John Harwood @JohnJHarwood
from Robert Caro's Master of the Senate, about LBJ: "there took place therefore so many 'extended discussions' of measures to keep them from coming to a vote that the device got a name, 'filibuster,' from the Dutch word vrijbuiter, which means 'freebooter' or 'pirate'..." /1 — PolitiTweet.org