Does this mean that Madeline A. gets to reclaim her "Somebody in
the State Department Loves Me" shirt from the estate? Because she
did more sucking up to Helms to get his block of UN funds out of
the way than the sucking up Johnson had Humphrey do to Fulbright to
limit cloture to get the 1964 Civil Rights Act passed--which I
hadn't thought possible.
(I'm not a Johnson fan, but I do have to give him credit as
ex-Senate leader for figuring out Fulbright was the key to limiting
cloture and that Humphrey could work with the old bigot--which
Johnson couldn't after Fulbright decided Johnson was a traitor to
the South over the 1957 Civil Rights Bill. I still don't understand
how Humphrey pulled it off...)
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