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...Senate is so sour on foreign aid that before the first week of debate was over Fulbright found that he could not even defend the $4.2 billion that his own committee had recommended in its authorization bill. He agreed with Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen to cut it to about $3.8 billion. President Kennedy originally had sought $4.9 billion, dropped his request to $4.5 billion after a critical report by a special committee headed by General Lucius Clay. The House has approved only $3.5 billion...
Fulbright's retreat was aimed at avoiding an even worse fate for the bill. Morse announced that he has more than a dozen amendments to offer, needs about three weeks of debate to explain them all. Senator Everett Dirksen took exception to this, enlivened the debate briefly by ridiculing Morse. "With a decent approach and with no Senator feeling that all the wisdom reposes in him alone, we can get out of here on schedule," said Dirksen. Otherwise, he predicted, Senators will sit around their Christmas tree Dec. 25 "in their red flannel pajamas," watching their grandchildren, and suddenly...
...diligent concern by the individual for matters pertaining to his own personality." Richard Nixon, Dr. McLandress finds, has a McL-C of three seconds, probably the lowest in U.S. politics. No member of the U.S. Senate has a rating of more than 15 minutes, with the exception of Everett Dirksen, whose coefficient of three hours and 25 minutes Dr. McLandress attributes to his "almost unique inability to divert his thoughts from the public interest." Lowest ratings in the Senate are held by Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse and New York Republican Jacob Javits, who both score four minutes...
...votes of two committee Republicans can be won over, the bill may die in the hearing room, or at least be seriously delayed again. Consider that Rep. Halleck thinks some of the sections of the subcommittee's bill "would be most difficult for me to support," consider that Sen. Dirksen finds portions of even the weaker bill unpalatable, and it is easy to see why the President wants to tone the strong bill down...
Sweetening a Sale. Despite the grumbling, overall sentiment for the deal was strong, particularly in view of the fact that Canada, Australia, West Germany and France are already selling wheat and flour to the Russians. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen said he would go along with it, though he urged the Administration to seek "sweeteners" in the form of political concessions. Wheat growers approved overwhelmingly, with or without sweeteners. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman pointed out that the deal would yield a handsome propaganda dividend by showing the world "which country has the agriculture that works." Fact is, both...