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Back from the Brink. The Republican recovery was the most dramatic since 1938. Then, after Franklin Roosevelt's unprecedented sweep in 1936 had given the Democrats fantastically bloated congressional majorities?333 to 89 in the House, 75 to 17 in the Senate???the G.O.P. rebounded and recaptured 80 seats in the House and six in the Senate. The 1964 Goldwater rout left the G.O.P. on the short end of a 295-to-140 count in the House and a 67-to-33 margin in the Senate. Dick Nixon overstated the case only slightly when he warned: "This is the year...
Critical Eye. Now it was up to the Senate???and even among Senators favoring civil rights there were some grave reservations. Everett Dirksen, for one, had been following the course of the House civil rights measure with a close and critical eye. Says he: "I kept annotating it and making a list of prospective amendments." In early...
Last year Chicago Negroes, protesting that Dirksen had not committed himself on the civil rights bill, threw up a picket line around a hotel where Ev was scheduled to speak. Throughout his long political career?16 years in the House, 14 in the Senate???he has received little support from Negroes. He feels a certain bitterness about all this, but not enough to affect his advocacy of the civil rights bill. Explaining his support of that measure, Dirksen says: "I have looked at all the people who came into this office to see me?lawyers, contractors, businessmen, ministers, rabbis, priests...
...seeking a Senate nomination. Though for hours they were under the same hotel roof at Long Beach, Nominee Hughes and the Governor did not meet. Johnsonites were infuriated at what they called Nominee Hughes's deliberate snub to their candidate. In November Governor Johnson was duly elected to the Senate???but California went Democratic with just enough electoral votes to keep Woodrow Wilson in the White House another four years...
...Huston, calm and cool in white flannels, talked blandly, smiled disarmingly upon them from the head of a long shiny table. There was no wrestling. The eight potent Republicans departed, looking more sheepish than elephantine. Mr. Huston was still mahout. He might resign after the treaty session of the Senate???or he might not. The issue was as unsettled as ever...