mr. ritchie: he was known as the spirit of lose. he was the minority leader in the senate. a very small minority. usually 35 or 36 senators on his side of the aisle, which out of 100 is a very small minority, but his boat was critical back in the day when you needed two stop a filibuster. if the senate was going to stop a filibuster on civil rights, they needed everett dirksen. the civil rights act of 1964 -- once dirksen came on board, once he agreed to whatever the compromise was, enough votes would come on board for the majority to prevail. everett dirksen, even though he was only the minority leader, was an extremely important leader at his time and it seems fitting to name this building after him. senator dirksen like to say he was a man of principle, and one of his greatest principles was to maintain flexibility at all times and that made him a very agile senator and a man who understood you have to compromise to build consensus. the united states senate compromised passing any kind of legislation, got some kind of a partisanship. rarely does the majority party has su

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