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Most observers feel that Mansfield has the votes (51) to pass the repeal bill, but not enough (67) to stop a filibuster. Why not just postpone everything for next session? If that is done, the bill becomes the first order of business for the new Senate in January, and Dirksen has promised to be just as adamant then...
...Snap. In the upcoming Senate fight, Lyndon Johnson may well be a reluctant combatant. He voted in 1947 to override Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley. But he promised U.S. labor to fight for repeal of 14(b) in return for its support in 1964 and, to the surprise of many, even put the pledge in his State of the Union speech. To show that he meant it, he pushed so hard when the repeal bill reached the House floor in July that it flashed through, 221 to 203, after a scant five hours of debate. After that...
...join a union-and one of them is Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen. A formidable foe when his dander is up, Dirksen recently went to the White House and, in a now famous confrontation, told Johnson that out of intense personal conviction he was immovably opposed to repeal of 14(b). Indeed, said Ev, he hoped to keep the Senate from voting on the bill through "extended debate"-a Dirksenism for filibuster. "My God," said the President, "you wouldn't do that to me." Replied Ev: "We're not only going...
...trimmings for your Christmas tree.' We have some vitality and if 14(b) is going to be dished up, I can assure you that there is going to be an extended discussion." In his office are some 3,000 newspaper editorials opposing repeal, and, says Ev, "every one will be read into the Congressional Record." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has planned no round-the-clock, filibuster-busting sessions. "At some point," he said, "we'll have to have a test of strength and we'll be guided by the results...
...objective," said New Premier Stephanopoulos, "is to confront serious economic and social problems and restore peace and calm in the country." Yet he can scarcely repeal any of Papandreou's costly programs without enhancing his canny old opponent still more in the eyes of the voters-and sooner or later, as both Stephanopoulos and King Constantine know, there will have to be a general election to put Papandreou's demands to the test...