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...Johnson hereupon summoned management and labor negotiators to the White House. There, in the Cabinet Room, he read a prepared statement: "Although this railroad crisis has gone on for over four years, it has now been brought to a crisis stage with less than 48 hours available for last-ditch collective bargaining. This does not give the bargaining process a fair chance. It does not give the country a fair break...
...Near week's end, it voted 67 to 17 to do just that, then turned down, 50 to 34, a motion by Morse to send the bill to the previously bypassed Judiciary Committee for a few days. Segregationist Leader Russell, although he knew he was fighting a last-ditch battle, seemed unfazed. Said he: "Unfortunately we have lost a skirmish. We shall now begin to fight...
...Last Ditch. When the bells clanged at noon last week, summoning the Senators, the atmosphere in the gold and mahogany Chamber was deceptively relaxed. Mansfield chatted quietly with a knot of reporters. Republican Leader Dirksen huddled with his lieutenants on the other side of the aisle, occasionally padding across the Chamber's carpeted floor to fling a bearlike arm around a colleague's shoulders and whisper a few honeyed words into...
...things it can buy. Like, say, the Rolls-Royce they are riding in. "Here, take the wheel," she announces grandly. "I don't care. I love you." Maybe so. But by a strange coincidence the affair ends up on the rocks when the car ends up in a ditch...
Equally important in this election year, the project will keep the attention of the nation's politicians focused on civil rights. Unless Mississippi reforms miraculously before June, the summer project will dramatize the brutality of the segregationists' last ditch stand. Hopefully, this dramatization will make the Presidential candidates realize, and openly declare, that civil rights laws are useless unless enforced conscientiously by Federal marshals or, that failing, by Federal troops...