About your Search  about civil-rights. the second part of your
question, how did he get kennedy -- it takes a lot of pages in
this book to talk about all the things he does but the thing he
does on the instant, this bill appears to be totally dead. he
says didn't someone file a discharge petition? discharge
petition had been filed -- this bill was in a committee that was
never going to let it out. wasn't even the senate. still in the
house rules committee which was shared by judge howard w. smith
and would even give a date. the bill was going nowhere. johnson
remembers someone filed a discharge petition to take away from
that committee. that was -- a discharge petition ever -- never
passed. violation of house rules and no president had ever
gotten behind one before. johnson calls the representative who
introduces it and representative of missouri has been told by
the leaders dropped this thing and listen to johnson in this
telephone call to see a genius in human nature because the first
half of the call, we c