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...toughest fight was prompted by Dirksen's son-in-law, Tennessee Senator Howard Baker, who proposed to exempt from the open-housing provision certain privately owned one-family units. Several Republican conservatives, notably South Dakota's Karl Mundt, had demanded the Baker amendment as a condition for agreeing to cloture. By a 48-to-43 vote, the Baker amendment was killed...
Insurance Policy. Dirksen, for all his gifts of legerdemain, found himself without a solid two-thirds majority for cloture. Therefore he and his son-in-law, Tennessee's Senator Howard Baker, sought to mollify the conservatives by introducing new amendments, this time to weaken the open-housing section. Together, their amendments would exclude from the ban on dis crimination all single-family, owner-occupied housing-potentially 30 million units...
...compromise between Dirksen and liberals, would have made discrimination illegal in two-thirds of the nation's housing action rather than 97 per cent as the original bill provided. Still Dirksen failed to deliver; he could produce only three new votes for cloture including himself and his son-in-law...
...failed despite a low piece of political double-dealing earlier in the day that would further catch the liberals off guard. Dirksen's son-in-law, Howard W. Baker (R-Tenn.), slipped in an amendment which would lop off 29 million more units from the anti-discrimination law. Dirksen termed the amendment "technical changes," and later, trying to explain himself to the liberals, he said that "some provisions crept into the bill which I was not aware...
...Truax had the background and personality-not to mention the foursquare name-to succeed in government. Son of a U.S. Commerce Department official and son-in-law of a California municipal judge, the husky, crew-cut six-footer was graduated with honors from San Jose State College as a political-science major. Three and a half years ago, he landed an executive job with the newly formed Association of Bay Area Governments, a government-funded organization that was pioneering a regional approach to Northern California's problems. As it turned out, ABAC might have been designed to finance...