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...despite all this proclaimed austerity, the new budget brought out cries of horror in Congress. Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen called it "incredible," and fellow Republicans in the Senate and House denounced it as "radical," "ridiculous," "morally wrong," and "straight from a dreamland of fiscal fantasy." Missouri's Democratic Representative Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said the budget was "monstrous," predicted that his committee would "find places to cut it substantially." Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright said the budget "seems extraordinarily high." And New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson pronounced the budget "discouraging...
...this time there did not seem to be much passion in the dispute. Although Majority Leader Mike Mansfield supported Anderson's stand, he declined to throw the Senate into round-the-clock sessions; in this, he was backed by Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who said he did not care to see the Senate become "a chamber of walking coronaries." Sensing defeat, liberal New Jersey Republican Clifford Case, a strong anti-filibuster man, said that a vote would be preferable to an extension of the ritual that is becoming "almost like a minuet." Minnesota's liberal Hubert Humphrey agreed...
Time Off for Families. Similarly, in the Senate, Republicans put up Vermont's George Aiken for president pro tempore. In nominating Aiken, G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen noted that the Vermonter's middle name is David. Cried Ev: "I am confident that he will be like his namesake, David of old, who reached into the brook of Elah, and there found smooth stones for his slingshot with which to humble Goliath. In the same spirit, George Aiken will reach into the brook...
...concerned mainly its own affairs. Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield announced a proposal to take a one-or two-month recess in summer or early fall so that Senators could "be with their children and recognize their wives in the daytime." Both branches bartered for places on important committees. Dirksen revealed that he is trying for a junior seat on the Finance Committee; House Democrats avidly eyed two Ways and Means Committee seats that could be highly important to the Administration's programs. Finally, with smiles on their faces and friendship in their hearts, the members of Congress ceremoniously...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). A study in oratorical openings, noting how different men begin speeches, including clips of Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Everett Dirksen and Charles Halleck...