board for the majority to prevail. everett dirksenas extremely important at his time. it seemed fitting to name the building after him. liked to say he was a man of principle. one of his greatest principles was to maintain flexibility at all times. that made him a very agile senator and a man who understood that you have to compromise to build consensus. state senate, compromise is essential for passing any kind of legislation. rarely does the majority party have sufficient votes to pass something entirely by itself. always, majority leaders have to persuade members of the minority to come on board. that is one of the reasons why the u.s. senate wanted to commemorate senator dirksen by naming the second building after him. watch this or other american artifacts programs at any time by visiting our website, www.c-span.org/history. ♪ our goal here with aarp is to get where the candidates are standing on social security and how they plan on saving it. if they are, what are they going to do to save it? >> i am participating in the selecti

there's another major effort of translation in the dirksen senate office building 0th century. of course in the late nineteenth century and dirksen senate office building 0th century lot of educated americans could read german so people were reading him in the original but it did require the translation for him to take off. why am i calling him henry? h.l. mencken has a lot to do with each's superstar adam. not to say there were not other folks reading and popularizing him in the united states but h.l. mencken is the one who writes the first full-length monograph on nietzsche in 1908. that is where we get a kind of synopsis about the jack's wife, his travails, struggles with christianity, struggles with health, we get a little bit about nietzsche and sexuality. would not be h.l. mencken if there wasn't something racy thrown in and then we get nietzsche's ideas and this book sold widely and sold well and it held to do two things. it helped establish nietzsche's reputation in america but it did something else, it helped h. l. mencken. >> host: if someone says i love frederick need

next, historian emeritus don ritchie takes us inside the dirksen building. we learn about its place in history and its namesake, dirksen. and -- rick century, the9 demands of the government were smaller than today. as demands grew, as government morices group,

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the same area. traffic is being diverted off on to dirksen. if you want to avoid all together, i made you this map. take 472 exit and then back to 17-92. use caution driving through the area. if you need to use i-4, definitely give yourself extra time. we have the crash at hiawassee and silver star. still partially blocked but not causing significant delays. and the crash at sand lake and0 sun port. that's not causing any delays either. the big one is i-4 in volusia county. taking at drive times. jun young to downtown, 6 minutes. and 434 to faimpleghts takes you about 6 minutes. 434 to fairbanks. that's it for your live drive traffic. >> john: we have breaking news orange blossom trail is finally back open after a deadly hit-and-run. >> amy: they did eventually catch the driver who was responsible. fox 35's andrea jackson has more at the scene. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the all lanes have been reopened. we just learned the identity of the man who caused the crash. >> troopers are at the hospital evaluating him. we're trying to se

president of the united states as an entirely improper and offensive term." republican senator dirksen referring to the lame-duck status of president lyndon johnson, democrat. the senate gave the president's nominee a prompt hearing in the judiciary committee. as it turned out, the hearing ended up uncovering a range of ethics concerns about justice for it is a. and the republicans filibustered his nomination. fortas subsequently withdrew. on september 3, same year, election year, just a month before the election, "the new york times" reported that senator dirksen said there was still time for the president to submit a new name and rush it through the senate before the congress adjourned. republican leader said even with a month left, try to fill the vacancy. this was a month before the presidential election. where are the leaders like everett dirksen in today's republican party, senators willing to roll up their sleeves and get to the work of considering nominees on their merits so the supreme court can do its work? we have a constitutional responsibility, as does the president. make

the ordinary at this point. we have reports of debris on i 4, volusia county, troopers say a 4 mile stretch in between saxon boulevard and dirksen drive westbound, there is debris scattered along the roads. if you are headed in that direction, make sure you keep could see some swerving to avoid debris. >>> attorneys for millionaire convicted of killing his wife are try to get him out of prison after a judge granted him a new trial. bob ward is serving 30 years for shooting and killing his wife back in 2011. last year he argued he had an ineffective counsel because his lawyer did not object to video of him in a holding cell. here's the video. it shows not telling investigators what happened or letting them test gun residues on his hands. prosecutors plaited and inferred his silence meant guilt. >> in my estimation they have a very strong case without comment on his right to remain silent. >> wards attorney is asking for bond saying his client is presumed innocent and should be freed that the state has already filed an appeal. >>> in 18-year-old convicted killer from marion county will spend the rest of her life behind bars. lower

