The Case for the Talking Filibuster ...Middle East

As dawn rose over the Capitol on a Wednesday in early March 1960, two men remained on the Senate floor—segregationist South Carolina Senator Olin Johnson was reading aloud from the collected works of J. Edgar Hoover while a lightly snoring Senator Prescott Bush, the father and grandfather of future presidents, supposedly stood guard for civil-rights forces. As a Washington Post reporter noted archly, “Sleep hung in the air like nerve gas.”Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had staged the all-night session in a desperate attempt to break a Southern filibuster against a voting-rights bill. His army of Northern Democrats and party-of-Lincoln Republicans were sleeping on Amy cots nearby, read

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