Word: wholely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inept Show. The whole filibuster fight was hard for most people to understand, and even harder to admire. It had been a shoddy performance all around. The Administration had promised to fight for civil rights for Negroes, but Harry Truman had gone fishing in Florida, and his Senate majority leader, Scott Lucas, had put on an inept show, bellicose when tact was required, weak and confused when strength was called for. The Republicans had nailed civil rights into their party platform, but a majority of Senate Republicans had used a quibble over rules to keep civil rights from coming...
...Formerly they could be shut off during debate on a measure by a simple two-thirds majority (as few as 33 members) of a quorum. Under the Wherry rule, cloture could be applied at any stage of a debate, but only by a two-thirds majority (64) of the whole Senate. Cloture could not be invoked at all on a change in rules, which left the way open for an unstoppable filibuster if anyone tried again to change them. The new rule would be a weak weapon against any but a very small minority...
...slight edge crept into his voice when someone brought up the subject of the Dixiecrat rebels. They are not good Democrats, Harry Truman snapped. But except for that one outburst his whole mood was one of friendly conciliation...
...whole, the President said, most of the members of Congress are fundamentally all right. Sometimes they get a little excited. But he pointed out that Congress had been delayed almost a month by the Inauguration, that it had just gotten started...
...back in Washington to try out his new good-neighbor policy at firsthand. Any break between the President and Congress, he told the U.S. Conference of Mayors, was mainly in the imagination of "troublemakers" who "start a gleeful chorus about how the Congress has thrown the whole Democratic program overboard." If anyone wanted to junk the Fair Deal, it was the pressure groups, and the worst of them all, he said, was the real-estate lobby, "the real enemy of the American home...