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Will my good friend and colleague, | the distinguished senior senator...

from lllinois, yield the floor to me?

Under the circumstances, and because | we see eye to eye in this matter...

I consider it a privilege to yield to the able | and respected senator from South Carolina.

Thank you, sir. Mr. Rresident, I must defend | my distinguished colleague from lllinois.

It appears that he is beset | on every side by snarling enemies.

Yet it was his intention only to give voice | to the simple complaint...

many of us feel on both sides | of the aisle.

An honest revulsion...

at this nomination the president | has thrown in our teeth.

Mr. President, will this senator yield?

I'll not yield, sir, but I will say for you | what you'd say anyway...

that this is not the time | for personal imputations.

Will that satisfy the senator?

Was there no other man than this...

this Robert A. Leffingwell?

Is our storehouse of brainpower | so impoverished, that for this office...

which can affect the destiny | of our nation, of the world...

there is no other man | but Robert A. Leffingwell?

I find that hard, indeed, | impossible to believe.

Will the distinguished senator yield?

Well, now...

for my young, handsome...

and plenipotent colleague, | I will gladly yield.

Looks like Seab's gonna have | roast Lafe Smith for lunch.

Does the senior senator from South Carolina | think he knows more than the president...

about what or who is needed, | in these perilous times...

in the office of secretary of state?

Yes, senator.

Even one so young and green as | the junior senator from Rhode lsland...

would have chosen another man. | Wouldn't you say that's the truth?

The senator assumes an infallibility of | knowledge, which denotes a closed mind...

and an aged crust of prejudice.

Who ate who?

Mr. President...

we have here an example...

of the commotion this man, | Leffingwell, can arouse.

Able, sensitive young senators, | taught courtesy at their mothers' knees...

turn upon their elders and rend them | because of their passions...

over this disturbing man, | Robert A. Leffingwell.

I beseech senators to contemplate | the spectacle we are making of ourselves.

Why?

What is causing this bitterness | of division in our party? Leffingwell.

Who is disrupting the cordial flow | of legislative interchange? Leffingwell.

Who is turning this Senate...

into a cockpit of angry emotion?

Leffingwell.

I abominate this man Leffingwell. | He is an evil man.

He will pursue a policy of appeasements!

He will weaken the moral fiber | of our great nation.

He will bring destruction to our traditions.

And I beg you, senators, reject him.

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