Never in history had the Senate been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a civil rights bill. Nine days later the Senate approved the act itself.
To: harpygoddess
And Senator Al Gore, Sr., Democrat from Tennessee voted against it.
2 posted on
06/10/2020 1:51:51 PM PDT by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
To: harpygoddess
As an aside, Senator Everett Dirksen is generally credited with the quote, "a billion here and a billion there; pretty soon you're talking real money." Who would have ever believed back then we would be throwing around trillions like confetti?
3 posted on
06/10/2020 2:04:36 PM PDT by
stormhill
To: harpygoddess
Why Republicans never hang overt racism around the necks of Demoncrats kills me. We have enough fodder to last a lifetime! Robert KKK Bird is their conscience...LOL!
4 posted on
06/10/2020 2:15:05 PM PDT by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: harpygoddess
5 posted on
06/10/2020 2:20:10 PM PDT by
Inyo-Mono
To: harpygoddess
On June 10, 1964, Democrats’ 57-day filibuster of the Civil Rights Act ended. In spite of this, the democrats still juke the black people into voting for them. Kinda sad, isn’t it?
To: All
8 posted on
06/10/2020 8:05:34 PM PDT by
musicman
(The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
To: harpygoddess
11 posted on
06/11/2020 12:25:51 PM PDT by
Fiddlstix
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