Word: dirksen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Show-Me's. Taft later made himself clearer (see below) and added: "Only an idiot would be an isolationist today." The fact was, a few hard-shelled America-Only candidates had got elected, most notably Everett Dirksen of Illinois. But more than foreign aid was at issue in Dirksen's victory. And elsewhere, Republican and Democratic internationalists were back in new strength. Michigan's ailing Arthur Vandenberg expected to be back on the Senate floor in January. New Hampshire's Tobey, Vermont's George Aiken, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Wisconsin's Alexander...
More surprising, though less ominous than the Tydings defeat, was Everett M. Dirksen's victory over Scott Lucas in Illinois. Lucas, Senate majority leader, voted in favor of the McCurran anti-communist bill and toned down many of the Administration's policies when he returned home to campaign. He still lost by 250,000 votes in a state that went entirely Democratic, even for state offices...
...Dirksen is more of an isolationist than Ohio's Bricker, and is backed by the same group of Republicans that sent C. Wayland Brooks to the Senate in 1942. He will oppose the President on all issues of foreign and domestic policy. Since the Republicans are within two of controlling the upper house of Congress, our foreign programs particularly aid to Europe can now be effectively opposed. The South's twelve-man contribution to the Democratic side of the Senate will join the GOP to try and defeat everything from the Marshall Plan to Point Four. Republicans can, of course...
Republican candidates well know that, since the day of Roosevelt, they have to carry downstate Illinois by big margins to offset the Democratic majorities ground out by Jake Arvey's Chicago machine.* With spellbinding oratory, Republican Dirksen banged away at Communism, Acheson, inflation and wasteful foreign programs. "Lenin said, 'Someday we are going to force the U.S. to spend itself into destruction,' " cried Dirksen. "In the name of God, what are we doing? When will we wake...
Illinois: Majority Leader Scott Lucas, who has forged ahead of ex-Representative Everett Dirksen since the landing at Inchon...