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...look behind you, Louella," Mrs. Henry Wallace warned Mrs. Everett Dirksen. "Someone's wearing the same dress you are." Mrs. Dirksen turned, saw a guest wearing the same pink and white flowered gown and said in mock indignation, "I want my money back...
...Barry Goldwater obviously directs his truculence and conservatism toward overcoming this difficulty. Long regarded as the leader of Republican liberalism, Rockefeller is today attempting to comfort, if not actually placate, his more conservative associates. He can now tell them that he is saying the same things as Halleck and Dirksen. If the recent compliments paid him by Senator Goldwater have any meaning, Rockefeller can consider his strategy successful...
Among public figures: Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, Adlai Stevenson, Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, Averell Harriman, Everett Dirksen, Douglas Dillon, Arthur Goldberg, Luis Munoz Marin, Lucius Clay, Thomas E. Dewey, Henry Cabot Lodge, Norman Thomas, John J. McCloy...
Much as Dulles and Nixon and Charlie Wilson bored and irritated Eisenhower, Hughes says he was provoked to real anger and disgust only by the clowns and rogues who populated Congress: Knowland, Bricker, Dirksen, Milliken, McCarthy. On the subject of Mr. Bricker and his Amendment, Eisenhower waxed especially splenetic: at a Cabinet meeting in early April, 1953, "the President, listening to the latest accounts of trying to appease Bricker, cried in anguish, 'I'm so sick of this I could scream. The whole damn thing is senseless and plain damaging to the prestige of the United States. We talk about...
...doubt if any member of Tocsin consciously took stock of the situation and asked himself," Is it possible that Sen. Dirksen understands the Cuban situation better than I?" No, he simply didn't go to the next meeting. His fervor and sense of destiny were gone, even if his intellectual convictions remained the same...