Sublime

When the ballots were tabulated, Roosevelt had won an unprecedented 60.79 percent of the popular vote.† He beat Landon 27,747,636 to 16,679,543—a margin 4 million votes larger than the Democratic landslide in 1932.

Jared Kushner.

The cloture motion was passed, by a 71–29 vote, on June 10, after a filibuster of fifty-seven days that was the longest in Senate history. Twenty-three Democrats voted against that motion; forty-four votes from the Democratic side was all it got. But, thanks to Dirksen, twenty-seven Republicans voted for it; only six, including Goldwater, remained