Word: dirksen
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Comic Relief. The day after Morse's speech, Illinois' Minority Leader Everett Dirksen provided some unintentional comic relief. Arguing that it was unsporting to hold Mrs. Luce's old political speeches against her, Orator Dirksen cried: "Why thrash old hay or beat an old bag of bones?" As the galleries guffawed, Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey played for laughs. "I must rise to the defense of the lady," he said...
...Dirksen. I am referring to the old bag of political bones, these old canards...
...belief is," replied Illinois' Dirksen, "that she may have had some provocation-among other things, Wayne has made her out to be a liar and dishonest." Next day Dirksen finished the debate off by revealing how low the Morse attack had fallen. Morse, he said (and Morse later verified it), called Mrs. Luce's physician in New York in an attempt to find out whether she had ever been under psychiatric care. Dirksen, quoting the doctor, said: "She-isn't and wasn...
...Leader Lyndon Johnson saw opportunity: REA was one of those rare issues where Democrats of the South would likely stick together with other Democrats around the compass. They decided they could muster the necessary two-thirds vote to override the veto and doubly defeat the President. Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and Ike's other lieutenants in the Senate were in glum agreement; with the help of six farm-bloc minded Republicans (Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. South Dakota's Francis Case and Karl Mundt, North Dakota's Milton Young and "Wild Bill" Langer, Nebraska...
Rueful John. Backstopping McClellan, Minority Leader Everett Dirksen dramatically read to the Senate a letter from a union official threatening an Illinois company with extinction unless its employees joined the Teamsters. Oregon's Wayne Morse, grey-black eyebrows beetling over angry grey eyes, retorted acidly that a blow against peaceful picketing was a blow against "the cardinal principle of freedom of speech." Kennedy himself, now back in command, came striding down the center aisle to the Senate's well to argue against the amendment's sweeping nature. "I myself would be forced to vote against the bill...