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Still Restive. Yet, only a year ago, Stevenson remained restive at the U.N., seriously considered returning to Illinois to run against Republican Senator Everett Dirksen. Viewed from the U.N.'s glass jungle in Manhattan, the Senate appeared to be a far more reasonable club-one that might allow some time for reflection instead of the grinding cycle of negotiations, speeches, parties, dinners and the problems of running a 115-man staff. Stevenson was still unhappy with his role in foreign policy-the role of advocating policies he had no part in making. Typically, Kennedy spent one session with Stevenson...
Illinois' Everett Dirksen...
...sweetest situation in politics is to be able to take an issue and run on both sides of it. His voice tolling warnings of doom, Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, 66, told Illinois voters of the Kennedy Administration's shortcomings. "Oh," intoned Dirksen of the New Frontier, "they've got us moving again, bless you all. But we're moving downhill into the valley of the shadow." Yet in the next days, Dirksen described his palsy-walsy relationship with President Kennedy, both personally and on international problems: "He has been my friend for 14 years. He calls...
...Dirksen's followers made much of the fact that their man was one of the Senate leaders whom Kennedy called back to Washington for consultations about the Cuban crisis. And Dirksen himself leaked a little story that was hardly calculated to inspire confidence in the camp of his Democratic opponent, Congressman Sidney R. Yates, 53, a faithful Frontiersman. According to the Dirksen tale, President Kennedy at the end of the White House meeting asked Ev how he was doing in Illinois. Dirksen gravely expressed doubts. "Aw," laughed the President, "what are you worried about...
...that, Yates gave Dirksen a small scare. He led during the first seven hours of the vote counting. But these returns were mostly from Chicago, and even there Dirksen wound up with about 49% of the vote-down from his past figures but still much better than Republicans generally do against Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic organization. Because he had done very little campaigning in downstate Republican strongholds, Dirksen's expected margin was narrowed-but not nearly enough to keep him from handily winning his third term...