"Some kind of alliance with that oosy- Dirksen" led President Johnson settle for a weak voting rights bill, Joseph L. Rauh Jr. '32, vice-chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, charged yesterday. "I can understand why Kennedy made 1961 legislation weak," Rauh said, were threntened with a filibustor. in 1965 Byrd's asthma would keep from filibustering more than 20 minutes. We begged the attorney to make this bill as good as the President's speech but he wouldn't." Ranh spoke at a day-long civil rights conference sponsored by the NAACP and held at the Law School.
He credited Martin Luther King with being responsible for the new bill. When President Johnson signed the bill we all thought, 'Here's a rest period.' Then Selma came.