he was a republican, a conservative but needed to break the filibuster on the civil rights act of 1964 so he has to believe dirksen had his and patriotism, explained that and goes to him and offers him everything under the sun. public-works projects, whatever you want, they could do that. the whole state of illinois was going to be sunk but then finally he calls up in the morning and the middle of the night, talking about president clinton calling up at midnight, lyndon johnson would call the men and 2:00 in the morning, he said i didn't wake you up, no, i was just lying here hoping my president would call. when he goes to dirksen, that is what you are seeing here with senator kennedy and hatch and other republicans he understands dirksen wants to be remembered too for having done something important so he said if you come with me on this bill and bring some republicans to break the democratic filibuster, 200 years from now school children will only two names, abraham lincoln and everett dirksen. i think the key thing is what vicki was saying, you have to understand they are there and they're used to be a greater

in the days were the republicans had 35 senate -- senators, they were the swing vote. it was dirksen who got his picture on the cover of "time" magazine. his votes were so essential. howard baker carry that on while he was the minority leader. transition for a nicely in 1980 into becoming the majority leader. we have the senate -- the senate had much of -- much less of a germanic turnover when the republicans won over 26 -- after 26 years of being the minority. in the house, when the republicans won after 40 years of being the minority, it was like the french revolution. it was like changing the months of the year. they change the names of the committees, everything. everybody went from the historian went, the chaplain went. it was a traumatic difference. i do think you have to look at the psyches of the institutions when you factor that in. question over here. in 2015,e important and increased gas tax, increased to the minimum wage, they did away with the death penalty, and they retained the secret vote which is how they elected this chairmannd committee thomas a you had democratic

the relationship. >> is there any common sense >> what lbj could do with senator dirksen he understood that he left the republicans to with the of filibuster act he believed he had his own patriotism displayed in the credits him with everything under the sun. with everyone that a whole state of illinois but finally he calls in the middle of the night clinton johnson would call him into in the morning. he said did i wake you up? he said no. i was laying here hoping represent would call. [laughter] so senator kennedy and hatch and others understand that dirksen wants to be a member to. so he said if you come with me on this bill and bring republicans schoolchildren will though avery of lincoln anderson. [laughter] -- abraham lincoln and dirksen. >> so they used to be that greater sense when they were passing joint legislation but they to be proud to tell their children and grand children and. i was in that congress. the when you came into something how incredible that feels when you know, it has made a difference. i fear that is not happening now to move across the aisle rather than as partisan enemies.

breaking traffic news in voush county problems. >> thank you am this is the westbound side of i-4 this morning. not far from dirksen. that's where this issue is going on. we are down to one travel lane squeezing by. we have had two open. the guard rail has been removed. eastbound we have a lane taken out as well. westbound, you are backed to saxon this morning, very slow moving. that is your traffic. >> outside today we are in for a warm-up. >> you can see lots of sunshine across central florida. we are going to see more clouds build through the day. we are 59 in orlando with light east southeast wind 3 miles per hour. we are 55 in palm coast, 52 in ocala. 82 at 4:00 with 20% chance of a new front moves in, strong storms tuesday and wednesday. high of 82 wednesday, 65 on thursday. >> big time change. thank you. you can get breaking news alerts with our local 6 mobile app. >>> good morning. it is monday, february 22nd, 2016. welcome back to "cbs this morning." there is more real news ahead, including the presidential candidates at a critical stage in the race to the white house. peggy noonan shows us how this hear t

the congress of racial equality, a. phillip randolph, hubert humphrey, everett dirksen a lady was missing but there were many women that were foot soldier the point was made on the voting rights act, the vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they're different from other men and i'd modify it and say women. when the voting i.d. law because of the misgive offings the state of texas and its legislature was put in place, there were 80 counties at least in texas that did not have a department of public safety office for individuals to be able to register or to be able to get an i.d. i'd say -- that's a tragedy. and each moment there is something coming out of texas that wants to in essence put down the rights of individuals to vote and one case that should be brought to our attention is a case before the supreme court that indicates a group of petitioners who don't like the fact that you represent a population of people, they want to characterize and get a definition of what a person means. and they want to make that p

dold: countless courageous lead verse taken up the cause of justice, including former illinois senator dirksen and our colleague here in the united states congress, john lewis. walking on the edmund pettus bridge in selma with congressman lewis for the 50th anniversary of the selma to montgomery marches is one of my highlights of my tenure in the united states congress. as we look back on the accomplishments of the past, we cannot lose sight of the urgency with which we must address inequality in our society today. african-americans today face an unacceptable likelihood of being incarcerated a poverty rate that our nation's leaders should be achamed of -- ashamed of an everyday discrimination that flies in the face of everything our nation stands for. in memory of the heros who fought for equality throughout our nation's history, we are compelled to act. i'm committed to fighting for a more just and equal society. i implore my colleagues to do the same. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from nevada seek recognition? weather -- without objectio