as Michigan's George Romney, New York...
Nelson Rockefeller and Pennsylvania's William Scranton could use the veto power with a view to discrediting the poverty program. "These Northern Governors will screw this thing up so bad they can blame it all on Johnson," he charged. "This is a segregationist amendment. I understand that. I'm a segregationist...
...where Segregationist Boss Leander Perez has kept civil rights workers at a safe distance by converting a swampy, snake-infested onetime Spanish fort on the Mississippi River into a concentration camp in anticipation of "racial demonstrators." Said Katzenbach: "If you are going to send examiners into Louisiana and don't send them into Plaquemines, then they can say you haven't any guts." Same as Whites. In the nine gut counties he finally selected-four in Alabama, three in Louisiana, two in Mississippi-Katzenbach said, the percentage of eligible white citizens on the voting rolls ranges from...
...Johnson has probably handled more sticky civil rights cases than any other federal trial judge. More often than not, he has ruled in favor of the civil rights forces -as last spring, when he authorized the Selma-for-Montgomery Negro protest march. Says Johnson: "I'm not a segregationist, but I'm no crusader either. I just interpret...