The rumor is all over the cloakrooms and corridors of Capitol Hill that the administration has made a deal with the leadership to scuttle the accommodations. I should like to add this one comment to this question. This is a question I would like to have an answer to. Lindsay: In view of the fact that you apparently did not consider these bills at all, I can’t help but ask the question as to whether or not you really want public accommodations legislation or not. Kennedy: Congressman, I am sorry that I have not read all of the bills, and I am sorry that I have not read your bill. Attorney General, that you have never bothered to read this important legislation. Lindsay: I am quite deeply disturbed, Mr. As the chairman said, there are 165 bills or 365.
Questioned about a similar bill introduced earlier by Representative John Lindsay (R-N.Y.), who was sitting on the subcommittee, Kennedy replied: After an opening statement and hours of questioning, Robert Kennedy made an important slip. The subcommittee first heard from Robert Kennedy, as his department would be responsible for enforcing the bill, were it to pass.
Celler immediately assigned it to Subcommittee 5, chosen both because Celler chaired that subcommittee and because it had a majority of liberal Democrats, and scheduled hearings. Introduced into the House of Representatives on June 20th, it was sent by Speaker John McCormack (D-Mass.) to the Judiciary Committee with the title HR 7152. The president chose to let Congressman Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, sponsor the bill, as Celler had been responsible for attempts at civil rights legislation in the past. It began in 1963, when President Kennedy finally prepared civil rights legislation under pressure from the national media and from his brother, then Attorney General Robert Kennedy. It gives a history of this bill's passage into law, and a pretty good picture of politics in action, much more than the average bill. In case it isn't already completely obvious because of the length and language used, this is a paper I wrote for a class a few years ago.
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