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...Glenn, who sailed through space in Mercury capsule No. 13, thirteen U.S. Senators gathered at 10:13 a.m. on Capitol Hill to give the ebullient astronaut a gold watch, all of whose numerals read 13 o'clock. Smashing a mirror to open the meeting, Illinois' Republican Everett Dirksen tried to hex Glenn: "If you'll talk 13 seconds, we'll love you. If you talk 13 minutes, we'll wonder how you ever got in orbit. If you talk 13 hours, we'll be in orbit." Replied Glenn, with a double whammy: "I thought...
What stung Kennedy most was not the near unanimity of Republican opposition but what he called the "handful" of Democrats (Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen slyly christened them "living profiles in courage") who had made defeat possible-actually a third of the Senate's Democrats. They included such prominent Democrats as Foreign Relations Chairman William Fulbright, Ace Investigator John McClellan, moderate Liberal Mike Monroney, former Vice Presidential Candidate John Sparkman, and Armed Services Chairman Richard Russell, as well as Hayden, Randolph and Kerr...
...Curtis hinted at darker motives: "It was most unusual and reprehensible that the two Republican members were singled out in an effort to try to find some correspondence that might be twisted or distorted to create implications not substantiated by the facts." Cried Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen: "This smacks a little of a Gestapo technique...
...lessening those countries' dependence on Russia-a belief that has survived Tito's numberless demonstrations of hostility toward the U.S. So the Administration, predictably, put up a brisk fight against the Lausche amendment. President Kennedy himself telephoned Majority Leader Mansfield and Minority Leader Everett Mc-Kinley Dirksen. White House staffers and State Department officials, including Secretary of State Dean Rusk, called other Senators to ask for help...
...opposition to the President's request to buy 25-year bonds, insisting instead on a three-year loan. The adopted compromise (which Aiken agreed to) permits the President to do either. Hero of the occasion, from the Administration viewpoint, was none other than Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen, who brushed aside charges by conservative Republicans that the compromise amounted to a "surrender" to the President. In an impassioned argument (Rhode Island's Democratic Senator John Pastore called it "one of the finest speeches ever delivered in the Senate"), Dirksen declared: "With all the fever and flames of controversy...