Word: dirksen
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...advantages are considerable. The 1.1 million-sq.-ft. colossus is not, to be sure, the kind of building to wrap your heart around. The surfeit of white Vermont marble is a bit intimidating. Yet the building fits politely between the clumsily classical Everett Dirksen Senate Office Building and the Federal and Queen Anne-style Sewall-Belmont House and garden, headquarters of the venerable National Woman's Party. The Hart Building's classically well-ordered, box-construction windows, reminiscent of Le Corbusier's famous brise-soleils, or sun screens, harmonize with the forest of Roman columns that flourishes...
...setting. Unlike the grand and spacious Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building, where John and Robert Kennedy had launched their bids for the White House, Room 4232 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building is small and comparatively humble. Packed inside with a slew of Kennedy family members were the usual political retainers and loyal supporters, gathered together for the occasion: not the launching but the scuttling of a presidential bid. Announced Edward Kennedy last week: "I will not be a candidate for President of the United States...
...scene: Room 5110 of the Dirksen Senate Office building. The occasion: the first public meeting of the bipartisan National Commission on Social Security Reform to take place since the President and Senate Budget Committee called for $40 billion in cuts in the system over the next three years. The result: a partisan shouting match, with cameras clicking, that symbolized the tensions evoked by this sensitive issue...
...grandmother was a county sheriff, and both his father and stepmother served in Congress.* Baker's father sent his son the Congressional Record to read and, more important, introduced him to friends he made in Washington. Among them was the flamboyant Republican leader of the Senate, Everett Dirksen of Illinois; Baker married Dirksen's only child...
Then there are such historical detritus as F.D.R.'s lap robe; Nazi pilots' socks; a banner from a John L. Sullivan fight; Everett Dirksen's horn-rimmed glasses; a stuffed lion that was the flying partner-when it was alive-of Aviator Roscoe Turner; several white rats, now stuffed, used in a Soviet space shot; leftover Tang from the astronauts; a piece of Plymouth Rock; bricks from China's Great Wall; shards from champagne bottles used to christen battleships; a miniature compass embedded in an acorn from an oak tree that George Washington planted at Mount...