Saturday, July 05, 2014

Quote of the Day

Parenthetically, on one occasion in reviewing a draft of the bill [which became the 1964 Civil Rights Act] Senator Dirksen gave a demonstration of speed reading that was awe-inspiring. Having been handed a thoroughly redrafted version of the bill, he paged through it about as rapidly as the pages could be turned - noting and commenting as he did so on every change that had been made. 

- Norbert A. Schlei, who was then the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel

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