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...every desk, quill pens available on demand. The Senate roster also still retains a collection of first names not to be found in any other body and surpassing even the cast of characters in a 19th century novel-Ross, Birch, Caleb, Gordon, Norris, Hiram, Bourke, Lister, Spessard, Roman, Gale, Thruston, Claiborne, Winston, Leverett, Strom, Harrison. This assemblage is still magisterial in form if not in substance, still flinging its sounding periods into the stillness of the Congressional Record or the empty seats of the chamber, less magnificent in its manners and less admired for its oratory, indulgent of itself...
...wear the grower's label. If, on the contrary, the odd offshoot insists on permanent identification as a new species, it invites pruning. "Break Through!" Thus, in recent months, a host of top Republicans, from House Leader Ford to Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, have taken pains to dissociate the G.O.P. from the extremist John Birch Society. G.O.P. National Chairman Ray Bliss read the Birchites out of the party again last week during the biennial Western...
...consequences of changing majority cloture are not at all clear." rules, requiring two-thirds of voting to shut off debate, have action. Cooper insisted. But he that cloture by three-fifths of those and voting, as urged in S. Res. 6 Senators Clinton P. Anderson (D-N. and Thruston B. Morton (R-Ky.), be preferable to cloture by a of "all Senators duly chosen and ," as Senator Paul H. Douglas and the many co-sponsors of S. suggest...
There were lots of post-mortems about November. Kentucky Senator Thruston Morton, a former national chairman, drew cheers with a candid critique, most of it aimed straight at Goldwater. "We lost because of fear," he said, "the most common emotion to all mankind." The Democrats played on general fears of nuclear war and the loss of Government economic benefits. Moreover the Republicans had failed to "accentuate the positive," added Morton, had oversimplified complex problems such as Viet Nam, and had alienated the Negro vote. "There are those in our party, both North and South, who say 'Forget the Negro...
Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, a former National Committee chairman and now Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee chairman, was on hand to give the Governors an analysis of the election. He came out flatly against any move to oust Burch. "In my opinion," said he, "this is no time for bloodletting. Our blood is too thin, and there is too little of it. I am not a member of the Republican National Committee, but many of my best friends are, and I will use what influence I have to keep Dean Burch in as national chairman...